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TIL the first CEO of Apple was not Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak, but Michael Scott
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 03:08PM by MattO2000
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TIL that winning important international football games reduces civil conflict in Africa. When national teams win high-stakes matches, people are less likely to identify with their ethnic group over the nation. Teams qualifying for AFCON experience significantly less conflict in the following months
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 11:54AM by econlmics
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TIL about Kitty Fisher, who was famous for simply for being famous. In one incident, she fell off her horse while riding and exposed herself. Broadsheets & prints mocked her, but she seized the attention for herself by having her portrait painted by England's most prominent painter.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 02:20PM by comrade_batman
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TIL about Delusional Parasitosis, a mental disorder in which individuals have a persistent belief that they are infested with living or nonliving pathogens such as parasites, insects, or bugs, when no such infestation is present.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 09:35AM by Serious_Specter
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TIL that Thomas Harvey, who illegally removed Einstein's brain, kept and stored it cut into 200 pieces in formalin-filled jars in his basement for 40 years. In 1997 he offered the brain back to Einstein's granddaughter. When she didn't want it, he returned it to the hospital he took it from in 1955.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 05:45PM by skaapjagter
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TIL Members Only, a popular brand of jackets in the 1980s, spent its entire 6 million dollar ad budget in 1986 on anti-drug public service announcements.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 06:14PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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TIL during Operation Desert Storm, the M2 Bradley performed more tank kills than the Abrams. Additionally, 20 Bradley’s were destroyed, 17 of those due to friendly fire
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 06:40PM by WarmAppleCobbler
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TIL that the "dumb" in dumbbells originally meant "mute". A "dumb" bell was a contraption used to train church bell ringers in the fine art of bell ringing without annoying the entire neighborhood. Later, because of the similarities in shape, the name was applied to certain exercise equipment.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 08:16PM by smudge_47
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TIL that "The Iodine State" was South Carolina's nickname in the 1930s and even on license plates, in an effort to promote the state's vegetables as having more healthy iodine than other other state's vegetables
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 09:25PM by bostonstrong781
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TIL there's a man known as "the pudding guy" who gamed American Airlines' loyalty program in the 1980's by buying 12,150 cups of pudding ($3,140) for over 1.2 million frequent flyer miles. Bonus: he donated the pudding to the Salvation Army in exchange for a sizable tax write-off.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 10:03PM by plantbasedpanda
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TIL about the sinking of the S.S. Eastland, which rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. Barely half of the vessel was submerged, yet 844 people (mostly poor working-class immigrants) perished, killing more passengers than the Titanic.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 10:17PM by Brendawg324
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TIL North American porcupines love salt and are known to eat backpackers’ road salt-covered boots left outside tents.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 11:14PM by callitredfrisbee
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TIL higher-ups at McDonald's once created a 'McResource' page for their minimum-wage employees. The page included advice on how much they should be tipping their personal trainers, massage therapists, and pool cleaners.
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 02:16AM by sanandrios
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TIL that merchandise of this “Shmoo” character made the 1948 equivalent of 305 million dollars, he replaced Mickey Mouse as the face of the Children’s Saving Bond, and also had a crossover with the Flintstones. He was everywhere in the old days but inexplicably disappeared after the 70s or so.
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Submitted January 22, 2024 at 09:14PM by TheEmperorofWalruses
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TIL, from March to July in 2018, an arctic fox was tracked walking 4,350 km across the sea ice from Norway to Greenway to Canada averaging 47 km per day, eventually settling on Ellesmere Island. It provided evidence on how arctic species remain connected even when scattered across islands.
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 04:35AM by PianoCharged
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TIL a black slave soldier that fought in the revolutionary War lived to see the abolition of slavery, about 80 years after the war ended
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 05:55AM by zTRU5T
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