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TIL Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) appeared in a virtual graduation message for the 2020 graduates of San Dimas High School. Some quotes from the message included: "San Dimas High School football does rule", "be excellent to each other", "And party on".
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 04:56PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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TIL in 1856, the Xhosa people followed a prophecy from a 15yo girl telling them to destroy all their cattle and crops
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 07:54PM by phlummox
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Today I learned from the 1950s to 1970s, attempts were made at running bus services between London and India. The trip took about 50 days, cost about $100, and buses are said to have included private bunks and even a kitchen.
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 06:31PM by charons-ferry
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TIL the name of Ishi, known as the 'last wild indian' is an adopted name. In the Yahi culture, he one cannot speak his own name until introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me"
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 05:05PM by foobadoop
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TIL former NBA Star Dwight Howard Ate 5,500 Calories in Candy Every Day for a Decade. Howard was consuming the amount of sugar equivalent to 24 chocolate bars every day.
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 10:05PM by laterdude
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TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 10:05PM by habipermis
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TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, people could buy plastic screens to colorize their black & white TVs
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 11:59PM by sfled
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TIL a 1991 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that a Camel cigarette ad campaign featuring the mascot Joe Camel was far more successful at advertising to children than adults. The campaign ended in 1997 after increased litigation & pressure from U.S. federal agencies.
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Submitted January 23, 2024 at 10:08PM by Sandstorm400
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TIL William Wrigley initially offered free baking powder as a gift for his soap but the powder turned out to be more popular. He switched to selling the powder and added sticks of gum as a gift. The gum became incredibly popular thus forcing him to switch and became the world's leading gum company.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 02:32AM by EqualPenalty5969
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TIL that Seth Rogen's first ever movie role was in Donnie Darko.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 02:40AM by saintpetejackboy
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TIL that after retiring from baseball Jackie Robinson became vice president of the coffee company Chock full o'Nuts. This made him the first Black vice president of a major American corporation.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 04:04AM by JosiahWillardPibbs
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TIL that even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, Delligatti admitted that he didn’t invent the Big Mac, but merely copied the “double deck hamburger” marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with Big Boy.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 04:45AM by waitingforthesun92
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TIL Oddjob is average height in the James Bond movie Goldfinger (even taller in the novel). The only reason he’s a dwarf in Goldeneye 64 is because the developers confused him with Nick Nack from The Man With the Golden Gun.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 08:31AM by Bubbly-Wait-225
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TIL that, in 1920s Paris, James Joyce would get drunk, start fights, and then hide behind Ernest Hemingway for protection, screaming, "Deal with him, Hemingway!"
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 09:41AM by ellefak02
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TIL that the inflation experienced by Hungary after WW2 was so bad that the government stopped collecting taxes as even a single day's delay in collecting would wipe out the value of the money.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 11:56AM by Username_Is_TakenF
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TIL that the Rambo lunchbox by Thermos in 1985 marked the end of the metal lunchbox era. Manufacturers switched to making lunchboxes with plastic because it was cheaper and because a group of mothers in Florida complained that metal lunchboxes were being used by children as weapons.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 03:15PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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TIL Boeing used depleted uranium plates as counterweights in its 747 airplanes and some helicopters. While relatively safe, some of these plates have been lost. They stopped using it completely in 1981.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 11:51AM by blueman0007
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