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TIL that Japanese war crimes in China were so severe that Nazi officials unsuccessfully pleaded with Hitler to intervene.
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 05:12PM by Chandler107
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TIL that In 2008 Singer Boy George was arrested and convicted for falsely imprisoning a male Escort after chaining him to a radiator and beating him with a chain. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail but was released in 4 for good behavior
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 08:45AM by CitizenZaroff
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TIL before the battle of Drepana in the 1st punic war the roman navy commander Claudius Pulcher was told that the sacred chicken refused to eat. Ignoring the bad omen, he said "let's see if they'll drink instead" and threw them into the sea. He lost the battle
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 06:54PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL "30% chance of rain" doesn't mean that 30% of the area will get rain or it'll rain for 30% of time. It is multiplication of confidence and area. For ex if a forecaster is 50% confident that 50% of the area will receive rain then the forecast would read "a 25% chance of rain" for given location.
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 06:36PM by rustyyryan
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TIL that while shooting a TV series, 12-year-old Kurt Russell gave co-star Charles Bronson a birthday gift but the older actor walked away without responding. Bronson, who grew up very poor, later thanked Russell, explaining he had never been given a birthday gift before.
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 08:33PM by MrMojoFomo
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TIL after Amanda Berry disappeared in 2003, a self-proclaimed psychic, Sylvia Browne, went on television and determined that Berry was dead and was "in water." Amanda Berry was found alive in 2013 after escaping the home of a man who imprisoned her and two other women for over a decade.
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 07:57PM by louisianapelican
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TIL A man in India carved a 110 meter-long (360 ft), 9.1 meter-wide (30 ft) and 7.7 meter-deep (25 ft) path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel. After 22 years of work, he shortened travel distance from 34 miles to 9 miles.
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 07:51PM by SuvenPan
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TIL bears don't actually hibernate. Most of a bear’s bodily functions slow during its denning cycle in the winter, but true hibernation requires a significant drop in body temperature. A bear’s only dips by a few degrees. Also, the idea that they sleep all winter long is totally wrong.
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 10:55PM by GroundbreakingSea960
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TIL the Titles of Nobility amendment, pending ratification since 1810, would strip US citizenship from anyone who "shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind from any . . . foreign power"
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 12:02AM by TechnicalyNotRobot
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TIL that nuclear tablets are given to some cancer patients to fight/kill cancerous cells
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 10:46PM by beyondtabu
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TIL the first confirmed minor to be executed in the United States was 16yo Thomas Granger, executed for buggery involving several animals, including "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheep, two calves, and a turkey."
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 02:01AM by kaizhu256
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TIL In December 1941, Franklin Roosevelt became the first President to use an armored vehicle. Originally belonging to infamous gangster Al Capone, the car was seized by the Treasury Department in 1932 on an income-tax evasion charge.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 12:08AM by sk3333t
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TIL that, in its 105 years of operating, the "Diplomatic Courier Service", a special courier service operated by the USA that can only be used by diplomats, has lost just a single package - a baby grand piano, that was stolen at a Bulgarian railway station in 1919.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 12:17AM by Username_Is_TakenF
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TIL Tom Cruise saved the American release of ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’ by endorsing it at a buyer screening, launching the careers of Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie & Matthew Vaughn in the process
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 02:00PM by DamnThatsInsaneLol
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TIL Susan Weaver, AKA Sigourney Weaver, began using the name "Sigourney" when she was 14 years old, taking it from a minor character in The Great Gatsby.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 12:01PM by ColeBelthazorTurner
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TIL that we don't actually know who the first person to reach the North Pole was. Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, and Richard Byrd all said they were the first people to reach it, but none of their claims are confirmed.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 08:32AM by ElSquibbonator
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TIL that our brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 03:34PM by Corndogeveryday
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TIL David Bowie was so convinced of the uncommercial viability of his album "Low" that after its release, he toured as Iggy Pop's keyboardist instead of promoting the new record.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 04:53PM by UgliestDisability
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