TIL when Komodo dragons strike smaller prey, such as deer and pigs, 70% of the prey die within minutes, 20% die within four hours due to blood loss and only 10% survive.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 01:20AM by tyrion2024
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Komodo Dragon is an All-Purpose Killing Machine
A visit to one of Indonesia’s most popular tourist destinations could be your last
TIL that the state of Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery until 2013 and it only happened because somebody watched the movie "Lincoln" and was curious about the amendment.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 03:26AM by The_Cheese_Touch
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ABC News
Mississippi Officially Abolishes Slavery, Ratifies 13th Amendment
Get breaking national and world news, broadcast video coverage, and exclusive interviews. Find the top news online at ABC news.
TIL that cigarette filters were designed with color-changing chemicals to give the illusion that they filter out toxins. In reality, the filters have little to no health benefits.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 03:46AM by angelzon7777
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Anon Mags
The ‘filter fraud’ persists: the tobacco industry is still using filters to suggest lower health risks while destroying the environment
Cigarette filters were designed with color-changing chemicals to give the illusion that they filter out toxins. In reality, the filters
TIL during WW2 the Japanese killed 200 Allied soldiers after capture by drowning them at seas in 3ft baskets used for swine in what is known as the ‘pig-basket atrocity’
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 04:30AM by HotYaiGai
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Wikipedia
Pig-basket atrocity
Japanese war crime during World War II
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TIL that Stephen Hawking had to be convinced to drop every equation in the manunoscript of A Brief History of Time except for E = mc^2 because supposedly every equation would cut the number of people interested in half.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 05:50AM by Ok-Indication-5121
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A Brief History of Time
1988 book by Stephen Hawking
TIL that out of the most common 75 fruits, the relatively healthiest fruit are raspberries, whilst the least healthy are persimmons.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 07:14AM by osaya
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Intake Health
75 of the Healthiest Fruits Ranked from Best to Worst | Hydration Monitoring - Intake Health Blog
The ultimate ranking of 75 of the most nutritious fruits. See which of the healthiest fruits top the list (and which ones round out the...
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TIL the man often credited as the first person to synthesize heroin, Felix Hoffman, did so only 11 days after first synthesizing Aspirin while working for Bayer
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 05:27AM by myredditthrowaway201
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Wikipedia
Heroin
chemical compound; opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects
TIL about Georgia Tann; the woman who abducted, abused, and molested thousands of children via systematic kidnapping, became incredibly wealthy for selling said children to wealthy Americans, & essentially invented modern day adoption.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 08:57AM by hobowhite
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Ideapod
Meet the woman who kidnapped and sold 5,000 babies on the black market
Thought you've heard it all?
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TIL About Hannah Dagoe, who when she was to be hanged for burglary, punched the hangman, dared him to hang her, threw her clothing to the crowd, then jumped off and broke her own neck before the hangman could push her off.
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Hannah Dagoe
Dagoe, Hannah (d. 1763), thief
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TIL that because Caffeine doesn't activate the brain's reward system, scientists don't classify it as an addiction
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 02:52PM by justcurious_-
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Caffeine dependence
central nervous system stimulant drug which occurs in nature as part of the coffee, tea, yerba mate and other plants
TIL In the early 17th century, people began to believe plaits were an external symptom of an internal illness. A growing plait was supposed to take the illness "out" of the body, and therefore it was rarely cut off; in addition, the belief that a cut-off plait could avenge itself
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Polish plait
formation of hair
TIL that silver fulminate is so unstable that the weight of a falling feather will cause a few milligrams to explode. It also can't be collected in larger quantities because it self-detonates under its own weight.
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Silver fulminate
chemical compound
TIL that football legend Pele was banned from playing for a non-brazilian team by a presidential law declaring him a 'national treasure'
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 06:35PM by justcurious_-
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These Football Times
How Brazil turned Pelé into a national treasure to stop him from leaving the country
EDSON ARANTES DO NASCIMENTO, or Pelé as he is better known, holds a high place in the pantheon of footballing greats. During his career, the man from Três
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TIL that one in 18 people have a third nipple. Known as polythelia, the third nipple is caused by a mutation in inactive genes.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 05:51PM by Corndogeveryday
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Sciencefocus
My boyfriend has three nipples. Is he a mutant?
Friends funny man, Chandler Bing, wasn’t so unusual with his ‘nubbin’, with more of us having a third nipple than you think.
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TIL about Hum, Croatia which is the smallest town in the world. The town is smaller than a football field and has a population of just two dozen people. Even so, Hum has a museum, an inn, two churches, and even a unique liqueur called biska which can't be found anywhere else in the world.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 06:07PM by NewCanadianMTurker
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Mybestplace
MyBestPlace - Hum, The world's smallest town
Nestled in the heart of the picturesque Istria region, amidst the rolling hills of Croatia, lies Hum— a charming hamlet that proudly bears the noscript of the
TIL that the first vacuum cleaners were horse drawn. They were so big that It took 6 people, excluding the horse, in order to operate.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 07:42PM by Username_Is_TakenF
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The Roar
Vacumn Cleaners Were Originally Horse Drawn
These days, we have small vacuum cleaners the size of a cat that we can activate from anywhere using our phones, but did you know that the first vacuum cleaners were originally horse drawn? The first vacuum cleaner was invented in 1901 by a British engineer…
TIL that the D ration chocolate bar, issued to U.S. troops in WW2, was nicknamed "Hitler's Secret Weapon" by the troops for its effect on the soldiers' intestinal tracts.
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Submitted February 03, 2024 at 08:00PM by house_of_ghosts
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Wikipedia
Military chocolate (United States)
part of standard U.S. military ration
TIL That John Wycliffe's body was exhumed and burned at the stake for heresy forty-four years after his death
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Submitted February 04, 2024 at 12:25AM by louisianapelican
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John Wycliffe
English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church
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TIL Ken Smith lived as a hermit in the Scottish Highlands. After 40 years of isolation he travelled to Glasgow to attend the premier of a film made about his life as a hermit.
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Submitted February 04, 2024 at 12:14AM by EssexGuyUpNorth
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BBC News
Highland hermit makes surprise film festival visit
Ken Smith left his log cabin for the premiere of a documentary about his 40 years in isolation.
TIL the 2021 Ig Nobel prize in medicine was for a study that found 'sex with orgasm' to be an effective nasal decongestant. According to the research, it was just as effective at clearing nasal obstructions as a commercial decongestant for at least 60 minutes.
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Submitted February 04, 2024 at 02:40AM by tyrion2024
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the Guardian
Upside down rhinos and nose-clearing orgasm studies win Ig Nobel prize
Research from the more unusual realms of science is recognised every year at this alternative awards ceremony
TIL Nicolas Cage chose Cage to be his stage surname because he was a fan of the Marvel character Luke Cage
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Submitted February 04, 2024 at 05:37AM by venom_von_doom
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MovieWeb
Nicolas Cage Shares the Story Behind His Stage Name
Nicolas Cage realized pretty early into his acting career that he did not want to be credited by his birth name, Nicolas Coppola.
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