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TIL that in 2011, the country of Norway ran out of butter. As a result, prices soared and butter was smuggled illegally into the country.
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 04:58PM by musicalharmonica
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TIL Mark Mcgwire’s 70th home run was caught by fan Phil Ozersky. After the Cardinals offered him a signed bat, ball, and jersey for the baseball. Ozersky asked to be able to meet McGwire too in this exchange, but McGwire said no. Ozersky to keep the baseball ,which he sold for over $3million.
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 05:56PM by blamdin
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TIL that The Bounty which served as the pirate ship in The SpongeBob movie sank during Hurricane Sandy resulting in the deaths of two crew members
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 04:13PM by nickburrows8398
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TIL that Samuel Jackson asked for his character (Mace Windu) to have a purple light saber. Although he initially rejected it, George Lucas later caved in, making Mace the first character to break the basic colour rule of the light sabers.
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 06:55PM by Username_Is_TakenF
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TIL in 1960 Tom and James Monaghan bought DomiNick's, a small pizzeria, for $1400. Not wanting to quit his full-time job as a postman, James traded his half of the business to Tom for the VW Beetle they used for deliveries. Tom would later buy two more pizzerias and found Domino's Pizza.
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 06:52PM by Do_Not_Go_In_There
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TIL that Mount Kosciuszko, recognized as the tallest mountain in Australia, was actually mislabeled and was shorter than the actual tallest mountain (Mount Townsend). To correct the error, the names of the mountains were simply swapped.
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 08:58PM by Miamime
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TIL that The Beatles last commercial concert was left with 7,000 unsold tickets and was a financial bust for the production company.
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 09:34PM by BarronMind
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TIL: Nintendo owns the rights to two pornographic movies.
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Submitted February 08, 2024 at 09:55PM by Dothehurdygurdy
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TIL A surgeon in the UK used an argon beam to brand his initials onto transplanted livers of two of his patients
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 12:25AM by amusedfridaygoat
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TIL Dr Seuss didn't have a big hit until age 53 when "Cat in the Hat" was published. He resisted writing his own life story, and only sat down for two interviews near the end when he was dying from cancer
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 02:23AM by ubcstaffer123
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TIL: After the first Bush retired, he noticed all his agents had shaved their heads. He asked why and was told it was in support of the son of one of them who was undergoing chemo. So Bush shaved his head too.
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 03:13AM by Sayyid_Karim
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TIL: During the One World Trade Center construction, workers had the choice of bringing lunches or facing the nearly impossible task of descending to ground in 30 minutes for food. To solve this, a Subway franchise created a full shop in a shipping container, which was lifted to the workers daily.
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 05:35AM by ledgendary
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TIL that Eliza Dushku, when playing Faith in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, had to be emancipated to work long hours as a minor. The judge handling her case was a Buffy fan and joked Eliza would have to sign a photo for the judge if she wanted the emancipation approved.
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 07:45AM by Ok-Indication-5121
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TIL that piston-engined aircraft still add lead to their fuel. In a deliberate attempt at lessening the perceived impact, high lead is called "low leaded fuel," and leaded fuel is called "very low leaded fuel" despite there being no safe upper limit for lead additives in fuel
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 10:18AM by MustangBarry
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TIL that a football player lied to his team about being in graduate school. The Baltimore Ravens thought that John Urschel was taking classes at MIT part time. The team did not know that he was a full-time PhD math student. Urschel studied from the end of Sunday games until practice on Tuesday.
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 03:36PM by TMWNN
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TIL of Anthony Babington's recovery from brain damage. He was so badly wounded in WW2 that his girlfriend left him; he could not talk and was paralyzed on his right side. Babington learned to speak and write again, became a lawyer and judge, and wrote many books.
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Submitted February 09, 2024 at 02:59PM by TMWNN
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