TIL It is illegal to give out free tobacco products in the UK unless you're a member of Parliament and it's within Westminster Palace as royal palaces are exempt from legislation
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Submitted March 13, 2024 at 11:51PM by JebbyisSweet
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Parliamentary snuff box
In the UK House of Commons
TIL of Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye, a woman who has birthed 51 children, with 44 still alive. As of April 2023, her eldest children is 31 years old, and the youngest is six years old. She is a single mother, who was abandoned by her husband in 2015.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 03:06AM by Exotic-Amphibian9692
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Mariam Nabatanzi
Uganda woman who is known as the world's most fertile woman
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TIL Cows have best friends. Studies have shown that cows become stressed when separated from their best friends. This finding highlights the social nature of cows and their ability to form close bonds with one another.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 03:03AM by HakimEuphrates
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The emotional depth of a cow | Hannah Velten
Hannah Velten: News that cows have best friends comes as no surprise to those of us who have worked with them – and their mood swings
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TIL the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese woman. She became so powerful that she negotiated with the Chinese government to retire in exchange for not being prosecuted and was able to keep a fleet of ships.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 05:52AM by ddodette
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Zheng Yi Sao
Zheng Yi Sao (born Shi Yang; 1775–1844), also known as Shi Xianggu, Shek Yeung and Ching Shih, was a Chinese pirate leader active in the South China Sea from 1801 to 1810.
TIL that almost a year ago, Maine's Govenor, Janet Mills, made Prostitution "Half Legal" in the State of Maine.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 05:14AM by RickSisco
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Governor signs bill partially decriminalizing sex work
The law will eliminate criminal charges for sex workers who engage in prostitution while continuing to allow those who purchase sex services to be charged.
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TIL of The Lainz Angels of Death. Four women who were nurse’s aides convicted of murdering 49 patients with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into their lungs between 1983 and 1989. They were caught only after bragging about their latest murder in a local tavern. By 2008 all four are free.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 08:03AM by Exotic-Amphibian9692
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Lainz Angels of Death
quartet of Austrian nurses convicted of serial murders
TIL: Vietnam has a few unique monsters, one is the Ma Vú Dài, a lady ghost with long breasts that attacks victims at night to forcefully breastfeed them until they fall unconscious. In the 60s, prisoners in Saigon reported seeing a women with long breasts force feeding cellmates.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 09:31AM by Flares117
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9 Ghosts And Demons In Vietnamese Folklore That Had Us Check Under Our Beds As Kids
Legends of these 9 ghosts and demons are passed down from one generation of Vietnamese people to the next, intriguing thrillseekers.
TIL that Po was the only bilingual Teletubbie. She was voiced by Pui Fan Lee and occasionally spoke Cantonese on the show.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 02:35AM by nitrocoleslaw
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Teletubbies Turn 20: 11 Things You Didn't Know
teletubbies, teletubbies anniversary, teletubbies trivia,
TIL about “Shaggy defense” - a legal defense strategy in which a person denies an accusation with the simple defense of "it wasn't me", despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 05:18PM by HellBlazeSRB
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Shaggy defense
legal strategy
TIL In 2020, Chinese and Indian soldiers fought a "Medieval" battle in the Himalayan mountains. With firearms being barred by dual agreement, soldiers fought for hours using sticks, stones, and other makeshift weapons. According to reports, four Chinese soldiers and twenty Indian soldiers died.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 05:20PM by gullydon
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Soldiers fell to their deaths as India and China's troops fought with rocks
India shocked by Himalayan border clash in which unarmed troops fought in the dark
TIl that as part of an agreement with the cast of StarShip Troopers in order to get them to film the infamous coed shower scene, director Paul Verhoeven had to direct it while also being completely naked
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 06:14PM by nickburrows8398
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'Starship Troopers' turns 20: A look back at that famous shower scene
Thank Paul Verhoeven for one of the funniest movies ever made about fascism
TIL that one of the reasons why women are less likely to be given CPR than men is because people can be afraid of inappropriately touching a woman's chest while administering CPR. To try to address this issue, a vest with "breasts" was invented to put on flat-chested CPR training manikins.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 06:16PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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'My life is worth more than my boobs': Women are less likely than men to receive CPR in public
People are less likely to give a woman CPR due to fears of hurting her or being accused of inappropriate touching. One Australian CPR provider is trying to change that by putting breasts on training mannequins.
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TIL of the "satanic preschool" hysteria of the 1980s, where people were convinced satanic rituals were being performed on their kids, because of one woman's accusations which led to an investigation, which pressured kids into confessing things that were not true.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 06:33PM by thisjustmademyday
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McMartin preschool trial
American court case
TIL the "Pauli effect" is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to mysteriously break in the presence of certain people. The effect is named after Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose presence was associated with spontaneous mechanical failure throughout his career.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 07:20PM by bnrshrnkr
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Pauli effect
supposed tendency of technical equipment to fail in the presence of certain people
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TIL Doug Hegdahl was captured during the Vietnam War and while pretending to be stupid was able to disabled enemy trucks, memorize info about 250 fellow prisoners, and, after being released, participated in the Paris Peace Talks, which eventually helped to free said prisoners.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 07:17PM by 11thHourApologetics
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Doug Hegdahl
US navy sailor
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TIL some women born with a double uterus (Uterus didelphys) actually have two periods per month, and require two samples to be taken during smear tests, one from each cervix
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 09:18PM by ThymePass
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Cosmopolitan
Uterus didelphys: what you need to know
Uterus didelphys is more common than you might think
TIL that McDonalds redesigned their McFlurry cups because hedgehogs used to get stuck in them, and die.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 11:54PM by JackAndersonwHaO
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McFlurry
frozen dessert sold at McDonald's
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TIL that before telephones, fire alarm boxes were located at street corners. To prevent false alarms or pranks, some boxes were designed with handcuffs to attach the alarm-puller to the box, and only the firemen had a key to release them
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Submitted March 15, 2024 at 01:33AM by energyvampire1
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Fire alarm call box
device for notifying a fire department of a fire
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TIL the Hass Avocado, which accounts for more than 80% of US avocado crop, was patented in 1935 after an accidental seedling grew fruit that Hass' children liked and brought to his attention.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 11:20PM by Olshansk
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Hass avocado
cultivar of avocado with dark-colored, bumpy skin
TIL that Stuart Little isn't a mouse, he's a normal boy in "every way except that he is only just over two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse."
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Submitted March 15, 2024 at 03:24AM by Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir
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Stuart Little
1945 children's novel by E.B. White
TIL of William Lee Bergstrom. He was a gambler known for placing the largest bet in casino gambling history at the time of $777,000. He won and returned several years later only to win again. On his third bet of a million dollars he lost. He committed suicide shortly after.
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Submitted March 15, 2024 at 05:16AM by Exotic-Amphibian9692
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William Lee Bergstrom
American gambler
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