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TIL that animals lacking teeth to grind their food (eg. birds, fish) have a specialized stomach containing rocks to replace that function.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 03:46PM by Nobody6432
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TIL the first detective in the Chicago Police Department was Alan Pinkerton.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 04:20PM by rolltideamerica
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TIL one of the medical technicians in The Exorcist's infamous cerebral angiography scene went on to become a convicted murderer
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 04:55PM by ladyermine
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TIL of Shabani, a western lowland gorilla in Japan who's REALLY good looking, enough for an increase in younger female visitors to his zoo.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 06:35PM by 123ineedto_pee
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TIL there is a form of Greek sculpture called the herma that consists of a head, an uncarved block, a phallus and testicles
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 06:05PM by cela_
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TIL Iona Morris was replaced as Storm in X-Men:The Animated Series because she would have been owed residuals otherwise
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 07:04PM by DaveOJ12
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TIL John Lennon openly plagiarized Chuck Berry's song "Can't Catch Me" to write "Come Together." When Paul McCartney called him out on the intellectual theft, Lennon responded, "Yeah, I know! It's good though, isn't it?" "Come Together" became a No. 1 hit and is considered a Beatles classic.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 10:11PM by smrad8
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TIL when HOF Baseball player Don Drysdale passed away by heart attack in his hotel room, amongst his belongings was a cassette tape recording of RFK's final speech that Don carried everywhere he went. In that speech RFK acknowledged Don's 6th straight shut out game that he pitched that same evening.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 07:28PM by starkfr
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TIL one of Canadian Club whiskey's most important clients during US Prohibition was Al Capone who smuggled thousands of cases from a route from Windsor to Detroit.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 05:44PM by YUGIOH-KINGOFGAMES
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TIL In China, smuggling a Giant Panda carries at least a 10-year sentence and confiscation of property; under grave circumstances, life sentence or even death sentence together with a total confiscation of property shall be applied.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 12:59AM by ReceivedHeadToday
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TIL that Pop Warner coached Iowa State remotely for 4 seasons while coaching other schools (Georgia for 2 seasons and Cornell for 2 seasons).
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 10:11PM by TryingToNotBeInDebt
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TIL, when walking into a bar in England, Jimi Hendrix and his band were told they weren't welcome by a bartender who said "Sorry, mates, we can't serve your sort in here,". Hendrix thought it was because he was black, but it was because they were mistaken for circus clowns.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 03:43AM by lookawake
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TIL of Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, the Chief of the German Military Cabinet who died after performing a ballerina dance in a pink tutu for the Kaiser and his guests. His death was covered up because of fears it would inflame a previous homosexuality scandal in the German military.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 08:27AM by krsj
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TIL in the US in 1996, Georgia State Representative Doug Teper unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to replace that state's electric chair with the guillotine.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 06:42PM by garamond89
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TIL Benedetta Carlini, the 17th century nun known for being charged by the inquisition for having sex with a fellow nun while "being possesed by a demon", was also a mystic. She would fall in a trance state, speak in tongues and suffered from stigmata. She also married Jesus in an official ceremony
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 06:10PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL that in Speed 2 the scene where the ship crashes into the island was made with a non-animated partial boat crashing into the real island, and was the most expensive stunt ever filmed at $25M in 1997.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 08:46PM by kungfu_kickass
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TIL: aside from being an actor and an activist, Marlon Brando was also an inventor with 4 patents to his name. One of them were pool shoes that that would increase friction as you walk on the bottom of the pool to give you a better workout, and another invention being a single-tuning conga drum.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 08:55PM by waitingforthesun92
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TIL that the French monarchy fell five times and was restored four times in the span of a century, from 1771 to 1871.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 09:10PM by VLenin2291
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