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TIL a young woman's head swelled from her usual measurement of 22 inches to 24.8 inches (and the shape of her face changed) after she used hair dye. This was because the hair dye had a chemical in it called PPD (paraphenylenediamine), which can cause serious allergic reactions in certain people.
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Submitted March 27, 2024 at 08:47PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that it would take humans 1 to 10 million years to perfect a flying machine. The Wright Brothers did it 69 days later.
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Submitted March 27, 2024 at 11:18PM by topcat5
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TIL conjugal visits were originally enacted to convince black male prisoners to work harder in their manual labor and Mississippi first state to implement them in 1950. By 2024, only 4 states allow conjugal visits: California, Connecticut, New York, and Washington
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Submitted March 27, 2024 at 10:05PM by solateor
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TIL in 1975, the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner, lent his private plane the "Big Bunny" to operation baby lift to help transport 41 orphaned Vietnamese children to New York.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 03:00AM by Kay-v-Hamilton
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TIL that there is a British college called Norland College, which is known for its training of nannies. When they graduate they are often hired by celebrities or royalty.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 02:31AM by Aaron-J-Brewer
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TIL The famous zodiac ceiling design, depicting over 2500 stars, at Grand Central Station was accidentally painted on backward.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 05:04AM by Admirable-Cherry6614
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TIL that vets perform surgery on fish. For longer procedures they keep the gills wet while the surgery is performed out of the water.
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Submitted March 27, 2024 at 10:21PM by Set_in_Stone-
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TIL about Walter F. White, an NAACP leader for over 25 years who passed as white, infiltrated lynching rings, and architected Brown v. Board of Education. Despite controversy surrounding his methods, his work exposed injustices and advanced civil rights.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 09:46AM by bobbyioaloha
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TIL Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, who revolutionised 3D graphics, and developed the industry-standard method for animating curved surfaces, has the rare condition Aphantasia, i.e. complete inability to visualise mental images.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 05:22AM by NothingIsHere5947
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TIL, that in 1969 the Internet's first message was sent from UCLA to Stanford Research. It was intended to be "LOGIN" , due to a system crash, only "LO" was received at the other end.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 11:32AM by throwbacktext11
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TIL that 'Arniston', a British East India Company sailing ship, shipwrecked with the loss of 372 lives because the ship owners refused to buy a marine chronometer; an easy and cheap addition to her equipment.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 08:31AM by sexyloser1128
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TIL the "Red Phone", which linked Washington to Moscow wasn't red, or even a phone. It was teletype when the system started in 1963, switched to fax in 1986, and secure email since 2008.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 01:59PM by -nhops-
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TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 02:19PM by bashfulstandpoint
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TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 05:02PM by Kale_Brecht
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TIL, in the year 2003, Maywood Chemical Works — now owned by Stepan Company — imported more than 385,000 pounds of coca leaf for Coca-Cola, enough to make $200 million of cocaine, all of which legally had to be destroyed, likely by incineration.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 03:13PM by Pappyjang
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TIL about Murphy, a disabled Bald Eagle who became famous after he attempted to hatch a rock. In 2023 the keepers of his sanctuary replaced his rock with an orphaned eaglet, allowing Murphy to finally become a real parent
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 05:32PM by CRtwenty
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TIL after murdering a woman in 1821, convicted killer John Horwood was hanged, had his body dissected and his skin was used to bind a book that contained the details of his crime in a practice called anthropodermic bibliopegy.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 03:50PM by AudibleNod
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TIL during making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan's actor Roger Clark was told that he had to do the horse lines again because "It’s a little too intimate. It sounds like you’re not talking to a horse". After hearing the recording back, the actor agreed to redo the lines.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 06:26PM by NothingIsHere5947
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TIL some schools of fish are so loud due to the constant chatter that it is not only dangerous to snorkel among them -- "as loud as a lawnmower or chainsaw” -- but they can also be heard in boats above the water as a faint rumbling noise
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 04:10PM by admiralturtleship
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