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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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TIL Ghana has six witch camps, housing about 1000 women. The camps exist so that women accused of witchcraft can have a safe place to live without fear of being killed by their neighbours.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 06:36PM by gullydon
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TIL naturalization in Liechtenstein is done through popular vote, and only candidates who have actively participated in local community life for 10+ years are likely to be accepted as citizens
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 09:43PM by OmOshIroIdEs
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TIL that the inventor of Fettuccine Alfredo, Alfredo Di Lelio, invented the famous pasta in 1908 primarily as a way to get his wife to eat, as she had recently given birth to their first child and thus did not have much of an appetite.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 06:24PM by Livid_Resort_1374
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TIL in the 1980s, McDonald’s used the song “Mack the Knife” in commercials that featured their character "Mac Tonight". The song “Mack the Knife” is about a knife-wielding criminal from London’s underworld who dumped the body of his victim in a river.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 01:46AM by waitingforthesun92
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TIL that in 1932, as a last ditch attempt to prevent Hitler from taking power, Brüning (the german chancellor) tried to restore the monarchy.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 04:04AM by ArthurBurton1897
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TIL that the nation of Costa Rica has no military.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 12:09AM by NoAskRed
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TIL that there is a better preserved exact copy of the Mona Lisa, made by one of da Vinci's students simultaneously in the same studio as Leonardo. It shows details that are not visible in the Mona Lisa anymore.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 06:04AM by __D__a__n__i__e__l__
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TIL Euler's often wrote the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
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Submitted March 28, 2024 at 11:30PM by user_potat0
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TIL that only reason a Scottish piper wasn't shot by German snipers on D-Day was because it was their belief that he was crazy.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 08:08AM by No-Cantaloupe-215
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TIL There is a Chinese poem ennoscriptd "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ", with 92 words - all of which are "shi". The poem becomes comprehensible because Chinese is a tonal language - where the same word can be pronounced with many different tones. Supposedly, the poem is more sensible in Cantonese than Mandarin
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 11:41AM by gullydon
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TIL that the last soldier of the British Empire to die in WW1 was the Canadian George Lawerence Price who died two minutes before the end of the war.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 03:53PM by __D__a__n__i__e__l__
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