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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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TIL when Alexander Kerensky died in New York City in 1970, local Russian orthodox church refused to grant him burial rites for being a Freemason and seeing him as responsible for the Bolsheviks taking power. He was flown to London and buried in a non-denominational cemetery.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 03:00PM by BizarroCullen
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TIL That Mary Shelly finished writing her masterpiece Frankenstein at the age of 19.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 06:26AM by NobleWhiteLotus
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TIL The First Lady of the United States, Lou Henry Hoover, became the first woman to receive a degree in geology from Stanford University.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 03:54PM by iWentRogue
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TIL In 1902, Lionel Walter Rothschild brought 6 Edible Dormice (Glis glis) back to Tring, England from Hungary. Some of the 6 escaped, breeding and growing to an estimated 10,000 mice in a 200 mile radius around Tring that are both an invasive species and protected species.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 05:27PM by glydy
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TIL the B-52D Stratofortress is the largest aircraft in history to score an air-to-air kill. Two North Vietnamese MiG-21s were shot down by B-52 tail gunners during Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 05:42PM by ToeSniffer245
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TIL A Chippewa Indian Named John Smith Who Lived In The Woods Near Cass Lake, Minnesota Claimed To Be 137 Years Old Before He Died In 1922.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 08:42PM by Glum_Class9803
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TIL there is a club for people who have been ejected from an airplane seat. When you become a member they give you a commemorative tie, currently there are over 6,000 members.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 11:39PM by Earmir_900
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TIL Former U.S. President John Tyler took the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War, was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives, but died in 1862 before he could serve. At his burial, his coffin was draped in the Confederate flag, despite requesting a simple burial.
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Submitted March 29, 2024 at 10:48PM by gullydon
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TIL a baseball stadium organ player was ejected from a game after playing "3 Blind Mice" in response to what he thought was a bad call by the umpire
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Submitted March 30, 2024 at 01:33AM by jon-in-tha-hood
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