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TIL Larry Bird Once Played A Game Mostly With His Left Hand Because He Wanted to Save His Right for the Next Game Against the Lakers.
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Submitted April 02, 2024 at 06:56PM by CheesyOverEasy
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TIL Active Listening is listening with the intent to understand the other person fully rather than listening to respond. However, it was criticized by John Gottman's "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" as being of limited usefulness.
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Submitted April 02, 2024 at 05:37PM by BobbeeZee
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TIL Winston Churchill would attend Shakespeare plays and recite the lines along with the actors from the front row. Richard Burton, playing Hamlet at the Old Vic theatre, tried to shake Churchill by changing the speed of his delivery, but Churchill stayed with him the whole way.
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Submitted April 02, 2024 at 08:28PM by abraca-debra
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TIL Bill Nye quit his job at Boeing to be a stand up comic after winning a Steve Martin look alike contest in 1978.
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Submitted April 02, 2024 at 09:28PM by maybebatshit
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TIL Women are faster than men in 'ultra' long distance races of over 195 miles
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Submitted April 02, 2024 at 10:29PM by Odd-Web-2418
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TIL the brand name Rolex doesn't mean anything, but rather is a completely made-up word that the founder thought is easily pronounced in any language.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 12:01AM by ladyermine
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TIL, in 2000, the April issue of the Romanian edition of Playboy magazine published an article noscriptd 'How to Beat Your Wife Without Leaving Marks on Her Body' as an April Fool's joke. It backfired, and women's organizations in Romania spoke up in protest.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 01:23AM by Lvexr
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TIL for 2 years the US had a 100 year old man as president of the senate; being 3rd in line for the presidency
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 03:11AM by zTRU5T
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TIL While MTV has filmed over 101 Unplugged performances, fewer than 30 of them have been released as albums.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 03:48AM by drainodan55
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TIL that Radithor was a "medicine" sold in the 1920s that consisted of water with a bit of dissolved radium. One user, Eben Byers, drank so much of it that most of his jaw literally fell off.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 03:20AM by mucubed
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TIL Mao Zedong in 1973 offered Henry Kissinger to have 10 million women to be sent to US to start bilateral trade and boost population because China had 'excess in women'.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 07:55AM by generation_chaos
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TIL of Lei Tai. An Ancient Chinese form of Gladiatorial Combat/Entertainment where a local champion fighter builds a stage in the town square and invites anyone to knock him off the stage using any unarmed martial art. The winner then gets to "own" the stage, and issues a similar challenge as well.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 08:36AM by analoggi_d0ggi
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TIL in 2004 the average TV screen size was 25.4" and the average selling price was $552, whereas, in 2019 the average screen size had increased to 47" while the average selling price had dropped to $336.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 01:01PM by tyrion2024
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TIL The temperature on the moon at the Apollo 11 landing site was 200ºF (93ºC).
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 01:36PM by linear_majority
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TIL that Canadian Parliament maintains a record of debates in both English and French known as Hansard. During a Liberal filibuster in the Senate of Canada, Senator Philippe Gigantès was accused of reading one of his books only so that he could get the translation for free through the Hansard.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 02:06PM by 8ZHBd89XyN2ImoEdYUol
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TIL that in 1977 the city of Florence, Oregon accidentally banned having sex.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 02:01PM by Advocatus_Diaboli-00
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TIL, Weather forecasters tend to exaggerate the chance of rain because if it rains when they said it wouldn't, people get angry, but if it doesn't rain when they said it would, they are happy. This is known as "wet bias."
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 02:46PM by Lvexr
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TIL that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the creators of Breakout, the iconic arcade game from the 70s. They built it as a single player evolution of Pong.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 02:38PM by my_n3w_account
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TIL starting in 2001, Dell Glover became the "world's leading leaker of pre-release music." He worked at a Universal CD pressing plant & was a member of a file-sharing group called Rabid Neurosis. Over an 11-year period, Rabid Neurosis was responsible for leaking over 20,000 albums.
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Submitted April 03, 2024 at 02:33PM by tyrion2024
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