TIL that while Florida accounts for 9% of America’s insurance claims, it accounts for 79% of the nation’s home insurance lawsuits.
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Submitted April 05, 2024 at 09:05PM by 6DeliciousInches
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TIL that the Alyeska (Trans-Alaska) Pipeline was built 11 mi (~18 km) "too long" to account for the fact that yearly temperatures in Alaska have a ~150 F (~65 C) range, which causes the pipeline to grow and shrink in length by up to 5 mi (~8 km).
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Submitted April 05, 2024 at 06:57PM by OGBRedditThrowaway
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Wikipedia
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
oil pipeline
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TIL that in the 80s, a reputable health publisher, The New England Journal of Medicine released a letter stating that a study was done showing that less than 0.0018% of patients prescribed opiates became addicted to them.
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Submitted April 05, 2024 at 08:08PM by Ecstatic-Recipe-3019
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TIL that Muammar Gaddafi submitted a proposal to the UN that Switzerland be abolished as a state and merged into Italy, Germany, and France
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Submitted April 05, 2024 at 10:33PM by TheOSU87
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CNBC
Gaddafi Wants to Abolish Switzerland
Switzerland has also moved to freeze the assets of the Libyan regime. But it seems unlikely that Colonel Gaddafi and his cronies would be stashing their wealth in Zurich these days.
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TIL of Aldgate Pump, a historic water pump held as marking the start of London’s East End. Long famed for its “sparkling, agreeable” water, it was later found that this rich mineral taste came from the flesh and bones of nearby cemeteries leeching into the water. The tainted water killed hundreds.
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Submitted April 05, 2024 at 09:33PM by Chemical-Elk-1299
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Aldgate Pump
historic water pump in London
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TIL In the 1960s, Washington D.C.'s poor areas were plagued by severe rat problems until Julius Hobson began catching them by trapping enormous rats, and attaching the cage to his car’s roof and drove to affluent districts where he warned of setting the rodents free, spurring rat control measures.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 02:16AM by Algrinder
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Boundary Stones
Julius Hobson Gets Out of the Rat Race
In 1964, when DC wouldn’t do anything about the rat problem in Shaw, Julius Hobson gave them an ultimatum: fix the problem, or have it in Georgetown.
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TIL that creator of Wonder Woman was in a thruple that involved his first wife and his student. They were heavily into bondage which inspired early iterations of the super heroine. Thruple lasted 22 years all the way to his death
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 03:36AM by HauntingArtichoke830
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Olive Byrne
american author (1904-1985)
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TIL that the final words of Terry Kath, founding guitarist for rock band Chicago, before dying from an accidental self inflicted gunshot wound were “What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow my brains out?"
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 04:30AM by EndlessTrashposter
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Terry Kath
American guitarist and singer (1946–1978)
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TIL On average, a person passes gas around 14 times a day. That’s roughly once every 1.5 hours!
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 03:50AM by athornton
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WebMD
Does Flatulence Increase As You Age?
Find out what you need to know about flatulence as an adult over 50, and discover the pros, cons, risks, and benefits.
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TIL that in January 2023 the F-35 fighter aircraft still had 821 remaining problems. which is an improvement to the 826 problems it had April 2022. (page 73)
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 01:51AM by ButterscotchJunior44
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TIL Nearly 2 out of every 100 Swedish fathers are unknowingly raising children that are not theirs
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 07:57AM by WembyCommas
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Wiley Online Library
The frequency of misattributed paternity in Sweden is low and decreasing: A nationwide cohort study
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TIL actor Joe Pesci hated the early unit call times in “Home Alone” since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he liked to do. After Pesci took the Assistant Dir. by the collar one day to complain about it, the call times were moved back from 7 to 9 A.M. just for him.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 01:04PM by UnionInteresting8453
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Golf
Joe Pesci demanded call time change to play golf while filming Home Alone
Joe Pesci made sure changes were made to the Home Alone schedule to accommodate his daily morning golf routine.
TIL in early 2000 when Eminem submitted The Marshall Mathers LP to label boss Jimmy Iovine, he was unsatisfied & said that it didn't have a hit single. In direct response to this, Em created the album's second single "The Way I Am" with the track's piano rhythm even coming to him on the plane home.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 08:09AM by tyrion2024
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Pitchfork
Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we explore Eminem’s monumental album The Marshall Mathers LP.
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TIL the CEO of AMD (Lisa Su) is the cousin of Nvidia CEO and Co-Founder (Jensen Huang).
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 01:29PM by PoJenkins
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Lisa Su
Lisa Su (simplified Chinese: 苏姿丰; traditional Chinese: 蘇姿丰; pinyin: Su Zifeng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: So͘ Chu-hong; born 7 November 1969) is an American business executive and electrical engineer who is the president, chief executive officer and chair of AMD. Early…
TIL that despite over 30 witnesses to the 1955 murder of Lamar Smith, veteran and Civil Rights activist, in broad daylight outside the courthouse of Brookhaven, Mississippi, no witness - who included the local sheriff - would testify in the case, and so the crime went unpunished
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 02:27PM by robinperching
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Wikipedia
Lamar Smith (activist)
American activist
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TIL that men having sex 2 times a week, will help reduce your risk of heart attack by 50%. This is based according to a 2010 study published in the American Journal of Cardiology conducted over a 16-year period with men aged 40 to 70.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 04:24PM by Meettoday
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WorldHealth
For Men, Sex Twice a Week Slashes Risk of Heart Disease
Data from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study (US) suggests that men who have sex at least two times a week may cut their risks of heart disease by 50%.
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TIL there’s a Criminal Defense of Necessity, where the defendant argues the crime was necessary to commit a greater harm from happening.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 04:22PM by sonofabutch
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Justia
The Necessity Defense in Criminal Law Cases
Read about the criminal defense of necessity, which may apply when there is no alternative to prevent a greater harm than the crime charged.
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TIL in 1988 a U.S. Marine was abandoned and died in the Mojave Desert. Search only started when his weapon wasn't returned.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 06:48PM by new22003
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 06:48PM by new22003
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Jason Rother incident
American Marine
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TIL that since the invention of the automobile, cars have killed an estimated 60-80 million people and injured over 2 billion.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 07:02PM by Generalaverage89
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 07:02PM by Generalaverage89
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TIL during the development of Star Trek, it was initially planned for Spock to be from Mars. However, due to concerns that a Martian landing might occur before the end of the series, his home planet was changed.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 07:25PM by Intelligent-Bee-704
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 07:25PM by Intelligent-Bee-704
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Spock
fictional character in Star Trek
TIL of the Jevons paradox, which states that increasing efficiency in resource usage causes higher demand - sometimes *increasing* usage instead of reducing it.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 08:16PM by JOWWLLL
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Jevons paradox
Economical paradox