TIL, Montana law states that if a student rides a horse to school, the principal is responsible for feeding and walking the horse. Six seniors discovered the law and rode their horses on the last day of school. Their principal did his duties.
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Idaho Statesman
Students ride horses to school, and Montana ‘law’ means principal has to care for them
Consider this one of the more harmless senior pranks of 2022.
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TIL that lightsaber fights have become an official sport in France. As of 2019, it was the first country in the world to recognize it as such.
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Submitted April 06, 2024 at 10:02PM by Farehe_788
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the Guardian
Lightsaber duelling registered as official sport in France
Emulating Star Wars combatants will encourage young people to engage in regular exercise, says French Fencing Federation
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TIL that in ancient Greece, men had to go to the gym completely naked. These spaces were exclusively for men, and exercising in the nude was meant to promote the appreciation of the male physique as a tribute to the gods.
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Gymnasium (ancient Greece)
ancient Greek training facility
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TIL that the original Bambi novel was actually an allegory about antisemitism
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 12:41AM by silverdust29
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the Guardian
Bambi: cute, lovable, vulnerable ... or a dark parable of antisemitic terror?
A new translation of Felix Salten’s 1923 novel reasserts its original message that warns of Jewish persecution
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TIL about Robert Rayford who's believed to have died from AIDS in 1969. He checked himself into the hospital and was found to have an unusually severe form of chlamydia as well as Kaposi's sarcoma, an AIDS-defining illness, and a dysfunctional immune system. AIDS wasn't identified until 1981.
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 02:52AM by omnipotentsandwich
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Robert Rayford
American teenager who died in 1969, thought to be the first death from AIDS in North America
TIL cicadas can sexually transmit a fungus that produces psychedelic effects, similar to mushrooms, so they don't really care about their condition. It also makes their butts fall off.
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 03:39AM by chadork
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Smithsonian Magazine
Cicadas Fall Prey to a Psychedelic-Producing Fungus That Makes Their Butts Fall Off
This 'zombie' fungus isn't going after the bugs' brains—it’s after their genitals
TIL At the Japanese Setsubun festival, everyone throws roasted soybeans to drive away evil spirits. The only exception are people/families named Watanabe
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 01:15AM by 080087
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Setsubun
Japanese holiday
TIL Blackberries were 43% of all smartphones sold in 2010, but by 2013 collapsed to 5.9%.
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 07:14AM by SuperMcG
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TechCrunch
BlackBerry phones once ruled the world, then the world changed
It’s easy to forget now in the age of Apple and Android, but at one time, BlackBerry owned the business smartphone market. You could have your Motorolas and your Nokias and your Samsungs, but for business, BlackBerry was it. Stalwart. Secure. Functional.
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TIL in Communist Romania natalist policies of Nicolae Ceaușescu led to 100k+ kids into Orphan Homes where they were Beaten, Starved, Drugged, tied to own beds and spent days in own urine and feces
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Romanian orphans
children from orphanages in Romania
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TIL the province of Guangdong in southern China has 126 million people in an area smaller than the state of Missouri.
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Guangdong
Guangdong is a coastal province located in South China, on the north shore of the South China Sea. The provincial capital is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.84 million (as of 2021) across a total area of about 179,800 km2 (69,400 sq mi), Guangdong is…
TIL about the tomb of eve, the archaeological site that was purported to be the grave of Eve(hawwah) located in jeddah. The tomb was destroyed by the saudi king in 1928 due to concerns with idolatry.
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 11:01AM by xalxary2
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Tomb of Eve
archeological site in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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TIL At some point after the battle of Drepana, in which the roman navy was wiped, Claudia, the roman commander's sister got stuck in a traffic jam, and in a bit of road rage she yelled "i wish my brother was still alive to lose another navy and thin that crowd". She was tried for treason
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 02:57PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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Battle of Drepana
The naval Battle of Drepana (or Drepanum) took place in 249 BC during the First Punic War near Drepana (modern Trapani) in western Sicily, between a Carthaginian fleet under Adherbal and a Roman fleet commanded by Publius Claudius Pulcher.
TIL "borderline personality disorder" was named to describe patients who seemed on the borderline of psychosis
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 03:43PM by koibito4u
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NCBI Bookshelf
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
The term ‘borderline personality’ was proposed in the United States by Adolph Stern in 1938 (most other personality disorders were first described in Europe). Stern described a group of patients who ‘fit frankly neither into the psychotic nor into the psychoneurotic…
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TIL Ari Nagel aka "The Sperminator" has fathered over 100 children. He turns down no woman and doesn't charge for his services, although he pays child support for several of them. Three documentaries, including The Baby Daddy (2022) and Spermworld (2024), have featured his contributions.
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Ari Nagel
American math teacher and serial sperm donor
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TIL of the Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: poor people buy cheap products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more expensive items
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 05:03PM by EtOHMartini
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Boots theory
economic theory
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TIL out of the world's 2781 billionaires only 19 are black, 8 of them being Oprah, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Tiger Woods and Tyler Perry
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 06:23PM by Al_coholik2
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Black billionaires
Wikimedia list of persons by citizenship and occupation
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TIL about the birthday effect, a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday. It has been suggested that it is a statistics anomaly, but the birthday effect has been seen in studies that control for known anomalies.
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 05:58PM by -Appleaday-
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Birthday effect
phenomenon where one is more likely to die on or close to one’s birthday
TIL Mao Zedong, the leader of the CCP, never brushed his teeth, he instead preferred to rinse his mouth out with tea and chew leaves 'like peasants did'. His teeth turned green and infected gums would gush out pus. When encouraged to do so, he responded by asking 'does a tiger brush his teeth?'.
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 08:50PM by starkfr
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Grunge
The Disgusting Truth About Mao Zedong's Personal Hygiene
In 2013, Business Insider wrote that deceased Communist dictator Mao Zedong was "still bigger than Jesus" in China.
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TIL: The Kamehameha Wave attack from the Dragon Ball anime is named after King Kamehameha I of Hawaii
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 06:22PM by SilentWalrus92
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Kamehameha I
Kamehameha I (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Hawaiian pronunciation: [kəmehəˈmɛhə]; Kalani…
TIL Jesus' blood sweat, described in Luke's gospel, is a real phenomenon which may occur when person undergoes severe stress
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 09:38PM by Patriarch99
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Hematidrosis
sweating of blood
TIL the United States ranks third in food quality and safety, behind Denmark and Canada.
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Submitted April 07, 2024 at 09:57PM by InjuriousPurpose
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Global Food Security Index
Wikimedia list article
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