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TIL of a Serbian Vodka that, at 88% alcohol, comes with 13 health warnings including one in braille.
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 03:50PM by Holiday_Document4592
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TIL that after England was knocked out of Euro 2004 by Portugal, English tabloids found the email address of the Swiss referee and published it. He received 16,000 hate emails overnight. After that "the Sun" also published the email address of a Swiss radio DJ, who tried to defend his compatriot
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 05:28PM by 9oRo
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TIL Hollywood’s shortest marriage was between Jean Acker and Rudolph Valentino. After the wedding ceremony, Acker locked Valentino out of their honeymoon suite. He left after 20 minutes.
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 04:05PM by charmer143
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TIL that more than 16 million official U.S. military personnel records were destroyed when the sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center caught fire in 1973. The archive did not have a sprinkler system, smoke detectors, or firewalls
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 05:44PM by TimelyConcern
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TIL Alcohol was legal in Saudi Arabia until 1952 after the Saudi King's son shot and killed a British diplomat while drunk
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 08:53PM by mylovelyhorse101
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TIL because of her mental illness history & how she presented early on, a woman catatonic for 20 yrs wasn't tested for an autoimmune disease until a doctor who was there when she was first admitted in 2000, came across her again in 2020. This led to her lupus diagnosis & treatment which woke her up.
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 10:04PM by tyrion2024
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TIL in February of 2013 the Emergency Alert Systems of stations in Montana and Michigan were breached to play a zombie apocalypse warning, using the lines "Civil authorities in your area have reported bodies of the dead are rising from the graves and attacking the living".
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 11:05PM by garamond89
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TIL that in 1948 the Idaho Dept of Fish and game parachuted 76 beavers into the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 10:10PM by Hefy_jefy
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TIL Adolf Hitler was such a big fan of Disney that his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels gifted him 18 Mickey Mouse shorts for Christmas 1937. Also Roy Disney sold Hitler a copy of Snow White, which he considered one of the greatest movies ever made, though never shown to the German public.
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Submitted July 12, 2024 at 09:46PM by woolsprout
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TIL that Ron Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for most appearances in adult films at +2k films where he 'performed.' His father was a physicist professor at New York's Queens College, while his mother was an US Office of Strategic Services officer and book editor.
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 02:56AM by c_d_com
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TIL the BBC programme "The Black and White Minstrel Show," with white actors performing in blackface, aired for 20 years ending in 1978. Once, in 1967, as an experiment, the network aired a version where black actors performed in whiteface.
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 04:55AM by Inevitable-Careerist
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TIL Thirty years before Newton published his Principia, Descartes published his Principia Philosophiæ which put forward a new mechanistic system of physics. However, Descartes’s system was entirely qualitative; he provided no equations of motion and his hypothesis has no validity
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 03:36AM by ubcstaffer123
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TIL in the United States, as soon as a baby is born, hospitals start billing the baby for the care they receive. Since they technically become their own entity/person at birth, they are charged separately from the parent.
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 12:04PM by Soupdeloup
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TIL Sir Ian McKellen came out accidentally, before he'd told his family, during a BBC radio debate on the anti-homosexuality Section 28 legislation
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 02:27PM by Last-Saint
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Til that the movie adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm was financed by the C.I.A.
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 01:41PM by AllColoursSam
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TIL a 2022 study included a mouse that was produced from a single unfertilized egg (parthenogenesis) and grew to adulthood & successfully reproduced, which was thought to be impossible in mammals.
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 02:36PM by tyrion2024
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TIL John Nash's son, John Charles Nash, also has a PhD in mathematics and lives with schizophrenia.
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 04:22PM by innergamedude
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