TIL selling child abuse material wasn't ruled to be outside of first amendment protections until 1982.
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Submitted July 17, 2024 at 09:29PM by nighteye56
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Wikipedia
New York v. Ferber
United States Supreme Court case
TIL in 1914 a boy threw a tennis ball that got stuck high up in an archway of the Lincoln Cathedral. Over 90 years later, the boy's nephew wrote a letter to the cathedral asking if he could have it back, though secretly hoping the cathedral would notice it and leave it in place.
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Submitted July 17, 2024 at 09:53PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC NEWS | England | Lincolnshire | 'Lost' ball located 91 years on
The family of a boy whose ball got stuck in a cathedral archway want it back - nearly a century later.
TIL that the candy company Mars Inc. is the largest owner of stand-alone veterinary clinics in the United States"
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Submitted July 17, 2024 at 09:49PM by InternetPopular3679
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Food & Power
Mars Buys Another Veterinary Network, as a Candy-Company Turned Pet Care Giant Furthers its Influence Over Animal Health — Food…
Last week, Mars, the company best known for brands like Snickers, Skittles, and Wrigley’s gum, purchased AniCura, a network of 200 animal hospitals spanning seven European countries .
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TIL that in ancient Rome plebeians would leave the cities during the "secession of the plebeians." This left the elites to fend for themselves.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 12:16AM by Cypher4235
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Secessio plebis
exercise of power by Rome's plebeian citizens
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TIL of the Illusory Truth Effect which is when people will start to believe a lie if they hear it enough times simply because the "familiarity can over power rationality," causing something familiar to feel right.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 01:33AM by bluestone175
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Illusory truth effect
tendency to believe false information when repeated
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TIL about 32% of all traffic crash fatalities in the US involve drunk drivers (with BACs of .08 or higher).
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 01:14AM by tyrion2024
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NHTSA
Drunk Driving | NHTSA
Get resources on ways to prevent drunk driving and alcohol-impaired crashes along with national drunk driving statistics and facts.
TIL that one of the strategies proposed for raising the Titanic before it fully deteriorates was to fill it full of ping pong balls.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 03:05AM by MediaGoneVintage
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Sky HISTORY
The most outrageous schemes to raise the Titanic
From filling the ship with ping pong balls to asking a monkey, these are some of the strangest plans to raise the Titanic that were ever proposed
TIL Canada prohibits aircraft from flying faster than Mach 1, but made an exception in 2003 for a Concorde’s final fight, from NYC to Seattle. It set a new speed record of 3 hours, 55 minutes, and 2 seconds.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 01:13AM by Bizchasty
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TIL that the electricity bills of a Japanese bullet train on a 622km (386 mi) journey can be paid off with the ticket income of 16 paying-travelers on its 1,324 seats, or on average, just one passenger in each carriage.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 05:44AM by tibbev
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TIL that an increase in the profitability of growing lemons after they were found to prevent scurvy led to the creation of the Sicilian mafia in the 1870s.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 03:09AM by MaximinusRats
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Cambridge Core
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons - Volume 77 Issue 4
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TIL: That the movie 'Cape Fear' was originally developed by Steven Spielberg, but he eventually decided it was too violent and traded it to Martin Scorsese in exchange for 'Schindler's List', which Scorsese had decided not to make.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 04:08AM by appalachian_hatachi
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Cape Fear (1991 film)
1991 film directed by Martin Scorsese
TIL in the 1970s Playboy published nude photos of a 10-year old Brooke Shields in one of their publications. Brooke tried to take the photographer to court but they deemed the photos were “Art”.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 10:50AM by MADVILLAIN718
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The Sydney Morning Herald
‘I posed naked at 10, now I’m telling my story’: Brooke Shields
At 57, the actor and mother of two tells how she broke free of the alcoholic mother who turned her into a child star.
TIL that in 2006, Banksy and Danger Mouse tampered with 500 copies of Paris Hilton's album by replacing the music and images. They depicted her with a bare chest and a dog's head and included songs noscriptd "Why Am I Famous?" and "What Have I Done?"
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 08:52AM by Golabious
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Dazed
Paris Hilton wants Banksy’s fake Paris Hilton CD
The artist’s reimagining of Hilton’s 2006 debut album has sold at auction for £8,750
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TIL that the anti-AIDS drug Ritonavir had to be taken off the market after scientists accidentally synthesized a second, medically useless form of the drug. The new form assimilated all the samples it touched, making them equally useless. A microscopic quantity of it was enough to halt production.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 01:52PM by WilliamofYellow
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Wikipedia
Disappearing polymorph
sudden unexpected transformation of a crystal structure
TIL that Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance was visited by the Secret Service after he released a song called "I Am Going to Kill the President of the United States of America". He was threatened with 5 years in prison if he ever played the song live again.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 02:23PM by SevereAction9868
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XO (Leathermouth album)
2009 studio album by Leathermouth
TIL that over half of the cities in Wyoming have a population of less than 500 people.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 03:28PM by MajMajor2x
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Wyoming-Demographics
Wyoming Cities by Population (2024)
Get a list of Wyoming cities by population based on Census 2023 data.
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TIL that Monowi, Nebraska has been the smallest town in the United States of America since 2010 with Elsie Eiler being it's only resident.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 01:13PM by doodly-123
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Wikipedia
Monowi, Nebraska
village in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States
TIL that the Vatican Church recognised the Capybara, technically a rodent, as a fish which led to it being eaten during the meat free Lent season.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 05:09PM by Striking-Bat-553
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Interesting Engineering
For years, the Vatican referred to capybaras as "fish"
What does this mean for Venezuelans enjoying the rodent as a ‘meat-free’ dish?
TIL when a cat purrs, it can mean more than just contentment. Cats also purr when they are frightened, in pain, or even when they are expiring. It's considered a self-soothing, and self-healing mechanism, as their 25-150Hz frequency purr vibration can improve bone and soft tissue regeneration.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 04:23PM by Xenial81
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Bbc
The complicated truth about a cat’s purr
Our cats may purr when we pet and tickle them, but it’s a much more complicated form of communication than we've assumed.
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TIL that Australia uses Polymer bank notes that are waterproof and notoriously hard to counterfeit due to its complex design.
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 05:54PM by newyorkcitydude
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Wikipedia
Polymer banknote
Encyclopedia of polymer banknote
TIL that according to Utah public decency law, a man is considered nude if his genitals are "in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered."
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Submitted July 18, 2024 at 07:09PM by L8_2_PartE
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Justia Law
2023 Utah Code :: Title 76 - Utah Criminal Code :: Chapter 10 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, Welfare, and Morals ::…
Justia Free Databases of US Laws, Codes & Statutes
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