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TIL that in 2015, a Louisiana man was arrested for drunkenly riding a horse on a highway. When detained, he said, "The horse knows the way home" and the sheriff concluded it did not constitute DUI.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 01:22AM by moonlightlovette
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TIL that FIFA restricts the Olympics men's soccer teams from including players 23 or older to prevent elite players from participating. Women's teams in the olympics have no such restrictions.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 02:52AM by Eomb
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TIL - The amount of water in Lake Superior can cover all of North and South America in 1 foot of water
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 04:18AM by Furiouslly
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TIL that Hershey is one of the only milk chocolate brands in the world that still uses fresh milk in its production, giving it a distinctive taste.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 06:05AM by professorwormb0g
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TIL that doctors a hundred years ago used to withhold informing the patient of their serious condition, even including if the patient was dying
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 07:05AM by sultics
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TIL that during a power outage in 1994, LA residents made numerous calls to 911 reporting strange silver clouds hovering in the sky. They were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 07:30AM by Fyeire
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TIL while sailing from Tahiti to San Diego, Tami Oldham Ashford & her fiancé's boat temporarily capsized when they got caught in a hurricane. Tami got knocked out & woke up 27 hours later with her fiancé missing. Over the next 41 days, she used a sextant & a watch to navigate 1.5K miles to Hawaii.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 07:04AM by tyrion2024
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TIL Niger has the highest, by far, fertility rate in the world at 6.6, meaning every woman has over six children on average. In fact, of the 31 countries with the highest fertility rate on earth, 30 are in Africa.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 05:08PM by Bluest_waters
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TIL about Sarah Boone, a 19th century dressmaker who invented the modern day ironing board, which she particularly adapted for ironing ladies’ garments. In 1892, she became one of the first African American women to be awarded a patent.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 04:58PM by CorellianBloodstripe
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TIL about a Japanese politician who was convinced that he was God incarnate, which led him to run for president from 1997 to 2013
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 05:55PM by avengentnecronomicon
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TIL That on July 17th 2023 a murderer was discovered just casually hanging with the dead body for 2 days after posting his dating profile pictures
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 05:45PM by sumrockt2
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TIL that Tom's Restaurant in NYC (whose exterior is used for Monk's Diner in Seinfeld) also inspired Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner."
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 07:19PM by chrisofduke
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TIL that the closest landmass to the antipode (the spot on the diametrically opposite side of the globe) of London is literally called the Antipodes Islands - they were previously called the Penantipodes, meaning 'next to the antipodes'.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 07:24PM by Lusakas
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TIL During World War II the Ontario government tried to rename the small town of Swastika (named in 1906) to Winston. The locals responded by taking down the Winston sign and placing a new Swastika sign which read “To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first.”
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 09:55PM by Ill_Definition8074
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TIL of Slavic 'pseudo-deities': pagan Gods who were made up by medieval chroniclers and 19th century romantics who wanted to give the Slavs a mythology like that of Ancient Greece and Rome
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 09:04PM by Ultach
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TIL that Abbott and Costello were among the highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II. During a national tour in 1942, they sold $85 million in war bonds in 35 days. ($1.64 billion, adjusted for inflation)
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 09:25PM by randomanon5two
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TIL, the Finnish air force academy still uses a swastika on its flag and insignia. Finnish use of the swastika was unrelated to their alliance with Nazi Germany, and predated Nazi adoption of the symbol. Finland stopped using the swastika in most other parts of the military for obvious reasons.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 09:36PM by lemelisk42
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TIL: The National Park Service recommends wrapping the entire underside of your car in a tarp to protect against marmots in Sequioa National Park
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 10:22PM by dumbfuck
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TIL that Michael Jackson narrated E.T. the Extraterrestrial's audiobook album. After taking home a record eight Grammys, seven for his album Thriller and one for E.T., he said that out of all of them he was "most proud of this one".
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 10:34PM by ImaVeganShishKebab
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TIL in 2012, the remainder of the Wilhelm Unger Games in Germany were cancelled after a referee was running to measure the distance of a javelin throw while it was still in the air and was struck in the face and throat by it. The referee died after being taken to the hospital.
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Submitted July 20, 2024 at 10:37PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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TIL Eva Peron (Evita), wife of Argentina's president Juan Peron, died of cervical cancer at the age of 33.He never told her that she had cancer and was dying. Ironically, his first wife also died of cervical cancer at 28 yrs old. Doctors felt that he passed the HPV virus on to his wives.
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Submitted July 21, 2024 at 02:02AM by Cultural_Magician105
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