TIL that in 1959, the CIA covertly accessed, disassembled, photographed, and reassembled a fully-operational Soviet lunar probe. When they were done, they returned the probe without the Soviets noticing.
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Submitted July 22, 2024 at 01:17PM by OvidPerl
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TIL the city of Island Park, Idaho claims to the have the longest Main Street in the world. The town is only 500 feet wide but 33 miles long. It was incorporated by business owner on Route 20 in 1947 to circumvent the state's liquor laws
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Submitted July 22, 2024 at 04:13PM by TimelyConcern
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Wikipedia
Island Park, Idaho
city in Fremont County, Idaho, United States
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TIL Adelle Hugo, Victor Hugo's daughter, developed schizophrenia in her mid 20's, she became obsessed with a soldier she had initialy rejected and left her home in Jersey to stalk him across all his millitary deployments in Ireland, Canada and finally the Island of Barbados
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Submitted July 22, 2024 at 09:07PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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Submitted July 22, 2024 at 09:07PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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Adèle Hugo
2nd daughter of Victor Hugo
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TIL Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, continually hated his comic’s name throughout his life. Whenever he was asked what he did for a living, he avoided using the comic’s official name, and instead said, "I draw that comic strip with Snoopy in it, Charlie Brown and his dog".
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Submitted July 22, 2024 at 09:17PM by minikiwigeek2
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Peanuts
comic strip by Charles M. Schulz
TIL South Africa Was Banned From the Olympics For 32 Years Due to Apartheid
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Submitted July 22, 2024 at 09:49PM by voxpopper
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Olympics.com
Why South Africa Was Barred From the Olympics | Olympic Channel
The policy of racial segregation - known as apartheid - meant South Africa was barred from taking part at the Olympics from 1964-1988. Find out why that happened and how the country was reintegrated back into the Olympic family.
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TIL Squashing doesn't prevent ants in the house. Ants come and collect the squashed ants if you leave them there and they get a free meal. Ants will rarely have five per cent of the colony outside of the colony at any time
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Submitted July 22, 2024 at 10:32PM by ubcstaffer123
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Vancouver Sun
How to get rid of ants from your Metro Vancouver house
You’ve got ants.
TIL that in 2000, a British Airway flight plunged 30,000 feet in one minute after a mentally ill man stormed the cockpit and took control. The pilots subdued the man at 5,000 feet and were able to land at a nearby airport with minor injuries.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 12:10AM by Cultural_Magician105
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British Airways Flight 2069
attempted hijacking
TIL United airlines promised to help a blind woman off a plane once everyone had gotten off but they just left her there and the maintenance crew had to help her out
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 01:38AM by Even_Refrigerator104
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CBC
Blind woman abandoned on airplane | CBC News
A blind woman from Vancouver Island is not sure she'll ever fly alone again after she was forgotten by flight attendants and locked in a deserted plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
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TIL that the famous plane hijacker known as D. B. Cooper was jokingly asked by a flight attendant on duty during the hijacking if he would give her some of his ransom money. He happily offered her some, but she declined citing the airline's policy against accepting tips from passengers.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 12:33AM by cscottbrown
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D. B. Cooper
unidentified man who hijacked an airplane in 1971
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TIL, talk-show host Montel Williams, Jr. served 22 years in the Navy, worked as a cryptologist and retired as Lt. Commander.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 02:18AM by copperdomebodhi
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Montel Williams
American television host and actor
TIL that Harry Truman’s former vice president gave a speech ending with how he’d “rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty” before collapsing on stage and dying of a heart attack
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 03:38AM by guiltyofnothing
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Alben W. Barkley
vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953
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TIL that we will probably never discover many highly specialized dinosaur species because they lived in environments where they could not be preserved due to erosion, e.g. mountains
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 01:35AM by Azulapis
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Many Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered?
Paleontologists say more non-avian dinos are waiting to be uncovered than have previously been found
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TIL that a video game was previously designed where one would play as Jack the Ripper brutally murdering prostitutes, except here these prostitutes would actually be vampires in disguise, thus making Jack the Ripper the hero in this game. This game was subsequently cancelled.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 08:13AM by JooTong
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Polygon
The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was
About 10 years ago, Electronic Arts developed and then canceled a game about Jack the Ripper. This is its story.
TIL of Koi Pla, a raw fish salad dish consumed in the Isan region of Thailand said to be responsible for the deaths of around 20,000 people every year. Mainly due to the fish being used containing fluke worms that if eaten can inflict you with bile duct cancer.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 11:03AM by delano1998
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UNILAD
There's a meal which can give you liver cancer if you take just one bite
Scientists have linked cancer cases to the Thai dish
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TIL in 2001, a young boy in Florida had his arm bitten off by a shark. His quick-thinking uncle not only rescued him but also wrestled the 200-pound shark to shore. The boy's arm was retrieved from inside the shark, and after an 11-hour surgery, it was successfully reattached.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 10:44AM by uut1117
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ABC News
Uncle Speaks Out on Shark Rescue
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TIL Rodney Marks died of methanol poisoning under suspicious circumstances while working at the South Pole. His body was kept frozen for 6 months before it was able to be recovered.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 09:49AM by TopReporterMan
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Wikipedia
Rodney Marks
Australian astrophysicist who died of poisoning in Antarctica
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TIL that during WWII, U.S. Navy cryptanalysts, led by Joseph Rochefort, tricked Japan into revealing their plans to attack Midway. By sending a fake uncoded message about a water shortage, they confirmed "AF" was Midway, allowing the U.S. to prepare and win the battle.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 03:37PM by DecadentDick
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Joseph Rochefort
American cryptographer (1900-1976)
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TIL that the olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a way for Hitler to spread Nazi influence to other countries. It is a tradition that has taken place at every game since.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 05:48PM by saltywastelandcoffee
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Wikipedia
List of Olympic torch relays
ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games
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TIL pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value. The United States has lost nearly half a billion dollars minting pennies and nickels over the past 3 years(2021-2023).
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 06:53PM by JDLBB
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 06:53PM by JDLBB
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Today I learned that the United Kingdom and the State of Oregon have close to the same land mass. But Oregon population has only has about 4.25 million to the UK’s 68 million.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 06:32PM by Mundane_Humor899
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 06:32PM by Mundane_Humor899
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OregonLive
British don't take kindly to Oregon comparison
A U.S. briefing book comparing the U.K. to the size of the state causes a row
TIL that Gracie Allen (comedienne and wife of George Burns) ran for President of the USA in 1940 on the Surprise Party ticket
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 04:09PM by Lester_B
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Wikipedia
List of female United States presidential and vice presidential candidates
Wikimedia list article