TIL Tug of war was featured at the Summer Olympics 1900 to 1920.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 05:22AM by Minifig81
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Tug of war at the Summer Olympics
Olympic sport, 1900–1920
TIL That Seahorses Lack A Stomach & Need To Constantly Eat To Stay Living
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 04:40AM by SprintsAC
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Seahorse
genus of fishes
TIL about the Marriage of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead - a 22 year old farmer that married a 9 year old girl.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 08:29AM by Practical_Message677
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Marriage of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead
1937 child marriage in Tennessee, U.S.
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TIL of the "Mad Piper" Bill Millin, the only bagpiper to land on the beach in Normandy. While men fell around him, he played his pipes throughout the battle. A group of captured German snipers was asked why they hadn't shot him. They replied that they thought he'd gone insane and felt bad for him.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 01:33PM by doopityWoop22
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Bill Millin
Canadian musician (1922-2010)
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TIL Young children can regenerate removed fingertips
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 10:22AM by Patriarch99
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Regeneration (biology)
biological process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations
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TIL Female Kangaroos have 3 vaginas.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 10:55AM by Gordonrams_me653
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Australian Geographic
Did you know kangaroos have three vaginas?
Don’t believe me? Read on.
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TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 03:42PM by Go_Squanch_Yourself
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hitchBOT
either of two Canadian-made hitchhiking robots
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TIL that, despite having been dead for a year, a cat was successfully registered as a certified member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants by her owner, seeking to showcase the complete lack of any verification for membership aside from payment.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 02:42PM by Kurma-the-Turtle
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List of animals awarded human credentials
Wikimedia list article
TIL: The explosion of Mt Tambora in 1815 was so devastating that it eliminated an entire kingdom, along with its unique language. Remnants were found buried under a 3m thick layer of volcanic matter in the middle of a jungle.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 10:58AM by zahrul3
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Tambora culture
lost village and culture on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
TIL that in 1998, Sony had the chance to buy the rights to nearly all Marvel characters for $25 million but chose to acquire only Spider-Man, believing no one cared about the others.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 04:53PM by Seth-G-Griffin
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Ike Perlmutter Hated Sony/Marvel Deal After Spider-Man (2002) Success
Avi Arad says Ike Perlmutter "developed a fire in his belly of hatred and started terrorizing" Sony "on things that he had the right to and then some"
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TIL in 2023 a Gibbon in a zoo in Japan got pregnant through a glory hole
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 05:51PM by meminio
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VICE
Zookeepers Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of How a Gibbon Got Pregnant by Herself – VICE
Momo the gibbon was kept in a cage by herself in a Japanese zoo. But life found a way.
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TIL in 1054, Chinese records reported a “new star bright enough to be seen in the daytime”. They were actually witnessing the supernova explosion that created the Crab Nebula 6,500 light-years away.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 04:59PM by islandradio
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Crab Nebula
Supernova remnant
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TIL during The Battle of The Bulge, General Patton ordered a chaplain to compose a prayer for good weather that was desperately needed for an advance. The chaplain complied, the weather cleared, and Patton awarded the chaplain a bronze star on the spot.
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George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy…
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TIL the term "Spaghetti Western" refers to Western films made in Europe. It's called such because most of these films were directed by Italians.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 06:48PM by VLenin2291
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Spaghetti Western
film genre
TIL that Okinawa Island, captured from Japan during the War in the Pacific, remained under American administration until 1972
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 05:30PM by XP_Studios
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Government of the Ryukyu Islands
The Government of the Ryukyu Islands (琉球政府, Ryūkyū Seifu) was the self-government of native Okinawans during the American occupation of Okinawa. It was created by proclamation of the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR) on April…
TIL about Willie Jones, who survived the highest human fever at 46.5 °C or 115.7 °F.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 04:00PM by Shogun847
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Orders of magnitude (temperature)
range of temperatures from absolute zero to very high
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TIL the 2nd heaviest person in recorded history (1,340lbs) was ordered by his government to undergo weight loss treatment. He lost over 700lbs in just 6 months, and currently weighs 150lbs.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 10:26PM by Wellz96
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Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari
Saudi Arabian man who was the heaviest living person in 2013
TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 11:01PM by Scarlett3Doldrectich
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Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule…
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TIL that sumo wrestlers have a 65 year life expectancy (5 years shorter than that of the average Japanese male) due to their high risk of diabetes and heart attacks and liver problems resulting from the excessive diet of food and alcohol.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 11:50PM by Moore_Silit1945
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Sumo
Sumo (Japanese: 相撲, Hepburn: sumō, .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%}Japanese pronunciation:…
TIL In 2020, The North American Scrabble Players Association banned racial slurs and other offensive words from official play, a decision which was controversial among top players.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 12:49AM by haddock420
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Slate Magazine
Big Scrabble’s Decision to Eliminate Offensive Words Has Infuriated Players Like Never Before
Does “hate speech” apply to playing a word in the game?
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TIL that Bruce Willis walked away from the Expendables 3 because he wanted 4 million dollars instead of 3 million (for four days of work).
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 01:27AM by MaddisonTomberlinyG7
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the Guardian
Bruce Willis 'wanted $1m a day for Expendables 3'
Further details of the actor's alleged wage demands emerged after Sylvester Stallone's Twitter condemnation of Willis as 'greedy'