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TIL that there is an impact crater over 25 miles in diameter buried beneath Chesapeake Bay which was revealed in 1993 from oil drilling data, and that prior to impact many, many moons ago, Richmond, VA was covered in thick tropical rainforest
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 07:49PM by QTheStrongestAvenger
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TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability, & cost of production.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 08:46PM by Old_Government_4342
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TIL During an ecumenical council meeting between 1414 to 1418, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund made a Latin grammatical error by conjugating "schisma" as feminine. When a cardinal corrected him, he replied "I am king of the Romans and above grammar." He was nicknamed "Super Grammaticam" by historians.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 08:34PM by zhuquanzhong
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TIL that due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populations
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 12:02AM by Sometypeofway18
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TIL The 'Magna Carta' (1215) was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government are not above the law.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 12:35AM by extremekc
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TIL the boom in mathematics during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Western world is correlated with the development of artillery and the increasing need for military professionals, especially artillerists, to be skilled in mathematics
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 12:21AM by Able_Road4115
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TIL that Samuel L. Jackson agreed to star in "Snakes on a Plane", and then the producers tried to change the noscript but didn't because Jackson agreed to do the film because of the noscript.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 06:51AM by Claire-p-ham
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TIL during the siege of Leningrad, scientists working at the world’s largest collection of seeds protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 10:00AM by ChupdiChachi
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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 12:58PM by Downtown-Egg-7398
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TIL the "Pizza The Hutt" suit for the movie Spaceballs weighed about 25 pounds and was made with a fiberglass undershell, a foam latex skin, steam jets, hoses, pancake batter, and pizza toppings. It was so uncomfortable that the original actor who wore it refused to get back in it for reshoots
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 10:14AM by SappyGilmore
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TIL Since 1884 Twenty-Three Human Babies Have Been Born With A "Tail"
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 06:03AM by PoodleBirds
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TIL Sonora Carver; one of the first female horse divers, continued horse diving for 11 more years after being blinded from hitting the water with open eyes off of Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Horse diving was a stunt where a horse would be ridden off a 40-60 foot tower into a body of water.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 04:06PM by MajesticBread9147
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TIL at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the opening night lights were automatically activated when the star Arcturus was detected. This star was chosen since its light takes ~40 years to arrive, so the rays landing on Earth had begun their journey ~1893, the year of Chicago's previous World's Fair
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 06:55PM by Pfeffer_Prinz
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TIL Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ($3.1 million) in broadcast history by calling down an ace-high bluff by Wesley Fei with a pair of queens. Later in the same cash game, Fei won the 2nd largest poker pot ($2.25 million) in US broadcast history against a different player.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 05:06PM by tyrion2024
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TIL The Harlem Globetrotters once lost track of a game and found themselves down 12 with 2 minutes left. Forced to play normal basketball, they rallied but could not recover. When the final buzzer sounded, the crowd was dumbfounded and disappointed. Some children in the stands cried after the loss.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 07:39PM by tenaciousdeev
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