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TIL In a feat of rage, Emperor Hadrian once stabbed a slave in the eye with a pen. Feeling regretful whe he calmed down, Hadrian called the slave and told him to ask for literally anything as compensation. The slave replied "i just want my eye back"
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 10:08PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL the worker who loaded the hazardous materials onto ValuJet 592, causing a fire and crash, is still wanted by the FBI (Reward)
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 11:45PM by JardinSurLeToit
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TIL The song Edelweiss is not actually an Austrian folk song and was written for "The Sound of Music"
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 11:40PM by somenamestakenn
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TIL For the 1992 VMA Awards- MTV Execs and Nirvana's Band Manager did not want NIrvana to play their song "R*pe Me" due to its content. Kurt Cobain play the first few seconds of the song anyway- only to switch to the originally planned song "Lithium"
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 05:50AM by Super_Goomba64
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TIL Michael Jackson joined Jimmy Carter on an immunization campaign and gave more than 10,000 children tickets to his concert as a reward for being immunized against preventable childhood diseases
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 08:27AM by ubcstaffer123
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TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 10:08AM by Pinkyy_Wingss
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TIL that in many Spanish speaking countries, instead of the tooth fairy, they've got "Ratoncito Pérez," a mouse that collects teeth and leaves money for children.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 07:50AM by paleselan1
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TIL of a court in France which stopped a girl being named "Nutella" and forcibly renamed her to Ella in the absence of her parents. The Judge said that the name Nutella would "only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts," a complaint not heard by her parents as they did not attend the hearing.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 02:14PM by Sure_Needleworker206
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TIL that the oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, who remarked that certain "barbarous nations" knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 02:01PM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL that Elizabeth “Plinky” Toepperwein was America’s only female professional trapshooter and beat Annie Oakley's accuracy record—she peeled potatoes with bullets and shot cigarettes out of her husband’s mouth.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 05:38PM by doseoflovely
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TIL there was a study sponsored by sugar companies in the 1960's and written by Harvard researcher D. Mark Hegsted that claimed sugar was harmless and it was fat that caused heart attacks
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 03:08PM by superanth
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TIL the Paralympics started because of disabilities resulting from WW2, so this will be the first one in Paris even though it’s hosted the Olympics three times.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 07:06PM by whistlerite
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TIL Potatoes are not indigenous to Ireland. They were cultivated by the Incas circa 8000 BC and first brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 08:55PM by xMimiHoney
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TIL that in Sparta, after the wedding, brides would have their hair cut short and be dressed in men's clothing so that they would appear less threatening to their groom during the wedding night.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 11:56PM by tea-boat
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TIL in 2021, a single deli in New Jersey that was publicly traded managed to achieve a market capitalization of over $100 million despite doing only $35,000 in sales across two years. The deli's largest shareholder was the wrestling coach of the high school next door.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 12:55AM by gixk
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TIL Chuck Berry was incarcerated for more than a year at Springfield's federal prison. He used his time behind bars to study business and wrote several songs including "Nadine" and “No Particular Place to Go”
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 09:12PM by ubcstaffer123
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TIL that in Japan, they have a thing called "nagashi somen", which are restaurants with flowing troughs of water where noodles slide down and you have to catch them
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 02:24AM by NewEnglandSynthOrch
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