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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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TIL that coastal redwood trees can sequester 250 metric tons of carbon in their 2,500 year lifespan. The largest, the General Sherman tree, has sequestered 392 metric tons of carbon and is still growing.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 05:39AM by MegaGrimer
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TIL Johnny Depp was the first person to hear Glass Animals' #1 Billboard hit "Heat Waves". Lead singer Dave Bayley was writing it late at night in a London studio when Depp, working in another studio, snuck into the room while searching for the restroom and listened to the entire unreleased track.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 06:10AM by YouCanCallMeAroae
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TIL of Audie Murphy, the most decorated US soldier of WWII, who held off a German company alone for one hour then led a successful counter attack despite being wounded and out of ammunition.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 07:37AM by muldersposter
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TIL after John Ruffo was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, his bail was set at $10 million. Most of his immediate family put their houses up as collateral to make bail. Ruffo then disappeared and the homes of his wife, mother, mother-in-law, and others were seized by the government.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 09:59AM by mankls3
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TIL that during WW2 when penicillin production could not keep up with demand, medics would collect the urine of treated patients, separate the penicillin out and administer it to other patients.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 12:45PM by Thewalrus26
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TIL the original Medal of Honor game (1999) - created by Steven Spielberg and credited with the popularisation of WW2 games, thus all the shooters that followed like BF, COD - was almost cancelled because of Columbine
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 01:29PM by -DEUS-FAX-MACHINA-
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TIL that the lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, was asked what it was like to be Black and Irish and he likened it to a "Pint of Guiness!"
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 12:28PM by LageNomAiNomAi
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TIL German filmmaker Werner Herzog made a short film called Game in the Sand (1964) that he refuses to release because filming “got out of hand”.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 03:30PM by Evan88135
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TIL The McGuire Twins, billed as the world’s heaviest twins, were obese due to a bout of German Measles affecting their pituitary glands at age 4.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 05:20PM by Maat1932
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TIL that Gerber, maker of baby food, once attempted to launch a similar, 'meal in a jar' product line aimed at college students and young adults, "Gerber Singles" -- it was a tremendous flop, even with such appetizing entrees as "Beef Burgundy" and "Mediterranean Vegetables"
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 07:31PM by PNWvibes20
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TIL in the 1950s, future stuntman Evel Knievel drove earth movers in a Montana copper mine. He was fired for making the vehicle do a wheelie and accidentally crashing it into a power line, cutting power to the city.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 07:27PM by AnthillOmbudsman
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TIL that in 1691, a Swedish farmhand was executed for having sexual intercourse with a mountain-nymph
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 09:10PM by Lucky_Duckling404
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TIL that a fake software company duped over 200K people with fake university degrees in a elaborate scheme employing 2000 people
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 09:23PM by dillimunda
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TIL: why Election Day in the US is on a Tuesday: so farmers could get to the polls and still have time to get their crops to market.
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Submitted August 29, 2024 at 11:45PM by atom644
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