TIL That up until the 1970s there existed a law in Ireland in which all bars had to close...on March 17.
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HISTORY
St. Patrick’s Day: Origins, Meaning & Background | HISTORY
St. Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture that takes place annually on March 17, the anniversary of the patron saint of Ireland's death in the fifth century. The holiday has spiritual meaning in Ireland, where it has been observed as a religious…
TIL pop singer Lily Allen turned down 200,000 bitcoin to play a show in 2009. At today's value, that would be worth over ten BILLION dollars.
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Submitted September 06, 2024 at 07:06PM by AlwaysTheNoob
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Lily Allen turned down the chance to become a billionaire – becoming richer than the Queen herself
Lily Allen once turned down the opportunity to play a gig and be paid in "hundred of thousands of Bitcoin" - which would now be worth billions
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TIL that the creators of Dragon Tales added a third kid named Enrique to the series in the third season, in an effort to educate preschoolers mildly in Hispanic culture
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Submitted September 06, 2024 at 06:49PM by Ok_World_8819
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Dragon Tales
American-Canadian animated pre-school children's educational television series
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TIL The previous heir to North Korea is believed to have lost his position as the heir after he tried getting into Disneyland in Japan with a fake passport. He was then exiled from the country and later assassinated him in 2017 after many failed attempts.
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Kim Jong-nam
Kim Jong-nam (Korean: 김정남, .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%}Korean: [kim.dzɔŋ.nam]; 10 May…
TIL That most currency is contaminated by illicit drugs (mostly cocaine).
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Submitted September 06, 2024 at 07:43PM by Hydraulis
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Contaminated currency
Paper currency with cocaine or disease
TIL about Sikh Nation - the largest blood donation campaign run by Canadian Sikhs to commemorate the tragic loss of thousands of lives in India’s anti-Sikh genocide in 1984. It has saved more than 160,000 lives and spread to 27 communities across the country since it began in 1999.
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Global News
Sikh Nation blood drive, largest of its kind in Canada, underway in Surrey | Globalnews.ca
Canadian Blood Services estimates the Sikh Nation blood donor campaign has saved more than 160,000 lives in the country since it began in 1999.
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TIL about Aaron Feuerstein who was CEO of Malden Mills when it was destroyed in a fire in 1995. Instead of laying off all 3000 employees, he spent the insurance moenyto pay their salaries and benefits while the mill was being rebuilt. This cost him personally $25,000,000 and his CEO position.
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Aaron Feuerstein
American businessman
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TIL Isaac Newton was extremely religious, and he rejected the Trinity.
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Cambridge Core
The religion of Isaac Newton (Chapter 12) - The Cambridge Companion to Newton
The Cambridge Companion to Newton - March 2016
TIL in WW2, a German interrogator realised the best way to get information from prisoners was through kindness
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 12:04AM by LostWaldoAgain
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Pacific Standard
The Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness
Thanks in part to the work of Hanns Scharff and a slew of studies on interrogation techniques, we know it's best to be genuinely friendly no matter who you're trying to get information out of.
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TIL Olivia Colman's real name is Sarah Sinclair (née Colman). She had to adopt a different stage name when she began working professionally because Equity (the UK actors' union) already had an actress named Sarah Colman.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 02:31AM by Faster_Tadgh
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Olivia Colman
English actress (born 1974)
TIL that the Hoover Dam contains enough concrete to build a two-lane road from San Francisco to New York.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 04:33AM by Mother_Pepper8187
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Dude Stuff
The Hoover Dam and Avogadro's Number
Big Walls, Bigger Numbers: The Hoover Dam and a Cosmic Count You Need to Know
TIL that of all the restaurants that have been featured on Guy Fieri's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives", '224 of the 1,498 (and counting)Triple D restaurants have closed, which comes out to just shy of 15%.'
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It's Shocking Just How Many Of Guy Fieri's 'Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives' Restaurants Are Now Closed
Is it a curse?
TIL Linkin Park initially wanted to be called Lincoln Park, but they changed the spelling so they could acquire the linkinpark.com domain
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 01:25AM by j1ggy
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Linkin Park
American rock band
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TIL the first six films in the Saw franchise included blood collection drives as part of their promotions. Over 120,000 pints of blood were collected because of these drives, which is estimated to have helped save around 360,000 lives.
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Saw, the horror franchise dedicated to grisly and gruesome deaths, is actually responsible for saving the lives of over 360,000…
Horror saving lives thanks to the use of blood? This is something we can absolutely get behind
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TIL about Cordelia Botkin, a U.S. woman who mailed a box of poisoned chocolates to Elizabeth Dunning, her ex-lover's wife, in 1898. Dunning and her older sister, Ida Harriet Deane, died two days later. It was the 1st prosecuted U.S. crime that took place in two states (mailed from CA to DE).
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Cordelia Botkin
American murderer
TIL one In Four Animals Known To Science Is A Beetle
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NPR
This Is Not A Typo: One In Four Animals Known To Science Is A Beetle
NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce had to know more when she recently heard this mind-bending fact for the first time: a quarter of all known animal species are beetles. Turns out — it's not just that beetles are incredibly diverse. It's that…
TIL - Sydney has a suburb called "Dee Why" - It remains unclear why.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 03:35PM by toomanynamesaretook
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Dee Why
Dee Why /diːˈwaɪ/ is a coastal suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 18 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of Northern Beaches Council…
TIL that Michelle Kwan is the most decorated figure skater in US history. She is also the US ambassador to Belize.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 04:48PM by Voyager_AU
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Michelle Kwan
Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired competitive figure skater and diplomat serving as United States Ambassador to Belize. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002), a five-time world champion…
TIL the infamous coast-to-coast Cannonball Run challenge is named after Cannonball, the locomotive driven by Casey Jones when he fatally tried to make up a 75 minute delay and set a speed record from Memphis TN to Canton MS
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Casey Jones
American railroad engineer (1863–1900)
TIL after visiting Pyongyang in 1971, Romanian dictator Ceaușescu got obsessed to North Korean ideology and implemented it to his country. He was executed in 1989.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 04:59PM by BadenBaden1981
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North Korea–Romania relations
diplomatic relations between North Korea and Romania
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TIL that from 1867 to 1974, various cities in the United States had laws prohibiting people deemed "unsightly" from being seen in public, retroactively being named "ugly laws".
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 07:05PM by The1cyone
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Ugly law
unsightly beggar ordinances in the United States