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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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 10:03AM by Popcornand0coke
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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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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 06:21AM by SnarkySheep
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Cordelia Botkin
American murderer
TIL one In Four Animals Known To Science Is A Beetle
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 02:27PM by SeeNoWeevil_
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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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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 05:12PM by Brutal_Deluxe_
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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
TIL Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 04:50PM by Classic_Car4776
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BBC News
Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
Despite poor vision and a severe lack of thumbs, Hamlet and other pigs could learn to be gamers.
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TIL if a watermelon is beginning to foam it has a chance of exploding.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 08:00PM by Ox45Fan
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People are reporting that their watermelons are exploding. Here’s why it happens
A string of incidents involving ominous-looking watermelons has summer fruit lovers on watch.
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TIL that, on being rejected by the only woman he ever proposed to, Lord William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness, took a vow of celibacy, allowing his noble noscripts to go extinct upon his death in 1995.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 08:44PM by Kurma-the-Turtle
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William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness
British noble (1929-1995)
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TIL that by the 1830s, American alcohol consumption had peaked at an all-time high of 7.1 gallons of absolute alcohol per capita annually--more than three times the current consumption rate of 2.18 gallons (2005).
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 08:13PM by Material-Raccoon-87
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TIL Dennis Farina started acting at 44
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 08:49PM by SvenRhapsody
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CBS News
Actor Dennis Farina dead at 69
Farina, who starred as a cop on "Law & Order," died after suffering a blood clot in his lung
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TIL that the deepest mine in the world, Mponeng Gold Mine in South Africa, reaches over 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) below the Earth's surface. At such depths, temperatures can reach 60°C (140°F), requiring advanced cooling systems to keep the miners safe.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 09:05PM by MartianAndroidMiner
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Mponeng Gold Mine
4 km deep gold mine in Gauteng province near Johannesburg, South Africa
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TIL that during Deng Xiaoping's visit to the United States, a Maoist American protested against him, calling him a "capitalist roader"
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 06:56PM by Idk_Very_Much
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Visit by Deng Xiaoping to the United States
Deng Xiaoping 1979 visit to US
TIL that Because American and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with soldier from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.
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Submitted September 07, 2024 at 11:41PM by helderdude
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Paris liberation made 'whites only'
Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal British and American commanders ensured the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory.
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TIL Groundhog Day is noscripted in advance: members of an "Inner Circle" decide ahead of time whether Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow or not, and they announce this decision at the ceremony without waiting to see if Phil returns to his burrow or not.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 12:09AM by maniwithoutqualities
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Punxsutawney Phil
Punxsutawney Phil (/ˌpʌŋksəˈtɔːni/) is a groundhog residing in Young Township near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, who is the central figure in Punxsutawney's annual Groundhog Day celebration.
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TIL Heinrich Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology, spending most of her life defending her father's reputation. She died in 2018.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 12:54AM by dustofoblivion123
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Gudrun Burwitz
German Neo-Nazi and daughter of SS chief Heinrich Himmler (1929-2018)
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TIL Charles de Gaulle was not told about the D-Day landings until 2 days before as the British and French leaders did not believe the French could keep the information secret.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 01:10AM by EssexGuyUpNorth
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Charles de Gaulle during World War II
At the outbreak of World War II, Charles de Gaulle was put in charge of the French Fifth Army's tanks (five scattered battalions, largely equipped with R35 light tanks) in Alsace, and on 12 September 1939, he attacked at Bitche, simultaneously with the Saar…
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TIL: The codes which allow the President of the U.S. to authorize a nuclear attack are printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit." The president is supposed to carry the biscuit at all times.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 05:06AM by theotherbogart
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Gold Codes
launch codes for U.S. nuclear weapons
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