TIL that at atmospheric pressure, Helium cannot freeze, even at Absolute Zero, while Carbon and Arsenic sublimates from solid to gas, with no liquid state.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 02:09AM by Dromeoraptor
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Melting point
The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure…
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TIL about Arthur Arndt, a German physician whose family became the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Nazi Germany.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 10:40AM by CreditorOP
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Arthur Arndt
German physician who survived hiding out with his family during The Holocaust
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TIL: Foetal cells can remain in the mother's, even embedding on different organs of the mother, for decades, sometimes for a lifetime.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 10:41AM by St_Gregory_Nazianzus
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Smithsonian Magazine
Baby’s Cells Can Manipulate Mom’s Body for Decades
An evolutionary approach may help scientists understand why mothers become genetic chimeras and how that affects their health
TIL the first recorded strike in history happened in 1158BC in Ancient Egypt, the strikers demanded wheat rations, which was granted after a march to the office of the Vizier.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 01:27PM by knakworst36
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Deir el-Medina strikes
ancient Egyptian strike
TIL when you're stretching your body releases endorphins, that's why it feels so good.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 03:43PM by Dog_Weasley
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TIL the Harvard professor on administrative leave over falsified research data, Francesca Gino, published a book with the subnoscript, "Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and In Life"
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 05:02PM by sunlightFTW
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TIL that Henryk Siwiak was killed on a street of Brooklyn shortly before midnight. He is the only victim on the list of murders in New York on September 11, 2001, since the city does not include the deaths from the 9/11 attacks in its official crime statistics. His murder has never been solved.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 05:54PM by jenesuispashariselon
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Killing of Henryk Siwiak
only homicide officially recorded in New York City on September 11, 2001
TIL Tossing Puffin Chicks off of a cliff in Iceland is vital to the survival of the species
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 07:25PM by ExtremeAstronomer852
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NPR
Why it's perfectly normal to see baby puffins thrown off cliffs in Iceland each year
Throwing thousands of baby puffins off a cliff is a yearly tradition for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. It's part of what's known as "puffling season" and is a crucial life-saving endeavor.
TIL that there's a semi-aquatic wolf subspecies which has been documented swimming over seven miles between islands off the coast of Canada.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 07:14PM by wendycomet
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Vancouver Coastal Sea wolf
subspecies of mammal
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TIL Montgomery's memoirs criticised many of his wartime comrades harshly, including Eisenhower. After publishing it, he had to apologize in a radio broadcast to avoid a lawsuit. He was also stripped of his honorary citizenship of Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian lawyer.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 08:15PM by HumanNutrStudent
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Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/məntˈɡʌməri ... ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish…
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TIL Mt. Vesuvius is still active, having had 4-6 relatively severe eruptions every century for the past 500 years (last one in 1944). It's also the world's most densely populated volcanic region, with 3 million people living nearby.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 08:43PM by Pfeffer_Prinz
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Mount Vesuvius
volcano on the southwestern coast of Italy
TIL that Kit Kat bars are made up of imperfect rejected Kit Kats bars that are mashed up into a paste that's used to fill the wafers.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 11:08PM by TylerSpicknell
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TODAY.com
What's really in the middle of a Kit Kat? The answer is blowing our minds
That filling between the wafers tastes a little too familiar.
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TIL that Aaron Bank, who founded US Army Special Forces, was a real life Inglorious Basterd tasked with killing or capturing Hitler. His mission was only canceled because of how rapidly the war came to an end in Berlin.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 10:26PM by Low-Way557
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Aaron Bank
Aaron Bank (November 23, 1902 – April 1, 2004) was a United States Army colonel who founded the US Army Special Forces, commonly known as the "Green Berets". He is also known for his exploits as an OSS officer during World War II, when he parachuted into…
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TIL a locket containing a picture of Mother Teresa allegedly healed an Indian woman's abdominal tumor. The Vatican deemed it a miracle worthy of canonization, while doctors argued that the cancer was cured by conventional medicine.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 11:45PM by ladyermine
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Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
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TIL a Mississippi driver's license does not require a driving test just a written exam.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 11:30PM by Cat4Cat
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Mississippi First
Senate Bill 2695: Mandatory Driver Education - Mississippi First
Senate Bill 2695 would require first-time driver’s license applicants to complete a driver education and training program in order to obtain a license.
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TIL: About a Western European tradition called ‘Telling the bees’ in which bees are told of important events, including deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the keeper's household.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 10:45PM by rpker
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Telling the bees
Telling the bees is a Western European tradition in which bees are told of important events, including deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the keeper's household. If the custom was omitted or forgotten and the bees were not "put into mourning"…
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TIL of Zachary Porter, 20, who got stuck, waste deep, in a mud flat during low tide. He was unable to free himself and drowned when the high tide came in.
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Submitted September 17, 2024 at 02:30AM by Voyager_AU
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NBC News
Man dies after becoming trapped in tidal mud flat in Alaska
Zachary Porter, of Illinois, got stuck in the mud. Rescuers couldn’t reach him before he was submerged by the incoming tide.
TIL Daniel von Bargen, who Shot Himself in the Head in 2012 Because his Diabetes Left Him Amputated, Once Played a Character in a Film Titled "Thinner", in Which he Shoots Himself in the Head Over a Curse that Makes his Entire Body Sore. AMC Aired this Film 2 Days After his Suicide Attempt.
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Submitted September 17, 2024 at 03:32AM by Just-Cantaloupe4068
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Daniel von Bargen
American actor (1950-2015)
TIL Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London's sewers in the 1860's, said 'Well, we're only going to do this once and there's always the unforeseen' and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960's (its still in use today).
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Submitted September 17, 2024 at 06:09AM by DreammyBeeelle
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Joseph Bazalgette
19th-century English civil engineer, 1819-1891
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TIL In 1995, 7 children died in a bus crash in Fox River Illinois when a substitute driver stopped with the back part of the bus still on train tracks. The children were screaming for her to move ahead but she became confused and a train hit the bus a 60mph.
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Submitted September 17, 2024 at 02:42AM by Cultural_Magician105
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Crystal Lake-Cary, IL Patch
25 Years Later, Memory Of Teens Killed In Bus Crash Lives On
Seven Cary-Grove High School students were killed when a Metra train collided with a school bus stopped on the track on Oct. 25, 1995.
TIL Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every Academy Award it was nominated for. With 11 wins, it made history as the highest clean sweep in Oscars history.
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Submitted September 17, 2024 at 06:17AM by mankls3
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 film by Peter Jackson
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