TIL Switzerland forced Liechtenstein in 1949 to cede the strategically important Ellhorn by threatening to end the customs union. In return, some of Liechtenstein's war debts were cancelled and a land swap took place.
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 02:08PM by BezugssystemCH1903
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Ellhorn
mountain in the Rätikon in Grissons
TIL Switzerland has accidentally invaded neighboring Liechtenstein several times. On one such occasion, the Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the Swiss soldiers, who declined and quickly departed.
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 05:08PM by ILoveTabascoSauce
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Liechtenstein–Switzerland relations
bilateral relations between Switzerland and Liechtenstein
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TIL of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman who lived for two years, 8 months of those years alone, as a castaway on the uninhabited Wrangel Island. She survived by learning to hunt foxes, build boats, and sew parkas out of reindeer skin.
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Ada Blackjack
Iñupiat explorer
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TIL Navy SEAL Team 6, the famed covert unit that killed Bin Laden, was named to make US Special Forces seem more plentiful to the Soviets; only SEAL Teams 1 and 2 existed prior.
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 04:20PM by Parking_Spot
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HISTORY
The Birth of SEAL Team Six
Explore the (mostly) secret history of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, aka SEAL Team Six.
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TIL that Homer’s Iliad ends with Hector’s funeral. This means that the Trojan Horse and Achilles’ death aren’t from the Iliad.
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 06:38PM by DrKillBilly
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Iliad
epic poem attributed to Homer
TIL Muhammad Ali dedicated his defeat of Joe Frazier in the 1975 boxing heavyweight championship to one of his favorite actors, Christopher Lee, best known at the time for playing Dracula & Bond villain Scaramanga
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 07:08PM by migranha
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gamesradar
The Total Film Interview - Christopher Lee
"They said I was too tall to be an actor. I thought 'Right, I'll show you...'". Six decades and 224 films later, consider them shown. Bloodsucker, dark lord, bad wizard, close personal friend of Muhammad Ali… It’s Christopher ‘The Count
TIL: The number one top grossing movie that never hit #1 during its release was 2023's Oppenheimer
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 08:08PM by today_okay
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Oppenheimer (film)
2023 film by Christopher Nolan
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TIL that Winston Churchill was prescribed ‘Indefinite’ quantities of alcohol during prohibition
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 10:29PM by CharmingLia02
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HistoryNet
A Doctor’s Note for Booze? Winston Churchill Prescribed ‘Indefinite’ Quantities of Alcohol During Prohibition
Medical professionals touted that daily doses of alcohol could stave off, among other things, cancer, indigestion, and depression.
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TIL a pair of fossilized hadrosaur vertebrae exists with a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth embedded inside, surrounded by healed bone growth. This indicates the animal was attacked by a T. rex and survived.
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 09:22PM by Temnodontosaurus
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A near miss for a Tyrannosaurus rex: evidence of failed predation
New evidence suggests legendary dinosaur Tyrannosaurus was an active predator, if not always a successful one writes Dr Dave Hone
TIL About the rural "Fasci Siciliani", a political movement in southern Italy which preached Socialism as the true faith of Christ, they held Crosses alongside red flags and pictures of Marx at their meetings, the movement spread like an epidemic reaching 300k members in 4 years before it was banned
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Submitted September 25, 2024 at 11:03PM by Upstairs_Garden_687
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Fasci Siciliani
popular movement in Sicily
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TIL the average age for virginity loss in the USA is 17 years old.
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 12:34AM by paulbunyanshat
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TIL there is enough actinide metal (thorium and uranium) on Earth to sustain Breeder Reactors, which produce more fissile material than they consume, leading to enough fuel to satisfy the world's energy needs at 1983 levels for 5-billion years, making nuclear energy effectively renewable
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 03:16AM by Plupsnup
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Breeder reactor
nuclear reactor generating more fissile material than it consumes
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TIL Joan of Leeds, a 14th century nun, faked her own death by crafting a dummy “in the likeness of her body” in order to escape her convent & allegedly pursue “the way of carnal lust.” She was discovered around 30 miles (48 km) away living "indecently" with a man & was denounced as an apostate.
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 04:03AM by tyrion2024
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Joan of Leeds
early-14th-century runaway English nun
TIL that the end of the Stone Age to the present represents only around 0.7% of human history.
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 05:22AM by PoopMobile9000
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Stone Age
broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements
TIL of ray cat, a proposed kind of cat that would be genetically engineered to glow in the presence of nuclear radiation to act as a long-term nuclear warning. This is done by inventing traditions of folklore which spread the idea that people should flee when a cat changes color
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 04:03AM by VegemiteSucks
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Ray cat
proposed kind of cat
TIL that "Schrodinger's Cat" -- the famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics where an unobserved cat is both alive and dead -- was not proposed by Erwin Schrodinger to highlight the principle, but rather to mock its absurdity.
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 05:42AM by Flurb4
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Schrödinger's cat
thought experiment
TIL that following Michael Jackson's death, his sister discovered two hard disks at her brother's home that contained more than 100 unreleased songs, many of which were unregistered. In 2010, Sony signed a deal with Jackson's estate to release 10 posthumous albums, but only 3 were ever released
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 09:55AM by 9oRo
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List of unreleased songs recorded by Michael Jackson
Wikimedia list article
TIL Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while at sea in 1913. Ten days after his disappearance a body was found floating with some of his belongings, but was so decomposed it was unrecognizable and was not kept. The case has remained unsolved.
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 08:35AM by 1000LiveEels
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Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
TIL after contacting the Advertising Standards Authority, a New Zealand man was offered a refund by Paramount. He complained that a scene of a cliff exploding, shown in the preview for Jack Reacher, was not in the film and that this scene, and Tom Cruise, was the main reason for him seeing the movie
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 10:06AM by CybergothiChe
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9News
Not enough bang for Kiwi movie fan's buck - 9News
A NZ film fan, miffed by a missing explosion in a Tom Cruise movie, complained to the advertising watchdog ...
TIL "The Blues Brothers" (1980) held the world record for the most cars destroyed in one film, 104 cars.
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 02:41PM by Left-Coffee3944
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The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's…
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TIL In 1376, the Pope excommunicated the entire Florentine government, banned the city from all religious activity, sanctioned florentine companies abroad by forbiding christians from dealing with them and made it legal for all christians, anywhere, to capture or enslave florentine citizens
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Submitted September 26, 2024 at 04:18PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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War of the Eight Saints
The War of the Eight Saints (1375–1378) was a war between Pope Gregory XI and a coalition of Italian city-states led by Florence that contributed to the end of the Avignon Papacy.