TIL following the Civil War an estimated one-third to one-half of circulating currency was counterfeit
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Submitted September 27, 2024 at 08:14PM by letseatnudels
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www.secretservice.gov
Frequently Asked Questions About Us
The United States Secret Service, one of the nation's oldest federal investigative law enforcement agencies, was founded in 1865 as a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department.
TIL That the "Akira Slide" is the most imitated scene from any movie/tv50 show and has been referenced in over 250 pieces of media.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 01:19AM by Nincruel
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Akira (1988 film)
Akira (Japanese: アキラ) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name. Set in a dystopian 2019,…
TIL That Silverchair's multi million selling debut album Frogstomp was written when all members of the band were only 15 years old
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 01:56AM by ClementAttlee2024
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Frogstomp
Frogstomp is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released on 27 March 1995, when the band members were only 15 years of age, by record label Murmur. The album features the band's commercially most successful single, "Tomorrow"…
TIL that the limousine was named for the Limousin horse from the Limousin region of France, a now-extinct breed that was merged into the modern Selle Français breed in 1958. The Limousin horse was bred as a "luxury" riding and carriage horse, being a favorite mount of French aristocrats and royalty.
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Submitted September 27, 2024 at 11:19PM by Obversa
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Limousin horse
extinct breed of horse
TIL that in Tiger Woods 99 for the PlayStation 1, in the first 100,000 copies of the game had an Easter egg that a developer snuck in when put into a computer, it contained a DAT. file that would play the first ever South Park short made. These copies were later recalled by EA
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Submitted September 27, 2024 at 08:33PM by Super_Goomba64
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Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf
1999 golf video game
TIL there is a Chinese book so deep and intricate that there is an entire field of study devoted to studying it
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 05:08AM by RichPriority6834
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Redology
academic study of Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber
TIL that the day before 9/11, a Canadian named Evan Kuz, visited the World Trade Center with a young woman he met. He stayed at the WTC before the observation deck was closed and was the last to go up before 9/11. He donated his stub to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in 2009.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 08:19AM by Straight_Suit_8727
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TIL The CEO Of McLaren Got His Start Winning Wheel Of Fortune. Zak Brown appeared on Wheel of Fortune and won $3,050. He spent all the money to buy a go-kart.
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Submitted September 27, 2024 at 06:10PM by Minifig81
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Jalopnik
The CEO Of McLaren Got His Start Winning Wheel Of Fortune
How game show winnings kicked off Zak Brown's wild career
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TIL that despite having herbivorous diets similar to cattle, which release large quantities of digestive methane through exhaling and burping, kangaroos release virtually none; the hydrogen byproduct is converted into acetate instead, then used to provide further energy
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 08:44AM by Plupsnup
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Kangaroo
common name for some marsupials indigenous to Australia in the family Macropodidae
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TIL director and writer of A Knight's Tale, Brian Helgeland, said that he intended to show what Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) might have been doing that inspired him to write The Canterbury Tales during the six months in which he seems to have gone missing in 1372.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 09:27AM by tyrion2024
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A Knight's Tale
2001 film by Brian Helgeland
TIL The reason The Simpsons are so crudely drawn in their first appearances on the Tracey Ullman Show was because Matt Groening had sent in basic sketches assuming they'd be cleaned up by the animators, but the animators just traced over his drawings.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 01:07PM by haddock420
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Homer Simpson
character from The Simpsons franchise
TIL: When Texas entered the Union as a slave state in 1845, a legal technicality created an ungoverned, lawless strip of land (which later became the Oklahoma panhandle). People from Kansas moved in to evade strict alcohol laws and the (unofficial) capital was called "Beer City".
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 12:01PM by zahrul3
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Beer City, Oklahoma
town in Oklahoma, United States
TIL The shipwreck of M/S Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea on September 28, 1994 and caused 852 deaths, is only about 80 meters below sea level. If you were to put the ship on her transom with the bow pointing to the sky, about half of the ship would be above the surface of the water.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 02:28PM by DharmaDemocracy
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www.vrak.se
Vrak - Estonia
On 28 September 1994, the MS Estonia sank during a severe storm. Of approximately 1,000 people on board, 137 survived. The accident is the Baltic Sea’s worst peacetime disaster. Today it is a designated marine grave site where diving is banned.
TIL That the third season of 'Finding Your Roots' was delayed after it was discovered the show heavily edited an episode featuring Ben Affleck. Affleck pressured the show to do so after he was shown one of his ancestors was a slave owner.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 04:40PM by GentPc
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NPR
After Ben Affleck Scandal, PBS Postpones 'Finding Your Roots'
The show came under fire after leaked emails revealed that the actor asked the show to hide the fact that one of his ancestors owned slaves.
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TIL Samuel L. Jackson's famous line "I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!" in the theatrical cut of Snakes on a Plane didn't come from the original screenplay, but was instead inspired by a fan-made trailer for the movie.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 03:54PM by tyrion2024
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AV Club
Read This: It’s been 10 motherfucking years since Snakes On A Plane
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TIL: Dominant female cotton-top tamarin monkeys use pheromones to stop subordinate females from breeding. The pheremones suppress sexual behavior and delay puberty. In the event that more than one female in a group becomes pregnant, only one of the pregnancies will survive.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 05:30PM by theotherbogart
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Cotton-top tamarin
species of mammal
TIL that “vampire” drones dock on power lines and recharge by “feeding” on the grid. They never need to land.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 07:16PM by WhichAsparagus6304
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Fast Company
This genius ‘vampire drone’ is designed to fly forever
Developed by a team of researchers at the University of Southern Denmark, the autonomous drones are designed to attach to power lines.
TIL Jack Nicholson grew up believing his grandmother was his mother, and his birth mother, June, was his sister. He only discovered the truth when he was 37 years old. The secret was kept until a Time magazine reporter uncovered it while researching Nicholson's life story.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 10:24PM by BlossomTwinklingys
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Jack Nicholson
American actor and filmmaker (born 1937)
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TIL: According to a 2016 study, having a first-class section on an airplane quadruples the chances of an air rage incident. Furthermore, loading economy passengers through first class doubles the chances again.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 10:26PM by theotherbogart
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AVweb
Class ‘Inequity’ Fuels Air Rage
A little-known 2016 study by Princeton University researchers is getting attention again for a different take on why airline passengers are so grumpy these days. The study, noscriptd “Physical and…
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TIL That there were pilotless drones as early as the 1950's and one inadvertently caused multiple incidents of civilian property damage, near civilian misses, and a 1,000 acre forest fire while the US Air Force struggled to shoot it out of the sky.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 08:15PM by surviveinc
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Battle of Palmdale
1956 attempted shoot-down of a runaway drone
TIL why NHL Stadiums sound an air horn after a goal is scored. Thank Bill Wirtz, owner of both Chicago Stadium and the Blackhawks, who liked the sound of his air horn on his yacht, so he had one installed inside the stadium in 1973. His uncle's company made it, and most NHL horns come from them.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 11:49PM by greed-man
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Air horn
loud signalling device driven by compressed air