TIL that Halley's Comet was seen in England in 1066, the year of the Norman Conquest, being interpreted as an omen, with a contemporary observer referring to it as a "source of tears to many mothers", portending "the downfall of my country."
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Submitted October 26, 2024 at 09:21PM by Kurma-the-Turtle
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Halley's Comet
short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years
TIL the A26 motorway in France is so heavily used by British holidaymakers that it's officially nicknamed "Autoroute des Anglais" or "Motorway of the English"
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Submitted October 26, 2024 at 08:25PM by britishmariobros
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A26 autoroute
road in France
TIL there's a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding. It's a fruit native to Central and South America called diospyros nigra, or black sapote, that tastes like chocolate and sweet custard.
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Submitted October 26, 2024 at 10:31PM by Male_Parent
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Diospyros nigra
species of tree
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TIL: a 12-year-old Jewish violin prodigy named Motele Schlein, after witnessing his family’s murder by Nazis, joined the resistance and planted explosives in a restaurant where he performed, killing over 100 high-ranking Nazi SS officers
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 01:12AM by UnabashedJayWalker
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Combat Antisemitism Movement
Remembering Motele Schlein - Jewish Violin Prodigy and WWII Partisan Hero | Combat Antisemitism Movement
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TIL The remains of a complete male A. dirus (Dire Wolf) are sometimes easy to identify compared to other Canis specimens because the baculum (penis bone) of the dire wolf is very different from that of all other living canids.
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Dire wolf
The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus /iːˈnɒsaɪ.ɒn ˈdaɪrəs/) is an extinct canine. The dire wolf lived in the Americas (with a possible single record also known from East Asia) during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000–9,500 years ago). The species…
TIL that all Medal of Honour recipients receive a special license plate (state dependant) to display on their vehicle.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 03:13AM by jimmytruelove
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Medal of Honor
highest award for valor by an individual serving in the Armed Forces of the United States
TIL in 2021 a woman who ran out of her regular hair spray used Gorilla Glue Spray instead, believing it to also be hair spray. This resulted in her hair becoming stuck to her scalp. Eventually, a plastic surgeon performed a 4-hour long surgical procedure on her for free to remove the adhesive.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 04:23AM by tyrion2024
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Tessica Brown
American internet celebrity
TIL the Hershey Kiss paper is called a Plume. It’s edible.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 04:51AM by Raise-The-Woof
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Hershey's Kisses
Chocolate candy
TIL: Agent 355 is one of the first female spies for the US. She was active during the Revolution, but her identity remained secret. There is ongoing speculation whether she existed at all. However, many assert she was real.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 03:31AM by Flares117
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Agent 355
unidentified female American spy
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TIL the Ovsiankina effect describes the innate human urge to finish tasks we've initiated. This tendency to resume an interrupted action is especially prevalent when the action hasn't yet been achieved.
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Ovsiankina effect
Tendency to resume an interrupted unfinished task again
TIL - NVIDIA's unofficial company motto is "Our company is thirty days from going out of business."
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 06:25AM by poleco1
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Jensen Huang
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Jîn-hun; born February 17, 1963) is an American businessman, electrical engineer, and philanthropist who is the founder, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nvidia.
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TIL that political opponents used to insult each other with the label "Pharaoh" before Hitler came around.
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Reductio ad Hitlerum
refutation of a view by comparing it to the Nazi Party
TIL that four time World's Strongest Man winner Jón Páll Sigmarsson, who famously stated "There is no reason to be alive, if you can't do deadlift!" died at the age of 32 while deadlifting in his gym.
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Jón Páll Sigmarsson
Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder
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TIL that in England in the Middle Ages, a fugitive could claim sanctuary simply by touching the knocker on the outer door of a church to be immune from arrest.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 01:51PM by Kurma-the-Turtle
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sanctuary knocker
Sanctuary knocker, in architecture, knocker on the outer door of a Christian church. The sanctuary knocker could be a simple metal ring, which accounts for its other name of sanctuary ring, or it could be highly ornamental, as in the Norman example at Durham…
TIL 'Dr. Death' Harold Shipman, a GP in the UK, was convicted of murdering 15 patients and is suspected of killing over 250.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 10:20AM by GDW312
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Harold Shipman
English doctor and serial killer (1947-2004)
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TIL: William S. Burroughs killed his wife while playing William Tell. She stood 3 meters away from him with a drinking glass on her head. Meaning to shoot the glass, Burroughs shot her in the head. He dismissed the killing as being performed by an external force that wanted to control him.
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Documents on the Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs – RealityStudio
Primary Source Documents Relating to the Death of William S. Burroughs' Wife Joan Vollmer Burroughs This ...
TIL of the egg fried rice protests, a form of anti government protest In China where internet users post recipes for fried rice on October 24th, and November 25th. This is in reference to the birth and death of the son of Mao Zedong, who died from a bomb whilst cooking outside during the Korean war
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 03:50PM by BringbackDreamBars
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Egg fried rice protests
form of internet protest used by Chinese internet users
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TIL - that Larry Silverstein owner of the twin towers received $4.6 billion insurance money following the 9/11 attacks. Settlement was reached in 2007 after a long legal battle whether there was 1 or 2 separate attacks. It was ruled as 2 attacks significantly increasing the insurance payout.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 06:20PM by Same-Celebration-372
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Larry Silverstein
American businessman
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TIL: upon selling the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ movie rights to United Artists in 1968, J.R.R. Tolkien strictly forbade that Disney would ever become involved. When referring to Disney’s pictures he said“some have given me nausea.”
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Tolkien Gateway
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, also known simply as Disney, is an American media and entertainment conglomerate, founded in 1923 by the brothers Walter Elias Disney and...
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TIL that the Ganges river receives around 19 billion gallons (72 billion liters) of sewage a day, most of which is untreated.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 07:16PM by wholewheatscythe
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TIL that from 1170 to 1512, "The Neck Verse" could save one from punishment for almost any crime in England. Literate accusees, or criminals who had simply memorised Psalm 51:3, would recite it to claim the "Benefit of Clergy", meaning they would be tried by the much more lenient church courts.
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Submitted October 27, 2024 at 02:24PM by MrVernonDursley
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Benefit of clergy
in English law, originally a provision by which clergymen were outside the jurisdiction of secular courts; later, a legal fiction through which first-time offenders receive lesser sentences for some crimes
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