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TIL The Catholic Church kept Jesus’ foreskin as a holy relic until it was stolen in 1983.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 01:05AM by MercenaryBard
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TIL that between 1970 and 1997 so many post office workers snapped and killed their coworkers that a new slang term "going postal" became a new slang term for becoming exceptionally angry
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 12:24AM by TheOSU87
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TIL that Disney tried to change the film "Dead Poets Society" to be about dancing instead of poetry, and to rename it "Sultans of Swing".
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 01:44AM by RoboticElfJedi
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TIL that Jason Padgett, once a furniture salesman, became a mathematical savant after a brain injury in 2002. Following an assault, he began perceiving complex geometric patterns and fractals, a rare condition called acquired savant syndrome, which led him to create intricate math-based art.
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Submitted November 07, 2024 at 11:08PM by DABDEB
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TIL Terminal lucidity is an unexpected, brief period of clarity or energy in individuals who have been very ill or in a state of decline. It’s a phenomenon that has been observed in people with various terminal conditions.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 03:24AM by 70dd
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TIL 18 yr old Dick Van Dyke enlisted in the Air Force during WWII singing and dancing on base in Sherman TX with the hopes of avoiding being sent to fight the Japanese. An impromptu audition at the latrine earned him a permanent announcer gig on base.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 12:36AM by mikechi2501
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TIL about Lucy Salani, who was an Italian activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 05:26AM by pinecone_pancake
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TIL about Botulf Botulfsson, the only person executed for heresy in Sweden. He denied that the Eucharist was the body of Christ, telling a priest: "If the bread were truly the body of Christ you would have eaten it all yourself a long time ago." He was burned in 1311.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 07:25AM by TheManWithTheBigName
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TIL in 1859, an Australian man named Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits for hunting on his estate. With no natural predators, they multiplied so rapidly that within a few decades, they overran Australia, causing massive ecological damage and leading to one of the largest control efforts in history.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 04:46AM by efequalma
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TIL Swedish Fish manufactured in North America can't be imported into Europe because it doesn't meet European food safety standards
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 07:43AM by werewaffl3s
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TIL Highway hypnosis is an altered mental state in which an automobile driver can drive lengthy distances and respond adequately to external events with no recollection of consciously having done so.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 12:39PM by Environmental_Bus507
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TIL the world record for longest stationary manual on a skateboard is 2 hours 55 minutes 22 seconds, achieved by Brandon González in 2017. He trained for six years before his successful record-breaking attempt.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 09:33AM by tyrion2024
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TIL In contrast to high treason, petty treason was a crime in England which involved the killing of a social superior seen as breaking the social hierarchy; such as a servant killing their master. Unlike with high treason, men would be hanged but not quartered, women would be burned but not drawn.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 01:39PM by MajesticBread9147
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TIL that there’s a female chimpanzee who enjoys TV porn. Not only does she use the remote control perfectly well, but she also regularly chooses adult entertainment over other programming by herself.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 03:25PM by RealisticBarnacle115
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TIL that adults who played Pokémon video games extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of each Pokémon. Stanford researchers identified the brain region activated by Pokémon characters.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 05:09PM by RealisticBarnacle115
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TIL that the .nu top-level domain, intended for the country of Niue, is currently managed by the Swedish Internet Foundation. The government of Niue is in legal proceedings to reclaim ownership of the domain.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 12:20PM by dqUu3QlS
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TIL the state of Georgia forbids banishment beyond its borders, so the state gets around it by instead banning criminals from 158 out of 159 counties, with the last one, Echols, being so poor and remote that those banished leave the state instead.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 06:41PM by kokoawsum421
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TIL that the stunt pilot Charles Hamilton was known for often flying drunk and crashed over 60 times. However, he survived every time and instead died of tuberculosis.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 07:03PM by ShabtaiBenOron
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TIL in 1907, chemist Leo Baekeland accidentally overheated a mixture of chemicals while trying to find a substitute for shellac. Instead, he created Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, which transformed manufacturing and paved the way for the modern plastics and polymer industry.
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Submitted November 08, 2024 at 02:13PM by efequalma
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