TIL in order to look strung out Charlie sheen stayed up for 2 days straight to achieve his role in Ferris bueller’s day off
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 05:31PM by Turbulent_Click_964
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Charlie Sheen’s Part in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Would’ve Meant More With This Deleted Scene
Charlie Sheen's character was originally a rebel with a dark backstory.
TIL 65% of Staten Island voted to secede from the rest of New York City in 1993, only to have their efforts blocked by the State Assembly
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 05:06PM by Boomtown_Rat
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Partition and secession in New York
hypothetical division of New York State
TIL of Sun Yaoting, the last eunuch of China who had his penis and testicles removed at the age of eight. Less than two years before China abolish the monarchy.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 12:23PM by Token_Thai_person
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Sun Yaoting
Chinese eunuch (1902 - 1996)
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TIL that Led Zeppelin was scheduled to play an outdoor show in Singapore on February 14, 1972 but were not allowed into the country, they were even refused permission to get off their plane because they refused to have their long hair cut due to Singapore's law.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 08:01PM by TelefonicO2
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Mental Floss
The Time Singapore Turned Away Led Zeppelin Because of Their Long Hair
Singapore officials: "NO STAIRWAY."
Today I learned that Stilton cheese cannot legally be made in Stilton, the village which gave the cheese its name
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 05:24PM by SomethingMoreToSay
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Stilton cheese
type of English cheese
TIL about Bass Reeves, a black man who escaped slavery and became a Deputy U.S. Marshal, known for having over 3,000 arrests and 20 kills in the line of duty.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 08:05PM by Samus388
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Bass Reeves
American lawman
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TIL that Michael Bay was originally attached to direct the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan. However, he later left the project because he couldn't find a way to approach the material.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 08:53PM by Rhino-Kid22
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Saving Private Ryan
1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg
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TIL Before she met Clyde, Bonnie Parker was a waitress. One of her regular customers was Ted Hinton who would later be one of the gunmen who killed her. Hinton later admitted he had a little crush on Bonnie which made hunting her down difficult.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 07:29PM by Ill_Definition8074
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Ted Hinton
(1904-1977) American police officer
TIL Lemmy (Motörhead) appeared in a pornographic film starring John Wayne Bobbitt, whose penis was amputated by his wife, but surgically reattached. Ron Jeremy said Lemmy contributed the song "Under the Knife" to the film's soundtrack.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 09:33PM by borderbox
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John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut
1994 pornographic film
TIL the soft drink 7 Up initially contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug. It was a key selling point until 1948 when the FDA banned lithium from beer and drinks. 7 Up was originally called 7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 10:49PM by MusicSole
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7 Up
American sweet carbonated drink
TIL the 1939 Nazi rally at Nuremberg was supposed to be "the Rally of Peace". It was cancelled last-minute because Germany invaded Poland, igniting the Second World War.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 10:12PM by DashboardNight
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Nuremberg rallies
annual rally of the Nazi Party in Nurenberg, Germany (1923-1938)
Today I learned that approximately two thirds of the moon rocks given as gifts by the Nixon administration are unaccounted for.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 12:07AM by charleychaplinman21
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Stolen and missing Moon rocks
overview about the stolen and missing Moon rocks
TIL Harrison Ruffin Tyler is the (living) person with the oldest father. His dad was born in 1853.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 03:55AM by Kwpthrowaway2
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
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TIL In 2019 a man in the United States had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia and four years later his semen was the same as the donor. So, if he had children, they wouldn't have his DNA....he is now considered a chimera.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 04:42AM by Cultural_Magician105
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News-Medical
Transplant patient finds out his DNA has been replaced by that of his donor
A bone marrow transplant recipient later found out that the DNA in his blood and semen had been replaced by that of his donor.
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TIL virologist Beata Halassy cured her breast cancer by injecting viruses into the tumor
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 04:15AM by yowayb
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Nature
This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
Nature - Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.
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TIL I learned a man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015.Burger King paid for their wedding.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 09:13AM by MeeranQureshi
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Eater
Burger King Gives Burger-King Couple 'Whopper' of a Wedding
Joel Burger and Ashley King made it official.
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TIL that female Adélie penguins trade stones for sex during a shortage of stones. Extra-pair copulation often occurs at the male's nesting site, after which the female takes one or more stones. In contrast, when it occurs at the female's nesting site, the male doesn’t take a stone.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 05:24AM by RealisticBarnacle115
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Prostitution among animals
transactional sex among non-human animals
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TIL Wishing to "put a tip of gold on a golden life", philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, promised to set himself on fire in public, and he delivered: on the final night of the 165AD Olympics, he lit his own funeral pyre near Olympia and jumped in after delivering his own eulogy to a crowd of spectators
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 01:30PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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Peregrinus Proteus
2nd century Greek Cynic philosopher
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TIL Cow tipping, the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment, is generally considered an urban legend. Estimates suggest that at least four people would be required to achieve this.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 02:54PM by gullydon
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Cow tipping
urban legend
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TIL Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street," became the wealthiest woman of the early 20th century, amassing a $100M fortune (~$2.7B today) by investing in real estate, railroads, and mortgages. Green was also a miser who wore the same black dress daily, ate only oatmeal, and lived in cheap housing.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 02:22PM by efequalma
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Peculiar Story of the Witch of Wall Street
Walking the streets in black clothes and making obscene amounts of money, Hetty Green was one of the Gilded Age's many characters
TIL Elwood Edwards was paid $200 in 1989 for recording the iconic phrase "You've Got Mail" for AOL.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 03:24PM by TheMadhopper
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Elwood Edwards
American voice actor
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