TIL Mike Tyson used a fake penis and his own infants urine to pass drug tests
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 07:14PM by pickycheestickeater
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Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005, and is scheduled to compete once again in 2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on…
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TIL the doctor who discovered washing hands saves lives was sent to an insane asylum where the guards beat him to death.
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 07:47PM by hoorayitsjeremy
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865); introduced hand disinfection standards, in obstetrical clinics (1847)
TIL I learned that Andy Weir, author of the Martian, worked at Blizzard Entertainment to make Warcraft II
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 07:50PM by unrequited_boy
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Andy Weir
American writer
TIL while Hitler was signing autographs at the 1936 summer olympics in Berlin, his face was grabbed and forcefully kissed by an American woman. This act reportedly enraged him, leading to the dismissal and demotion of most of his security for failing to stop a middle aged woman from advancing on him
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 09:13PM by ObjectiveAd6551
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On This Day
A Kiss For Adolf Hitler
A woman spectator leaned over and kissed Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympic Games on this day. Hitler pretended to be amused, but his guards were to suffer.
TIL that a secret Nazi weather station sat undiscovered in Canada for decades.
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 09:09PM by tab6678
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The Weather Network
This secret Nazi weather station sat undiscovered in Canada for decades - The Weather Network
This largely unknown WWII weather station in Newfoundland was one of the only known Nazi operations that took place on North American soil. The Weather Network's Connor O'Donovan reports.
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TIL that during the 2001 anthrax attacks were exacerbated by mail sorting machines that diffused the spores into the air. Attempts to clean these, again made the situation worse.
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 08:32PM by HallowedAndHarrowed
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Death of Robert Stevens
2001 death of a British-born American photojournalist in the 2001 anthrax attacks
TIL: In the 1920s there was a mob hitman called Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri who was noted to have soft womanly hands, used his knives to clean his fingernails, and slept with them. He killed dozens of rival gangsters before disappearing in 1928 after Al Capone killed his boss.
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 10:41PM by Flares117
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Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri
American mobster
TIL as the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto mounted, the inhabitants knew they would not survive. A team of historians, writers, rabbis, and social workers created a secret cache of documents to record their way of life. 2/3 of the cache survived the war
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 10:00PM by NOISY_SUN
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Ringelblum Archive
The Ringelblum Archive is a collection of documents from the World War II Warsaw Ghetto, collected and preserved by a group known by the codename Oyneg Shabbos (in Modern Israeli Hebrew, Oneg Shabbat; Hebrew: עונג שבת), led by Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum.…
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TIL of Savitri Devi, a french born greek-italian hindu and ardent nazi who tried to combine hinduism and nazism and proclaimed Hitler to be an avatar of Vishnu. She was also an animals rights activist who believed that people who don't respect animals and nature "should be executed"
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Savitri Devi
Greek-French writer (1905-1982)
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TIL: The bodies of two women were discovered over a year after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, but they were both actually victims of murder prior to the eruption whose bodies were hidden to the debris and ash.
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1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
volcanic eruption
TIL Brooklyn's Cobble Hill Tunnel is the oldest subway tunnel in the world. It was closed in 1861 and forgotten for over 100 years. In 1980 it was rediscovered by a local college dropout named Bob Diamond.
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Submitted November 13, 2024 at 10:29PM by Ill_Definition8074
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Cobble Hill Tunnel
railway tunnel in Brooklyn, New York City
TIL of Rough and Tumble Fighting or "Gouging", a martial art attested from rural southern and frontier areas in the 18th and 19th centuries in which mutilation of the opponent was a basic fighting technique (disturbing denoscription)
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Rough and tumble fighting
antiquated form of combat in the back-country United States
TIL a film in 1997 with a budget of $15 million only made $309 because it only played in 2 movie theaters before being pulled.
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Submitted November 14, 2024 at 04:06AM by APC_ChemE
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Trojan War (film)
1997 film by George Huang
TIL that a man went to an auction to buy chairs and ended up buying Stonehenge
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Submitted November 14, 2024 at 05:08AM by 11MARISA
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HISTORY
The Man Who Bought Stonehenge
In 1915, Cecil Chubb went to an auction to buy some dining chairs but returned home with the ultimate impulse buy—Stonehenge.
TIL that in Georgia HOV lanes can be used by pregnant people. Georgia DPS allows this because of a 2022 Georgia law that recognizes embryos and fetuses as person's with full rights. No documents are needed to prove pregnancy when using HOV lanes.
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WABE
Georgia HOV lanes now open for pregnant people, state officials confirm
If you’re pregnant, you can now use the High Occupancy Vehicle or HOV lanes in Georgia. The state’s restrictive abortion law now recognizes embryos and fetuses as persons with full […]
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TIL the leader of the Crips, Stanley “Tookie” Williams wrote a children’s book in prison about anti gang violence. He was nominated for 4 Nobel Prizes for what he did to stop gang violence and was nominated for the Nobel prize For Literature once for this book.
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ABC News
Tookie Williams: Gang Founder Versus Nobel-Nominated Peacemaker
TIL that the man holding the American flag standing behind George Washington in the painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is 18 year old future president James Monroe
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Submitted November 14, 2024 at 06:59AM by TheDestinedRonin17
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Emerging Revolutionary War Era
James Monroe at the Battle of Trenton
One of the iconic images of the Revolutionary War is Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s 1851 painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware. It is the night of December 25, 1776. The Continental Army is…
TIL that Obsidian receives no royalties from Fallout: New Vegas because they signed a contract with Bethesda stipulating that they would only do so if the game matched or exceeded an 85 rating on Metacritic. Fallout: New Vegas received an 84 rating.
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Engadget
Obsidian missed Fallout: New Vegas Metacritic bonus by one point
Business sucks, alright? It's cold and rigid and occasionally unfair. Such is the case with Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas contract with Bethesda, wherein the developer only received royalties if the game matched or exceeded an 85 rating on Metacritic. Leaving…
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TIL: In India, the Gulabi Gang is a female vigilante group whose purpose is to protect women of all castes using violent and nonviolent means where the law doesn't. They wield sticks and gang up to beat abusive husbands with a "100%" success rate.
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Submitted November 14, 2024 at 03:22PM by Flares117
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Gulabi Gang
women's group in India
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TIL Batman’s fascination for and attraction to bats is due to a unique psychological response to fear and anxiety called a“counterphobic attitude” which involves a person actively seeking out the sources of the things that frighten them in the hope of overcoming their fears and becoming stronger.
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Submitted November 14, 2024 at 04:42PM by ObjectiveAd6551
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Counterphobic attitude
psychology terminology
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TIL about the fast food chain "Rax Roast Beef" which at one time operated a peak of 504 locations in the US in the 1980's, but due to continuous changes in its business model and shifting focus away from its core clientele eventually declined to just 8 locations today.
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Submitted November 14, 2024 at 04:45PM by FiredFox
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Rax Roast Beef
Regional fast food chain in Ohio