TIL Before 2022, it was unknown how eels reproduced
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Sciencefocus
The mysterious sex life of eels: How scientists finally unveiled their (truly bizarre) life cycle
It is only now are we learning more about the reproductive habits of these long, silvery, endangered fish.
TIL that Saturn's sixth-largest moon Enceladus is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice, making it the most reflective body in the Solar System. It shoots out water vapor, and other solid material totaling about 200 kilograms per second. Most of these materials supplies the making of Saturn's E ring.
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 02:16PM by saravannan14
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Enceladus
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 18th-largest in the Solar System. It is about 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice, making it one of the…
TIL Billionaire Chuck Feeney donated over $8 Billion to different causes supporting health science and improving the human condition. He spent his last days in a rented apartment in San Francisco with remaining assets of $2 Million.
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 09:21PM by kenistod
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Chuck Feeney
American businessman
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TIL 92% of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels have skull malformations that squish part of their brain into their spinal column.
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 05:13PM by kinenchen
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with Chiari-like malformation and Syringomyelia have increased variability of spatio-temporal gait…
Chiari-like malformation in the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a herniation of the cerebellum and brainstem into or through the foramen magnum. This condition predisposes to Syringomyelia; fluid filled syrinxes within the spinal cord. The ...
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TIL that Mahatma Gandhi conducted controversial experiments to test his celibacy, including sleeping next to naked young women.
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 09:42PM by I_-AM-ARNAV
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OpIndia
Bathing with women, sleeping with naked girls: Read about Gandhi’s ‘experiments with celibacy’
The experiments by Gandhi on his celibacy included having baths with women, sleeping with naked women, to test his self-control | OpIndia News
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TIL Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it in Deadpool. The estate agreed for a donation in that amount to a charity of their choosing. Ryan paid it himself because he felt you couldn’t have Deadpool without Bea Arthur.
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 11:23PM by This_Funny1409
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VULTURE
Ryan Reynolds Personally Paid for the Pleasure of Having Bea Arthur’s Likeness in Deadpool
A cool $10,000.
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TIL that in 1933, a man named A.L. Kahn caught a massive 20-foot, 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of New Jersey. It took hours, the help of his crew, and even several dozen gunshots from the U.S. Coast Guard to finally reel in what was called a "devil fish."
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 09:48PM by BaddieTemptation
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Snopes
Does a Photograph Show a Real Giant Manta Ray?
A photograph showing a giant manta ray caught in 1933 features the work of a taxidermist.
TIL Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. When he moved to Los Angeles, there was already an actor named Michael Douglas, so Keaton flipped through a phone book until he saw the name Keaton and decided to make it his stage name.
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 11:24PM by JackThaBongRipper
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Michael Keaton
American actor
TIL that profanity is often preserved in people with brain injures, even when other speech is lost, suggesting the brain processes swear words differently from other language.
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 12:30AM by Warm-Profit-775
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The Temple News - A watchdog for the Temple University community since 1921.
Temple researchers link brain injuries and curse words - The Temple News
A professor and his team studied taboo words to help brain injury patients regain language use.
TIL that Sir George Everest, the namesake of Mount Everest, pronounced his own last name "EEV-rist"
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 12:58AM by A_Mirabeau_702
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow height) of .mw-parser…
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TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 11:20PM by Remarkable_Cash_2053
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George Formby
English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian (1904–1961)
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TIL of Cape Disappointment in South Georgia, discovered by an expedition led by Captain Cook who named it so after realizing that he had discovered an island and not a continent
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Submitted November 22, 2024 at 09:20PM by polopiko
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Cape Disappointment (South Georgia)
cape on South Georgia in the UK territory of South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands
TIL there are no hereditary knighthoods in the UK anymore. The only hereditary nobles left are about 900 peers and about 1200 baronets.
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 03:56AM by Prom3th3an
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Knight
person granted an honorary noscript by a monarch or other political leader
TIL When Admiral Bobby Ray Inman was the director of the CIA, he would not fire homosexual employees as long as they signed a written promise to not give in to blackmail, and told their families to eliminate further blackmail risks.
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 05:46AM by FalconPUNNCH
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Sexpionage
involvement of sexual activity, or the possibility of sexual activity, intimacy, romance, or seduction to conduct espionage
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TIL about the Thanksgiving Day Disaster, leading to the deaths of 23 people watching college football in San Francisco in 1900.
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 07:02AM by atmatthewat
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Thanksgiving Day Disaster
deadliest accident at a sporting event in U.S. history
TIL the Japanese government gifted Dr. Yamanaka, known for his work on induced pluripotent stem cells, 160,000 yen for a washing machine after he won the Nobel Prize, as he mentioned in an interview, "I was in the middle of repairing my washing machine when I heard the news."
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 08:17AM by RealisticBarnacle115
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山中伸弥 - Wikipedia
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TIL all 3 children of french striker Antoine Griezmann were born on the same date but different years
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 01:25PM by charliewaffles2412
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MARCA
Incredible: All three of Griezmann's children have been born on April 8!
Antoine Griezmann became a father for the third time on Thursday morning when his wife Erika Choperena gave birth to Alba.
Curiously, all their children were born on April 8, with
Curiously, all their children were born on April 8, with
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TIL on November 23, 1991, Freddy Mercury released a statement that he had A.I.D.S. and would grant no interviews. He died 24 hours later. He was 45.
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 05:08PM by TriviaDuchess
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Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter, record producer and graphic designer (1946–1991)
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TIL Brutus the Barber recounted a tale that Andre the Giant once had an emergency BM on a flight to Tokyo. Being too big to use the toilet, the crew improvised with a trash bag for him to use in a pinch but the smell filled the cabin leading to people puking, crying and falling out of seats.
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 05:28PM by ObjectiveAd6551
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CINEMABLEND
WWE Legend Shares Andre The Giant Story About Pooping On An Airplane: Passengers Were 'Gagging, Puking And Crying'
This is quite a filthy tale.
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TIL Fire doesn't actually ignite materials, it just makes them reach their self combustion temperature
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 05:15PM by BestRow3647
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HowStuffWorks
How Fire Works
Few things have done as much harm to humanity as fire, and few things have done as much good. Find out where fire comes from and see why it behaves the way it does. The answers might surprise you!
TIL that the Tollund Man, a 2,400-year-old corpse found in a Danish peat bog, was so well-preserved that scientists could take his fingerprints and even determine his last meal, which included porridge made of barley and flax seeds. His death is believed to have been a ritual sacrifice.
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Submitted November 23, 2024 at 11:06AM by _BlushBabe
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Tollund Man
Iron Age bog body from Denmark that was hanged before death
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