TIL of Titanic's "Missing Survivors": 30 passengers (2 from 1st Class, 3 from 2nd, 11 from 3rd, and 14 crewmembers) who survived the disaster but whose lives following the sinking have proved impossible for historians and genealogists to trace, with investigations into their lives still active.
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 07:23AM by NeverEnoughMuppets
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www.encyclopedia-titanica.org
Titanic: The Disappeared
An enduring mystery of the Titanic is that some of her survivors have never been found...
TIL about Yuval Noah Harari's philosophy of fiction. He argues that human beings are able to cooperate in large numbers due to their capacity to believe in things that exist purely in imagination like gods, nation, money and human rights.
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 07:53AM by JagatShahi
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TIL Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith patented the comb over for balding men in 10 May 1977. Specifically, it is a variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.
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TIL the lord chancellor is the highest-ranking Great Officer of State in the United Kingdom. The position is so powerful that killing them is considered high treason.
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 05:38AM by redmambo_no6
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TIL that a cache of approximately 800,00 1983 Atari "ET" game cartridges that were dumped in landfill near Alamogordo, New Mexico desert due to poor customer reaction/feedback were discovered in 2014.
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 10:49AM by Curious_Penalty8814
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Texas Standard
How thousands of Atari games from an El Paso warehouse ended up buried in the New Mexico desert
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" had long been the subject of an urban legend in which unsold copies were buried in a landfill. It turned out the legend was true.
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TIL that a number of English words have changed spelling due to confusion between 'a' and 'an'. These include, "an ewt" becoming "a newt", "a napron" becoming "an apron", and "a numble pie" becoming "an 'umble [humble] pie".
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 01:21PM by Illogical_Blox
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TIL about Thomas White, a 15-year-old enslaved Black teen who escaped in the 1840s. Hidden in family papers for 150+ years and revealed in 2025, his dictated story tells of evading slave catchers and surviving as a cook, lumberjack, and sailor across Australia, India, and beyond.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man’s Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea
Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manunoscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in Maryland and adventures around the world nearly 200 years ago
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TIL a study uncovered how bowhead whales can live to over 200 years old. The key to their long lifespan is a cold-activated protein called CIRBP. This protein can repair damaged DNA and bowhead whales have large amounts of it.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Bowhead Whales Live Long Lives. Do They Hold the Key to Human Longevity?
A cold-activated gene that helps the mammals repair their DNA may also help humans live longer
TIL the 1990 Mr. Olympia was the first edition of the bodybuilding competition to drug test its participants for anabolic steroids. However, amid criticism by spectators for lowering the quality of the event, the IFBB reversed its decision the following year.
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 04:02PM by tyrion2024
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TIL according to the Institute for Food Safety and Health at the Illinois Institute of Technology, "one-third of a product's shelf-life remains after the sell-by date for the consumer to use at home."
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 04:16PM by tyrion2024
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Food & Wine
What's the Difference Between 'Sell By,' 'Use By,' and 'Best By' Dates?
Here's everything to know about common expiration date labels like sell by, use, by, and best by — and why they often matter less than you think.
TIL Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age, constituting almost 1/3 of all post-neonatal deaths in Western countries. Diagnosis requires that the death remains unexplained even after autopsy and detailed death scene investigation.
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TIL 8 out of 10 of the World's Busiest Train Stations are in Japan. The top two, Shinjuku & Shibuya Stations handle over 1 billion passengers annually or around 2.8~3.1 million people daily
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 06:46PM by CraftyFoxeYT
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TIL an industrial engineering screw up resulted in the entire Colorado River emptying into a California valley over the span of two years. This resulted in a 318 sq mile body of water known as the Salton Sea.
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 07:42PM by SoSKatan
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TIL that the gene mutation behind “Asian flush” from alcohol (ALDH2*2) may actually boost resistance to infections like tuberculosis by letting toxic aldehydes help kill bacteria.
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 05:16PM by EasternPotential3952
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PubMed
Disruption of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 protects against bacterial infection - PubMed
Aldehydes produced by host cells contribute to the control of bacterial infections.
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TIL the person who recommended Hitler receive the award of the Iron Cross in 1918 for his bravery during WW1 was German Jewish army officer named Hugo Gutmann
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 07:50PM by Solid-Move-1411
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TIL that the Witness Protection Program claims 100% success rate to subjects who followed the guidelines
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 10:21PM by PlethoraOfPinatass
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U.S. Marshals Service
Witness Security | U.S. Marshals Service
The U.S. Marshals Service provides for the security, health and safety of government witnesses, and their immediate dependents, whose lives are in danger as a
TIL when Simone Biles executed the Yurchenko double pike on vault during the 2023 World Championships, she willingly took a half-point deduction for having her coach stand on the landing mat, ready to step in & redirect her into a safe position if it looked as if she was headed for a "scary landing"
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Submitted January 09, 2026 at 10:18PM by tyrion2024
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USA TODAY
Simone Biles has 5 gymnastics moves named after her. What are they?
Skills are named after the first gymnast to do them in a major international competition, and Simone Biles has five of them.
TIL about Elizabeth Woodcock, who survived eight days buried in snow in 1799 after her horse threw her near the village of Impington. Cold and exhausted she became entombed but managed to push a twig with a handkerchief through the snow. A villager spotted it 8 days later and dug her out - alive.
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The Museum of Cambridge
Elizabeth Woodcock, Miraculous Survival After Being Buried in Snow For EIGHT DAYS (1799)
Elizabeth Woodcock: Miraculous Survival After Being Buried in Snow For EIGHT DAYS (1799) Elizabeth Woodcock 1799 Imagine being trapped under snow for eight days, could you survive? Amazingly, in Fe…
TIL Harrison Odjegba Okene became a commercial diver who works for the same company that rescued him after he unexpectedly survived 60 hours underwater in a sunken ship.
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Submitted January 10, 2026 at 12:16AM by Gecko99
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TIL that in 1822, a man named Alexis St. Martin was accidentally shot in the stomach, leaving a permanent opening (fistula). A doctor spent years studying his digestion by inserting food on strings through the hole to observe the stomach's processes, leading to the birth of modern gastroenterology.
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Submitted January 10, 2026 at 02:19AM by Independent_Flan_890
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TIL that in the European Union, there is a rule specifying that only fruits can be used in making jams, and to preserve the Portuguese carrot jam delicacy (or Doce de Cenoura in Portuguese), the EU made a rule that, for purposes of regulation of fruit jams and jellies, carrots are fruit.
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Submitted January 10, 2026 at 12:45AM by CatPooedInMyShoe
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