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TIL that in the entire history of recorded history only 3 female Giant Stick Bugs have been seen in the wild
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 05:32PM by CocosAdventure
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Science Friday
Behold, The Gargantuan Stick Insect
Only three female Ctenomorpha gargantua stick insects have ever been seen in the wild.
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TIL Before starting Gojira the band’s frontman Joe Duplantier lived in the forest for two years without electricity or any source or income
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 08:07PM by CrestonSpiers
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TIL that a group of ravens can be called a treachery, a conspiracy, a rave, or an unkindness
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 10:00PM by Longjumping-Tax3406
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TIL that Dirk Bogarde was so mad about John Mills' casting in "The Singer Not The Song" (1961) that he insisted on filming in custom-fitted leather fetish pants and loaded his performance with homosexual subtext. The movie baffled critics and became a notorious box office flop
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 08:27PM by bicyclefortwo
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TIL that the Governors of Vermont and New Hampshire both have shorter 2-year terms instead of the usual 4-year terms in most other states
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 07:49PM by tired_expert
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TIL about Nobuo Fujita, the only Axis pilot to aerial bomb the contiguous US. After the war, he gifted the target city (Brookings, OR) his family’s 400 year old katana. He was made an honorary citizen of the city before passing.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 11:27PM by sgrams04
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TIL about the SS Richard Montgomery, an American Liberty ship that was built during World War II. She was wrecked on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Kent, England, in Aug 1944. About 1,400 tons of explosives remain on board presenting a low to moderate explosive hazard.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 10:57PM by NC_Phoneman
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TIL the standard movies jungle cry sound effect comes not from a monkey but the Laughing Kookaburra, a bird native to Australia.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 01:45AM by bz_leapair
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The Sound and the Foley
That Jungle Sound - The Sound and the Foley
Below is a clip from the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The scene is set deep within the jungles of South America, and the sound department is ensuring that we know it’s
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TIL the Sargasso Sea is the only sea on earth not bounded by land - instead is defined by four currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Contains unique sea weed.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 04:02AM by Crystal-Ammunition
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Today I learned the deadliest train accident ever was due to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 04:26AM by scoobertsonville
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TIL about Vishapakar ("dragon stones"), massive monoliths in the Armenian Highlands that date back to the Chalcolithic period (c. 4200–4000 BCE), built by ancient Armenian water cults who believed the ritual would help irrigation.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 04:40AM by llamalord27
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TIL the name of the sneeze response when exposed to sunlight is "ACHOO Syndrome" (Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst)
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 08:11AM by domino7
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ACHOO Syndrome
Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) Syndrome is characterized by uncontrollable sneezing in response to the sudden exposure to bright light, typically intense sunlight (1). This type of sneezing is also known as photic sneezing.…
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TIL Voltaire had enough money to sit around and think all day because he noticed a flaw in the national lottery which he exploited to win half a million livre, worth as much as $120 million today by some measures
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 10:58AM by TheQuarantinian
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Smithsonian Magazine
Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher and Lottery Scammer
The French government was trying to raise money by running a bond lottery, but a group of intellectuals had other ideas
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TIL the assassination of Park Chung Hee in 1979 was the first assassination of a head of state on the Korean peninsula in 605 years
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 09:54AM by cafguy
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TIL the cars for the ending chase scene of "101 Dalmatians" were stop-motioned models Xeroxed onto the celluloid
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 07:10AM by Sensitive_Deal_6363
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Behind the Magic: 101 Dalmatians
          This post attempts to shed some light on the magic that went on behind a scene in One Hundred and One Dalmatians  (1961) that c...
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TIL that at the ISS's altitude (~400 km), Earth's gravity is still about 90% of surface gravity. Astronauts float because they're in free fall, not because of zero gravity.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 02:07PM by Africa-Unite
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TIL Sega published a game called Segagaga, a role playing game where the player is tasked with preventing Sega from losing the home console market. The game was released 2 days before the Dreamcast was discontinued.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 02:36PM by mistertoasty
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TIL Burkina Faso is the hottest country in the world, with an average yearly temperature of 30.40 °C (86.72 °F)
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 04:13PM by JoeFalchetto
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TIL Michigan State University was the first land-grant university in the U.S., established in 1855 to teach scientific agriculture
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 04:27PM by SappyGilmore
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TIL that in 2014, the band Vulfpeck exposed a flaw in Spotify's artist payment system by releasing a totally silent album and encouraging fans to play it on repeat while they slept
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 06:27PM by meatboysawakening
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TIL the human body has over 60 types of sphincters.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 06:02PM by HeyChickenJoe
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