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TIL Greenland got its name purely for marketing reasons by Erik the Red who wanted to attract settlers to his new settlement there
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 12:48PM by hariseldon2
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TIL in 2019 Danny Trejo witnessed a car colliding with an SUV at an intersection and then helped rescue a young boy trapped inside the overturned SUV. After another bystander was able to unbuckle the boy's car seat, Trejo managed to pull the boy out of the wreckage. He then helped keep the boy calm.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 01:59PM by tyrion2024
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ABC7 Los Angeles
'Machete' to the rescue: Actor Danny Trejo helps save child trapped in overturned car in Sylmar
Actor Danny Trejo got the chance to play real-life hero Wednesday when he helped rescue a young child trapped in an overturned car in Sylmar.
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TIL that Kim Jong-il was born in the Soviet Union under the name Yuri Irsenovich Kim, as the USSR required Russian-style names in official birth records.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 03:48AM by Better-Carob-2953
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TIL George Washington was called "American Fabius" for using the same strategy as Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator (the delayer) in the 2nd Punic War against Hannibal. Avoid big pitched battles and weaken the enemy through attrition
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 03:38PM by kurgan2800
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TIL There is a fictional book written in 1965 called Night of Camp David where a paranoid US president believe the US must absorb Canada and Greenland to create an "Atlantic co-prosperity sphere".
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 04:37PM by demunted
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TIL Most French Canadians are descended from these 800 women
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 06:00PM by FunForm1981
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CBC
Most French Canadians are descended from these 800 women | CBC Canada 2017
In 1660, New France had six male settlers for every female settler. The Filles du Roi were poor women who were brought to North America to fix this imbalance and populate the colony.
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TIL that in 2018, an escalator in Rome suddenly sped up, causing twenty-four people, who had been going to see a football game, to be injured. It was later discovered that the escalator's brakes and other safety systems had been improperly maintained and tampered with.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 04:00PM by Sebastianlim
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TIL your cerebellum—though only about 10 % of your brain’s total volume—contains nearly half of its neurons.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 04:12PM by 0__o-
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Cleveland Clinic
Cerebellum: What It Is, Function & Anatomy
Your cerebellum is a part of your brain that coordinates functions of your brain and body. However, despite medical advances, much of how it works remains a mystery.
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TIL that at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics, Hungarian skater Hanna Kuczera crossed the finish line first and celebrated, but China’s Yang Jingru won the gold because she had already lapped the entire field and then continued racing behind the pack.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 07:18PM by SwordfishEither2516
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www.globaltimes.cn
Chinese short trackers score big at Winter Youth Olympics
The Chinese short track speed skating team has demonstrated its squad depth at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in South Korea, as they concluded the weekend with three gold medals.
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TIL that Egypt had their own version of the Vietnam War in the 1960s: In the North Yemen Civil War, a small Egyptian intervention spiraled into an endless quagmire against royalist guerillas which ended up killing 26,000 Egyptian servicemen.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 07:43PM by FossilDS
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TIL that humidifier disinfectants in South Korea caused 1,814 confirmed deaths and an estimated 18,000 total deaths, with 58% mortality in children and 53% in adults requiring lung transplants, before the chemicals were banned in 2011.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 07:52PM by stoictrader03
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TIL that Madonna once leaked her own album on file sharing services but every track was a loop of her swearing at the downloaders. Hackers then took over her official site and posted the actual album.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 08:56PM by ThisSchmitter
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC NEWS | Technology | Madonna swears at music pirates
Madonna floods file-sharing networks with fake tracks but fails to stop online piracy of her latest album.
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TIL of St. Clair's defeat, or the Battle of Wabash. On November 4th, 1791, a war party of over 1,000 Miamis and other Native Americans attacked and defeated a force of about 1,000 American soldiers. 24 Americans escaped alive. It was the most decisive defeat of an American military force in history
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 06:53PM by MrMojoFomo
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TIL Eminem came up with the hook for his hit "My Name Is" within the first few minutes of the first studio session that he and Dr. Dre ever had together.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 09:35PM by tyrion2024
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UNILAD
Dr Dre says Eminem came up with My Name Is within minutes of being in the studio together
Dr Dre says Eminem came up with the hook for My Name Is within just minutes of being in the studio together.
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TIL Bloodworms has 4 fangs made of copper, probably the only lifeform on Earth with natural copper teeth
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 10:22PM by Warcraft_Fan
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TIL 8 of the 10 most pirated series in 2024 were anime.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 09:09PM by tyrion2024
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ScreenRant
It's Not House of the Dragon, the Most-Pirated Shows of 2024 Were All Anime
New data reveals the most pirated series of 2024 are almost all anime.
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TIL that China’s Terracotta Army, thousands of life-sized clay soldiers buried with the first emperor, was accidentally discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well, leading to one of the greatest archaeological finds ever.
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 08:50PM by SwordfishEither2516
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TIL that John Lennon and George Harrison were introduced to psychedelics after a guest at a party they were both attending spiked their drinks without their knowledge. Later that night, while in the elevator at a club, Harrison and Lennon thought it was on fire, becoming “hot and hysterical.”
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 12:40AM by altrightobserver
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TIL that the Manchu queue hairstyle was used by the Qing dynasty as a mandatory loyalty test, where men were forced to choose between shaving their foreheads or being executed
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Submitted January 16, 2026 at 10:39PM by Spirited_Manager_831
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The China Project
The Manchu queue: One hairstyle to rule them all
How did the queue — a hairstyle characterized by a bare forehead and a single long braid of hair — come to define the Qing dynasty, and subject those who wore that hairstyle to mockery from outsiders?
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TIL Lincoln Established the Secret Service on the Day He Was Assassinated
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 02:29AM by Superb_Trainer_2967
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Yahoo News
Fact Check: Lincoln Established the Secret Service on the Day He Was Assassinated?
Actor John Wilkes Booth shot the president during a play at Ford’s Theater.
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TIL about “Single Ladies Hotels,” built to accommodate women in cities that didn’t allow them to rent rooms without a man
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 05:49AM by Competitive_Swan_130
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Messy Nessy Chic
Check into the Bygone Era of Single Ladies Hotels
Check into the Bygone Era of Single Ladies Hotels - Nostalgia - Messy Nessy Chic
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