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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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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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TIL Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel prize to Joseph Goebbels to get an audience with Hitler hoping to get Norwegian prisoners released. All he managed to do was anger Hitler.
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 06:53AM by DarkAlman
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TIL David Hahn, the “Radioactive Boy Scout”, passed away in 2016 from an overdose of fentanyl and alcohol poisoning.
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 06:49AM by Bradleyharris88
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