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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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?
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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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.
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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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
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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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 06:53AM by DarkAlman
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TIL LA Rams owner Stan Kroenke owns the equivalent of four Rhode Islands (2.7 million acres)
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 07:06AM by _WeSellBlankets_
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 07:06AM by _WeSellBlankets_
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Fox Business
Sports mogul Stan Kroenke becomes America's biggest private landowner in massive secret deal
Billionaire Stan Kroenke quietly completed America's largest land purchase in more than a decade, buying 937,000 acres in New Mexico to become America's top landowner.
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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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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 06:49AM by Bradleyharris88
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TIL on December 16th 2008 Denmark was struck by a magnitude 4.7 earthquake, which became the deadliest in the country’s recorded history, by killing a pet turtle and a cat.
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 09:05AM by RotaryDane
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 09:05AM by RotaryDane
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Ekstra Bladet
Skildpadde dræbt i jordskælvet
Læs mere her
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TIL that when the Nazis invaded Copenhagen in 1940, two Danish scientists dissolved their Nobel Prizes in acid to hide them. After the war, the gold was recovered and the original medals were recast.
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 09:43AM by Jimbuscus
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 09:43AM by Jimbuscus
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NPR
Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story)
It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear.
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TIL the brain can form false memories that feel as real and emotionally intense as true ones, activating the same brain regions and becoming resistant to correction once established.
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 03:00PM by TNSasquatch77
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 03:00PM by TNSasquatch77
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TIL that Stegosaurus's famous back plates were once thought to be armor, but scientists now think they were mainly used for display and thermoregulation.
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 01:28PM by yena
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 01:28PM by yena
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BBC Science Focus Magazine
What were the spinal plates on Stegosaurus for? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
The iconic dinosaur from the Late Jurassic is still keeping researchers guessing.
TIL the United States Africa Command is headquarted in Stuttgart, Germany
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 07:52AM by Latter_Fortune_7225
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 07:52AM by Latter_Fortune_7225
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TIL a Polish murderer was only found after detectives read his novel, which contained a fictionalised version of the crime with details known only to the murderer
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 02:55PM by UnholyDemigod
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Submitted January 17, 2026 at 02:55PM by UnholyDemigod
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