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TIL that during the 2011 Joplin, Missouri Tornado, the 200MPH+ winds were able to rip topsoil from the ground and disperse the necrotizing Mucorales fungus. Five deaths and thirteen infections were attributed to necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis as a result, weeks after the tornado struck Joplin.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 02:02AM by WillHG
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Rare Fungal Illness Follows Tornado
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TIL it costs £680 to apply to become bankrupt in the UK
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 01:38AM by znv142
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GOV.UK
Guide to Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is one way for individuals to deal with debts they cannot pay. It does not apply to companies or partnerships.
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TIL in the 90s the CIA tried to discredit the US Ambassador to Guatemala after they bugged her room and heard her talking lovingly to a woman named Murphy, and accused her of having a lesbian affair with the woman to Washington. There was no affair she was talking to her poodle named Murphy.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 03:03AM by Few-Sound-7559
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TIL the Japanese online flea market, Mercari, had to ban ultrasound photos and positive pregnancy tests from its marketplace app because people were allegedly using them to fake pregnancies in order to extort money or blackmail their partners.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 03:32AM by delano1998
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VICE
Online Flea Market Bans Ultrasound Pics After Spike in Pregnancy Scams
For about $14, you could buy someone else’s ultrasound photo on Japan’s biggest flea market app. Not anymore.
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TIL in 2006 Alitalia Airlines accidentally listed the fare for a business-class ticket from Toronto to Cyprus for $39 instead of $3,900. Within hours, over 2,000 people bought tickets. Alitalia honored the fare, costing the airline $7.2m. One of many mistakes on its descent into eventual bankruptcy.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 03:19AM by tyrion2024
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MotorBiscuit
Airline honors $39 fare typo, loses $7.2 million, eventually goes broke
It was 1 of many mistakes on Italy's Alitalia Airlines descent into bankruptcy
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TIL that Saint Philomena, who is venerated in the Catholic Church, may not have existed. Sister Maria Luisa di Gesù, a Dominican tertiary from Italy, claimed to have received psychic "revelations" of the saint's existence after the body of a 4th-century maiden was discovered in a catacomb in 1802.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 03:06AM by Obversa
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TIL that the B Vitamins are numbered sequentially in order of their discovery. B4, B8, B10 and B11 were all un-qualified as B Vitamins upon further research & definition refinement (akin to Pluto), leaving the remaining familiar 8 B Vitamins with gaps in the number sequence like retired jerseys.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 05:05AM by LotusCobra
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TIL that Muhammad Ali's daughter, Laila Ali was an undefeated boxer. Considered one of the greatest female boxer of all time.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 02:28PM by deleted-ID
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TIL that the format of the British quiz show "Mastermind" was inspired by the interrogation techniques of the Gestapo
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 12:39PM by TooOldToBePunk
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the Guardian
Mastermind seeks more women
Between 1,500 and 2,000 people undergo auditions for BBC quiz Mastermind every year, but only a quarter are female. By Owen Bowcott.
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TIL that astronomers suggest Earth and the Milky Way may lie inside a vast, under-dense cosmic void about 1 billion light-years wide, which could affect local measurements of the universe’s expansion rate.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 03:00PM by yena
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BBC Science Focus Magazine
Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Earth and the Milky Way could be floating in a billion lightyear wide void – a discovery that could help decipher one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology
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TIL While on trial by the oligarchic regime that ruled Athens at the time, a politician named Theramenes gave an impressive speech that seemed to be swaying the jury. In response, the regime had a number of goons openly carrying daggers to stand in front of the assembly, as an intimidation tactic
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 02:38PM by Nero2t2
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TIL that the third person to walk on the Moon had dyslexia and was expelled from high school before earning an engineering degree from Princeton.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 04:24PM by GDW312
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TIL that Basque fishermen likely reached the cod-rich waters off Newfoundland BEFORE Columbus, kept the routes secret for economic reasons and only later did explorers like John Cabot (1497) publicly encounter European fishing boats there.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 05:16PM by Ancient-Ordinary-460
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TIL the public exposure of the penis head was regarded by the Greeks as dishonourable and shameful, something only seen in slaves and barbarians.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 04:40PM by gullydon
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TIL bats carry many different kinds of viruses, but usually do not get sick themselves, sometimes leading to zoonotic infections in humans
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 04:00PM by Forsaken-Peak8496
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TIL William Bruce Mumford tore down a U.S. flag in Union-occupied New Orleans (1862), was court-martialed and executed on Gen. Benjamin Butler’s orders, and is considered the last person executed for treason against the United States.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 07:01PM by Ziggythesquid
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TIL Channel 4 in the UK was set up by the government with a specific, legally mandated remit to cater to minority groups and interests that were not being served by existing broadcasters (BBC and ITV).
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 07:57PM by upthetruth1
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TIL Kurt Cobain mentioned Freddie Mercury in his suicide note
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 06:50PM by i_am_loki_ofasgard
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TIL that the outbound leg of a trip feels longer than the return because novelty and uncertainty stretch our perception of time, while familiarity on the way back makes it seem shorter — a phenomenon called the return trip effect.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 07:32PM by Own-Bullfrog7362
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University of Toronto
Time warp: why uncertainty affects how we perceive time
Have you ever wondered why the outbound trip to a new destination feels longer than the return trip home? New U of T research suggests a big reason could be uncertainty over future events. “When people are anticipating uncertain future events, time tends…
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TIL that the ancient Semitic people had a deity named El that ruled over a pantheon of gods including Yahweh. The names Elizabeth, Daniel, Gabriel, Samuel, Michael and others originate from this.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 08:44PM by Astrolologer
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TIL Chick-fil-A receives over 20,000 applicants each year who want to become a franchise owner and only selects between 75-80 of them.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 09:58PM by tyrion2024
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Mashed
You'll Probably Never Own A Chick-Fil-A Franchise. Here's Why
You'll probably never own a Chick-fil-A franchise because there are several big hurdles to jump through during the application process.
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