TIL that in 1992, a British farmer searching for a lost hammer instead discovered the largest hoard of late Roman gold and silver coins ever found in Britain.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 09:16PM by SwordfishEither2516
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TIL a nearly blind cat named Jerry Fox wore custom glasses and saved Brooklyn Borough Hall from a fire in 1904. He was on the city payroll as "Assistant Janitor" and when he died, The New York Times ran his obituary.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 08:30PM by Danny__NYC
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Cats About Town Tours
Historical walking tours in NYC focused on the cats who built the city.
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TIL about the "Saavedra Position"—a famous chess endgame where an amateur player found a win that professional masters missed. The key is "underpromotion"—turning a pawn into a Rook instead of a Queen. A Queen would force a draw (stalemate), but the weaker Rook wins the game.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 10:18PM by ralphbernardo
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TIL that U.S. Vice President William R. King took the oath of office in Cuba in 1853 because he was too ill to travel to Washington, making him the only U.S. president or vice president ever sworn in on foreign soil, and he died less than a month later before ever serving in Washington.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 01:39AM by cape2k
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TIL No one knew exactly how old Manute Bol was.
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Submitted January 18, 2026 at 11:22PM by TheRealDonahue
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TIL Scientists at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia spent 17 years trying to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that would appear at seemingly random intervals. In 2015 they finally identified the cause: a microwave oven at the facility being opened prematurely.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 01:51AM by 749762
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TIL that during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, the Conquistadors were joined by thousands of native allies who resented the Aztecs
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 01:51AM by 749762
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Battle of Tenochtitlán
Battle of Tenochtitlan (May 22–August 13, 1521), military engagement between the Aztecs and a coalition of Spanish and indigenous combatants commanded by Hernan Cortes. Cortes’s army besieged Tenochtitlan for 93 days. Superior weaponry and a devastating smallpox…
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TIL in 1985, as a deliberate snub, the University of Oxford voted to refuse Margaret Thatcher an honorary degree in protest against her cuts in funding for higher education. This award had previously been given to all prime ministers who had been educated at Oxford.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 04:09AM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL Wesley Lloyd proposed a wealth-limiting amendment in 1933
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 05:24AM by DevCatOTA
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TIL that two events about Jesus are supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: Jesus was baptized and Jesus was crucified.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 07:37AM by JoeyZasaa
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TIL that Dolly Parton secretly coproduced Buffy the Vampire Slayer through her company, Sandollar Entertainment. As an easter egg, she and Buffy share the same birthday, which is today, January 19
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 08:01AM by Subtlerranean
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Taste of Country
Dolly Parton Secretly Produced This TV Classic and Fans Are Freaking Out
Dolly Parton played a little-known role in producing a classic television show, and the news has left fans amazed.
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TIL that despite a population of 3 million people, Chicago's Fire Department only has 80 ambulances
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 07:34AM by altrightobserver
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TIL about king Leopold II who was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private colonial project undertaken on his own behalf as a personal union with Belgium.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 04:08AM by viccchaos
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TIL Your gut is the only organ with its own independent nervous system
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 07:53AM by Alternative-Win4058
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integrishealth.org
Mind-Blowing Facts About the Human Body You Never Knew
While most of us understand the basic bodily functions that keep us going, you might not be aware of some of the more incredible functions your body carries out. We’ve gathered up seven facts about the human body and some of its crazier processes that might…
TIL early “Toy Story” noscripts were so bad that production was halted. Steve Jobs kept work going with personal funding until a better noscript was ready. When production green-lit for $17M, Jobs demanded more funds from Disney, who refused until Pixar’s co-founder was able to compromise a new budget
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 08:34AM by Drtardis95
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TIL that sharks predate trees by millions of years and have survived all five of Earth’s major mass extinction events.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 01:57PM by Forsaken-Peak8496
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www.nhm.ac.uk
Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline | Natural History Museum
Sharks have survived five mass extinctions. Discover what the first sharks were, when the megalodon first appeared, and how this group of fishes changed over 450 million years.
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TIL that Marchetti's Constant posits that daily "commuting" time for humans has been consistent since neolithic era. This implies that as technology improves, humans simply travel further daily but keeps travelling time roughly the same.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 12:45PM by whoisfourthwall
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TIL about the Westermarck effect describing how children raised together at key ages don't have sexual attraction to each other
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 01:04PM by Johannes_P
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TIL : That Mahatma Gandhi conducted what he called celibacy tests late in life—sleeping naked beside young women (including relatives) to “prove” his self-control.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 04:21PM by vinay1458
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the Guardian
How would Gandhi’s celibacy tests with naked women be seen today? | Ian Jack
Gandhi would surely have been widely reviled, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack
TIL Some trees achieve functional immortality by constantly regenerating themselves. Pando in Utah looks like a forest of quaking aspens, but is a single organism estimated to be 80,000 years old.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 03:57PM by 0__o-
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Encyclopedia Britannica
The Clone Giants
In ‘The Clone Giants,’ Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopaedia Britannica explores two of the largest organisms on Earth and the asexual reproductive strategies that have facilitated their remarkable growth. This is the fifth installment of the Botanize! audio…
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TIL Liechtenstein did not grant woman suffrage until July 1, 1984 when it passed a referendum with only 51.3% of the vote.
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Submitted January 19, 2026 at 04:48PM by DrakeSavory
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Library of Congress Blogs
On This Day in 1984: Women’s Suffrage in Liechtenstein
This blog post describes the introduction of women's suffrage in Liechtenstein.