TIL that fish swim bladders evolved from lungs, meaning lungs existed before most fish used them for breathing
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 03:08AM by Tight_kangaroo1
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TIL that ejaculating at least 21 times a month may lower your risk of prostate cancer by 31%!
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 02:04AM by HenzoH
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Harvard Health
Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer - Harvard Health
Research into the connections between sexual activity and prostate cancer....
TIL Apple recently paid $95 million because Siri was caught eavesdropping on private conversations, like doctor visits and drug deals, then sending those recordings for human contractors to listen to. Siri was triggered not just by "Hey Siri," but by phrases that sounded similar like "seriously."
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 05:12AM by UsualOkay6240
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USA TODAY
Lopez vs. Apple: What to know about case involving Siri that triggered $95M settlement
The Lopez v. Apple lawsuit alleges that the company was eavesdropping on users. Customers may be ennoscriptd to part of the resulting settlement.
TIL Christopher Columbus made significant errors in estimating the distance to Asia. If the Americas didn't exist, then he'd have ran out of food and died long before reaching Japan.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 06:46AM by NorthKoreanMissile7
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TIL that most “CGI” in Jurassic Park (1993) was actually practical effects and animatronics, with CGI used only for a few shots, which is why the movie still looks convincing today.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 10:46AM by joe_at_large
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ScreenRant
Jurassic Park: How The Dinosaurs Were Created (Is It All CGI?)
Very few of the film's iconic scenes were CGI.
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TIL David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight Eisenhower & son in law of Richard Nixon (married to his daughter Julie), is one of the inspirations for the song Fortunate Son. His father also changed the name of the presidential retreat from Camp Shangri-La to Camp David after him & his own father.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 06:30AM by flying_ina_metaltube
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TIL that in 1999, Google's founders were willing to sell the company to Excite for $750,000, but the CEO of Excite turned them down. Today, Google's parent company is worth over $2 Trillion
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 11:49AM by Adorable-District106
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TIL Einstein bequeathed his likeness to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They raise over $1m a year on average by licencing his likeness.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 12:48PM by scott3387
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TIL about Broomgate where during the 2015-2016 curling season had a technology doping scandal. Where new brush head technology drastically changed gameplay. This resulted in the standardized yellow brush head we see on brooms in today's competitive curling.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 08:52AM by random_agency
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TIL Astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who first postulated the existence of and coined the term “Dark Matter”, liked to refer to people whom he did not agree with as "spherical bastards", because, as he explained, “they were bastards no matter which way one looked at them.”
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 02:50PM by RotaryDane
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TIL that moon dust (lunar regolith) is electrically charged and will stick to anything it comes into contact with. It's also likely toxic to humans. Apollo astronauts regularly complained of coughing, watery eyes, throat irritation and blurry vision after each foray onto the moon's surface
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 05:22PM by MrMojoFomo
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TIL the British Film Institute screened the "first released version" of Star Wars after a "perfectly preserved" original print of the 1977 film was recovered from an archive. This is the version that George Lucas had suppressed from being publicly shown on a big screen for the preceding 47 years.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 06:00PM by tyrion2024
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The Hollywood Reporter
‘Star Wars’ “Looks Terrible” in Screening of Long Lost Original 1977 Version
The years have not been kind to the oft-romanticized original print of the sci-fi classic, which lacks all of George Lucas' post-release tweaks and polishes and looks "like a completely different film."
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TIL that in the early 60s 480 M needles were launched in space. They were supposed to fall back but some clumped together. Fourty four clumps still need to be tracked today.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 03:34PM by dorfsmay
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TIL that the International Space Station is the most expensive project ever built by humans, costing about $150 billion in total and around $3–4 billion per year to operate, and that NASA has contracted SpaceX for $843 million to build a vehicle to safely deorbit it around 2030.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 08:18PM by stoictrader03
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TIL about "Yellow Journalism" of the late 1800s. Sensational, fabricated headlines/ stories that mostly focused on sex scandals and crimes fueled by the rivalry between Pulitzer’s New York World and Hearst’s New York Journal. They were blamed for America's entry into the Spanish - American war.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 08:11PM by Handcraftedsemen_
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 08:11PM by Handcraftedsemen_
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TIL about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, a hypersensitivity to the fear of being rejected by others, which is commonly connected to ADHD.
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 10:17PM by learnaboutnetworking
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Cleveland Clinic
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD): Symptoms & Treatment
Rejection sensitive dysphoria is when you experience overwhelming emotional pain when faced with failure or rejection. It’s very common with ADHD and is treatable.
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TIL that an Englishman named Collingwood Ingram helped reintroduce an extinct Japanese cherry tree after recognizing it in a painting, having seen the same tree growing in England
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 10:50PM by Climatize
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TIL that there's a planet called HD 189733b where it rains glass sideways at 5,400 mph. The planet's blue color doesn't come from oceans like Earth—it comes from silicate (glass) particles in a "blow-torched" atmosphere with temperatures over 1,000°C.
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Submitted February 06, 2026 at 01:02AM by Postmortal_Pop
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NASA
Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733b - NASA
This Halloween, take a tour with NASA's Exoplanet Exploration site of some of the most terrifying destinations in our galaxy. The nightmare world of HD 189733 b is the killer you never see coming. To the human eye, this far-off planet looks bright blue. But…
TIL that following the lifting of a ban on intimacy at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the game organizers gave out 300,000 free condoms to the 10,500 athletes living in the Olympic Villages—or roughly 29 per person
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Submitted February 06, 2026 at 01:10AM by altrightobserver
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Sky News
Paris 2024 Olympics: Condoms for athletes, but no champagne - organisers hope Games can unite a world in conflict
In the city of love - with pandemic-era Olympic restrictions over - Paris 2024 is encouraging amour among athletes again. Around 300,000 condoms will be available in the Olympic Village - enough for almost two each for every day of the Games.
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TIL that in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, three men ended up on the roof of a hotel that was on fire. A nearby military officer, fearing they’d fall and burn alive, ordered his troops to shoot them.
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Submitted February 06, 2026 at 02:14AM by trashatdev
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The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
TIL that after the show In Living Color aired a live show opposite the Super Bowl halftime broadcast and got huge ratings, the NFL opted to include major pop culture acts every year since
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 07:46PM by fuzzy_dice_99
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Submitted February 05, 2026 at 07:46PM by fuzzy_dice_99
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