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TIL some models of Caterpillar haul trucks (big dump trucks used in mining) are so big that they are delivered in pieces from factories around America, and assembled on site by qualified technicians.
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Submitted February 09, 2026 at 05:48PM by MajesticBread9147
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TIL in 1994, LA residents called 911 during a city wide blackout because they saw the milky way for the first time and didn't know what it was
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Submitted February 09, 2026 at 06:05PM by launchnote
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TIL Commercial whaling is estimated to have killed between 97% and 99% of the global blue whale population.
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Submitted February 09, 2026 at 08:23PM by Sabrick
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TIL Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki designed an experiment after a nurse asked if her farts contaminated an operating theatre. He found that while gas from a subject with his pants down caused bacteria to sprout on Petri dishes, it did not when he was fully clothed, suggesting that clothing acts as a filter.
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Submitted February 09, 2026 at 07:50PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Hot air?
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TIL in 1900 Olympics, Margaret Abbott became the first American women to win gold medal. However she signed up not realizing it was an Olympic game and died ignorant of her record.
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Submitted February 09, 2026 at 04:52PM by BadenBaden1981
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TIL only one copy of the seventh studio album by the American hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan named "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" was created with no ability to download or stream it. The only copy was purchased in 2015 for $2 million, making it the most expensive work of music ever sold.
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Submitted February 09, 2026 at 10:22PM by gullydon
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TIL Singapore with 6 million people has a larger GDP than the whole of the Philippines with 114 million people
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Submitted February 09, 2026 at 11:43PM by MessMaximum5493
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Visual Capitalist
Ranked: Southeast Asian Countries by the Numbers
Spotlighting 11 Southeast Asian countries and how they compare to each other in wealth, population, and public spending using IMF data.
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TIL ... about the Rice Hypothesis which posits cultures that engaged in wet rice farming that requires coordinated irrigation and synchronized planting tend to be collectivist while wheat farming cultures evolved to be more individualistic.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 03:59AM by pomod
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NPR
Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative
Westerners tend to be more individualistic than Easterners. Did our ancestors plant these cultural differences hundreds of years ago when they chose which grains to grow?
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TIL About Operation Vegetarian, a British bioweapon planned during WW2 that entailed disseminating millions of linseed press cakes infected with anthrax spores over Germany with the goal of killing the majority of Germany’s cattle. The operation was cancelled after the success of Operation Overlord
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 04:13AM by quantumfall9
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TIL that in 2013, Jennifer Lopez became the first major Western star to perform in Turkmenistan, one of the most repressive countries in the world, to sing "Happy Birthday" to its leader.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 05:30AM by Greydl1
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the Guardian
Jennifer Lopez sparks controversy with show for Turkmenistan president
American singer's publicist says she would not have sung for leader if she had known about country's human rights record
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TIL France passed legislation in 2015 against planned obsolescence, the deliberate shortening of the lifespan of a product to force people to purchase functional replacements. The legislation effectively creates a mandatory two-year warranty for purchasers.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 06:44AM by gullydon
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TIL the 1976 Winter Olympics were originally awarded to Denver, CO, which voted to reject the games and resulted in Innsbruck, Austria, hosting the games.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 07:41AM by iKickdaBass
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TIL a former Irish priest disrupted the 2004 Olympic marathon to preach about the end of the world. He was also arrested for planning a pro-Hitler protest in 2006. He went on to appear on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 05:34AM by Midnightrollsaround
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TIL that Martin Scorsese has not made a film that's not an adaptation or biopic since 1985. Only 7 of his feature films are based on original screenplays written for the screen as opposed to adaptations of previous work or real life.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 10:40AM by Gaucho_Diaz
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TIL American Eddie Eagan is the only person to win Olympic gold medals in both the Summer (boxing, 1920) and Winter (bobsled, 1932) Games.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 07:51AM by iKickdaBass
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TIL that in the 1600s, tulip bulbs in Holland were worth more than gold, leading to a massive economic bubble called "Tulip Mania" where rare bulbs sold for the price of a luxury house.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 01:24PM by InterestingNerve388
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TIL both parents of Hattie McDaniel, winner of the first Oscar awarded to a Black actor (Best Supporting Actress in 1940) for her portrayal of Mammy in ‘Gone with the Wind,” had been born enslaved.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 04:19PM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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Workers World
Hattie McDaniel: First Oscar-winning Black actor
Hollywood’s 2016 all-white Academy Award acting nominations carry on the tradition of excluding, more often than not, Black achievement in films. Hollywood is a reflection of mainstream society’s historical policies and practice of institutional racism, exclusion…
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TIL that empress Elisabeth of Austria was assassinated by being stabbed directly into her heart. After she was stabbed she walked 100 yards, boarded a steamship and only by then she collapsed and died
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 04:16PM by Mopstilltheend
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TIL Canadians sent 5 tonnes of maple syrup to thank a Norwegian coach who gave a Canadian skier a spare pole after she broke hers mid-race, which led to Canada winning a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 05:06PM by planetcosmic
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CBC
Norwegian rewarded for Olympic sportsmanship | CBC Sports
Canadians have presented former Norwegian cross-country coach Bjornar Haakensmoen with more than five tons of maple syrup in recognition of his pole pass to Canadian Sara Renner at the Torino Games.
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TIL French scientist Étienne Klein was criticized after sharing a fake image of Proxima Centauri that turned out to be chorizo
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 06:27PM by Brendawg324
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CBS News
A prominent scientist posted an image of a distant star he said was taken by the Webb telescope. It was actually a slice of chorizo.
Etienne Klein apologized for misleading some Twitter followers with his "scientist's joke."
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TIL of the followers of Rajneesh, who committed the largest bio terror attack on US soil and attempted to assassinate a United States Attorney
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 04:01PM by Tehgumchum
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