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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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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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…
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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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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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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TIL about the St. Scholastica Day riot, an event that took place after two students at the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine at the Swindlestock Tavern in Carfax, England. The taverner fought the students, his customers joined in, and 83 people died over the course of 3 days.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 06:59PM by altrightobserver
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TIL in Britain, association football used to be called "soccer" by the upper class, while the working and middle classes preferred the word "football". As the upper class lost influence in British society from the 1960s on, "football" supplanted "soccer" as the most commonly used and accepted word.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 07:28PM by Away_Flounder3813
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TIL the deepest hole humanity has ever drilled is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, reaching 12,262 meters (over 7.6 miles) below the surface — and the project had to stop because temperatures became far higher than scientists expected.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 07:59PM by bortakci34
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TIL that nicotine vape users have an 80% higher risk of inflammatory arthritis diseases vs non-vapers.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 07:40PM by suprmario
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PubMed Central (PMC)
E-Cigarette Usage and Arthritis in the United States, a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey
Aim: The prevalence of the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has grown rapidly in the past decade in the United States. While numerous studies have demonstrated combustible cigarette is closely associated with an increased risk of ...
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TIL Giraffes are 30x more likely to be struck by lightning than humans.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 09:13PM by shubhrgunjan
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TIL the actor who played Furio in the Sopranos spotted an incorrectly labeled painting at an auction. He purchased it for $68,000 and later had it correctly appraised for $10 million.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 10:07PM by asteroid_9
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TIL that 17% of all food-related choking incidents by American children under age 10 are caused by hot dogs.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 11:42PM by NateNate60
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TIL Ohio State University knowingly covered up a serial killer doctor named Michael Swango, who murdered his patients at OSU’s hospital and later went on to kill at other hospitals in the U.S. and Africa.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 12:43AM by Goodeyesniper98
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TIL North Carolina's coast is called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" because of 5000+ wrecks
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 10:50PM by Spirited_Manager_831
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TIL around 15% to 25% of people are likely to have athlete's foot at any one time. The infection can spread to other parts of the body and to other people.
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Submitted February 10, 2026 at 11:05PM by saul2015
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PubMed
Athlete's foot - PubMed
In this systematic review we present information relating to the effectiveness and safety of the following interventions: improved foot hygiene, including socks and hosiery; topical allylamines (naftifine and terbinafine); topical azoles (bifonazole, clotrimazole…
TIL that "Let It Be" by the Beatles was actually first recorded by Aretha Franklin, and released by her 2 months before the Beatles's version came out
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 01:09AM by dmissri
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 01:09AM by dmissri
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