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TIL that in China, products can contain up to 5% asbestos and still be labelled “asbestos-free”, even in children's play sand.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 08:28AM by FissileAlarm
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The Brussels Times
Belgian minister urges public not to buy 'Chinese junk' after asbestos found in children's sand
In China, products can reportedly contain up to 5% asbestos and still be labelled “asbestos-free”.
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TIL February was selected for Black History Month to encompass the birthdays of two Americans who played a prominent role in shaping black history, namely Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th, respectively.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 04:43AM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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ASALH | The Founders of Black History Month (est. 1915)
ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | The Origins of Black History Month
The story of Black History Month begins in Chicago during the summer of 1915. An alumnus of the University of Chicago with many friends in the city, Carter G. Woodson traveled from Washington, D.C. to participate in a national celebration of the fiftieth…
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TIL foreigner female workers(domestic helpers) must get the pregnant test every six months and if they get tested with pregnancy, they will be deported right away from Singapore.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 01:01PM by search_google_com
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Ministry of Manpower Singapore
Six-monthly medical examination (6ME) for MDWs
During your migrant domestic worker's (MDW) employment, you must send her for a medical screening every 6 months. This medical examination screens for pregnancy and infectious diseases such as syphilis, HIV and tuberculosis.
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TIL that during the filming of the 1958 Titanic film A Night to Remember, survivor Lawrence Beesley snuck onto the set during the sinking scenes, apparently hoping to "go down with the ship". He was spotted by the film's director, Roy Ward Baker, and was kicked out off the set
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 01:34PM by Sebastianlim
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TIL prior to the 1993 the Super Bowl Halftime show was mostly marching bands, dance troupes, and drill teams.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 02:46PM by loki2002
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TIL Major League Baseball's National League nearly adopted the Designated Hitter (DH) rule as early as 1980, but the proposal fell through because the Philadelphia Phillies' owner was on a fishing trip and a proxy voted in his absence.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 01:16PM by Far_Breakfast_5808
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Ducks Unlimited
Making Baseball and Conservation History
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TIL in 2012, a couple jokingly invited Queen Elizabeth II to their wedding in Manchester and she actually attended since she was in the same building for another function.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 06:40PM by GossipBottom
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TIL of Publius Ventidius who was paraded as a baby in Rome as the child of a conquered enemy, grew up to be a Roman general, thereby becoming the only known person to be on both sides of a a triumphal procession, "a victim turned victor"
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 11:56AM by tonehammer
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TIL - DARVO (acronym for Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) is a reaction that perpetrators such as abusers or sexual offenders display in response to being held accountable for their behavior.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 06:52PM by slanderpanther
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TIL that Joseph Mengele, Nazi doctor, tried to create artificial conjoined twins by connecting two children’s blood vessels and organs. In one experiment the joined twins screamed for three days until death ended their suffering.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 07:25PM by tenzin_Qing
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TIL that we aren't single organisms, but walking ecosystems. For decades, it was believed that bacteria outnumbered human cells 10-to-1. Modern science has corrected this: the ratio is actually about 1.3-to-1. You are roughly 38 trillion bacteria and 30 trillion human cells.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 07:22PM by MO--OM
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journals.plos.org
Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body
Thoroughly revised estimates show that the typical adult human body consists of about 30 trillion human cells and about 38 trillion bacteria.
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TIL that after WWII there was an Italian group called the Democratic Fascist Party that once stole Mussolini’s body
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 01:58PM by Flashy_Combination32
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TIL that Las Vegas roulette payouts are always one less compared to what would be mathematically fair
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 09:17PM by JosZo
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How to Play Roulette | Roulette Rules | The Venetian Resort Las Vegas
The Venetian Resort provides you with all you need to know on how to play roulette, including valuable information on chip placement for betting & payouts.
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TIL that of the five largest companies in the world by revenue, Saudi Aramco is the only one to have less than one million employees. In fact, it doesn't even have 100,000.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 08:21PM by JoeyZasaa
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TIL: Nickelback's How You Remind Me was the most played song on US radio that decade. It was played over 1.2 million times on the radio between when it was released in 2001 to the end of 2009
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 10:26PM by Uptons_BJs
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TIL that the “Vacanti mouse” (circa 1996) was a laboratory mouse that had what looked like a human ear grown on its back, which was actually an ear-shaped cartilage structure created by seeding cow knee cartilage cells into a biodegradable ear-shaped mold and implanting it under the skin.
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Submitted February 11, 2026 at 10:59PM by A11J06
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TIL that Judith Deutsch-Haspel, the most decorated competitive swimmer in Austria in 1935, refused to compete in Hitler's 1936 Olympics, along with two other Jewish women swimmers. Austria erased her from the record books and banned her from future competitions.
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Submitted February 12, 2026 at 12:15AM by cupacupacupacupacup
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TIL that salted raw celery used to be the third most popular dish on New York menus and more expensive than caviar due to issues with growing it.
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Submitted February 12, 2026 at 01:02AM by Sanguinusshiboleth
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TIL Indigenous American tribes experiencing population decline would adopt prisoners taken during raids into their families as a means of of maintaining numbers. Hundreds of white captives were adopted in this way, and the accounts that some of them wrote were known as “captivity narratives”
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Submitted February 12, 2026 at 01:01AM by Fenceypents
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TIL a tiny dog guarded his owner’s grave for 14 years. In 1858, Edinburgh night watchman John Gray died and was buried, his dog Bobby, stayed there, Through freezing winters and heavy rain, Bobby kept watch while locals fed him and the city paid for his licence so he wouldn’t be treated as a stray.
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Submitted February 12, 2026 at 02:17AM by Limp-Plastic1777
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Historic UK
The Story of Greyfriars Bobby
Greyfriars Bobby was the dog who for 14 years guarded his masters grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh...
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TIL that Taylor Swift gave out $197 Million in bonuses to Eras tour staff; individual bonuses ranging from $100k-$750k
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Submitted February 12, 2026 at 03:48AM by DriedUpDeals
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