TIL: The Hershey Company (Chocolate) and Hershey Creamery Company (Ice Cream) are two separate, unaffiliated businesses both founded in 1894 and in Lancaster County, and there founders aren't even related by family.
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Submitted February 16, 2026 at 07:49PM by Masterpiece-Haunting
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TIL that Michael Jackson bought the Gone With the Wind’s 1939 Best Picture Oscar for about $1.5 million. The statuette is now considered lost, with his estate admitting they have no idea where it is.
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Submitted February 16, 2026 at 11:34PM by mercury2497
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The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Jackson’s $1.5M ‘Gone With the Wind’ Oscar Is Missing
The pop test star paid a record price for the statuette, but his estate can't figure out what happened to it.
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TIL that in 2017, Burger King Argentina ran the "A Day Without Whopper" campaign, where they halted sales of their signature burger for 24 hours, across all of their 107 restaurants, to support McDonald's McHappy Day: a charity initiative for children with cancer.
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Submitted February 16, 2026 at 09:48PM by GiveMeSomeSunshine3
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YouTube
A Day Without Whopper - Burger King
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Til that when the Japanese daimyo Uesugi Kenshin learned that his great rival Takeda Shingen had his supply of salt cut off, Kenshin sent Shingen salt from his own lands saying “I do not fight with salt, but with the sword”.
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Submitted February 16, 2026 at 11:48PM by Capital_Tailor_7348
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TIL that the greatest distance driven on a single tank of fuel is 2,831 km (1,759 miles), achieved by rally driver Miko Marczyk in a fourth-generation Škoda Superb 2.0 TDI in March 2025.
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Submitted February 16, 2026 at 08:15PM by VastCoconut2609
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Guinness World Records
Greatest distance driven on a single tank of fuel
Who Miko Marczyk What 2831 kilometre(s) Where Poland When 07 March 2025 Age Restriction: Applications for this record noscript will only be accepted if the applicant is 16 years of age or over.
TIL cows have over 800 blood types (compared to humans' 8).
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 01:48AM by weeef
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Stanford Blood Center
Mooootations — Stanford Blood Center
Tweet By Billie Rubin, Hemoglobin’s Catabolic Cousin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center Here’s something interesting about blood types. Humans have 8 major blood types (although we also have hundreds of lesser-known mutations or alleles that…
TIL about Florence E. Allen, who, in 1922, became the first woman to serve on a state supreme court. Allen was a suffragist who worked tirelessly to improve women's legal rights and who encouraged young women to become lawyers.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 02:03AM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL Fred Collins went to visit his brother at the Straight Inc. program, a teen rehab, but before he was allowed to, he was "screened" for any drug issues. After he admitted smoking weed, they held him against his will for 10 months before he finally escaped. He then sued them & was awarded $220,000
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 05:21AM by tyrion2024
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HuffPost
Drug Testing and Deception
The first criteria for a school's inclusion in the research was the "student drug testing program's apparent success." That's a research 101 error.
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TIL a man forgot that he had stashed $100,000 inside a 1980s TV set until the cash was returned to him 30 years later after a recycling plant worker dismantled the TV and found it. The man had forgotten the cash was inside the TV when he gave it away to a family friend many years earlier.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 05:17AM by tyrion2024
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CBC
Stash from the past: recycling plant employees find $100K hidden inside 1980s TV | CBC News
An employee at a Barrie, Ont. recycling depot learned the true meaning of the old adage, "one man's trash is another man's treasure," after she found $100,000 while picking apart an old television this week.
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TIL that as a teenager in 1826, future American frontier legend Kit Carson ran away from his saddlery apprenticeship in Missouri and traveled to what is now New Mexico. His master advertised about his runaway apprentice, Carson, but only offered a 1-cent reward to anyone who would return him.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 03:47AM by CatPooedInMyShoe
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TIL Darryl Boyd was framed at 16 for a 1976 murder, prosecutors hid 19+ pieces of evidence proving his innocence. He lost 28 years in prison, exonerated in 2021, but died of cancer in 2025 before his estate won a record $80 million (largest US wrongful conviction verdict ever) against Erie County.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 06:43AM by Outrageous-Baker5834
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TIL A Canadian band in the '60s issued their new single with the credit "By: Guess Who?" in the hopes of tricking radio stations into thinking it was The Who. When the song took off, they were forced to change their name to The Guess Who
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 05:51AM by giantswatcher0603
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TIL that people with schizophrenia in the US hear harsh, violent, and accusatory voices (commands to harm, graphic threats). But in India and Ghana the voices are often kind, advisory, or spiritually positive. Highlighting how culture influences how voices manifests.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 08:12AM by rampantradius
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news.stanford.edu
Stanford researcher: Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture
Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and…
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TIL--Finding Dispersed Families, a live broadcast on South Korea's KBS, was aired for the 30th anniversary of the Korean War ceasefire. It was supposed to be a 95 minute segment. It lasted 453 hours and 45 minutes. 53,536 people applied and 10,000 families were reunited on air after being separated.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 06:25AM by BaronOBuggos
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TIL that since the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 only teams from Europe and South America have ever reached the final match.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 01:06PM by Spotter24o5
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 01:06PM by Spotter24o5
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TIL Weird Al was set to a series of Star Wars parody sketches where he would interact with the movie via green-screening, but Mark Hamill refused to allow usage of any footage with him in it, despite already getting approval from Lucas and Alec Guinness, so the idea was scrapped
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 01:47PM by robotco
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 01:47PM by robotco
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TIL that people who sleep on their left side report nightmares more frequently,while right side sleepers tend to experience calmer,more pleasant sleep.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 01:35PM by Successful-Talk1830
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 01:35PM by Successful-Talk1830
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TIL there's a place in Yellowstone where you could theoretically get away with murder due to a constitutional loophole discovered by a law professor in 2005
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 03:49PM by EdinJaco
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 03:49PM by EdinJaco
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TIL, During pregnancy, cells from the fetus cross the placenta and enter the mother’s bloodstream. These "foreign" cells can stay in the mother's heart, brain, and liver for decades, and research suggests they may actually help repair damaged maternal tissue.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 09:40AM by Massive-Song5686
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TIL that Woodrow Wilson screened The Birth of a Nation at the White House on February 18th, 1915. It was the 1st film ever shown there & directly quoted Wilson in the film. Wilson reportedly said that "It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 07:35PM by Next_Worth_3616
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 07:35PM by Next_Worth_3616
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TIL that 7,000 years ago, the Saraha desert was full of hippos, crocodiles, elephants, and giraffes.
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 08:39PM by smudge_47
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Submitted February 17, 2026 at 08:39PM by smudge_47
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Science
Skeletons from ‘green Sahara’ offer genetic peek at a lost human population
Ancient DNA sheds light on a fleeting, lush interlude of North African prehistory
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