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TIL Baron von Steuben, the man who transformed the US revolutionaries into a modern army, was a life long bachelor who eventually left all his property to 3 young men he had formally adopted. He was accompanied to the US by his young secretary and his beloved dog, which he took with him everywhere
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Submitted 2026-02-23T21:29:30+00:00 by Nero2t2
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TIL in 2011 an emperor penguin named Happy Feet arrived in New Zealand after swimming about 2K miles from Antarctica. He is the second emperor penguin ever to be found in NZ (first was in 1967). At the beach he ate sand, likely mistaking it for snow, and needed 4.4 lbs of it removed from his stomach
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Submitted 2026-02-23T22:23:08+00:00 by tyrion2024
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TIL that the Chicken Dance's composer, Swiss accordionist Werner Thomas, is still alive. It is considered to be the single most successful Swiss song ever, being exported to over 40 countries with over 400 recorded versions.
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Submitted 2026-02-23T20:32:36+00:00 by WavesAndSaves
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TIL in 2014 George RR Martin auctioned, for charity, the opportunity for two people to appear, and be killed off, in The Winds of Winter for $20,000
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Submitted 2026-02-23T22:59:07+00:00 by NoLastNameForNow
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the Guardian
George RR Martin to kill off Facebook employee in Game of Thrones books
The author of the Song of Ice and Fire saga auctioned off the opportunity to appear in the next book – and be killed – for $20,000, paid to a pair of charities
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TIL the film The Gospel According to St. Matthew was directed by Paolo Passolini, a known atheist, homosexual and Marxist, was called by the official Vatican newspaper as "the best film on Christ ever made".
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Submitted 2026-02-24T01:03:47+00:00 by malvarez97
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TIL Peter Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin was extremely pleased with how the film came out, got along well with the cast, and his only regret was that his character died and he couldn't appear in the sequels
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Submitted 2026-02-24T02:57:15+00:00 by Please_PM_me_Uranus
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TIL that banana ketchup was invented in the Philippines because of a tomato shortage and high production of bananas during WWII
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Submitted 2026-02-24T04:45:11+00:00 by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL that the human brain processes sensory input over roughly a tenth of a second, which means the present moment we experience is actually a slightly delayed reconstruction created by the brain.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T05:06:29+00:00 by AutumnLeaf7777
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
All in Good Time: Long-Lasting Postdictive Effects Reveal Discrete Perception
Is consciousness a continuous stream of percepts or is it discrete, occurring only
at certain moments in time? This question has puzzled philosophers, psychologists,
and neuroscientists for centuries. Both hypotheses have fallen repeatedly in and out
of favor.…
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TIL in 1937 to curb ‘Reefer Madness’ the US changed cannabis into the Spanish-derived name ‘Marijuana’ to instil racially-charged fear in English-speaking Americans.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T10:39:17+00:00 by littlebabymira
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www.jstor.org
The Puzzle of the Social Origins of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 on JSTOR
John F. Galliher, Allynn Walker, The Puzzle of the Social Origins of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, Social Problems, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Feb., 1977), pp. 367-376
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TIL During World War II, the U.S. government launched campaigns urging citizens to save waste cooking fats (bacon grease, meat drippings) to produce glycerin, a key component in manufacturing explosives like nitroglycerin.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T09:50:26+00:00 by xinxai_the_white_guy
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Mashed
How Bacon Was Used To Make Explosives In World War II
On one hand, bacon is a crispy and delicious snack. On the other hand, it can be used to unleash chaos. An extreme example is how it was used during WWII.
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TIL that Kansai International Airport in Japan reached its 30th year of service without having ever lost a single piece of luggage.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T13:12:55+00:00 by Bob_the_blacksmith
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TIL that humans can learn to “echolocate” like bats, using clicking sounds or listening to echoes from their surroundings to sense objects, distances, and surfaces around them
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Submitted 2026-02-24T12:31:59+00:00 by Mrk2d
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TIL that Salvador Dalí transformed a painting of horses into Hitler Masturbating.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T08:51:07+00:00 by Ok-Goose6242
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TIL The North Korean leader's aunt and uncle, the couple who fostered him during his teenage years in Switzerland, have been living a modest life in the US, running a dry cleaning business since 1998
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Submitted 2026-02-24T16:14:24+00:00 by Nero2t2
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TIL that "stomach butterflies" are caused by your brain redirecting blood away from your gut to prepare your muscles for fight-or-flight, which is why anxiety can make you feel nauseous.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T16:18:44+00:00 by ThinkThenPost
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Harvard Health
The gut-brain connection - Harvard Health
The brain has a direct effect on the stomach, causing GI conditions. A person's stomach or intestinal distress can be the cause or the product of anxiety, stress, or depression....
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TIL the Golden Fleece was real--Ancient people used greasy sheepskins to catch gold dust flowing down rivers
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Submitted 2026-02-24T18:18:50+00:00 by Super-Cut-2175
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TIL Trepanation the process of drilling, scraping, or cutting a hole into the human skull is one of the oldest surgical procedures on record, dating back over 7,000 years. While it sounds like a horror movie plot, it was a surprisingly common treatment for epilepsy.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T17:02:45+00:00 by tahiirhussain
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