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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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TIL about Bohemian Club, an exclusive, private San Francisco-based men's club founded in 1872, with past members like George H Bush and Henry Kissinger
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Submitted 2026-02-24T17:29:03+00:00 by Puzzleheaded_Roof872
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TIL that the 26 storey The Holiday Inn opened in 1974 in Beirut would become a battle ground in the civil war that erupted in 1975. It saw over 1,000 deaths, many of those who died were thrown from the top of the hotel.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T18:40:39+00:00 by Make_the_music_stop
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TIL JFK's thoughts on Cuba & Fidel Castro two weeks before his death: "I believe that there is no country in the world... where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba. (...) Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States."
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Submitted 2026-02-24T20:02:56+00:00 by Ok_Item9755
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nsarchive2.gwu.edu
Kennedy & Castro: The Secret History
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TIL Low-dose Aspirin comes in 81 mg because prior to the Metric system, England in the Middle Ages used an apothecary system of weights, with the base weight derived from 1 grain of barleycorn. Adult Asprin dosage was 5 grain (325 mg), with a low-dose one-quarter portion being 1.25 grain, or 81 mg.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T18:26:15+00:00 by TheRealOcsiban
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TIL that Thomas Mundy Peterson is considered to be the first African American man to cast a ballot after the 1869 enactment of the 15th Amendment.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T17:57:38+00:00 by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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Library of Congress Blogs
Thomas Mundy Peterson, First African American Man to Cast a Ballot
A blog article detailing the life of a locally known and nationally forgotten figure: Thomas Mundy Peterson who was the first African American to vote in the United States following the ratification of the fifteenth amendment in 1870.
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TIL cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T20:46:40+00:00 by Cognonymous
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Truth Initiative
Why are cigarette butts the most littered item on earth?
Cigarette butts have the longstanding distinction of being the most littered item on earth, with about 4.5 trillion cigarettes discarded each year worldwide.
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TIL that the iconic hairstyle of Star Wars Princess Leia was inspired by the Mexican revolutionary Clara de la Rocha
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Submitted 2026-02-24T21:00:07+00:00 by johnsmithoncemore
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