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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Kennedy & Castro: The Secret History
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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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.
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.
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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TIL the last person to die from jousting was in 2007.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T22:12:09+00:00 by AnchanSan
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Submitted 2026-02-24T22:12:09+00:00 by AnchanSan
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www.abc.net.au
Man killed in freak Time Team jousting accident
A man has died while filming a mock jousting tournament for TV series Time Team.
TIL: Ingenuity, the helicopter drone on Mars, is carrying a small piece of fabric from the Wright brothers first aircraft.
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Submitted 2026-02-24T22:12:05+00:00 by Killentyme55
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NBC News
Part of Wright brothers’ 1st airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper
A small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer made the 300 million-mile journey to Mars with the blessing of the Wright brothers’ great-grandniece and great-grandnephew.
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TIL that notorious mobsters Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky were awarded Medals of Freedom by President Harry Truman in a secret ceromony
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Submitted 2026-02-24T23:51:57+00:00 by krsj
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The Times of Israel
Mobster Meyer Lansky’s WWII Medal of Freedom to go under hammer
Honor awarded to notorious gangster in secret 1945 ceremony expected to fetch $60,000 at auction, offered alongside personal items of 'Bugsy' Siegel, Al Capone and others
TIL that two of the three “stars” in Orion’s Belt are actually multi‑star systems, so you’re really seeing at least ten stars with the naked eye
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Submitted 2026-02-25T01:15:04+00:00 by adpablito
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TIL that some viruses protect human cells from more dangerous infections by occupying the cell first, effectively blocking other viruses from taking over.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T01:40:15+00:00 by AutumnLeaf7777
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Journal of Virology
Superinfection Exclusion between Two High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Types during a Coinfection | Journal of Virology
ABSTRACT
Superinfection exclusion is a common phenomenon whereby a single cell is unable to
be infected by two types of the same pathogen. Superinfection exclusion has been described
for various viruses, including vaccinia virus, measles virus, hepatitis…
Superinfection exclusion is a common phenomenon whereby a single cell is unable to
be infected by two types of the same pathogen. Superinfection exclusion has been described
for various viruses, including vaccinia virus, measles virus, hepatitis…