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TIL that Bl. Pope John Paul I in 1978 was the first pope to refuse the centuries long tradition of a Papal Coronation where a pope is crowned with a papal tiara. Since then, every pope elected has chosen to not be coronated.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T11:00:17+00:00 by Next_Worth_3616
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TIL that Nvidia was founded in 1993 at a Denny's diner in San Jose. The three founders chose the booth because it was quiet and offered "all the coffee you can drink." Jensen Huang, who was a dishwasher at Denny's as a teen, is now the CEO of the world’s most valuable chip company.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T12:51:54+00:00 by Quiet_Card_8789
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TIL about the Thrasis region of Mars. Due to Mars’ lack of plate tectonics, three volcanoes were able to erupt in the same location for billions of years, accumulating so much lava that the crust structurally failed under the weight.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T15:33:51+00:00 by EpicAura99
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TIL that James Gandolfini (best known for playing Tony Soprano) guest-starred in Sesame Street episode #4030, where he helped the Muppet Zoey overcome her fear of loud noises. He self-described his fears as the dark, haircuts, and giant talking vegetables.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T15:34:33+00:00 by altrightobserver
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TIL that there's a satellite orbiting Earth that when not performing its function broadcasts the Kerbal Space Program main theme song.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T15:27:46+00:00 by Extreme-Attention641
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Sigidwiki
OTP-2 Satellite Musical Beacon - Signal Identification Wiki
Musical transmission originating from the OTP-2 Cubesat
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TIL that Cancún didn’t exist until 1970, its location was chosen using early computer models to identify a suitable place for a new resort city. The area had only three residents at the time.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T16:48:26+00:00 by RuseOwl
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TIL in Goldfinger(1964), the director, at first apprehensive of the lewdness of the name 'Pussy Galore', later rationalized its use saying "if you were a ten-year old boy and knew what the name meant, you weren't a ten-year old boy, you were a dirty little bitch."
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Submitted 2026-02-25T17:02:59+00:00 by nthroop1
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TIL that the "LED TV" was only made possible by the invention of the Blue LED. While Red and Green LEDs existed since the 60s, the Blue LED was so difficult to create that its inventors won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for finally enabling energy-efficient white light sources.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T16:49:05+00:00 by Quiet_Card_8789
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TIL that author Michael Crichton entered Harvard as an English major but changed his major after he submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name and got a B-. He decided that if a writer of Orwell's caliber could only get a B- then he needed to major in something else.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T17:19:13+00:00 by astarisaslave
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TIL that in 2025, a woman in Thailand who was declared dead was discovered alive after temple staff heard knocking from inside her coffin before cremation.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T17:14:10+00:00 by Haode5
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Sky News
'Dead' Thai woman sent to crematorium wakes up in coffin
Staff at Wat Rat Prakhong Tham temple near Bangkok say they were alerted after they heard knocking from inside the coffin moments before the cremation was due to start.
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TIL Heinrich Kramer, the man responsible the early modern witch craze, was initialy admonished by the inquisition for "illegal and unethical" practices. He had a feud with a local woman named Helena Scheuberin and when he refused to stop harassing her, he was asked by the bishop to leave Innsbruck
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Submitted 2026-02-25T15:43:43+00:00 by Nero2t2
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TIL roughly 100,000 African elephants were killed by poachers in just three years (2010-2012). The population declined by approximately 110,000 over a decade, leaving only about 415,000 remaining by 2016.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T19:47:36+00:00 by freudian_nipps
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TIL while recording samples for the Mellotron (an early keyboard sampler), cellist Reginald Kilbey refused to downtune his Cello to cover lower notes claiming he'd be robbing a bassist of their fee. A bassist was hired for the next recording session, which turned out to be Kilbey with a bass.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T20:55:20+00:00 by MrRabbit-
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