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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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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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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Submitted 2026-02-25T20:55:20+00:00 by MrRabbit-
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TIL about Lionel Crabb, a Royal Navy diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission around a Soviet cruiser in 1956. A headless, handless corpse was discovered over a year later, it has never been conclusively proven to be Crabb's as known scars were absent.
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Submitted 2026-02-25T16:50:26+00:00 by johnsmithoncemore
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Submitted 2026-02-25T16:50:26+00:00 by johnsmithoncemore
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TIL if the experiments are controlled and sensitive enough, we find quantum behavior in objects big enough to be seen with an ordinary optical microscope
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Submitted 2026-02-26T00:02:19+00:00 by Heliocentrist
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Submitted 2026-02-26T00:02:19+00:00 by Heliocentrist
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Quanta Magazine
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.
TIL about Deborah Samson who successfully hid that she was a woman in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, even removing a musket ball from her leg herself to avoid being discovered
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Submitted 2026-02-25T23:57:41+00:00 by jwferguson
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Submitted 2026-02-25T23:57:41+00:00 by jwferguson
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TIL The mercury in tuna and other fish largely comes from human activity, not the ocean itself.
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Submitted 2026-02-26T00:16:22+00:00 by Tight_kangaroo1
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Submitted 2026-02-26T00:16:22+00:00 by Tight_kangaroo1
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FoodPrint
So Where Does All That Mercury in Fish Come From?
Learn where all the mercury in fish comes from, how it gets there and what it could mean for the health of you and your family.
TIL the iconic "Peace Symbol" isn't just a random geometric design. It's actually composed of the flag semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", standing for "Nuclear Disarmament".
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Submitted 2026-02-26T00:56:32+00:00 by -Speechless
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Submitted 2026-02-26T00:56:32+00:00 by -Speechless
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TIL that the ancient Chinese Confucian thinker Xunzi argued that humans are born with selfish, chaotic impulses, and that “goodness” is something we build through education, ritual, and strong social institutions. His whole point was basically: if you remove the rules, people don't auto-become good.
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Submitted 2026-02-26T01:56:59+00:00 by fromthefuturedude
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Submitted 2026-02-26T01:56:59+00:00 by fromthefuturedude
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TIL The "Asoh Defense" refers to the legendary 1968 incident where Japan Airlines Captain Kohei Asoh candidly admitted, "As you Americans say, I f---ed up," after mistakenly landing his DC-8 jet in San Francisco Bay. By taking full, immediate responsibility without excuses, he set a gold standard
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Submitted 2026-02-26T01:58:49+00:00 by Capital-Aide-1006
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Mentour Pilot
The Asoh Defense: “As you Americans say, I ****** up”
Sometimes an aviation concept finds applications in other fields, and the Asoh Defense is one such example. It’s still an aviation lesson, however. The story around the statement may well be apocryphal. Captain Kohei Asoh, pilot-in-command of Japan Airlines…
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TIL of Starlight Tours in the 1990s and early 2000, where an Indigenous person, frequently Indigenous men, is picked up at night and abandoned outside of the city limits in subzero temperatures.
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Submitted 2026-02-26T03:29:20+00:00 by GoodMornEveGoodNight
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TIL There was an attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne outside Buckingham Palace where her protection officer was shot
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Submitted 2026-02-26T02:40:31+00:00 by b_asic
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Submitted 2026-02-26T02:40:31+00:00 by b_asic
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Tatler
The day Princess Anne survived a dramatic kidnap attempt
50 years ago, the Princess Anne escaped a kidnapper without a scratch. Discover the extraordinary story with Tatler
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TIL the United States fought two wars in the 19th century in part to stop the enslavement of American Sailors
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Submitted 2026-02-26T05:41:00+00:00 by plantbrodog
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Submitted 2026-02-26T05:41:00+00:00 by plantbrodog
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TIL In 1936, Japanese Prime Minister Keisuke Okada was nearly assassinated in an attempted coup. The assassins stormed his residence and killed a man they identified as Okada by comparing the dead man’s face to a picture of their intended target. The dead man was actually Okada’s brother-in-law.
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Submitted 2026-02-26T06:41:11+00:00 by Ill_Definition8074
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Submitted 2026-02-26T06:41:11+00:00 by Ill_Definition8074
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TIL Sushi grade and Sashimi grade fish is actually super frozen fish (frozen below -60f), this kills all parasites making it safe to eat raw
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Submitted 2026-02-26T13:26:47+00:00 by Not_so_ghetto
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Submitted 2026-02-26T13:26:47+00:00 by Not_so_ghetto
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TIL that the Switzerlands largest supermarket Migros, doesn’t sell alcohol or tobacco in stores, pays no dividends, caps profits by lowering prices if earnings exceeds 5%, is a cooperative with 2M+ members, and donates 1% of revenue to social projects, purely out of the founders moral philosophy
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Submitted 2026-02-26T13:53:05+00:00 by QuarterTarget
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TIL the Mahabharata is the longest poem ever written. With over 200,000 verses and roughly 1.8 million words, it is 10x longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined.
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Submitted 2026-02-26T14:28:25+00:00 by scrxptxdblxdx
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TIL about the Herxheim archaeological site, where around 5000 BC over 1000 people were brought in, often from a great distance, to be killed and likely eaten
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Submitted 2026-02-26T17:11:50+00:00 by IamDDT
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Submitted 2026-02-26T17:11:50+00:00 by IamDDT
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TIL the human heart generates the strongest electromagnetic field of any organ in the body, and its signals can be detected several feet away from the body using sensitive equipment
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Submitted 2026-02-26T16:33:53+00:00 by More_Living9471
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Submitted 2026-02-26T16:33:53+00:00 by More_Living9471
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HeartMath Institute
The Energetic Heart Is Unfolding - HeartMath Institute
Consider the amazing human heart, the organ that pumps life-giving oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood throughout our bodies on a precise schedule. Now researchers are learning that this marvelous machine, the size of a fist and weighing on average less than…
TIL Trans World Airlines chose Kansas City as its world hub in 1972, the airport was built to TWA's needs with $250 million of public funds. It quickly became unsuitable due to several design flaws. After the city refused to rebuild the brand new airport, TWA moved its world hub to St Louis by 1982.
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Submitted 2026-02-26T15:38:29+00:00 by Next_Worth_3616
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TIL Danny DeVito and Robert Reich are so short because they both suffer from multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, a rare genetic disorder that slows bone growth
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Submitted February 26, 2026 at 09:05PM by Well_Socialized
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Submitted February 26, 2026 at 09:05PM by Well_Socialized
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