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TIL Iceland has never won a Winter Olympic medal
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:56AM by Embarrassed_Map1112
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TIL Britain’s youngest female killer committed her first murder at age 10 in 1968, a day before her 11th birthday, left notes about the crime at a nursery she vandalised (with a friend) the next day and was only arrested after her second murder two months later.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:29AM by Some-Body-Else
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TIL that humans shed roughly 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute, which means in just one day, a single person can lose roughly 43-58 million skin cells. A surprising portion of household dust is actually made up of these tiny flakes of skin, so the dust bunnies under your bed are partly… you.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 08:36AM by Witty_Mode9296
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TIL United States Agency for International Development (USAID) saved an estimated 91 million lives from 2001 to 2021
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 02:37PM by Not_so_ghetto
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TIL in 2005 the Wisconsin owners of a missing cat received a call informing them that their cat had ended up in France and would be coming home soon. Their cat had wandered into a container of paper bales inside a nearby paper company, which went by truck to Chicago before being shipped to Europe.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 04:17PM by tyrion2024
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TIL Charles Dickens said of the Bayeux Tapestry, "It is certainly the work of amateurs; very feeble amateurs at the beginning and very heedless some of them too."
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 03:42PM by FartOfGenius
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TIL the majority owner of Bose Corporation is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 03:54PM by backrowejoe
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TIL Boban Marjanovic had the NBA’s largest hands, measuring 10.75 inches in length and spanning 12 inches (as compared to Shaquille O’Neal’s 10.25/12 inches).
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 04:37PM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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TIL George RR Martin bought the first ticket to the first Comic Con in 1964.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 06:15PM by Wazula23
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TIL there is a law that prohibits people in Thailand from owning more than 120 unapproved playing cards.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:53PM by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL that in 1896, 2 physicists discovered radioactivity by accident when he left uranium salts in a drawer and found they fogged photographic plates in complete darkness, showing that atoms could emit energy on their own.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:44PM by One_Needleworker5218
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TIL about the Boötes Void, an enormous, nearly empty region of space 330 million light-years in diameter. It is so desolate that if the Milky Way had been in its center, we wouldn't have known other galaxies existed until the 1960s.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 08:21PM by adpablito
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TIL that the MV Doña Paz’s sinking was the deadliest maritime disaster that occurred outside of wartime, accounting for 4,385 deaths
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:51PM by pigeon-in-greggs
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TIL about Murc’s Law, the tendency in political journalism to attribute agency only to the Democratic Party, while treating Republican actions as inevitable or structurally determined
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 09:31PM by NickCostanza
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TIL that during the 1980s, Thailand’s massive humanitarian support for Cambodian refugees was also a deliberate military strategy. By placing refugee camps directly on the border, Thailand created a "human buffer zone" to deter a potential invasion by the Vietnamese-backed army.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:54PM by khmerelder
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TIL India has never won a Winter Olympic medal and only won 41 total Olympic medals.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 09:27PM by Mr__JimLahey
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TIL by the late 16th century it was common for mounted knights to wield wheel-lock pistols while clad in armor
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 09:08PM by croato87
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TIL that mucus color does not indicate a viral or bacterial infection; the coloration only indicates an increase in the number of certain immune system cells, or an increase in the enzymes these cells produce.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 12:58AM by lurkity_mclurkington
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TIL that Konami, makers of Yu-Gi-Oh, do not provide card packs for prizes at tournaments because of concerns about Japanese gambling laws. This leads to Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments having unorthodox prizes, including one in 2024 where the top 8 players were each awarded an air fryer worth about $80.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 01:13AM by Blenderhead36
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TIL in 1997, a parody site "Bert Is Evil" posted edited images of Bert with figures such as Osama bin Laden. After 9/11, a Bangladesh publisher unknowingly found one online and printed it on anti-American posters. An unedited Reuters photo later showed the Bert image at a pro-bin Laden rally.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 03:49AM by incognitoloris
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