TIL there are ancient limestone caves in Spain that perfectly age massive amounts of blue cheese
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Cheese Underground
On Location: Cheese Caves in Sotres de Cabrales, Spain
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TIL Bassem Youssef practiced as a cardiothoracic surgeon in Egypt for 13 years, until his move into comedy and political satire.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 05:15AM by flyart
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TIL the room used to collect sperm at a sperm bank is called a masturbatorium
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 06:39AM by NorthKoreanMissile7
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TIL lobsters are biologically immortal - they don't age and can theoretically live forever, but die from exhaustion during molting as they grow larger, not from old age
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 09:38AM by Badhon72
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Are lobsters immortal? | Natural History Museum
Have lobsters discovered the fountain of youth?
TIL that in 1917, doctors deliberately infected people with malaria to treat syphilis — because the high fevers caused by malaria could kill the bacteria responsible for syphilis. The method actually worked and even won its creator, Julius Wagner‑Jauregg, the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927.
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McGill
Fighting Fire with Fire: how a Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Used Malaria to ‘Cure’ Syphilis
The history of science is full of disproved experiments, revised textbooks, and rewritten hypotheses. Even Nobel prize-winning research, which is often viewed as the best work science has to offer,
TIL the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has 241 million people living in 94,000 sq miles/243,000 sq km. This is the equivalent to 70% of the US population living in an area the size of Oregon. Three quarters of the state's population is rural.
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TIL That in the African language (Zulu) portions of The Lion King theme Circle of Life translates to‘ Here comes the lion, father, Oh yes it's a lion. A lion we're going to conquer, A lion and a leopard come to this open place." and "Look there is a Lion! Oh my God!" (repeated chorus)
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 06:07AM by Roguecop
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TIL Siam occupied Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany after WWI.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 12:49PM by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL that Frederick the Great and Louis XIV used to inscribe cannons with the phrase "Ultima Ratio Regum", "The final argument of kings".
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 03:26PM by SpaceEngineering
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TIL the James Webb Space Telescope has found over 300 "Little Red Dots", objects that existed between 13.2 an 12.2 billion years ago, and whose nature is currently uncertain
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TIL Early Hominins (~3–4 million years ago) showed high levels of sexual dimorphism, with males significantly larger than females, like modern gorillas. Over time, with the emergence of genus Homo, size dimorphism decreased, approaching the more moderate levels seen in modern humans.
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Wiley Online Library
Sexual Dimorphism in Hominin Ancestors
Sexual dimorphism in hominin evolution has been a topic of continuous interest and debate ever since Darwin, not only because it offers insights into the evolution of human behavior but also because ...
TIL Christopher Nolan did not write the line "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" said by Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, his brother Jonathan did. Nolan didn't understand it initially & revealed "It kills me because it's the line that most resonates."
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 07:13PM by tyrion2024
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The Hollywood Reporter
Jonathan Nolan Explains the Origin of ‘The Dark Knight’s’ Most Famous Line
The Batman film's co-writer on the line that's since taken on a life of its own: "It felt uniquely resonant to the tragedy of Harvey Dent and the tragedy of Batman."
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TIL Facebook deliberately manipulated the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users in 2012 to study emotional contagion without informing them at the time effectively treating their users as guinea pigs.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 07:10PM by WDBRL
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BBC News
Facebook emotion experiment sparks criticism
Facebook is criticised after it emerges it conducted a psychology experiment to test emotional reactions of nearly 700,000 users without their knowledge.
TIL Roman Emperor Diocletian tried to limit social mobility of farmers and soldiers in order to protect the Roman State functions and economy. Despite himself being a son of a liberated slave and were a soldier.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 07:15PM by Sevastous-of-Caria
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TIL that during WW2 military brothel were set up by Nazi Germany throughout much of occupied Europe for the use of Wehrmacht and SS soldiers. Until 1942, there were around 500 military brothels of this kind in German-occupied Europe minimum of 34,140 European women were forced to serve as prostitute
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 11:04PM by TumbleweedRoutine631
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TIL the Rolls-Royce Phantom's 4-wheel steering turns the rear wheels counter to the front wheels at speeds lower than 60kmh to improve maneuverability. Between 60-80kmh the rear wheels don't steer at all. Over 80kmh the rear wheels turn in the same direction as the front wheels for better stability
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TIL that “DOOM” (1993) was so influential that companies used it to test whether a computer was powerful enough to run modern software leading to the phrase “Can it run DOOM?” which is still used today, and the game has since been ported to calculators, ATMs, pregnancy tests, and even a smart fridge
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Submitted March 1, 2026 at 01:17AM by husky__2424
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TIL that Iran hasn’t had formal diplomatic relations with the United States since 1980 and to maintain basic diplomatic contact, Pakistan acts as Iran’s “protecting power” in Washington while Switzerland acts as the U.S.’s protecting power in Tehran. Neither country officially has embassy in other
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TIL about Richard Tomlinson. A former MI6 officer who argued that he was subjected to unfair dismissal in 1995, and attempted to take his former employer to a tribunal. MI6 refused, arguing that to do so would breach state security.
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Submitted February 28, 2026 at 11:31PM by johnsmithoncemore
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