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TIL of the Crikey steveirwini, a rare species of tree snail discovered in Australia in 2009. The discovering scientist noted its khaki appearance and decided the only appropriate name was one that would honor the late Crocodile Hunter and his signature catchphrase.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 11:41AM by AskJeevesAnything
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TIL Alcatraz was one of the only federal prisons at the time that allowed hot showers to deter prisoners from acclimating to cold water and escaping through the San Francisco Bay.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 04:07PM by Ocula
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TIL that McDonalds has a Gold Card that ennoscripts the holder to free, unlimited food. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have one, as does Charles Ramsey, who ditched his half-eaten Big Mac to help rescue three kidnapped women.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 03:23PM by Gnurx
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TIL: In 2006, a man was arrested at a Chicago airport because security guards thought he said his penis pump was a bomb. He had a strong accent and was whispering 'pump' as he didn't want his mother to hear.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 01:46PM by derawin07
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TIL about the Rosenhan experiment where fake patients feigned hallucinations to enter psychiatric hospitals were diagnosed with schizophrenia and continued to be treated even after they started acting normally proving that it's nearly impossible to distinguish sane from insane in a psych ward.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 03:52PM by DarkSoulMasterFrodo
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TIL that Gordon Ramsay has chosen not to give his children a large inheritance, does not take them to expensive restaurants (not even his own), and does not allow them to sit in first class on planes so that they are not spoiled.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 07:06PM by porkbeef
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TIL that stingray injuries are almost never fatal. When Steve Irwin died from a stingray attack in 2006, it was only the second recorded stingray-related death in Australia since 1945.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 05:48PM by moskow52
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TIL Alexander Shulgin, the man who rediscovered MDMA and "the godfather of psychedelics", had a license from the DEA to produce any schedule 1 substance. He managed to discover over 200 psychoactive compounds before the license was revoked.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 07:40PM by Infranto
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TIL that when Mike Merrill considered getting a vasectomy or moving in with his girlfriend, the choice wasn't his to make. It was instead left up to 805 people who'd purchased his life. Merrill, a private citizen, sold 11,823 shares of his life to complete strangers who now control his decisions.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 08:30PM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL of James Hard, a US Civil War veteran who died at 111 years old, living long enough to see both WW1 and WW2. We went from rows of musket fire to nuclear arms within his lifetime.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 08:44PM by Gamamaster101
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TIL that despite being founded in the same city, in the same year and having the same name, Hershey's ice cream and Hershey's chocolate have no affiliation and in fact have had multiple legal disputes due to their shared name.
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Submitted February 23, 2019 at 02:39AM by DivineSwine121
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TIL The cat Brando pets in The Godfather purred so loudly the actors' voices had to be re-recorded
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 10:15PM by marmorset
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TIL that the Library of Alexandria was never burned down or destroyed; instead it slowly deteriorated due to the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria as well as a lack of funding and support.
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Submitted February 23, 2019 at 02:20AM by Wrenger
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TIL that Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in 2 hours. He assured his commissioner that he had been working on it, but in reality he hadn't started. When his commissioner suddenly announced he would be visiting, Wright drew the plans in the time it took the commissioner to drive up.
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Submitted February 22, 2019 at 10:44PM by symbiosa
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TIL that in the middle ages Christian priests would recite "hoc est corpus", meaning "this is the body", during mass when turning bread into the body of Christ. Since nobody spoke or understood Latin, this chant was garbled into "hocus pocus", which we still use when performing magic tricks today.
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Submitted February 23, 2019 at 08:26AM by chokehodl
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TIL During WWII Hitler ordered the British town of Blackpool be spared from bombing as he intended it to be his personal holiday resort after Germany had won the war
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Submitted February 23, 2019 at 10:56AM by goldenkicksbook
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TIL federal prisoners in Brazil can reduce their sentence by 4 days per book they read and write an essay on. They can read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year.
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Submitted February 23, 2019 at 03:00PM by WhatTheFuckKanye
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