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TIL actress Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan from Smallville) is facing prison due to enslaving, branding, and trafficking sex slaves
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 03:12PM by Milo_Hackenschmidt
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TIL that Febreze is actually odorless as it simply kills smells but people don't associate lack if smell with being clean. Once fake 'clean' scents were added to the formula, sales skyrocketed.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 10:00AM by Ogieogilthorpe17
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TIL that the German city of Trier, birthplace of Karl Marx, issued 0-Euro notes to celebrate his 200th birth anniversary. They cost 3 Euros.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 04:11PM by yourSAS
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TIL that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was the 2nd person on earth to publicly report the news of Osama bin Laden's death, only 47 seconds after a navy intel officer leaked it from official sources.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 06:35PM by satellitedoomcannon
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TIL an FDA study requested by the military found 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prenoscription and over-the-counter, were still safe & effective even 15 years after the expiration date. Expiration dates don’t really indicate a point at which the medication is no longer effective or unsafe to use.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 06:59PM by IndyScent
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TIL that a supermarket was closed down so that Michael Jackson could fulfill his dream to go to a supermarket and shop like everybody else and experience what it was like to “put things in a basket.” It was populated with his friends and family pretending to be fellow shoppers and employees.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 08:36PM by pendletone
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TIL that Pythagoras cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born. Classical historians dispute whether he himself ever actually made any significant contributions to the field of mathematics.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 07:51PM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL that after Usain Bolt broke the 100 m world record at the 2009 Berlin World Championships, the mayor of Berlin awarded him a 12 foot long, 6000 pound piece of the Berlin Wall. Bolt accepted and it is now housed at the Jamaica Military Museum.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 08:54PM by JosiahWillardPibbs
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TIL that in 2005, the Republic of Fiji lost it's declaration of independence from Britain. After five long years of searching, Fiji's government finally turned to Britain, who provided them with a photocopy.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 10:09PM by FabulousCornflake
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TIL Charles Darwin & his wife were first cousins. They had 10 kids, 7 making it to adulthood. Worried that his marriage had something to do with the deaths, he began to experiment with plants. He learned that with any kind of breeding, it's better to cross-breed than to keep relatives together.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 09:20PM by LivvyBug
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TIL Oreo "Double Stuf" do NOT contain double the amount of filling, but merely 1.86 times the amount, though Nabisco refutes this claim.
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Submitted March 07, 2019 at 08:12PM by johnn11238
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TIL On April Fools Day 1997, Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak and Jeopardy host Alex Trebek swapped shows for the day
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Submitted March 08, 2019 at 02:10AM by JaxGunTraderFl
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TIL that the Trollface meme creator registered the said meme in 2010. As of 2015, he has already earned a little over $100,000 in licensing fees, settlements, and other payouts.
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Submitted March 08, 2019 at 03:26AM by begoodfebruary
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TIL Daniele Nardello is technically the winner of both the 1999 and 2000 Tour de France's, as everyone who placed above him (including Lance Armstrong who got 1st in both years) has tested positive for using drugs. He originally placed 7th in 1999 and 10th in 2000.
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Submitted March 08, 2019 at 06:43AM by shut_your_cock
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TIL an Aboriginal man planted a flag on the cliffs of Dover in 1988 and claimed England for the Aborigines
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Submitted March 08, 2019 at 01:21PM by nullsig
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TIL of Mildred Day, who invented the Rice Krispie Treat and was also the first person to serve a meal on an airplane
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Submitted March 08, 2019 at 04:56AM by Prufrock451
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TIL The number of men working in a lighthouse in the UK was increased from 2 to 3 following an 1801 incident where one half of a duo died, the other placed him outside and was then driven mad by the wind causing his dead colleagues arm to appear to beckon him.
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Submitted March 08, 2019 at 01:41PM by My_King_Commands
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TIL that the New York Times researched and published biographies for every victim of 9/11 they could find.
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Submitted March 08, 2019 at 10:19AM by kryl0
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