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TIL the Night Witches was a WWII German nickname for the all female aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. They would idle the engines near their target and glide to the bomb release point with only wind noise to reveal them. The Germans likened the sound to broomsticks, giving their nickname.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 05:28PM by testie
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TIL when humidity is 100% it means the air cannot hold any more water vapor. The result is sweat cannot evaporate into the air causing the temperature to feel hotter.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 06:01PM by AskMeLegalHypos
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TIL: The analogy about frogs not jumping out of water that is slowly raised to boiling stems from a 19th-century experiment demonstrating just that ... but the frog previously had its brain removed.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 03:23PM by OvidPerl
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TIL General George Thomas was arguably better than both Robert E Lee and Ulysses S Grant. He never lost a battle and once completely destroyed a confederate army, earning him the nickname "sledgehammer". History has forgotten because he was too modest and always downplayed his own accomplishments
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 08:22PM by RetardedCatfish
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TIL In 1982, a lady by the name of Deborah Mathers sued Dort Elementary School because her 9-year-old son Marshall was bullied and beaten so severely that he suffered several injuries, including a cerebral concussion, repetitive loss of vision and hearing, and other such ailments.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 08:09PM by OhShitSonSon
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TIL Japan's high schools often have strict standards of conformity regarding hair color. Half of Tokyo's schools require students whose hair is not naturally black to provide baby pictures as proof; in 2017 a Japanese student sued her school after being forced to darken her hair with dye.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 10:28PM by WeirdBeard92
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TIL Italy spent $50,000,000 bailing out the Parmesan cheese industry.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 06:03PM by zeamp
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TIL a woman in 1984 was found to be able to switch on/off the two hemispheres of her brain at will. This resulted in being able to focus her efforts at relaxing/socializing/sexual or performing logical tasks such as work/math/writing.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 11:21PM by robdoc
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TIL of Puritan Roger Williams, whom founded Providence, Rhode Island after being banned from Boston in 1636 for being a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, fair dealings with American Indians, and was one of the first abolitionists.
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Submitted March 12, 2019 at 07:31PM by DerkBerk-
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TIL - A network of men and women working in the legal system have created something called "The Innocence Project" which to date has exonerated 364 innocent people serving sentences for violent crimes with punishments ranging from death to life without parole.
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Submitted March 13, 2019 at 06:59AM by ZeroIsEverything
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TIL That the Etoro people of New Guinea believe that in order for a boy to achieve manhood they must first ingest the semen of their elders through fellatio. The nearby Kaluli tribe find this barbaric, and instead believe that the semen should be delivered to the boys in the anus.
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Submitted March 13, 2019 at 11:46AM by AtlanticRiceTunnel
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TIL that, in 1923, a horse jockey named Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack, and died, mid-race. However, his horse kept on going, and won first place. Hayes had never won a race before, and the odds of a win from him were 20-1
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Submitted March 13, 2019 at 08:57AM by FabulousCornflake
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TIL that one controversial scene in Hitchcock's Psycho was when Marion flushed the money down the toilet because "no flushing toilet had appeared in mainstream film and television in the United States at that time".
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Submitted March 13, 2019 at 02:26PM by ahumanmadethis
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TIL that when Freud left Austria, he was required to sign a document testifying that he had had every opportunity 'to live and work in full freedom' and had 'not the slightest reason for any complaint'. He signed it, adding a remark of his own: 'I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to anyone.'
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Submitted March 13, 2019 at 02:43PM by Taiwanderful
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TIL that foods such as celery known to be negative calorie foods(foods that when eating and digesting burn more calories than they contain), although very good for you, aren't actually negative calorie they are just marketed that way.
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Submitted March 13, 2019 at 01:12PM by teeshirtsalesllc
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TIL about Italian scientist Francesco Redi who, in 1668, proved that maggots come from the eggs of flies. At the time, prevailing wisdom was that maggots arose spontaneously from rotting meat.
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Submitted March 13, 2019 at 03:58PM by TypicalOverthinker
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