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TIL that the little boy known as Batkid who “saved” San Francisco while battling leukemia in 2013 is now cancer free.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 01:33AM by seshelton
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TIL that a wedding ring that was lost for 45 years was found in a car engine a man bought for parts. Will Frye came across the ring when he was taking apart the V8 he’d pulled from a 1972 Oldsmobile 98 junker. He called the former owner and the 93 year old remembered losing it around 1973.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 01:30AM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL During the US invasion of Afghanistan, a CIA paramilitary team was asked by a young man for help in rescuing his sister, whom a senior Taliban official had taken as his wife. They gave him a tracking device to pass along to her. As a result, the team captured the Taliban and rescued the sister.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 03:46AM by PleaseOpenABook
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TIL Mary Jane Rathbun, better known as Brownie Mary became known for illegally baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDs patients in the 1980s. She was baking more than 4000 brownies per week. She was also known for wearing polyester pants suits and having a 'sailors mouth'.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 10:15AM by P_U_K_E_K_O
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TIL that in the U.S., seafood fraud is widespread. In a study by Oceana, 44% of all the grocery stores, restaurants and sushi venues visited sold mislabeled seafood. Some of the fish that were sold are classified DO NOT EAT by the FDA.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 02:55AM by whiskeydoc501
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TIL up to 95% of the historic structures in the city of Mecca have been demolished over the last three decades. Many of the sites were over 1000 years old and many were connected to the life and times of the prophet Muhammad and his companions.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 07:26AM by JamesItsJamesBond
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TIL: Rather than inciting people to anger or violence, research has found that loud and chaotic music such as metal and punk is ‘a healthy way of processing anger’
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 02:16PM by Sariel007
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TIL after "the world’s largest beach clean-up" at Mumbai's Versova beach, Olive Ridley turtles returned to lay eggs for the first time in 20 years.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 03:47PM by Captain-Blitzed
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TIL People with Alzheimer's can get severly dehydrated, as they may forget it is necessary to drink or even how to do it. To help his grandmother, an inventor came up with colorful balls containing 90% water, which grandma can pound 7 in 10 minutes.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 02:26PM by bemmu
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TIL of John Stevens Henslow, a British priest, botanist and geologist, who, in 1831, was offered a place aboard a voyage to survey South America. After his wife dissuaded him from accepting, Henslow wrote to the captain, telling him to offer his place on the HMS Beagle to his protégé, Charles Darwin
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 04:29PM by InmostJoy
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TIL U.S. flight attendants have higher rates of breast cancer, uterine cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, thyroid cancer, and cervical cancer, when compared with the general public, likely due to regular exposure to cosmic ionizing radiation
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 05:35PM by boxhead666
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TIL a Wal-Mart heiress gave back her USC degree when she was exposed to have used another student to complete her school work for years.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 07:14PM by Xerxestheokay
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TIL the Colombian army wrote a song which contained a secret message in the chorus written in Morse code. It was broadcasted to rebel occupied territories in order to raise the morale of hostages being held there. The message read, "19 people rescued. You're next. Don’t lose hope."
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 04:13PM by MistressGravity
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TIL: Although Fidel Castro was always pictured with cigars, he gave up smoking them in the 80’s and was quoted as saying: “The best thing you can do with a box of cigars give it to your enemy!”
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 06:07PM by EngineerMinded
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TIL Queen Elizabeth II stopped breeding Welsh Corgis so none would outlive her. Her last Corgi died in April of 2018.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 08:27PM by Grungemaster
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TIL following a performance on The Mike Douglas Show, Gene Simmons of Kiss declared himself "evil incarnate", to which comedian Totie Fields commented, "Wouldn't it be funny if he's just a nice Jewish boy underneath the makeup?"
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 08:56PM by BusbyBusby
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TIL That Peru has a Hospital Ship STILL IN SERVICE that was built in 1862, and still runs on it's original stream engine that is fueled with dried llama dung.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 07:38PM by Dodger_nzl
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TIL: The name Kevin in Germany has a particularly bad reputation (related to lower socioeconomic status), so much so that the word 'Alpha-Kevin' has been coined, representative of a particularly unintelligent young person. 'Kevinism' has even been described as an 'avoidable childhood illness'.
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Submitted March 14, 2019 at 07:07PM by GrabMyGrimleys
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TIL A rare mutation among the Bajau people lets them stay underwater longer: natural selection at the PDE10A gene has increased spleen size in the Bajau, providing them with a larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells.
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Submitted March 15, 2019 at 03:13AM by bigboxman8
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