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TIL the Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Canada, and is the most popular pizza in Australia, accounting for 15% of pizza sales.
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Submitted March 15, 2019 at 05:27PM by thefire665
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TIL that President William McKinley (who was assassinated) often wore a trademark good luck charm. It was a red carnation worn on his lapel. While meeting with the public a 12 year old girl asked him for the flower. He gave it to her and moments later was shot.
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Submitted March 15, 2019 at 10:02PM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL Africa is being split into two due to the birth of a new ocean. In 2005, an 8 m (26 ft) wide and 60 km (37 miles) long stretch of the earth opened up in just 10 days.
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Submitted March 15, 2019 at 09:42PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL that to combat obesity, Chile passed a law that bans junk food ads aimed at children and prohibits the use of cartoon characters in their packaging
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 02:12AM by bboow
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TIL One of the reasons tipping spread in the U.S. was because restaurant owners refused to pay black Americans after the 15th amendment.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 04:26AM by a1800
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TIL Jon Stewart appeared on CNN's "Crossfire" in 2004 and criticized how damaging it was to society, becoming one of the main reasons it was cancelled three months later.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 01:40AM by Markkah
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TIL Cobra Commander was a used car salesman in the GI JOE comics. His brother was killed in a drunk driving accident, he became embittered and started a pyramid scheme called COBRA.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 03:26AM by msotrop
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TIL Georgia Tann was a child trafficker who arranged expensive adoptions with the wealthy, including stars like Joan Crawford. She deceived birth parents by taking babies for medical care and later saying they died. The police did nothing because her victims were poor, and Tann died without justice.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 12:08AM by UPPERCASE_THOUGHTS
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TIL in 1935 a USMC General and Medal of Honor recipient wrote a bestselling book describing how wars exist to enrich corporations.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 12:40PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL, Judy, a dog that spent a good part of world war II in a japanese prison camp protecting prisoners from being beaten - by taking the beating her self. Judy recieved the Dickin medal for her effort
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 11:15AM by dankerino_420
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TIL the day World War II started in 1939, BBC ceased all television broadcasts. They later resumed them in 1945, restarting at the same spot when it had been cut off - during a Mickey Mouse cartoon
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 11:24AM by I_Don-t_Care
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TIL that Gay Penguins will steal babies to raise from Straight Penguins. Some will even leave rocks as decoy eggs.
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Submitted March 15, 2019 at 10:57PM by burningbridges12
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TIL there was a Russian woman named Mariya Oktyabryskaya whose husband was killed by Nazi's in WW2, so she sold her house for a tank. With permission from the Soviet union, she went to kill Nazi's with her own tank, avenging her husband death.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 04:46PM by EmDeeEmAyyylmao
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TIL William Leonard Pickard, manufacturer of more than 90% of the world's LSD supply in the '90s, predicted the Fentanyl crisis 20 years prior to it happening.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 04:39PM by RiteInTaEye
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TIL of Eva Saxl, a diabetic woman who synthesised her own insulin in a basement during WWII, saving not only her own life but the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto who would have died when legal insulin became unavailable
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 04:42PM by notheOTHERboleyngirl
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TIL of Black Kite 'Firehawks' which are birds that deliberately spread fires in Australia by carrying burning twigs in their beaks and talons and dropping them in other areas in order to start new fires and drive out insects and small animals so they can feed on them.
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Submitted March 16, 2019 at 05:26PM by iklegemma
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