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TIL Charlie Chaplin was given a 12-minute standing ovation at the Academy Awards gala in 1972, the longest in the Academy's history.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 06:28AM by e_mc123
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TIL that comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway? has been a frequent fund raiser for children with burn injuries, raising over $500,000 for the Burned Children Recovery Center since 2009, helping the foundation to recover from the economy crash of 2008.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 01:14PM by Elzar125
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TIL that a man named Jeremy Moody drowned at a lifeguard party in New Orleans. The party was in celebration of a year with no drowning incidents. There were around 100 lifeguards in attendance at this party with 4 actively on duty.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 01:38PM by teeshirtsalesllc
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TIL: When foxes discovered fairy penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. Swampy Marsh, a chicken farmer, began sending Maremma dogs to protect the birds. Over the next 10 years not a single penguin was killed by a fox.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 02:18PM by Sariel007
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TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 05:01PM by Cosmohumanist
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TIL that the lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams, is the son of Star Wars/Jaws/Jurassic Park composer John Williams
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 06:29PM by broha89
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TIL out of the 3 volunteers who went in 1986 on a suicide mission to open the valves of the pool at the Chernobyl plant 2 are actually still alive
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 05:02PM by Mackeli
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TIL Tom and Jerry producer Fred Quimby, though not involved in the creative process, took all credit for the cartoon's success. Each time the cartoon won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, he accepted the awards without inviting the animators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, onstage.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 04:27PM by stereovictrola
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TIL that people used to gather around paintings at well-to-do parties identifying hard-to-spot things for fun, a game that was essentially I Spy but for the wealthy and educated.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 07:47PM by armorofbutterflies
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TIL about 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints that were discovered in Australia. Those footprints indicated that the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, which he did by running on sand while being barefooted.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 08:17PM by g00d1m8
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TIL that the chemist whose research department invented the gas used to kill jews in concentration camps was not only a jew but also won the nobel peace prize for his prior work of extracting nitrogen from air, allowing us to feed billions.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 08:53PM by Cryptolution
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TIL The Honas Wagner card; the most expensive baseball card in the world is so rare because it was sold by the 'American Tobacco Company'. Wagner was a non smoker and he threatened to seek legal action against ATC so they stopped producing it.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 10:09PM by deanoplex
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TIL of Dr Richard Batista, who sued his wife to get back the kidney he donated to her, after she cheated on him.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 10:37PM by Formaldehyde_Is_Life
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TIL that both of Jon Hamm's parents passed away by the time he turned 20 and when he was 24 he moved to Los Angeles with nothing but his car and $150 to pursue acting.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 09:18PM by Confusome
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TIL a cycling company was seeing a high number of its bikes getting damaged during deliveries; they solved the problem by making a simple change: printing a flatscreen television screen on the boxes. Damages were reduced by 70%
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 01:46AM by BlackCurses
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TIL Antony Hopkins composed a waltz in 1964 that was only released years later. The famous actor was afraid that nobody would like it and therefore never got to hear it being played up until 2011 thanks to André Rieu - a Dutch violinist who got sent the music sheets by Hopkins' wife.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 10:44PM by polskipodziemiarz
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TIL John Quincy Adams would go skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning. Anne Royall, the first female journalist to ever score an interview with a president, discovered Adams skinny dipping one morning and hid his clothing until he agreed to talk to her.
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 02:45AM by sssigma
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TIL the U.S. Navy tried to remove a whale carcass with dynamite. A veteran with explosives training warned the amount of dynamite was far too much – advice that went unheeded. His brand-new car, purchased during a "Get a Whale of a Deal" promotion, was then flattened by a chunk of falling blubber.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 11:42PM by tenaciousdeev
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TIL When a poacher’s snare killed one of their own, two young gorillas teamed up to find and dismantle traps in their Rwandan forest home. They saw what they had to do, they did it then moved to dismantle next trap.
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 04:11AM by Planet6EQUJ5
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