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TIL a man in California bought a video camera so he could capture behind-the-scenes footage of Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong filming scenes for the Terminator 2 arcade game near his home. Instead he ended up capturing the beating of a motorist: Rodney King
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 05:43PM by BobSacomano69
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TIL the American artist Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature self-portrait of her breasts which she gave to her lover Daniel Webster in 1828.
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 03:22PM by ibkeepr
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TIL Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest known mountain in the solar system, is so large at its base that an observer on its peak wouldn’t know he was standing on a mountain because its slope would be obscured by the curvature of the planet itself.
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 02:53PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL that the skin of arctic tribes people are dark because they get all their vitamin D from fish instead of sunlight. Their skin does not need to lighten to try and get more sun for vitamin D production.
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 06:58PM by interesi
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TIL that Aretha Franklin required that she would be paid, in cash, prior to any performance, often carrying the money in a bag, on stage during the show.
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 08:46PM by 0ttr
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TIL that Australian opium farmers discovered mysterious crop circles in their fields. The culprits were wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles.
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 09:40PM by g00d1m8
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TIL that when it became apparent that Israel was going to win the 1978 Eurovision Singing Contest, Jordanian TV stopped the live broadcast, showed a picture of daffodils, and later announced that Belgium had won.
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 11:26PM by Userdk2
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TIL: The release of a new Harry Potter book had such an impact that researchers in Oxford found that the admission rate of children with traumatic injuries to the city's emergency rooms plummeted on the publication weekends of both Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.
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Submitted March 29, 2019 at 09:34PM by ledgendary
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TIL an undercover officer was led on a chase of a suspicious person. A CCTV officer used cameras to tell him where the suspect was at throughout the chase. After 20 minutes they discovered that the "suspect" was actually the undercover officer chasing himself at the direction of the CCTV officer.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 12:37AM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL Gwen Stefani wrote "Hollaback Girl" in response to Courtney Love calling her a cheerleader in an interview
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 03:00AM by gippy44
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TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 04:55AM by g00d1m8
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TIL that Dr. Carlo Urbani recognized the emergence of a outbreak of pneumonia as a new epidemic and immediately notified the WHO, personally flying to Hanoi to investigate. He would die this day in 2003 of SARS, having triggered the most effective response to an epidemic in history.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 05:10AM by mergelong
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TIL that a UK man found a way to earn money off telemarketers who were constantly calling him. In 2011 he set up his own personal 0871 line - so to call him now costs money to the caller. Every time a bank, gas or electricity supplier asked him for his details, he submits it as his contact number.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 06:08AM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL that Bethesda (creators of Skyrim) promised to give lifetime free Bethesda games to anyone who named their newborn child "Dovahkiin" on 11/11/11. Turns out, one family did it. Dovahkiin will be turning 8 this year.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 06:31AM by commander-obvious
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TIL A major reason why native English speakers have issues understanding German humour, is that the German language is way too precise to allow for the humorous confusions found in English. Also, German humour is usually delivered with a deadpan, which makes foreigners think they're being serious.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 03:02PM by Priamosish
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TIL in 1992 George H W Bush vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan then fainted. This resulted in the invention of the phrase "Bushu-suru" meaning "To do the Bush thing" or vomit.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 04:17AM by MildlyLucidWave
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TIL Francisco Franco is credited with saving between 30,000 and 60,000 Jews during the nazi era. He is also thought to have been responsible for killing between 15,000 and 50,000 of his political opponents.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 02:40PM by Breeze_in_the_Trees
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