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TIL In 1963, Heineken created a beer bottle that could also function as a brick to build houses in impoverished countries after he took a trip to the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea and discovered that he could barely walk 15 feet on the beach without stepping on a littered Heineken bottle.
http://bit.ly/2D7F2tC

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 03:47AM by KOLDUT
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TIL about Cliff Young, a 61 year-old farmer who won the inaugural Sydney-to-Melbourne ultramarathon against a field of world-class athletes, in overalls and boots
http://bit.ly/2w4PYCb

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 01:47PM by td4999
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TIL Helium was first discovered on the Sun (named from the Greek word 'Helios', meaning "the Sun") through the analysis of the Sun's spectrum, and is the only element in the Periodic Table to be discovered some place other than Earth.
http://bit.ly/2WEwPFa

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 12:57PM by Captain_Droid
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TIL renewable energy provided almost 100% of electricity production in Iceland, with about 73% coming from hydropower and 27% from geothermal power.
http://bit.ly/1NwbAIe

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 02:07PM by Patcheese
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TIL the British Rock band Radiohead released their album "In Rainbows" under a pay what you want pricing strategy where customers could even download all their songs for free. In spite of the free option, many customers paid and they netted more profits because of this marketing strategy
http://bit.ly/2UAhHvl

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 04:18PM by 2Fleye
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TIL that lyme disease was not as common in the past as it is now, and its prevalence is actually due to an explosion in the white-footed mouse population at the turn of the 20th century. This in turn coincides with the extinction of the mouse's primary ecological competitor: the passenger pigeon.
http://bit.ly/2dDtuB5

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 03:49PM by NihilsticEgotist
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TIL that according to rumour, the emperor Augustus, suspecting that his wife was trying to poison him, refused to eat anything except figs that he had picked himself. His wife smeared poison on the figs while they were still on the tree to preempt him.
http://bit.ly/2D9AJ0F

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 09:07AM by Kurma-the-Turtle
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TIL during WW2 when General Patton got in trouble for slapping a shell shocked soldier, his punishment was to command an inflatable army of decoy tanks in England to divert Germany's attention from a potential attack at Normandy. This proved to be essential to the success of the D-Day invasions.
http://bit.ly/28ZAe8U

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 02:58PM by Harvey_Specter_Esq
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TIL Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear. A veterinarian purchased a black bear cub from a hunter on his way to WWI. He named her Winnie for his hometown Winnipeg. Before shipping off to the front, he left her at the London Zoo, where she caught the affection of Christopher Robin, author A.A.Milne's son.
http://bit.ly/2U9Q2w1

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 04:56PM by HistoricaCanada
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TIL in 1982, three guys lived on a billboard as part of a radio contest. The last one to come down would win an $18,000 mobile home. The contest became international news, one of the contestants was caught selling weed, and it went on for so many months that it had to be ended with two winners.
http://bit.ly/2Dd5YYI

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 03:07PM by squid50s
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TIL one unofficial method of defending merchant vessels against Somali pirates is to blast Britney Spears music. And it has been reported to be effective.
http://bit.ly/2dVsnPS

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 05:04PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL Mars Attacks originally had trouble attracting A list actors because most of the characters either die in some cartoonish manner or end up disfigured. That was until Jack Nicholson enthusiastically joined the film. Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Michael J Fox and others followed suit
http://bit.ly/2nvEyGK

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 09:40PM by murdo1tj
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TIL That In 1996 during an SAS training exercise 21 year old Bear Grylls broke his back after falling from 16,000 feet due to a torn parachute. His surgeon said it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. 2 years later he climbed Mt. Everest
http://bit.ly/1QaRsgP

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 10:46PM by BirdPlan
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TIL When the results began coming in from the 30 March 2005 Powerball drawing, lottery officials suspected fraud was underway because 110 players claimed second prizes of $100,000 or $500,000. All 110 players and the jackpot winner got their numbers from fortune cookies.
http://bit.ly/2Z5cCtq

Submitted April 12, 2019 at 08:29PM by sauceeboss
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TIL of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant worker and whistleblower. On November 13, 1974, she set out to meet a reporter to go public with evidence of extensive safety violations. She was later found dead; her car appeared to have been run off the road and the documents she had with her were missing.
https://legcy.co/2v41WgO

Submitted April 13, 2019 at 01:59AM by Treaden_corns
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TIL that on American metal band Tool's 1996 album, Ænima, there's an aggressive and intimidation song sung in German noscriptd "Die Eier Von Satan" ("The Balls Of Satan"). However, when translated to English, the lyrics reveal themselves to be a recipe for hashish sugar cookies.
http://bit.ly/2uZUH9T

Submitted April 13, 2019 at 02:18AM by Xile85
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TIL: Ben Affleck was banned for life from the Hard Rock hotel and casino in 2014 for counting cards at the blackjack table.
http://bit.ly/2UeQjhd

Submitted April 13, 2019 at 04:34AM by Ralph-Hinkley
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TIL that The Lion King, heavily marketed by Disney as their "first Disney original" was straight up plagiarized from Osamu Tezuka's Kimba the White Lion (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=83&v=UfJvKIDS9n8

Submitted April 13, 2019 at 08:39AM by CryWolf007
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TIL 'White Boy Rick', sentenced as a minor to life in prison for possessing 8 kilos of cocaine after exposing crooked cops as the FBI's youngest informant was recently denied early release in Florida for no reason.
http://bit.ly/2KAuzNt

Submitted April 13, 2019 at 08:46AM by poopsalad911
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