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TIL of Bass Reeves. an African American commonly thought to be the inspiration for the lone ranger, he arrested more than 3,000 felons and killed 14 outlaws.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 07:38AM by ebee500
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TIL Rod Stirling wrote the screenplay for Planet Of The Apes. The twist ending came from a woman he met at a party who pitched him the "it was earth all along" plot as a Twilight Zone episode. He paid her $500 for the idea.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 11:21AM by desfiles
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TIL in an undercover operation by Trading Standards, an underage boy successfully purchased alcohol in 6 different stores using a fake ID with a photograph of Bobby Hill.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 01:44PM by TedDanson-
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TIL that in the UK, The National Lottery hunts for winners of unclaimed Lottery prizes, but in the U.S. they let it expire after one year without putting in effort to search for the winner.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 02:50PM by TILusernamechecksout
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TIL of Fritz Suhren, a concentration camp commandant. When the allies were close, he took Odette Sansom, an inmate whom he believed to be Churchill's niece, and drove with her to the US base, hoping it would save him. She was in fact a British spy under a false name. He was hanged in 1950
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 03:27PM by New_Diet
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TIL Matt Murphy, the man who caught Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball, sold the ball for $752,467 and gave half to Amir Kamal, the friend he was at the game with.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 04:13PM by jyeatbvg
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TIL that a company knowingly sold dangerous breaker panels that were installed in tons of U.S. homes, including mine. They still cause fires. Check your breaker panel!
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 07:09PM by hmhaines9
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TIL That there is a special type of font for people with Dyslexia. Henry Winkler (Fonzie on Happy Days) has written a series of children's books using this font. He did so because he has dyslexia. The books tell the story of Hank, a kid with Dyslexia. The font has more space between letters.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 08:31PM by pogeauxpossum
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TIL that in an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had committed suicide by breaking the law
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 10:16PM by sistene
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TIL Bill Gates selected 11 condoms of the future, and each finalist was given $100,000 to pursue their quest for a superior condom. Gates says, "The idea is making them easier for people to use in the moment, in the dark, whatever situation they're in."
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 08:28PM by thepresident45
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TIL of the Roman senator Lucius Licinius Crassus, who held a funeral for his pet eel. When another senator ridiculed him for this, he replied: "did you not bury three wives and not shed a tear?"
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 09:47PM by K_231
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TIL in 1967, there was a classroom experiment created to explain how the German people could accept the actions of the Nazis and also demonstrate the appeal of fascism. What began with only a few students spiraled out of control with hundreds of people believing it to be a real social movement.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 09:19PM by WhileFalseRepeat
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TIL that in the 19th century, obstetricians did not wash their hands before examinations. In 1861 a guy called Semmelweis recommended hand washing to decrease very high mother mortality rates. He faced fierce opposition, had a nervous breakdown and died in a mental hospital 4 years later.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 09:46PM by posterioria
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TIL to gaslight someone, meaning to make one think they're going crazy, comes from the movie Gaslight (1944), where a husband tried to make his wife (Ingrid Bergman) think that very thing by dimming the gas lights in house and making her think she was imagining it.
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 09:52PM by crafty_southpaw
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TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
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Submitted April 14, 2019 at 12:05AM by ChairmanZuck
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TIL that there is a theory that Cinderella's unique glass slipper was not a case of confusion between the French words vair (fur) and verre (glass), but actually a deliberate innuendo, since the prince had the right to "try on the fur slipper of all the maidens in the kingdom". (Droit de seigneur)
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Submitted April 14, 2019 at 03:03AM by michilio
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TIL 50 Cent once bought 200 front row seats to a Ja Rule concert just to leave them empty
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Submitted April 14, 2019 at 04:43AM by sh1nyburr1t0
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TIL in 1988, a retired police officer found Cyril Smith, British MP with 144 accusations of child molestation and abuse, in a home with a sex offender and two drunk teenage boys. The officer was threatened to be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act by the UK government. Nothing happened.
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Submitted April 14, 2019 at 03:12AM by inseong98
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TIL in 1962 two US scientists discovered Peru's highest mountain was in danger of collapsing. When this was made public, the government threatened the scientists and banned civilians from speaking of it. In 1970, during a major earthquake, it collapsed on the town of Yangoy killing 20,000.
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Submitted April 14, 2019 at 05:50AM by UrbanStray
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TIL that the driest place on earth is McMurdo dry Valleys in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for 2 million years. Only anaerobic bacteria are able to survive in the extreme conditions. Scientists also consider the area terrestrially closest to Mars on earth.
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Submitted April 14, 2019 at 08:45AM by sersleepsalot1
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