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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.
http://bit.ly/2IsBbdQ

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.
http://bit.ly/2UB7UVQ

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.
http://bit.ly/2P9B1tb

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)
http://bit.ly/2PgPXGh

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
http://bit.ly/2V15UFw

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.
http://bit.ly/1HASe1E

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.
http://bit.ly/1OkbiFd

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.
http://bit.ly/1x94Jyg

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 08:45AM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL that during one scene in JAWS 2 the teens' fear and cries of shark were real, as they were being circled by a 15-foot shark. The production crew at a distance thought they were acting and just gave them a thumbs up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9oMZAFSlxo

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 02:35PM by HotTransM2F-8in-1996
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TIL in 1989 96 people were killed at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England after they were crushed due to overcrowding. Although match attendees and hooliganism were first cited as the cause, a 2016 inquiry found the police to be at fault due to their mismanagement of the crowd.
http://bit.ly/2Gm6Mg4

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 04:04PM by trichomeking94
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TIL that the entire internet is kept locked up with 7 physical keys that open safety deposit boxes spread across the world to prevent people hacking the control mechanisms for web address assignment
http://bit.ly/2VLBjJw

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 01:02PM by TypicalPakeha
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TIL the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) was founded in 1902 when five men believed they had secured a valuable corundum mine. They later realized their mineral holding was entirely anorthosite, a mineral devoid of corundum and useless to their venture.
http://bit.ly/2Z9J5im

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 01:54PM by thedarewreck
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TIL fearing invasion during the Cold War, Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha forced his country to build 750.000 bunkers. Today, many of those bunkers have been converted into a variety of uses, like turning them into pizzerias, espresso bars and makeshift bars.
https://bbc.in/2ZcXdqU

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 01:52PM by Krand22
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TIL that Dolly Parton has given away more than 100 million books to young children through her Imagination Library. This was inspired by her father, who couldn’t read, and she wanted to make sure all kids have early access to books.
https://n.pr/2TGGidb

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 07:55PM by charlesyouwantedme
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TIL that Cleopatra was not Egyptian. While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter. Ptolemy took the reigns of Egypt after Alexander’s death in 323 B.C. and he launched a dynasty of Greek-speaking rulers that lasted for three centuries
http://bit.ly/2Uibwqu

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 05:09PM by Amcal
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TIL the German Army conducted a "Jewish Census" of their soldiers during WWI, designed to prove that Jews were shirking military service. It ended up proving the opposite, so the results were never published.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenzählung

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 06:42PM by orel_
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TIL that in the movie Noah's Ark, filmed in 1928, the flood scene at the movie's climax was created by actually dumping 600,000 gallons of water onto the set. Three extras drowned and many suffered broken bones. This led to the introduction of safety regulations for movie stunts in 1929.
http://bit.ly/2cNqdPv

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 09:02PM by IHad360K_KarmaDammit
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TIL Mississippi is the only U.S. state that allows people to drink alcohol while driving, as long as their blood alcohol level stays below the legal limit
http://bit.ly/2Ge3sCp

Submitted April 14, 2019 at 08:40PM by bennetthaselton
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