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TIL the famous inventor Nikola Tesla became interested in electricity after his cat gave him an electric shock
https://to.pbs.org/2Dg17WR

Submitted April 15, 2019 at 04:56PM by FuzzySparrow
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TIL that it took 87 years to build Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, from 1163-1250.
http://bit.ly/2IzAsYo

Submitted April 15, 2019 at 09:47PM by TequillaShotz
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TIL TIL The founding fathers feared the development of political parties. Among others, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and George Washington wrote about the dangers of domestic politic factions.
http://bit.ly/1Q4jkDE

Submitted April 15, 2019 at 11:36PM by anaximander8
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TIL it is largely a myth that the Library of Alexandria was destroyed in a fire. Most of the collection had records elsewhere in the world. The Library of Alexandria was largely brought down by dwindling membership over many centuries. By the time it was destroyed, no books were housed there.
http://bit.ly/1c8ZQzG

Submitted April 15, 2019 at 10:40PM by HeadToDisneyWorld
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TIL that when China ordered a Boeing 767 from the U.S. in 2002 to serve as its presidential jet, its intelligence service discovered nearly 30 bugging devices onboard the plane, "including one in the headboard of the presidential bed." The C.I.A. and the White House refused to comment.
http://bit.ly/2IFUgJZ

Submitted April 15, 2019 at 09:23PM by jamesyuan1998
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TIL Americans, who only had to pay for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, struggled to pull together funding. Joseph Pulitzer started a crowdfunding campaign and gathered $100,000 from more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than $1.
http://bit.ly/1aO1640

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 01:00AM by theloftytransient
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TIL that in ancient Hawaiʻi, men and women ate meals separately and women weren't allowed to eat certain foods. King Kamehameha II removed all religious laws that and performed a symbolic act by eating with the women in 1819. This is when the lūʻau parties were first created.
http://bit.ly/2UgYslu

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 03:09AM by LeonInJapan
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TIL that during the siege of Leningrad, Hitler had no intentions of actually invading the city. He did not want to capture and feed the 3 million inhabitants and ordered an unending siege, disregarding possible surrender, waiting for the city to starve to death. Close to a million civilians starved.
http://bit.ly/2DeddQ4

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 12:42AM by michilio
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TIL Sweden and Spain got into an argument in 1434 about who was more Gothic and deserving of higher honors. The Swedes claimed direct descent from the Goths. The Spanish claimed that only lazy Goths had stayed in Scandinavia while the heroic ones conquered Spain.
http://bit.ly/2IxCUyF

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 01:53AM by zardogo
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TIL of Claudette Colvin, a black teenager who refused to move for a white woman on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks did. Her action was not widely publicized due to her being pregnant at the time.
https://bbc.in/2Pf0FN8

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 09:14AM by 94709
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TIL that there was an Armenian genocide of 1.5 million people in 1915, and that “The United States and Israel, valuing diplomatic ties with Turkey” don’t “officially accept” it as fact.
http://bit.ly/2InIvZ9

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 10:01AM by Narrrwhales
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TIL that Victor Hugo wrote the Hunchback of Norte-Dame to inform people of the value of Gothic architecture, which was being neglected and destroyed at the time. This explains the large denoscriptive sections of the book, which far exceed the requirements of the story.
http://bit.ly/YYsXzJ

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 02:03PM by Monkey64285
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TIL: Millionaire neighbors protested George Lucas' plans to build a movie studio on his property due to the possibility of increased traffic hurting their quality of life. Lucas got revenge by abandoning the studio project and planning to use his land to build 224 affordable homes.
https://cbsloc.al/2UKK9La

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 03:36PM by OvidPerl
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TIL that street dogs in Russia use trains to commute between various locations, obey traffic lights, and avoid defecating in high traffic areas. The leader of a pack is the most intelligent (not strongest) and the packs intuit human psychology in many ways (e.g. deploying cutest dogs to beg).
http://bit.ly/1edRTDH

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 05:56PM by WhileFalseRepeat
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TIL that if the Axis ever captured Gibraltar during WWII, the British planned to seal 6 men in a secret cave overlooking the harbour to secretly monitor and radio back enemy movements. The cave had enough provisions for the men to stay for up to 7 years.
http://bit.ly/1XzeGBb

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 04:56PM by sober_disposition
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TIL that in some countries, including China, Russia, Mexico and Germany, there is no punishment for escaping from prison because their law considers it human nature to want to escape. No extra time is added to an escapee's sentence provided they did not break any other laws in order to escape.
http://bit.ly/1VriMgX

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 06:47PM by sober_disposition
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TIL that George Orwell's use of 2+2=5 as a catchphrase of the dystopian government in his book 1984 is based on Joseph Stalin's use of that equation in propaganda. Soviet posters declared "2 + 2 plus the enthusiasm of the workers = 5" long before Orwell wrote his novel.
http://bit.ly/1mHhN7k

Submitted April 16, 2019 at 08:37PM by IHad360K_KarmaDammit
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