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TIL Sweden has a forest of oak trees planted 200 years ago because their Navy at the time needed them for ships
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Submitted April 20, 2019 at 08:05PM by arguablytrue
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TIL The disturbing reality of Dr Asperger, the man who created the terms Aspergers Syndrome and High Functioning Autism. He was a Nazi doctor who sent many disabled children to their deaths.
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Submitted April 20, 2019 at 10:42PM by allthekos
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TIL legendary musician Prince passed away leaving no will detailing how to distribute his multi-million dollar estate. Within 3 weeks of his death, more than 700 people claimed to be his half-sibling or descendant.
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Submitted April 20, 2019 at 11:14PM by greengrasser11
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TIL: It’s estimated 98% of the rain forest in Indonesia and Malaysia will be destroyed by 2022, with much of the blame on palm oil farming
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Submitted April 20, 2019 at 11:42PM by DeepEmbed
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TIL the likely record for fastest manmade object is a manhole cover launched by a nuclear bomb. A high-speed camera recording the lid only caught one frame of it moving meaning it was traveling over 125,000 miles per hour
http://bit.ly/2IygUV4

Submitted April 21, 2019 at 05:34AM by PM_THIS_NUMBERS
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TIL that Led Zeppelin had become so frustrated with reporters and interviewers that officials had put down strict rules for anyone who went backstage. One of those rules stated "Do not make any sort of eye contact with John Bonham. This is for your own safety."
http://bit.ly/2VbgMRx

Submitted April 21, 2019 at 01:53AM by dynamicbambino7
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TIL of Harry Daghlian, a 24 year-old physicist with the Manhattan Project. He accidentally dropped a brick into the centre of a plutonium core and exposed himself to a lethal dose of radiation, dying 25 days after the accident.
http://bit.ly/2afWYad

Submitted April 21, 2019 at 01:50AM by stemh18
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TIL the word 'bus' is actually short for 'omnibus' meaning "To contain many things" and didn't originate until the early 19th century
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Submitted April 21, 2019 at 04:21AM by Honest_Fault
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TIL that breathing 100% pure oxygen for more than 16 hours can lead to irreversible lung damage, damage to the retinas, and eventually, death.
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Submitted April 21, 2019 at 07:13AM by operator139
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TIL when filing for bankruptcy, ex-NFL Player Mike Vick personally elected Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as opposed to Chapter 7, so he would be able to pay back his debt almost in full. Paying $17.4 million of the $17.6 million he owed. “I didn’t want to stiff people who never stiffed me”
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Submitted April 21, 2019 at 08:56AM by AmerisaurausRex
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TIL about a charity in the UK ‘adopting’ red phone boxes, removing the phone and installing lifesaving defibrillators instead.
http://bit.ly/2KULquz

Submitted April 21, 2019 at 09:33AM by roger_rabbit_71
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TIL The English language used to have six more letters: thorn (þ), eth (ð), wynn (ƿ), yogh (ȝ), ash (æ), and ethel (œ). They all disappeared by the 15th century.
http://bit.ly/2Va2yQQ

Submitted April 21, 2019 at 02:36PM by amansaggu26
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TIL Charles Bronson's, one of the toughest men in Hollywood, was so poor growing up that at one time he had to wear his sister's dress to school for lack of clothing.
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Submitted April 21, 2019 at 01:12PM by redleaderthisisgold
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TIL that the sun and the moon look to be the same size because the diameter of the sun and moon and the distance to earth both share a 1:400 difference, making them look the same size, this has not been seen with any other planet-moon combination
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Submitted April 21, 2019 at 03:35PM by Bomber_Max
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TIL that The King's School, a day and boarding school in Canterbury, Kent, England is the oldest continuously operating school in the world. It was founded in 597 AD by Augustine of Canterbury a century after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West as a medieval cathedral school.
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Submitted April 21, 2019 at 12:20PM by CMH2075
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