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TIL in 2004 215 restaurants in the Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make customers addicted. In 2016, 35 restaurants in the entire country were found doing the same thing.
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 03:04PM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was sold at a New Orleans art gallery for $10,000 in 2005 and ended up selling for $450,000,000 in 2017. It's the most expensive painting ever sold.
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 04:34AM by Monty7384
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TIL Neuroscience shows people can’t actually read and listen at the same time so having too much text on a PowerPoint slide is useless
http://bit.ly/2Ls9VPI

Submitted May 02, 2019 at 03:47PM by yvo84
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TIL halting sneezing via blocking the nostrils and mouth is a dangerous manoeuvre. It may lead to numerous complications, such as pneudomediastinum (air trapped in the chest between both lungs), perforation of the tympanic membrane (perforated eardrum), and even rupture of a cerebral aneurysm.
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 02:54PM by MysticPato
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TIL of Hannah Szenes, a Jewish parachutist dropped by the British into Yugoslavia during WWII to help rescue Hungarian Jews about to be deported to Auschwitz. Arrested, imprisoned and tortured, she refused to reveal details of her mission or her transmitter code. She was eventually executed.
http://bit.ly/2DJUGeT

Submitted May 02, 2019 at 08:46AM by beerbellybegone
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TIL of Joseph Medicine Crow who earned the noscript "Chief" by completing the four coups of leading a war party, touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, and stealing an enemy's horse - all against the Nazis in WWII.
http://bit.ly/2Wii0Yk

Submitted May 02, 2019 at 08:07PM by ManOfLaBook
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TIL Australian prime minister Harold Holt loved swimming and diving so much that when his press secretary expressed concern about this he said, "Look, what are the odds that a PM would drown or be eaten by a shark?". In 1967, Holt went for a swim in the ocean and was never seen again.
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 06:49PM by MistressGravity
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TIL In 2012 when Tom Lehrer gave 2Chainz permission to use his song, the 85 year old stated "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"
http://bit.ly/1nyRSyz

Submitted May 02, 2019 at 09:50PM by socool111
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TIL "Pall Mall" cigarettes are named after Pall Mall street in London, which is named for the game Pall Mall played on that street, which is named after the French game of "Jeu de mail", which is named after the Italian game of "pallamaglio", which means "ball mallet".
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 07:56PM by starstarstar42
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TIL about the Zone Rouge (Red Zone), areas of France so affected by WWI they have been declared off limits and defined as: "Completely devastated. Damage to properties: 100%. Damage to Agriculture: 100%. Impossible to clean. Human life impossible" Pollutants, such as chlorine and arsenic, and unexpl
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 08:40PM by DamnItDarin
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TIL, in 1981, a California doctor worked around the clock to save the life of a (3.2 lb) premature baby boy. Exactly 30 years later, that baby (now a Paramedic/Firefighter) saved the life of the doctor when a semi struck his car.
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Submitted May 03, 2019 at 12:39AM by 5_Frog_Margin
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TIL that regularly drinking excessive amounts of Mountain Dew (2-8L/day) can cause a rare neurological disorder with symptoms of memory loss, fatigue, headache & involuntary movements. The disorder is due to bromine accumulating from the brominated vegetable oils used in some citrus-flavored drinks.
http://bit.ly/2JhxCI9

Submitted May 02, 2019 at 10:59PM by zynna-lynn
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TIL Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is being eaten alive by millions of venomous sea stars known as crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS). Scientist have developed a new robot to hunt and kill these sea stars—a murderous, autonomous underwater vehicle called RangerBot. It kills with a single shot of bile
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Submitted May 03, 2019 at 03:14AM by chercheur17
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TIL some densely populated countries use Election Ink to prevent double voting. The ink uses silver nitrate which stains the skin and is only removed by shedding of external skin cells, therefore providing a sure way of knowing who has or hasn't voted.
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Submitted May 03, 2019 at 03:57AM by supplieroftowels
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TIL Tennessee bans "omnibus bills." The content of bills passed by the Tennessee General Assembly can be no broader than the noscript of the bill.
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Submitted May 03, 2019 at 04:46AM by tw272727
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TIL in the movie "Dumb and Dumber", Jim Carrey's chipped tooth is genuine, resulting from a fight with a classmate in his childhood, but he had since had it capped. He simply had the crown temporarily removed from that tooth to portray Lloyd
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Submitted May 03, 2019 at 04:14AM by ibarabi
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TIL if microwaves had clear glass windows you would be exposed to the harmful microwaves they emit. The metal mesh screen over the windows have large enough holes for our eyes to see inside, but small enough to block the harmful microwaves that would otherwise be emitted.
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Submitted May 03, 2019 at 08:45AM by ZeroToAMillion
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TIL that before settling on the Butthole Surfers, the band went by many names including Fred Astaire’s Asshole, the Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole, and the Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole
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Submitted May 03, 2019 at 05:30AM by Grootdrew
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