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TIL Sharks have been around on Earth longer than Trees
http://bit.ly/2IgbITb

Submitted June 02, 2019 at 06:13PM by amansaggu26
via reddit http://bit.ly/2wzleeY
TIL about Continuum, a pseudoscientific magazine that denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. It ran from 1992 until 2001 and ceased publication because the editors had died of AIDS-defining clinical conditions.
http://bit.ly/1ca2EFY

Submitted June 02, 2019 at 08:23PM by jaytix1
via reddit http://bit.ly/2wz1Iiu
TIL: In the 1930s, residents of Munich would take a small side street so they didn't need to render the Nazi salute to the shrine of the Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch. This side road came to be called "Drückebergergasse" or "Shirker's alley"
http://bit.ly/2WjMoWh

Submitted June 02, 2019 at 09:06PM by Hrtzy
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TIL that ~2500 years before Ancient Rome, the Indus Valley Civilization had public baths, personal toilets, and a widespread system of brick and terracotta drainage ducts and the first instances of plumbing and in the ancient world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_of_the_Indus_Valley_Civilisation

Submitted June 02, 2019 at 11:28PM by Ishaan863
via reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/bw1v9j/til_that_2500_years_before_ancient_rome_the_indus/?utm_source=ifttt
TIL During the second northern war, a historically cold winter froze the water in between Sweden and Denmark. Denmark assumed Sweden would wait for spring to attack. Instead, the Swedes marched their army across the frozen ocean and crushed them, taking a lot of land that they still own to this day
http://bit.ly/1IF7Z9T

Submitted June 02, 2019 at 10:17PM by mystriddlery
via reddit http://bit.ly/2Wkwifg
TIL when Steve Madden was convicted of fraud and forced to resign as CEO of his company, he created a new position for himself that paid $700k per year while he was in prison.
http://bit.ly/2XlFz2X

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 02:16AM by MasterLawlz
via reddit http://bit.ly/2ENdKt8
TIL that 10-35% of people share the same genetic trait that makes us having to sneeze when looking towards the sun
https://to.pbs.org/2DLHXqz

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 12:47AM by Rexkwonwow
via reddit http://bit.ly/2Z2IOwE
TIL that several years ago a man wrestled a 7 foot bullshark after it bit off his nephew's arm. The shark was then dragged on to the shore where it was shot and the boy's uncle managed to retrieve his arm where it was later then successfully attached back on to the boy who had recovered.
https://nyti.ms/2Xo5bfF

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 04:37AM by guacamoleshit
via reddit http://bit.ly/2EOgsPk
TIL during the filming of Interview with the Vampire, a shallow trench was dug for Brad Pitt to walk alongside Tom Cruise so that their significant height disparity wouldn't be apparent on camera.
http://bit.ly/299t5Xd

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 05:22AM by soulforged_chew_toy
via reddit http://bit.ly/2JTfLbj
TIL that a financial advisor suspected that a colleague was ejaculating in her drink bottle after noticing a strange taste, and had her boyfriend ejaculate into a water bottle to confirm her suspicions. The colleague was fired and charged with assault.
http://bit.ly/1B5aoYo

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 07:57AM by TheINTL
via reddit http://bit.ly/2F0OoID
TIL in 1981 the US claimed Vietnam had used chemical weapons on it's own people, saying over ten thousand had died from what was described as 'yellow rain'. The 'yellow rain' was analyzed and found to be harmless bee feces.
http://bit.ly/1qhCu2M

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 04:19AM by anarrogantworm
via reddit http://bit.ly/2XmUOc2
TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen never played chess in their life until the movie X-Men required them to do so. A chess master came in to teach them.
http://bit.ly/1JYWAql

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 05:57AM by TheINTL
via reddit http://bit.ly/2HSsUzp
TIL: One evening, while rushing for dinner after a long day at the lab, Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist at Johns Hopkins, forgot to wash his hands that had traces of benzoic sulfimide. This compound made his dinner taste sweet, and that’s how he discovered the artificial sweetener Saccharin.
http://bit.ly/2AYc5AP

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 12:49PM by Hafnium67
via reddit http://bit.ly/2Ik8Zse
TIL the "whistling" noise used to indicate bombs falling in movies and TV shows is almost always the wrong way round. Anyone underneath a bomb that made such a sound (only specific WW2-era bombs) would hear the pitch increasing as it got closer, not decreasing, due to the Doppler effect.
http://bit.ly/2wAnv9E

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 12:43PM by fightmaxmaster
via reddit http://bit.ly/2Wkd21m
TIL Canadians apologize so much that in 2009, the Canadian parliament passed a law stating that apologizing doesn't mean you have admitted fault.
http://bit.ly/2DgRR3K

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 02:10PM by kiwihavern
via reddit http://bit.ly/2WhKIg5
TIL that the project aimed at resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth is only three successful mutations away from beginning embryo growth in Asian Elephants.
http://bit.ly/2WF12GV

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 10:59AM by l3msky
via reddit http://bit.ly/2KnR32g
TIL that Hanns Scharff, German Luftwaffe's "master interrogator," instead of physical torture on POWs used techniques like nature walks, going out for a pleasant lunch, and swimming where the subject would reveal information on their own. He helped shape US interrogation techniques after the war.
http://bit.ly/1Fxt4Bt

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 02:26PM by sersleepsalot1
via reddit http://bit.ly/2ERIrNM