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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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TIL the crew of 'Return of the Jedi' mocked the character design of Admiral Ackbar, deeming it too ugly. Director Richard Marquand refused to alter it, saying, "I think it's good to tell kids that good people aren't necessarily good looking people and that bad people aren't necessarily ugly people."
http://bit.ly/1QqIfRh

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 07:19PM by szekeres81
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TIL that during a speech, the elderly former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth was accused by a man in the crowd of not being a female, to which she responded by exposing and shaking a withered breast at him and asked: "Want a suck?"
http://bit.ly/2JYZd1Z

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 11:30AM by BoosherCacow
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TIL mythological smith gods, such as Hephaestus, Weyland, Svarog, Ptah, etc., are often depicted as crippled or deformed. This is now believed to be from constant exposure to arsenic, which was added to copper to make bronze.
http://bit.ly/1NADZ6C

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 07:25PM by marmorset
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TIL Mexico City's government was so impressed by the Day of the Dead parade in the film Spectre (2015) that they recreated the event for locals and tourists in 2016; 250k people attended the event and it has been annually ongoing ever since.
http://bit.ly/2WisuLr

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 07:48PM by Kirbyderby
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TIL during WW2, Ernest Hemingway led a small Militia in a village outside Paris, and this caused him to be brought up on formal charges for violating the Geneva Convention "because a correspondent is not supposed to lead troops, even if he does it well."
http://bit.ly/2Z4IKN3

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 06:33PM by JakeCameraAction
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TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.
http://bit.ly/2Mt6MQj

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 01:06AM by idcandidk
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TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
http://bit.ly/1K8wJha

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 01:08AM by Tuxeedo
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TIL President Coolidge and his wife had a pet raccoon named Rebecca who lived with them in the White House. Rebecca was supposed to be eaten for 1926 Thanksgiving dinner, but they adopted her instead.
http://bit.ly/2seGrsc

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 03:31AM by ADHDspartan
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