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TIL that cat purring, their Purring vibrations help to heal infections, swelling, bone healing and growth, pain relief, muscle growth and repair, tendon repair and joint mobility.
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Submitted June 11, 2019 at 12:42PM by VisualMarzipan
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TIL Diarrhea kills more children than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined with a grand total of 2,195 children every day or 760,000 children a year.
http://bit.ly/2K8WQJP

Submitted June 11, 2019 at 06:27PM by zuckerberd
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TIL about the Peshtigo fire the deadliest wildfire in US history that killed around 1500 people. It's almost unknown because the more famous Great Chicago Fire happened on the same day.
http://bit.ly/2X12bcd

Submitted June 11, 2019 at 05:45PM by schuldig
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TIL Steven Spielberg did not storyboard the D-Day invasion scene in "Saving Private Ryan" in order to make things more chaotic and unpredictable. In the original noscript, the entire invasion is covered in only seven pages.
http://bit.ly/2WDIYOs

Submitted June 11, 2019 at 04:58PM by Meunderwears
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TIL that dogs can tell time by smell. They can smell different times of the day, and how long you've been gone by how much your(owner's) smell has dissipated since you've left.
http://bit.ly/2WzfJap

Submitted June 11, 2019 at 08:35PM by gain-cheesy-pizza
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TIL that after Nietzsche's death, his sister, Elizabeth reworked his unpublished writings to fit her own nationalist ideology, contradictory to Friedrich Nietzsche's opposition to antisemitism and nationalism.
http://bit.ly/1c0TCNI

Submitted June 11, 2019 at 08:18PM by WalkingDown46
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TIL that Joe Perry sold his 1959 Gibson Les Paul during his 1982 divorce. Later he found the guitar was owned by Slash. Perry called Slash and bugged him for years, offering to pay more than the guitar's worth. Years later at Joe's 50th birthday party, Slash finally gave him the guitar as a gift.
http://bit.ly/28P70hF

Submitted June 11, 2019 at 10:01PM by dizzi_89
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TIL personal hygiene by Yugioh players got so bad, they had to make an official rule in the rule book banning wearing dirty clothes as a strategy to distract the opponent (in tournament play).
http://bit.ly/2IaXNPM

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 01:40AM by n122333
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TIL a Stonehenge like structure has been found under Lake Michigan, which includes a boulder with a prehistoric Mastodon carving on it
http://bit.ly/2Zf58mM

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 05:05AM by nodrogx
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TIL that George Washington ordered a ceasefire during the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to its owner, Sir William Howe, a British general. The dog was found wandering the battlefield and was fed and cleaned before being returned to Howe.
http://bit.ly/1IhVZKP

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 06:41AM by Swpalmer7
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TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them
http://bit.ly/2BK5V59

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 09:41AM by Primo2000
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TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them
http://bit.ly/2BK5V59

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 09:41AM by Primo2000
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TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them
http://bit.ly/2BK5V59

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 09:41AM by Primo2000
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TIL in the past 42 years over 51 million trees have been planted in Kenya by the Green Belt Movement founded by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai.
http://bit.ly/oUjA5d

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 01:51PM by pinkdaisyy
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TIL that "dashboard" was originally a barrier of wood or leather at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect a driver from mud or other debris "dashed up" by the horses' hooves. Today it refers to the evolution of that flat board which now contains displays, gauges and instruments.
http://bit.ly/1LlPyrT

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 08:30AM by raysqman
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TIL that the highest-paid athlete of all time is an Ancient Roman charioteer, Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who is said to have earned the equivalent of 15 billion US dollars over his 24-year career. Second is Michael Jordan, with an estimated earnings of 1.9 billion US dollars.
http://bit.ly/2XFAjY5

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 03:10PM by Virble
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TIL After Chernobyl meltdown, Russian military pilots created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout. British scientist allowed into the area, said that the population in Belarus was exposed to radiation doses 20 to 30 times higher than normal as a result of the rainfall
http://bit.ly/2w11PDm

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 12:45PM by HydrolicKrane
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