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TIL: Before the discovery of X-rays and xylophone popularity, the Persian King Xerxes was used for the X letter in children's alphabet books.
http://bit.ly/2Zrm75L

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 11:04PM by today_okay
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TIL A community college in the Bronx uses the same cirriculum as Columbia University in the Ivy League. For the past three years, professors at Hostos have been teaching a version of the Columbia Core in their freshman composition classes
http://bit.ly/2WipQ4S

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 01:44AM by imstayinalive
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TIL a teenage cheerleader’s mom tried to hire a hitman to kill her daughter’s cheerleading rival’s mother. She thought if her mom was killed, she would be too sad to cheerlead. The man she “hired” was working for the cops.
http://bit.ly/2XH76MA

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 09:22AM by raxereson
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TIL of Brandolini's Law which says that bullshit claims require an entire order of magnitude more effort to refute than that which produced them.
http://bit.ly/2SisLvf

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 04:42AM by ScienceInspires
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TIL Brittany Murphy's death was ruled a result of pneumonia and severe anemia and within 6 months after her death her husband passed away in the same house due to... pneumonia and severe anemia.
https://cnn.it/1Gj7rFs

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 06:33AM by HCJohnson
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TIL that the Vatican is the largest wine consumer in the world per capita. Each resident of the city-state consumes an average of 74 liters of wine per year, or nearly 100 bottles. This is twice as much as in France and seven times more than in the United States.
https://ind.pn/2fqB2bq

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 02:37AM by hypersite
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TIL Bill Murray took a taxi in Toronto. When he found out the driver played saxophone he asked him when he practiced. The driver said he couldn't because he worked 14 hours a day. Bill took over the drivers seat and drove the rest of his shift so he could sit in the back and practice.
http://bit.ly/2WEMp2y

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 03:40PM by Endless_Vanity
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TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is currently using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Over 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
http://bit.ly/2Rarwv1

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 02:33PM by BloodyLegend31
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TIl there is a bank in northen Italy that still accepts parmesan cheese as collatarel for loans, they have a inventory with over 17,000 tons of parmesan, valued over $200 million. Their vaults has been robbed 3 times. The name is Bank Credito Emiliano.
http://bit.ly/2F6xbxi

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 04:15PM by diplomatta
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TIL that Godzilla fought the Avengers. From 1977 to 1979, Marvel ran a 24-issue comic book series featuring Godzilla, which saw him square off against both the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.
http://bit.ly/2ELkRlU

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 02:40PM by Ostrantula
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TIL we treat our future selves like another person. When we are asked to think about ourselves, certain parts of our brain light up. When we are asked to think about our future selves, different areas of our brain light up, The same areas we use to think about other people.
http://bit.ly/2KNvybs

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 01:50PM by Sooara
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TIL The luftwaffe planted buoys in the english channel for downed pilots to survive in, containing food, alcohol, clothing and games.
http://bit.ly/2RcX9nH

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 07:25PM by electricp0ww0w
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TIL The song Greensleeves is from 1580 and while often said to refer to a promiscuous woman or prostitute whose clothing was stained green from having sex in the grass, it is more likely associated with green being the color of romance in that time period.
http://bit.ly/1cMkRRF

Submitted June 13, 2019 at 09:10PM by marmorset
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TIL there is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind. Volunteers every day read the local newspaper on the air, along best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and much more.
http://bit.ly/2wRRERT

Submitted June 14, 2019 at 12:03AM by Tweetystraw
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TIL People with sensitive noses are capable of smelling when it's about to rain due to atmospheric chemicals reacting and creating ozone, which has a pungent, sweet smell.
http://bit.ly/2pKVo6K

Submitted June 14, 2019 at 12:39AM by Eden-Gestalt
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