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TIL That citizens of Monaco are not allowed to gamble at their own casinos. Only foreigners are allowed to even step foot inside of Monaco's casinos.
http://bit.ly/2Nb9j23

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 11:59AM by PostYourSinks
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TIL For years John Wayne supported giving control of the Panama Canal to the country of Panama. His support earned him the only hate mail he ever received in his life, but also his own island off the coast of Panama - appropriately named John Wayne Island.
http://bit.ly/2ZJ3dap

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 10:33AM by KeroseneGrimReaper
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TIL During his Presidency, John Quincy Adams planned on funding an expedition to the center of the earth to establish a trade route with mythical “Mole People.”
http://bit.ly/2NcRHTh

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 03:36PM by RachAgainstLeMachine
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TIL that Sam LLoyd, or Ted from Scrubs, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in january which had metastasized from his lungs. Further scans showed that the cancer was also in his liver, spine, and jaw. The news just came weeks after he and his wife received their first child.
http://bit.ly/2HUPp8U

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 06:21PM by Laugenstage
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TIL It is illegal in Taiwan for children under two years old to use a smartphone or watch TV
http://bit.ly/2Nn40fM

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 06:56PM by Hotspur000
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TIL of Dylan McWilliams, a 20 year old man who was bitten by a shark, attacked by a bear, and bitten by a rattlesnake - the odds of which are 893 quadrillion to one.
http://bit.ly/2Fx0lpr

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 04:49PM by st314
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TIL until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only' flights featuring complimentary cigars, cocktails and a full-course steak dinner in the exclusive company of other men (besides the stewardesses, of course).
http://bit.ly/2NdqzDV

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 05:22PM by sisyphushaditsoeasy
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TIL that whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and skilled players.
http://bit.ly/195WnPq

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 05:09PM by chaoticadvice
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TIL that the groundwork for modern medical training - which is infamous for its grueling hours and workload that often lead to burnout - was laid by a physician who was addicted to cocaine, which he was injecting into himself as an experimental anesthetic.
http://bit.ly/2LhLao2

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 10:26PM by terduckenmcbucket
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TIL In the 1990s, Subaru realized that it was surprisingly popular with lesbians, and decided to develop a campaign subtly, but specifically, targeting that core group, helping to push gay and lesbian advertising from the fringes to the mainstream.
http://bit.ly/2i3y5RP

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 09:46PM by _whimsybird
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TIL a study of prayer for cardiac bypass patients found that prayer had no effect on recovery and that patients who knew they were being prayed for actually had more complications
http://bit.ly/2WXKTIU

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 11:04PM by SAT0725
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TIL When Jimmy Carter got elected President, he got a phone call from Elvis Presley. "He was totally stoned and didn't know what he was saying. His sentences were almost incoherent".
http://bit.ly/2ILFbWR

Submitted June 25, 2019 at 11:51PM by imstayinalive
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TIL a Molotov Cocktail is so named because of the Finn's mockery of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, where Vyacheslav Moloto said bombing raids over Finland where "Humanitarian Bread Drops". Finns attacked Soviet tanks with the aforementioned weapons as "a drink to go with the bread"
https://ift.tt/1DO8f45

Submitted June 26, 2019 at 01:29AM by DerkBerk-
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TIL Muhammad Ali lost his heavyweight noscript, got his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for not wanting to join the US Army in the Vietnam War. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong," he said. "They never called me n****r."
https://ift.tt/2rXwRs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFMyrWlZ68

Submitted June 26, 2019 at 03:05AM by millstonepeatedpx
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TIL a man who was in a coma for 10 years gradually began recovering due to his hatred of Barney and Friends, which was shown repeatedly at the special care center he was staying in.
https://ift.tt/2RAwOQx

Submitted June 26, 2019 at 04:04AM by giobbistar21
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TIL that, when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money (around $68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents."
https://ift.tt/1NA5A3w

Submitted June 26, 2019 at 02:25AM by Shastio
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TIL that in 2006, 20,000-year-old fossilized human footprints were discovered in Australia which indicated that the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, barefoot, in the sand.
https://ift.tt/2Na8AwU

Submitted June 26, 2019 at 04:36AM by barragain
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TIL The Queen of England's guard wear tall bear skin hats because at the Battle of Waterloo, English troops took them as a trophy from France. They were worn by Napoleon's elite guard, which England routed during the Battle.
https://ift.tt/2X7MwbW

Submitted June 26, 2019 at 03:43AM by DariusMDeV
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