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TIL about the naming of Nintendo's character Kirby. In 1982, Universal sued Nintendo claiming Donkey Kong was illegally based on King Kong. Attorney John Kirby fought won the case for Nintendo and they, in thanks for the help provided, named their (then) next character in honor to him.
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Submitted June 28, 2019 at 09:11PM by oldoseamap
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TIL in 2015 a call center in NY was infested with bedbugs. The workers unwittingly brought them home. The company demanded the workers pay to have their own homes fumigated and prove it before returning to work. They were also sited by OSHA for conducting fumigation during work hours.
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Submitted June 28, 2019 at 08:25PM by shakycam3
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TIL that John F. Kennedy was on 12 different medications a day during his presidency, just to enable him to face the day.
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Submitted June 28, 2019 at 10:32PM by yellow_bananaa
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TIL About Dr Gisella Perl, an inmate and female doctor at Auschwitz. She was instructed to tell Joseph Mengele of any pregnant women, so that he could experiment on them. Instead, she tried to save as many lives as possible by terminating pregnancies, and doing late stage births, without any drugs.
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Submitted June 28, 2019 at 11:05PM by Tokyono
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TIL about Patrick's Pub and Grill, a bar that's split in half on the border of Georgia and Tennessee. What's even stranger is that the Georgia half is in a "dry county", meaning that any alcohol purchased on the Tennessee side cannot be brought to the Georgia side - all within the same restaurant.
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 12:53AM by MrFluffyWaffles
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TIL that the man that was not saluting to Hitler in the famous photograph was August Landmesser. After imprisonment, a failed attempt of fleeing to Denmark with his family, his Jewish wife dying in the Holocaust, he was drafted into a penal battalion where he was killed in action.
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 01:11AM by appdevil
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TIL that "The War of the Worlds" plot arose from H.G. Wells wondering "if Martians did to Britain what the British had done to the [indigenous] Tasmanians?", which most modern scholars characterize as a genocide.
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 06:48AM by james8475
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TIL that in April of 2018, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes in California completely erased Alzheimer’s disease damage in human cells by changing the structure of one protein.
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 08:27AM by Lezgetit123
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TIL a 74-year-old woman lay dead for a decade in her apartment before someone found her body. She lived in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and have died by natural causes. Since she was not officially dead, her pension would be paid every month and the bills would be automatically paid. None noticed.
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 11:28AM by AnxiousAn
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TIL of "Dreadnoughtus", one of the largest dinosaurs that ever existed. The fossil skeleton of the individual was 85ft/26m, but was not even a full grown adult and expected to grown even larger!
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 11:19AM by 0h_myg0ssh
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TIL an astronomer travelled to India in 1760 to observe Venus. His ship blew off course, and he missed the date. He stayed in India for 8 years to try again, but the sky was too cloudy. When he returned home, he had been declared dead, his wife remarried, his estate plundered, and his job lost
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 03:24PM by Llim
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TIL the ZZ Top song "Master of Sparks" is based on a true story of people who used to weld together a spherical cage with a seat inside and then push it off a truck going 60 MPH with a person inside. Whoever survived got the noscript of Master of Sparks - one of them was ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons.
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 02:50PM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had to submit Tetris scores to Nintendo Power under fake names because he topped the charts for so long they stopped printing his scores
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 06:03PM by GlassArrow
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TIL that for 14 years nobody on Sesame Street would believe Big Bird when he would try to tell them about Mr. Snuffleupagus. After an increase in child abuse cases, producers decided to make him "real" so children could see that adults will believe them when they have something important to say.
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 07:13PM by omgwtfbbq420
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TIL Henry Rollins became the lead singer of Black Flag after jumping on stage to sing at a concert, but he had to quit his day job as a manager at a Häagen-Dazs
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 05:21PM by Claim_to_Lame
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TIL that while touring in Australia, Frank Sinatra insulted the media, especially female media. The stagehands union refused to work his show until he apologized. Sinatra threatened to cancel his shows. The transport union refused to prepare his airplane for departure
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Submitted June 29, 2019 at 08:15PM by EtOHMartini
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TIL there are more businesses incorporated in Delaware than there are Delawareans; over 50% of all American businesses choose Delaware to game taxes, courts, and laws.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 01:46AM by hoopderscotch
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TIL Danny DeVito used to be a beautician. He went to New York to learn makeup but the lady he sought after to teach him only accepted students from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. So he enrolled for a semester and that's how he got into acting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9J7SjQwq9E

Submitted June 30, 2019 at 02:55AM by shaka_sulu
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