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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.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 02:55AM by shaka_sulu
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TIL Hugh Jackman agreed to make a cameo in "X-Men First Class" on two conditions. FOX had to make a charitable contribution to his children's school and he wanted to be the only one to curse at the main characters. The studio agreed to both terms.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 02:11AM by gmcl86
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TIL that Boeing in the 1970s fired 60,000 employees following the failure of their Concorde knock-off and a downturn in general aviation. So many people left the city there was a billboard that read "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights"
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 02:46AM by Sansabina
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TIL Playboy Hugh Hefner's young son, Cooper, teaches a course called "New Landscape of Media" at Chapman University. Hefner is also on the Board of Directors for Children Of The Night, an organization that has been dedicated to fighting human trafficking and child prostitution
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 06:59AM by thepresident45
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TIL an orangutang in San Diego Zoo kept escaping his enclosure so that he could walk around the zoo and look at the other animals as well as throw faeces at his ex-enclosure mate that he didn’t like.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 11:35AM by raxereson
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TIL that police officers tap the rear of your vehicle with their hand when performing a traffic stop so that if anything were to happen to the officer during the encounter, there would be physical evidence of them coming into contact with your vehicle via fingerprints.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 02:09PM by looseythegoosey
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TIL In 1950, medical knowledge was estimated to double every 50 years. By 2020, it is expected to double every 73 days.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 02:44PM by poopitydoopityboop
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TIL that the Southern Pacific Comapy, while best known for its railroad operations, also owned and operated telegraph and telephone lines under the name Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, which would later become the telecommunications company known by the acronym "Sprint."
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 05:09PM by andrew_ryans_beard
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TIL Seinfeld, Mad About You, and Friends all exist in the same universe. Kramer is subletting his apartment from Paul; Jamie appeared in an episode of Friends and mistook Phoebe for Ursula; Ursula works as a waitress in Mad About You
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 06:41PM by jscari
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TIL: Research has shown that when speaking, individuals who have been congenitally blind and have thus never seen anyone gesture nonetheless make hand motions just as frequently and in the same way as sighted people do. In fact, they will gesture even when conversing with another blind person.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 07:50PM by Hafnium67
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TIL Leonard Nimoy was an accomplished photographer. His interest in the hobby began in childhood, and for his whole life he owned a camera he’d built at the age of 13. He even seriously considered changing careers after Star Trek, as he studied extensively at UCLA.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 05:23PM by Tokyono
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TIL An American photographer who knew he couldn't escape the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption due to being too close to the summit, photographed it & used his body to shield the photographs from damage. His body was discovered several days later, and those pictures proved groundbreaking for geology.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 09:45PM by QuartzFeathers
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TIL that during the 2007 Glasgow airport attack, as one of the perpetrators tried to open the boot of his jeep, a taxi driver, Alex McIlveen, kicked him in the groin so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 09:45PM by Tokyono
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TIL when Cristiano Ronaldo was asked to donate his cleats to a 10-month-old kid who had a brain disorder, he instead gave $83k to fully pay for the surgery the child would have.
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Submitted June 30, 2019 at 11:44PM by JustSomeGuy_Idk
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