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TIL the flags of many African nations have the colors green, gold and red borrowed from the flag of Ethiopia, which remained outside European control during the colonial era by defeating Italy. As a result, the country drew the admiration of many newly independent states in Africa.
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Submitted July 02, 2019 at 11:06PM by AmiroZ
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TIL that a man with a personalized license plate which read "NO PLATE" received 2500 overdue traffic tickets... because they had all been issued to various cars with no plates, and when a car marked "NO PLATE" appeared in the system, the algorithm automatically redirected those tickets to its owner.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 12:35AM by BurtGummer1911
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TIL due to rumours that his film "Cannibal Holocaust" showed real deaths, director Ruggero Deodato was accused of murder. The charges were dropped after the four allegedly-dead actors were interviewed for a television show and Deodato explained his special effects in court.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 01:36AM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL There is a Nigerian floating village of nearly 100,000 people that is self-sufficient and self-policing: There's electricity, hotels, schools, and restaurants fully independent of the mainland
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 02:04AM by thepresident45
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Til - The capacity to lie has also been claimed to be possessed by non-humans in language studies with great apes. In one instance, gorilla Koko, when asked who tore a sink from the wall, pointed to one of her handlers and then laughed.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 05:10AM by zukusenryu12
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TIL Elephants can control their dick like a second trunk. As a result of this, collecting semen from an elephant by way of penile stimulation is dangerous, as one swing of that thing can knock a man clear off his feet. Therefore, the prostate must be stimulated instead through vigorous anal fisting.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 04:12AM by vipchicken
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TIL that William Wallace ("Braveheart") was born around 550 years before the kilt was invented. That means it would be more accurate to dress William Shakespeare (1564) in a spacesuit (1961) (only around 400 years difference).
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 06:10AM by sturnus-vulgaris
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Til that 150k+ First Nation kids were removed from their homes, over a span of 100 years, in order to "get rid of the Indian problem in Canada"
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 05:17AM by Mythofthefingerprint
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TIL The town of Shitterton, England, kept getting its town sign stolen. In 2010, they finally solved the problem by installing a 1.6 tonne concrete slab with the town name inscribed on it.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 12:06PM by Tokyono
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TIL Research has shown that happier people prefer to have more time in their lives than more money. Experience beats wealth. Even trying to approach life from that mindset seems to make people more content.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 12:46PM by Albertbailey
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TIL that Terry Pratchett's daughter, Rhianna Pratchett, is a video game writer responsible for stories like BioShock Infinite, Mirror's Edge, the new Tomb Raider series and Overlord.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 04:04PM by leoavalon
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TIL The famous "War of the Worlds Panic" where rural dust bowl Americans tuning in post intro took to their rifles and bunkers after tuning in to the radio play, never happened. It was invented by newspapers of the day to make people distrust radio, and keep trusting the paper.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 02:46PM by DariusMDeV
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TIL Steve Comisar sold 'Solar Powered Clothes Drier' in national magazines for $49.95 each. Customers received a length of ordinary clothesline.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 04:00PM by amansaggu26
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TIL that a man in Japan in 1933 jumped into a volcano crater to end his life. Over the next two years hundreds would also jump before a barrier was erected to prevent people from jumping.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 01:15PM by DuFremge
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TIL Rihanna was pissed about a snap chat game that let you "slap rihanna" or "punch chris brown" rather than going to snapchat and dealing with it she told her instagram followers to delete snapchat, the stock fell 754 Million the following day.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 07:28PM by suicidebylifestyle
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TIL the producers of the movie Das Boot used a life size mock-up of a U-Boat for the exterior shots. One morning the crew woke up to find it missing, only to later learn that a certain filmmaker named Steven Spielberg had rented it for his movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and no one had told them
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 05:43PM by MistressGravity
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