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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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TIL "The China Syndrome", a 1979 movie about a nuclear power plant disaster, was dismissed by the nuclear power industry as being "sheer fiction". Twelve days after the film was released, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station experienced a partial meltdown.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 07:03PM by veganon
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TIL Harrison Ford, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray were main actors considered to play Eddie Valiant in "Who Framed Roger Rabbits". They did not get it because Ford's price was too high, Chase was not interested, and Murray never got the message and was dismayed he missed out his career's biggest role.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 08:21PM by TrendWarrior101
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TIL that all every Rolls Royce pinstripe is painted by a man who used to be an old English village sign painter. It's the last manufacturing step and can't afford mistakes as the paint instantly bonds with the car body and cannot be erased.
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 11:06PM by humblewise
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TIL that Steve Irwin's father refused a state funeral for his son because in the words of his son, he was an "ordinary bloke".
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Submitted July 03, 2019 at 09:52PM by shayocean
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TIL a man running an ultramarathon was joined by a stray dog for more than 77 miles (125 km) through the Gobi Desert, but he lost track of the dog after the race. With help from 20 volunteers, he finally found the dog after a 2-week search, named him Gobi and brought him back to live in Edinburgh.
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Submitted July 04, 2019 at 12:52AM by design-responsibly
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