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TIL Obsessive taking of selfies and posting to social media has been found to be linked to many symptoms common to mental disorders to include narcissism, low self-esteem, loneliness, self-centeredness, and attention-seeking behaviors
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Submitted July 04, 2019 at 07:28PM by Bluerecyclecan
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TIL a guy made $1,000,000 by selling each pixel on a 1000 x 1000 pixel web page for $1 a pixel. The Million Dollar Homepage was created in 2005 to raise money for his university fees. The inventor went on to create a company today valued at $250m.
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Submitted July 04, 2019 at 10:45PM by oceanicplatform
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TIL about Louis Le Prince, who mysteriously went missing, preventing him from revealing that he had invented the single-lens motion picture camera, long before Edison who is widely credited with the invention.
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Submitted July 04, 2019 at 06:30PM by ProjectAverage
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TIL - When your eyes look right, your eardrums bulge to the left, and vice versa. However scientists have discovered that the eardrums move 10 milliseconds BEFORE the eyes do, and they don't know why.
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Submitted July 04, 2019 at 09:14PM by fraggle_captain
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TIL that Franklin Dixon, the author of over 200 Hardy Boys books which have sold over 70 million copies worldwide is not a real person but a collective pseudonym for dozens of authors who have written for the series. Canadian author Leslie McFarlane wrote 19 of the first 25 books.
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Submitted July 04, 2019 at 11:10PM by CMH2075
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TIL Khemjira Klongsanun, a runner in a Vietnam Marathon, found an abandoned puppy on the side of the road during the race, and ended up carrying it for the remaining 19 miles until the finish line. She adopted it afterwards.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 12:29AM by Tokyono
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TIL if ripening cherries are not dried after it rains, they will soak up the water, split, and can't be picked and sold. Helicopters slowly maneuver 5 feet over the trees. The intense rotor wash blasts the water off the cherries! (this is part of the reason cherries are expensive)
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 03:33AM by CaverZ
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TIL bubble gum is traditionally pink because its inventor wanted to mask the gray color of the original formula with the dye he had on hand: red.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 12:50AM by raysqman
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TIL a French beekeeper trained bees to produce honey out of resin from marijuana plants
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 02:34AM by IntelligentYinzer
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TIL that coconuts transported themselves around the world by foating through the sea. This one reason (along with human interferance) that coconuts are so widespread worldwide. So, yes, coconuts do migrate.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 03:10AM by MTV_Cats
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TIL That for 200 years tomatoes were considered poisonous in Europe. In reality, their acidity was dissolving poisonous metals like lead from plates.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 07:29AM by Super_Clark
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TIL that when George Washington died in 1799, the British Royal Navy was ordered to lower their flags to half mast. The London Morning Chronicle opined that ‘The whole range of history does not present to our view a character upon which we can dwell with such entire and unmixed admiration’.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 05:10PM by AnUnlikelyUsurper
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TIL Hunter S. Thompson killed himself while being on the phone with his wife. She mistook the cocking of the gun for the sound of his typewriter keys and hung up as he fired.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 04:59PM by Wharghblubb
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TIL of the Stubby Squid. In 2016, Researchers from the Nautilus exploration vessel were cruising along the deep sea floor off California's coast when they came upon the bright purple creature with giant, googly eyes. The Scientists Couldn't contain their laughter.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 05:12PM by fraggle_captain
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TIL the original lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" contained the words "There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me. The sign was painted, said 'Private Property.' But on the backside, it didn't say nothing. This Land was made for you and me" were not released due to McCarthyism.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 05:16PM by chumgi
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TIL: The block Michelangelo carved David out of posed several problems. Called “the Giant,” it had been quarried 40 years earlier and had started to weather from the elements. Worse, other sculptors had tried roughing out a basic shape but given up midway. The final sculpture thus befits its name.
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Submitted July 05, 2019 at 05:43PM by Hafnium67
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