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TIL That James Bond has slept with 46 women and at least “kissed” a further 52 in the first 20 films. According to one doctor: "The likelihood of James Bond having chlamydia is extremely high,".
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 01:43PM by Tokyono
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TIL about cotton candy grapes; a type of grape that tastes like cotton candy. Created by David Cain, the cotton candy grape was made by breeding plants. He grew 100,000 test tube plants before getting the perfect cotton candy grape.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 03:36PM by squid50s
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TIL The Soviet Union had an internationally televised song contest. As few viewers had phones, they would turn their lights on if they liked a song and off if they didn’t. The power spikes were recorded by the state energy company and the reports sent to the station to pick the winner.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 05:07PM by Albertbailey
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TIL That Napoleon demanded a method of communication that would not require light or sound. Therefore ‘Night Writing’ was developed as a tactile military code, but proved too difficult for Napoleon’s troops to learn and was rejected. Night writing became the basis for braille.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 05:56PM by Super_Clark
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TIL the children's book series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were the most challenged books from 1990 - 1999 because of the violent nature of the stories and the surreal, nightmarish illustrations contained within.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 04:13PM by PrimalMusk
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TIL that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. It is a legitimate phenomenon called "Depressive Realism." Depressed people have a more accurate appraisal of the world, and non-depressed individuals' appraisals are positively biased.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 07:04PM by rastakovich
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TIL Ghana and Ivory Coast produce at least 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans. And the world is running out of cocoa farmers as the next generation refuses to take up this job because of the difficulty of the process and wages as low as 84 cents a day.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 07:53PM by ChupdiChachi
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TIL Gay men incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps during World War II were forced back into prison even after the Allied forces won that conflict.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 09:34PM by OVSQ
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TIL That J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 08:52PM by Super_Clark
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TIL of a Swedish man who was wrongly imprisoned for a murder for 14 years until a true-crime podcast brought out clues that led to his exoneration. Awarded a record sum in damages of 18 million SEK, he now lives in Canary Islands with his wife who was his Spanish-language teacher in prison.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 09:04PM by Hafnium67
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TIL There was a second Fukushima nuclear power plant (Fukushima Daini), 10km to the south, that suffered the same crippling tsunami damage but was saved from meltdown by a capable leader and heroic staff.
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Submitted July 07, 2019 at 11:17PM by iLoveLoFi
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TIL of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant that was closest to the epicenter of the 2011 tsunami in Japan but was undamaged because it far exceeded the required safety measures due to the stubbornness of one man. Fukushima famously experienced fatal meltdowns because safety measures were inadequate.
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Submitted July 08, 2019 at 04:10AM by wjbc
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TIL Pill Bugs are not insects but land crustaceans related to lobsters and shrimp. They breathe through gills, can drink through their anus, and excrete gas through their exoskeleton instead of urinating.
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Submitted July 08, 2019 at 05:27AM by AureliusCM
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TIL Since 1980 Quebec have restricted unhealthy food and beverage advertising for children under 13. The Heart and Stroke Foundation has advised that, as a result, Quebec households have a lower likelihood to purchase fast food and Quebec youth and children have very low rates of obesity.
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Submitted July 08, 2019 at 02:39PM by Super_Clark
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Til About the Babe Ruth Story, a 1948 biopic of the eponymous baseball star that is considered to be the worst baseball film ever made. In it, Babe Ruth is portrayed as miraculously healing several children and a dog with his baseball antics.
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Submitted July 08, 2019 at 12:57PM by Tokyono
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TIL that Keira Knightley was in Star Wars Episode 1 "The Phantom Menace." She played Sabe, Queen Amidala's double/decoy. She was 12 years old at the time of shooting.
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Submitted July 08, 2019 at 05:04PM by Stayinschool-tty
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TIL when the United States asked to buy the lease for their London embassy, the Duke of Westminster agreed to sell it on the condition that the United States return to his family the state of Virginia, which had been confiscated from them during the War of Independence. The United States declined.
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Submitted July 08, 2019 at 05:58PM by sober_disposition
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TIL that the restaurant chain Red Lobster once lost over $3 million during an "endless crab" promotion because an executive underestimated how much people could eat.
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Submitted July 08, 2019 at 06:59PM by LaunchOurRocket
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