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TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.
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Submitted July 17, 2019 at 06:11PM by emilylikesredditalot
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TIL that cats who fall from heights lower than six stories and survive usually have greater injuries than cats who fall from heights higher than six stories and survive. This is because their terminal velocity is reached at around five stories, after which they will instinctively relax.
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Submitted July 17, 2019 at 05:41PM by GirlFartCompilation
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Today I learned Howard Hughes loved banana nut ice cream so much his aides convinced Baskin-Robbins to produce a 350 gallon special order of the discontinued product. A few days later he grew tired of it and decided he only wanted French Vanilla so his hotel gave away the ice cream to customers.
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Submitted July 17, 2019 at 05:50PM by Jonglier1
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TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
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Submitted July 17, 2019 at 11:38PM by twilling8
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TIL The US shipped about $40 billion in cash to Iraq on planes between 2003 and 2008 and most of it went missing and is still unaccounted for today.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 12:03AM by Boredguy32
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TIL when Spider-Man film producer Avi Arad, was asked if Spider-Man would join the Avengers, Arad said “I think it will take a moment in which we’ve run out of ideas.” the next year Sony and Marvel announced that Spider-Man would join the MCU
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Submitted July 17, 2019 at 08:27PM by Gambit08
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TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government was worried Japan would invade Hawaii and seize all the U.S. currency there. As a precaution, the U.S. burned $200 million in cash circulating on the islands, and replaced them with freshly printed bills with “Hawaii” stamped on them.
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Submitted July 17, 2019 at 09:49PM by ralphbernardo
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TIL about Ralph Lazo, the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to an internment camp. When Lazo learned that his Japanese American friends and neighbors were being forcibly removed, he was so outraged that he joined friends on a train that took hundreds to Manzanar.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 05:25AM by MattW224
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TIL in the Beatles song Let it Be, "Mother Mary" is actually not a reference to the Virgin Mary. It instead refers to Paul's actual mother, Mary, who died when he was young. The song was inspired by a dream in which she gave him the advice "It will be all right, just let it be".
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 02:48AM by xereeto
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TIL Mike Tyson has a professional boxing record of 23-0 at age 19, became the youngest Heavyweight Champion ever at 20, and was 35-0 (with 31 knockouts) and held the WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring, and lineal heavyweight noscripts at age 21.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 04:03AM by YourBuddyChurch
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TIL that on NASA's Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 09:09AM by porncrank
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TIL the gentleman from “it ain’t much but it’s honest work” is an expert in no till farming and has been published many times. No till farming reduces erosion and is more sustainable than traditional farming techniques.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 03:46PM by V1k1ng1990
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TIL about Francis Pegahmagabow, a canadian indigenous man who fought in WWI. He killed 378 enemies with his Ross rifle and captured another 300, which makes him one of the most successful marksmen in the conflict.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 02:51PM by SergeantSchmidt
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TIL Walt Disney World near Orlando briefly had a real airport with a singing runway. Grooves in the tarmac were spaced so the lines played the opening notes of "When You Wish Upon a Star" when planes rolled over them. The airport closed in 1972.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 03:53PM by PikesPique
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TIL that the US has refused to continue funding the nuclear claims tribunal set up to compensate islanders that suffered radiation-related diseases from testing. So far it's paid less than $4 million of a $2.2 billion damage judgement. More than half of the affected islanders have died since.
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Submitted July 18, 2019 at 06:54PM by mitchanium
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