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TIL Charles Manson was once a Scientologist and completed 150 hours of auditing but left the organization soon after, calling it "too crazy"
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 07:53PM by riyad94
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TIL about Lt Commander Joseph Vaghi. He was an US Beachmaster during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, acting as a "traffic cop" orienting the landing troops. Giving orders under heavy machine gun fire, he ran into an old classmate, who asked him, "Hi Joe, what the hell are you doing here?"
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 05:24PM by miririco
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TIL in 2000, two suicidal people met online and both decided they wanted to end their life by jumping off a cliff. The two strangers met up in Norway, took a cab to a popular cliff and jumped to their death together.
https://ift.tt/2MgU5GI

Submitted July 26, 2019 at 09:34PM by nokia621
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TIL Fuggerei is a German village where the rent hasn't increased in almost 500 hundred years! The rent has not increased since 1520, and it costs under $1 to live a full year!
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 09:55PM by tippingpoint_
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TIL that Lucy Maud Montgomery stored her now-famous book Anne of Green Gables in a hat box after it was rejected by every publisher she sent it to. Years later she tried again, and the book has now sold 50 million copies.
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 11:42PM by 675longtail
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TIL that sloths take a shit once a week. This is the only reason they will leave their tree, and when they do, it's pretty much a life or death situation for them as predators can easily catch them off guard while they are on the ground.
https://ift.tt/2Gx3NAO

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 01:03AM by the-singh
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TIL alkaline batteries do not need to be recycled, as they contain only harmless inert metals like zinc and manganese. Throwing one in the trash is the environmental equivalent of throwing a rusty nail in the trash.
https://ift.tt/2JWbEdn

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 02:37AM by Reacher-Said-Nothing
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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
https://ift.tt/2sH8sKN

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 05:28AM by Baynsma
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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger paid Austria to ship him the exact same tank he drove when he was a soldier. It is fully operable (minus the gun) and he uses it to support his fundraising efforts.
https://ift.tt/2ZdFPlv

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 03:51AM by Charlie--Dont--Surf
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TIL Granny Smith Apples originated by accident, when a lady dumped a crate of old rotten French crab apples in her garden and then later found an apple sapling growing there. The tree grew to produce green tart apples that had never grown before.
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Submitted July 27, 2019 at 09:08AM by SidFishGames
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TIL A college math professor wrote a fantasy "novel" workbook to teach the fundamentals of calculus. Concepts are taught through the adventures of a man who has washed ashore in the mystic land of Carmorra and the hero helps people faced with difficult mathematical problems
https://ift.tt/2OCeNDR

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 11:36AM by vannybros
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TIL George Clooney once contemplated suicide while recovering from a head injury sustained from filming a thriller movie, as the pain as so great. He basically bruised his brain and couldn’t take painkillers due to a family history of addiction. He had to use therapy to get through it.
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Submitted July 27, 2019 at 04:17PM by Tokyono
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TIL about the notorious stagecoach robber Black Bart, who never cursed, never fired his weapon, didn't ride a horse, and left poems after his crimes.
https://ift.tt/1EJr3qN

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 04:22PM by sd_glokta
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TIL that ancient Roman apartments, called insulae, could reach up to 9 stories, could have running water (fed by nearby aqueducts) and were often owned by the rich and rented out to the poorer roman citizens (from somewhat rich equestrians to pretty poor workers).
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Submitted July 27, 2019 at 01:05PM by SandRhoman
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TIL "The Powerpuff Girls" was originally called "Whoopass Stew!" Rather than adding Chemical X to his formula, Professor Utonium accidentally adds a can of whoop ass, and the creation is known as The Whoopass Girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsx0uF80n8U

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 04:31PM by SuperMario1222
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TIL that at the point in Antarctica that is the most distant from the Southern Ocean, there is a station covered by snow with a statue of Lenin on the roof, and a golden guest book to sign inside; one of the most challenging and coldest place to reach called the Southern Pole of inaccessibility
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Submitted July 27, 2019 at 03:00PM by Mesaperture
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TIL because electronic computers were not fast in 1959, the X15 experimental jet used a Fluidic Digital Computer that used water instead of electricity. It featured hypersensitive Fluidic Integrated Circuits and Logic Gates that could make course corrections faster than its contemporary computers.
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Submitted July 27, 2019 at 04:15PM by N-A-M-R-O-G
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TIL: That John Wilkes Booth was a well-known A-list actor, considered equivalent in status to Leonardo DiCaprio. He was a heartthrob and named “Sexiest Man Alive”
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Submitted July 27, 2019 at 05:23PM by Kimmm223
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TIL Britain ended Capital Punishment after the unjust execution of Timothy Evans, for the murders of his wife and daughter. He'd accused his neighbour John Christie of the crime. Years later, Christie was discovered to be a serial killer who had killed 6 other woman and Evans's wife and daughter.
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Submitted July 27, 2019 at 09:03PM by Tokyono
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