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TIL of U.S. Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who saved President Ronald Reagan's life during a 1981 assassination attempt. Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service by the 1939 movie "Code of the Secret Service"... which starred a young Ronald Reagan.
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Submitted August 02, 2019 at 05:21PM by DukeMaximum
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TIL that the motto, "In God We Trust," is not the original motto of the United States. During the Cold War, it was changed from "E Pluribus Unum" ("from many, one") in an effort to differentiate the United States from atheistic communism.
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Submitted August 02, 2019 at 07:10PM by jalapena_pinata
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TIL A study concluded that when humans forbid dogs to eat foods, dogs are 4 times more likely to steal the food in the dark, when they think humans can’t spot them. Dogs based their stealing strategies on their belief that humans can see or not in low light conditions.
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Submitted August 02, 2019 at 09:34PM by chercheur17
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TIL Andrew Jackson, face of the $20 bill, made it the goal of his administration to destroy the National Bank. He even cautioned the public about paper money in his farewell address.
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Submitted August 02, 2019 at 06:15PM by OceanFloatin
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TIL that in 1978, Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen, a task which had previously been considered impossible. Two years later, he did it again by himself, completing the first solo ascent of the mountain
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Submitted August 02, 2019 at 04:01PM by TheEnragedBanana
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TIL that only one actor has ever earned a REGOT (Razzie, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards): actress Liza Minnelli.
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Submitted August 02, 2019 at 10:28PM by ryandmc609
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TIL of Rick Rescorla, a security consultant for Morgan Stanley who anticipated the 9/11 attacks and implemented practice emergency evacuations every 3 months. During the attacks he managed to evacuate most of the 2,687 employees and died trying to help even more people out of the buildings.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 01:14AM by Penguin__Farts
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TIL that one of the top glitter manufacturers in the USA cannot name their biggest client, since the client doesn't want it known they use glitter. When a manager was asked if they could name them in a New York Times interview they instantly replied, "No, I absolutely know that I can’t."
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Submitted August 02, 2019 at 11:50PM by Skreaea
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TIL That the longest marriage ever recorded was 87 years long. Zelmyra and Herbert Fisher were married on May 13, 1924, and stayed together until Herbert passed away in 2011 at the age of 105. Zelmyra passed away two years later, also at the age of 105.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 12:28AM by Tokyono
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TIL Tina Turner was diagnosed with kidney failure after she opted to take homeopathic remedies instead of high blood pressure medication, something she now regrets. She was considering an assisted suicide until her current husband donated a kidney to her, saving her life.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 07:27AM by UPPERCASE_THOUGHTS
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TIL in 1910, the Gov. of Iowa wanted to build a state-wide highway in a single day. He asked farmers across the state to clear a level road on their land. All 380 miles were completed in an hour.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 06:20AM by palmfranz
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TIL the VLC media player uses a traffic cone for its icon because the students who created it drunkenly started a traffic cone collection
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 03:15AM by PmButtPics4ADrawing
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TIL that MTV officially started broadcasting 38 years ago on August 1, 1981 and the first music video played was "Video Killed the Radio Star"
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 05:18AM by JLBesq1981
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TIL that the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" is founded upon a 1945 recommendation that had no medical basis. Today's medical recommendation is "drink when you're thirsty, unless you're outside on a hot day or you're elderly"
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 06:19AM by samir_8000
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TIL John Lennon's comment 'More popular than Jesus' created a huge backlash in the US Bible belt, with one Texas radio station holding a large bonfire of Beatles albums only for a lightning bolt to strike its transmission tower the following day and sending the station temporarily off the air.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 02:37PM by vulcan_on_earth
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TIL of Girgori Perelman, the only person in history to have solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. After solving the Poincaré conjecture Perelman was offered the Field's Medal and $1 million prize money, he declined them both.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 02:14PM by Penguin__Farts
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TIL When the Six Flags Over Texas theme park opened in 1961, it had a section dedicated to the Confederacy where actors would hunt through the crowd for Union "spies" and "execute" them by firing squad, and where boys and girls could sign up to defend the South as soldiers and nurses.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 03:58PM by freerangepenguin
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TIL that before a key battle in Alexander the Great's campaign in Persia, the Persian king offered Alexander generous terms for peace. One of Alexander's generals is said to have remarked: "I would accept the terms, if I were you". Alexander responded: "So would I, if I were you". He won.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 04:10PM by Virble
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TIL glitter is terrible for the environment; Most glitter products are made from plastic, which contributes to the serious problem of microplastics in our oceans. Microplastics kill marine life and also release chemicals that disrupt human and animal hormones.
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Submitted August 03, 2019 at 05:37PM by solarpowerz
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