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TIL that the United States government banned the sale of metal-tipped lawn darts in 1987 after one penetrated the skull of a seven-year old girl, killing her
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 04:57AM by Ryan_Holman
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TIL Navajo was once in danger of losing a lot of speakers, but the Navajo nation set up programs to teach the language as well as many bilingual schools. Now there are even institutes, community colleges, and technical universities with classes in the Navajo language
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 11:42AM by vannybros
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TIL about Julie d'Aubigny, a French swordwoman who: dressed in men's clothing, joined a convent to be with her female lover, got challenged to duels by three separate men for kissing a woman at a ball, and was a popular opera singer.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 08:12AM by brightreddream
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TIL Human Alarm Clocks: Before the advent of reliable and affordable alarm clocks, British and Irish workers were woken up by a person who made sure they could get to work on time. The knocker-up used a baton to knock on clients’ doors or a long and light stick to reach windows on higher floors.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 01:30PM by onethelight
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TIL a 2015 study rated pork fat as the 8th most nutritionally rich food in existence
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 03:37PM by lapapinton
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TIL That at the premiere of the Good Omens TV series, a front row seat was left empty in tribute to Terry Pratchett. His trademark scarf and hat were placed on it, and there was a bag of popcorn- Neil Gaiman said that Terry wanted to sit next to him and eat popcorn if an Omens movie ever happened.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 04:48PM by Tokyono
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TIL that Ed Helms' missing tooth in "The Hangover" was not created with prosthetics or visual effects. Helms never had that tooth grow and received a dental implant as a teenager, and it was removed during filming.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 02:08PM by derstherower
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TIL that 1,000 Italian rockers simultaneously played Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly to impress the band and convince them to come to Cesena, Italy to play a concert. Dave Grohl was impressed by this effort and performed a full concert in Cesena for these 1,000 people 3 months later.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 05:02PM by vfstevens
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TIL that after arresting a man for blowing up an airplane federal agents learned that it was not in fact a federal crime to blow up an airplane. Colorado instead charged the man for the single murder of his mother, a passenger on the plane.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 06:39PM by getthedudesdanny
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TIL in 2016 news anchor Anderson Cooper donated bullet proof vests to every K9 unit in the Virginia Police Department after finding out that a police dog was shot and killed during a shootout.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 07:45PM by Penguin__Farts
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TIL a meteor reportedly fell right on the battlefield during a war between Pontus and Rome. According to Plutarch, the sky suddenly split apart and a large silvery-hot meteor resembling a giant hogshead bombarded the ground between the armies. Both forces promptly withdrew to fight another day.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 09:06PM by design-responsibly
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TIL Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) holds the record for the biggest car repair bill (via a successful insurance claim) to fix his crashed McLaren F1 - more than £900k
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 04:40PM by Denncity
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TIL despite multiple uses of the word "fuck", the MPAA voted to override their guidelines and give The Martian a PG-13 rating
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 10:46PM by sheepsleepdeep
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TIL Of Robert Campbell, a World War One soldier who was a German prisoner, he learned that his mother was dying, and wrote to the Kaiser, asking to be released. His request was granted, with the condition that he had to return. Campbell spent a week with his mother, then returned.
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Submitted August 06, 2019 at 12:18AM by Tokyono
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TIL that latchkey incontinence is the phenomenon where the closer that one gets to the restroom, the more urgently one has to use the restroom
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 11:27PM by SchuminWeb
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TIL Former US President Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house and shops at the Dollar General
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Submitted August 06, 2019 at 03:14AM by yourtinyshark
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TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.
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Submitted August 05, 2019 at 09:40PM by b_darned
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TIL that while Avengers: Endgame is the highest grossing movie of all time, when adjusted for inflation, 1939's Gone With the Wind is still the frontrunner by over a billion dollars.
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Submitted August 06, 2019 at 04:57AM by NeverEnoughMuppets
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TIL in Japan, establishments like banks & convenience stores visibly keep baseball-sized orange orbs behind the counter. These “anticrime color balls” are filled with bright pigment that burst on impact & are for employees to lob at robbers (or getaway vehicles) to improve the chance of arrest.
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Submitted August 06, 2019 at 05:46AM by lord_of_the_bees
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TIL- A retired man from Kansas robbed a bank in 2017 but stuck around until the police showed up. He left a note to his wife saying he'd rather be in jail that at home with her. He was sentenced to house arrest.
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Submitted August 06, 2019 at 10:35AM by jbuk02
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