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TIL that the profane Hungarian response to being given an unreasonably heavy workload is "bekergettek tatott szajjal a faszerdobe," or “They chased me into the dick-forest with a wide open mouth”
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Submitted August 08, 2019 at 11:48PM by cwthree
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TIL of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery by travelling openly from Macon, Georgia to Boston. Ellen, who was light skinned, dressed as a man with a sling to hide the fact that she could not write and passed as William's slave owner. Eventually, they fled to Liverpool, England.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 12:08AM by WittyNameWasTaken
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TIL Of William A. Jackson, a former slave of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederates, who regularly watched meetings between Davis and Confederate officials. He escaped in 1861 and went north, giving the union much info about Confederate military deployments and planning.
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Submitted August 08, 2019 at 10:03PM by Tokyono
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TIL that the Library of Congress is actively seeking volunteers to help transcribe 16,000 Pages of Suffragist Diaries, Letters, and Documents to create a searchable database where people can read original source documents.
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Submitted August 08, 2019 at 10:01PM by melonlollicholypop
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TIL in an interview on the set of Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis predicts that in 5 years some kids would make a movie filmed exclusively on camcorders with poor lighting and a micro budget that would be a huge hit. 5 years after Pulp Fiction came out The Blair Witch Project was released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuE3mdJabE

Submitted August 08, 2019 at 11:23PM by leeloo200
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TIL when Amelia Earhart was proposed by her boyfriend George Putnam, she suggested a one-year temporary marriage to test its feasibility . She also said, "On our life together I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly."
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 03:07AM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL that Mr Rogers' Neighborhood featured an episode with Lou Ferrigno on the set of "The Incredible Hulk" to teach children not to be scared of fictional characters in heavy makeup.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 05:30AM by Ezra611
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TIL that Mel Brooks financed and produced the movie The Elephant Man, but didn't take any credit because he didn't want audiences mistaking it for a comedy.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 06:08AM by sd_glokta
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TIL about Toby. A cat that walked twelve miles to his former home after his owners gave him to another family. His former family took him to a local animal shelter and asked for Toby to be euthanize. The shelter refused and found Toby a new loving family who cares from him.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 06:21AM by Moonrider257812
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TIL according to data from the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Americans 55 years and older are now more likely to be regular cannabis consumers than middle- and high school-aged teenagers.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 07:33AM by IntelligentYinzer
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TIL that the widespread myth that HIV was created by the USA government was originally spread as a disinformation campaign by the KGB, in an operation called Infektion
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 12:20PM by 77to90
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TIL There are penguins that participate in prostitution. They perform sexual acts in exchange for pebbles. However, sometimes they will bait the male into thinking they’ll have sex, but then just run off with the pebble.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 02:38PM by mrazianz
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TIL the avarage human body has enough iron in it to forge a metal nail that is 3-inches long, enough sulfur to kill all fleas on a dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make 7 bars of soap, and enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 03:35PM by listentobellion
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TIL- An episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia after telling kids spiders 'can't hurt you'... in a country plagued with the deadliest creepy crawlies on Earth
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 04:09PM by jbuk02
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TIL that after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian basketball team couldn't afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics, so the Grateful Dead funded the team's expenses, and the team wore tie-dye uniforms.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 07:01PM by pirate_12
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TIL that Roman Emperor Caligula once appointed his favorite horse, Incitatus, to the senate. Many think that this was because of Caligula's very known insanity, but there are suggestions that it was an elaborate prank to mock the senate and say that even a horse could easily perform their duties.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 02:14PM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL that Nintendo pushed usage of the term "game console" so people would stop calling products from other manufacturers "Nintendos", otherwise they would have risked losing their trademark.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 04:46PM by SameerKhanna
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TIL Costco’s hot dogs started out as a single hot dog cart vendor in front of their San Diego warehouse, using Hebrew National dogs.
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 09:53PM by lifewontwait86
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TIL when Katy Perry tried to buy a convent, the nuns who used to live there fiercely protested her bid and took her to court because they disapproved of her image so much. Tensions got so high that one of the nuns suddenly died in court, with her last words being: "Katy Perry. Please stop."
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Submitted August 09, 2019 at 11:49PM by brooklynmoon
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