TIL that male pattern baldness doesn’t typically affect Native American, First Nations and Alaska Native peoples.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24515-male-pattern-baldness-androgenic-alopecia

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TIL Titanic is the only movie to earn $1 billion that is not part of a franchise or based on preexisting intellectual property (i.e. Barbie).
https://www.slashfilm.com/1360938/highest-grossing-non-franchise-movies-all-time/

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TIL King Henry V was once shot in the face with an arrow which was lodged 6 inches into his skull. A surgeon called John Bradmore, who was in prison at the time, crafted a custom extractor to remove it safely.
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/08/prince-hal-head-wound/

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TIL each episode of Stranger Things season 5 reportedly cost $50-60 million to produce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_5?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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TIL that in 1999, 15-year-old Jonathan James hacked into NASA and the Department of Defense, causing a 21-day shutdown of NASA's computers. He was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_James?hl=en-IN

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TIL John Adams’s Sedition Act banned false or malicious publishing against federal officials, including members of Congress and the President, but not against the Vice President—his political rival at the time, Thomas Jefferson.
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/alien-and-sedition-acts/#:~:text=The%20Sedition%20Act%20outlawed%20actions,was%20wildly%20unpopular%20to%20Americans.

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TIL that at the peak of its popularity, Top Gear had a waiting list of 21 years for tickets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)#2006%E2%80%932014:_Changes_and_growing_popularity

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TIL humans "glow" by emitting a faint light that is not visible to the naked eye.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/all-living-things-faintly-glow-ultraweak-photon-emission-upe

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TIL the CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit (which was marketed off the show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) was removed from stores after the kit's fingerprint powder was found to contain up to 7% asbestos, the type of which has been proven to be capable of causing lung cancer from a single exposure.
https://gizmodo.com/10-incredibly-dangerous-banned-toys-1627171910#:~:text=4.%20CSI%20Fingerprint,went%20bankrupt

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TIL that Venezuela was the 4th richest country in the World in the 1950s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela

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TIL that in many modern cars, the turn-signal “click” is played through the audio system because the electronics don’t naturally make that sound anymore.
https://www.jalopnik.com/heres-why-your-turn-signals-make-that-clicking-noise-1793380845/

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TIL From 1860-1916 the British Army required every soldier to have a mustache. If a soldier were to shave their upper lip, he faced disciplinary action which could include imprisonment
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Moustache-to-Rule-Them-All/

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TIL that Yasutomo Ihara, a Japanese stuntman and actor who formerly played the Green Power Ranger in the "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" TV show, was arrested in 2014 for using the training he learned during the filming of his role to rob 43 houses in Japan.
https://www.themarysue.com/power-ranger-cat-burglar/

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TIL there exist only 3 perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible in vellum (out the 49 that have survived)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/library-of-congress-gutenberg-bible

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TIL that in the Brothers Grimm's original Cinderella (Aschenputtel), the stepsisters mutilate their feet to fit Cinderella's Glass Slipper and later have their eyes pecked out by doves at the royal wedding, leaving them blind forever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella

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TIL in 2022, during a deep sea expedition, a beer bottle was found, fully intact, at the 'challenger deep' of mariana trench which is the deepest point in the ocean
https://www.unilad.com/news/scientist-beer-bottle-deepest-point-ocean-mariana-trench-667878-20240213

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TIL that there's a Japanese crab called the Heikegani whose shell looks like an angry samurai face. Japanese folklore says they're the reincarnated spirits of Heike warriors who died in a 12th-century sea battle.
https://www.japanpowered.com/folklore-and-urban-legends/heikegani-the-samurai-crab

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TIL in 1934, Adolf Hitler told a British correspondent in Berlin "At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the National Socialist movement will go on for 1,000 years! ... Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Dictatorship

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TIL 514107 Ka'epaoka'āwela is an asteroid that shares Jupiter's orbit but travels in the opposite direction. Aptly named the "Jupiter trickster," it is the first known object to maintain this stable "wrong-way" resonance, having avoided collision with Jupiter for at least a million years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/514107_Ka%CA%BBepaoka%CA%BB%C4%81wela

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TIL about the musical piece Symphony of Sirens, where the whole city of Baku was conducted by Arseny Avraamov from a rooftop by waving two red flags where he coordinated navy ship sirens, bus and car horns, factory sirens, cannons, the entire Soviet flotilla of the Caspian Sea and artillery guns
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221103-arseny-avraamov-the-man-who-conducted-a-city

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