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12 Jul 2025 18:49

TIL a man with Alzheimer's forgot he was married — and then fell in love with his wife all over again. He proposed again, and they had a second wedding... [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 17:49

TIL that the final payment on German debts in regards to World War One reparations was made on October 3rd, 2010. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 16:49

TIL about banker's rounding, where a half-integer is rounded to the closest even integer. For example, 0.5 is rounded to 0, and 1.5 is rounded to 2. This is intended to remove the bias towards the larger number that comes with rounding 0.5 up during approximate calculations. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 13:49

TIL the largest sporting disaster in history was in Ancient Rome, where 50,000 people died after an amphitheatre collapsed in 27 CE [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 09:49

TIL that Saddam Hussein had a Blood Quran written with 27 liters of his own blood [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 08:49

TIL that Bryan Cranston's father, Joseph Cranston, abandoned the family during Bryan's youth after being unable to get enough acting jobs to support them. They would not meet for another 11 years. In 1988, Bryan would star in 'The Big Turnaround' which was directed by his very own father Joseph [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 06:49

TIL Sudden rodent die off can signal an incoming plague. Patient in AZ died today from bubonic plague. HHS in AZ are concerned about sudden prairie dogs deaths. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 03:49

TIL Muhammad Ali's daughter, Laila, is considered one of the greatest female professional boxers of all time. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 01:49

TIL that Sweden required bars and clubs to get a dance permit for people to legally dance, permits were introduced as a way to prevent public disorder which led to riots. In 2016, Sweden voted to end the rule that made bars get a license for dancing a law that dated back to the 1970s. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 22:49

TIL that nearly 2 out of every 3 revolvers sold in the US are made by a Brazilian company.

Taurus, based in Brazil, dominates the American revolver market with a staggering 61% share [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 21:49

TIL that the invention of the bicycle was sparked by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The resulting Year Without a Summer caused crop failures and horse die-offs, which pushed Karl Drais to create the first bicycle as an alternative to horse travel. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 21:49

TIL Craigslist generated $302 million of revenue in 2024 with no spending on marketing or advertising and no sales team. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 20:49

TIL your eyes rotate torsionally in their sockets durring head tilt and its not just post processing by our brain! [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 19:49

TIL skydiving instructor Devrey LaRiccia & her student Kayla Black both died during a tandem jump after they encountered 2 dust devils (rapid rotating whirlwinds) at about 40 feet. LaRiccia managed to avoid one, but got caught in the other, which sent them in an uncontrolled spin to the ground. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 17:49

TIL that in 1783, two French scientists became the first humans to ascend nearly 10,000 feet using a hydrogen balloon over Paris just 10 days after the first ever manned balloon flight. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 18:49

TIL between 1999 and 2015, 736 UK Post Office workers were wrongly convicted for stealing money due to faulty accounting software. Workers were forced to pay back nonexistent losses with their own money and some were even sent to jail for a crime they did not commit. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 16:49

TIL there are over 8,330 different vehicle license plate choices in the US, with Maryland leading the most options at 989 plates. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 15:49

TIL in 1994 Jim Carrey became first actor to headline three number one movies at the box office in the same year with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 11:49

TIL Ben Affleck’s habit of ad-libbing annoyed Kevin Smith so much during Chasing Amy that Smith told him to write his own script. Affleck ending up co-writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon and won an Oscar. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 08:49

TIL England and Ireland had sumptuary laws preventing lower classes from eating, drinking and dressing like the typical elite class, after the economic boost to peasants post the black death plague. [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 06:49

TIL that the world's oldest known prosthetic device is a 3,000-year-old wooden toe found on an Egyptian mummy. The "Cairo Toe" shows signs of wear, indicating it was actually used by its owner during their lifetime, not just attached for burial purposes [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 05:49

TIL that approximately 1 in every 5-6 million boys are born with two penises [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 01:49

TIL about ‘The 9 Nanas,’ a group of women who secretly met at 4am for 30 years to anonymously help people in need, sending care packages with pound cake and notes saying ‘Somebody loves you.’ [Source]

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12 Jul 2025 00:49

TIL about Tsunami stones. They are ancient markers in Japan, often inscribed with warnings about past tsunamis. Placed after disasters, they advise future generations to build homes on higher ground to avoid deadly waves. Some date back centuries. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 21:49

TIL that the city of Melbourne in Australia was briefly known as Batmania in 1835, named after one of its founders, John Batman. It was officially renamed Melbourne in 1837 after the British Prime Minister at the time, Lord Melbourne. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 21:49

TIL while suffering dementia near the end of her life, Harriet Beecher Stowe re-wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin nearly word-for-word believing it was a new book. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 20:49

TIL that in 2013, 15 Australian miners were fired for performing the 'Harlem Shake' in a gold mine [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 20:49

TIL the F.B.I finds it hard to hire hackers because you can't have smoked weed in the last 3 years [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 17:49

TIL the Corona Muralis was a golden battlement-shaped crown awarded to the first Roman soldier or centurion who climbed the wall of a besieged city and to successfully place the standard of the attacking army upon it. [Source]

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11 Jul 2025 16:49

TIL: Enrique Iglesias's grandfather conceived a child who was born 7 months after he died, at age 90 [Source]