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15 Jul 2025 16:49

TIL as of July 2024, only 4 states (NY, Massachusetts, Maryland, & New Jersey) have more landline phone users than those without landline phones [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 16:27

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15 Jul 2025 14:49

TIL Pornography is largely illegal in South Korea, with the exception of social media, which is a common source of legal pornography there. [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 11:49

TIL that men stop buying underwear during tough economic times, making it a nifty leading indicator for recession. [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 09:49

TIL that unless specifically limited by a contract, record companies may release as many greatest hits albums by their recording artist as they wish without requiring the artist's agreement or permission. [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 04:49

TIL there is a Filipino dish called pinapaitan, a kind of goat stew. It is seasoned with the goat’s bile (which makes it bitter) and offal, such as tripe, kidneys, liver, heart, intestines, pancreas, spleen, hide, or blood. One researcher suggested that men consume the dish as a display of machismo. [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 01:49

TIL that the human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause penile, anal and mouth/throat cancer in men in addition to cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancer in women [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 23:49

TIL most living areas in ancient Roman Cities lacked any kitchen area, with most citizens either getting food from from a communal kitchen or buying prepared foods from street vendors [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 22:49

TIL in 2001, the managing director of Aston Manor, Britain’s 3rd-biggest cidery, plotted to contaminate the market leader, Bulmer’s, with yeast that would cause vomiting. The employee paid to introduce the yeast reported him to the police, and he was jailed for 18 months [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 20:49

TIL about Dudeism. A modern form of Taoism, stripped of its metaphysical and medical doctrines, that emerged from the cult classic The Big Lebowski. It advocates for “going with the flow”, “being cool headed”, & “taking it easy” in the face of life’s difficulties. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 18:49

TIL That Vanilla beans are the product of the world's only fruit-producing orchid, the Vanilla planifolia [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 16:49

TIL the oldest human footprints ever found outside Africa are nearly 1 million years old, and were discovered on a beach in Norfolk, England. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 14:49

TIL Citibank accidentally paid $893 million to Revlon's lenders in 2020, instead of $7.8 million that they meant to, mostly due to bad U.I. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 13:49

TIL Prince Charles & Princess Diana only met in person 13x before getting engaged and when they were asked if they were in love, Charles said "whatever in love means". Then on the night before their wedding, he reportedly told her that he didn't love her in order to get everything out in the open. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 11:49

TIL the name of the Australian outback town Coober Pedy, where almost everyone lives underground, translates to whitefellas hole in Aboriginal [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 16:49

TIL that the longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada claimed to have communicated with Leonardo da Vinci, Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, his grandfather, and several of his dead dogs, as well as the spirit of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 15:49

TIL Tetris is used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 13:49

TIL that a Filipino king died visiting China's Ming Emperor in the 15th century. His two sons stayed in China to tend his tomb, converted to Islam, and intermarried with locals. Today their descendants number around 3,700. [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 09:49

TIL that Casanova, the famous womanizer, wrote a five-volume story about an underground world inhabited by dwarves [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 06:49

TIL that president Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest while giving a speech in 1912,but instead of going to the hospital, he insisted on finishing the speech first. He talked for over 80 minutes with a bullet lodged in his ribs, saying, It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. Absolute mad! [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 03:49

TIL Pope Leo X buried his pet elephant beneath the Vatican courtyard [Source]

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15 Jul 2025 00:49

TIL that in February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included an indigestible pigment that turned some children's feces pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Franken Berry stool". [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 22:49

Today I learned of Coturnism, or quail poisoning, where eating quail can cause spontaneous muscle breakdown, or Rhabdomyolysis. This happens if the quail you eat ate poisonous plants. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 20:49

TIL that in 1978, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London with a ricin pellet fired from a modified umbrella—likely by Bulgarian secret police with KGB help. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 19:49

TIL that the Tex-Mex dish nachos was created by a hotel worker named Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya to feed hungry guests one night after the hotel chef had left. The dish was so popular it was added to the menu as “Nacho’s Special”. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 17:49

TIL Willie Nelson released an album called “The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?” with all the proceeds going to the IRS in order to clear his tax debts. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 14:49

TIL actor Johnny Lewis killed his 81 year old landlady and her cat, attacked neighbors, then died from a fall. No drugs or alcohol were found in his system. His death was ruled accidental, and some believe untreated head trauma led to his violent behavior. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 14:49

TIL Kansai International Airport in Japan averages 20-30 million passengers a year and it has not lost a single piece of luggage since opening in 1994. [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 12:49

TIL that the countries on the Indian subcontinent have won less gold medals at the Olympics (14 golds in total) than the Baltic countries (25), despite having more than 300x the population [Source]

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14 Jul 2025 10:49

TIL about the Mirror Test, a method for determining whether a non-human animal has the ability of self-recognition when looking into a mirror. Elephants, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, dolphins and manta rays have successfully passed the test. [Source]