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02 March 2026 17:49

TIL that Amazon patented a wristband in 2018 that was designed to track warehouse workers’ hand movements in real time and direct them via vibrations. [Source]

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02 March 2026 14:49

TIL that after Malcolm X’s assassination, the Audubon Ballroom was cleaned up and a party was held later that same night. [Source]

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02 March 2026 12:49

TIL that the Samurai era in Japan and the American Wild West were happening at the same time. [Source]

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02 March 2026 10:49

TIL the son of Queen Victoria's 8th son was an important figure in the Nazi party and a member of Reichstag from 1936 to 1945 [Source]

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02 March 2026 06:49

TIL Richard of Shrewsbury was knighted before 2 years old, married at 4, widowed at 8, then likely murdered at 9. [Source]

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02 March 2026 03:49

TIL that the last known individual dinosaur was a triceratops that lived as recently as several thousand years before the K–Pg extinction event. No younger dinosaur fossils have yet been found. [Source]

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02 March 2026 01:49

TIL On 30 December 1999, Beatle George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, were brutally attacked in their home, Friar Park, by an intruder named Michael Abram which resulted in George suffering 40 stab wounds, one narrowly missing his heart. [Source]

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01 March 2026 23:49

TIL the Marquis de Lafayette was made a major general in the Continental Army when he came to support the Americans in the Revolutionary War at age 19, despite never holding a rank above Captain in the French army—a rank he received as a wedding present. [Source]

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01 March 2026 22:49

TIL that Philo Farnsworth, the man who invented television, only appeared on a TV program one time. In 1957 he appeared on the quiz show I've Got A Secret. His secret was "I invented electronic television", which stumped the panel. For winning he received $80 and a carton of cigarettes. [Source]

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01 March 2026 21:49

TIL over 40 years researcher Ian Stevenson, M.D, amassed 3000 cases of children aged 2-5 who claimed to remember past lives, recalling specific details like names, locations and events from the previous lives of deceased individuals. [Source]

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01 March 2026 20:49

TIL that the first atomic clock, built in 1955, was so accurate it would lose only about one second every 300 years making it more precise than the Earth’s rotation. [Source]

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01 March 2026 19:49

TIL that in some parts of World War I trench warfare, opposing soldiers informally agreed not to fire at each other during quiet periods, a phenomenon historians call “live and let live.” [Source]

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01 March 2026 18:49

TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio improvised the line “I’m the king of the world!” during filming of Titanic , and James Cameron almost cut it from the movie. [Source]

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01 March 2026 17:49

Til the amphibian ark, a program established in 2007 to collect amphibians before they go extinct with the goal of using these collections to stabilize or re-establish wild population facing extinction [Source]

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01 March 2026 14:49

TIL in 2016 researchers observed a female orangutan enlist the help of a male to kill another female. This is the first time a female orangutan has been observed killing another female. It's "highly unusual" that the female enlisted the help of only one other individual & also one of a different sex [Source]

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02 March 2026 16:49

TIL Tamzin Merchant was originally cast to play Danaerys Targaryen in the unaired pilot of Game of Thrones. She was later replaced by Emilia Clarke when the pilot was poorly received and subsequently remade. [Source]

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02 March 2026 13:49

TIL: The Great Khan had a silver tree that dispensed 4 types of alcohol so that he never ran out. [Source]

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02 March 2026 11:49

TIL that female stoats become reproductively mature at 15 days old, while they're still suckling and blind. Adult males will mate with said immature females, which then successfully give birth next year. [Source]

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02 March 2026 07:49

TIL in 2019 Indian magician Chanchal Lahiri drowned in the Hooghly River while attempting a Houdini trick, he was lowered into the water while shackled but did not emerge, his body was found the next day [Source]

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02 March 2026 05:49

TIL that Julius Yego, who famously taught himself Javelin through the internet, is still competing at the elite level 11 years after his famous World Championship win in 2015. At the 2025 World Championships he made it to the final and placed 6th. [Source]

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02 March 2026 02:49

TIL that in 2018 there was a diplomatic spat between India and Pakistan due to accusations that diplomats were ringing each other's doorbells at 3.00am, then running away. [Source]

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01 March 2026 23:49

TIL About the bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi), a fish newly discovered off the coast of California [Source]

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01 March 2026 23:49

TIL the first successful large scale slave rebellion was the Haitian Revolution. Spanning 1791 - 1804 the enslaved Africans of Haiti rebelled against Napoleon's rule, to earn their freedom. It is one of the only slave rebellions that ended in a state free of slavery, and ruled by former slaves [Source]

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01 March 2026 21:49

TIL of Ian Waterman, who was unable to move or even sit up after a rare infection destroyed his sixth sense (proprioception). While he could still compel his muscles to contract, he lost the ability to coordinate his movements, only relearning to move after years of training to use his body. [Source]

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01 March 2026 20:49

TIL the San Diego Zoo grew out of exotic animal exhibitions abandoned after the 1915 Panama–California Exposition. It was cheaper to leave the animals behind than transport them back to where they came from [Source]

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01 March 2026 19:49

TIL that in 2010, a man in Georgia dislocated his jaw at Which Wich by attempting to eat their Double Wicked Sandwich: it consists of double-portioned beef, bacon, turkey, ham, pepperoni and three cheeses. The man declined to sue them, only wanting a new Double Wicked as his friend ate the original. [Source]

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01 March 2026 18:49

TIL Iran was a secular democracy until the USA and Britain overthrew their government in 1953 for their oil and installed the Shah. [Source]

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01 March 2026 18:49

TIL Pluto has not completed a full orbit of the Sun since it was discovered in 1930, and was named by an 11yr old girl. [Source]

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01 March 2026 16:49

TIL Teddy Roosevelt would regularly stage and participate in boxing matches, sometimes with professionals, while in the White House. [Source]

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01 March 2026 13:49

TIL Late in his reign, Marcus Aurelius decided to wave the fiscus, the tax on the sale of gladiators, thus making it cheaper to host games. The decision was so popular among the elite that the transcript of the senate debate was carved in stone and broze across the empire, via private initiative [Source]