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TIL on James Cameron's 3rd dive to the Titanic, he & his pilot had "a near-death experience". They encountered a sandstorm on the ocean floor & became temporarily stuck there with low power supply & few batteries. It took them 3 attempts from the bottom to rise above 25 meters & surface 5 hrs later.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/subs-titanic-expeditions-1.6887824
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TIL that Target used to be known for having a "Design of the Decade" award-winning pill bottle design, ClearRx, but it was discontinued when their pharmacy division was sold to CVS in 2015. The patent was filed in 2005 so in 2025 the design will be fair for anyone to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearRx
https://redd.it/1e53pcj
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TIL that the fiction planet of Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where the Tatooine scenes were filmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tataouine
https://redd.it/1e5lfsy
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TIL JFK's older brother Joseph was being groomed as a presidential candidate when he was killed in a top-secret flying mission in WWII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Jr.
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TIL the iconic Windows 95 startup sound was produced by Brian Eno, the king of ambient music. He also composed it on a Mac computer and said that he doesn't like PCs and that he's never used one in his life.
https://themusicnetwork.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/
https://redd.it/1e5i9ah
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TIL in 1914 a boy threw a tennis ball that got stuck high up in an archway of the Lincoln Cathedral. Over 90 years later, the boy's nephew wrote a letter to the cathedral asking if he could have it back, though secretly hoping the cathedral would notice it and leave it in place.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/4175397.stm
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TIL Vincent Price did about 400 recordings for The Hilarious House of Frightenstein in four days and for about $13,000 in 1971, his standard appearance fee. The show itself only ran for one season.
https://frightenstein.com/show.html
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TIL Ismail I became a conqueror at age 12 when he rallied an army of 7000 troops and conquered all of modern day Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan and most surrounding regions. He became Shah of Iran and founded the Safavid dynasty at age 14, and is responsible for converting Iran to Shia Islam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_I
https://redd.it/1e4zaz3
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TIL that Harry Kane, an English professional footballer and captain of the England national team, considered one of the best players in the world, scoring over 400 goals, has never won a major trophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kane?wprov=sfla1
https://redd.it/1e4iw78
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TIL that Princess Liu Chuyu of the song dynasty complained to her brother that it wasn’t fair that he had concubines while she only had a husband. He agreed and gave her a harem of 30 men.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Chuyu
https://redd.it/1e4kgtn
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TIL that in 2017, a 16 year old girl died of complications from "Rapunzel Syndrome", which is a compulsion to eat your own hair
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-the-rapunzel-syndrome-can-be-deadly
https://redd.it/1e4p8wm
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TIL that mango skin contains the same rash causing oil as poison oak and poison ivy (urushiol) and consuming or handling the skin can cause skin irritation
https://acaai.org/resource/skin-symptoms-itching-hives-etc/
https://redd.it/1e3vg9o
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TIL that nearly 100 years ago researchers at Princeton University successfully turned a living cat into a functioning telephone. Using a series of electrodes, they captured the electrical signals from the cat's auditory nerves and converted them into sound waves.
https://universityarchives.princeton.edu/2017/04/the-cat-telephone/
https://redd.it/1e3x8d0
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TIL that on average, a drunk driver will drive under the influence 80 times before their first arrest.
https://www.sparkslawfirm.com/post/average-number-person-drives-drunk-before-getting-dui
https://redd.it/1e4953a
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TIL that until recently, steel used for scientific and medical purposes had to be sourced from sunken battleships as any steel produced after 1945 was contaminated with radiation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
https://redd.it/1e3spph
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TIL that in the US, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less. Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling once a year or less.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-truck-you-need-a-cowboy-costume
https://redd.it/1e6fvwr
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TIL Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones had four children before he turned 20, two of them before he was 18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jones#Relationships_and_fatherhood
https://redd.it/1e5gsin
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TIL during the Japanese wars of unification in the 16th century, while besieging an enemy castle, Toyotomi Hideyoshi purchased all the available rice in the province at several times the market price to aid in the process of breaking the resolve of the garrison. The siege only lasted 200 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tottori
https://redd.it/1e5crnd
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TIL that the candy company Mars Inc. is the largest owner of stand-alone veterinary clinics in the United States"
https://www.foodandpower.net/latest/2018/06/21/mars-buys-another-veterinary-network-as-a-candy-company-turned-pet-care-giant-furthers-its-influence-over-animal-health
https://redd.it/1e5q176
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TIL a woman became addicted to bee stings. It started as an occasional sting to relieve pain from arthritis, but it "spiraled into a full-blown addiction" at 15 stings a day and about 50,000 times total since she started.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/my-strange-addiction-bee-stings-video_n_2731993
https://redd.it/1e5ewox
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TIL that in Bali, there is law dictating that buildings (except in certain scenarios) cannot be taller than a coconut tree or 15m.
https://thebalisun.com/this-new-legislation-is-helping-protect-balis-natural-beauty-for-tourists/
https://redd.it/1e5l6hn
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TIL This iconic picture taken during the Vietnam War in 1967 is actually an Australian Battalion heading back to their base, Nui Dat
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C195204
https://redd.it/1e4oa27
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TIL “Double Sunrise” was a flight operated by Qantas in 1943 between Australia and Sri Lanka that used to take nearly 28 hours observing two sunrises
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Sunrise
https://redd.it/1e4nq9q
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TIL that in 2014, "Good Grief" was to be a reality TV show following a family owned mortuary, but never aired due to the stars of the show having been evicted from their building, leaving behind eight decaying bodies, and being convicted of having abused a corpse.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/lifetime-drops-reality-tv-show-on-fort-worth-mortuary/
https://redd.it/1e4t5e1
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TIL there are proposed plans to expand the US telephone system because the number of available new 3-digit area codes is expected to be used up by around 2050.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan_expansion
https://redd.it/1e4yapx
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TIL that a 12 year old boy enlisted to fight in WWI after lying about his age and fought in the Battle of the Somme at 13 before his mother revealed his true age and brought him home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_British_soldier_in_World_War_I
https://redd.it/1e4qlpb
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TIL Amazon used to manufacture "dash buttons" where if you press the button (which can be mounted anywhere) the product the button is linked to is automatically ordered
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245315/amazon-dash-buttons-discontinued
https://redd.it/1e3mvf0
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TIL that Australian scientists accidentally developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics while working on solar cells.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/australian-scientists-develop-pain-free-blood-sugar-test-diabetics-2021-07-13/
https://redd.it/1e3yg2w
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TIL that women tend to outlive men by an average of 7 years worldwide.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-men-often-die-earlier-than-women-201602199137
https://redd.it/1e464qt
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TIL that it was once proposed to bury nuclear waste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, with the theory that tectonic plate subduction would eventually push it down into the Earth's mantle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench#Possible_nuclear_waste_disposal_site
https://redd.it/1e47wm0
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