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TIL that the sun is extremely loud
https://www.astronomy.com/observing/the-sun-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-hot/
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TIL the most effective surrender leaflet in WW2 was known as the "Passierschein". It was designed to appeal to German sensibilities for official, fancy documents printed on nice paper with official seals and signatures. It promised safe passage and generous treatment to any who presented it.
https://www.psywarrior.com/GermanSCP.html
https://redd.it/1ebb380
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TIL that sea drops by about 328 ft (100m) near Sri Lanka because gravity is anomalously weaker there
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/world/gravity-hole-geoid-low-indian-ocean-scn/index.html
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TIL that a video game was previously designed where one would play as Jack the Ripper brutally murdering prostitutes, except here these prostitutes would actually be vampires in disguise, thus making Jack the Ripper the hero in this game. This game was subsequently cancelled.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled
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TIL there's a jetty in Australia that's so long that one end is 2m higher than the other due to the curvature of the Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda,_Queensland#Economy
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TIL that during WWII, U.S. Navy cryptanalysts, led by Joseph Rochefort, tricked Japan into revealing their plans to attack Midway. By sending a fake uncoded message about a water shortage, they confirmed "AF" was Midway, allowing the U.S. to prepare and win the battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rochefort
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TIL in Britain during WW1, it was illegal to buy someone else a drink in a pub.
http://www.eastsussexww1.org.uk/alcohol-first-world-war/index.html
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TIL that the body of a 74-year-old woman who died of Alzheimer's in 2013 and whose son donated her body to Alzheimer's research was callously blown up by the U.S. Army for a "roadside bomb damage" experiment, despite her son's explicit wishes to exclude non-medical experiments and military use.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodybrokers-industry/
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TIL Squashing doesn't prevent ants in the house. Ants come and collect the squashed ants if you leave them there and they get a free meal. Ants will rarely have five per cent of the colony outside of the colony at any time
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/youve-got-ants-in-your-house-here-is-how-you-get-rid-of-them
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TIL that, in 1910, King Nicolas I of Montenegro ordered his male subjects to possess at least one "Gasser Pattern revolver", leading to these weapons becoming status symbols
https://gundigest.com/more/classic-guns/the-revolvers-of-montenegro
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TIL that in 2000, a British Airway flight plunged 30,000 feet in one minute after a mentally ill man stormed the cockpit and took control. The pilots subdued the man at 5,000 feet and were able to land at a nearby airport with minor injuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_2069
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TIL there is a burger shop in Memphis, TN that is using 100+ year old grease to fry their hamburgers
https://www.southernliving.com/travel/tennessee/dyers-burgers-memphis-history
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Today I learned Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin owned the same tortoise, name Harriet
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13115101
https://redd.it/1e8mosa
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TIL bacteria in our gut have sex to better absorb vitamin B12
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/02/01/human-gut-bacteria-have-sex-share-vitamin-b12#:~:text=Your%20gut%20bacteria%20need%20vitamin,order%20to%20take%20their%20vitamins.&text=Without%20vitamin%20B12%2C%20most%20types%20of%20living%20cells%20cannot%20function.
https://redd.it/1e8wt9o
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TIL 'Steve Jobs' is the name of an Italian clothing company created in 2012 when the creators realized that Apple never trademarked Jobs' name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(clothing_company)
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TIL that NASA proposed in 2017 that a "magnetic shield" placed between the Sun & Mars (Mars Lagrange point L1) could protect Mars' Atmosphere from being stripped away by solar wind.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25493/magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere/
https://redd.it/1eb43m9
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TIL a doctor named Chester Southam injected his patients with cancer without their consent to see how their bodies would react.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_M._Southam#Career
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TIL that Isaac Newton was named warden of the British Royal Mint, an honorary title with no actual duties. However, Newton took it seriously and would visit sketchy bars in disguise to investigate criminals. This resulted in 28 counterfeiting convictions!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Royal_Mint
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TIL commercials for prescription drugs were effectively banned from American television until the FDA eased restrictions in 1997
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5910355/#:~:text=While%20the%20first%20DTC%20advertisement,resources%20that%20consumers%20can%20be
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Today I learned that the United Kingdom and the State of Oregon have close to the same land mass. But Oregon population has only has about 4.25 million to the UK’s 68 million.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2009/04/british_dont_take_kindly_to_or.html
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TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_(painting)
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TIL pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value. The United States has lost nearly half a billion dollars minting pennies and nickels over the past 3 years(2021-2023).
https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-Annual-Report.pdf
https://redd.it/1eabc2g
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TIL For 15 years during the Cold War, the nuclear launch code for the United States was "00000000"
https://amuedge.com/for-15-years-americas-secret-nuclear-launch-codes-were-00000000/
https://redd.it/1eafg2e
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TIL a 6-year-old boy's family reportedly staged his kidnapping in order to scare him because he was "too nice" to strangers. His aunt's co-worker lured to him to his truck, told him he'd never "see his mommy again" & showed him a gun. After 4 hours, his family then lectured him about stranger danger
https://abcnews.go.com/US/accused-conspiring-kidnap-year-boy-nice-people/story?id=28764341
https://redd.it/1e9817p
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TIL all humans share a common ancestor called "Mitochondrial Eve," who lived around 150,000-200,000 years ago in Africa. She is the most recent woman from whom all living humans today descend through their mother's side. Her mitochondrial DNA lineage is the only one to persist to modern times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
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TIL Adelle Hugo, Victor Hugo's daughter, developed schizophrenia in her mid 20's, she became obsessed with a soldier she had initialy rejected and left her home in Jersey to stalk him across all his millitary deployments in Ireland, Canada and finally the Island of Barbados
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_Hugo
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TIL Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, continually hated his comic’s name throughout his life. Whenever he was asked what he did for a living, he avoided using the comic’s official name, and instead said, "I draw that comic strip with Snoopy in it, Charlie Brown and his dog".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts#Title
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TIL that the Guano Islands Act enables any American citizen to annex unclaimed islands containing seabird/bat excrement (guano) in the name of the United States (at the discretion of the President)
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title48/chapter8&edition=prelim
https://redd.it/1e8l9g3
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TIL when you sleep your brain gets washed with spinal fluid
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/05/discovering-the-brains-nightly-rinse-cycle/amp/
https://redd.it/1e8dnmo
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TIL: In 2018, Samsung had a historic "Fat-Finger" error where it accidentally gave every employee $9 million worth of shares in the company. The total amount distributed was $100billion more than 30x their market cap. Within 37minutes, 16 employees sold and the stock tanked 11%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Samsung_fat-finger_error
https://redd.it/1e8es4e
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