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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger Pays $1 To Warner Bros Every Year For His Infamous Mr. Freeze Costume From Batman And Robin.
https://fandomwire.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-pays-1-to-warner-bros-every-year-after-for-his-infamous-mr-freeze-costume-from-batman-and-robin/
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TIL that during auditions for ‘That’s So Raven’, Raven-Symoné originally auditioned for the role of Chelsea Daniels, the main character’s best friend, but Raven was given the lead role because the audience responded well to her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_So_Raven#Development
https://redd.it/1f7e91p
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TIL 104 elevators operate in the Willis Tower, which require 80 miles of elevator cable. This includes 16 double-decker elevators. Some of the elevators are among the fastest in the world, capable of speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute (18 mph).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower
https://redd.it/1f7ay59
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TIL that in Uruguay, until 2017 if you caught your partner with another person in bed, you were within your rights to assault or kill any of the parties involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_passion#Uruguay
https://redd.it/1f7k6r3
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TIL that during WWII, women were hired as human computers working in clusters, and the term "kilogirl" was sometimes used to refer to 1,000 hours of female calculation.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-computers-180972202/
https://redd.it/1f7bvqe
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TIL that Coolio was actually in his early 30s when he recorded Gangsta's Paradise, and its iconic line "I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is goin' I don't know"
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/30/coolio-obituary
https://redd.it/1f7es7w
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TIL about Kavachi, a submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands. It has been nicknamed "Sharkcano", as it's home to two species of shark that have adapted to living in its hot, acidic environment
https://www.bbc.com/newsround/61607894
https://redd.it/1f6gz0u
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Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampum
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TIL Paul McCartney reached out to victims of the Lac-Megantic train disaster and gave free tickets to his Quebec City show to survivors two weeks after the incident. 47 people were killed from the explosion and about 2,000 people were forced to flee the area
https://globalnews.ca/news/729811/paul-mccartney-offers-free-show-tickets-to-lac-megantic-survivors/
https://redd.it/1f6k1dt
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TIL the Free French general Henri Giraud resented the British so much, he refused to board the escape submarine HMS Seraph. Thus the submarine became USS Seraph, received an American co-captain, and the crew affected American accents.
https://www.nmrn.org.uk/news/operation-mincemeat-hms-seraphs-special-operations-and-man-who-never-was
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TIL Moons can have moons and they're called "moonmoons"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsatellite
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TIL that "Crystal Glass" is refractive because it's made with Lead Oxide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass
https://redd.it/1f5lnwr
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TIL that a federal "Witness Tree Protection Program" exists to protect individual trees whose presence was documented at important historical events and are still standing today.
https://parktrust.org/blog/youve-heard-of-the-witness-protection-program-but-have-you-heard-of-the-witness-tree-protection-program/
https://redd.it/1f5mti0
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TIL the original lyrics to Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ were about crib death
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-metallicas-enter-sandman/
https://redd.it/1f5vrwd
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TIL David Cross (Tobias Funke Actor) has feuded with Larry the Cable Guy, James Lipton, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Creed's lead singer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cross#Criticisms_and_feuds
https://redd.it/1f5xj04
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TIL that the San people, one of the most genetically diverse group of people in the world, have separated from the rest of humans around 200,000 years ago, just a 100,000 years less from the lowest estimate of when humans separated from Neanderthals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people
https://redd.it/1f70k5a
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TIL of 'Dr' John R. Brinkley - a radio pioneer and fake physician. He would later make part of his fortune implanting goat testicles into humans to increase their virility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
https://redd.it/1f781wh
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TIL the first female detective in the US, Kate Warne, foiled at assassination attempt against President Lincoln when she was 23
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-kate-warne-americas-first-woman-detective-foiled-a-plot-to-assassinate-abraham-lincoln-180979829/
https://redd.it/1f74grg
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TIL that in 1937, seven North American beavers were released in Finland as an effort to boost the population of the Eurasian beaver (nearly hunted to extinction) before it was known that they were actually two distinct species. Today, approximately 12,000 North American beavers live in Finland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_beaver
https://redd.it/1f7awnr
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TIL that a man stranded in the bush in northern Saskatchewan cut electrical poles to attract the attention of workers and be rescued.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/stranded-man-cuts-power-poles-to-draw-attention-1.890115
https://redd.it/1f785jp
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TIL that Jean Baptiste Lully, a famous composer, died from gangrene after striking his own foot with a conducting staff
https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/conductor-killed-conducting-staff-ironic-death-jean-baptiste-lully
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TIL The Association to Stop Racism Against Black People was a private organization founded in Japan in 1988. Based in Sakai, Osaka, the association was noted for causing publishers around Japan to suspend printing localized versions of the picture book The Story of Little Black Sambo.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Association_to_Stop_Racism_Against_Blacks
https://redd.it/1f6flbc
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TIL Vitamin D is a hormone
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/whats-deal-vitamin-d
https://redd.it/1f6gtqa
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TIL Byron (Low-Tax) Looper, the Nominee for a seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives, who decided the only way to win was to murder his opponent. Despite being the only person left on the ballot, he still lost the election and was sentenced to life in prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper
https://redd.it/1f6i7yf
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TIL: Miyairi Norihiro is a modern legendary Japanese swordsmith who became the youngest person qualify as mukansa and won the Masamune prize in 2010. However, none of his blades are recognized as an ōwazamono as his blades would need to be tested on a cadaver or living person.
https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00116/
https://redd.it/1f6f0j4
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TIL the the movie Ricochet (1991) starring Denzel Washington and John Lithgow is set in the same fictional universe as Die Hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(1991_film)
https://redd.it/1f5maap
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TIL about the "Pigeon Paradox": During World War II, the British military used homing pigeons to carry messages. Despite advancements in technology, the pigeons were considered more reliable and less detectable than radio transmissions.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/spy-pigeons-167097967/
https://redd.it/1f5t180
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TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you/news-story/c577c19e272aadaa18bc82fe2a456957
https://redd.it/1f5higx
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TIL Leonardo da Vinci did detailed experiments to understand the nature of gravity long before Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/leonardo-da-vincis-forgotten-experiments-explored-gravity-as-a-form-of-acceleration
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TIL "The wondering whore" wa the first guide book about the city's prostitutes that circulated in London beginning in 1661. Even through it was actually a guide, it was written as if it was meant to instruct the "law abiding citizens" how to avoid the prostitutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%27s_List_of_Covent_Garden_Ladies
https://redd.it/1f5tkeb
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