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TIL Ken Norton broke Muhammad Ali’s jaw in their first fight. However it is disputed which round this was in, with Ali’s camp claiming it was round one and Norton’s saying it was round 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_Ali_vs._Ken_Norton&wprov=rarw1
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TIL about Lena Zavaroni, a Scottish singer who was the youngest person in history to have an album in the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart at the age of 10, when she also performed with Frank Sinatra. She sadly died at the age of 35 from pneumonia following an operation to cure her depression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Zavaroni
https://redd.it/1h8tuv8
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TIL the highest revenue Panda Express location in the world is located in a mall food court in Honolulu, Hawaii.
https://www.foodbeast.com/news/the-most-successful-panda-express-in-the-world-makes-over-4-mil-a-year/
https://redd.it/1h94a2l
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TIL Chicken a la Maryland was served on the last menu of the Titanic voyage, which is fried chicken topped with sautéed banana
https://marylandsbest.maryland.gov/chicken-a-la-maryland/
https://redd.it/1h8z71r
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TIL that powered flight has independently evolved four times in history: in bats, birds, pterosaurs, and insects.
https://www.scienceworld.ca/stories/evolution-flight/
https://redd.it/1h909ds
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TIL 66% of Fortune 500 companies and more than half of all publicly traded corporations listed in the New York Stock Exchange are incorporated in Delaware because of its corporate friendly laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_General_Corporation_Law
https://redd.it/1h87rdk
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TIL there is still one actor from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz alive, Caren Marsh Doll, who was Judy Garland's stand-in, and it is in fact her feet seen in the film when Dorothy taps the heels of the slippers together. Caren is 105 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_Marsh_Doll
https://redd.it/1h835b2
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TIL a violent Welsh Nationlist movement attempted to bomb Prince Charles in 1969, only for their bomb to accidentally detonate a day early, killing two of the bombers.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/prince-charles-investiture-bombs-how-15805211.amp
https://redd.it/1h81s6h
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TIL: Brandolini's law aka the Bullshit asymmetry principle: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
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TIL that an $80 Windows program sold in 1995 claimed to double your system’s RAM. Researchers found that it just changed a system setting users could change for free, and reported false system information to the user. After an FTC settlement, buyers got a $10 refund.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM
https://redd.it/1h81xnm
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TIL: 1993’s Macarena (which inspired one of largest dance crazes in history) song lyrics are about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend when he enlists in the military by having a ménage à trois with two other men.
https://boingboing.net/2021/08/03/the-macarena-is-25-years-old-its-about-a-threesome-hey-macarena.html/amp
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TIL that Charlie Cox failed an audition for the Han Solo film because he got used to not making eye contact while playing Daredevil.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlie-cox-daredevil-work-messed-up-han-solo-audition/
https://redd.it/1h72jb3
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TIL that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas argued that plants, geographic features, and even air deserve legal standing to sue for their own protection against modern technology and life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club_v._Morton#Further_reading
https://redd.it/1h7lh6d
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TIL in 1828 two men from Edinburgh made a business out of killing people and selling their bodies to Robert Knox, an anatomist seeking bodies for dissection. They killed about 16 people and sold them for £7-£10 each. The suppliers were convicted, but despite public pressure, Knox wasn't charged
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
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TIL a TV show saved the life of a dying man, who had been denied coverage by an HMO for a pancreas transplant, by staging a mock funeral outside the company's headquarters. The company agreed to pay for the operation a week later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXkpxV7mnqY
https://redd.it/1h7bumd
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TIL the universe is not "locally real"—the evidence provided by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients John Clauser, Alain Aspect, & Anton Zeilinger, who showed that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings ("local") and may also lack definite properties prior to measurement ("real").
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/11/scientists-win-2022-nobel-prize-by-proving-that-reality-is-not-locally-real.html
https://redd.it/1h90e23
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TIL that George Orwell was very into pranks growing up. Amongst his more malicious, was to create an advertisement which implied his college tutor John Crace was a pederast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
https://redd.it/1h8z4v2
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TIL James Cameron earned $350 million from Avatar (2009) which is the biggest financial haul ever for a movie director from a single film.
https://deadline.com/2010/07/exclusive-james-cameron-will-make-record-setting-350m-from-avatar-52767/
https://redd.it/1h8v2pc
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TIL that Matthew McConaughey has a brother named Rooster, who named his son Miller Lite and his daughter Margarita
https://marrieddivorce.com/actor/rooster-mcconaughey.html
https://redd.it/1h8uai6
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TIL Jon Favreau, creator of The Book of Boba Fett, confirmed to Patton Oswalt that the scene of Fett's hand reaching out of the sand to escape from the Sarlacc pit was cut to match Oswalt's description of it in his improvised filibuster pitch for Star Wars: Episode VII on an episode of Parks & Rec.
https://www.slashfilm.com/1600801/the-book-of-boba-fett-copied-patton-oswalt-star-wars-filibuster/
https://redd.it/1h92emz
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TIL Strawberries and bell peppers have more Vitamic C than oranges
https://chicagohealthonline.com/12-foods-with-more-vitamin-c-than-oranges/
https://redd.it/1h88w0s
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TIL that from the 1800s through the 1970s, a secret pseudo-language was used amongst British entertainers, sailors, and criminals. It was a mixture of Italian, Romani, Yiddish and rhyming slang, and originated the modern slang terms “acdc,” “butch,” “camp,” “ogle” and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
https://redd.it/1h8a813
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TIL Converse sneakers have a thin layer of felt on the bottom so that they can legally be classified as slippers and be subjected to lower import costs.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/17/3-outrageously-creative-ways-companies-beat-the-sy.aspx
https://redd.it/1h7ycva
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TIL in 1996, LAC Colombia Flight 028 crashed into a playing field after two engines were shut off shortly after takeoff. The pilot had shut off the engines in order to prank the co-pilot, and they could not be reactivated in time with the low altitude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAC_Colombia_Flight_028
https://redd.it/1h8c5uc
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TIL that Keanu Reeves once rescued a woman stranded on the roadside by pushing her broken and dirty car. That woman was Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmBJdx7peo&ab_channel=TheMeredithVieiraShow
https://redd.it/1h873fr
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TIL: The Befana, is an Italian witch like woman who delivers gifts to children like Santa, but on Jan 5 with broomstick, gives garlic to bad children, and sweeps before she leaves. It was banned for a few years in 1977 to reduce holidays to help the economy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana
https://redd.it/1h79eym
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TIL Dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994 due to fears that they could spread diseases to the native seal population.
https://www.chrisdobo.com/there-are-no-more-dogs-in-antarctica.html
https://redd.it/1h7n1pt
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TIL that in 2024, scientists confirmed the moon has a constantly regenerating thin water layer caused by solar wind. Hydrogen ions from the sun react with oxygen in lunar soil to form water molecules, making it a surprising water factory in space despite its dry, airless environment!
https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/09/scientists-confirm-water-all-over-the-moon/
https://redd.it/1h787nz
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TIL 80% of the theatrical productions on Broadway lose money; a failure rate that has remained "unchanged for years."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tony-awards-2016-broadway-is-booming-so-why-do-most-shows-still-lose-money/
https://redd.it/1h75sep
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TIL the first person known to have been killed by an automobile was a naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ward_(scientist)
https://redd.it/1h7j2ul
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