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TIL Hawaii’s ecosystem has no seagulls (travelopea.com)
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TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islands (www.yahoo.com)
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TIL The first case of a DUI was a London Cabbie named George Smith who was swerving all over the place on September 10th, 1897 shortly after midnight. He was fined 20 schillings and told to be more... (blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
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TIL that symbols to denote irony or sarcasm in print have been around since at least the 1500s (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The proposed Helsinki-Tallinn Railway Tunnel, when completed, will be the largest underground tunnel in the world. It will help to reduce time to cross the current Gulf of Finland route from tw... (www.railway-technology.com)
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TIL that in 2014 Steven Seagal released a Jamaican Dancehall song called "Strut" featuring the most x-rated local female artist of that time. He sings the song in a fake Jamaican accent. (www.youtube.com)
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TIL Helen Viola Jackson who died in December 2020 was the last surviving civil war veteran’s spouse. She was married to someone alive at the time of Abraham Lincoln (people.com)
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TIL Tamara Torlakson pooped her pants while running a marathon and still set her personal best. (www.insider.com)
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TIL that new chemotherapy can kill all solid tumors in animal trials and the treatment will now begin trials on humans. (interestingengineering.com)
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TIL a physician successfully avoided incriminating DNA evidence being gathered from him for 5 years by implanting a tube of foreign blood and anticoagulants in his arm, from which he made sure all ... (www.wikipedia.org)
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TIL, Water intoxication can happen if you drink too much water too fast and can be deadly (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: TIL that marshmallows were originally made from a plant called marshmallow (mallows that grew in marshes). The root of the marshmallow plant is high in mucilage, which is a type of gel that gi... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the term “gaslighting” originates in a British play-turned film from the 1930s. The play was called “Gas Light” and the plot is about a husband who mentally and emotionally manipulates his wife... (woventraumatherapy.com)
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TIL some boys used to be castrated so as to keep their soprano voices due to not reaching sexual maturity. Their rib cages were also bigger allowing them more lung and vocal capacity. There is only... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of Rick Ennis, who brutally murdered his parents in 1993 when he was 12 years old. Then at the age of 42, was again charged and convicted of killing a woman named Lori Slesinski. (www.cbsnews.com)
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TIL: Inmates are not allowed to wear wigs or artificial hairpieces. (www.ecfr.gov)
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TIL that 25% of all known animal species are beetles (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a Billy Joel biopic called "Piano Man" has been greenlit, but no rights for Joel's music, name/likeness, or life story were granted (variety.com)
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TIL the Eiffel Tower has been painted nearly twenty times. It’s been shades of red, yellow, brown, and grey, and has never been painted black. (www.toureiffel.paris)
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TIL: Saad Abe was a famous Geisha, who after 2+ hours of intimacy and erotic choking, killed her lover, cut off his penis and balls and began carrying them around until her arrest and practiced nec... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that when you snap your fingers, the noise is made when your finger slaps your palm, not when the fingers flick past each other. (askdruniverse.wsu.edu)
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TIL that scientists thought Rhizocophala, a group of parasitic barnacles, were hermaphroditic, as many other barnacles. But then they discovered the "testes" were actually males living inside the f... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that all but three mammals have seven cervical (neck) vertebrae, the exceptions being the manatee (6), two-toed sloth (5 or 6), and three-toed sloth (9). (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL In 1990, a game called "KZ Manager" was released, where you play the part of a Nazi Concentration Camp Commandant. The game is a 'rollercoaster tycoon' style management game and is banned in Ge... (en.wikipedia.org)
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