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TIL that Berkshire Hathaway has never had a stock split and each share trades at over US$400,000. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL That eggplants, tomatoes and avocados are botanically classified as berries but that a strawberry is not a berry at all. (carnegiemuseums.org)
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TIL Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who obtained secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee in the French embassy, during a 20-year-long sexual affair in which ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Limp Bizkit's "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water" is the fastest-selling rock album ever in the United States. It broke the seven year record held by Pearl Jam for their album "... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL when Blink 182 recorded Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, their manager said there was no 'good-time summer anthem', Tom and Mark responded 'You want a fucking single? I'll write you the cheesies... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The Goonies director Richard Donner was eager to return home to Hawaii after a hectic shoot with a cast of kids. He said "I love ’em to pieces, but I can’t stand it anymore!’ After shooting wra... (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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TIL at least one of the victims of the Vesuvius Eruption in 79 C.E was found with a vitrified brain. In other words their brain was turned to glass due to the extreme heat. (www.nejm.org)
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TIL an Australian rancher noticed cattle drinking rainwater that had collected in a mysterious metal object on his property which, after an investigation, turned out to be the end cap from one of S... (spectrum.ieee.org)
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TIL that instead of using pesticides, the Mexican state of Coloma releases billions of sterile fruit flies who then outcompete the fertile ones for mates. (www.iaea.org)
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TIL: Congress doesn't actually pass a law against child pornography until 1996. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in 1945, as a high school sophomore, Buffett and a friend spent $25 to purchase a used pinball machine, which they placed in the local barber shop. Within months, they owned several machin... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Cal Polytechnic placed a commemorative plaque at the bathroom where “Weird Al” Yankovic recorded his breakthrough song “My Bologna” in 1979. It is humorously known as “Studio 229.” (slate.com)
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TIL: The Spotify API was used to analyze the BPM and energy rating of over 900 songs to determine which songs negatively affected driving. "Don't Get Me Wrong" was the most dangerous song with a ri... (www.edriving.com)
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TIL New Mexico is the first (and so far only) US state to have an official "state aroma", the scent of roasting green chiles. (www.lcsun-news.com)
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TIL there are people who can smell ants (www.newshub.co.nz)
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Today I learned someone paid $2M for a sealed 1985 NES Super Mario Bros. (www.polygon.com)
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TIL There's a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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TIL at a 2005 congressional hearing, mentions of the Sedan nuclear test was incorrectly transcribed as "Sudan" in the record. Sudanese officials later stated that they "take this issue seriously an... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the origin of why married couples become 'one' & women take their husband's surname dates back to the 1600s, where coverture prohibited women from having any legal identity or rights b... (www.brides.com)
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TIL that one time Britain took revenge on a huge fatberg blocking London's sewers by turning it into biodiesel. The 2017 fatberg weighed 130 tons and was over 250 meters (820 ft) long, consisting o... (www.museumoflondon.org.uk)
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TIL that the Netherlands' first mobile phone network was super unsafe. Spies could listen in on phone calls. Hackers discovered that they could steal any phone number or get new phone numbers by mo... (www.cryptomuseum.com)
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