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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheLastRulerofMerv on 2024-11-17 04:03:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NiotaBunny on 2024-11-17 09:51:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GDW312 on 2024-11-17 08:42:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SanrioAndMe on 2024-11-17 06:27:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2004, Polaroid issued a statement advising people to do not actually shake your Polaroid pictures because shaking them would ruin them, shortly after the release of the song 'Hey Ya!' by OutKast and the song's lyrics "shake it like a Polaroid picture"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LynkedUp on 2024-11-17 03:54:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RealisticBarnacle115 on 2024-11-17 02:25:52+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Paschal Beverly Randolph, considered the first to introduce erotic alchemy to North America, promoted sex magic to improve health, love, women’s empowerment, and intelligent offspring. He referred God as both male and female and also believed bodies ran on electric currents, moved by magnetism.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RealisticBarnacle115 on 2024-11-17 04:30:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in Qigong theory, sexual excitement is believed to redirect energy from many pathways to the sexual organs, with ejaculation expelling it completely, leading to masturbation being seen as "energy suicide". A related Chinese proverb states, "a drop of semen equals ten drops of blood".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ycr007 on 2024-11-17 02:27:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PapaBubbl3 on 2024-11-17 02:31:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Washington Harrison Donaldson, the real-life inspiration for the titular Wizard of Oz. He was a circus magician, gymnast, and ventriloquist who disappeared in a hot air balloon never to be seen again.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ConfuciusCubed on 2024-11-17 00:18:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ItsManky on 2024-11-17 03:37:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the number of US federal government employees has hovered between approx. 2.7Mil and 3Mil since 1967. Lowering the per capita ratio from 1.5 employees per 100 people to 0.9 employees per 100 people.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JackThaBongRipper on 2024-11-16 20:49:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during World War 1, Belgian pilot Willy Coppens came under fire from an enemy observation ballon during an attack run. In response he landed his plane on top of the ballon and turned off his engine. When the ballon descended he slid off and flew away.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Key-Opinion-1700 on 2024-11-16 19:43:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2024-11-16 23:27:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/borderbox on 2024-11-16 17:32:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2006, Scott Stapp of Creed filed a lawsuit to block the release of a sex video involving himself, Kid Rock, and four women. The suit was settled with the defendant agreeing to pay Stapp an undisclosed sum and to refrain from distributing the video.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mfairview on 2024-11-16 23:11:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/haddock420 on 2024-11-16 20:06:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JimPalamo on 2024-11-16 18:25:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the McLaren F1 is so valuable now, that it is essentially impossible for one to be "written off" by an insurance company, since the repair costs will always be less than the value of the car. Furthermore, McLaren will fully repair a crashed F1, no matter how substantial the damage.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Super_Goomba64 on 2024-11-16 21:26:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/m2pt5 on 2024-11-16 20:15:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OperationSuch5054 on 2024-11-16 17:03:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In the 1990's, the British Police tried to ban the Lotus Carlton and the government condemned advertising of the vehicle. It could reach 176mph and Police vehicles at the time could not keep up during a pursuit.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JackThaBongRipper on 2024-11-16 16:04:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that on January 6th, 1853, a tragic train derailment killed the 11 year old son of Franklin Pierce, who was President-Elect of the United States at the time. His wife believed that the accident was God punishing them because Pierce ran for President against her wishes.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/vanchica on 2024-11-16 11:27:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the Kebaran culture- 21,000-13,000 BCE- hunter-gatherer-foragers who used stone tools but possessed bow and arrow technology, grain grinding tools (all stone) and who had a role in the domestication of dogs. They also used symbolic art and created markings whose purpose is not yet known.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/trey0824 on 2024-11-16 21:16:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Mozart died in 1791, leaving his ‘Requiem in D minor’ unfinished. His student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed the work using Mozart’s sketches, creating the version most widely performed today.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/T-Rex-Hunter on 2024-11-16 15:34:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL, that Painless Parker was a street dentist that created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon while a band played. The band attracted large crowds and hid the moans and cries of patients who were given whiskey or a cocaine solution.