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TIL: Human breast milk is kosher according to Jewish doctrine (mikvah.org)
submitted 3 hours ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
0 comments fedilink
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TIL boiling water can remove microplastics (pubs.acs.org)
submitted 11 hours ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that the year before Spinal Tap was released, British comedians made their own mockumentary about a spoof heavy metal band called Bad News (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 18 hours ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that blue reflectors on the road mean a fire hydrant is nearby. (99percentinvisible.org)
submitted 1 day ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Brad Kane (the actor that provided the singing voice for the original Aladdin) went on to become a writer for such shows as Black Sails and Tokyo Vice. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 day ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
0 comments fedilink
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TIL In 1939, Texas Tech and Centenary played football in torrential rain and mud. They had a combined NCAA record 77 punts, with a final score of 0-0. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 day ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
0 comments fedilink
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TIL: The Japanese video game, Persona 2, took 12 years to come to America, partially because of Hitler and swastikas being included. (www.gameinformer.com)
submitted 2 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
3 comments fedilink
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TIL that Chile and England briefly shared the same head of state when, in the 16th century, Mary I of England and her husband Philip II of Spain were made the King and Queen of Chile. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
0 comments fedilink
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TIL that in 12th grade Steve Wozniak made a fake bomb, laughed at the principal that disarmed it then electrocuted the guards at juvenile detention with 120v electricity. (spyscape.com)
submitted 4 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
26 comments fedilink
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TIL There's a marshmallow plant. It has been used since antiqity for a number of reasons, including a honey-sweetened confection for sore throats. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
2 comments fedilink
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TIL that between one-half and two-thirds of European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution came as indentured servants (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL of the Overtoun Bridge in Scotland. A place where dogs throw themselves off a fifty foot drop onto rocks at the rate of one to two per month. Some that don't die, climb back up for another go. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL the music video for Michael Jackson's 'Bad' was directed by Martin Scorsese. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
3 comments fedilink
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TIL most Japanese people eat sushi with their hands (cobosushi.com)
submitted 6 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
34 comments fedilink
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TIL: That the actor Tom Hanks is distant cousin of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln. Hanks also narrated a 2011 documentary about the former President, entitled Killing Lincoln. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
3 comments fedilink
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TIL about the Streisand effect, phenomenon in which an attempt to censor, hide, or otherwise draw attention away from something only serves to attract more attention to it. (www.britannica.com)
submitted 6 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that Stephen King decided on the location for the Shining, by opening an atlas and randomly pointing at a location, which happened to be Boulder, Colorado. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
0 comments fedilink
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TIL that Fecal transplant actually exist. (www.webmd.com)
submitted 4 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Old Sarum, an unhabited hamlet, was represented in the English and later British Parliament until 1832 (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 6 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
2 comments fedilink
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TIL that Kermit the Frog was inducted into the Library of Congress in their National Recording Registry for his song "The Rainbow Connection." (www.loc.gov)
submitted 6 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
0 comments fedilink
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TIL that audiences were so convinced that the film "The Battle of Algiers" was newsreel that the American distributors put a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 6 days ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that EA makes $420 millon/year off of the Sims 4 (www.netbet.co.uk)
submitted 1 week ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
11 comments fedilink
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TIL that undefeated heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano’s punch was tested by Boxing Illustrated in 1963, and found to have more explosive energy than an armour piercing bullet. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 week ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that despite the frequent assertion that lesbian relationships have the highest DV the source data paints a different picture. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 week ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Madonna turned down a role in The Matrix, one of the biggest regrets of her career (www.billboard.com)
submitted 1 week ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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