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TIL of Peter Kinloch, who went blind shortly after summiting Mount Everest and had to be abandoned by his team (www.theguardian.com)
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TIL that in 2017 all GPS coordinates in Australia were shifted 1.8 m to account for continental drift since the last update in 1994. Moving north 7 cm a year, the Australian plate is one of the fas... (theconversation.com)
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TIL Neapolitan ice cream's colors were originally green (pistachio), white (vanilla), and red/pink (cherry) to resemble the Italian flag. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL There is a maze of tunnels under Las Vegas and people live in them (www.deseret.com)
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TIL that an undefined number of rats, accused of destroying barley crops in 16th-century France, had a lawyer named Barthélemy de Chasseneuz. He cleverly sought delays, citing rats' age and health,... (www.grunge.com)
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TIL Yasushi Takahashi left behind his girlfriend for six months to wander across Japan to create an epic marriage proposal. Carrying a GPS, Yassan covered 7,163.7 km mostly by walking, but with som... (venturebeat.com)
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TIL that despite the popular belief that SOS stands for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls", it actually doesn't stand for anything. SOS was developed because it was an easy sequence of letters to ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL That spotting a “Masked Hunter” bug is almost always a sign that you have bedbugs! (uwm.edu)
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TIL According to the National Hole-in-One Registry, the odds of the average golfer making a hole-in-one (or ace) are 12,500 to 1 but a Tour player has a 3,000 to 1 chance of making an ace. (www.pga.com)
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TIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its star (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in 1927 the University of Michigan had two live Wolverines as mascots”Biff and Bennie”. However, they were so ferocious the players refused to carry them around and soon were too vicious to hav... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL There are consumers who are known as Harbingers of Failure. They have a knack for buying products that turn out to be market flops. "when the harbingers buy a product at least three times, it’s... (news.mit.edu)
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TIL Japan successfully floated balloon Bombs into the US during WW2, killing 6 people in Oregon "the war's only fatalities in the continental U.S". But, the US Government did such an effective job ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about “exclusion water” or the process of adding an extra hydrogen molecule to your water in order to “improve your life”. Snake oil never changes. (www.unsw.edu.au)
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TIL: The 1928 movie 'Noah's Ark'. While filming of the flood scene, 600,000 gallons of water was dropped on the set without warning the actors, so their reactions and fear on film were real. Three ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The Atari 2600 game "Extra Terrestrials" is almost unknown. Only 100 were produced and they were sold door to door locally in Ontario (arstechnica.com)
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TIL female Crocodiles can produce offspring asexually, without the need for fertilisation from a male (theconversation.com)
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TIL that the US had a maximum speed limit of 55 mph from 1974-1995. It was initially put in place to save fuel due to the oil crisis but was later promoted as a safety measure (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Pepperoni is a recent invention, created in 1919 by Italian immigrants in America. (www.dogtownpizza.com)
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TIL that the two great baroque composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel were both blinded by the same eye surgeon and known medical charlatan, John Taylor (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that “Madison” was nearly unheard of as a girls’ name until 1984. In the film “Splash,” released that year, Daryl Hannah’s character names herself Madison after reading a street sign. Tom Hanks... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Keanu Reeves has never won an Oscar, Golden Globe, or Emmy award of any kind. In fact, he has never even been nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, or Emmy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL many people overestimate how many calories bacon has in it. This is because companies list calories for it raw. When cooked, it loses approximately 70% of its calories. Therefore, 2 slices of b... (answerpantry.com)
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TIL of the 2010 Sauna World Championship, in which two competitors needed rescuing from a 230°F sauna due to receiving burns to their skin and airways, resulting in the death of one of the competit... (www.theguardian.com)
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TIL it’s Macaroni and Cheese Day, National Nude Day, and SpongeBob SquarePants’ birthday. (www.usatoday.com)
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