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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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Today I learned that eight elements were discovered in the village of Ytterby in Sweden, and four of these elements (yttrium, terbium, erbium, and ytterbium) were named after Ytterby itself. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Ernest Hemingway in order to assure F. Scott Fitzgerald about his penis size, personally examined it in a bathroom and confirmed the genitalia to be of average proportions. (en.wikipedia.org)
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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 just two of Dolly Parton’s songs (“Jolene” and “9 to 5”) gross about $6 million to $8 million per year in royalties (www.yahoo.com)
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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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TIL that JRR Tolkien never said Hobbits have unusually large feet. This notion was introduced by illustrators and later copied into other depictions. (tolkiengateway.net)
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TIL that Leo Fender, the founder of Fender Guitars, did not know how to play a guitar at all. (guitar.com)
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TIL that in 2011, Steve Whittaker, Researcher at IBM and Professor of Human Computer Interaction at UCSC, showed that Sorting Email into Folders is Mathematically Inferior to Searching and Scrolling. (people.ucsc.edu)
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TIL Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon. (www.snopes.com)
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TIL that George Carlin performed a 30 minute bit called, "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die" on September 10, 2001. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about Edward Dando, notorious glutton and dine-and-dasher in 1800's Britain, who would eat dozens of oysters, not pay, go to jail, get released, and promptly do it again (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL US soldiers are four times as likely to die by suicide than in combat (www.nbcnews.com)
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TIL the flying insect population has decreased ~60% since the year 2000 (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL former US President John Tyler joined the Confederates in the American Civil War. Tyler's death was the only one in presidential history not to be officially recognized in Washington, because o... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Match Day for medical residents exists in which a single organization chooses all medical residencies in a single day. This organization serves to keep the number of residencies low, causi... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the first chemotherapy drugs were chemical weapons related to mustard gas. Scientists noticed that mustard gas victims had reduced blood production, and speculated that injecting the chemi... (en.wikipedia.org)
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