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Jul 24, 2020

TIL the hotel where Jeremy Clarkson assaulted Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon now bears a plaque commemorating the event.

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Jul 24, 2020

TIL According to a study's preliminary results, when shopping, consumers respond rationally for the first 23 minutes, then they begin to think with the emotional part of their brain. After 40 minutes, the brain becomes tired and effectively shuts down, ceasing to form rational thoughts altogether.

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Jul 24, 2020

TIL the majority of mammal fossils are male. Some think because they more wide-ranging, reckless and foolhardy, e.g. in the case of mammoths, “they were more likely to do silly things, like die in tar pits.”

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL "Blowing smoke up someone's ass" refers to the medical practice of a tobacco enema

blowing smoke up your ass

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL Afghanistan shares a 46-mile border with China. Marco Polo used it in his Silk Road travels. It's rumored to have a fort Alexander the Great was not able to conquer, and it has one of the largest untouched copper mines in the world.

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL that a man that went looking for the Titanic was only using that as a cover for a secret Cold War US Navy mission. The mission was competed 12 days earlier than expected, so with the time he had left he looked, and he found it!

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL that the Superman actor Henry Cavil has been an avid PC gamer since childhood and even missed the call to play Superman because he was playing the game World of Warcraft

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL: Nuclear powered pacemakers were briefly produced and 9 people still have them inside. When they die the pacemakers and their Plutonium have to be returned to the Department of Energy.

dc health heart pacemaker

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL in 2013, a wild male tiger walked right up to a tiger enclosure at a zoo in India. Attracted by a captive female, the zookeepers let him in through a door in the enclosure. He stayed for a month, then escaped by jumping the fence, then returned a few weeks later.

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL that in 2018, a YouTuber named McSkillet was banned for illegally selling skins on the game CS:GO for hundreds of thousands of dollars. He used the money to buy a supercar, which he later used to commit suicide (and take 2 other lives) by driving 100 MPH the wrong way down an LA freeway.

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL that child actor Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan and other Disney classics) is buried as an unknown vagrant in a mass grave on Hart island (NYC), and was only identified after his mother, who thought he was still alive, matched his fingerprints to a burial record.

pop culture true crimes

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL a man known only as "Django" drove his own boat out & freed a whale caught in a shark net off an Australian beach (without cutting the net). Before taking action, Django had waited hours for help from officials who had been called; when officials arrived, he faced a fine for acting alone.

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL that for every child born or adopted in Wales, the Welsh government will plant a native Welsh broadleaf tree. The scheme is called Plant! – the Welsh word for children.

babies children environment forestry trees wales woodland

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, the Yakuza, provided food, water, diapers,blankets etc. during both the 1995 and 2011 Japanese earthquakes at a response time much faster than even the Japanese government.

us yakuza

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Jul 23, 2020

TIL about two guys who used a decommissioned Atlas Missile Silo to produce an estimated 90% of the LSD sold in America in the late 90's and early 2000s.

skinner and pickard

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL that after Michael Jordan dunked over 6-foot-1 guard John Stockton, an angry fan yelled at him to “Pick on someone your own size”. The next play he dunked over 6-foot-11 Mel Turpin. As he ran back down the floor, Jordan turned to the heckler and said, “Was he big enough?”

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL it's possible for a bot to trick the Turing Test into thinking it's human simply by claiming a foreign mother-tongue

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL: Dolly Parton has a book gifting program called the Imagination Library, which gifts free books every month to children, from birth until school

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL of Michael Patterson, a man who jumped into a creek to save a drowning four-year-old girl. He ended up severing his spinal cord during the rescue and paralyzing both of his legs and one of his arms. He also suffered other injuries. He later died in hospital.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL The guitar in Lil Nas X Old Town road was sampled from Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Nails ended up winning a country music award because of this.

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