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Jul 22, 2020

TIL that in Idaho there is an anonymous "Secret Santa" that has for the last several years given away $500,000 per year in cash and gifts to people that do amazing things in the community around them.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees use underground fungi networks to communicate and share resources, uprooting the idea that nature constantly competes for survival.

biology earth science ecology environment trees

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL in 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days. He was presumed dead almost 24 hours later until he was spotted coming out of the jungle carrying bananas and a bottle of gin.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL that Lisa Marie Presley the daughter of Elvis Presley threw Nicolas Cage’s $65,000 engagement ring into the ocean during a fight on his yacht. Cage hired professional divers to find the ring, but the ring was never recovered.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL that Smarter women are less likely to have kids, maternal urges drop by 25% with every extra 15 IQ points.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL Many products that claim to include blueberries actual contain blueberry juice or imitations of blueberries. Imitation blue berries are often made of corn syrup and blue dye. Kellogg's justified the lack of blueberries in one of their cereals by defining "blueberry muffin" as a flavor.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL that the decision to kill Susan on Seinfeld wasn't made until there were scenes with her, Jerry, Elaine, and Kramer. Jason Alexander, George, had claimed she was hard to act with before then, but no one believed him until they experienced it themselves.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL In ancient Greece, an “idiot” was anyone who didn’t participate in political or public arenas. It comes from the word idios, meaning “self” or a selfish person who ignored political debate and didn’t participate in politics. As the word implies, it was someone who was “separated from the whole.”

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL Queen Elizabeth II drinks 4 cocktails every day, starting just before lunch.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL 86% of Holy Water is Teeming with E Coli and other bacteria found in fecal matter.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy that solved his own murder case. He was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL of an equation that can determine how long a conspiracy could last before someone behind the scenes intentionally or unintentionally stuffed up.

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL - The word with the most meanings in English is the verb 'set', with 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL that social distancing is practised among mammals, fish, insects and birds to avoid disease. They stay apart and change behaviours; they cease grooming, avoid the sick and only touch close relatives.

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL Lord Voldemort’s costume had 7 shades of green for each of his 7 horcruxes. Every time one was destroyed, his cloak lost a shade and faded in color to give the impression he was “fading away”

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL the 'Rabbit' temple in Taiwan, the world’s only shrine for homosexuals which dedicated to a deity who has watched over homosexuals for four centuries, attracts nearly 9,000 people each year.

arts / culture / entertainment asia / pacific china (prc) christianity emerging market countries gay government / politics human interest / brights / odd news lesbian / gay / bisexual / transsexual living / lifestyle lu wei ming religion / belief taiwan temple

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL that barely a year after the 1969 moon landing the American public had completely lost interest in space exploration - to such an extent that 90% of people surveyed could not remember Neil Armstrong's name.

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL July 21, 2014, Research was published that showed how scientists from Temple University were able to permanently delete the HIV virus from human DNA—snipping out the gene, and allowing the cell’s repair machinery to take over, soldering the genome back together—resulting in virus-free cells.

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL the photographer (Eddie Adams) of the South Vietnamese officer (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executing the North Vietnamese man in front of him regretted ever publishing the picture and refused to testify against him when Nguyen was brought to trial on charges of committing a war crime.

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Jul 21, 2020

TIL The production of the movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau" was so insanely difficult that inspired a documentary called "Lost Soul" . The director hated Val Kilmer so much that said “Even if I was directing a film called The Life of Val Kilmer, I wouldn’t have that prick in it”

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