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Jul 15, 2020

TIL To prevent a rodent infestation, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia owns around 70 cats. The cats spend their days mostly in the basement and are taken care of by the museum staff. The museum has a small kitchen and a pet clinic dedicated to the well-being of the cats.

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Jul 14, 2020

TIL Marquis de Lafayette was buried in Paris with dirt from Bunker Hill battlefield

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Jul 08, 2020

TIL that George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, was actually a pseudonym for author Eric Arthur Blair.

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Jul 05, 2020

TIL that the Nazis branded Einstein's theory of relativity to be "Jewish physics" and published a book "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein". When asked how he could win an argument against so many people Einstein replied that one fact was more powerful than 100 scientists

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Jul 04, 2020

TIL that in WW2, US used Native Americans for message encryption. They were called "code talkers" as they simply talked in their native language for transmitting the messages. This allowed fast communication over open channels as enemy was unable to break this code. Was crucial in winning the war.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL the Americas were never named after Christopher Columbus, because Columbus believed he had sailed across the Atlantic to India. Instead, the Americas were named after Amerigo Vespucci, the first person to suggest there was a new world.

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Jun 17, 2020

TIL that the distance from the top of Africa to the bottom (5000 miles) is the same distance as London to Beijing, China (5055 miles). Senegal in west Africa is closer to Jamaica across the Atlantic than Somalia in east Africa.

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Jun 16, 2020

TIL That The Very First Kermit The Frog Puppet Was Made Of An Old Green Coat Creator Jim Henson's Mother Owned, And A Ping Pong Ball Cut In Half.

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Jun 14, 2020

TIL Jimi Hendrix' entire mainstream career lasted merely 4 years, ending abruptly with his death in 1970.

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Jun 03, 2020

TIL that in 1932, a group of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC to demand early payment of their service bonuses. President Hoover called in the Army to disperse the protestors. With a force of 500 infantrymen, 500 cavalry, and 6 tanks, the Army succeeded, and two veterans were killed.

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May 26, 2020

TIL: Before electricity, theatrical groups would heat up calcium oxide, also known as quicklime, for stage lighting. This is where the expression “in the limelight” originates from. People use to literally be in the limelight.

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May 14, 2020

TIL that the concept of a "rap battle" has existed since the 5th century CE. "Flyting", was a spoken word event where poets would trade insults back and forth in poetic verse.

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May 10, 2020

TIL actors in the early silent film era often went uncredited because audiences just didn’t care — then, in 1910, actress Mary Pickford became so popular cinemas started specially advertising her films, making her the world’s first movie star

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May 06, 2020

TIL General Motors Hired Prostitutes To Seduce Ralph Nader In An Attempt To Discredit Him Due To A Book He Wrote Called “Unsafe At Any Speed” Exposing The Unsafe Practices Of Car Companies

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May 01, 2020

TIL that the worlds first democratic federal government is thought to be the First Nations Iroquois Confederacy established sometime in the late 17th to early 18th century. That was before the revolutions in Europe.

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Apr 06, 2020

TIL that the first battle of WWI consisted of a British ship firing a single shot at a German ship on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) in Africa, and taking the captain "prisoner." The two captains had been drinking buddies for years, and weren't about to let the war ruin it.

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Apr 06, 2020

TIL Joseph Lister, the father of antiseptic medicine, had the idea that surgeons could prevent infecting their patients by washing and disinfecting their hands with carbolic acid before surgery. This idea earned him ridicule—until people started noticing that it did indeed help.

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Mar 24, 2020

TIL that the 1968 Pandemic H3N2 virus, commonly referred to as the Hong Kong Flu Virus, was an extremely contagious virus with a low fatality rate that originated in China and was widespread in the United States about five months later. It struck in two waves, with the second being more deadly.

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Feb 24, 2020

TIL that the two sides in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire to watch Pelé when he and his team came to visit Nigeria in 1967.

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Feb 20, 2020

TIL the art of Rap Battles (poetic verbal abuse) was first recorded in 15th century Scotland and called Flyting. Although contestants attacked each other spiritedly, they actually had a professional respect for their rival’s vocabulary of invective and would often drink with the loser afterwards.

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