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Jul 13, 2020

TIL that it is illegal for teachers to strike in Florida. It is actually written into their constitution. If you go on strike you can be terminated from your job, have your certification revoked, and lose your retirement benefits.

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Jun 28, 2020

TIL that if you are being forced to travel to be forced into marriage, if you put a metal spoon in your underwear, Airport Security will help you out!

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Jun 24, 2020

TIL that the Bose Corporation’s majority owner is MIT. In 2011, the company’s founder, Amar Bose donated the majority of his shares to the university which was his former employer and alma mater. An annual cash dividend is paid out to “advance the research and education mission of MIT”.

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Jun 14, 2020

TIL of the Chain Test. For an arch to stand, it must fit into the mirrored shape generated by a chain.

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Jun 02, 2020

TIL British academics conducted an experiment with 6 monkeys & typewriters inspired by the famed "an infinite number of monkeys will eventually type out Shakespeare's plays" theory. After 4 weeks, the monkeys had typed out 5 pages, mostly of the letter S, then "got bored and shit on the keyboard"

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Jun 02, 2020

TIL that in 2008 a school Camden, NJ forced students to eat their lunch off the floor for 2 weeks after a child accidentally spilled water while refilling a water cooler. 7 students won a $500,000 legal settlement.

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May 05, 2020

TIL near the end of WWI, a small fortified town in France called Le Quesnoy was liberated from the Germans after four years of occupation, by New Zealand soldiers in a sneak attack, with zero civilian casualties. Multiple memorials and many of the town's streets are named in NZ's honour.

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May 03, 2020

TIL there are ten different indigenous languages still spoken today in the British Isles; English, Scots, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Angloromani, Shelta and British Sign Language

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Apr 20, 2020

TIL Michelangelo and Leonardo were actually commissioned to paint frescos in the same room on opposite walls and it was to be Florence's premier "event" at the time. They hated each other, bickered, and neither every actually completed their work.

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Mar 03, 2020

TIL there are parents that gave up legal rights to their high-school-age children for purposes of qualifying for federal, state & institutional financial aid. The parents are doctors, lawyers, insurance and real estate agents and in some cases have valuable homes and household incomes topping $250K.

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Feb 11, 2020

TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing them litter/dead gulls to clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she brought to her trainers to get more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who taught more calves.

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Feb 02, 2020

TIL about Aphantasia, the condition of not being able to make a mental image. People with Aphantasia can not visualise images in their head, so telling them to count sheep to fall asleep literally doesn’t make any sense to them. It is estimated that only 2% of Humans are living with it

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Jan 23, 2020

TIL UK boys asked to wear shorts to school instead of pants during hot weather but got told no. A mom said: “My 14-year-old son wanted to wear shorts. The headteacher told them: 'Well, you can wear a skirt if you like’. So many boys wore skirts. The school allowed shorts starting the next year.

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Dec 26, 2019

TIL In 2009, two scientists from the University of Oxford spent three years, and £300K of taxpayer dollars, to determine if ducks liked water. They discovered that they do, in fact, like water.

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Dec 04, 2019

TIL A scientific study found starting high school one hour later than usual allowed students to sleep more than half an hour more, and was associated with reduced sleepiness and increased academic performance.

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Oct 30, 2019

TIL: Decades of studies have shown that parenting has the largest effect on a child's grades, not the quality of the school. Affluent families produce better grades regardless of the school due to having more interactions with their parents, resulting in a 30 million average word gap by age 3.

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Oct 29, 2019

TIL that animals with blue pigments are extremely rare in the wild, and animals that are blue, unlike other colors which are caused by pigments, appear so because of structures in their bodies that reflect blue light.

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Sep 28, 2019

TIL the philosopher Hegel believed that every era of history has wisdom to offer - history is not primitive. The present is not necessarily 'more advanced', but also contains blind spots that history can give answers to.

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Aug 09, 2019

TIL that Mr Rogers' Neighborhood featured an episode with Lou Ferrigno on the set of "The Incredible Hulk" to teach children not to be scared of fictional characters in heavy makeup.

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Jun 27, 2019

TIL - in 2001, Steve Jobs described a secret new technology that would be bigger than the internet. He also claimed cities would be built around the new device. It was later revealed to be the segway scooter

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