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Jun 30, 2020

TIL that many customer service agents can actually see what you are typing in the online support chat before you actually hit "send"

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Jun 10, 2020

TIL the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles was so profitable that profits continue to help fund youth sports as recently as in the 2010s

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May 31, 2020

TIL that for 20 years, the nuclear launch code at silos across the US was 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 in order to ensure rapid response.

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May 20, 2020

TIL archaeologists discovered a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle that had traces of at least 5 psychoactive compounds including the ingredients for ayahuasca: cocaine, benzoylecgonine, harmine, bufotenine, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as well as wood tablets to grind substances and a wooden snuffing tube.

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Mar 28, 2020

TIL, Lego HQ in Billund, Denmark has an underground vault containing every Lego set ever made.

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Mar 17, 2020

TIL: what it means to measure immortality (sometimes called "lifespan") of an electron, in experiment that failed to disprove immortality assumption, but has offered its minimum lifespan at 66,000 yottayears, which is more than five-quintillion times the current age of the Universe

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Mar 02, 2020

TIL mathematicians around the world are hoarding chalk, after a factory known for making the "the Rolls Royce of chalk" for over 60 years closed in March 2015.

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Feb 19, 2020

TIL Having two small children means on average someone is sick in a household 29 weeks out of the year, meaning the household has a sickness more often than it is healthy.

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Feb 18, 2020

TIL of Hedviga Golik a Croatian woman who died in front of her television in her apartment in Zagreb in 1966 and was found 42 years later in 2008

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Feb 18, 2020

TIL, there are only 3 people in the United States still using iron lungs.

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Feb 18, 2020

TIL For every 200 million sperm in each human ejaculation, 2 million make it into the cervix, 1 million make it into the uterus, 10,000 make it to the top of the organ, 5,000 enter the uterotubal junction, 1000 enter the Fallopian tube, 200 reach the egg and only 1 enters the egg to fertilize it.

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Feb 13, 2020

TIL that Macs specific threats and malware outpaced Windows 2:1 for the first time ever I'm 2019

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Feb 05, 2020

TIL that alchemist Hennig Brand is thought to have used upwards of 1500 gallons of human urine in his quest to make gold. After he evaporated, boiled and distilled it multiple times, it started to glow in the dark and burst into flames. He had instead discovered the element phosphorus.

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Jan 31, 2020

TIL during the early days of the Soviet space program, one of the "Orbital survivabilty volunteer" dogs, named "Bobik", ran away days before his first flight. His replacement was named ZIB, a Russian acronym for "Substitute for Missing Bobik". He survived.

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Dec 30, 2019

TIL while Apple was buying rural land for a new building, one couple refused to sell their 1 acre plot of land they had originally purchased for $6,000. After rejecting every single offer, Apple just told them to name a price. They sold it for $1.7 million.

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Dec 06, 2019

TIL that feeding silkworm larvae mulberry leaves sprayed with fabric dye results in the dye being transported along the biochemical pathways of the silkworm to produce a colored cocoon and colored silk fibre.

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Nov 21, 2019

TIL the guy who invented annoying password rules (must use upper case, lower case, #s, special characters, etc) realizes his rules aren't helpful and has apologized to everyone for wasting our time

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Nov 10, 2019

TIL An group of archaeologists have found trousers—worn between 3K and 3.3K yrs ago—in a tomb in W China. The trousers were invented for horse riding by Chinese pastoralists and are the oldest known examples of this kind of apparel. The trousers are formed from three separately woven pieces.

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Sep 27, 2019

TIL That car manufacturers adapted the WWI "Dazzle" camouflage technique that was used on ships, for their cars. They regularly use it to hide the finer details of prototype vehicles.

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Sep 26, 2019

TIL that the man who patented the ouija board has a ouija board headstone.

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