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Jul 19, 2020

TIL a reporter once asked Gene Roddenberry why Captain Picard was bald since “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century.” His response? “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”

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Jul 17, 2020

TIL The very first strike ever recorded in history started in 1152 BC. During the reign of Rameses III in Ancient Egypt, while building a royal necropolis, the workers felt they were being underpaid, so they organized a massive strike. Their wages were actually increased and workers returned to work

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Jul 04, 2020

TIL when Fidel Castro was 14 he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt & asked him for a 10 dollar bill because he admired America.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL The first attempt to make an anti-Nazi film in America was Herman J Mankiewicz's "The Mad Dog of Europe" in 1933. The film floundered in early production and was ultimately never produced because no studio would risk being banned in Germany.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL that the most skilled sniper in all of World War I was a Canadian Indigenous man, Francis Pegahmagabow. He had 378 confirmed kills, captured over 300 enemy soldiers, and spent his post-war life fighting for Indigenous rights. He remains the most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian history.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL: Two teenagers girls seduced and hunted Nazi's like "Dexter"

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Jun 29, 2020

TIL that For the first time, all 5,000 objects found inside king Tutankhamun’s tomb will be displayed together in the world’s largest archeological museum dedicated to a single civilisation: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt, in the next year (2021).

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Jun 28, 2020

TIL that Archaeologists discovered a 26-foot statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum. The biggest clue pointing to the statue's true identity was the discovery of an inscription on it that read "Nebaa," a name closely linked to Psamtik I.

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Jun 23, 2020

TIL that The tea-bag was an accidental invention. This occurred in 1908 when tea merchant Thomas Sullivan distributed his tea samples in small, silken bags. His customers, not understanding that these were samples, dunked them and suddenly Sullivan was swamped with orders for his ‘tea bags’!

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Jun 18, 2020

TIL Randy and Linda Guijarro were at an antique shop and Randy came across a shoebox of old tintype photographs. One of the photos he selected out of the box is believed to be just the second known photography of Billy The Kid. Randy paid $2 for the photo, but is now appraised at $5 million.

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Jun 17, 2020

TIL that ~1865, Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was saved by a man named Edwin Booth from a train platform. Robert soon after the incident sent a letter thanking Edwin for saving his life. Later in the same year, Edwin Booth’s brother, John Wilkes Booth, shot Abraham Lincoln.

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Jun 14, 2020

TIL At 1:10 a.m. on May 9, 1945, night owls in the USSR heard a radio report that Nazi Germany had officially surrendered to the Soviet Union. Rather than wait until morning to celebrate, citizens took to the streets in their pajamas. 22 hours later, the entire country had run out of vodka.

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May 28, 2020

TIL that Aramaic -the language spoken by the historical Jesus- is still being spoken as a mother tongue in a small village in Syria.

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May 27, 2020

TIL That in 1917, 7 years after Mark Twain's death, two spiritualist mediums claimed that Twain’s ghost had dictated them a new novel via Ouija Board. The novel was published, received very poor reviews and the book publisher was prosecuted by the Twain estate.

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May 25, 2020

TIL in 1999 supermodel Fabio Lanzoni killed a goose with his face while riding a roller-coaster

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May 23, 2020

TIL that in the 70's, McDonald's briefly had a mascot for the Filet-O-Fish: Phil A. O'Fish

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May 18, 2020

TIL that during the Cold War, an American CIA agent devised a psychological warfare plan to drop very large condoms labelled "medium" to intimidate and demoralize the Soviet troops. The plan was not executed.

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May 11, 2020

TIL in WW2 a female feudal lord took control over 275 Nazis to force them to fix up her island after German occupation ended in Sark

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May 10, 2020

TIL about the oldest known song in human history, “Hurrian Hymn no. 6”, dating back to a 1400 BC Sumerian clay tablet

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May 08, 2020

TIL Superman fought the Ku Klux Klan because Stetson Kennedy wanted to expose the Klan after infiltrating them, the authorities weren't interested but the writers of Superman were willing to write it as a new plotline for Superman, which eventually caused the Klan's influence to fizzle out.

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