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May 23, 2020

TIL A restaurant in Bangkok has been constantly cooking and serving from the same soup for 45 years, a form of "perpetual stew"

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May 01, 2020

TIL Disney uses code names in the park. Rude visitors are called 'Treasured Guests.' Vomit is called 'Protein Spill.' Kids peeing in the pool is called 'Code Winnie.' Illegally spreading ashes is called 'White Powder Alert.'

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Apr 07, 2020

TIL 40% of Americans have never been outside of the US, and 11% have never left the state they were born in.

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Mar 31, 2020

TIL a German study found that wine tasted better if the drinker thinks it's more expensive. Subjects inside an MRI scanner tasted a $14 red wine 3x but were told each sip was from bottles costing $3, $7, & $21. The brain's motivation & reward center was more active for the "more expensive" wine.

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Mar 23, 2020

TIL of a woman who gave her neighbor a ‘box of sex toys’ to hold on to. 6 months later the neighbor noticed a stench coming from her closet where the box was stored. She finally opened it and found a decomposing severed head inside. It was the original woman’s husband.

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Feb 14, 2020

TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.

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Dec 30, 2019

TIL that a cannibal named Issei Sagawa has profited from his crimes. After murdering and eating his classmate in 1981, he was released due to a loophole and has translated his fame into books, talk show appearances, and even softcore porn films in which he bites his co-stars.

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Dec 19, 2019

TIL only 12.5% of US serial killers fit the profile most often typified in media today— an intelligent, white male in his 20s.

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Dec 13, 2019

TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.

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Dec 12, 2019

Today I learned about the Carolina Dog, America's dingo. Also known as the Dixie dingo, or "old yellar" the Carolina Dog may have been the inspiration for the book. They were notated in 1920 to be a native american companion and are one of the few breeds left that haven't been influenced by humans.

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Nov 29, 2019

TIL a pharmacist misread a woman’s prescription for dry eye medication and gave her a cream for erectile dysfunction instead. The woman suffered temporary chemical injuries to her eyes.

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Nov 04, 2019

TIL Dominos Pizza awards all store managers who achieve $25,000 in sales a week for four consecutive weeks with a customized Rolex watch, in a contest called "The Rolex Challenge".

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Nov 02, 2019

TIL that touching receipts absorbs large amounts of BPA, a known endocrine disruptor, into your bloodstream

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Oct 15, 2019

TIL about Martin Couney who ran a sideshow on Coney Island full of incubators to save premie babies. He is credited with saving over 6000 babies in the decades he ran the exhibit.

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Oct 10, 2019

TIL about Hayleigh Curtis, one of Cadbury's 10 taste testers. Her taste buds are so important that Cadbury got her tongue insured for 1.25 million dollars.

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Sep 29, 2019

TIL that people can die from simply giving up on life. Senior research John Leach said “give-up-itis” can kill in just three weeks without help.

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Sep 19, 2019

TIL that great apes, including chimpanzees and orangutans, have absolutely no appreciation of music whatsoever. Research has shown they can’t tell the difference between Beethoven and Bieber, and that music is all just meaningless sound to them.

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Aug 14, 2019

TIL that "celebrity psychiatrist" Dr. Isaac Herschkopf manipulated a patient into cutting off his family, giving him his home, signing over his bank account, and amending his will to leave everything to the doctor's wife. Yet Dr. Herschkopf still maintains his medical license in New York City today.

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Aug 02, 2019

TIL 40% of millennials believe they'll never own a house.

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Jul 29, 2019

TIL that Turkey Vultures have been & sometimes are still used to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines; the odor that gas companies add to gas (so we can detect it since it's odorless) is the same as rotting flesh, which leads the vultures to congregate in the sky in the area of the leak.

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