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Jul 15, 2020

TIL Babe Ruth believed that his birthday was February 7, 1894. However, when he applied for a passport he looked up his birth certificate and found his birthday listed as February 6, 1895, nearly a full year later than he thought.

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Jul 13, 2020

TIL of Marcel Marceau, a French mime who used his acting skills to save Jewish children during WWII. He smuggled them over the Swiss border and would mime to keep them happy and get them to stay quiet. He saved at least 70 children.

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Jul 05, 2020

TIL that before women became the mainstay telephone operators were teenage boys. The change came about when the lads being pesky teenagers pulled too many pranks, got drunk on the job and swore down the phone

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Jul 04, 2020

TIL that Atilla the Hun died of a nosebleed. On his wedding night, he drank heavily and passed out in his bed. He then had a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his own blood.

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Jun 30, 2020

TIL that Voltaire teamed up with a mathematician to exploit a loophole in the French lottery that set him up financially for life

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Jun 28, 2020

TIL How William Shakespeare’s name is spelled is unknown, even to himself. His contemporaries spelled it more than 80 different ways, including “Shappere” and “Shaxberd”. It turns out, he never used “William Shakespeare” once

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Jun 14, 2020

TIL that the reason purple was so highly valued in the ancient world for centuries, is because the only known dye was extracted from a very rare type of sea snail. In fact, there was only one place in the world it was harvested; the Phoenician city of Tyre.

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Jun 13, 2020

TIL Caesar Rodney rode 70 miles in a thunderstorm, while it was night time to be the deciding vote for the Declaration Of Independence, arriving in Philadelphia in time for his crucial vote to split from the United Kingdom.

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Jun 12, 2020

TIL: Delaware is the only original U.S. colony to never lead any branch of government in the history of the U.S. - No President, No Supreme Court Justice, No Speaker of the House, and No Senate Majority or Minority Leader has ever served from the state.

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Jun 12, 2020

TIL: Charlie Chaplin was never an American citizen and was essentially exiled. During the McCarthy era, the FBI put him under surveillance, and a Mississippi congressman called for his deportation. The U.S. government then revoked his re-entry permit in 1952 as he traveled to England on vacation.

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Jun 12, 2020

TIL former Russian president Yeltsin got drunk and wandered into the streets of Washington DC in his underwear, trying to get a pizza.

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Jun 09, 2020

TIL I learned that the British Museum may hold many artifacts from around the world and also refuses to hand over the artifacts they took it from.

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Jun 03, 2020

TIL that in 1908 a meteorite hit Russia with hundreds of times more power than an atom bomb, destroying 500,000 acres of forest, knocking ppl over 40 miles away and causing weather events around the globe - but no one was killed and no impact crater was found.

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May 28, 2020

TIL - Nikola Tesla toyed with the idea of a “world wireless system” in the early 1900s, and visionary thinkers like Paul Otlet and Vannevar Bush conceived of mechanized, searchable storage systems of books and media in the 1930s and 1940s.

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May 28, 2020

TIL that the state with the largest number of black townships after the Civil War was Oklahoma, with more than 50 townships in the state. Some are still in existence today.

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May 07, 2020

TIL The Mafia helped establish the Gay Bar scene in New York. Fat Tony purchased the Stonewall Inn in 1966 and transformed it into a bar and restaurant. He later bribed the New York Police Department around $1,200 a week to ignore 'indecent conduct' occurring behind closed doors.

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May 06, 2020

TIL that the ‘Father of American Gynecology’, and former President of the American Medical Association James Marion Sims conducted experiments on enslaved women without anesthesia to hone his surgical techniques.

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May 04, 2020

TIL that in the 18th century getting a divorce in England was so expensive that lower class men sold their wives on markets instead. Most of the time the woman agreed to it and the buyer was usually the womans new lover. Sometimes a bidding war could start tough and a stranger could win.

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Apr 23, 2020

TIL that the story of Balto is not only a true story but also that Balto’s recognition is considered controversial as another sled dog Togo actually ran the longest leg of the journey 261miles in order to save the small village of Nome, Alaska from an outbreak of Diptheria in 1925.

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Apr 21, 2020

TIL that King Tutankhamun (14th Century BC Pharaoh) was entombed with a dagger of "extraterrestrial origin." Advanced spectrometry tests strongly suggest the iron, nickel, and cobalt contained in the blade are from a meteorite that crashed near the the Kharga Oasis about 200 km west of the Nile.

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