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Jul 22, 2020

TIL about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy that solved his own murder case. He was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service

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Jul 07, 2020

TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.

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Jul 05, 2020

TIL that the majority of the alcohol industry's sales come from so-called problem drinkers—people whose drinking is destroying or risking their health.

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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 12, 2020

TIL, that one of the greatest composers in the world, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, was homosexual and that the Soviet and Russian government have hidden his letters that were telling about his sexual desiers until 1995 from the public. More but not all letters were published in later in 2009.

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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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May 26, 2020

TIL that Nicolas Cage did NOT steal a chihuahua and has successfully sued Kathleen Turner, her book publisher, and The Daily Mail for those rumors

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May 15, 2020

TIL that in 2002, a researcher found that the average 8-year-old British child could identify 80% of Pokémon, but only 50% of common wildlife species

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May 01, 2020

TIL lobsters have the enzyme called "telomerase" which stops DNA strands called "telomeres" from damage as new cells are made. Other organisms' telomeres erode with age, but lobsters can theoretically live forever, because their ability to create perfect copies of cells never erodes.

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Apr 24, 2020

TIL that naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) are only formed when lightning strikes magnetite, an iron ore.

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Apr 13, 2020

TIL A study from Harvard University found that having no friends can be as deadly as smoking.

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Mar 19, 2020

TIL the wreckage of the Titanic will likely disappear by 2030 due to forming "rusticles" that will eventually break apart and drift away.

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Mar 14, 2020

TIL A 'cancer patient' underwent surgery to remove a lump in his lungs. It turned out to be caused by a toy traffic cone he inhaled 40 years ago. He did not have cancer after all.

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Mar 10, 2020

TIL the EU abolished Daylight Saving Time, leaving the decisions up to national governments starting in 2021.

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Feb 21, 2020

TIL that in 2010, Sweden removed the statute of limitations for prosecuting murder because the 1986 assassination of their prime minister, Olof Palme, had still not been solved. Though 10,000 people have been questioned, the killer remains unknown to this day.

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Feb 16, 2020

TIL In 2016, Manchester United canceled a game and evacuated the stadium after a steward discovered a pipe bomb in the bathrooms. Fortunately, the bomb was a fake; it had been left there by the security team during a training exercise and forgotten.

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Feb 09, 2020

TIL that a doctor in the UK was targeted by vigilantes because they were confusing her professional title (paediatrician) with the word "pedophile"

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Jan 28, 2020

TIL Prince Charles inherits the possessions of anyone who dies in Cornwall without a will or next of kin, a power that in some years has yielded hundreds of thousands of pounds. He funnels the money into charities after deducting his costs.

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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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Jan 21, 2020

TIL UK surgeon Simon Bramhall marked his initials with an argon beam on the livers of two of his patients. A colleague saw “SB” on a liver during a follow-up surgery. The marks aren't believed to be harmful to the liver but Bramhall pleaded guilty to assault.

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