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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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Jun 30, 2020

TIL An Indonesian man who claimed to be world’s oldest person died at ‘age 146’ in 2017. According to his identity card, Sodimejo was born on Dec. 31, 1870 but Indonesia only started recording births in 1900

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May 31, 2020

TIL that thanks to his Internet popularity, the child from the "Success Kid" meme made enough money to fund his dad's kidney transplant.

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May 02, 2020

TIL that in 2019, a saxophonist was hired to compose a song for the critically endangered New Zealand bird, the Kakapo, in order to put them in a romantic mood for mating. It seems to have worked as 249 eggs were laid and 76 hatched during the breeding season.

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Jan 26, 2020

TIL the Founder of the North Face died of hypothermia

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Jan 26, 2020

TIL Wisdom the Albatross is the oldest wild bird in the world at 65+. She's sucessfully and continually reared nearly 40 chicks. Flying millions of miles in her life, she almost never lands for more than 15 minutes before she leaves her chicks to find more food.

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Jan 18, 2020

TIL the reason glasses are so expensive is because most major brands and retailers are owned by the same company.

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Dec 25, 2019

TIL one out of a million Germans die of masturbation

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Oct 25, 2019

TIL the majority of infections from swimming pools and hot tubs are caused by cryptosporidium, a diarrheal disease caused by microscopic parasites which are released (anally) into the water and then consumed (orally) by fellow swimmers. Hotel pools are the primary place of infection.

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Sep 26, 2019

TIL "Japan was changed forever by the devastating triple tragedy that unfolded on March 11, 2011, bringing an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis." "The total cost of the catastrophe has been put at $286 billion by the World Bank, making it the most expensive disaster of all time."

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Sep 22, 2019

TIL that in 2017, 70 students drank so much alcohol at a house party in maryland that the air inside the house registered positive an a breathalyser.

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Apr 05, 2019

TIL It's common for Dentists to have aquariums because they reduce stress and anxiety. Aquarium Therapy has been shown to reduce stress, insomnia, and high blood pressure; achieving results that are the same, or better than, hypnosis.

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