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Jul 22, 2020

TIL that Smarter women are less likely to have kids, maternal urges drop by 25% with every extra 15 IQ points.

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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 19, 2020

TIL a pod of dolphins saved a group of swimmers from a great white shark by herding the swimmers together and doing tight circles around them to create a barrier. The dolphins kept this up for 40 minutes until the shark lost interest and was safe for the swimmers to swim to shore.

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Jul 13, 2020

TIL that North Koreans are especially proud of Kim Jong Il for his "inventions". One of them is the Gogigyeopbbang or double breaded meat, which is essentially a hamburger.

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Jul 07, 2020

TIL that the USSR were seriously considering a nuclear strike on China in 1969, before Nixon stated that the USA would nuke 130 Soviet sites in retaliation

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Jul 07, 2020

TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.

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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 04, 2020

TIL that the Nazis massacred an entire village in France (Oradour-sur-Glane), killing 642 people, including 247 children. Unlike other Nazi village massacre sites, which were razed or rebuilt and marked by monuments or fields of roses, the charred remains of the village have been left untouched.

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Jul 03, 2020

TIL A train station in Japan had plans to close but noticed a student was the only one using it. They decided to keep it operational until she graduated!

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL that a 28 year old man from Russia went to the doctor after coughing up blood and having chest pains. The doctors thought he had cancer and performed surgery to remove it, when they removed the "cancer" they found out it was actually a tree growing inside of the man.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL a Russian cat was used by prisoners to sneak drugs into their penal colony near Moscow. The cat allegedly had 5.79 grams of hashish & 1.56 grams of amphetamine under its collar. Defense/prosecution lawyers each wanted the cat to support their case but it escaped from its kennel before trial.

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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 23, 2020

TIL that episode of Peppa Pig called "Mr Skinny Legs" was banned in Australia because it tells that "spiders can't hurt you" and "spiders are friendly and not to be feared"

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Jun 20, 2020

TIL that in 2011 radio personality Ira Glass claimed to have tracked down Coca-Cola's secret recipe, to a 130-year-old notebook belonging to inventor's best friend. He said that the closely guarded formula is: alcohol and six oils – orange, lemon, nutmeg, coriander, neroli and cinnamon.

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Jun 17, 2020

TIL that Saudi Arabia accidentally printed history textbooks showing Yoda sitting next to the king as he signed the UN charter. The artist says he paired up both of them because Yoda’s green skin and green lightsaber matched the green of the Saudi flag. The artist denied placing it in history books.

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Jun 14, 2020

TIL: Street food in Vietnam is so available, fast and cheap that international fast food chains like McDonald’s flopped after entering

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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 01, 2020

TIL the American Service-Members' Protection Act, nicknamed the "Hague Invasion Act" and passed in 2002, instructs the US military to use any means necessary to free US officials imprisoned for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

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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 26, 2020

TIL that as of 2018 most of the early cryonics companies that froze dead bodies for future revival had gone out of business, and their stores corpses have been thawed and disposed of.

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