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TIL Shakespeare's Hamlet is loosely based on the medieval Scandinavian legend, Amleth, and was not a completely original story concept. www.reddit.com
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TIL The 30 pieces of silver Judas received for betraying Jesus would have a present day value of $91-$441 USD. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that actress Lupita Nyong’o ‘s mtDNA is extremely close to that of “Mitochondrial Eve,” a woman who walked the earth 200,000 years ago, and is the “mother” of us all. www.reddit.com
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TIL that when Buddy Holly died 6 months after being married, his widow inherited everything but signed 50% over to his family. www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL the highest recorded wind speed on earth was 301 MPH during the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado in Oklahoma. The tornado lasted for 85 minutes and caused $1 billion in damage en.wikipedia. #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL TLC is still the best-selling American Girl Group of All Time and second all time behind The Spice Girls www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL that South Korea's CIA recruited a suicide squad to kill North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The squad mutinied, killed their commanders, hijacked a bus to Seoul, and were blown up by their own military. The survivors were then executed. #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL Billy Joel wrote "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" as a way to help young people struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts as he once attempted suicide himself. It includes a mistake from the recording where he fumbled... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that Prince was mortified with his performance at a James Brown concert, so he waited in his limo with the intent of running over Michael Jackson after the show. MJ had asked Brown to call Prince up on stage to perform, knowi... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL about Mordecai 'three finger' Brown. A MLB player who had his pitching hand mangled in a farm accident. The injury gave him a unique grip on the baseball that gave him an unusual amount of spin on the ball. He is in the Baseb... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that the video game Star Citizen has been in development since 2013 and has received over half a BILLION dollars in funding and it still hasn't been released www.reddit.com
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TIL that Nuclear Submarines can go around the world Twice or make the round trip from New York to Liverpool 7 times without having to surface once. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL about Don Ritchie, an Australian who intervened and prevented at least 180 suicide attempts at a notable suicide destination called The Gap. He lived nearby and would approach and ask “Can I help you in some way?” www.reddit.com
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TIL Canada was the first country to declare war on Japan in the Second World War www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL there's a "sex for fish" trade in some developing African countries, in which women have transactional sex with fishermen to secure their supply of fish. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Japan has used history textbook that contained references to the Nanjing Massacre, anti-Japanese resistance movements in Korea, forced suicide in Okinawa, comfort women, and Unit 731 since the mid 1990s. www.reddit.com
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TIL that there are more people that are either Christian or Muslim than all other religions combined www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL in 2001, Disneyland tried to re-theme their aging "Submarine Voyage" attraction around Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but the movie flopped. They tried again with Treasure Planet, but that was a flop too. They finally succeeded w... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL about "As Slow as Possible" a musical piece for organ that has been in performance since September 5, 2001 at the St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt. It is scheduled to complete on September 5, 2640. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL in 1862 atmospheric rivers created a 40-day mega-storm in California that utterly destroyed a third of the state. Research shows that such a storm happens every 200 years. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL John Wilkes Booth father, Junius Brutus Booth, wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness to President Andrew Jackson threatening assassination. www.reddit.com
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TIL Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Males of some species deposit a "mating plug" to seal the vagina, ensuring their sperm's survival over those from other males. However, L. mariana spiders require secretions from both sexes to form the functional plug, allowi... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL as a research student, Lawrence Bragg figured out how to use X-ray to study the atomic structure. His breakthrough discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics at age 25. www.reddit.com
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