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TIL the final televised tobacco ad in the US was shown at the last moment legally possible during the Tonight Show www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Salvador Dali once scammed Yoko Ono into paying him $10,000 for a single blade of dry grass. Yoko had offered to pay him that sum for just one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the piece of grass for the single hair becau... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL beneath the Puerto Rico Trench is a mass so dense it has a gravitational pull on the surface of the ocean, causing it to dip somewhat. The Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliG... www.reddit.com
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TIL If it wasn't for the fact that ice is less dense than water, and therefore floats, life on Earth would not exist. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that Nikola Tesla once worked for Thomas Edison but left due to a disagreement over payment for his work on improving Edison's DC power systems. Tesla went on to develop AC power systems, which became the basis for modern ele... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL of Larry Bader, Ohio salesman who went missing out on Lake Erie during a storm in 1957. 5 years later, he was found in Nebraska by relatives during an archery demonstration, with absolutely no recollection as to who he actual... www.reddit.com
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TIL that in Canada’s province of Nunavut, 30% of the population has attempted suicide, compared to 3% for the rest of Canada www.reddit.com
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TIL Jeremy Renner was unhappy with having to play Loki’s mind-controlled minion in the first Avengers movie and tried to kill off Hawkeye repeatedly www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL that the second fastest manmade object was a 2,000 lb steel plate cap covering a borehole for a nuclear blast. It's estimated that it reached speeds above 150,000 mph, almost 200 times the speed of sound. #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL there is an official IRS guide for: What to Do When the Taxpayer Threatens Suicide www.reddit.com
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TIL that the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, was banned from attending official Star Wars events because he leaked too many plot details. www.reddit.com
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TIL the Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes each year, surpassing sales of Oreos, not to mention sales of all Chips Ahoy and Milano cookies combined www.reddit.com
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TIL a man on a ski trip in New York went to his car, entered a fugue state, and ended up in California 6 days later www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL at 6 weeks, a human fetus’s heartbeat cannot be heard with a stethoscope because the valves heard in developed hearts don’t yet exist. Instead, the heartbeat sound heard at that stage is ultrasound machine generated audio based on electrical impulses in fetal tissue. #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL of castaway huts (or depots) which are deliberately placed on isolated islands by governments. They contain supplies and tools which can help people who become stranded there. Most were built by the New Zealand government in ... www.reddit.com
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TIL emergency oxygen masks on airplanes only last for ~10-14min. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL During the 50's and 60's, Dr. Chester M. Southam injected patients and prisoners with cancer cells (HeLa cells) for research without their consent. He was reported and suspended for a year despite a cover up attempt. He later... www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL The prototype of the Rolls Royce Ghost was so quiet inside that it made test drivers sick. The engineers had to remove some of the noise-isolating material, and create seats that vibrated at specific frequencies to introduce some noise into the interior. #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL Mississippian Native Americans had a cosmological concept similar to Norse mythology, complete with a World Tree www.reddit.com
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TIL: Rob Zombie directly attributes the success of White Zombie to being on Beavis & Butthead www.reddit.com
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TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of "tobacco angina" exacerb... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Roughly 95% of Scottish single malt whisky is made in former bourbon barrels. American laws require bourbon barrels only be used once so they are cheap and plentiful for reuse elsewhere. The barrels often add vanilla, caramel... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that the Fahrenheit scale was standardized 18 years before Celsius. The world switch due to the British Empire. The United States is actually using the earlier standard. www.reddit.com
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