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r/todayilearned - TIL Frank Sinatra had a heart attack during the time the Seinfeld finale aired. The ambulance got there fast because everyone was at home watching Seinfeld. Sinatra died that day. www.reddit.com
VotePosted by42 minutes ago groovyhistory.com/frank-... #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL Dogs can see color, but only in shades of blue and yellow. Because dogs can only see two colors, they have dichromatic vision. They can also see shades of gray. Colors such as red, orange, and green are out of a dog's color s... www.reddit.com
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TIL that "V" is the only letter in English that is never silent, www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that the younger brother of Hermann Göring, Albert, was anti-Nazi and spent World War 2 defying the regime by helping Jews escape and assisting in sabotage efforts. He later was found innocent at the Nuremburg trials. He died... www.reddit.com
VotePosted by4 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL it is nearly impossible to knock someone out with a Chloroform-soaked rag as someone needs to inhale it for at least 5 minutes, and a continous volume must be administered to keep them unconscious www.reddit.com
VotePosted by13 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL: Douglas MacArthur wanted to use atomic bombs to contain China and ultimately win the Korean War. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL The flooding was so extreme in Sacramento, California on January 10, 1862 that Leland Stanford needed a rowboat to get from his home to the State Capitol for his inauguration as Governor. www.reddit.com
VotePosted by23 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL about Josephine Cochrane, who invented the dishwasher because she was fed up of China breaking whilst being hand washed. www.reddit.com
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TIL there’s Wi-Fi on Mount Everest for the climbers. www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL that since 1959 in the US, imperial distance measurements (foot, yard, etc.) are standardized in reference to metric distance measurements, e.g. the inch is defined by an exact centimeter amount en.wikipedia. #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL that most imitation crab is made of Alaskan Pollock, a codfish of the North Pacific, and is commonly mixed with fillers of wheat and egg white. www.reddit.com
VotePosted by5 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL a picture of H. H. Holmes, the serial killer, hangs in the University of Michigan hospital as part of their historic class photos. He graduated from their medical school in 1884 under the name of H. W. Mudgett www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL of the 1991 Downing Street mortar attack, in which IRA members launched three mortars at No. 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting, attempting to kill John Major. One hit the lawn 30 yards away, and it is believed that i... www.reddit.com
VotePosted by20 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL: Computer duster is not compressed air. It is typically a liquid refrigerant called 1,1-Difluoroethane, which is also psychoactive. www.reddit.com
VotePosted by17 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1... #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL Studies show that the risk of dying from an injury is far less in the city than in the country www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that the Ancient greek believed that a good-looking man is an indicator of his inner goodness while a woman's outer beauty is a reflection of her inner evilness. "She was evil because she was beautiful, and beautiful because ... www.reddit.com
VotePosted by19 minutes ago bbc.com/news/m... #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL six percent of humans go out of their way to hit animals on the road and 89% of the people who did swerve to kill drove SUVs www.reddit.com
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TIL Ancient Romans pronounced "Caesar" the same as we pronounce the German word "Kaiser" in English. www.reddit.com
VotePosted by10 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL the largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, is larger than the planet of Mercury www.reddit.com
VotePosted by35 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland. In the 1960s, the restaurant Casa de Fritos at Disney used up their surplus tortillas by frying and coating them with a seasoning powder. The appetizer was such a big hit that Frito-Lay, a... www.reddit.com
VotePosted by40 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL during a test of the accuracy of dog DNA tests, a man submitted his own human DNA, and got results back with dog breeds they suspected the DNA being from www.reddit.com
VotePosted by49 minutes ago cbc.ca/news/b... #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL American chocolate tastes weird to the rest of the world due to a substance called butyric acid that is often added. The taste has been compared to vomit by international tasters. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that there is a significant population of people from the Marshall Islands living in Springdale, Arkansas, which started when one guy started working for Tyson Foods and told the people at home that there was ample employment... www.reddit.com
VotePosted by12 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... #ifttt #reddit #til
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