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r/todayilearned - TIL Japan has become infested with North American raccoons after an anime based on the book Rascal aired in 1977 and caused thousands of raccoons to be imported as pets only to be released into the wild www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that scientists created a 60 year long experiment in Siberia, selectively breeding wild foxes who showed friendly traits. 40 generations later they were as friendly as dogs! www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL the Choose Your Own Adventure books were invented by a single father and a lawyer named Edward Packard. He came up with the idea while telling bedtime stories to his kids www.reddit.com
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Til that should never give Honey to any child under 1 years old as it could cause them to get severely ill and die. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that several people have been caught cheating on game shows throughout history. One of the most notable cases involved Charles Ingram, who cheated his way to winning the jackpot on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" by having a... www.reddit.com
VotePosted by37 minutes ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL a panel of scientists developed a plan to use cats that glow when exposed to radiation as a way to warn future civilizations about radioactive sites. The "Rad Cats" purpose would be explained in a nursery rhyme designed to be... www.reddit.com
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TIL before 1950 almost 1 in 3 homes in the United States had bedbug infestations. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned www.reddit.com
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TIL the deadliest recorded hailstorm occurred in India in 1888 and killed as many as 246 people with hail the size of Oranges. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. That is, a male will simply climb onto a female, stab her in the side of her body with his hypoderm... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Techniques in astronomy of taking images of the sky are being used by dermatologists to monitor melanoma in high-risk patient who have their full body photographed. A patient’s skin is treated like the background sky in an as... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter, but was also the first to use "i" to denote the square root of -1. The const... www.reddit.com
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TIL a dozen intersex athletes competed in the Olympics, usually discovered after the onset of sex verification testing www.reddit.com
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TIL 70% of people in the world do not use toilet paper. www.reddit.com
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TIL Robin Williams improv was so good in FernGully the director tripled his character’s screen time for the final cut. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL in 2007 a man had avoided going to jail. He had noticed a void space in a mall, and converted it to an apartment. He lived in it 4 years (rent free.) before he was noticed. He only got probation, and isn’t allowed in the mall... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that Doors frontman Jim Morrison, one of the most iconic figures of the 1960s counterculture, was the son of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison, commander of U.S. forces in the Gulf of Tonkin incident that jumpstarted ... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Stan Jones, an unsuccessful libertarian candidate for Montana Governor and Senate, turned himself blue from drinking colloidal silver in preparation for Y2K www.reddit.com
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TIL Even with the U.S. population almost doubling since 1957, more babies were born that year than any year in American history. www.reddit.com
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TIL: People with blue eyes have a higher rate of alcoholism than people with dark eyes www.reddit.com
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TIL most illustrations of the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down show Tower Bridge instead. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL in 2000 the tomb of Lynyrd Skynrd's lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines was broken into and their remains were desecrated, forcing their burial site to be relocated www.reddit.com
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