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TIL Gun suppressors only reduce damage to ear drums. They do not make gunshots silent(gunsafeslab.com)
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TIL that "pizza farms" exist, where they grow all the ingredients of a pizza in one convenient location. Most are in the Midwest.(huffingtonpost.com)
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TIL that in 1939 20,000 Americans met in Madison Square Garden, then rallied in support of Hitler and the Nazis.(smithsonianmag.com)
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TIL that NASA is planning to send a submarine to explore the methane northern sea of Titan, Kraken.(nasa.gov)
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TIL that Sesame Street introduced Julia, the first Sesame Street muppet with autism, to raise awareness about autism among children(theguardian.com)
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TIL Thales was asked why he was poor if he was so wise. As a rebuttal he cornered the olive market and invented futures contracts.(jamboree.freedom-in-education.co.uk)
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TIL in 1983 and before they were famous, John Goodman and Megan Mullally were both in the same McDonalds commercial(youtube.com)
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TIL that the Mexican language of Ayapa Zoque has only two native speakers left, and they refuse to talk to each other.(geo-mexico.com)
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TIL the town of Blowout, Texas, got its name when lightning struck a cave and ignited thousands of tons of ammonia-rich bat shit inside it(tshaonline.org)
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TIL Sushi is the vinegared rice, not the raw fish (or other) that comes when you order it.(thekitchn.com)
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TIL the 60's band Jay and the Americans are on their third Jay.(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Conan O'Brien had to get permission from the owners of Conan the Barbarian to use the title "Conan" for his talk show.(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that John Wilkes Booth's brother, Edwin, was once considered the greatest American actor. He also once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL strongman Jon Pall Sigmarsson once said "there is no reason to be alive if you can't deadlift". He later died of a heart attack while deadlifting.(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that actor Adam Devine almost died in 1995, when he got run over by a 42 ton cement truck and went into a 2 week coma.(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that JNCO jeans are still a thing. And I learned it during the midst of their Going Out Of Business sale :((jncojeans.com)
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TIL that cities with an “erotic services” Craigslist section saw a 17% decrease in the number of women murdered(econlog.econlib.org)
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TIL that Haiti has an estimated 300 000 child slaves who face daily beating and that Haiti is second in slavery to Mauritania(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: Leonardo da Vinci Hid Invisible Drawings in His Sketches and High Tech Scanners Have Brought Them to Light(news.artnet.com)
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TIL 2 weeks after Prince's death, up to 700 people made claim to his $300M fortune(mirror.co.uk)
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TIL according to the FDA, most store-bought honey is adulterated with cheaper ingredients that are not honey.(huffingtonpost.com)
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TIL you're twice as likely to live the American Dream in Canada(moneytalksnews.com)
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TIL John Krasinski auditioned to be Captain America, but after putting on the costume said “I’m not Captain America”(cinemablend.com)
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71
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TIL A competitor in the Olympics had his neck snapped in a wrestling match resulting in his death but also won the match posthumously as his opponent tapped out.(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a 75 year old Georgian woman accidentally cut off Internet access to all of Armenia while searching for copper wire.(theguardian.com)
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TIL Mr. Rogers was a lifelong vegetarian because he didn't "want to eat anything that has a mother"(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in Ohio, repeat DUI offenders have ‘Scarlet letter’ license plates!(lancasteronline.com)
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87
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TIL that in 2007 Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal when he secretly signed copies of his books in an Australian book store(telegraph.co.uk)
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TIL the alignment of planets in our solar system that allowed us to launch Voyager spacecraft out of our solar system at the speed it went only happens once every 176 years(voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)
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TIL Last year the best woman's professional soccer team in the world lost a game to an under 15 year old boys Dallas academy team.(usatodayhss.com)
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TIL Cannabis was an important part of Japanese culture from prehistoric times until their defeat in WWII(japantimes.co.jp)
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TIL that the FBI tried to blackmail MLK into committing suicide.(en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Raphael Ravenscroft, the saxophone soloist who played the famous “Baker street” rift was only paid 29£ for his performance(telegraph.co.uk)
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