TIL that a man decided to deposit a check that he received from a junk mail ad just to see what w...
over 4 years ago
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TIL that a "white elephant gift exchange" gets its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifti...
almost 5 years ago
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TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world
over 5 years ago
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TIL that 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserve the city's sc...
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TIL in 1998, Disney helped create a copyright law that made sure no movies from 1923 became free ...
almost 6 years ago
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TIL that Maui in Maori Mythology- who influenced Maui from Disney's Moana- turned into a worm so ...
about 3 years ago
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TIL it is illegal under German law to deny the holocaust, which is punishable by up to 5 years in...
almost 7 years ago
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TIL the US Navy replaced expensive and clunky periscope controls on submarines with Xbox 360 cont...
over 6 years ago
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TIL that "on January 13, 1958, Klansmen burned a cross on the lawn of a Lumbee American Indian wo...
about 6 years ago
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TIL Tim Curry, a lifelong Scooby-Doo fan, was offered the villain role in the 2002 Scooby-Doo mov...
over 3 years ago
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TIL that when a bee hive becomes too full, bees will form a "Senate" comprised of older, more exp...
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TIL a rodent that was believed to be extinct for 113 years casually showed up on the handrail at ...
over 7 years ago
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TIL of Dipprasad Pun, a Nepalese soldier during the War of Afghanistan who was attacked by 30 ins...
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TIL Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop sold "bio-frequency stickers" made of the "carbon material NASA uses t...
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TIL in 2013, Australian blogger Belle Gibson claimed to have beaten brain cancer using 'natural r...
about 5 years ago
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TIL that the US $2 bill is still being produced in large numbers. The apparent scarcity of the bi...
about 4 years ago
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TIL of the Shirky Principle: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the...
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TIL Coca-Cola was sued by a consumer protection agency for misleading health claims regarding Vit...
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TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered the cast of Jersey Shore "substantial payment" to stop wearing th...
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TIL when Apple was building a massive data center in rural North Carolina, a couple who had lived...
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TIL that when J.R.R. Tolkien's son Michael signed up for the British army, he listed his father's...
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TIL that Lebron James rejected a $10 million offer from Reebok when he was just 18. When asked wh...
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TIL Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since 2007, Saving 6 Million Lives
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TIL A 19 yr old pizza delivery guy helped save a man's life by performing CPR on the customer who...
over 8 years ago
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TIL that when Bill Watterson turned down the opportunity to license and merchandise “Calvin and H...
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TIL Edgar Allen Poe died mysteriously after having been missing for six days. Though still alive ...
almost 4 years ago
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TIL if you get a zebrafish drunk and put it in a tank of sober zebrafish, the sober fish will ado...
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TIL Pat Sajak and Vanna White work only 36 days per year. They work 4 days per month for 9 months...
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TIL of the "idiot plot". The term was popularized by film critic Roger Ebert, who defines it as "...
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TIL about Peter principle that states if a person is competent at their job, it will get promoted...
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TIL a man who was paralyzed from a surfing accident neck injury was able to walk again from an ex...
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TIL that Christopher Walken is one of only two actors (the other being Alec Baldwin) to have a st...
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TIL A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was st...
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Just sold it all
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TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had ...
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TIL that Michael Jackson removed "Dirty Diana" from his concert setlist in London for Princess Di...
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TIL Shrek was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress ...
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TIL a Chinese father hired a 'hitman' to kill his son's character in online games so that he woul...
about 7 years ago
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TIL Phyllis from "The Office" would pay bills and do Christmas shopping online from the office co...
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TIL Queen Elizabeth II specifically asked to be in a James Bond skit with Daniel Craig for the Ol...
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TIL car trunks got emergency release handles because a middle aged woman and her husband escaped ...
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TIL that when the CEO of discount supermarket chain ALDI was kidnapped, he haggled about his rans...
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TIL that Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" was not intended to be released as a single. They w...
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TIL that a lottery winner wore a scream mask to collect his one million so that his relatives won...
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TIL The lack of an Oxford comma in the wording of a state law laying out what activities qualify ...
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TIL that Mister Rogers once used an egg timer and simply let it run for sixty seconds on a televi...
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TIL an IT Director, fed up with sales calls where the caller lied to reach IT staff, said to tran...
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TIL: That a Japanese ice cream company created a commercial to publicly apologize about needing t...
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TIL George Lucas approved of Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody Spaceballs and signed off on a fair use...
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TIL that veterinarians kill themselves at rates 2.5 to 3.5 times the general population, due in p...
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TIL that André the Giant grew so fast that his own parents didn't recognize him. He left home at ...
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TIL Out of all the species that ever lived throughout all of Earth’s history, only a fraction of ...
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SUPER NOVA
over 2 years ago
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TIL that most states require car manufacturers to sell through the dealers. Even if your order di...
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TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the tempora...
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TIL The creator of The Sims, Will Wright, was inspired to make the game after losing his home and...
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Yeah I just got bedrock in survival mode
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This texture pack was supposed to be a joke - should I keep going?
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TIL that physicist Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a box containing a working m...
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TIL that the robbery of the Federal Reserve in Die Hard with a Vengeance is so plausible that the...
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