TIL about Peter principle that states if a person is competent at their job, it will get promoted...

over 6 years ago

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TIL a man who was paralyzed from a surfing accident neck injury was able to walk again from an ex...

about 5 years ago

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TIL that Christopher Walken is one of only two actors (the other being Alec Baldwin) to have a st...

about 6 years ago

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TIL A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was st...

over 7 years ago

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Just sold it all

over 3 years ago

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TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had ...

over 3 years ago

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TIL that Michael Jackson removed "Dirty Diana" from his concert setlist in London for Princess Di...

almost 5 years ago

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TIL Shrek was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress ...

almost 4 years ago

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TIL a Chinese father hired a 'hitman' to kill his son's character in online games so that he woul...

over 7 years ago

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TIL Phyllis from "The Office" would pay bills and do Christmas shopping online from the office co...

almost 7 years ago

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TIL Queen Elizabeth II specifically asked to be in a James Bond skit with Daniel Craig for the Ol...

over 4 years ago

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TIL car trunks got emergency release handles because a middle aged woman and her husband escaped ...

over 4 years ago

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TIL that when the CEO of discount supermarket chain ALDI was kidnapped, he haggled about his rans...

over 5 years ago

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TIL that Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" was not intended to be released as a single. They w...

about 4 years ago

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TIL that a lottery winner wore a scream mask to collect his one million so that his relatives won...

over 4 years ago

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TIL The lack of an Oxford comma in the wording of a state law laying out what activities qualify ...

about 4 years ago

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TIL that Mister Rogers once used an egg timer and simply let it run for sixty seconds on a televi...

about 6 years ago

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TIL an IT Director, fed up with sales calls where the caller lied to reach IT staff, said to tran...

over 6 years ago

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TIL: That a Japanese ice cream company created a commercial to publicly apologize about needing t...

about 4 years ago

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TIL George Lucas approved of Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody Spaceballs and signed off on a fair use...

almost 6 years ago

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TIL that veterinarians kill themselves at rates 2.5 to 3.5 times the general population, due in p...

almost 4 years ago

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TIL that André the Giant grew so fast that his own parents didn't recognize him. He left home at ...

over 6 years ago

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TIL Out of all the species that ever lived throughout all of Earth’s history, only a fraction of ...

over 4 years ago

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SUPER NOVA

almost 3 years ago

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TIL that most states require car manufacturers to sell through the dealers. Even if your order di...

over 6 years ago

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TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the tempora...

about 5 years ago

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TIL The creator of The Sims, Will Wright, was inspired to make the game after losing his home and...

over 5 years ago

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Yeah I just got bedrock in survival mode

over 4 years ago

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This texture pack was supposed to be a joke - should I keep going?

over 5 years ago

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TIL that physicist Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a box containing a working m...

about 6 years ago

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TIL that the robbery of the Federal Reserve in Die Hard with a Vengeance is so plausible that the...

about 6 years ago

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TIL Kraft Foods introduced its boxed macaroni and cheese in 1937 when America was in the throes o...

about 4 years ago

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TIL that Daniel Radcliffe is a recovering alcoholic and would sometimes go to set for Harry Potte...

about 6 years ago

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TIL the quietest place on Earth is in a small studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At -13 dBA it’s s...

over 6 years ago

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TIL defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi vowed to pay the average adoption fee of $150 for every dog at...

almost 5 years ago

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TIL Scientists discovered sharks that are living in an active underwater volcano. Divers cannot i...

almost 5 years ago

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TIL About a 17 year old kid that was given an old iPhone for free, and using the "barter" section...

about 4 years ago

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TIL that the Venus flytrap naturally grows in very few areas in the Carolinas, so park rangers ha...

almost 4 years ago

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Hole Filler Mod - Smart Hole Filler

about 4 years ago

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TIL in 1958 a white girl kissed two African American boys aged 9 and 7 on the cheeks. The two boy...

about 7 years ago

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TIL that a movement seeks to rename the Australian dollar to the "dollarydoo", based on a classic...

almost 8 years ago

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TIL a man in 2002 found a way to crack the lottery in the US state of Michigan using math and pro...

over 5 years ago

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TIL That a German shepherd named Talero stayed next to the body of his owner for 23 days, after h...

over 5 years ago

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How to rope down in the new caves.

almost 4 years ago

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TIL Seth MacFarlane served as executive producer of the Neil deGrasse Tyson-hosted series Cosmos....

almost 5 years ago

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TIL When Steve Jobs accused Microsoft of stealing idea for Windows from Mac, Bill Gates replied: ...

over 7 years ago

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TIL "Hit Me Baby One More Time" was written by a Swede who meant the chorus to mean "hit me up on...

about 6 years ago

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TIL Liam Neeson was once a school teacher, but got fired because a student pulled a knife on him,...

over 6 years ago

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TIL that NYE revelers in Times Square are often locked into place for up to twelve hours and cann...

over 6 years ago

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TIL when Beethoven was challenged to an improvisation duel by one of his rivals named Steibelt, B...

about 8 years ago

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TIL that when Wayne Rogers left M*A*S*H, the producers tried to sue him for breach of contract. T...

over 3 years ago

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TIL death from laughter is a recorded cause of death throughout history. One such instance, an En...

almost 5 years ago

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TIL Nearly 70% of icelanders has costco membership and there's only one costco in the country

about 4 years ago

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I made the Ender Crystal look like a Rubik's Cube

almost 5 years ago

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TIL that the Breaking Bad team was offered $75 million to produce three additional episodes after...

over 4 years ago

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TIL that Steve Jobs named his company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the pho...

over 6 years ago

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TIL Nic Cage once crashed a Nic Cage film festival, watched 4 of his own films, did a 47-minute Q...

almost 4 years ago

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TIL Ariana Grande tried to get Japanese tattoo that read "Seven Rings" but found out later it rea...

about 5 years ago

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Minecraft + Lego = Love (making my own texturepack!)

about 4 years ago

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TIL that in Return of the Jedi (1983) for the speeder chase, Garrett Brown walked through the for...

over 4 years ago

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