TIL: Barney Miller barely showed arrests or action because the creators believed real policing is mostly paperwork and talking. The result? Cops later called it the most accurate police show ever made—and it did it with jokes instead of guns.
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Submitted January 23, 2026 at 10:09PM by TNSasquatch77
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TIL that the time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones and it’s the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:47AM by lawn-mumps
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TIL that GLP-1 medications have significantly increased demand for pharmacist-led patient counseling due to side-effect management.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:44AM by Sweaty-Standard-5840
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Pharmacytimes
Pharmacy Times – Pharmacy Practice News and Expert Insights
Pharmacy Times offers the latest news and insights for the pharmacy professional and solutions that impact the everyday practice of pharmacy.
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TIL that sound frequency exposure has measurable effects on stress-related hormones, increasing oxytocin (for social bonding/ love) and reducing cortisol (clinical stress marker) according to research
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:11PM by Money_Hand7070
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:11PM by Money_Hand7070
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TED-Ed
Lessons Worth Sharing
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
TIL that humans are more insulin resistant in the winter, an energy conservation evolutionary mechanism.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:50PM by itsthewolfe
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Nature
During winter the body resists insulin
Hypertension Research - During winter the body resists insulin
TIL that execution by electric chair, first tested on calves and a horse, was so badly botched on its first human in 1890 that a second 2,000‑volt jolt reportedly set him on fire. The generator’s supplier said “They would have done better using an axe,” and the NYT called it “Far worse than hanging.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:39PM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:39PM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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TIL the first rover to explore another world wasn't American but Soviet; Lunokhod 1, which landed on the Moon in 1970, decades before NASA's Mars rovers.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 02:50PM by yena
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Space
Lunokhod 1: 1st Successful Lunar Rover
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TIL All dolphins are whales
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 02:53PM by scratchtheitch7
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TIL about the Rosenstraße Protest of 1943: a week-long nonviolent demonstration in Berlin by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men in mixed marriages, which coincided with the release of most of the roughly 1,800 men being held.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:31PM by munkijunk
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TIL that Heshen, who was Qing Dynasty Official during the late 1700's and favoured by the Qianlong Emperor is known as the most corrupt official in Chinese and one of the most in human history. During his life, he embezzled roughly US$270 billion or 15 years of Qing Imperial revenues
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 06:11PM by Old_General_6741
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 06:11PM by Old_General_6741
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TIL about Francis Daniel Brohm who had stuck his head out of a truck window when the driver swerved and he was decapitated by a telephone pole wire. The driver continued to his house and slept, leaving his friends corpse in the truck for a neighbor to find the next morning
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 07:45PM by jakewubbleyou
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NBC News
Victim's kin back release of decapitation driver
A Georgia man facing criminal charges for a freakish accident that decapitated his friend has been released from jail after the victim’s relatives pleaded on his behalf.
TIL that Dutch sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, aged 14 and 16, would lure Nazis away to assasinate them in occupied Netherlands.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:48PM by FalseAnimal
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:48PM by FalseAnimal
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DutchReview
The 14-year-old assassin who lured Nazis and traitors to their deaths
Freddie Oversteegen was just 14 when she became an assassin for the Dutch resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
TIL, In 2009, the remains of an unknown Union soldier, believed to be between 17 and 19 years old, were discovered on the Antietam National Battlefield and identified as a New York volunteer, he was returned to New York for burial with full military honors.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 07:24PM by Ok_Being_2003
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NPR
Union Soldier Comes Home, 147 Years Later
An unknown soldier killed at Antietam in 1862 was laid to rest at Saratoga National Cemetery on Thursday. The soldier's remains were found in Maryland last summer, and he was identified as a New Yorker by his buttons.
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TIL Michael Jackson had a pet Chimpanzee named 'Bubbles' which Jackson bought from a Texas research facility in the '80s. Bubbles is still alive and is in his 40s
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:09PM by Mysterious_Brush1852
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:09PM by Mysterious_Brush1852
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TIL that a German language newspaper in Pennsylvania was the first to break the story about the Declaration of Independence.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 07:20PM by muzac2live4
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Atlas Obscura
The German-Language Newspaper That Got the Scoop on American Independence
On July 5, 1776, only the "Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote" reported the big news.
TIL Glynn Simmons served longest wrongful imprisonment in US history at 48 years for the conviction of a 1974 murder that was dismissed in 2023, leading to his release. In addition, Simmons subsequently won a rare ruling that declared him to be actually innocent of the crime.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:51PM by tyrion2024
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the Guardian
Man who spent 48 years in prison for murder formally declared innocent
Glynn Simmons, who served US’s longest wrongful imprisonment for a 1974 murder, wins rare ruling
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TIL that men from the early Middle Ages were nearly as tall as modern people, but European men’s average height fell from 5.6 ft in the 13th c. to 5.3 ft in the 17th c. due to famine, disease, war, and the Little Ice Age, then rose to 5.4–5.5 ft in the 18th c.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:26PM by Own-Bullfrog7362
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Men From Early Middle Ages Were Nearly As Tall As Modern People
Northern European men living during the early Middle Ages were nearly as tall as their modern-day American descendants, a finding that defies conventional wisdom about progress in living standards during the last millennium.
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TIL about ghost marriages. In some areas of rural China, when an unmarried man dies, his family will search for a dead woman to bury him together with. As a result, body snatching of female corpses is common in this areas
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 10:43PM by Pioladoporcaputo
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TIL that Neil Patrick Harris once unveiled a graphic meat platter arranged to resemble Amy Winehouse’s corpse at his 2011 Halloween party.
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Submitted January 25, 2026 at 12:25AM by Separate_Finance_183
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Submitted January 25, 2026 at 12:25AM by Separate_Finance_183
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NBC News
Neil Patrick Harris apologizes for Amy Winehouse corpse decoration used in 2011 party
The decoration garnered backlash from social media users after images of it resurfaced.
TIL after the bus incident that killed Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, James Hetfield walked up and down the road to see if there was ice and found none, believing the driver was asleep or inebriated while driving.
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Submitted January 25, 2026 at 12:29AM by Apprehensive_Cry545
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Submitted January 25, 2026 at 12:29AM by Apprehensive_Cry545
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Ultimate Classic Rock
The Day Metallica Bassist Cliff Burton Died in a Bus Accident
Metallica were on top of the metal world in 1986. But the band's year ended with a crushing blow after Cliff Burton died in a bus accident while touring overseas.