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TIL that the creator of Rocko’s Modern Life, Joe Murray, was asked by executives to put a female role model in the show. After some back and forth, a female executive requested “"a professional woman, someone with a good hook.". So, Murray created Dr Hutchinson, a female doctor with a literal hook.
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Submitted October 19, 2019 at 06:20PM by Tokyono
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TIL Days before Caesar's assassination, he said the best way to die would be suddenly and unexpectedly. One of the assassins was sitting right next to him.
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Submitted October 19, 2019 at 06:31PM by Macluawn
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TIL 71% of U.S. youth would not currently qualify for military service due to their heath, physical appearance, or educational background.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 12:27AM by FutureRobotWordplay
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TIL of Dr. Sharad Dicksheet; he founded The India Project in 1968. Until his death in 2011 he traveled to India each year to perform surgeries on children. To date, The India Project has performed more than 98,000 free corrective surgeries for children and infants who suffer from facial deformities.
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Submitted October 19, 2019 at 11:09PM by basicform
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TIL, the Wu-Tang Clan left a clause in the sale contract of "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" that allowed any of the members -and/or actor Bill Murray - to reclaim ownership rights to the album by stealing it, without fear of legal repercussions.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 01:15AM by stooloots
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TIL Charles Babbage lost 2 games of chess to the Mechanical Turk, an automaton with a chess player hidden inside that fooled people that a machine could play chess. He knew it was a hoax but it inspired his work on the Difference Engine and then the Analytical Engine, the world's first computer.
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Submitted October 19, 2019 at 10:01PM by GrumpyWendigo
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TIL: At the age of 7 and 8, future Argentinian serial killer Cayetano Godino was caught by police beating small children, but he was released and sent home due to his age. However, at age 10, his parents reported him to the police for masturbation, and he was jailed for 2 months for masturbating.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 01:33AM by marzipanmaddox
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TIL The song Macarena is about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend while he joins the military
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Submitted October 19, 2019 at 11:40PM by UsidoreTheLightBlue
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TIL that Nathan "Nearest" Green, a slave, taught Jack Daniel how to brew whiskey. He became Daniel's Master Distiller, and is now known as "The Godfather of Tennessee Whiskey." His son George also became a Master Distiller and some of his descendants STILL work for Jack Daniel's Whiskey to this day.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 06:00AM by Teebombs
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TIL that braille was originally invented by the French Army out of necessity after soldiers were being killed because they used lamps after dark to read combat messages. Soon after, Louis Braille, an eleven year old blind boy simplified it into what we use today.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 06:06AM by SHHAYSHAY
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TIL that Kentucky has 2 million more barrels of bourbon aging than total population.
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Submitted October 19, 2019 at 11:48PM by JustSomeGuy_Idk
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TIL Terry Pratchet was a huge Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion fan, and based his Discworld book "Snuff" on his dungeon crawling adventures. Additionally, he collaborated with modders in the midst of his battle with Alzheimers. Link is a very interesting article that goes into detail about it all.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 08:25AM by hautemeal
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TIL that, at the time of his death aged 97 years and 4 days, Harland Fairweather was the oldest person ever with a living parent. His mother Violent Brown died almost five months later at age 117.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 07:48AM by Futurist110
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TIL In 1970, psychologist Timothy Leary was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On arrival, he was given a psychological evaluation (that he had designed himself) and answered the questions in a way that made him seem like a low risk. He was assigned to a lower-security prison from which he escaped.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 04:39PM by haddock420
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TIL: The Bradley Effect is when voters give inaccurate polling responses out of fear of stating their true preference. Members of the public may feel under pressure to provide an answer that is deemed to be more publicly acceptable.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 02:48PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL that The New York Times Best Seller list is made up by editors and has nothing to do with the actual number of books sold
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 04:17PM by ThomasMaker
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TIL that centipede bites aren't technically bites because their pincers (forcipules) that they use to inject venom are actually modified front legs and not part of their mouths.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 02:15PM by ex_natura
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TIL a study conducted at the University of Montreal showed that young people who played the 1996 game Super Mario 64 for just two months had increased spatial and episodic memory, which improves brain capacity and helping to forestall dementia.
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 05:58PM by ryandmc609
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TIL that the song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from The Lion King, was originally meant to have been sung by Timon and Pumbaa. This idea was scrapped after Elton John himself intervened, saying “I don't want a big, stinky warthog singing my love song!".
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 07:18PM by Tokyono
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