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TIL A dark patch was left intentionally on the ceiling of Grand Central Station's main concourse to show how dirty it was before and after it's first cleaning. The patch was swabbed and tested revealing the dirty ceiling was about 100 years of built up nicotine/cigarette smoke
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 12:01AM by Allformygain
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TIL that during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, some people paid to be killed by a bullet, rather than the usual machete or club.
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Submitted November 07, 2019 at 08:30PM by Dot_mp4
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TIL Elephants are known to take a great interest in the bones of their deceased and to mourn for dead relatives and Magpies have been observed burying their dead under twigs of grass
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 05:23AM by The-Sink-Panther
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TIL that there is a monument in Georgia which gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an unknown apocalyptic event, whilst also functioning as a compass, calendar and clock
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 11:00AM by ChloeGalts
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TIL a French footballer, Jean-Pierre Adams, has spent nearly 40 years in a coma he entered at age 34 following an anesthetist’s error. His wife has stayed by his side this whole time.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 10:38AM by Androgymoose
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TIL of Hatshepsut, the first female ruler of ancient Egypt who acted as a full pharaoh. In art, she had herself depicted as a male ruler; she wore a false beard, had her breasts reduced and deemphasized, and her shoulders portrayed as broad and manly. She brought Egypt into a period of prosperity.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 01:17PM by Tokyono
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TIL about Henry Lincoln Johnson, a member of the Harlem Hellfighters known as the Black Death. During an ambush in Argonne Forest in 1918, he injured or killed 24 German soldiers, without a working gun. He was the first American soldier to win a Croix du Guerre, France's highest award for bravery.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 05:12PM by Alex_Sylvian
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TIL After his moon landing, Neil Armstrong was put in quarantine for several weeks. Scientists were afraid that he may have picked up a foreign bacteria while he was in space. He spent the majority of that quarantine time playing his ukulele.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 05:26PM by suspect309
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TIL Andrew Johnson is the only tailor ever to be president. As president, he would typically stop by a tailor shop to say hello. He would wear only the suits that he made himself.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 08:04PM by suspect309
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TIL in Scotland and Ireland, 29 February in a leap year is said to be the one day when a woman can propose to her partner. Finland has the same custom, with the addition that a man rejecting such a proposal was expected to buy his suitor enough cloth for a skirt as compensation.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 07:09PM by garamond89
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TIL If sound could travel through empty space, we'd be able to hear the sun at 125 decibels from Earth's surface. In comparison, 120 decibels is a train horn about one meter away from you.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 11:34PM by shakespeare94
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TIL that meme of DMX crying is from an interview done with VH1, where he admits that his mother never told him that she loved him. " You know what I think a lot of people lose sight of the fact that no matter how strong you are as a man no matter how tough you are we all need to be somebody's baby."
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 11:38PM by ESDROS
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TIL female kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteruses. The two side vaginas carry sperm to each uterus, while the middle vagina sends the joey to the outside world. This can allow female kangaroos to be perpetually pregnant with one joey developing in her pouch and another in the other uterus.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 10:24PM by Slubmaster_06
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TIL the song “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was supposed to be a ballad, but during a recording session, Hawkins “screamed and grunted” through the whole song because he was drunk. It was his most-successful recording and is in The Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 04:15AM by JAZINNYC
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TIL that the chemical element Berkelium is named after the University of California, Berkeley, which is named after the city of Berkeley, which is named after the philosopher George Berkeley, who, ironically, believed that the physical world does not actually exist.
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 04:57AM by allfangs
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TIL when the movie The Death of Sta lin got banned in Russia, 58% of Russians from a poll by Public Research Center said they would watch the movie if the ban were lifted. The movie has been illegally downloaded around 1.5 million times over there
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 01:32AM by Elver-Galarga7
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