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TIL in 1890, two lawyers wrote an article titled “The Right to Privacy". It is regarded as the first publication in the USA that advocated that individuals had a right to privacy. It describes the right as the "right to be let alone".
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 01:33PM by Tokyono
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TIL Mara Wilson was very sad because her mother died of cancer and couldn't see Matilda's movie. After that, Danny DeVito had told Mara that he brought an early version of the film to the hospital where her mother was while she was badly sick, so her mother saw her performance before she died.
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 06:23PM by DejectedSoul
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TIL that the abandoned town of Old Jefferson in Tennessee was evacuated and burned down in 1963, to make way for an artificial lake. But the water drained away into underground caves and the site of the town never flooded
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 05:21PM by TheSanityInspector
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TIL about half of Thailand’s 349,000 monks are either overweight or obese. They rely solely on alms from the faithful and must consume what they are offered before noon each day. After midday, to keep their energy up, many rely on highly sweetened beverages, including energy drinks.
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 07:03PM by -AMARYANA-
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TIL that the Royal Navy once saved 5 million pounds in training by having personnel shout "bang" instead of firing live rounds
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 12:43AM by james8475
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TIL of Australian serial killer William MacDonald. When he left a victim under his shop and fled to another city police failed to link it to the other murders and assumed the rotting corpse was MacDonald, who was declared dead
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Submitted November 09, 2019 at 11:02PM by ZanyDelaney
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TIL a radio station organized a bonfire to burn Beatles records after they claimed they were "more popular than Jesus". The next day, the station’s broadcast tower was struck by lightning, damaging equipment and sending the news director to the hospital
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 01:35AM by curbrgrbrsn
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TIL A woman visited the Gorilla enclosure at the Rotterdam zoo on a near daily basis and smiled at the male, Bokito while staring at him. She was warned not to but kept doing it, claiming Bokito smiled back and that they shared a bond, until one day Bokito escaped and charged her, almost killing her
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 01:49AM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL Aldous Huxley, the writer of Brave New World, died tripping on acid. 6 hours before his death he requested 100 micrograms of acid to be injected intramuscularly which was given to him moments later. His death, like that of CS Lewis, was overshadowed by the assassination of JFK.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 03:31AM by MistressGravity
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TIL that Doritos were originally Disneyland trash. In the early days of Disneyland, a restaurant named Casa de Fritos invented Doritos by repurposing stale tortillas they bought from a local vendor. The chips proved to be so popular they were eventually rolled out nationally by Frito-Lay in 1966.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 04:20AM by FunkyardDogg
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TIL of Thomas de Mahy, an aristocrat who was sentenced to be hanged during the French Revolution after a two-month trial. Upon the reading of his death warrant, he remarked, "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes."
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 01:56PM by Tokyono
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TIL Mr. Rogers used a set of 9 simple rules when talking to children. He did this to be more inclusive and avoid confusion because he knew children would often hear things literally.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 02:40PM by chrisq518
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TIL a man once posted himself from London to Australia in a wooden box to avoid the expensive airfare. Broke former Olympic athlete Reg Spiers built the box to travel cheaply as air freight and spent 63 hours in transit. He arrived safely in Perth.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 10:56AM by oceanicplatform
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TIL that Shakuntala Devi, an Indian mental calculator,was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds. Her answer was confirmed by calculations done at the US Bureau of Standards for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 04:36PM by pislion
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TIL The Simpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” was a backdoor pilot for a proposed series. 'Tales from Springfield' would have told three different short stories per week, focusing on secondary characters and telling stories about the Simpsons family members’ past or future.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 05:49PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL In 1929, W. Forssmann performed the first human heart cath on himself. He tricked the OR nurse, put himself under local anesthesia, inserted a catheter into his arm, then walked to the X-ray room to see if it reached his heart. He was fired from the hospital, but awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 06:30PM by Hischoll
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TIL "Libations," the practice of pouring out alcohol in memory of those who have "passed on" was common in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. "Pouring one out for the homies" is a custom over 3,000 years old and is mentioned in the Bible, the The Iliad, and The Odyssey.
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Submitted November 10, 2019 at 08:59PM by hotelNoiseComplaint
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