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TIL until 1996, NYPD cars were painted blue. They phased out the blue cars in favor of factory white, resulting in a $1 million savings. Light blue shirts were replaced with dark blue to "hide coffee and donut stains"
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 02:22AM by thenewyorkgod
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TIL that actor Matt Damon is proud to call himself the 'Dumbest actor of all time' due to the fact that he was offered a role and 10% royalties on the movie Avatar but he turned them down. The payout later came out to be 250 million dollars.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 05:26AM by Aquarium-Luxor
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TIL the Empire of Japan killed as many as 250,000 Chinese civilians because they helped 67 American bomber crewmen escape.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 07:42AM by Impatient_Optimist
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TIL The queen of England is a Viking. She is a decendant of Rollo the viking
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 01:40PM by counfhou
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TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing thousands of sterile fruit flies from 2,000ft in the air to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly. Up to 125,000 flies per square mile are released each week in what’s called “biological birth control”
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 09:25AM by effit_WeWillDoItLive
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TIL In 2011, two men got lost at sea and were adrift of 33 days before washing up on an atoll, where they meet a descendant of a long-lost uncle. The uncle had also gone adrift 50 years earlier.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 10:17AM by IGotABananaForXmas
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TIL that the actor who played Santa Claus in the Christmas M&M's commercial still makes between $5,000-$10,000 every single year from residuals.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 02:17PM by derstherower
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TIL that even horses get nervous when they are about to participate in a race, and the jockeys bring goats that calm the horse down
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 01:58PM by TayyabW
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TIL that an Indian woman defended her father from three gunmen that had broken into their home, and fought them off. She disarmed one, attacked him with an axe, then killed him with his own gun, before shooting and wounding another as he made his escape.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 04:58PM by Tokyono
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TIL that in 2013 a petition requesting that the United States Government build a Death Star reached 25,000 signatures, the threshold requiring the White House office to make a response. One part of the response was, "The Administration does not support blowing up planets."
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 05:27PM by Alex_Sylvian
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TIL that Joseph Stalin had a secret lab that analyzed the poop of foreign leaders in order to build their psychological profiles and even reportedly refused an agreement with China’s Mao Zedong after reading an analysis of his poo
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 07:30PM by GriffinFTW
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TIL the Union Army tried to invade Texas with 5000 men during the Civil War. The defending confederate side was only comprised of 50 Irishmen. The defenders killed or captured over 200 union soldiers, destroyed 2 gunboats and suffered no losses themselves and received Irish styled medals as a reward
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 04:19PM by nonoman12
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TIL there are gloves that teach untrained musicians to play the piano in an hour. While wearing, the gloves vibrate in ways that stimulate certain movements to condition a user's hand for a specific task. These vibrations help the brain soak up knowledge even if the wearer isn't paying attention.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 08:36PM by Jegsnakkerikke
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TIL Harry Potter has been translated to Ancient Greek so that students of the dead language would have something fun to decipher.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 09:23PM by harmenator
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TIL that Elvis Presley stopped a mugging 53 days before he died. He’d been passing by a gas station in his limo when he saw two men beating up a teen. He got out, assumed a karate stance and challenged the fighters to take him on. They were so thrilled that they stopped immediately.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 08:26PM by Tokyono
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TIL that in a 2005 questionnaire about substance abuse, 18.2% (163/894) admitted to taking derbisol – a drug that does not exist
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 05:26PM by RetardedNinja35
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TIL about "Black Sunday", Disneyland's disastrous opening day. Asphalt poured that morning melted in the 101 °F weather, counterfeit tickets added 3x the park's capacity, a plumbers' strike forced Walt to choose running toilets over water fountains, vendors ran out of food, rides were hijacked, etc.
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 10:37PM by herpty_derpty
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TIL that Fez's name in That 70's Show was in the script as F.E.S. as in "Foreign Exchange Student"
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Submitted November 13, 2019 at 11:45PM by JayCar218
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