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TIL Kodak gave the last roll ever produced to Steve McCurry, the photographer who took 'The Afghan Girl'.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 05:14AM by lopezjessy
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TIL that at the end of WWII, Allied forces occupying Germany forced German civilians to tour the recently liberated concentration camps and forced to assist burying the dead as well as feeding and clothing the survivors
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 02:37AM by dolphins3
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TIL Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight after dreaming that he killed his opponent in the ring. After being convinced to fight, he killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 09:21AM by RK132
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TIL During the Great Depression Al Capone started one of the first soup kitchens, called “Free Soup Coffee & Doughnuts for the Unemployed." Capone’s soup kitchen served breakfast, lunch and dinner to an average of 2,200 Chicagoans every day.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 12:48PM by lopezjessy
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TIL that a gorilla in a Dutch zoo was tasked with investing in stocks of 75 listed companies, each stock represented by a banana. Whatever bananas he'd pick, those were recorded. The gorilla did better than AEX in 13 out of 15 years.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 02:50PM by Geoluhread123
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TIL during Notorious BIG’s funeral procession through the streets of Brooklyn, someone played his song “Hypnotize” from a speaker at full volume. The tone of the entire event quickly went from quiet and somber for a full-on party and celebration of the artists life
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 04:47PM by you8mymuffins
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TIL Canadian researchers discovered how to convert blood types A, B and AB to universal donor O-negative. They found that human gut bacteria makes a class of enzymes which react with the non-O type red blood cells, essentially transforming them into O-negative.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 05:23PM by Miskatonica
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TIL that David Schiffler, a 3 year old boy at the time, told his dad he found a dinosaur egg shell while playing in the dirt soon after seeing a movie on dinosaurs, and all he got from his dad was a shrug, "Yeah, right", but it turned out to be a genuine dinosaur egg shell!
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 06:12PM by brombinary
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TIL Prince Charles inherits the possessions of anyone who dies in Cornwall without a will or next of kin, a power that in some years has yielded hundreds of thousands of pounds. He funnels the money into charities after deducting his costs.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 06:21PM by psgenius
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TIL that deaf people suffering from schizophrenia still have auditory hallucinations. However, instead of hearing voices, they see hands signing at them
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 03:40PM by seadran13
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TIL in 2006 an auto wreck left only one survivor, whom first responders mixed up with another girl. The family of the survivor held a funeral and buried the wrong woman, while the other family kept a bedside vigil for months. When they removed the bandages, the families involved realized the mix-up.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 04:49PM by Roughneck16
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TIL About one Alaskan Village that became so fed up with drugs entering their community, that one day they all got together and paid for a meth dealer's one way flight out of the Village, and told them not to come back
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 09:14PM by SpiderKing1461
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TIL of the Universal Law of Urination, which states that all mammals larger than approx. 1kg take about 20 seconds to empty their bladder, regardless of size. Investigators looked at animals ranging in size from rat to elephant and found the time to empty a full bladder to be nearly the same.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 08:24PM by Nite01007
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TIL that Boris Yeltsin's (First president of the Russian Federation) faith in communism was shattered after a trip to a grocery store in a Houston Suburb in 1989.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 06:36PM by lennums1
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TIL Andrew Carnegie believed that public libraries were the key to self-improvement for ordinary Americans. Thus, in the years between 1886 and 1917, Carnegie financed the construction of 2,811 public libraries, most of which were in the US
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 10:31PM by vannybros
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TIL A loofah sponge is a vegetable you can grow yourself not something that grows in the sea.
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 08:50PM by DamoclesBDA
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TIL A young woman caught making explicit videos of herself at a public library had to pay a $250 fine and was banned for a year. She earned $1,500 for the 3 1/2 hour video she live-streamed at the library
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 10:48PM by vannybros
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TIL That in 1992, Nike made a Super Bowl commercial where an animated Bugs Bunny played basketball with a real-live Michael Jordan. The commercial was so successful that Warner Brothers decided to turn it into a whole movie (Space Jam).
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Submitted January 28, 2020 at 10:29PM by DannyAng
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TIL That in the UK, if you aren't able to talk on the emergency line (999) you press 55 on the keypad, and it will bring you to an automated system to which you continue responding to with the keypad. The system is called the "Silent Solution"
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Submitted January 29, 2020 at 04:34AM by _cannachris_
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