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TIL the first person to register for the first comics con, held in New York in 1964, was George R.R. Martin.
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Submitted January 29, 2020 at 10:18PM by sisyphushaditsoeasy
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TIL that the Guugu Yimithirr, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, don't use terms like "left" and "right". Instead they use the geographical directions "north, east, south and west". That means, that there can't be confusions about your left or my left, since the directions are absolute for everyone
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Submitted January 29, 2020 at 09:10PM by rossloderso
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TIL that even in the Middle Ages, scholars never believed the Earth to be flat. The notion that authorities believed firmly in a flat Earth is a modern falsehood to discredit religion in the face of science. Even most Christian scholars acknowledged that Earth was spherical.
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Submitted January 29, 2020 at 09:28PM by Maximnicov
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TIL that Groucho Marx attended a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar with Elton John, and when the lights went down at the start of the performance, Groucho yelled, "Does it have a happy ending?"
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Submitted January 29, 2020 at 11:23PM by petite-acorn
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TIL that the reason as to why we view Neanderthals as primitive and hunched over, is because the first Neanderthal skeleton to be found showed signs of arthritis.
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Submitted January 29, 2020 at 11:38PM by VictorJ45
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TIL the sport of lacrosse was originally a form of ceremonial combat played by Native American tribes with teams of 100-1,000 players, on a field several kilometers long, in games that lasted two to three days straight.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 12:32AM by ddodette
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TIL Suicide is unique to humans. Even though other animals are observed dying from self-destructive behavior, scientists don't think death was the purpose or objective of the behavior so it isn't considered suicide.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 02:55AM by JunkyforJunkrat
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TIL about a daily pill that reduces the risk of contracting HIV by 51% costs about 8 US dollars per month outside of the USA but costs 1700 US dollars per month within the United States.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 07:51AM by eboshi
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TIL Wuhan, China is bigger than London and New York
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 06:20AM by Battle4Seattle
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TIL In 1980, jazz prodigy Pat Martino had to learn to play the guitar once again after an aneurysm caused him amnesia and he couldn't remember anything from his life until that point. He wouldn't even recognise his own image while looking at his old album covers.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 02:58AM by habierkarriyo
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TIL Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 30 January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 30 unarmed civilians in an unarmed crowd during a protest march against internment, killing 13 and wounding 17, in full view of the public and the press.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 02:13PM by suspect309
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TIL Nepalese farmers create a honey called 'mad honey' which is produced by bees pollinating rhododendron plants. The honey is psychoactive and its effects can range from euphoria and lightheadedness to being similar to a full-blown acid trip.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 03:01PM by haddock420
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TIL Alan Turing developed the first computer program for playing chess in 1951. However, no computer was powerful enough to process it, so Turing tested it by doing the calculations himself and playing according to the results, taking several minutes per move.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 09:05AM by haddock420
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TIL of Movile Cave in Romania that was separated from the outside world for 5.5 million years until 1986. It is home to 33 species found no where else on the planet.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 05:17PM by Duko4719
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TIL The disorder known as "Lazy eye" or "Amblyopia" can be improved by playing tetris. This is more efficent than an eye patch due to using your eyes in unison and using rapid eye movement to help check the pieces and where they should go.
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 05:37PM by MRkingLA
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TIL that Anchorage, Alaska has 500 police officers - and there are only 800 police officers total in the other 661,000 square miles of Alaska
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 07:02PM by Prufrock451
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TIL Legendary Guitarist Randy Rhoads died when his tour bus driver stole a plane and went joyriding with Rhoads on it. They buzzed the tour bus in hopes of waking up the band and clipped the wing of the plane and crashed. Sharon Osborne: "They were all in bits, it was just body parts everywhere"
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Submitted January 30, 2020 at 08:05PM by Bluest_waters
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