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TIL that instead of using the idiom, "It's all Greek to me," when something looks like gibberish, the Greeks themselves often say, "It's Turkish," Turks say, "It's French," the French say, "It's Hebrew," Hebrew speakers say, "It's Chinese," and Chinese people say, "This looks like its from Mars."
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 08:35AM by MontysBeret
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TIL King Louis the 14th of France had many bizarre rules in place at the palace of Versailles. One of these rules was that no person could knock on his door, instead they had to scratch the door with their left pinky finger. This lead to a large amount of nobles to grow out their left pinky nail.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 10:54AM by Ghost_toast123
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TIL Ewa Wisnerska is a professional paraglider who in 2007 was sucked into a storm cloud and survived being 10,000 metres in the air without oxygen and subjected to temperatures of -50 °c. after an hour and falling back down to 6,900 metres she came to and was able to fly her way back down to earth.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 12:51PM by Ghost_toast123
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TIL 60-65% of scholarships and grants either require less than a 3.5 GPA, or don’t ask for a GPA requirement at all. Students would actually be surprised at the sheer number of scholarship opportunities that don’t ask for a GPA requirement. These mostly geared toward extra-curricular activities.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 07:15AM by lopezjessy
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TIL: In 1775, Mass. farmer Samuel Whittemore, 78 and alone, fired upon British soldiers killing 3. Now out of ammo, he drew his sword to continue the fight. He was shot in the face, bayoneted multiple times, and left for dead. When found, he was trying to reload his musket. He died 18 years later.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 01:32PM by nickbmd
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TIL that in the 1960's, Chrysler created a car, the Chrysler Turbine, that could run on many alternate fuels, including: kerosene, jet fuel, perfume, tequila, peanut oil, soybean oil, and furnace oil!
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 02:38PM by TwoTheVictor
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TIL that white bears attempting to capture salmon are 30 percent more successful than black bears during the daytime, presumably because, from the perspective of fish in the river, the white bears are less visible against the sky.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 05:00PM by 3lchupacabra
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TIL that Venice is supported not by the surface of islets but by literally millions of wooden piles under the Venice Lagoon.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 04:03PM by Annettethegreat
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TIL an unarmed gym teacher in Serbia wrestled an automatic rifle from a man trying to take students hostage. When the man fired warning shots in the ceiling of a philosophy classroom, students called the gym teacher for help; the gym teacher's hands were injured, but no students were harmed.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 05:59PM by Miskatonica
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TIL U.S sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of chemical herbicides and defoliants during Vietnam war as a part of Operation Ranch Hand. Longstanding effects of the sprayed chemicals led to approximately 400,000 deaths and at least 500,000 children born with congenital disorders in Vietnam.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 06:49PM by sdsanth
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TIL that when Weird Al Yankovic created the music video for “Smells Like Nirvana”, he used many of the same props and actors from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video. It was also shot in the same location. He was helped by the producers of the original Nirvana video.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 08:23PM by Tokyono
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TIL When printers started to print books in the 15th century, they used scraps of ancient and medieval parchments to help bind the book. Examining the bindings, historians have reconstructed old texts. Some texts only survive in the modern day in this way.
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 09:26PM by deep_sea2
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TIL that roundabouts reduce fatalities from accidents by 72-82%. They also lower wait times and save gas.
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Submitted February 02, 2020 at 12:10AM by VictorJ45
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TIL that serial child molester and GOP House speaker Dennis Hastert served only 15 months for illegal efforts to hide hush money payments to victims
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Submitted February 02, 2020 at 01:08AM by roy_battys_tears
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TIL a Dallas middle school wanted to do a "Breakfast with Dads," but many boys had absentee fathers; so the school put out a call on social media, hoping for 50 male mentors. 600 men showed up. An icebreaker was teaching the boys, ages 11-13, how to tie a necktie in a half Windsor knot.
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Submitted February 02, 2020 at 01:35AM by Miskatonica
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TIL that when horses are born, their hooves are covered in a rubbery layer called a deciduous hoof capsule. This capsule covers the sharp edges of the foal’s untried hooves, protecting both the foal and its mother from injury during birth. The capsules fall off soon after birth.
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Submitted February 02, 2020 at 12:33AM by annieesquad
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TIL the Icelandic language was kept isolated for so long that modern speakers can still read and understand texts written in Old Norse, the language of the original viking settlers from Scandinavia that settled the Island over 1000 years ago.
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Submitted February 02, 2020 at 02:13AM by untipoquenojuega
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TIL a duck is called a duck because it ducks its head under the water to feed. The animal was named after the verb and not the other way around.
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Submitted February 02, 2020 at 02:14AM by xe3to
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