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TIL the song 'Cherry Pie' by Warrant was written in 15 minutes on the back of a pizza box. It went on to be the band's most famous song. The box is on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Destin Florida.
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Submitted February 06, 2020 at 12:54PM by TedDanson-
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TIL 67% of millennials see their pet as part of the family and refer to them as a "fur baby." They would like to take leave from work to care for a new pet if their employer offered it. Millennial dog owners spend an average of $1,285 per year on their pet.
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Submitted February 06, 2020 at 09:00PM by operator139
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TIL the song "Black Betty" (made popular by Ram Jam) was recorded for the first time in 1933 by two US musicologists in a texas prison, with the first recorded version preformed by a prisoner called James "iron head" Baker. Original recording in the comments.
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Submitted February 06, 2020 at 08:09PM by keepitcivilized
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TIL that Dennis Muren, the special effects artist who worked on Star Wars and Close Encounters, took a year-long sabbatical to read a 1,200-page textbook on computer graphics. Shortly thereafter, he led the VFX teams that worked on Terminator 2, then Jurassic Park.
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Submitted February 06, 2020 at 06:27PM by goodcheapandfast
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TIL that a Comcast customer who was dissatisfied with the internet speed set up a raspberry Pi to counter the problem. The Pi ran internet speed tests and if his internet speed dropped below 50 megabits per second, the Pi tweeted hourly to @Comcast about the slower than advertised speeds.
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Submitted February 06, 2020 at 11:05PM by VictorJ45
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TIL that building roads with more lanes can actually increase traffic, a phenomenon called induced traffic, which contradicts the thought most experience sitting in traffic that if there was another lane on this road, things would be better.
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Submitted February 06, 2020 at 09:39PM by millertime926
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TIL famous chemist and lifelong bachelor Robert Bunsen once proposed to a girl who said yes, but he then lost himself in his work for a few weeks. When he finally emerged from his lab, he couldn't remember if he ever proposed or not, so he did it again, only to have her turn him down.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 03:09AM by MinisterCinder
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TIL Australian fisherman Mathew Orlov caught a pregnant 8-foot-8-inch shark that was dead when he pulled it up, (he felt through the line the shark being attacked). Orlov did an impromptu C-section to free 98 shark pups back into the sea; he and his family ate the mother shark.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 01:45AM by Miskatonica
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TIL that the world's oldest continuously trading independent company was Kongō Gumi, a Japanese construction company founded in 578 AD and which operated for over 1,400 years until it went into liquidation in January 2006.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 02:43AM by sober_disposition
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TIL Casey Anthony had “fool-proof suffocation methods” in her Firefox search history from the day before her daughter died. Police overlooked this evidence, because they only checked the history in Internet Explorer.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 05:06AM by ToppemHat
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TIL Canadians gifted a Norwegian coach over 5 tons of maple syrup after he helped an Olympic Canadian cross-country skier after she broke her pole during a race.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 03:28AM by Farmass
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TIL Legendary screen icon Cary Grant's father put his mother in a mental institution when Grant was 9 and told him his mother had died. Grant didn't find out his mother was still alive until he was 35 when his father confessed the truth on his death bed.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 06:49AM by Bluest_waters
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TIL That because the CIA thought Nelson Mandela was going to start a communist uprising, they tipped off the Apartheid Regime as to his whereabouts in 1962. This lead to his arrest, and 27 years in prison.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 04:33PM by Phranquelyhnne
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TIL that Florida isn't actually more messed up than the rest of the USA. It only seems that way because of the Florida Sunshine Law, a series of laws designed to guarantee that the public has access to the public records of governmental bodies in Florida, making Florida stories more accessible.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 04:57PM by Long-Afternoon
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TIL of the 'transported soldier legend' where in 1593 a Spanish soldier from the Philippines appeared in Mexico City speaking of the death of the Philippines governor the night before. His story was backed up by sailors arriving to Mexico months later, who even recognised the soldier as being there.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 02:09PM by ez-mac
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TIL IKEA allowed a giant hide-and-seek game in a store for the 30th birthday of a woman who planned the meet-up on FB; over 1K people signed up to play. More hide-and-seek parties popped up on FB including 19K signing up in Amsterdam. IKEA no longer allows hide-and-seek in their stores.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 05:09PM by Miskatonica
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TIL that it is a common misconception that one must wait 24 hours to file a missing persons report. Law enforcement agencies often stress that the case should be reported as early as possible
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 06:34PM by SotaSkoldier
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TIL It's a myth that wine gets better with age. An estimate reveals that 90% of wines are supposed to be consumed within one year, while 99% should be consumed within five, otherwise they go 'bad'.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 05:26PM by lefttha
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TIL the TV western series "Gunsmoke" ran for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975. During that time it's lead character, Marshal Matt Dillon, managed to survive being shot 56 times, knocked unconscious 29 times, stabbed on three occasions, and poisoned once.
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Submitted February 07, 2020 at 07:26PM by Captain_Moseby
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