TIL the Zildjian Company—the world's largest producer of cymbals—was founded in 1623 by Avedis Zildjian, an Armenian alchemist in Constantinople who ended up making a cymbal instead of gold. Now based in Massachusetts, the company is still being run by the 14th generation of Zildjian's descendants.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 07:23AM by Nkive
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TIL I learned of Rodney Alcala, a serial killer who appeared on the TV show "The Dating Game", after he had already killed numerous people. He was said to have an IQ of 160, and interrogated himself on the witness stand during his trial, in Smeagol/Gollum fashion, switching voices and demeanor.
https://youtu.be/XQ4d2nORMHQ

Submitted March 08, 2020 at 03:29AM by Glamdryne
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TIL teff, the staple food crop of Ethiopia, is a highly nutritious "superfood" like quinoa. After US and European health food trends created a huge demand for quinoa, prices skyrocketed in Bolivia, where it is a staple food. Fearing their own food shortage, Ethiopia banned the export of teff in 2006
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 08:41AM by MyPasswordIsMyCat
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TIL Parents who give their children bleach enemas to cure autism have shared photos of "rope worms" expelled from their children, claiming they are parasites killed by the concoction. They are actually intestinal lining.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 09:40AM by jurble
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TIL Aimo Koivunen overdosed on methamphetamine, stepped on a land mine, survived for a week in a ditch by eating pine cones, skied 250 miles and was found weighing 94lb with a heart rate of 200bpm. Then wen ton to live for another 45 years!
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 01:45PM by _mugshotmodel_
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TIL that in 2002, a Marvel comics writer based an alternate version of Nick Fury on Samuel L Jackson, using his image without permission. Jackson discovered this and nearly took legal action. Marvel offered to cast him as Fury if the character was ever in a movie. Jackson took the deal.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 02:32PM by Numerous-Lemon
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TIL that zoopharmacogneosy is the science that studies how animals self medicate in the wild by ingesting or applying specific plants or non foods such as clay and charcoal.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 12:29PM by qqquokkka
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TIL two 16-yr-old Canadian snowboarders went missing near a B.C. ski resort. A helicopter found them with only a bit of frostnip to their hands ; they had managed to build a shelter and make a fire fueled in part by homework one of the teens had in his backpack.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 03:40PM by Miskatonica
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TIL "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis is the only song to hit #1 in the US in the 21st century without the support of a major record label.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 07:16PM by truehalf
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TIL Sylvester Stallone signed onto the film Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot based on rumors that Arnold Schwarzenegger was interested in the lead. Schwarzenegger confirmed a rumor that, knowing the script was "really bad", he had publicly faked interest in starring for producers to lure Stallone.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 06:26PM by ryandmc609
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TIL Marlon Wayans was cast as Robin in Batman Returns. Producers decided that, with The Penguin and Catwoman, the movie was too crowded and decided to cut out Robin. Despite not getting to actually play the role, Wayans was still paid $100,000 and receives royalty checks up to this very day.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 06:39PM by ryandmc609
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TIL - Reindeer are the only species of the family cervidae where both males and females develope antlers. But this isnt the best part. Males loose their antlers in autumn, while females keep theirs until spring of the following year. This means Rudolph and all of santas reindeer are female!
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 04:47PM by WigglyWeasel
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TIL of the ancient law of General Average. If a ship carrying cargo is required to jettison some of its load to save the rest, the loss of the cargo is to be shared proportionally among interest holders. First written in law in 800BC, it continues to be declared in present-day maritime emergencies.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 09:37PM by Methisthopheles
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TIL that humans can have far more chromosomal variation than just XX or XY. Some possible combinations include XXXXY, XXYY, and XXXXX. Also, the XYY condition, in which males have an extra Y chromosome, is often undiagnosed because there are so few symptoms.
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Submitted March 08, 2020 at 10:35PM by idcandidk
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TIL about Harry Wesley Coover Jr who discovered super glue (cyanoacrylate) in 1942. He ignored it as being too sticky for what he needed. He then rediscovered it in 1956 while at Eastman Kodak who put it into production. It gained notoriety in the Vietnam War as a way to close battlefield wounds.
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Submitted March 09, 2020 at 01:00AM by SuicidalGuidedog
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TIL that Roger Moore, who played James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985, actually hated guns and the way society glorified the men who wielded them. Moore hated the publicity photos of himself posing with Bond's signature Walther PPK gun or any other firearm.
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Submitted March 09, 2020 at 01:51AM by ralphbernardo
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No, you didn't win a gift card and no we aren't running a contest/giveaway of any kind. It's a scam.
Users in r/todayilearned have received messages from spam accounts claiming they won a gift card in some contest. These accounts usually contain “mod” in the username, and start their messages by saying “Our Reddit team chose YOU for our monthly raffle for a $100 gift card (Yay!)” to trick people into thinking it is an official subreddit contest. If you received a message like this, please do not click on the link or reply to the account as it this offer is not genuine. Additionally, please report it to the admins here so they can remove these spam accounts from reddit. r/todayilearned does not run contests like this, and official messages from the subreddit will be sent from "/r/todayilearned", not individual user accounts.Edit: These morons are also hitting the users of r/askreddit hard because they have a sticky about this issue.Screenshot of what the scam message looks like https://i.imgur.com/w3fjysB.jpg

Submitted March 09, 2020 at 05:29AM by lanismycousin
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Til that Mr.Rogers basically saved all of pbs by speaking in front of congress about the importance of public access tv for kids learning
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Submitted March 09, 2020 at 06:24AM by Altonbrownismydad
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TIL everything we know about research shows that mega-doses of vitamin C are absolutely, positively useless at fighting colds. All that extra orange juice will do nothing to shorten your sniffles.
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Submitted March 09, 2020 at 08:44AM by lopezjessy
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TIL adult cats rarely meow to each other, so an adult cat meowing to human beings is probably a post-domestication extension of meowing by kittens, a call for attention.
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Submitted March 09, 2020 at 10:04AM by wantstoknowyourstory
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TIL In 1971 Fleetwood Mac had to cancel a sold out show booked at the Whiskey A Go Go when their guitarist Jeremy Spencer simply vanished into thin air. He was eventually found having cut off all his hair, dressed in shabby clothes, and joined a cult called The Children of God.
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Submitted March 09, 2020 at 02:26PM by Bluest_waters
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