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TIL at one of the band ZZ Top's first gigs in 1969, they showed up to only a single person in the audience, but decided to still play the entire show for him. They bought him a coke at set break for sticking around, and the guy still goes to ZZ Top concerts to this day.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 03:52PM by cosmicgeoffry
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TIL Dew Point, and not humidity, is a much more accurate predictor of how "comfortable" the outside environment will feel.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 12:57PM by One_Shall_Fall
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TIL that crows can learn to make and use tools by observing other crows, or even just by seeing a tool.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 02:28PM by Bookscrounger
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TIL that ants are amongst the few animals who passed the mirror test, which is a strong evidence of self-recognition, and indicates the possibility of self-awareness (i.e. a “sense of self”).
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 03:37PM by DrFolAmour007
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TIL of Mim, an eastern grey kangaroo raised by a family who hand-fed her. After they released her, Mim roamed wild for years; but when wildfires burned near the family's home in Kulnura, Australia, Mim turned up at their door seeking shelter. They let her stay indoors where she lounged on a blanket.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 04:43PM by Miskatonica
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TIL at his peak, mafia boss Al Capone was making an annual income of $1.3 billion in today’s dollars.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 03:16PM by truehalf
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TIL a shade of purple called "rebeccapurple" in web development is a memorial to Rebecca Alison Meyer, daughter of CSS developer Eric Meyer. Rebecca passed away on her sixth birthday from brain cancer.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 03:44PM by rocklou
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TIL that in 2014 and while trapped in a casino during a blizzard, Bon Jovi put on a full live show for employees and guests who were also trapped.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 08:24PM by Palloran
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TIL our skin is covered in invisible stripes. First observed by Alfred Blaschko in the early 1900s, they appeared not to follow any known body system. Visible only under UV light, these stripes now known to be cellular relics of fetal development from singular-cell beings to fully formed humans.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 06:21PM by nueoritic-parents
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TIL Bill Murray has caused mischief by stealing chips, crashing parties and deliberately photobombing passers-by, Murray will then often use his famous parting phrase to people he’s surprised: “And no one will ever believe you!”
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 11:45PM by MRkingLA
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TIL The Instant Pot pressure cooker can serve as a laboratory autoclave where more expensive units are not available (E.g. remote labs) or attainable (E.g. lack of funding). It even passes the Geobacillus stearothermophilus spore inactivation test.
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Submitted March 11, 2020 at 10:56PM by DuckyFreeman
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TIL Shia LaBeouf was caught plagerizing Daniel Clowes work, in response he tweeted apologises that were later discovered to be plagerized from public figures, including Nick Clegg. When called out by Lena Dunham for his sky writing apology to Clowe, he apologised to her using her own apology tweets.
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 02:36AM by MRkingLA
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TIL that in 1665, the University of Cambridge temporarily closed due to the Bubonic plague. Isaac Newton had to work from home, where he used that time to develop calculus and the theory of gravity.
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 03:03AM by Jaredrap
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TIL about Carbon Chauvinism, a term coined by Carl Sagan which assumes that all extraterrestrial life must be made of carbon because carbon-based humans are unable to imagine life made of radically different biochemistries.
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 06:02AM by rigaj
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TIL there was a “gay Hooters” restaurant in Dallas, Texas called Tallywackers that failed within a year of opening
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 05:18AM by foxyguy
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TIL that Killer Whales slice open Great White sharks and squeeze out their livers 'like toothpaste'...
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 12:16PM by Bookscrounger
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TIL The Dr. Fox Effect is when students see an educator as more intelligent/informative because of their charm/warmth as opposed to their actual intelligence or teaching ability. Nonverbal behaviors were notably able to completely mask a meaningless, jargon-filled, and confused presentation.
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 02:03PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL that people would have sex in graveyards to “laugh in the face of death”, during the Black Death. It became illegal and people were threatened with excommunication. It was thought that sexual immorality caused the plague, so prostitution and adultery were outlawed.
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 02:53PM by Russian_Bagel
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TIL The Dr. Fox Effect is when students see an educator as more intelligent/informative because of their charm/warmth as opposed to their actual intelligence or teaching ability. Nonverbal behaviors were notably able to completely mask a meaningless, jargon-filled, and confused presentation.
https://ift.tt/1uLfnLr

Submitted March 12, 2020 at 02:03PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL that movie trailers were originally shown after the feature film. That's why they are called "trail"ers. Theaters quickly noticed that people would simply leave when the main feature was complete, so they began showing the trailers before the movie instead; the name just stuck.
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Submitted March 12, 2020 at 02:47PM by jpmaze16
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