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TIL a man was arrested because he was pissed off at Bank of America for freezing his account leaving him peniless, that he placed a bag of his own urine and fish bait to rot into their Safety Deposit Box as a form of justice.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 04:25AM by moderducker233
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TIL that many of Issac Newton's critical insights on calculus occurred while in isolation from the Great Plague of London from 1665 to 1666. Newton would later describe this time as "the prime of my age for invention and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time since."
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 03:36AM by ralphbernardo
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TIL Opium farmers in Australia kept finding mysterious crop circles on their fields. They eventually found out it was wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 07:40AM by emailrob
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TIL of an Ugandan doomsday cult whose followers surrendered their wealth to the church. After the prophesied date passed many disgruntled followers demanded their money back. The cult leaders responded by massacring over 900 of them. The leaders were never caught.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 05:07AM by SerEcon
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TIL a slave was indicted for waging war against the state and was later sentenced to be hanged for treason. Two dissenting judges argued that a slave, being a noncitizen, could not commit treason. He was later pardoned.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 12:45PM by MysticPato
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TIL African American designer Ann Lowe made Jacqueline Bouvier's wedding dress... twice. A flood ruined the 1st ivory silk taffeta gown ten days before the date. Lowe hired extra staff to finish on time, barely avoiding bankruptcy. When asked who made the dress, Jackie said, "A Colored woman".
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 04:44PM by triviafrenzy
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TIL that in 2003, MTV aired an adult cartoon called Clone High which features clones of historical figures in high school. It was canceled after one season because it caused mass protest in India and even hunger strikes over its portrayal of Ghandi as a party animal
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 03:38PM by nickburrows8398
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TIL if you see a tornado and it is not moving side to side, this is a strong indication that it is moving directly towards you.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 04:55PM by DalaiMontana
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TIL Stephen Colbert was invited to be the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Apparently Republicans didn't realize the character from his show was satire. Featuring some nervous laughs from George W.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 07:03PM by The5uburbs
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TIL in 2004 a woman in Texas was arrested and faced a year in jail for selling a vibrator to two undercover cops posing as a married couple at a private party
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 08:04PM by foxyguy
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TIL Rabbits move their jaws more than 120 times a minute when eating. In order to cope with this constant wear, their teeth are open-rooted, allowing them to grow continuously.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 03:15PM by fireseeker4him
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TIL Family Video still operates over 500 stores in the US and Canada. They own the real estate where their stores are located and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. This is why they were able to outlast other video rental businesses like Blockbuster.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 08:27PM by Kanobe24
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TIL the President of the United States technically has the right to shut off the internet for all US citizens in case of a "national emergency" – also known as the presidential internet kill switch.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 08:01PM by truehalf
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TIL Genrikh Yagoda, a member of Russia's "secret police" was responsible for at least 7.5 million deaths, until he too became a victim of the great purge.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 09:11PM by superiorpanda
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TIL that the Zulu part at the beginning of Circle of Life basically means "here comes a lion; yup, it's a lion"
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 09:35PM by WelfOnTheShelf
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TIL of a woman who gave her neighbor a ‘box of sex toys’ to hold on to. 6 months later the neighbor noticed a stench coming from her closet where the box was stored. She finally opened it and found a decomposing severed head inside. It was the original woman’s husband.
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Submitted March 22, 2020 at 11:23PM by mainrave
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TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.
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Submitted March 23, 2020 at 12:52AM by Miskatonica
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TIL that OG Spider-Man Tobey Maguire was at the center of the underground poker scene for the wealthy elite in LA and he "was the worst tipper, the best player, and the absolute worst loser". He used his best friend Leo DiCaprio as a lure to get billionaires to the table.
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Submitted March 23, 2020 at 02:02AM by tho_mi
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TIL the 2009 stimulus bill passed to mitigate the financial crisis included a powerful independent oversight board that scrutinized every dime spent, and perhaps as a result, it produced remarkably low levels of fraud and abuse
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Submitted March 23, 2020 at 01:19AM by grizzburger
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