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TIL when a clothing company called The South Butt was asked to cease and desist by The North Face, they complied, then turned around and created "Why Climb Mountains," featuring The Butt Face.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 05:43AM by MaddKat94
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TIL about the Golden Fantasy. The Golden fantasy is a secret expectation that all of one's problems can be solved by interaction with a perfect and all-caring relationship figure. The fantasy can be found both in psychotherapy and in ordinary life.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 12:32PM by ZenChemist
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TIL that Chernobyl firefighter Vladimir Pravik's eyes are believed to have changed from brown to blue due to the radiation exposure
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 02:12PM by HydrolicKrane
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TIL a Canadian man getting a rectal exam by his doctor at a hospital was observed by people he assumed were medical practitioners/med students. He sued the hospital and observers after learning the observers were two actors who play doctors on TV doing research for the TV series "Saving Hope."
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 03:55PM by Miskatonica
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TIL that bees can't see red. What we perceive as the colour red is seen as black by bees. However, they can see ultraviolet. UV allows them to see vein like patterns in a flower, like a map which allows them to locate the nectar treasure.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 04:17PM by Carrot_Peel3r
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TIL That Elton John Once Rewrote John Lennon's Imagine After Seeing The Extravagant Lifestyle Lennon Had Been Living. Elton Parodied The Song, Changing The Lyrics To "Imagine six apartments, it isn't hard to do, one is full of fur coats, another's full of shoes."
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 05:37PM by Austin63867
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TIL Coca-Cola has a medical application. It is sometimes used for the treatment of gastric phytobezoars (trapped mass in the gastrointetsinal system). In about 50% of cases studied, Coca-Cola alone was found to be effective in gastric phytobezoar dissolution.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 04:22PM by MysticPato
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TIL the skull on the moth covering Jodie Foster’s mouth on the poster for Silence Of The Lambs is actually 7 female bodies as depicted by Salvador Dali and represent the movies victims
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 06:17PM by fatboyslick
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TIL In 2017, Canadian scientists recreated an extinct horse pox virus to demonstrate that the smallpox virus can be recreated in a small lab at a cost of about $100,000, by a team of scientists without specialist knowledge.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 07:47PM by reva_r
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TIL Essential Oils are not 'essential' or indispensible for the human body (like essential amino acids and essential fatty acids). The word 'essential' in Essential Oils simply means it contains the essence of the plant's fragrance.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 08:33PM by amansaggu26
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TIL in order to improve speech-to-text, many 'private' Alexa conversations are being listened to by real people. An investigation found that these employees have group chats where they share recordings they find funny.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 10:00PM by truehalf
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TIL Martin Luther's son, Paul, was a survivor of the bubonic plague. After surviving, he dedicated his life to chemistry and medicine, developing the pharmaceuticals Unguentum ex nitro, Magistrum perlarum, Magistrum collorum, and Aurum potabile.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 10:43PM by -Harboringonalament-
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TIL After Roger Ebert gave Baseketball (1998) a negative review, Trey Parker and Matt Stone named an episode of South Park "Robert Ebert should lay off the fatty foods". Roger Ebert was not in the episode or even mentioned.
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 11:57PM by SundinsGamblingHabit
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TIL that skunk spray can't be removed with tomato juice because they are both acids, rather you need combine baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and dish soap to create a base that nuetralizes and removes the smell.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 03:13AM by MauiRobbie
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TIL the last US President who was fluent in a language other than English is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who spoke good French and German. Roosevelt died in office in 1945
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Submitted March 24, 2020 at 11:46PM by Powerpuff_Rangers
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TIL Bruce McMahan, a hedge fund billionaire who married his biological daughter and maintained a manipulative, adulterous, and incestuous relationship with her, managed to successfully scrub his existence from the internet after it was revealed.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 06:39AM by Yurichi
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TIL the movie 'Seven Pounds' about a man (Will Smith) giving the gift of life to seven strangers, foregone the usual Hollywood premiere and instead chose Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, St. Louis, and Denver to premiere the film to raise funds for food banks in each region.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 06:37AM by shaka_sulu
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TIL In June of Year Without Summer (1816), a group of writers had to stay indoors in Switzerland because of “incessant rain”. As a result of a contest to write the scariest story, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Lord Byron wrote A Fragment, a precursor to Dracula
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 10:39AM by HydrolicKrane
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