TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 07:19PM by pprithamm
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TIL Steve Carell didn't actually want to leave The Office after 7 seasons - instead, NBC didn't renew his contract because an executive wasn't a fan of the show and didn't want to pay his high salary.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 05:54PM by fupa16
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TIL Finland is the only country in the world with regulated 10-month emergency supply of critical medical equipment, medicine, energy and more
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 08:23PM by thisguynextdoor
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TIL in 2015 a new antibody test was announced by a researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston that can reveal every virus your body has ever mounted a response against. The researcher estimated it would cost $25 per test.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 10:15PM by GiganticEyeball
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TIL in the entire 120+ year history of Kansas University's basketball team there has been only one coach with a losing record. His name is James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 08:32PM by SerEcon
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TIL the YMCA sued the Village People over their "YMCA" song for trademark infringement, but the two sides settled out of court and the YMCA later expressed pride towards the band for their song as a salute their organization
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 12:49AM by johnnylgarfield
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TIL that ZZ Top is the longest-running group with an unchanged line-up in the entire history of popular music
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 02:03AM by cpclemens
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TIL in 1987, the Burmese government demonetised the 25-, 35-, and 75-kyats notes without warning or compensation, rendering around 75% of the country's currency worthless and eliminating the savings of millions of Burmese. Dictator Ne Win did it bc the notes weren't divisible by his lucky number, 9.
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Submitted March 25, 2020 at 11:54PM by sarsfox
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TIL Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos were both abandoned by their biological father as children and refused to meet them once they were adults.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 03:13AM by truehalf
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TIL Cats do not need to blink on a regular basis to keep their eyes lubricated. Unblinking eyes are probably an advantage when hunting. Cats will, however, squint their eyes, usually as a form of communication expressing affection and ease around another cat or human.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 03:46AM by reddit_user-exe
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TIL Admiral J.Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam and held prisoner for 7,5 years, 4 of them in solitary. He endured captivity by drawing inspiration from Epictetus, a stoic and former slave who who shrugged off even his own state of slavery as a natural inconvenience that should not concern him
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 02:52AM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL that in Buddhism, one "Aeon" is the amount of time it takes to completely erode a huge rock 16x16x16 miles in size, by brushing it with a silk cloth once a century.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 06:42AM by cantheasswonder
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TIL Silly String was invented to be used as an aerosol spray to create an instant cast on broken and sprained bones. It worked, but while testing nozzles it was noticed it produced a 30' string. This inspired the inventor to change the formula to be less sticky, add color, and market it as a toy.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 11:38AM by JustAManFromThePast
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TIL Kelsey Grammer was the first actor to be nominated for an Emmy for the same character on three different series: Wings, Cheers, and Frasier.He played Dr. Frasier Crane on Wings, Cheers, and Frasier.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 01:17PM by OhShitSonSon
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TIL that it is a federal crime in the United States to ask for political contributions from people known to be receiving relief through an Act of Congress
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 12:52PM by Pariahdog119
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TIL SpaceX launched the remains of 152 people to space with a company called Celestis. That same company sent the ashes of Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek creator) to space as the first-ever space burial, back in 1992. Upcoming missions will send DNA and human ashes even farther, into Deep Space.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 03:39PM by EricFromOuterSpace
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TIL David Bowie didn’t actually perform the crystal ball spinning in the movie Labyrinth. It was illusionist Michael Moschen who dressed in black and hid behind Bowie when filming.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 11:05AM by fatboyslick
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TIL cartoon character Betty Boop was a complete visual and vocal copy of singer/actress Helen Kane, AKA the "Boop Boop a Doop girl." Kane sued over theft of her image but lost when it was discovered she had copied her own act from a Harlem jazz singer, Baby Esther.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 07:02PM by marmorset
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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.Edit2 3/14: I guess these guys are slightly evolving their tactics, but they are still hitting our TIL community so putting the sticky back on because we have gotten modmail messages about it still happening.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 during a concert in Ireland, Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth) drunkenly dedicated a song to "the cause" and yelled "give Ireland back to the Irish!". A riot then broke out between the Catholics and Protestants and Megadeath had to travel in a bulletproof bus.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 07:52PM by CrashRiot
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TIL Kangatarianism is a vegetarian diet with the addition of kangaroo meat as a choice. It has environmental benefits because indigenous wild kangaroos require no extra land or water for farming and produce little methane.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 12:43PM by MysticPato
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