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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TIL about former American slave, John Berry Meachum, who began teaching classes for black people on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River to work around the state of Missouri's prohibition of black education.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 08:56PM by danlav66
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TIL of a giant "WELCOME TO CLEVELAND" sign on a rooftop in the flight path of a Milwaukee airport. It has been causing confusion to passengers since 1978. Creator, Mark Gubin, said: "Living in the world is not a dress rehearsal. You better have fun with it."
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 10:28PM by DekiTzar
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TIL that the 5th oldest known tree on earth was burned down by a Floridian woman who was smoking meth inside it in 2012
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 09:46PM by Mitche420
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TIL that otters keep their favorite stones under their arms when they're not using them to detach prey from the seabed and break it open. They've been known to form attachments to them and keep them throughout their lives.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 10:59PM by l_hazlewoods
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TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe owned roughly one percent of all the money in Denmark, wore a nose made of gold after losing his own in a duel and had a pet moose that he sent out to attend parties in his place until it one night got so drunk that it fell down a flight of stairs and broke its neck
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 11:56PM by J0shua1985
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TIL Nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land is used for beef production, yet beef accounts for less than 2% of the calories that are consumed throughout the world.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 02:27AM by bernardobrito
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TIL that Richard Nixon's daughter, Julie, ended up marrying Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson, David, in 1968. They had 3 children and are still married to this day.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 01:20AM by NabaeteanAD_107
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TIL Black garlic is simply garlic that has been left to ferment at high heat. It's loaded with nearly twice as many antioxidants as standard raw garlic and contains a naturally occurring compound called s-allylcysteine, a contributing component in cancer prevention, & lowers bad cholesterol
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 02:30AM by chercheur17
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