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TIL that the cheese slicer (Ostehøvel) was invented by Thor Bjørklund (Nor). The legend has it that, frustrated at the un-even cheese slices he cut with a knife, he wanted to improve the cheese world. He realized that a carpenter’s plane could do the job and the cheese slicer was born.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 10:13PM by Xaintailles
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TIL that Mike Myers thought up the Austin Powers character while driving home one day. His radio was playing Burt Bacharach’s “The Look of Love”, and he was with his then-wife Robin Ruzan. Myers asked her if he was “making her horny”. She told him to stop it and write his new character down.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 06:42PM by Numerous-Lemon
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TIL that Exxon used to be known as Esso, a phonetic spelling of "S.O." for Standard Oil after it was forced to break up into 34 smaller companies. It is still widely known as Esso outside the US.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 02:09AM by Taman_Should
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TIL of Domino's "Paving for Pizza" campaign which offers cities $5,000 grants to help them repair potholes. In exchange, cities are to fill potholes & stencil on a Domino’s logo. For example, Milford, DE got 40 "Domino's brand pothole fills"; Athens, GA got 150; Bartonville, TX got 8.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 03:28AM by Miskatonica
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TIL about Andrew Jackson's assassination attempt. After Lawrence's pistols misfired, Jackson credited divine providence with intervening on his behalf. A century later, both pistols were tested and fired at the first shot. The odds that both would misfire was estimated to be about 1 in 125,000.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 04:52AM by agarriberri33
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TIL Young children develop "theory of mind" earlier if they know two languages, and in older people, bilingualism can postpone the onset of dementia. Researchers say the statement that learning languages makes people smarter has a sound scientific basis.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 02:30AM by chercheur17
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TIL The deep-dish pizza was invented in 1943 when someone at the small pizza shop Pizzeria Uno in Illinois decided to make a pizza using a cake mold.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 06:16AM by haddock420
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TIL a man robbed The Ballagio Casino of $1m in poker chips - that he could only spend at the Bellagio. In a matter of weeks weeks he was down to $20K, spending his winnings on OxyContin, more gambling, and one night a four-hour hand job.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 04:20AM by emailrob
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TIL that the term for the last animal of an entire species is Endling. When an Endling dies, the species is considered extinct.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 09:50AM by TitanBrass
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TIL A married Secret Service agent had trouble extraditing a hacker from Romania, so he pretended he was a woman, flirted for 7 months online, and nabbed the criminal when he flew to Boston with 3 boxes of grape-flavored condoms.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 12:14PM by ThatGuy11115555
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TIL that Dave Thomas, the founder of the successful fast food chain, Wendy’s, worked at KFC prior to Wendy’s and was responsible for the red and white striped chicken bucket design.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 06:47AM by azgrunt
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TIL of Brian Shaffer, a man who disappeared after entering a bar in Columbus, OH in April, 2006. He was recorded on security cameras entering the bar, but never leaving the bar. He is still missing today.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 01:10PM by Bjornlandeto
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TIL Ian McKellen was asked for an autograph by a homophobic politician. Instead, however, he wrote “Fuck off, I’m gay.”
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 03:46PM by ComradeKumquat
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TIL: In the "Greatest Hits" version of the PS1 Spider-Man game, the cheat code menu was removed. This was because developers realized that the cheat to play as Mary Jane would result in the final cutscene featuring a long lesbian kiss between Mary Jane and herself.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 02:45PM by Communist_Pants
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TIL of Artur Fischer, a German soldier who survived Stalingrad on the last plane out. After the war, he went on to invent many ubiquitous items such as the synchronized camera flash and the plastic wall anchor, and held over 1100 patents before dying at age 96.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 05:22PM by Priamosish
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TIL Dutch authorities created over 300 little "parks" for bees on top of bus stop shelters in Utrecht; roofs are planted with low-maintenance sedum providing a safe habitat for bees. Over 50% of Netherlands' 358 bee species are endangered. Human commuters get with bamboo benches and LED lighting.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 06:33PM by Miskatonica
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TIL that, in 1846, planet Neptune's exact location was predicted by three astronomers studying the eccentric orbits of several distant asteroids. The data hinted at the presence of a giant, distant planet. Neptune was found on the very first night, only 1° off its predicted position.
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 01:59PM by catsfive
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TIL in the past century, every year at least one Belgian has died from World War 1 or World War 2 ordinance being accidentally detonated
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Submitted March 28, 2020 at 07:37PM by MegaZeroX7
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