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TIL that Scheherazade, the storyteller from One Thousand and One Nights tells her stories (Aladdin, Sinbad, ...) to the monarch so that he would stop marrying and killing a new virgin every day after his first wife betrayed him. He had already killed 1001 women when they met.
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 04:34PM by Ayuvelo
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TIL that Abigail Adams, who believed slavery was evil and antithetical to democracy, wrote on the eve of the Revolutionary War, that she doubted her fellow Americans had the "passion for liberty" they claimed to have, given how they "deprived their fellow creatures" of freedom.
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 06:27PM by OliverTate2
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TIL Cards Against Humanity was initially named 'Cardenfreude', a pun on 'Schadenfreude', which is the experience of joy that comes from the humiliation of someone else.
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 05:31PM by shashankgaur
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TIL some ppl pretend to go along with scammers, leading them on and taking up their time and resources which keeps them from targeting actual potential victims. If everyone did that they would soon be out of business
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 07:11PM by greenshade1
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TIL of Sybil Ludington, who rode double the length of Paul Revere at only 16 years old to alert Americans that the British were coming. She was personally thanked by George Washington for her service
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 06:40PM by secretlyskrull
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TIL that in 1966 after failing for 3 years to extinguish a gas well fire Soviet authorities decided to use a 30kt atomic bomb. It was detonated at a depth of 1,500m, crushing the well and extinguishing the flames in seconds. Following this success the same technique was use on 4 other well fires.
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 03:24PM by DissonantNeuron
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TIL that when 42 year old Hugh Heffner asked out 18 year old Barbi Benton she responded with, "I don't know, I've never dated anyone over 24 before." To which Hefner replied, "That's all right, neither have I." The two then began a relationship that lasted several years.
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 07:27PM by bkreddit856
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TIL the the 1960s was the heyday for the Quicksand trope - almost 3% of films showed characters sinking in clay, mud, or sand.
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Submitted November 10, 2020 at 11:41PM by hithertounforetold
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TIL following the airing of the South Park episode "Cartoon Wars Part I," in which Family Guy is mocked, the creators received flowers from The Simpsons' producers, and phone calls from those involved with King of the Hill, who remarked, "you're doing God's work."
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 02:20AM by Geerox_McCopyface
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TIL of a couple who received a $31.5mil settlement after unreported hail damage repair on their car resulted in a collision safety failure, trapping them in an inferno that ended in 4th degree burns. The body shop responsible glued the roof back on instead of welding to OEM specifications.
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 12:35AM by desertcombat06
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TIL that the Northern Great Plains was home to many fortified Native American towns, beginning in the 800s and existing all the way until the 1880s. These towns had over a thousand residents and a plaza centric layout. These were sedentary towns where people lived year-round.
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 01:06AM by RW_archaeology
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TIL The Animals' cover of "The House of the Rising Sun," was recorded in just one take on May 18, 1964. Producer Mickie Most later stated, "everything was in the right place ... It only took 15 minutes to make so I can't take much credit for the production."
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 02:55AM by Geerox_McCopyface
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TIL about Drayton Daugherty, a doctor who cured a dying man by pretending to undo a voodoo hex in a last ditch effort after modern medicine didn't work. The man believed he was cured and lived for ten more years.
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 03:49AM by fruity_oaty_bars
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TIL that in 2016, an Italian court ruled that stealing small quantities of food to satisfy a vital need for food does not constitute a crimе, overturning a 6-month jаil sentence and a €100 fine that a hоmeless man who had stolen cheese and sausages (worth €4.07) from a supermarket had been convictеd
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 05:22AM by malalatargaryen
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TIL about a book called Cain’s Jawbone where a detective story is told through 100 pages, but the reader has to figure out the order of the pages to solve the mysteries. Only three people have solved it to date.
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 04:53AM by cybershadowwolf
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TIL an imprisoned pimp sued Nike for $100 million in 2014, claiming that Nike should have warned him his Air Jordans were a dangerous weapon in disguise before he stomped on a man's face. The judge dismissed the case, but Nike still had to pay $1,456 in legal fees for their 90-second defense.
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 05:33AM by featheredoctopus
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TIL that children who have been in foster in care in the US have higher rates of PTSD than war veterans. Even children who have been abused/neglected fare better if they've remained in their homes than if they've been placed in foster care.
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 06:39AM by mywhitehero
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TIL: Hackers Find Missing People for Fun. Trace Labs - these people work for free. And they look for missing people... just for fun. For them it's like a hobby or even a GAME. In fact, this non-profit organization holds competitions to collect information to solve cases on missing persons.
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 08:28AM by garbage_president
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TIL there is an annual tradition at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where after the last flight of the season leaves (after which they're stuck for a few months), the crew holds a movie night where they watch all three film adaptations of "The Thing"
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Submitted November 11, 2020 at 06:41AM by james8475
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