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TIL that cats respond positively to human slow blinking and that the slow blink represents a ‘cat smile’ and break from an uninterrupted, threatening, stare
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 05:37PM by Meanderingscientist
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TIL of Joan Quiqley, an astrologer and secret "advisor" to the Reagan White House. "Virtually every move" the Reagans made was cleared through her to "make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment."
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 03:13PM by ComprehensiveAmoeba7
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TIL: People who get the chills (music gives you goosebumps) might have a special brain (enhanced ability to experience intense emotions)
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 05:28PM by scrambledsausage
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TIL one theory for why we haven’t discovered extraterrestrial life is that Earth is early to the party. Over the next 100 trillion years before the last star burns out, 92% of Earth-like planets that could foster life elsewhere have yet to be born.
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 06:08PM by ascottbrooks
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TIL firefighters that responded to last year's fire at Notre Dame knew which works of art to rescue and in which order following a protocol developed for such a disaster.
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 09:15PM by dankniss
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TIL in 1941, a little girl who was selling lemonade at her lemonade stand caused a polio outbreak. The health department found that she hadn't cleaned the cups customers used. She ended up getting polio along with her friends.
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 08:03PM by JHopeHoe
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TIL Mongolian BBQ was invented in Taiwan in 1951 by a comedian
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 06:29PM by The_Important_Nobody
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TIL a 25-year-old Polish man passed out after drinking too much vodka, and went into cardiac arrest. He was declared dead, and taken to the local morgue. When a guard heard noises, he opened the fridge and let the man out. After passing a medical check, he went back to the pub to rejoin his friends
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 11:26PM by malalatargaryen
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TIL that Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh are both descendants of Queen Victoria. This would make them 3rd cousins.
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 08:41PM by jayshutts
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TIL in 1944, three American B-29 bombers on missions over Japan were forced to land in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, who did not have a similar strategic bomber, decided to copy the B-29. Within three years, they had developed the Tu-4, a nearly-perfect copy
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 01:47AM by vladgrinch
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TIL that Julia Child’s first job was with the US Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the CIA) during WWII. One of her accomplishments was developing a recipe for shark repellant for the OSS. Her husband was also OSS when they met. The CIA has released her files to the public.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 12:43AM by OldJonnyBoy
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TIL that in the movie Wolf of Wall Street, Jonah Hill wore a prosthetic penis for his masturbation scene at the beach party. However, his fellow actors were unaware of this and their reactions are genuine.
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Submitted November 29, 2020 at 05:08PM by K_17_Q
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TIL in 1991, former child actress Dana Plato entered a video store demanding the money in the cash register. The clerk called 9-1-1 and said, "I've just been robbed by the girl who played Kimberly on Diff'rent Strokes." She later died in 1999 of a drug overdose.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 01:55AM by SayNoToSystemUpdates
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TIL The Bee Gee's wrote "Islands in the Stream" for Marvin Gaye, it was a hit for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton and then sampled for "Ghetto Superstar". When The Bee Gee's finally recorded their version, they used "Ghetto Superstar " for their final chorus.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 02:07AM by Faceless-Pronoun
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TIL Taco Bell has failed twice to expand their operations to Mexico. In 1992, Mexican customers found their tacos too expensive, and in 2010 their expansion restaurant closed because customers were unfamiliar with the menu items.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 03:11AM by bawledannephat
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TIL Landing humans on the Moon required the most sudden burst of technological creativity and the largest commitment of resources ever made by any nation in peacetime. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 03:16AM by dremonearm
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TIL after Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, graduated high school he worked as a fry cook during summers at a restaurant in Islesford, Maine known as Islesford Dock Restaurant. The restaurant would later be the inspiration for the Krusty Krab in the show.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 04:42AM by chhurry
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Today I learned global company Unilever "makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide. Two billion people use them on any given day." Some of their brands include Dove, Klondike, Hellman's, Lipton, Magnum, Ben and Jerry's, Axe, Q-tips, St. Ives, Popsicle, and Vaseline.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 05:11AM by foyouri
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TIL that While filming Rocky IV Sylvester Stallone told Dolph Lundgren to really punch him to capture a realistic scene. One particularly forceful Lundgren punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell, and was forced into intensive care for 8 days.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 07:36AM by poleco1
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TIL of an attempted plane bombing in 1985 where the bomb went off an hour early, while still in the airport. The perpetrators did not realize that Japan does not observe daylight saving time, so the bomb went off before it made in onboard.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 08:55AM by Wyetro
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