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TIL 42-year-old Zamboni driver, kidney transplant recipient, and practice hockey goalie David Ayres, led the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-3 win after their two pro goalies were injured. Cheered by the opposing team's fans, he was the oldest player ever to make his pro debut in a major sport.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 05:51PM by marmorset
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TIL professional basketball player Marvin Barnes, once refused to board a plane from Louisville to St. Louis. Because the flight was scheduled to arrive (Central Time) before its departure time (Eastern Time), Barnes famously said, "I ain't getting in no damn time machine." He rented a car instead
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 08:12PM by hanky1979
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TIL that Michelangelo hid under the Medici Chapel in Florence for 3 months during a period of political turmoil, occupying his time by sketching on the walls with charcoal. His whereabouts were a secret for almost 500 years until the museum director stumbled upon the drawings in 1976.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 08:56PM by featheredoctopus
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TIL 29 of the 30 most watched broadcasts in the United States were Super Bowls, with the other one being the final episode of M*A*S*H
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 07:49PM by supermongoose42
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TIL that Australian comedian Hamish Blake won the heavyweight category in the 2011 New York State Body Building competition after entering as a joke, as he was the only competitor heavy enough to qualify for his weight category
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 10:51PM by Myrandall
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TIL the show VeggieTales focused on retelling Old Testament Bible stories because the creator's mom did not want to see Jesus as a vegetable.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 11:39PM by SettyDub
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TIL that Inuit in northern Greenland were using iron blades for centuries without knowledge of metallurgy. They made them by breaking pieces off of a huge iron meteorite and shaping them with heavy stones. They built their settlements close to the meteorite and used its iron for generations.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 01:01AM by a2soup
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TIL Greg Burson, who voiced Bugs Bunny following the death of Mel Blanc, ended his career after he barricaded himself in his home and held a woman hostage. According to an officer he was so drunk they couldn't tell if he was trying to do one of his voices or just slurring his words.
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Submitted November 30, 2020 at 11:26PM by SayNoToSystemUpdates
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TIL Beavis and Butthead was blamed for the death of a 2-year-old, after her 5-year-old brother set fire to their mobile home. The mother said he had watched one of the fire-related segments before starting the fire, but their neighbours said they didn't have cable TV so couldn't have seen the show.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 02:56AM by haddock420
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TIL of the Zoo hypothesis. Life is common in the Universe, but extraterrestrial civilizations intentionally avoid communication with Earth to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, and to avoid interplanetary contamination, similarly to people observing animals at a zoo.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 08:21AM by dustofoblivion123
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TIL Betty White was good friends with famed author John Steinbeck. White's husband Allen Ludden attended the same school as Steinbeck's wife Elaine. The couples became close friends and Steinbeck gave an early draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 03:30AM by dremonearm
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TIL Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son Quentin Roosevelt I was a pilot in World War I and was killed in France during combat. He is the only child of a US President to die in combat
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 09:24AM by crosspostninja
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TIL in 1995, an inmаte sued himself for $5 million, saying that he was drunk at the time of the crіme, which caused him to violate his religious beliefs and civil rights by getting arrеsted. He reasoned that as a ward of state, and unable to work, the state should pay him the money on his account
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 10:01AM by malalatargaryen
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TIL that beavers don't actually live in dams. The dams themselves are incidental, and are only necessary when they lack access to the two feet of naturally occurring water required to build their actual shelters.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 08:42AM by SaintShrink
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TIL that the former president of SEGA gave the company $730M as part of his dying will, in the form of stocks and debt forgiveness, covering the loss from the the Dreamcast failure.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 12:01PM by HeavyResonance
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TIL Record Labels hire experts to craft recording contracts in a way that prompt signing artists to give away their music ownership rights forever. It was also discovered that for every $1000 made after record sales, an artist who signed for a major label deal gained as small as $23.40.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 02:59PM by Tindom
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TIL the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer story idea was initially rejected, as in the 1930s red noses were associated with alcoholism and drunkards. The author asked an illustrator friend to draw "cute reindeer," and these drawings convinced management to support the idea.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 01:00PM by ScurvyAndRaspberries
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TIL Danny DeVito played a huge part in getting Pulp Fiction made, including shopping the script around to dozens of studios after Tristar passed on it for being "too violent".
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 03:26PM by villanuevahacienda
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TIL Dolphins sometimes play with Orcas, even though some Orcas eat Dolphins. Researchers believe this is because Orcas that eat red meat tend to avoid Orcas that only eat fish, so if they stay near the fish-eaters, they won't encounter the mammal-eaters.
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 04:48PM by egomouse
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TIL Sting earns $2,000 a day on "Every Breath You Take" because Puff Daddy never asked permission to use it in "I'll Be Missing You"
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Submitted December 01, 2020 at 05:38PM by holyfruits
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