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TIL in WW2 US tried to weaponize botulinum. Chinese prostitutes would receive capsules to kill Japanese officers who hired them. The plan was tested on donkeys, who survived so it was scrapped. That research led to the creation of Botox It was later discovered donkeys are immune to botulinum toxin.
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 02:07PM by todellagi
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TIL The Swiss government proposed a law that would cap the wage of a CEO at that of 12 times the lowest wage earner's salary. Therefore the CEO could not make more in 1 month than the lowest wage earner makes in a year
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 03:22PM by mathbread
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TIL: Robert Moses who built bridges across his parkways low in order to "restrict the use of state parks by poor and lower-middle-class families," who did not own cars and would arrive by bus
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 02:09PM by whitehatdesign
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TIL that Christopher Nolan was so secretive about Interstellar that he initially asked Hans Zimmer to compose the score with just a one-page story about a father who leaves his child to do an important job instead of giving him the script. It contained two lines of dialogue: "I'll come back & when?"
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 03:07PM by Niyazali_Haneef
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TIL the Meyers-Briggs personality test was developed by a mother and daughter team, neither of whom had any formal psychology education. They studied agriculture and political science respectively.
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 03:07PM by DriveGenie
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TIL there is a 1000 years old Japanese poem about the fleetingness of existence, which uses each letter of the Japanese alphabet exactly once. The poem was used as a way to order the alphabet until the Meiji restauration
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 03:42PM by jyastaway
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TIL that a Yo Mama joke was discovered on a 3,500 year-old Babylonian tablet, making it the world's oldest Yo Mama Joke.
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 04:14PM by dcdiehardfan
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TIL that Frank Sinatra Jr. was once kidnapped. His captors demanded all negotiations be conducted by payphone. During these conversations, Frank Sr. became concerned he wouldn't have enough coins to keep talking, prompting him to carry 10 dimes in his pocket for the rest of his life.
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 05:06PM by AlthricPasta
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TIL a man was attacked for having a beard in 1830, then imprisoned for defending himself. He died in 1873, by which time beards were fashionable. His tombstone reads, "Persecuted for wearing the beard."
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 06:16PM by JustAManFromThePast
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TIL A Charlie Brown Christmas was written in several weeks, and produced on a small budget in 6 months. It was completed just 10 days before the premiere. All involved believed the special would be a disaster, with director Bill Melendez remarking after a screening, "My golly, we've killed it."
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 07:19PM by who_died_of_ennui
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TIL that Nebraska community college student Katy Ayers grew a canoe out of mushroom roots (mycelium) to prove fungi is a bio-friendly building material. It floats with two passengers, but when it gets wet it fruits (sprouts mushrooms). Katy plans to get a Ph.D. in mycology then help save the planet.
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 08:21PM by wjbc
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TIL Chamillionaire, the one-hit wonder rapper behind "Ridin' Dirty," decided there was no money in music and became a tech investor, which has made him an actual multimillionaire
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 09:35PM by MisterBadIdea2
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TIL The Three Stooges performed at the very first Super Bowl Halftime Show. During their performance, Larry Fine spotted a football player hitting on his wife. He flipped him the bird, and for this he got in trouble with CBS and had to pay a fine of $42.50.
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Submitted December 18, 2020 at 01:20AM by peredoxical
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TIL: Beethoven loved his coffee so much that he had his own recipe. It consisted of 60 beans. Not 59, not 61, but precisely 60. He would drop them into a cup separately and sometimes do a second recount. He also had a special apparatus for preparing it.
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 04:21PM by Marcus-Cohen
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TIL that Alan Moore wrote Rorschach in 'Watchmen' to be Batman in the real world but didn't realize that 'smelling' and 'not having a girlfriend' would come off as heroic to comic fans. "Fans come up and say I'm Rorschach. This is my story and I'm thinking, Could you never come near me again?"
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 09:21PM by ProfessorAbominable
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TIL that the Boston Tea Party was caused by the British giving the East India Company tax breaks which allowed the company to undercut the price of smuggled tea in the colonies. This threatened the commercial interests of Boston’s wealthy smugglers, such as John Hancock, who fomented the revolt
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Submitted December 17, 2020 at 09:54PM by BallMeBlazer22
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TIL African elephants often bury dead or sleeping humans or aid them when they are hurt. One woman fell asleep under a tree and woke to find an elephant standing over her gently touching her. As other elephants arrived they buried her under branches. She was found the next morning unharmed.
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Submitted December 18, 2020 at 05:07AM by dremonearm
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TIL that in Tang Dynasty China (600s-900s AD), women wearing men's clothing was a fashion trend. Normally a taboo in China, it was made acceptable by the Li Clan's (the Imperial Family's) women- notably Princess Pingyang- who actually commanded armies during the Dynasty's foundational wars.
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Submitted December 18, 2020 at 04:07AM by Khysamgathys
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TIL that After making edits and appealing to the MPAA for an R rating, Scarface director Brian DePalma felt that the cuts he made were so minor no one would notice if he put them back in, so he did.
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Submitted December 18, 2020 at 08:47AM by SawOnGam
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TIL of the Kengir Gulag Uprising, where inmates assumed control over a camp. Due to the large body of educated inmates the 40 days of freedom saw the creation of plays, an ex-noble organizing a café, priests organizing marriages, engineers creating improvised radios and a hydroelectric powerstation
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Submitted December 18, 2020 at 01:59PM by NewAccountEachYear
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