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TIL a Chinese woman was bitten by a Pit viper 3 months after stuffing the snake into a bottle of wine, in order to make a traditional Chinese medicine called Snake Wine. She opened the bottle to drink some after suffering from joint pain, the snake escaped, biting her in the process.
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Submitted January 06, 2021 at 09:15PM by bawledannephat
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TIL: The Canadian government took 150,000 indigenous children from there families and placed them in church run schools to forcibly assimilate them.
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Submitted January 06, 2021 at 10:53PM by kmaffett1
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TIL that two cars crashing head-on at 50 mph is not comparable to one car hitting a wall at 100 mph. "Although the two-car crash doubles the speed, the energy [of] the crash is transferred to twice the mass resulting in a crash that looks like just one car hitting a wall at 50 mph."
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Submitted January 06, 2021 at 08:20PM by wacrover
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TIL a group of British schoolchildren ran their own international arms dealership during their lunch break. They bought and sold military weaponry to armies and militias around the world. This was 100% legal.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 12:37AM by JustStartRyan
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TIL the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is elected by writing the names of the top three candidates, putting them in a box and having a five-year old child draw blindly one of the names.
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Submitted January 06, 2021 at 11:37PM by NirgalFromMars
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TIL You're more likely to survive a heart attack in a casino than nearly anywhere else.
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Submitted January 06, 2021 at 08:03PM by loves_spain
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TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet helped pay the nursing home fees for the last Titanic survivor so she wouldn't have to sell anymore Titanic mementos to raise cash.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 02:25AM by Thekingwillbeback
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TIL that rainbows have cousins. Fogbows appear when water droplets suspended in the air are so small that the diffraction of light is negligible, hence appearing white. It also causes the arc to be steeper. They’re sometimes known as ghost rainbows or white rainbows.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 01:32AM by rasarota
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TIL Ants sleep by taking about 250 one minute naps throughout their day. It totals just under 5 hours of sleep. This allows for 80% of their colony to be awake, working and prepared at any given moment.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 04:43AM by SonOfQuora
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TIL that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) accounts for one-third of infant deaths in America. It occurs more often on weekends and 33% more on New Year’s Day. Infants whose caretakers drink alcohol are twice as likely to die from SIDS.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 12:42AM by Inspection-Eastern
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TIL that high use of social media, television, and computers by adolescents is associated with increased depression; however, video gaming is not associated with depression.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 05:16AM by what_is_the_deal_
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TIL There is no actual difference between frogs and toads, with the popular comparison being used only informally with no taxonomic or evolutionary history. All toads are frogs and toads are just species or families of bumpy frogs.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 08:12AM by Super_ACF
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TIL Jerry Seinfeld is banned from the New York soup stall that he used for the basis of The Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld. Weeks after the episode aired, Seinfeld went in for lunch, and chef Al Yeganeh asked him to leave, unhappy with the moniker the show had given him.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 09:00AM by bawledannephat
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TIL when Gandhi's wife came down with pneumonia, he denied her penicillin, even though doctors said it would cure her; he insisted the new medicine was an alien substance her body should not take in. She died from it in 1944. Just years later, he took quinine to treat his own malaria. He survived.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 11:00AM by -AMARYANA-
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TIL in 2013, a 9 year-old British girl passed through Turkish customs with a toy passport with gold teddy bears on the front that identified her as a unicorn. Her mother accidentally handed over the passport that the girl had made for her toy unicorn, and the customs offіcer accepted and stamped it
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 11:39AM by malalatargaryen
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TIL when John Lennon performed "Woman Is the N****r of the World" on the Dick Cavett Show, Cavett was told to apologise for the song's content before the performance. The show received about 600 letters of complaint - but all criticized Cavett's apology, not the song's lyrics.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 10:48AM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL the former World Chess Champion G. Kasparov described Hungarian female chess player Polgár as a "circus puppet" and said that women chess players should stick to having children. Later in September 2002, in the Russia versus the Rest of the World Match, Polgár defeated Garry Kasparov.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 12:30PM by qasqaldag
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TIL there are two "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" signs; the famous one on the strip, and a smaller one on the outskirts of Vegas. There used to be three, but it was knocked over by a drunk driver.
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Submitted January 07, 2021 at 08:01AM by NeverSeenABluerSky
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