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TIL the Beryozka or Berezka Dance Ensemble is a troupe of female dancers in Russia, wearing long gowns and move in very small steps on very low half-toe with the body held in a certain corresponding position, so the dancers appear as floating or moving on wheels.
https://youtu.be/gwbcTYQ84dU

Submitted January 08, 2021 at 08:08PM by Tin-Gonic
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TIL about perpetual stew, a stew containing whatever is on hand and added to as needed. Constantly kept above the “danger zone”, it can be in the same pot for years if always above 140f, creating a perpetual cycle of adding and removing from it. It was often a staple of medieval inn meals.
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 12:05AM by haloblasterA259
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TIL Buddy Holly asked his wife out on their first meeting and proposed to her on the second. His manager disapproved of the relationship saying it would upset his female fans, so during his tours she was presented as his secretary.
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 02:49AM by emailrob
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TIL Jesús García Corona made the decision to sacrifice his own life to save the people of Nacozari by driving a dynamite laden train that had caught fire away from the town instead of jumping to safety, Mexico, November 7th, 1907.
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 05:24AM by Str33twise84
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TIL A group of divers in the Caribbean were engulfed in massive amounts of whale poop, when a giant sperm whale flipped onto its side and started spinning in circles while engulfing the divers in faeces, creating what one of the divers called a "poopnado."
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 07:53AM by NewCarthagea
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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio used to be a break dancer before he made it big as an actor. According to him he thinks he kept getting rejected by agents because he was a break dancer at the time and had crazy haircuts.
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 03:36AM by candordirect
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TIL of Jan Davis, who protested the banning of BASE jumping at national parks due to safety concerns, by BASE jumping off El Capitan. Her parachute failed to open and she died.
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 07:13AM by LinkCloth
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TIL that in 2012, a survey in eastern Germany (regions formerly part of East Germany/GDR) was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 10:48AM by malalatargaryen
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TIL Hermann Göring's brother strongly opposed the Nazi party, and forged his brother's signature so people could leave the country. Once, he joined Jews who had to scrub the streets, so the SS officer stopped the activity in order not to humiliate Hermann Göring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Göring

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 12:22PM by huskergirl-86
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TIL that four high-school students in the ‘70s are the reason we no longer have pay toilets in America. They created an organization called CEPTIA, and were able to successfully lobby against the issue. 8 years later, pay toilets were all but nonexistent throughout the US.
https://ift.tt/2MGbk6o

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 04:12PM by hwkfan1
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TIL Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels had severe depression and mourned his birthday by wearing black clothes.
https://ift.tt/11dljPj

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 02:26PM by armyfidds
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TIL that after approximately 3,195 hours, a set of fish beat three Pokémon games, by swimming around in a tank with motion tracking. The fish tanks were mapped with directional arrows as well as the A and B buttons, and as the fish swam into a button’s mapped area, it activated the buttons in-game
https://ift.tt/35cZB6c

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 02:49PM by malalatargaryen
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TIL that in 1972, two grad students at MIT invented Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy, a technique for transferring spin orientation from one atomic nucleus to another. Yes, they chose this name specifically for the acronym.
https://ift.tt/UXzOam

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 04:42PM by Shark_Bones
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TIL that Stanley Kubrick wanted to get an insurance policy from Lloyds of London to protect himself against losses in the event that extraterrestrial intelligence were discovered before the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey' was released. Lloyds refused.
https://ift.tt/35efPeg

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 04:02PM by Sumit316
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TIL Ariel Castro, the kidnapper who locked up and abused 3 missing girls including Amanda Berry for 10 years, committed suicide one month into his 1,000 year prison sentence.
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 07:29PM by cottagecow
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TIL That Within 24 Hours of The Pearl Harbor Attack, Japan Successfully Invaded the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Much of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Guam, and Other Strategic Areas All Over the Western Pacific.
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 09:02PM by Start_Available
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TIL that although Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was written to include cannons firing and cathedral bells, synchronising them with an orchestra proved all but impossible. It wasn't until 1954 that composer Antal Doráti mixed a studio recording with cannons and bells, finally playing it as intended.
https://ift.tt/3scNXl4

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 11:32PM by Big_JR80
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TIL that famed children’s author and cartoonist Shel Silverstein was also a successful country music songwriter. Among his credits was Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue,” which went on to win the Grammy for Best Country Song.
https://ift.tt/3nv22qG

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 10:27PM by chazfinster_
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TIL Years after her death, an archive of Marilyn Monroe’s poems, letters, notes, recipes, and diary entries surfaced. The archive included Monroe admitting that her first marriage, at the age of 16, was to keep her out of the orphanage when her caretaker was in the psychiatric hospital.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 12:51AM by DrawFluent
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TIL that David Dunbar Buick was a plumber who invented the process for adhering enamel to cast iron, clearing the way for cast iron bathtubs in homes. He would later start the Buick Motor Company
https://ift.tt/3oHRwO0

Submitted January 09, 2021 at 11:26PM by WhaleCharmer
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