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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
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Submitted January 09, 2021 at 11:26PM by WhaleCharmer
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TIL about John Bulkeley, who evacuated MacArthur from the Philippines, recruited JFK into the Navy, and tested security on the base he commanded by dressing up as a ninja and sneaking around at night
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 01:35AM by bros402
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TIL that the USSR knew as early as 1940 the US was working on the A-Bomb. Not through espionage, but because they noticed that top US scientists had stopped publishing papers. Thus "Secrecy itself gave the secret away"
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 06:04AM by BoosherCacow
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TIL that the USSR knew as early as 1940 the US was working on the A-Bomb. Not through espionage, but because they noticed that top US scientists had stopped publishing papers. Thus "Secrecy itself gave the secret away"
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 06:04AM by BoosherCacow
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TIL in the movie MASH Robert Altman wanted a stupid song for Painless Pole's fake suicide scene so he made his 14 yo son write it. The song became the title song for both the movie and the TV show. Robert Altman was paid $70,000 to helm the film, his son raked in more than a million for the song.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 07:30AM by shaka_sulu
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TIL that gut fermentation syndrome (called auto-brewery syndrome) is a rare disorder in which intestines produce ethanol from carbohydrates. If you have this disease, you're drunk all the time.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 05:04AM by AuntyRhymes
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TIL "larger crocodiles can go for over a year without eating a meal. In extreme situations, crocodiles appear to be able to shut down and live off their own tissue for a long period of time."
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 08:20AM by txhrow1
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TIL Before Houdini died, he and his wife agreed that if Houdini found it possible to communicate after death, he would communicate the message "Rosabelle believe", a secret code which they agreed to use. Rosabelle was their favorite song.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 06:39AM by skumati99
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TIL of Loren Krytzer, a man who was living on $200 a month when he sold a 'worthless' blanket for $1.5 million. He learned the value of this Navajo blanket while watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow, where a similar blanket was appraised. The winner of the auction was the appraiser from the show
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 02:47PM by WigboldCrumb
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TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 02:59PM by Peisis
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TIL for the longest time (not anymore) the fastest man made object was a manhole cover blown into space in 1957 by the US with a nuclear bomb. They estimated approx. 125000 mp/h (200000 km/h). This would have had them zipping past Pluto around 1961.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 01:30PM by 66degreescelsius
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TIL of a French soldier who was taken as a POW and fed only potatoes during his captivity, and survived. Feeling like he should have died, he made it his life’s mission to convince the world of the nutritional value of potatoes, and his tomb in France is decorated with potatoes as a tribute.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 05:57PM by bearjew64
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TIL About James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who was worth $10 million when he killed three people in a sweat lodge. After 20 months in jail he was released and went right back to the same career
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 02:58PM by MaryDan
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TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 07:52PM by Lost_Distribution546
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TIL Saudia Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 07:18PM by geek_fest
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TIL about "the Singing Revolution" which happened between 1987 and 1991 in Estonia when people gathered in public places to sing national songs together despite the ban. This and the "human chain" from Estonia to Lithuania were among the events that led to the independence of Baltic states.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 07:34PM by qasqaldag
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TIL In 1986, Optimus Prime was actually killed off in the Transformers movie, in order to make way for new and more expensive toys. He was eventually resurrected due to Hasbro underestimating the backlash over his death.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 10:41PM by electricp0ww0w
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TIL the acronym EGOT meaning a person who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, was first coined by Miami Vice actor Philip Michael Thomas. In a 1984 interview he expressed his plans to win them all in the next five years. As of 2021, he has not been nominated for any of these awards.
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Submitted January 10, 2021 at 11:18PM by Die_Nameless_Bitch
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TIL The Laurel Thatcher Ulrich quote "Well-behaved women seldom make history" is not a call for women to rebel or challenge authority, but is instead a plea to recognize women in history who quietly advanced women's issues by fulfilling more traditional gender roles.
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Submitted January 11, 2021 at 03:33AM by survivingenglish
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