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TIL that green onions and scallions are the exact same thing
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Submitted October 09, 2021 at 11:38PM by MitchMcConnellsJowls
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TIL Being a Michelin Inspector requires 275 inspection meals a year
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 03:52AM by qqqqqqqqqqx10
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TIL Grant & Lee met again in 1869, 4 years after the American Civil War at the White House when Grant was President of the U.S. and Lee president of Washington University. Grant cracked a joke at Lee about railroads but Lee refused to smile. Their meeting was brief, lasting 15 minutes.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 06:41AM by Someguy2930
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TIL in 1957, five men stood directly underneath a 2-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated at 18,500 feet to demonstrate how safe it was. One looked up at the explosion through regular sunglasses. They all lived into their 70s or 80s
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 09:44AM by beerbellybegone
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TIL that in 1800s America, popcorn was used as a breakfast food with it being mixed with milk and sweetener similar to cereal.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 08:46AM by Ted_Normal
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TIL: Frank Wills, the security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in that eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, struggled with unemployment and poverty for the rest of his life. He died at age 52 of a brain tumour.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 03:52PM by brother_p
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TIL that packaged ice is not regulated in the United States. Packaged ice with the IPIA logo on the bag adheres to strict sanitization and cleanliness protocols. Bags without the logo are more likely to contain bacteria and mold
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 05:08PM by Even-Challenge7862
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TIL about George Cassiday, the Man in the Green Hat. During Prohibition, Cassiday supplied alcohol to members of Congress, including those who voted for prohibition in the first place. After ten years, when the story broke, the public's outrage contributed the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 05:03PM by lordlollygag
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TIL The opening sequence in Spectre features a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City, no such parade had ever took place in Mexico City; one year later, inspired by the film, an actual "Día de Muertos" parade was held and attended by 250,000 people.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 05:52PM by XipingVonHozzendorf
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TIL of an Australian diver who befriended a baby shark. For years afterwards, whenever the shark would see him, she would swim up to him and demand cuddles.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 07:07PM by gasping4meaning
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TIL of Bill Haast, a man who is estimated to have handled over 3 million poisonous snakes in his lifetime and was bitten at least 172 times. In one encounter with a Cottonmouth, his wife was even forced to cut off his fingertip with garden clippers. He lived to be 100.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 05:59PM by WhileFalseRepeat
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TIL that in 1997, a 50-pound pumpkin was speared atop a tower at Cornell University, 173 feet in the air. It stayed in place for months. Alumni are still trying to figure out who did it without being noticed -- and how.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 07:30PM by dancingkookaburra
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TIL that when the 1982 Tylenol murders occured, Johnson & Johnson recalled 31 million bottles of Tylenol capsules despite it being their bestselling product and accounted for 17% of J&J's profits. However, the move was a huge PR success and is now studied as an exemplary case of crisis management.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 09:04PM by TheTriviaPage
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TIL : In Japan, to get a drivers license you have to complete a first aid training course, which also includes CPR.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 09:18PM by achub0
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TIL about electrified coral reefs. It was discovered that if you charge an artificial reef with electricity, the coral can grow up to five times faster. In the Maldives, electrified reefs have survived bleaching events that killed almost all of the nearby natural reefs.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 10:17PM by Frat_Kaczynski
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TIL that actor John Lithgow's childhood babysitter was Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Submitted October 10, 2021 at 11:44PM by FixFalcon
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TIL that up until 1912, Americans could place an order in the Sears catalog and receive a syringe, two needles, and two vials of heroin in a handsome carrying case from the German pharmaceutical company Bayer for $1.50
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Submitted October 11, 2021 at 12:48AM by TheSocialMonitor
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TIL the ancient Egyptians developed the first recorded early pregnancy test, whereby a woman would urinate on a bag of wheat or barley and, if the bag started sprouting, it indicated a pregnancy. In 1963, researchers measured the test as being 70% accurate.
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Submitted October 11, 2021 at 02:39AM by SojourningCPA
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