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TIL that Harley-Davidson motorcycles are made almost entirely from foreign parts and have been for decades.
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Submitted October 16, 2021 at 09:42PM by TheScribeOfTheDead
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TIL that a fifth of people in Greenland have attempted suicide, which is four times the global prevalence.
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Submitted October 16, 2021 at 11:56PM by Hamoodi1999
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TIL that when USPS Parcel Post began, a banker mailed 40 tons of bricks to his new bank location because the cost was lower than commercial freight.
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 02:59AM by crosleyxj
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TIL that due to the scarcity of food in their natural habitat, newborn wild Axolotls will resort to cannibalism and eat their siblings' limbs. The victims still have chances to survive though, since the Axolotl can regenerate not only limbs but major organs such as gills at any stage in its life.
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Submitted October 16, 2021 at 08:34PM by TheTriviaPage
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Today I Learned that the image of Smokey the Bear undergoes more enforced regulation than the American flag. This is not hyperbole, the US government has to give explicit permission for anyone to have a costume, and does not allow Smokey The Bear to be depicted in any way that is demeaning to him.
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 04:21AM by MisogynyisaDisease
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TIL that when Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Academy Award (for her performance in "Gone with the Wind") in 1940, she was seated at a segregated table at the side of the room
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 06:55AM by Ryan_Holman
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TIL David Bowie considered becoming a Buddhist monk, & studied for a few months in 1967 before a Lama told him he should follow music instead. His ashes were scattered in Bali in accordance with Buddhist rituals
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 08:58AM by pufballcat
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TIL Even after being falsely prosecuted in the Dreyfus Affair Alfred Dreyfus returned to the French army and fought in World War One. Dreyfus fought at the Battle of Verdun and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-colonel.
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 04:50AM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL that during the development of The Last of Us: Part 2, it was reported some employees were hoping the game would fail to show people crunch development isn't viable. The game ended up doing extremely well.
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 05:50AM by Command-Grab
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TIL two main contending candidates for dark matter are the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) and the Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Object (MACHO)
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 01:45PM by beerbellybegone
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TIL that a cricket match took place between a team of one-armed men against a one-legged team. “After much incident” the match ended in a narrow victory for the one-armed.
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 02:53PM by scordatura
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TIL When Assyrian priests saw a bad omen aimed at the King they used a ritual called The Substitute King. A commoner was found to replace the king while he went in hiding. The man lived as the king absorbing the evil spirits. When the omen passed the commoner was killed and the king returned.
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 04:26PM by goyablack
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TIL that a fumi-e was a likeness of Jesus or Mary which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step on, in order to demonstrate that they were not members of the outlawed religion.
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 03:58PM by jcd1974
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TIL the Scots Guards of the UK took part in the Batang Kali Massacre which say 24 unarmed civilians executed. 6 of them confessed to committing the massacre and their testimonies were corroborated by forensic evidence, though intervention by the British government attempted to halt any investigation
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Submitted October 17, 2021 at 04:33PM by TanJeeSchuan
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