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TIL President Diouf began an anti-AIDS program in Senegal, before the virus was able to take off. He used media and schools to promote safe-sex messages and required prostitutes to be registered. While AIDS was decimating much of Africa, the infection rate for Senegal stayed below 2 percent
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Submitted October 25, 2021 at 11:13PM by Dry_Cap_5746
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TIL That the anatomically correct humans on the front of the Voyager Golden Record were considered "pornographic" and "obscene". Actual photos of the human body nude were not allowed on the record for this reason. We freaked out over...showing the natural human body....to aliens.
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Submitted October 25, 2021 at 10:37PM by MisogynyisaDisease
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TIL the sax riff on George Michael's "Careless Whisper" was made unnaturally. While recording, the tape was slowed & the saxophonist played a semitone lower, then it was sped up for playback. 10 other sax players had tried playing it normally, but this was the only way that sounded right to Michael
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Submitted October 25, 2021 at 10:22PM by howmuchbanana
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TIL that after Batman got his junior companion Robin in 1940, its comic book sales nearly doubled, which started a rush of "kid companions" in other comic book series
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Submitted October 25, 2021 at 11:12PM by SamsonFox
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TIL In 1946 a group of American benefactors purchased an original manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and donated it to the British Museum as a token of gratitude for Britain's stand against Hitler in WW2.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 04:56AM by Szabo84
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TIL in the original 1938 comics, Superman could not fly, but he could leap tall buildings in a single bound. Superman gained the ability to fly in the second episode of the radio serial in 1940
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 04:26AM by ZanyDelaney
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TIL that Alaska has the highest rate of serial killings at just over 7 per 100,000 people, while California has the highest number of serial killings overall, totaling 1,628 people.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 06:24AM by Kyleforshort
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TIL there are trees in Japan that survived the Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombings, one was only 740 meters from the hypocenter that completely destroyed the castle upon whose grounds it grew.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 06:08AM by Talon1968
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TIL: Plastic bags were created to be reusable to reduce waste and save the planet, saving trees from being chopped down for paper bags
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 08:56AM by idiomech
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TIL that the Japanese couldn't keep up with American armor in the later stages of WWII, so they developed a suicidal anti-tank explosive called a Lunge mine.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 07:16AM by lucifrage
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TIL that Caroline Kennedy, JFK's daughter, almost became the third Kennedy to be assassinated; an IRA bomb blew up a car she would have been in if not for the British MP hosting her being delayed by a phone call from another MP
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 02:35AM by DimensionalZodiac
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TIL: Platypus, currently, can only be found outside of Australia at San Diego Zoo.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 01:21PM by wallabeen
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TIL there's no substantive evidence for our attention span getting shorter
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 01:06PM by GetTold
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TIL: when St. Jerome translated the Bible to common Latin, he made the forbidden fruit an apple as a pun.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 03:16PM by umlguru
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TIL: William Stewart Halsted is considered to be a father of the modern "residency" program for doctors. He invented the system for doctors to work unending hours per shift, believing that immersion in care would provide better outcomes. He also used cocaine and worked 100+ hours a week routinely.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 03:46PM by a-horse-has-no-name
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TIL that Cinderella isn't a real name but was just a nickname for Ella who would be covered in cinders due to having to sleep by the fireplace to keep warm or clean ashes. Most other versions have different variations on a name relating to ashes.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 03:29PM by -Constantinos-
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TIL that in 1240, King Louis IX of France put the Jewish Talmud on trial. Four rabbis defended the Talmud, but to no avail - twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were set on fire in the streets of Paris.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 12:35PM by MijTinmol
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TIL that the reason many Hanna Barbera characters had collars and ties was to save money on animation. Separating the head and body allows the body to remain static while the head is animated. This made it so a seven minute cartoon only required around 2,000 drawings, as opposed to the usual 14,000
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 04:27PM by Steven_Randallson
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TIL: Every year in ancient Athens, 500 people were randomly selected to spend the next year of their life proposing laws that the population then voted on.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 04:36PM by dismygyans
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TIL: Sylvester Stallone approached Queen for the right to use Another One Bites the Dust for Rocky III but they declined. So he asked Survivior to write a song. They came up with Eye of the Tiger and the rest is history.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 09:30PM by PestCemetary
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