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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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TIL of Conrad Veidt, a top 1920s German actor whose wife was Jewish. He refused to renounce her, and even claimed to be Jewish in solidarity. In Hollywood, his acting contract said if he played a Nazi, he must be a villain (like he was in Casablanca). He also gave his life savings to the war effort.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 08:58PM by howmuchbanana
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TIL that after Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian troops, his body was lost for over 30 years until in 1995 a retired Bolivian general revealed the location, near an airstrip in Vallegrande, resulting in a multinational search. A group of Argentines and Cubans uncovered the remains in 1997.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 07:44PM by TheTriviaPage
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TIL Legendary U.S. Marine Corps Sniper Carlos Hathcock fired a shot killing his rival, North Vietnam's "The Cobra" by aiming at the glint of the suns reflection on the Cobra's scope. Hathcock examined his kill and realized his shot went straight through the Cobra's scope without touching the sides.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 11:53PM by LateBoomerKY
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TIL ‘Toxic positivity’ is the lack of acknowledgement all your emotions, like anger or sadness. It posits that positive psychology places too much importance on upbeat thinking, while shunting challenging and difficult experiences to the side
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 09:37PM by pufballcat
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TIL The first human surrender to a robot occurred in the 1991 Gulf War. The US used UAVs (drone robots) to find artillery targets. Iraqi soldiers realized that the UAVs often preceded an attack strike. A Pioneer RQ-2A UAV flew over some soldiers who then raised white flags to surrender to the robot.
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Submitted October 26, 2021 at 08:35PM by jdash
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TIL that when he was 8, George Carlin's aunt worked for the publisher of the Sunday newspaper funnies. Through his aunt, Carlin gained early access to the comics and would impress his classmates by predicting each weeks stories.
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Submitted October 27, 2021 at 02:47AM by Vocab_Fairy
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TIL that in late 2013, an 8 year old girl was orphaned after her entire family died because of a batch of old potatoes that her family had let rot in their cellar. Under the right circumstances, potatoes contain a toxin known as Glycoalkaloids, and this was released in gas form as they rotted.
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Submitted October 27, 2021 at 02:17AM by The_Critical_Cynic
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