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TIL the Dio song "Holy Diver" is about a messiah figure on another planet who sacrifices himself to redeem his people. When the people learn that he intends to leave them to save people on other planets, they selfishly ask him to stay
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 03:51PM by marathon
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TIL that the Japanese planned an invasion of the Philippines in 1637 to stop Spanish expansionism but they were stopped at the last minute by a Christian rebellion
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 04:30PM by fireatjaps2
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TIL that in 1977, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop released 'Death & Horror', the 13th album in their 'Sound Effects' series. Tracks included 'Neck Twisted and Broken', 'Red Hot Poker in the Eye' and 'Strangulation'. It became the first sound effect album to enter the Top 100 in the UK Albums Chart.
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 06:11PM by AbathaCrispy
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TIL of the Northern Fusiliers - a professional hockey team made up of soldiers from the Toronto 228th Battalion. Among the highest scoring and most popular teams in the league, they withdrew in the first few months of the season after they were deployed to Europe during WWI
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 05:37PM by EtOHMartini
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TIL about the Bonus Army, a group of WWI veterans who converged on Washington DC during The Great Depression in 1932. They were demanding wartime bonuses which were scheduled for full payment in 1945. They were also unsuccessful in their efforts.
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 07:18PM by GremlinBandit
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TIL that when Niccolo Tartaglia found a formula to solve certain types of cubic equations, he did not publish his findings. However, Tartaglia wrote a 25 line poem explaining the formula and shared it with another mathematician, Girolama Cardano, who went ahead and published it himself.
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 08:28PM by TheTriviaPage
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TIL about a Mexican plane that made an emergency landing on a race course in Mallow, Ireland, in 1983. In order for the plane to successfully take off again, a runway had to be specially built so the captain and crew spent 39 day in the town and became minor celebrities among the locals
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 09:27PM by gaza4
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TIL about the 1979 "The Who" concert disaster, where 11 people were killed in a crush.
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 08:25PM by 69420blazeit6942069
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TIL: Non-US citizens aren't allowed to look through Gen3 night vision goggles.
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 08:41PM by marcove3
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TIL Danish has about 40 different vowel sounds and is so hard to learn that Danish children on average know 30% fewer words at 15 months than Norwegian children and take two years longer to learn the past tense
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 10:20PM by bobstonite
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Today I learned New Zealand built one of the worst tanks in history. It was made with metal roofing, had no cannon, was un-used in combat and was publicly ridiculed, even in New Zealand.
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Submitted November 08, 2021 at 11:06PM by lobsterlifestyle
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TIL Titanic Second Officer, Charles Lightoller, became trapped underwater while helping others of the boat. A boiler exploded and the blast sent him free. He went on to serve in WWII, survived another ship sinking and saved 130 lives at Dunkirk.
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Submitted November 09, 2021 at 02:51AM by JCBoucas
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TIL Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) was originally a holiday to give gifts to the poor. Today it has primarily become a shopping holiday.
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Submitted November 09, 2021 at 02:42AM by 3hjaf
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TIL it is illegal to fly faster than the speed of sound over the United States.
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Submitted November 09, 2021 at 03:21AM by ejk1414
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TIL: David Icke, a conspiracy theorist who claims that an inter-dimensional race of reptilians, the Archons, have hijacked the Earth & a genetically modified human–Archon hybrid race of shapeshifting reptilians manipulate events to keep humans in fear, for the Archons to feed off the negative energy
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Submitted November 09, 2021 at 03:58AM by DeathHag_MagnumTwo
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TIL about Nimblewill Nomad who, starting at age 61, walked 34,000 miles, including walking from the Florida Keys to Quebec. At age 83, he became the oldest person to have hiked the entire 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail.
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Submitted November 09, 2021 at 05:51AM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL That the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' created controversy when it was first published because many parents and people thought that the wild things looked too scary for children
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Submitted November 09, 2021 at 09:18AM by Neveah_Hope_Dreams
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TIL: In 1457 a man and his pig was put on trial and the pig was sentenced to death in Savigny, France for eating a young boy. Three lawyers were present at the trial. Two for the prosecution, and one for the defense of the pig.
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Submitted November 09, 2021 at 09:20AM by CrystalMethood
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