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TIL Charles Martinet, the long-time voice actor for the video game character, Mario, showed up uninvited to the audition for the role. The audition crew were already packing up their gear, but he managed to convince them to let him try out
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 03:09AM by szekeres81
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TIL about Buy Nothing Day, established to counteract the consumeristic Black Friday
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 04:48AM by Lys_456
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TIL about Elijah McCoy (1843-1929), an African American inventor who invented an oil-dripping cup for trains. Other inventors tried to copy McCoy's oil-dripping cup, but none of the other cups worked as well as his, so customers started asking for "The Real McCoy."
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 07:55AM by bobmguthrie
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TIL: The A-12 and SR-71 were made mostly of titanium, which had to be sourced from the World's largest Titanium supplier, the Soviet Union. So, the planes we sent over to spy on them, were made of materials obtained from they through the CIA and a network of shell companies.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 06:43AM by hoosyourdaddyo
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TIL Dean Martin's famous nickname "Dino" isn't actually just a nickname. It was the real given name he was born with.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 05:15AM by RingoStarAllies
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TIL about Ève Curie, the youngest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, who chose not to pursue a career in science. Her parents, sister, brother-in-law and husband all won Nobel Prizes in their respective fields. She won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1937 for her book 'Madame Curie'.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 01:45PM by AbathaCrispy
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TIL about Zachary Sabin, an 11-year-old child who died from water intoxication after drinking 4 bottles of water (each 0.7l) over 4 hours without eating anything. This happened after his parents forced him to drink water because his urine was dark.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 02:23PM by qasqaldag
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TIL that Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne initially struggled with writer's block but overcame it by taking inspiration from preachers. One day, he found himself shouting, "You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile.” This track became the Heads’ anthem "Once In A Lifetime"
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 04:03PM by ahtaylor13
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TIL in 2017 Kylie Minogue won a trademark lawsuit against Kylie Jenner over the name Kylie with Minogue's lawyer calling Jenner a "secondary reality television personality".
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 05:10PM by AudibleNod
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TIL that in 1942, the BBC banned the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" during working hours on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 04:14PM by kinkiman
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TIL Fred Rogers was bullied as a child. He once said, "I used to cry to myself when I was alone, and I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano.” As he grew up, he decided to always look past the surface of people to the “essential invisible” within them.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 07:21PM by szekeres81
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TIL The U.S. Marines' war cry, "Oorah!", comes from a submarine's klaxon alarm, which sounds after the command "dive, dive!" is given over the intercom. Reconnaissance Marines aboard the sub began mimicking the "Aarugha!" sound to motivate themselves.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 04:53PM by New_Particular7075
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TIL that a research study published in the Journal of Family Psychology revealed that parents in fact do have a favourite child - 74% of mothers and 70% of fathers reported preferential treatment towards one child
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 03:55PM by CircleBox2
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TIL that when a flickering torch is held up to prehistoric cave paintings they appear to "move." This has led some researchers to theorize that they were intentionally designed to create this effect, which would make them a precursor to modern cinema.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 10:25PM by wakeupits2009
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TIL Katharine Hepburn only went to the Oscars once (despite winning four awards, more than any performer). In 1974, she came straight from her garden to present an award, still wearing a loose black gardening outfit. It had to be spray-painted backstage to hide the mud stains.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 11:11PM by howmuchbanana
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TIL that the dog breed Saint Bernards were originally known as Barry Hounds, they were named after a dog named Barry who lived at the Saint Bernard hospice in the 1800s. Barry saved 40 people in the nearby mountains, since the hospice has always maintained one dog named Barry in his honor.
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Submitted November 11, 2021 at 02:26AM by Indriad
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TIL that the owner of the house featured in the 1985 movie “The Goonies” got so fed up with tourists coming to her property to get a view of the place, that she covered the house with blue tarps.
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Submitted November 10, 2021 at 08:55PM by B34TBOXX5
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TIL Ancient Romans had a type of warranty on purchased slaves: if a slave commited suicide within 6 months after purchase, then the owner had the right to claim a full refund from the previous owner
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Submitted November 11, 2021 at 02:13AM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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