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TIL about Andrzej Bargiel, a Polish ski mountaineer who became the first person to ski down from the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain. He climbed without supplementary oxygen and skied down in about 7 hours.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 02:48PM by qasqaldag
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TIL Dr. Charles R. Drew, an African American, developed improved techniques for blood storage, which saved thousands of Allied forces' lives during WWII. In 1942, however, he resigned as director of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank because of their exclusion of African-Americans' blood.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 05:28PM by New_Particular7075
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TIL as Alex Trebek was not able to retire on his own terms, one of the final phone calls he made was to Ken Jennings regarding taking over the hosting duties of "Jeopardy!". Trebek passed away the same weekend as this call, having hosted his final shows less than two weeks prior to his death.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 05:12PM by Reddit_Account_Names
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TIL about the Circassian Genocide, a 101-year long genocide against the Circassian people by the Russian Empire that eliminated anywhere between 80 to 97% of the Circassian population and expulsion of 800,000 to 1,500,000 people.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 05:57PM by seaboigium
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TIL that the first analogue computer was created by the Ancient Greeks over 2000 years ago. The "Computer" had 37 meshing bronze gears that allowed it to follow the movements of the Moon and the Sun through the sky.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 04:55PM by ThePoeticJustice
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TIL that shortly after his 101st birthday, Albert Hoffman, the swiss chemist known for discovering LSD, wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for his assistance in a study about the therapeutic uses of LSD. Jobs once famously said that taking LSD was one of the 2 or 3 most important things he'd done.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 07:54PM by TheTriviaPage
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TIL that “The Bone Wars,” a fierce rivalry in the 19th century between two paleontologists involving bribery, fraud, and theft, concluded with one of the scientists donating his brain in hope that it would be bigger than that of his rival.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 05:52PM by lsthisnameunique
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TIL Peter Gabriel's first four albums were all titled "Peter Gabriel"
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 05:27PM by OmitsWordsByAccident
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TIL Utqiagvik, Alaska People often call the town "the top of the world," When the sun sets on November 18, it will stay below the horizon until January 23, resulting in a polar night that lasts for about 66 days.
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Submitted November 18, 2021 at 10:04PM by behrkon
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TIL fluorine is much less common in the universe than most elements of a similar atomic weight, because the usual nuclear reactions in stars cannot create it, but can destroy it.
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 02:09AM by NirgalFromMars
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TIL the historical origins of The Joker's smile. It comes from fictitious child-surgeon-slavers called Comprachicos in Victor Hugo's 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs--they kidnapped a kid and turned him into a jester, and the character with the horrible grin became The Joker.
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 03:58AM by Slight-Vegetable-295
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TIL the 2006 movie Idiocracy was released in only 7 cities and expanded to 130 theaters rather than the typical 600, the film's distributor was entirely absent in promoting it, and while posters were released to theaters, no movie trailers, no ads, no press kits, and only two stills were released.
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 06:20AM by photoalbumguy
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TIL The day before German reunification in 1990, East Germany's international radio station 'Radio Berlin International' aired its final broadcast. It ended its English service with the words "Take care and good luck", followed by the song 'The End' by The Doors.
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 04:10AM by Szabo84
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TIL there was only 66 years between the first flight and landing on the moon
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 01:36PM by ciller181
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TIL that the most successful predator in Africa is the African wild dog. If a pack targets a prey, there’s an 85% chance they’ll bring it down successfully
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 11:55AM by Sosuke7964
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TIL that a Bronze Age city on the Dead Sea was destroyed by a meteor airburst with a thousand times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. It may have inspired the legend of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 04:35PM by GreenStrong
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TIL that nachos were invented by a restaurant owner named Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya. One day in 1940 a customer ordered an unusual snack. Nacho made a snack with fried tortilla chips, melted cheese, and some jalapeños. He just called it "Nacho's Special", hence the name.
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Submitted November 19, 2021 at 04:55PM by EnChanted96
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