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TIL Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin, and Pierce Brosnan all have voiced the Conductor on Thomas and Friends.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 02:10PM by Candied_Vagrants
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TIL when Rockstar first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it controversial, and therefore popular. They targeted right wing news papers to ensure moral outrage and drive the game to success.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 06:19PM by galt999
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TIL that due to food and labour shortages in the 1960’s, Brazil has the world’s largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 05:32PM by subtlerays
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TIL The US Government passed the Stolen Valor Act in 2005. The Act made it illegal to wear or falsely claim to have received any military medal or decoration without authorization, including the Medal of Honor. However, the Act was later ruled unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 10:20PM by New_Particular7075
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TIL, with the exception of one hill, it is illegal to sled in Syracuse, the snowiest city in the United States
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 12:27AM by Aloiciousss
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TIL that leeches were used to predict storms. This tempest prognosticator device was made up of 12 glass bottles filled with water, each with a live leech inside. If the leeches climbed up the bottles out of the water, a bell would ring to signal that a storm was coming.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 10:14PM by holly948
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TIL that king George I once organized a concert on the river Thames. He hired G. F. Handel and the result was 'water music', a collection of 3 suites. It was played by 50 performers sailing from Whitehall to Chelsea on a barge. The king liked the composition so much that he asked for 3 encores.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 07:23PM by TheTriviaPage
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TIL that during the 1908 Olympics, marathon runners, including the winners, drank champagne, brandy, or strychnine cocktails, in the belief that it would provide energy. In 1924, the Paris games provided wine at rehydration stations.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 01:44AM by afeeney
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TIL because pendulum clocks are unreliable at sea, the first attempt at a marine chronometer was undertaken in 1673 utilizing a balance wheel and spring for regulation instead of a pendulum. This opened the way for the first modern pocket watches and wristwatches.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 04:26AM by hjb214
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TIL that a Cantonese phrase used by parents upset by their kids is that "it'd be better to have given birth to barbecued pork instead of you". It comes from the use of meal tickets in 1950s China in which meat tickets were highly priced and barbecued pork was a luxury.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 04:19AM by dilettantedebrah
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TIL That Woody Harrelson ate vegan cornmeal “Twinkies” for Zombieland because he follows a raw vegan diet.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 05:29AM by marmalt218
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TIL the rounding part of a machinist’s hammer, opposite of the face, is called a “peen.” This type of hammer is used for surface hardening by impact or “peening.”
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 12:34AM by TheB1GWazowski
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TIL American muffins are actually individual "quickbreads" or oil cakes (like zucchini bread), making them essentially cupcakes. English muffins are griddled flatbreads, which is why they are chemically and nutritionally more similar to pita or pizza than to American muffins.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 06:51AM by lemontreelemur
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TIL: NYC Sandhogs were curious about their pensions lady being able to afford private jet trips and expensive watches - turned out that she'd stole $42 million dollars from their pension fund!
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 11:13AM by deeply__offensive
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TIL Swaziland changed it's name to eSwatini in 2018 in part because the country's name was often confused with Switzerland
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 09:29AM by GBreezy
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TIL the Ancient Silk Road city of Merv, Turkmenistan had once held the title of the world's largest city during the 12th-13th century with a population of more than 500,000 and in 1221 was horrifically decimated in its entirety by the Mongols in one of the worst genocides in human history
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 11:16AM by iamhipster
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TIL Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall Series, was originally a milkman that volunteered to read to blind students along his route. Dissatisfied with the selection of children’s books available, he decided to write his own and became a best-selling author.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 02:55PM by The_Ry_Ry
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TIL Cleopatra was born in 30 BC which means she lived closer to the moon landing than to the completion of the Great Pyramids at Giza around 2560 BC.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 02:49PM by f_GOD
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TIL that if we cloned a dinosaur and let him lose, he’d probably be too out of breath to chase us, due to differences in oxygen levels.
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 04:20PM by PolymerPussies
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TIL that Saddam Hussein had a copy of the Quran allegedly written using his own blood. Most religious authorities considered this blasphemous as blood is considered haram in Islam, but it cannot be destroyed as damaging the Quran is also considered blasphemous
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Submitted November 24, 2021 at 04:19PM by Rob-With-One-B
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