TIL that on of US president Andrew Jackson‘s funeral, his parrot started swearing so loud and long, it was removed.
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Submitted January 15, 2022 at 10:59PM by Esist1996
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The Tennessean
The Hermitage marks Jackson's death with stories of his last days.
TIL that actor Humphrey Bogart was a veteran of World War I, serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Leviathan. Too old to reenlist in the Navy during World War II, he volunteered for the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve.
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Humphrey Bogart
American actor (1899-1957)
TIL that in Norse mythology, Loki got fucked by a horse and became pregnant, he would then later give birth to the eight legged horse Sleipner which would become Odin's horse
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Submitted January 15, 2022 at 11:51PM by Dan_The_PaniniMan
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Sleipnir
Odin's eight-legged horse
TIL Nigeria is Guinness' 2nd largest consumer, Ireland is the 3rd largest
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Submitted January 15, 2022 at 10:39PM by PeteyTingle
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Top 5 Guinness-drinking countries in the world
GUINNESS and Ireland are obviously synonymous with one another. So one would be forgiven for thinking that Ireland consumes the most of the Black Stuff anywhere in the world. It might surprise you to hear that while we've made the list, we don't take top…
TIL there's a town in Oregon named "Bridal Veil" which despite being a near ghost town still have a popular post office still functioning that gets much of its business from people going there to drop off wedding invitations so they can be postmarked "Bridal Veil".
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Bridal Veil, Oregon
virtual ghost town located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
TIL There are 165 Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and they are all played by one man
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 12:22AM by Killogoom
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TIL that if grazing animals eat too many corn lilies, their offspring are likely to be born with one eye. This is because a chemical found in the corn lily plant interrupts brain development, causing the fetus to present with cyclopia.
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Cyclopamine
chemical compound
TIL that Mattel makes a bald Barbie doll named Ella to give (free of charge) to kids with cancer. It comes with wigs and other accessories.
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 03:54AM by BeyondAddiction
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TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 03:39AM by YES__HORNBERGER
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The Time Young Fidel Castro Asked FDR for $10
“If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green american, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green american and I would like to have one of them.”
TIL Middle aged men with resting heart rates of 80 beats or higher per minute are likely to die four to five years earlier than men with resting heart rates of 65 beats per minute or less.
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Advisory
Study: Your heart rate may predict your lifespan
TIL Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, was named Chairmain of the Iraqi Olympic Committee in 1984. Athletes who disappointed him were subject to torture and imprisonment
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 08:18AM by szekeres81
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Uday Hussein
Iraqi politician
TIL The half-life of an isotope of Tellerium is 160 Trillion times greater than the Universe's Age (Aprox. 13.8 billion) . The very-long-lived radioisotope Tellerium-128 thus has the longest known half-life among all the Radionuclides of around 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 08:26AM by whomDev
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TIL: Norway and Senegal are the only national football teams that have never lost against Brazil (Norway has won twice and drawn twice)
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 12:55PM by A-Delonix-Regia
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TIL that France has inheritance laws that automatically give a significant portion of inheritance to each child and children cannot be disowned in the will
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 03:29PM by No_Struggle_
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TIL that the Indonesian Army nearly conducted an amphibious landing in Somalia in order to free the crew of an Indonesian cargo ship captured by pirates. The plan was never executed because the pirates were all killed by Indonesian Special Forces and the hostages freed before they made it to shore.
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 01:53PM by No_Measurement894
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TIL: Ancient Athenians had ‘ostracism’ elections in which everyone voted for the most hated citizen. That citizen would then be banished for 10 years.
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TIL William Huntington Russell co-founder of the secretive Skull and Bones fatally ruptured a blood vessel protecting some birds from rocks thrown by some boys.
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William Huntington Russell
American businessman
TIL William Dampier was a pirate-scientist who studied botany, zoology, and the ocean. He circumnavigated the world 3 times, landed in Australia eight decades before Captain Cook, and influenced Darwin’s thinking on the mutation of species. He was also probably the first European to smoke marijuana.
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TIL The mongols had a superstition that said that spilling royal blood would lead to great disaster. So instead they had other creative ways of executing such people. Including sewing up your orifices, drown you in molten metal or have horses trample you.
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Submitted January 16, 2022 at 04:20PM by jimi15
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How the Mongols Executed Enemies With No Blood Spilled…
Disclaimer: The history of the Mongol Empire is as vast as the empire once was. Sadly its truth has been relegated to the “great men, great deeds,” or shall I say “evil men, evil deeds,” section of our education system. Genghis Khan was a barbarian, and that…
TIL Nike's Cortez shoes were going to be called Aztec, but Adidas threatened legal action because of their Azteca Gold shoes. In response Nike decided to name the new model after Hernán Cortés, whose expedition led to the Aztec Empire's fall.
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Nike Cortez
first track shoe released by Nike
TIL Ed Sullivan went against pressure to not have African American entertainers on his show, and to not interact with them when they appeared. He presented groundbreaking performances by people like Bo Diddley, and presented obscure, less mainstream Black acts he knew from spending time in Harlem.
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Ed Sullivan
American television host