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TIL that starting in 2018, the Canadian government has made admission to all national parks, historic sites, and marine conservation areas free for kids 17 and under. Stating, that by connecting with nature, youth would gain a better understanding of the need to protect it for generations to come
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 01:04PM by NorthNorthSalt
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TIL there was a trend of headless photography in 19th century Britain ("Victorian Headless Portraits"). The models usually had their heads in a platter, or were holding them in their hands. This was made by taking multiple photos and combining the negatives - kinda like the early days' Photoshop.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 01:48PM by DesignersUniverse
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TIL China recorded the second highest death toll during WWII, totaling 14 million casualties
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 07:59AM by that_damn_apple
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TIL 15 years before the Columbia shuttle disaster, Atlantis experienced similar tile damage during lift-off, leading to the crew believing they were going to die on reentry. Infuriated with mission controls lack of concern, pilot Gibson planned to let loose on MC in the remaining seconds of his life
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 12:55PM by Chillerized
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TIL 28th Virginia battle flag is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society, and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across the years.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 05:15PM by Movie_Advance_101
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TIL Knights rode ponies. Horses of Medieval Times weren’t much bigger than modern-day ponies.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 05:05PM by Wayne_Kest
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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday in the US marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. was signed into law on November 2, 1983. As of 2007, only 33% of employers gave employees the day off.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 05:55PM by RatBrainedManAnimal
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TIL: Even though Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium, Pierre Curie initially rejected the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. He only accepted the award on the condition that his wife's contribution was also recognized, making Marie the first-ever female Nobel Laureate.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 07:05PM by SeizeOpportunity
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TIL the iconic Motown bassist James Jamerson never replaced strings on his bass unless a string broke. He did not take much care of the instrument, saying: "The dirt keeps the funk". When the neck warped, making it harder to fret, he said it improved the tone.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 05:09PM by GregJamesDahlen
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TIL Dolly Parton sleeps in make-up (and washes it off in the morning) just in case she has to go out in the middle of the night if a natural disaster strikes
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 08:29PM by MorsesTheHorse
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TIL Martin Luther King Jr., in his last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," anticipated his early demise but was contented to be in the same position as the Biblical Moses, who could look on the promised land but would die before ever reaching it. King was assassinated the next day.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 05:22PM by onewhosleepsnot
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TIL that corporations such as Wal-Mart, P&G, Hershey's all take what is called corporate-owned life insurance otherwise known as "dead peasant insurance" on their employees to hedge against the financial cost of losing key employees to unexpected death
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 06:07PM by businessperson10
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TIL We call it a Wife Beater because in 1947 a man beat his wife to death in a tank top, and the newspapers printed pictures of him in a tank top referring to him as the wife Beater and since then the term has stuck
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 08:06PM by mynameisarrgh
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TIL when The Betty White Show went national across the U.S. in 1954, White was criticized in the Southern states for having Arthur Duncan, a Black tap dancer, on her show. White received threats to take the show off-air because Arthur was Black. She refused, saying "he stays, live with it".
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 09:23PM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL a Japanese man has been sending identical handwritten letters weekly to a hotel in the Netherlands for the last 40 years.
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Submitted January 17, 2022 at 10:01PM by LaoBa
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TIL about Barnum Effect, the phenomenon that occurs when individuals believe that personality descriptions apply specifically to them, despite the fact that it is actually filled with information that applies to most.
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Submitted January 18, 2022 at 12:12AM by UnpeeledVegetables
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