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TIL Apple simply chose to pay a $5.5 million fine every week for months in the Netherlands instead of obey orders from the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) to allow third-party payment systems in Dutch dating apps.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 03:33PM by abisurd
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TIL that when you get a kidney transplant, they usually leave both of your original kidneys in your body, meaning you end up with 3 kidneys
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 03:11PM by serialkillertswift
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TIL Liberia (West Africa) was founded in 1822 with the aim of establishing a self-sufficient colony for emancipated American slaves. It is Africa's first and oldest modern republic. Its capital city Monrovia was named after US Pres James Monroe, a prominent supporter of the founding of Liberia.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 04:57PM by OccludedFug
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TIL Baseball player Al "The Hebrew Hammer" Rosen was an amateur boxer and known for challenging anyone who insulted his heritage, or used anti-Semitic slurs, to fight. His stated preferred method for dealing with anti-Semitism was to 'Flatten them'.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 07:09PM by ChronosBlitz
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TiL that Pablo Fanque, a figure name-checked in the Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", was the first recorded Black circus owner in Britain.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 07:29PM by thewickerstan
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TIL that people of Asian descent tend to have more severe obstructive sleep apnea than Caucasians of similar age and BMI. Differences in facial bone structure appear to be the reason why Asians have a higher risk for OSA.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 09:39PM by sexyloser1128
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TIL Tom Dolan, despite having both exercise induced asthma and a narrow trachea giving him access to only about 20 percent of the air an average person breath—was at one time considered the best swimmer in the world and is a two time Olympic gold medalist and world record holder.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 10:10PM by LesPolsfuss
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TIL the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) was founded under the principles of 'Muscular Christianity,' a Christian philosophy that ties physical strength and development with Christian spiritual growth. The creation of the modern Olympic Games was also influenced by this philosophy.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 11:30PM by drak0bsidian
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TIL South Korea made a remake of 12 Angry Men for their countries first jury trial.
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Submitted July 07, 2022 at 09:19PM by bijinchan
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TIL James Caan improvised scenes while filming The Godfather. He broke the FBI character's camera after getting genuinely heated. From his upbringing, he instinctively pulled out money to pay for the damages and walked away.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 01:37AM by SingLikeTinaTurner
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TIL about Draisines: pedal-powered rail-cycles. They are used for recreation on unused railway lines in Europe, South Korea & the USA. In the United States, tours have operated in several states nationwide: CA ME, OR & the Adirondack Mountains (NYS). They used to be used for railway maintenance.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 12:06AM by davidinphila
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TIL that Jack White from the band The White Stripes took Meg White's last name when they got married in 1996.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 02:44AM by plaguebutt
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TIL that in the Talmud, regarding to the question of the method of verifying if a previously perforated penis is healed, a Rabbi presents the solution of making someone cum from the heat of warm barley bread placed in the anus, to see if the cum does not go out from the perforation.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 03:17AM by hello24601melbapeach
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TIL that 56 No. 1 hit singles have been released by artists from the city of Liverpool alone.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 12:33AM by FranklinDRoosevelt32
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TIL that roughly 99% of the world's population will be in daylight on July 8th at 7:15am ET. About 6.4 billion people will be in daytime while 1.2 billion will be in twilight.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 05:41AM by ItsLiterallyPK
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TIL "lemonade" is typically carbonated in the UK, Ireland, Central Europe, and Australia.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 06:41AM by ZwischenzugZugzwang
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TIL that when Yoshitaro Shibasaki and his team completed their 1907 ascent of Mount Tsurugi — thought to be the final unclimbed mountain remaining in the Japanese archipelago — they found an ancient sword at the summit that was later determined to have been left there more than 1000 years earlier.
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Submitted July 08, 2022 at 08:58AM by murdered-by-swords
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