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TIL that In 2018, Pope Francis married two flight attendants in an impromptu mid-air wedding on a plane during a trip to Chile. The couple had gotten married in a civil ceremony in 2010 but weren't able to follow it up with a church service because of the earthquake in Chile that year.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 05:27AM by CaliforniaAudman13
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TIL the term "Spinster" for an older unmarried woman came from the late Middle Ages, married tradeswomen had an easier time obtaining higher-status, higher-income work than their unmarried peers. Unmarried women ended up with lower-status, lower-income jobs like combing, carding, and spinning wool.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 03:01AM by plaguebutt
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TIL about Silbo Gomero, a language spoken entirely by whistling. Developed by natives of La Gomera, Canary Islands. The language enabled long distance communication across the deep ravines and narrow valleys of the island, allowing messages to be exchanged over distances up to 5km (3.1mi).
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 04:43AM by AmateurJenius
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TIL - The Dodge Viper was discontinued in 2017 not due to low sales numbers, but because side curtain airbags were starting to be required. The SRT team felt it would have been too expensive, needing a redesigned chassis and significantly reducing its already limited headroom.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 05:12AM by wendalltwolf
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TIL about the Martyrs of Nowogródek, eleven Catholic nuns who sacrificed their lives to take the place of 120 Polish civilians condemned to die at the hands of Nazi Gestapo. Immediately after they prayed, the Gestapo suddenly released the civilians, & without warning, rounded up & executed the nuns.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 09:59AM by usopsong
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TIL in the 1970's the Ford Transit van, with car performance and space for 1.75 tonnes of loot, was used in 95% of bank robberies in the UK.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 01:23PM by Status-Victory
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TIL Mercedes-Benz with the highest mileage ever known is a 1976 Mercedes W123 240D taxi owned in Greece by a taxi driver. It has covered a total of 2.85 million kilometres – roughly equivalent to driving to the Moon and back six times.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 02:00PM by Zealousideal-Cat-346
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TIL Lambskin condoms are made from the intestinal membrane of a lamb, and there are records of men using lambskin condoms during the early part of the Roman Empire.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 03:16PM by rigorousthinker
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TIL Otoko wa Tsurai yo "It's tough being a man" holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running movie series starring a single actor, spanning 48 installments released between 1969 and 1995.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 02:09PM by Torley_
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TIL about the Black Terror, a Union Ironclad responsible for the destruction of an enemy ship. The Black Terror was also completely fake, and cost $8.63 to construct.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 05:14PM by HughJorgens
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TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 07:52PM by tamadli
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TIL of the cat nuns of France who in the middle ages inexplicably began to meow like a cat, shortly leading the other nuns in the convent to meow as their only form of communication. This did not stop until the army threatened to whip the nuns
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 08:17PM by temporarycreature
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TIL the fashion of tan was created by accident from Coco Chanel in 1920, when she accidentally got sunburnt while visiting the French Riviera. When she arrived home, she arrived with a sun tan and her fans apparently liked the look and started to adopt darker skin tones themselves
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 08:58PM by giuliomagnifico
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Today I learned that when Dr. Seuss lived in La Jolla, California, the US postal service kept confusing him with a nuclear physicist named Dr. Hans Suess who also lived in La Jolla.
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 09:28PM by wimpykidfan37
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TIL most of the male frontal nudity in movies and tv actually shows prosthetic penises, and that generally only bit players are allowed to show the real thingy
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Submitted August 01, 2022 at 11:53PM by globehater
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TIL that people with a rare genetic disorder called Xerodermia pigmentosum cannot sustain ultraviolet light. So, if exposed to the sun, they will get a severe sunburn. These people also face freckling, dry skin, and changes in skin pigmentation. They are a high risk group for skin cancer.
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Submitted August 02, 2022 at 12:11AM by DocsHoax
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TIL of Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1966. She was rejected when she applied, as women were thought to be physiologically incapable of running a full marathon. She ran anyway, disguised in a hoodie and wearing nurses' shoes. She finished in the top third, 3:21:40.
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Submitted August 02, 2022 at 02:27AM by blueberrisorbet
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TIL A chess player in the Dutch Open Championship in the early 90s deliberately threw a game, getting mated in three moves, because he had tickets for a Madonna concert and didn't want to be late.
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Submitted August 02, 2022 at 03:01AM by haddock420
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TIL, the common first name Stacy is the diminutive form of the name Anastasia.
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Submitted August 02, 2022 at 02:50AM by SupremoZanne
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