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TIL Ondine’s curse occurs when a part of your brain is injured causing you to lose the subconscious drive to breathe
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 05:55AM by Enough-Preference-18
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TIL that in 1933, yo-yos were banned in Syria, because many locals superstitiously blamed the use of them for a severe drought.
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 10:26AM by slinkslowdown
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TIL Production on ALF was tense. The set was elevated and full of trap doors constantly being reset. Due to technical issues the 30 minute show took 20 to 25 hours to shoot. One especially stressful day Max Wright attacked ALF and the two had to be separated.
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 02:00PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL: Until 2013, foreign chefs in Japan were legally barred from working in restaurants specializing in traditional Japanese food and could only serve foreign cuisine. Japan changed its regulations for foreign chefs after traditional Japanese cuisine won UNESCO designation.
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 03:52PM by diacewrb
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TIL reproduction via Sex started in Scotland A team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 06:30PM by Boardindundee
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TIL: President John Tyler swore allegiance to the Confederacy after his presidency and was buried with a confederate flag draped over his coffin in the CSA, making him the only former president to not be laid to rest under a US flag
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 07:06PM by tnick771
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TIL In the early 1700's, Britain sent over 50,000 convicted criminals to the US to be sold as laborers, mostly settling in the south to work Tobacco farms.
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 06:51PM by Leather-Ad-4570
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TIL of Boston Red Sox player Fred Thomas, who was granted a furlough by the Navy to play in the 1918 World Series during WWI. He remains the only active member of the military to play in a Major League game.
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 11:13PM by foofoofum
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TIL the Fiat Panda is not named after the panda bear, but after Empanda, the Roman goddess and patroness of travelers.
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 01:10AM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft was secretly modified with missile countermeasures before bringing Enterprise to the 1983 Paris Air Show.
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 02:32AM by Locobono
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TIL not only was Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the WTC on 9/11, but with his camcorder he captured everything from the 2nd plane hitting to both towers collapsing. While he has released screenshots, he has declined to publish the full tape, feeling it was too intimate to be tastefully shown to the public.
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 03:48AM by HelpfulPonySerfer
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TIL singer-songwriter Jewel had a relationship with actor Sean Penn. He sought her out with a phone call to her father's home in Alaska after watching her television debut on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 1995. Jewel's father assumed it was a prank call.
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 02:58AM by Bubbly-Incident
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TIL Red Bull energy drink was originally invented by a duck farmer from Thailand as a hangover cure before being bought over by Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz who discovered it on a business trip in 1987.
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 05:34AM by raj000777
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TIL Phryne of Greece was acquitted due to her beauty, after jurors admired her naked body
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 05:32AM by okjack98
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TIL that lipstick was first invented in ancient Sumerian and Indus Valley about 5,000 years ago. Later, people wore lipstick for different purposes. The ancient Egyptians wore lipstick to show social status rather than gender, while the Chinese protected their lips.
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 06:33AM by FairlyZoe
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TIL that in addition to using the stars, Micronesians navigated the Pacific by recognizing and interpreting different type of ocean swells, even using them to pinpoint the existence of islands hundreds of miles away. Marshallese islanders additionally made stick maps of these ocean swell patterns.
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 10:33AM by nehala
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