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TIL that the band The mighty mighty bosstones had a band member who did not sing nor playing instrument, but was only there to dance on stage during performances
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Submitted January 23, 2026 at 09:20PM by nogood-deedsgo
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TIL about Carcinization, an evolutionary process in which unrelated crusteceans evolve to develop a crab like body
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Submitted January 23, 2026 at 09:35PM by divyanshu_01
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TIL that Liam Neeson admitted that he relaxes and "gets off" by scrubbing dirty pots and pans by hand, and he even uses the task to politely excuse himself from boring dinner parties or conversations with dull guests. He also He typically prefers to dry the dishes and put them away himself.
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Submitted January 23, 2026 at 11:35PM by OddUmpire2554
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heat Radio
WATCH: Liam Neeson reveals his real life 'particular set of skills'
Liam Neeson's revealed a deep love for doing the washing up. Yes, hand the...
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TIL that Liam Neeson accepted the role of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace without reading the script, and prepared for the role by watching the original trilogy and Seven Samurai.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:57AM by OddUmpire2554
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Liam Neeson Says Qui-Gon Jinn's Death at the Hands of Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Was 'A Bit Namby-Pamby'…
It is one of the most iconic scenes in Star Wars cinematic history, one embedded in the consciousness of a generation of fans: the climactic duel in The Phantom Menace where Darth Maul kills Qui-Gon Jinn.
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TIL that one of the most prolific contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary was a murderer serving a life sentence in an asylum.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:22AM by kabirsbhutani
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TIL that LEGO cancelled a set based on the Las Vegas skyline following the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting, because It included the hotel from which the shooter opened fire
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:09AM by ModenaR
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TIL after helping Cortes conquer the Aztecs, the Tlaxcaltecs helped the Spanish settle northern Mexico and conquer Guatemala and the Philippines
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 03:16AM by ImperialRedditer
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TIL: Barney Miller barely showed arrests or action because the creators believed real policing is mostly paperwork and talking. The result? Cops later called it the most accurate police show ever made—and it did it with jokes instead of guns.
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Submitted January 23, 2026 at 10:09PM by TNSasquatch77
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TIL that the time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones and it’s the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:47AM by lawn-mumps
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TIL that GLP-1 medications have significantly increased demand for pharmacist-led patient counseling due to side-effect management.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:44AM by Sweaty-Standard-5840
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Pharmacytimes
Pharmacy Times – Pharmacy Practice News and Expert Insights
Pharmacy Times offers the latest news and insights for the pharmacy professional and solutions that impact the everyday practice of pharmacy.
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TIL that sound frequency exposure has measurable effects on stress-related hormones, increasing oxytocin (for social bonding/ love) and reducing cortisol (clinical stress marker) according to research
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:11PM by Money_Hand7070
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TED-Ed
Lessons Worth Sharing
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
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TIL that humans are more insulin resistant in the winter, an energy conservation evolutionary mechanism.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 12:50PM by itsthewolfe
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Nature
During winter the body resists insulin
Hypertension Research - During winter the body resists insulin
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TIL that execution by electric chair, first tested on calves and a horse, was so badly botched on its first human in 1890 that a second 2,000‑volt jolt reportedly set him on fire. The generator’s supplier said “They would have done better using an axe,” and the NYT called it “Far worse than hanging.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:39PM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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TIL the first rover to explore another world wasn't American but Soviet; Lunokhod 1, which landed on the Moon in 1970, decades before NASA's Mars rovers.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 02:50PM by yena
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Space
Lunokhod 1: 1st Successful Lunar Rover
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TIL All dolphins are whales
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 02:53PM by scratchtheitch7
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TIL about the Rosenstraße Protest of 1943: a week-long nonviolent demonstration in Berlin by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men in mixed marriages, which coincided with the release of most of the roughly 1,800 men being held.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 04:31PM by munkijunk
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TIL that Heshen, who was Qing Dynasty Official during the late 1700's and favoured by the Qianlong Emperor is known as the most corrupt official in Chinese and one of the most in human history. During his life, he embezzled roughly US$270 billion or 15 years of Qing Imperial revenues
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 06:11PM by Old_General_6741
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TIL about Francis Daniel Brohm who had stuck his head out of a truck window when the driver swerved and he was decapitated by a telephone pole wire. The driver continued to his house and slept, leaving his friends corpse in the truck for a neighbor to find the next morning
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 07:45PM by jakewubbleyou
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NBC News
Victim's kin back release of decapitation driver
A Georgia man facing criminal charges for a freakish accident that decapitated his friend has been released from jail after the victim’s relatives pleaded on his behalf.
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TIL that Dutch sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, aged 14 and 16, would lure Nazis away to assasinate them in occupied Netherlands.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:48PM by FalseAnimal
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DutchReview
The 14-year-old assassin who lured Nazis and traitors to their deaths
Freddie Oversteegen was just 14 when she became an assassin for the Dutch resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
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TIL, In 2009, the remains of an unknown Union soldier, believed to be between 17 and 19 years old, were discovered on the Antietam National Battlefield and identified as a New York volunteer, he was returned to New York for burial with full military honors.
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 07:24PM by Ok_Being_2003
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NPR
Union Soldier Comes Home, 147 Years Later
An unknown soldier killed at Antietam in 1862 was laid to rest at Saratoga National Cemetery on Thursday. The soldier's remains were found in Maryland last summer, and he was identified as a New Yorker by his buttons.
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TIL Michael Jackson had a pet Chimpanzee named 'Bubbles' which Jackson bought from a Texas research facility in the '80s. Bubbles is still alive and is in his 40s
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Submitted January 24, 2026 at 08:09PM by Mysterious_Brush1852
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