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TIL at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the remains of at least 20,000 soldiers and horses killed in battle were exhumed after two weeks and sold to a sugar factory in Belgium, where the coveted granulated bone charcoal was needed as a filter material for decolorizing or “bleaching” the sugar.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 09:55AM by constantin5008
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TIL that the family of Mikhail Kalashnikov (the inventor of the AK-47) licensed the German company MMI to produce non-military products such as umbrellas, watches and vodka bottles in the shape of the AK-47
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 11:02AM by luigdibar
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TIL Franz Ferdinand survived an assassination attempt with grenade and then decided to see people injured by bomb at hospital. Driver mistakenly took the wrong route and when shouted to turn around stopped right in front of another assassin. This assassin had never shot anyone in his life before
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 03:18PM by Solid-Move-1411
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TIL Dan Burros, the third highest ranked member of the American Nazi party in the 60s and grand dragon of the New York Klan killed himself after the NYT revealed he was in fact a Jewish man that went to Hebrew school and even had a bar mitzvah.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 02:58PM by the_gosh_darn_dog
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TIL the first neural network wasn't code, but a physical machine built in 1951 using parts from a B-24 bomber. Created by Marvin Minsky, the "SNARC" used 300 vacuum tubes and an autopilot system to simulate a rat finding its way through a maze.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 04:27PM by ralphbernardo
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TIL when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, Poland joined as well annexing parts of Slovakia near the border although no formal agreement was signed b/w both countries
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 05:57PM by Solid-Move-1411
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TIL that rapper J. Cole graduated high school with a 4.2 GPA and graduated college magna cum laude, in 2007, with a 3.8 GPA
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 07:27PM by luigdibar
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TIL that in 2009,a 57 year old woman in Detroit was shot during a break in in her neighbors house,but she was saved by the metal underwire of her bra deflected the bullet,narrowly saving her.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 08:40PM by CityRulesFootball
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NBC News
Detroit woman’s underwire bra deflects bullet
The metal underwire in a Detroit woman's bra is being credited with deflecting a bullet fired at her during a break-in at a neighbor's home.
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TIL the film "Scream" (1996) was originally titled "Scary Movie". It was changed near the end of the film's production by the Weinstein brothers since they felt it's not suitable for a film containing satire and comedy. Director Wes Craven immediately called the change "stupid" but later relented.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 08:46PM by Away_Flounder3813
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TIL that women can experience a form of “blue balls,” called "blue vulva". It is a form of pelvic congestion or pelvic arousal disorder, where prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm can cause aching or pressure in the pelvis and lower abdomen.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 09:32PM by Own-Bullfrog7362
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Cleveland Clinic
Are Blue Balls Real?
“Blue balls” is a slang term for discomfort that can happen when sexual arousal doesn’t lead to orgasm. Here’s why it isn’t dangerous and isn’t a reason to feel pressured into sexual activities.
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TIL that there have been four occasions when the President of the United States temporarily delegated his powers and authority to the Vice President per the terms of the 25th Amendment. All four times were so that the President could undergo a colonoscopy.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 09:43PM by Flurb4
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TIL Thomas Edison was almost entirely deaf, which he considered an advantage for distractionless work. His work also kept him from home and he rarely saw his family. The one exception each year was the Fourth of July, because he liked making fireworks and could feel the boom of their explosions.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 10:34PM by literally12sofus
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TIL about Toxorhynchites mosquitos, a genus of mosquitos that's adults feed only on plant matter and whose larva feed on other species of mosquito. They've been introduced to new ecosystems to lower rates of degue fever.
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Submitted January 29, 2026 at 10:22PM by Cuinn_the_Fox
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TIL of the Dolly Gray imposter. In 1923, a man fooled multiple NFL teams into thinking he was an All-American player from Princeton named Jack "Dolly" Gray. He played one game for the Green Bay Packers, playing "poorly" according to Curly Lambeau, and disappeared. His identity remains unknown.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 01:15AM by WavesAndSaves
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TIL that as a child, Selena Gomez and her mother (who had her at 16) relied on dollar store spaghetti and searched for quarters to pay for gas. Today, her company, Rare Beauty has reached an estimated valuation of $2.7 billion.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 02:27AM by Resume-Mentor
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TIL that catholic priest, Juan Molina was one of the precursors of the theory of the gradual evolution of species, 44 years before Darwin, who repeatedly quoted him in "The Origin of Species".
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 02:48AM by ProteinPapi777
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TIL in 2015, an 83-year-old man named Ron Dorff received an AT&T landline bill for $8,596.57. His next bill was $15,687.64. A technician later discovered his modem was dialing a long-distance number to connect to AOL dial-up. AT&T waived more than $24,000 in charges after he contacted the L.A. Times
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 03:04AM by Forward-Answer-4407
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Los Angeles Times
AT&T stumbles in helping customer with $24,000 phone bill
It wasn't what Ron Dorff said. It was how he said it.
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TIL the Pfennig was legal tender in Germany from the 8th or 9th century until replaced by the Euro in 2002
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 02:06AM by BitterCrip
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TIL that between 2010 and 2024, the number of bank tellers in the US declined 30%. Over the same time new job postings dropped by two-thirds.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 04:15AM by OatSoyLaMilk
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The Burning Glass Institute
The Case of the Vanishing Teller: How Banking’s Entry Level Jobs Are Transforming — The Burning Glass Institute
By Katherine Townsend Kiernan The financial services industry is undergoing a seismic transformation. Traditional roles, particularly entry-level positions like bank tellers, are being replaced by hybrid roles that demand advanced digital literacy, complex…
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TIL that Benazir Bhutto became PM of Pakistan at 35, making her the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority country, and later became the first elected head of government in modern history to give birth while in office (1990).
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 02:59AM by No-Strawberry7
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TIL a Washington Wizards fan was such a notorious heckler that Charles Barkley flew him to Phoenix to sit behind the Bulls bench during the 1993 NBA Finals.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 06:09AM by SuperMcG
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