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.
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…
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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TIL that over 90% of trees are planted too deep, burying the root flare and cutting their lifespan by 30+ years. A UMN audit of 300+ trees found most were 4+ inches below grade.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 05:10AM by The_Gentle_Arbor
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The Gentle Arbor
The Deep-Rooted Problem: Why Minneapolis Trees Are Suffering | The Gentle Arbor
Over 90% of Minneapolis trees are planted too deeply or improperly mulched, leading to severe health issues. Learn about this hidden crisis and how The Gentle Arbor can help.
TIL diclofenac, a common painkiller drug once given to livestock, was a major contributing factor in the rapid decline of vultures in India, where nine species suffered a population collapse exceeding 99.5%, with three Gyps species dropping from about 40 million in the 1980s to about 19000 in 2017,
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 05:45AM by stoictrader03
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TIL when the ancient Persian king Xerxes sent representatives to Greek city-states to demand "earth and water" as tokens of submission, the Spartans threw them into a well, suggesting that they would find earth and water at the bottom.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 10:38AM by NateNate60
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TIL about the Colorado experiment. A controversial study funded by multi milionare Arthur Jones, where one subject gained 63Lbs of muscle mass in 28 days by doing only 1 set per excercise to failure
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 10:10AM by ValuableBerry1628
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TIL that Dick Hammer, a former USC basketball player in the 1950s, a 1964 Olympic volleyball player, and a Marlboro Man in the 1970s is also the grandfather of NFL quarterback Sam Darnold
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 12:33PM by SappyGilmore
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TIL of General Charles O'Hara. After surrendering the British sword at Yorktown and later being captured during the Siege of Toulon, O'Hara has the distinction of having been the only person personally taken prisoner by both George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 01:16PM by PIGFOOF
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TIL that one of the Nazi generals who was responsible for the Wola massacre was pardoned by West Germany because "genocide was not in the criminal code of Nazi Germany". After the war, Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland, on the isle of Sylt, and member of the Schleswig-Holstein L
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 02:58PM by tenzin_Qing
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TIL that episode "405 Method Not Allowed" of Mr. Robot is almost completely silent, except the lines "It's cool, dude. We don't have to talk" during the opening scene and "It's time we talk" right before the credits
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 03:47PM by luigdibar
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TIL in "Cast Away", none of the sound on the island scenes is real. The loudness of ocean waves on the actual unhabited island they were filming on was so overwhelming that every sound on the island and ocean scenes, including Tom Hanks' monologues, were carefully recorded in a studio.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 04:47PM by leebe_friik
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No Film School
Here’s Why the Sound Design of ‘Cast Away’ is One of Film’s Greatest Hidden Achievements
A new video essay explores the genius illusion behind how (and why) every sound Tom Hanks makes on the island in Cast Away was created from scratch.
TIL Peter Jackson's mother Joan died three days before the release of the first movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, there was a special showing of the film after her funeral
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 05:32PM by rocklou
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TIL Roman emperors were officially considered pharaohs in Egypt after Rome conquered it in 30 BCE.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 10:28AM by GoldenCorbin
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