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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.
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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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TIL the 1987 "Max Headroom" TV hack used the analog "capture effect," in which a stronger signal completely suppresses a weaker one. Since the U.S. switched to digital signals in 2009, which do not behave in a similar way, this specific intrusion is now considered impossible to replicate.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 06:01PM by ralphbernardo
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TIL about Preserved Fish, an early American merchant and banker. Apparently his first name was common among Quakers and 10 other members of the Fish family were called that.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 06:43PM by BachRach433
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TIL: The Las Vegas Sphere is powered by 150 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs totaling 7.2 TB (7,200 GB) of GDDR6 video memory
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 07:11PM by SauloJr
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PCMAG
Las Vegas Sphere Uses 150 Nvidia A6000 GPUs to Power Its Massive Display
The Sphere taps the workstation Nvidia GPUs to display content on its 16K screens and massive LED-powered exterior.
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TIL Until the age of 3 Michel Montaigne was raised by a peasant family to "draw the boy close to the people and their life conditions". Later, his parents and the staff who interacted with the boy would only speak to him in latin, and every morning he'd be awaken by a musician playing an instrument
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 09:12PM by Nero2t2
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TIL that after George Washington took office, the US Senate debated over the title for the president. All but three senators agreed upon "His Highness the President of the United States and Protector of the Rights of the Same", but objections won out and the House settled on "Mr. President"
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 10:55PM by SteO153
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TIL that the "M's" on M&Ms stand for "Mars" and "Murrie," the two founders of the company. They actually had a falling out because Murrie thought Mars was too controlling.
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Submitted January 30, 2026 at 11:28PM by Glittering_Math_5462
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TIL less than 60% of Florida voters supported an amendment that required future amendments to receive 60% support
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 12:26AM by After-Professional-8
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TIL Jake Holmes, the original (uncredited) author of Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused”, wrote the “be all that you can be” US Army jingle
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 01:38AM by buickmccane
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TIL Catherine O'Hara had a rare condition called Situs Inversus. This condition affects 1 person in 10,000. Their major internal organs (including the heart) are reversed from their normal positions
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 12:50AM by CupidStunt13
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Wow! Catherine O’Hara’s heart and organs are flipped! 1:0001. Situs Inversus w/ Katherine Hall
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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TIL that the “Toba catastrophe theory” claims the ~74,000-year-old Toba supereruption nearly drove humans to extinction, leaving only a few thousand people alive.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 02:25AM by SameNecessary5180
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TIL that out of the six Marines depicted in the iconic “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” photo, only three of them would survive the battle.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 04:38AM by iydx_7737
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TIL The United States supercarrier fleet has twice the total amount of deck space than every other nation combined.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 05:52AM by Auxilae
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TIL Historically, caltrops were part of defences that served to slow the advance of troops and in the modern era have been used to slow vehicles.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 05:39AM by Hootinger
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TIL in 1980, a group of men planted a bomb containing 1,200 lbs of dynamite in a Lake Tahoe hotel with the goal of extorting $3 million. During the disarming of it, the bomb went off and destroyed parts of the hotel, causing $18 million in damages.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 06:39AM by Quasimdo
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TIL that curry was brought to Vietnam by French colonisers when they also colonized Pondicherry in India. Curry was adapted to Vietnamese tastes by adding coconut milk and lemongrass.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 08:14AM by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL that by the late 1500s, Japan’s samurai were using guns at a scale that exceeded the total gun ownership of any European country.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 06:54AM by SameNecessary5180
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