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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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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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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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 12:50AM by CupidStunt13
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YouTube
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 06:54AM by SameNecessary5180
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TIL Kidney (and other organ) donations typically do not last the rest of the patient’s life. ~50% of transplant organs fail within 10 years.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 08:50AM by I-plaey-geetar
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 08:50AM by I-plaey-geetar
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TIL that in 2015, Steve Rannazzisi (Kevin from “The League”) was caught and admitted to lying about being in the World Trade Center and narrowly escaping on 9/11
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 08:59AM by Caa3098
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 08:59AM by Caa3098
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BBC News
US comic Steve Rannazzisi apologises for 9/11 lie
American comedian Steve Rannazzisi admits he lied over escaping from the twin towers during the terror attacks in New York on 2001.
TIL a black leopard was photographed in the wild in Africa for the first time in over 100 years when biologists captured rare footage of one in Kenya in 2018. Before that, the last confirmed observation of a black leopard with photographic evidence was in Ethiopia in 1909.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 03:18PM by tyrion2024
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 03:18PM by tyrion2024
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CBS News
African Black Leopard Photographed For The First Time In 100 Years
Turns out, the mythical African black leopard really does exist.
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TIL that Ottoman Sultans used deaf-mutes as palace staff so they couldn't overhear state secrets. They developed a unique sign language that became so popular, the Sultans and high-ranking officials even used it to communicate silently.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 04:45PM by bortakci34
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 04:45PM by bortakci34
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TIL over a 5-month period in 2020, a nurse in Yale's fertility center stole the fentanyl in 175 vials that were meant for women who had a procedure to have their eggs retrieved. The nurse replaced the pain medication with saline solution, leaving the women in excruciating pain during the procedure.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 05:50PM by tyrion2024
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 05:50PM by tyrion2024
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TODAY.com
A nurse stole their IVF pain medication. Her victims are speaking out
“It’s like a stabbing internal pain that no one should ever feel. Ever.”
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TIL United States of Greater Austria was a proposal by group surrounding Franz Ferdinand to turn the empire into a federation. This caused panic among Serbian nationalists which feared it might satisfy the demand of minorities and hinder Serbia imperial ambition which lead to his assassination.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 04:59PM by Skychu768
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 04:59PM by Skychu768
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TIL that under a law called the Berry Amendment, the U.S. Military is legally required to ensure 100% of its clothing is made in America. Every stage of production, from the raw cotton or wool to the zippers, buttons, and even the thread, must be 100% U.S. sourced and manufactured.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 06:39PM by palmerry
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 06:39PM by palmerry
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TIL that during the American revolution, when George Washington and his army were in desperate need of money to pay troops, the people of Havana raised money and sent it to the Americans, helping them win the important battle of Yorktown.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 09:02PM by HappyIdiot123
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 09:02PM by HappyIdiot123
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www.nps.gov
FRANCISCO SAAVEDRA DE SANGRONIS AND THE PEOPLE OF HAVANA, CUBA - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial National Historical Park…
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TIL that Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia killed around a quarter of the population (about 2 million people) in just four years, targeting intellectuals, city dwellers, and ethnic minorities to force a “classless agrarian society.”
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:06PM by FearMyCock
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:06PM by FearMyCock
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TIL U.S. stop signs were designed to be identifiable by shape alone because many drivers had difficulty reading signs and shape recognition was considered more reliable than text.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:03PM by A11J06
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:03PM by A11J06
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TIL Marlon Brando's final performance before his death was in the 2006 video game "The Godfather", made and published by EA. Most of his recordings were unusable since he was so sick he could barely speak, and the microphones in the recording studio kept picking up the noise of his oxygen machine.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:41PM by Away_Flounder3813
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:41PM by Away_Flounder3813
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