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TIL Hares are scavengers that will eat meat and even their own dead
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:54PM by Marginallyhuman
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ZME Science
Meat-eating rabbits: these fluffy creatures are not exactly “herbivores”
So that's unexpected!
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TIL the Mongol Empire intended to expand west all the way to the The Great Sea (Atlantic Ocean). Conquering most of Central Europe, the invasion halted due to the alcohol related death of Ogedei Khan and his general’s having to return home for the election of a new Khan.
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Submitted January 31, 2026 at 11:22PM by FullOfSound
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TIL that in 1994, an American teenager in Singapore pled guilty to stealing road signs and vandalizing cars. He was sentenced to 6 lashes of a cane, which was reduced to 4 after media outrage in the US
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 01:47AM by Overall-Register9758
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TIL that in the Australian marsupial Antechinus, the entire species reproduces in a single suicidal mating event: all males breed nonstop for 2–3 weeks, the stress of which causes every male to die from internal bleeding, organ failure and immune collapse.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 03:21AM by Neutral-frame
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Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals
In some marsupial genera but in no other mammals, escalating stress hormones during the breeding season cause immune system collapse and synchronized death after mating in all males (suicidal reproduction). In this paper, we resolve the ...
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TIL about author Sinclair Lewis from Sauk Centre MN. He wrote a dystopian novel about a politician named Buzz Windrip who wins the presidency by promising to restore American greatness, but quickly establishes a dictatorship, suppressing rights and imprisoning opponents.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 08:00AM by vextortion
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TIL about “Ninja rocks”, small pieces of porcelain from spark plugs that can instantly shatter a vehicle’s side windows.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 10:13AM by DiggestOfBicks
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TIL of the "sexy son hypothesis" which posits that a female's ideal choice of mate is one whose genes will produce offspring with the highest reproductive success, implying other factors like being a good parent or territory are less relevant.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 01:56PM by GenericUsername2056
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TIL before 9/11, US airports were public social hubs where you could walk to the gate, eat at food courts, and watch planes without a ticket or ID.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 04:14PM by Greydl1
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NPR
It Was Shoes On, No Boarding Pass Or ID. But Airport Security Forever Changed On 9/11
No boarding pass or ID was needed to go to the gate, and 4-inch-blade knives were allowed aboard planes. Now we take off shoes, can't have liquids over 3.4 oz and go through high-tech body scanners.
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TIL Salt glaciers can exist where a rising salt dome pierces the earth's surface and the climate is too arid for the salt to rapidly erode away. Salt glaciers can flow like a liquid by up to several metres in a year and are primarily found in Iran.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 03:43PM by Halbaras
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TIL that dogs can get obsessive-compulsive disorder from playing with laser pointers.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 05:30PM by DrakeSavory
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TIL in 2016 Joshua Brown died after crashing into a semi-trailer truck while his Tesla was on self-driving mode. The autopilot failed to notice the danger due to bright sunlight causing it to confuse the truck for the bright sky. He was the first US fatality in a wreck involving a self-driving car.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 05:51PM by tyrion2024
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TIL Simpsons characters Moe Szyslak and Mr. Burns were originally played by Christopher Collins/Chris Latta, notorious for voicing Starscream in Transformers and Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe. According to Matt Groening, he was replaced because, despite being very good, "he was just a dick."
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 08:22PM by adiplotti
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TIL Hector Gramajo, who served as a general and the defense minister in Guatemala, was killed in 2004 by a swarm of Africanized bees on his farm.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 05:41PM by Red_Clover_Fields
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TIL students invented a low-cost "invisibility coat" that hides the wearer from AI security cameras. It uses a camouflage pattern to trick visual recognition during the day and emits unusual heat signals to confuse infrared sensors at night.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 09:00PM by ralphbernardo
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The Independent
‘Invisibility cloak’ that hides wearers from security cameras invented by students
InvisDefense uses an unusual pattern and irregular heat signals to confuse AI cameras
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TIL that Afife Jale, the first Muslim woman to appear on a Turkish stage, had to be smuggled out of theaters through machine rooms during police raids. Despite being a pioneer, she was treated as a criminal, lost her job due to her religion, and spent her final years in a mental institution
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 06:07PM by bortakci34
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TIL that the jet propulsion laboratory founder was part of a sex and ufo cult
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 11:09PM by Bigb5wm
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Science History Institute
The Sex-Cult ‘Antichrist’ Who Rocketed Us to Space: Part 1
Jack Parsons practiced the occult and led a sex cult. He was also one of history’s most important rocket scientists. (Episode 1 of 2)
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TIL that Kim Basinger filed for bankruptcy in 1993 after being sued for breach of contract for withdrawing from the production of Boxing Helena. The jury awarded Main Line Pictures just under $9 million in damages.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 10:06PM by Make_the_music_stop
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Best Life
Kim Basinger Filed for Bankruptcy After Being Sued for Dropping Out of Role
Kim Basinger Filed for Bankruptcy After Being Sued for Dropping Out of Role
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TIL that the movie “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” was supposed to be rated NC-17 due to excessive profanity, with the word “fuck” being used 146 times alone. The MPAA said that 400 or more swear words would get the NC-17 rating, so Matt Stone and Trey Parker cut the number in script to 399
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Submitted February 02, 2026 at 12:37AM by altrightobserver
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TIL that a group of 37 Jews, trained by the British Special Forces, parachuted into occupied Europe in 1944.
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Submitted February 01, 2026 at 11:29PM by Environmental-Low792
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TIL The Reproducibility Project: Psychology redid 100 studies in psychological science from three high-ranking psychology journals, found that only 36% replicated successfully with effect sizes averaging half the original, 25% directly contradicted the original and 49% were inconclusive.
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Submitted February 02, 2026 at 12:08AM by Marginallyhuman
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OSF
Reproducibility Project: Psychology
Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it characterizes current research is unknown. We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered designs…
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TIL that at Queen Victoria’s funeral on 2 February 1901, the artillery horses refused to move in the bitterly cold weather, so sailors hauled her coffin on the gun carriage using harnesses and a train communication cord, establishing the tradition of sailors pulling royal coffins.
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Submitted February 02, 2026 at 02:06AM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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