TIL that New Nissan Stadium, future home of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, costs $2.1 billion dollars & is being constructed using $1.26 billion dollars of public funds. This makes it the largest allocation of Stadium Subsidy funds to a sports venue in U.S. history.
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 11:34PM by Next_Worth_3616
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 11:34PM by Next_Worth_3616
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TIL Single mothers spend less time on housework and get more sleep than married mothers
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 11:32PM by Apprehensive_Way8674
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 11:32PM by Apprehensive_Way8674
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SpringerLink
Marital Status and Mothers’ Time Use: Childcare, Housework, Leisure, and Sleep
Demography - Assumptions that single mothers are “time poor” compared with married mothers are ubiquitous. We tested theorized associations derived from the time poverty thesis and the...
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TIL: In 1876, Mary Lincoln thanked friends who helped free her from an asylum by giving them Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten note: “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 03:25PM by guy_rocco
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 03:25PM by guy_rocco
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Harper's Magazine
Notes to Self
Lincoln’s private thoughts on fate, failure, slavery, and belief
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TIL The actor who played Jar-Jar Binks in the Phantom Menace had his career ruined by accepting the role and attempted to commit suicide because it ruined his life.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 01:17AM by Fast-Bell-340
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 01:17AM by Fast-Bell-340
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TIL that 45 years ago, Saudi Arabia built a 1,200-kilometer oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, just in case the Strait of Hormuz ever got blocked
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 11:49PM by greenskinmarch
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Submitted March 10, 2026 at 11:49PM by greenskinmarch
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TIL that in 2025 a mini dachshund named Valerie was found alive after 529 days in the Australian wilderness.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 02:15AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 02:15AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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NPR
After 529 days alone in the Australian bush, Valerie the mini dachshund is home
Valerie ran off while she was on a camping trip with her owners back in 2023 on a remote island in Australia. They had lost hope until locals spotted her more than a year later, surviving in the wild.
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TIL that General Omar Bradley commanded the Twelfth United States Army Group after the Allied Invasion of Europe. The group was the largest body of American soldiers to ever serve under a single commander with 1.3 million military personnel.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 12:58AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 12:58AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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TIL the plane crash that killed John F Kennedy Jr, his wife, and her sister was caused by “spatial disorientation”. Weather conditions were poor that night & Kennedy was not qualified to fly at night under instrument conditions. He did not request a weather briefing nor did he file a flight plan.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 03:28AM by Stock_College_8108
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 03:28AM by Stock_College_8108
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TIL An African American Musician, Wary of Racism, Pretended to Be Indian, And Received Nationwide Fame. He Maintained This False Identity For The Rest Of His Life.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 04:50AM by Yijing1
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 04:50AM by Yijing1
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TIL about Jan Baalsrud. A Norwegian Commando who evaded German capture by swimming in arctic waters, was buried by an avalanche, hid in a cave, and amputated several of his own frostbitten toes with a knife, and was dragged on a stretcher to safety by villagers.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 05:05AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 05:05AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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TIL that economists have a worse track record of having a correct prediction than random chance
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 09:27AM by da_peda
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 09:27AM by da_peda
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Haas News | UC Berkeley Haas
Why economic forecasts are so often wrong - Haas News | UC Berkeley Haas
Forecasts about inflation, growth, and unemployment by senior economists at big banks drive critical decisions by businesses, investors, and the Federal Reserve. The stakes are high, and sometimes those forecasts turn out to be overly rosy—or too pessimistic.…
TIL that when bilingual people switch languages mid-sentence, their brain doesn't even notice the switch. NYU researchers found that the brain uses the same mechanism to combine words regardless of whether they come from one language or two, meaning code-switching is neurologically seamless.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 11:06AM by taube_d
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TIL after barely surviving the splashdown of the Liberty Bell 7, NASA astronaut Gus Grissom jokingly named the spacecraft for his next mission "Molly Brown" after the Broadway show "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". When NASA asked him to come up with a different name, he offered "Titanic".
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 12:30PM by YappaKanpeki
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TIL the modern flush toilet was popularized by English businessman and plumber named Thomas Crapper.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 02:49PM by sxott0rz
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 02:49PM by sxott0rz
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TIL Americans streamed 57 billion minutes of The Office in 2020, 45% more than the second-place show Grey's Anatomy
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 02:56PM by Mastbubbles
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 02:56PM by Mastbubbles
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Variety
‘The Office’ Was by Far the Most-Streamed TV Show in 2020, Nielsen Says
U.S. viewers streaming more than 57 billion minutes of "The Office" on Netflix in 2020, according to Nielsen estimates.
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TIL the botched restoration nicknamed "Monkey Christ" was deemed more culturally relevant than the original painting and preserved as-is. Tens of thousands of tourists visit the Spanish town of Borja every year to see it, and the restorer became a local celebrity until her passing in late 2025.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 05:25PM by sciencewarrior
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 05:25PM by sciencewarrior
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Bbc
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname "Monkey Christ".
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TIL that during the filming of Apocalypse Now (1979), lead actor Martin Sheen had a near fatal heart attack. This led to his brother, Joe Estevez, being a stand in for several scenes, as well as doing the voiceover narration for the film as he sounded nearly identical to his brother Martin
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 05:50PM by MrMojoFomo
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 05:50PM by MrMojoFomo
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TIL in 2013, "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis was able, as an independent song, to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart without a major record label. It was only the second independent song to reach #1 in history at the time.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 06:26PM by AmiroZ
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 06:26PM by AmiroZ
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TIL tea leaves have ~4% caffeine vs coffee beans at 0.9-2.6%. But coffee is brewed hotter and with more beans, so a cup of coffee still packs more caffeine than a cup of tea.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 06:33PM by thesuperpoodle_
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 06:33PM by thesuperpoodle_
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TIL that the person in charge of the Kamikaze defence of Okinawa, Admiral Matome Ugaki, flew the last Kamikaze flight himself.
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 07:52PM by IsHildaThere
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 07:52PM by IsHildaThere
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TIL Mississippi has more than 5 times as many fatal motor vehicle crashes (24.9 per 100,000 people) than Massachusetts(4.9).
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 08:11PM by BillysBibleBonkers
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Submitted March 11, 2026 at 08:11PM by BillysBibleBonkers
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IIHS-HLDI crash testing and highway safety
Fatality Facts 2023: State by state
A summary of fatality statistics about state by state compiled by IIHS from 2023 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data.