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TIL that Thomas Paine, one of America's Founding Fathers, said all religions were human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind ... only 6 people attended his funeral. (en.wikipedia.org)

RealThagSimmons が 投稿

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TIL that when the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, Benjamin Franklin suggested that the word "sacred" be replaced with "self-evident" because he believed that the nation should be founded on reason, not faith. (jrbenjamin.com)

forestroad179 が 投稿

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TIL that "witch windows", or diagonal windows, exist almost exclusively in Vermont. The name comes from the superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through slanted windows. (en.wikipedia.org)

FoxyFoxMulder が 投稿

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TIL that dolphins, like humans cannot drink seawater and the only source of liquid they consume is from the food they eat. (dolphinear.com)

C-doc が 投稿

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TIL an Italian tractor manufacturer was so upset with the bad clutches in Ferrari's cars that he complained to Enzo Ferrari himself, who arrogantly dismissed the concerns. The tractor maker, Ferruccio Lamborghini, decided to make his own cars to compete. (en.wikipedia.org)

circuitloss が 投稿

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TIL that after watching Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin sent Jack Gleeson (Joffery's actor) a personal letter saying "Congratulations on your marvellous performance, everyone hates you." (geeksofdoom.com)

DragonlordSupreme が 投稿

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TIL that Alexis Neier, the Bling Ring member who went to jail for robbing Lindsay Lohan, was incarcerated in a cell next to Lindsay Lohan's (people.com)

3mbien が 投稿

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TIL that during the 1988 purges in Iran, women were lashed for missing their daily prayers. When one woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was 'she who had made the decision not to pray'. (en.wikipedia.org)

Kamil712 が 投稿

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TIL "hedgehog's dilemma" describes hedgehogs' inability to cuddle for warmth due to their spikes, and is a metaphor for the challenges of human intimacy. (psychologytoday.com)

You_Sir_Are_A_Rascal が 投稿

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TIL As an experiment, a copy of Casablanca's screenplay was submitted to 217 agencies under the title "Everybody Comes to Rick's". Out of the 85 that read it, only 8 recognized it specifically as Casablanca, and only 3 declared it as commercially viable. (en.wikipedia.org)

velmaspaghetti が 投稿

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TIL While President, Jimmy Carter sent his daughter to a public, integrated school in Washington D.C. (articles.baltimoresun.com)

UWCG が 投稿

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TIL a man claiming to be the younger brother of Jesus gathered a cult of followers. They started a civil war that lasted for 14 years and claimed at least 20 million lives. (britannica.com)

PokeEyeJai が 投稿

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TIL of the Asian brown cloud, a layer of air pollution that appears over South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January and March when there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air. Nearly two million people die each year, in India alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud. (en.wikipedia.org)

piponwa6 が 投稿

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TIL "Gringo" did not originate in Mexico to describe Americans, but in Spain in the 1700's to describe foreigners whose speech was incomprehensible. Gringo likely came from the word "griego" meaning Greek, which in Spanish was used in the same way as English, "it's Greek to me" (hablar in griego). (snopes.com)

truthinresearch が 投稿

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TIL If a weather forecaster gives a 50% chance of precipitation that could mean there is a 100% chance of rain in 50% of the area. The 'probability of precipitation' number frequently used in weather forecasts is mostly unknown by the public and is misinterpreted. (en.wikipedia.org)

QuietBitterBeings が 投稿

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TIL an Italian paramedic and ambulance driver is on trial for stealing James Gandolfini's Rolex as he lay dying from a heart attack. (thedailybeast.com)

sivribiber が 投稿

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TIL Zildjian, the cymbal maker, is one of the oldest companies in the world. Founded in 1618, it's just under 400 yo. Zildjian means "Bell Maker," a name given to the Alchemist hired by the Ottoman Sultan to create noise-makers for war. The manufacturing process remains a family secret til this day. (ledgernote.com)

jonseagull が 投稿

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TIL of John "Captain Crunch" Draper, a phone phreak who used a toy whistle from a Cap'n Crunch cereal box to hack into phone lines (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Norway owns an uninhabited frozen island located halfway between Africa and Antarctica. (atlasobscura.com)

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TIL there are more bicycles in Copenhagen, Denmark, than people, five times as many bicycles as cars, and 400km of cycle lanes - not shared with cars or pedestrians - for a city of about 600,000 people. (bbc.com)

MacGamer1000 が 投稿

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TIL that the original London bridge is now located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that before the Eraser was invented people used soft bread crumbs to erase pencil marks (historyofpencils.com)

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TIL the quote "A prison becomes a home if you have the key" was coined by George Sterling as an explanation for the vial of cyanide he always carried with him, and ultimately used to kill himself. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that the Opium Wars were fought to allow the British to import Opium TO China. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL there is no such thing as that dye that detects pee in the pool that you see in movies and TV. Its not real. (blitzlift.com)

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