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TIL Pigeons are able to take off vertically and accelerate to 100 kph in two seconds

fyfluiddynamics.com

Submitted by karelkarelkarels t3_126h7wz on March 30, 2023 at 9:02 AM

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TIL Marilyn Monroe's likeness does not have any post-mortem protection as she was domiciled in New York at the time of her death and there are no federal publicity rights.

hollywoodreporter.com

Submitted by AudibleNod t3_11xlp1f on March 21, 2023 at 4:17 PM

23 comments

TIL about Japanese baseball player Kazuhito Tadano, who went undrafted in his home country after it was discovered he had acted in a gay porn video titled "A Midsummer Night's Wet Dream"

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by Longjumping_Owl5740 t3_yh0jcy on October 30, 2022 at 12:57 AM

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TIL Vichy Pastilles were a digestive aid turned confectionery invented in 1825. The Vichy Regime of WW2 used the sweets as propaganda and did not ration them, unlike other foodstuffs. The name of the sweets is known to make some French citizens uneasy.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by jamescookenotthatone t3_y9pgii on October 21, 2022 at 9:52 AM

6 comments

TIL that in 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery in the UK and attacked Velázquez's painting “Rokeby Venus” with a meat cleaver.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by DrFolAmour007 t3_y4luyc on October 15, 2022 at 11:45 AM

11 comments

TIL The Super Bowl can generate anywhere from $230 million to $475 million in economic impact for host cities.

sbnation.com

Submitted by BrainInYourButt t3_10qygyc on February 1, 2023 at 4:10 PM

20 comments

TIL John Williams has been nominated for 52(FIFTYTWO) Oscars.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by Robinsonirish t3_z0apop on November 20, 2022 at 6:02 PM

38 comments

Til that the last time a Rolling Stones single reached No1 in the UK charts was Honky Tonk Women in 1969, despite them releasing 15 albums in the 53 years since then.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by WiredAndTeary t3_yvv1ts on November 15, 2022 at 11:57 AM

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TIL about a Baboon called Coporal Jackie - he was a mascot of the South Afrifcan Army during WW1 and went to war with his owner. He was shot in the shoulder, had his right leg blown off and eventually died in a home fire.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by Jinkzuk t3_zsibm0 on December 22, 2022 at 9:55 AM

10 comments

TIL MSG occurs naturally in tomatoes and other vegetables.

fda.gov

Submitted by pm-me-all-tits t3_122dcbc on March 26, 2023 at 6:28 AM

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TIL that, during the Cold War, every infantry and armor battalion in the U.S Army had one officer trained to deploy the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), commonly known as the backpack nuke

armytimes.com

Submitted by nomad_556 t3_126twii on March 30, 2023 at 5:39 PM

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TIL that Drew Carey refuses to ever submit himself for an Emmy Award nomination

deseret.com

Submitted by Sensitive_Deal_6363 t3_126dggk on March 30, 2023 at 5:58 AM

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TIL During the 1966 World Cup final between England and West Germany, England were ahead in extra time, and striker Geoff Hurst tried to hit the ball as far into the stands as possible to waste time. Instead, he mishit the ball and sent it into the top corner of the German goal. England won 4-2.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by haddock420 t3_zs6e02 on December 22, 2022 at 12:17 AM

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TIL flight United 175 was 200 feet away from colliding with another airplane before hitting the world trade center

southcoasttoday.com

Submitted by today_is_1899-10-19 t3_10o16xz on January 29, 2023 at 6:42 AM

12 comments

TIL about the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 in NYC due to taunting people who had failed to stop wearing straw hats after autumn began

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by LocalChamp t3_122z2hh on March 26, 2023 at 8:48 PM

15 comments

TIL about a rare kind of migraine that mimics a stroke, called a hemiplegic migraine.

americanmigrainefoundation.org

Submitted by simulatislacrimis t3_10jlm53 on January 23, 2023 at 7:50 PM

27 comments

TIL that in Ancient Greece, when Cimon was given a sentence of 'starvation till death', his daughter, Pero, kept him alive by breastfeeding her own father

getty.edu

Submitted by Fan387 t3_119rpav on February 23, 2023 at 7:29 AM

8 comments

TIL the SL-1 was the only reactor accident in U.S. history which resulted in immediate fatalities, killing 3 military operators in 1961, pinning one of them to the ceiling.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by rigorousthinker t3_123raz1 on March 27, 2023 at 3:58 PM

22 comments

TIL: 5 pin bowling was invented in Canada - and is mostly only played in Canada

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by sammer003 t3_122yd14 on March 26, 2023 at 8:24 PM

59 comments

TIL baseball legend Ty Cobb's mother killed his father, claiming she thought he was an intruder. Ty said his baseball career was dedicated to his father, who never got to see him play

troublewiththecurve.net

Submitted by Elron-Cupboard t3_zkpy4w on December 13, 2022 at 7:42 AM

8 comments

TIL the Iowa Writer’s Workshop was used to fight communism abroad and domestically from the 1940s through the 1970s, and received substantial funding from the CIA to do so.

vice.com

Submitted by big_papa_geek t3_10gh7r4 on January 19, 2023 at 11:48 PM

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Today I learned the first overseas Consulate of the United States was in Liverpool, established in 1790!

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by Seahawk124 t3_10pddmk on January 30, 2023 at 8:41 PM

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TIL, that by 1860, there were nearly 4 million people enslaved in the United States.

smithsonianmag.com

Submitted by MookieV t3_z4y6qt on November 26, 2022 at 4:39 AM

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TIL that the ancient Greeks placed a coin in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. It is a myth that they placed a pair of them on the eyes.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by joeljpa t3_11e2w4w on February 28, 2023 at 10:35 AM

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TIL that Air Tahiti Nui Flight 64 holds the record as the world's longest domestic flight. The flight was between Papeete in French Polynesia and Paris (15,715 km/9,765 mi) taking 16h20. The current longest domestic flight is AF647 between Saint-Denis, Réunion and Paris (9,349 km/5,809 mi/11h40)

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by SteO153 t3_11akxj1 on February 24, 2023 at 6:51 AM

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