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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL: Goosebumps are actually caused by a muscle called the arrector pili muscle. image
TIL: Goosebumps are actually caused by a muscle called the arrector pili muscle.
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL: U.S. Medal of Honor recipients (in all branches of service) their children are automatically approved for enrollment into U.S. military academy so long as they meet basic requirements. Note: Acceptance rating for most applicants in general is less than 10%. image
TIL: U.S. Medal of Honor recipients (in all branches of service) their children are automatically approved for enrollment into U.S. military academy so long as they meet basic requirements. Note: Acceptance rating for most applicants in general is less than 10%.
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL Star Wars fictional world, Tatooine, is actually named after a real place in Tunsia called 'Tataouine'. George Lucas filmed on location there for scenes based on the desert home world where Luke Skywalker was raised. Many of its structures can be seen today image
TIL Star Wars fictional world, Tatooine, is actually named after a real place in Tunsia called 'Tataouine'. George Lucas filmed on location there for scenes based on the desert home world where Luke Skywalker was raised. Many of its structures can be seen today
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL of Tokyo's (World's Largest) underground flood water diversion system that was completed from 1992-2006. "built to mitigate overflowing of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and typhoon seasons" image
TIL of Tokyo's (World's Largest) underground flood water diversion system that was completed from 1992-2006. "built to mitigate overflowing of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and typhoon seasons"
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL an almost exact replica of both inside and out of the original Titanic (dubbed the Titanic II) is in the works and will be anchored and is expected to be put on display sometime in the near future for visitors to see. image
TIL an almost exact replica of both inside and out of the original Titanic (dubbed the Titanic II) is in the works and will be anchored and is expected to be put on display sometime in the near future for visitors to see.
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL NASA is running low on the material (plutonium-238; a byproduct of nuclear weps) that powers many of its deep-space missions. NASA today has about 77 pounds. If NASA hits a plutonium bottleneck, the future of deep-space exploration could hang in the balance for untold years image
TIL NASA is running low on the material (plutonium-238; a byproduct of nuclear weps) that powers many of its deep-space missions. NASA today has about 77 pounds. If NASA hits a plutonium bottleneck, the future of deep-space exploration could hang in the balance for untold years
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL an 18-year-old girl became malnourished and dehydrated almost dying, because she ate her own hair over a lengthy period of time forming a 9 lb. hairball in her stomach, which was later removed image
TIL an 18-year-old girl became malnourished and dehydrated almost dying, because she ate her own hair over a lengthy period of time forming a 9 lb. hairball in her stomach, which was later removed
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10 months ago
TIL in 2017 a $10 Million dollar prize competition winner will be announced for the development of a real-life Tricorder (Star Trek) that will "diagnose 13 health conditions (12 diseases and the absence of conditions) and capture five real-time health vital signs of a patient independently, etc.
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL While the crew of Apollo 13 didn't get to make their scheduled Moon landing, they did set a record that still stands today: they're the humans who traveled the furthest distance from the Earth (nearly 250,000 miles) image
TIL While the crew of Apollo 13 didn't get to make their scheduled Moon landing, they did set a record that still stands today: they're the humans who traveled the furthest distance from the Earth (nearly 250,000 miles)
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10 months ago
TIL Jan Sloot was said to be able to reduce a full length movie down to just 8Kb. Sloot reportedly showed this to Philips execs by simultaneously playing 16 movies on a 64Kb chip. He was scheduled to release the source just a few days before he fell victim to a heart-attack. The code died with him
(R.1) Tenuous evidence
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL in Russia people who have 'sexual disorders' (that identity as anything out of the norm) are subject to be banned from getting a driver's license image
TIL in Russia people who have 'sexual disorders' (that identity as anything out of the norm) are subject to be banned from getting a driver's license
in Russia
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL the average female killer whale lives 50-60 years, but 'Granny', a 104-year-old Killer whale, was recently spotted off Canada's west coast in 2014 w/ her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren! image
TIL the average female killer whale lives 50-60 years, but 'Granny', a 104-year-old Killer whale, was recently spotted off Canada's west coast in 2014 w/ her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren!
in Canada
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10 months ago
TIL while filming Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones's area fight scene. Samuel L. Jackson wanted to be able to stand out fighting as Mace Windu. So, he asked George Lucas to give him a purple lightsaber. Lucas granted Samuel's request and on the hilt were the words "Bad Motherfucker" on it
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10 months ago
TIL during filming of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan), would mimic light-saber sounds during fighting scenes, which had to be corrected post-production
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL In the early 1900s, jugglers and acrobats, not singers and rappers, kept their eye on Billboard magazine each week. In those days, the magazine served as the insider's bible for the traveling fair and carnival crowd. It wasn't 'til the 1960s it devoted itself entirely to the music industry image
TIL In the early 1900s, jugglers and acrobats, not singers and rappers, kept their eye on Billboard magazine each week. In those days, the magazine served as the insider's bible for the traveling fair and carnival crowd. It wasn't 'til the 1960s it devoted itself entirely to the music industry
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10 months ago
TIL you can stream data (in this case video) from an LED lamp to a solar cell with a receiver at the end (laptop). This can also be used for other applications.
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10 months ago
TIL that today would have been Bruce Lee's 75th b-day, but also that he was an avid fan of Muhammad Ali's footwork and fighting technique that he'd watch his boxing matches on 8mm film and play them backwards with a film editor to study him. Bruce Lee had hopes of one day fighting Ali.
(R.3) News
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL Cheerleading was originally an all-male sport since the mid-1800s. Women initially only began to fill in at the peak of WWI as many men were being deployed. image
TIL Cheerleading was originally an all-male sport since the mid-1800s. Women initially only began to fill in at the peak of WWI as many men were being deployed.
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL this year alone 2,350 Men will have been diagnosed with a form of breast cancer with approximately 450 of those men will die from it image
TIL this year alone 2,350 Men will have been diagnosed with a form of breast cancer with approximately 450 of those men will die from it
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL'd that just little over 12% of 9-11 calls are actual emergencies. Also, in some states it's against the law to dial 9-1-1 over petty issues as was a woman who was arrested just because she didn't like her Chinese food, she proceeded to call 9-1-1, then was arrested and charged (Video included) image
TIL'd that just little over 12% of 9-11 calls are actual emergencies. Also, in some states it's against the law to dial 9-1-1 over petty issues as was a woman who was arrested just because she didn't like her Chinese food, she proceeded to call 9-1-1, then was arrested and charged (Video included)
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10 months ago
TIL Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that he'd develop calluses on his lips. To aid with this, he'd then cut them off with a razor
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10 months ago
TIL a big reason why Marijuana is illegal today is because in the 1930s cotton growers began to lobby against 'Hemp' farmers seeing it as competition. This led to cannabis receiving bad publicity and one thing led to another eventually leading it to be banned in almost all 48 states by the mid-30s.
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL Jackie Chan's movie, 'Dragon Lord' (1982), set a World Record for most takes for a single scene totaling 2,900 total before Jackie Chan got it right to perfection in his eyes image
TIL Jackie Chan's movie, 'Dragon Lord' (1982), set a World Record for most takes for a single scene totaling 2,900 total before Jackie Chan got it right to perfection in his eyes
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL Bruce Lee took up Cha Cha dancing and became Hong Kong's Cha Cha champion in the 50s image
TIL Bruce Lee took up Cha Cha dancing and became Hong Kong's Cha Cha champion in the 50s
in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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10 months ago
Preview thumbnail for TIL in 18th century London, you could earn admission into the zoo by offering a cat or dog to be fed to the Lions image
TIL in 18th century London, you could earn admission into the zoo by offering a cat or dog to be fed to the Lions