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to r/todayilearned by GenBlase
7 months ago
TIL there was an Vertical Takeoff Airliner called the Rotodyne.
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to r/todayilearned by GenBlase
7 months ago
TIL a nuclear submarine sat on the bottom of a river to ride out Hurricane Hugo.
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to r/todayilearned by CastIronHotDog
1 year ago
TIL The largest living organism is a fungus that covers 3.7 square miles in Oregon's Blue Mountains. The fungus, armillaria ostoyae, could be as old as 8650 years.
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in Cove, OR
to r/todayilearned by ITN1nja
1 year ago
TIL that runners are really just very clever junkies.
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to r/todayilearned by dawsonj20
1 year ago
TIL there is a World Taxidermy Championship.
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to r/todayilearned by App0ly0n
3 months ago
Til that there's a strange guy in Liverpool that's been squeezing random strangers muscles for over quarter of a century. His actions have led to numerous prison sentences, local infamy, memes and even the death of a young boy.
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to r/todayilearned by Aca916
1 year ago
TIL That intervention against Serbia in 1999 had more air strikes than air strikes in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Syria combined.
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in Syria
to r/todayilearned by j4ckxandxj1ll
7 months ago
TIL Rhino horn is worth more than Gold, Cocaine, and diamonds.
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to r/todayilearned by Anthony817
8 months ago
TIL Spain planned to invade Australia in 1790s
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in Spain
to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL people infected with bacteria "C. difficile" need healthy poop transplants in their gut in order to survive. Poop samples are sold at $40 each.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL on Valentine's Day, men spend approximately $154 on fiancees and $136 on wives.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that it takes about 1000 licks to get to the center of a lollipop.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that manhole covers have exploded in NY, throwing themselves 50 feet in the air violently accompanied by thick smoke. The culprit is snow.
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in New York
to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL a man in China fell into a coma after spending a week looking for business ideas on the Internet without sleeping. Five months later, he was woken up by the smell of money.
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in Oma, China
to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL every year, residents of Naco, Arizona, join residents of Naco, Mexico, for a volleyball match at the fence that separates the U.S. and Mexico.
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in Naco, AZ
to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL the year 2015 will be one second longer than usual because of the slowing of the Earth's rotation.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that Cepheus, a poker-playing computer, has proven that raising instead of calling the first move is more advantageous, as well as the fact that the dealer in heads-up, limit hold'em poker has a distinct advantage.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that a computer named Cepheus was given only the rules of poker and then evolved over two months, playing against itself, to having a virtually-perfect strategy of poker.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL the US knew that N.Korea hacked Sony because the US hacked N.Korea.
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to r/todayilearned by Fratson
7 months ago
TIL that a smoker's lungs receive more radiation than astronauts and U.S. radiation workers.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that India has the largest slave population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves.
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in Mod, India
to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that ONLY 6% of the world's population has an Internet addiction.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that the number of users on Instagram is now larger than Twitter's
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
2 months ago
TIL that teens hate Facebook and are abandoning it to join Twitter
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to r/todayilearned by simplyread
3 months ago
TIL that an artist spent over a decade carving out caverns by hand
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