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15 July 2025 21:49

TIL that when football player Chase Winovich was traded to the Cleveland Browns in 2022, he held an online poll for fans to pick a new jersey number. Out of 50,000 total votes, 35,000 votes were for #69. Winovich subsequently adopted the number. [Source]

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15 July 2025 19:49

TIL The Port of Duluth is the world's farthest inland port accessible to oceangoing ships and is the largest and busiest port on the Great Lakes. [Source]

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15 July 2025 19:49

TIL 11th president James K Polk vetoed the bill that would provide $500k to improve ports. He feared that the bill would encourage legislators to compete for favors for their home district, and doom the virtue of the republic. [Source]

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15 July 2025 17:49

TIL that “Shanghaiing” was the practice in the 18th and 19th centuries of kidnapping men to become sailors on board ships, due to laws that imprisoned people for leaving a ship before the voyage was done [Source]

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15 July 2025 17:49

TIL About Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe risking his career and the lives of his family. [Source]

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15 July 2025 16:49

TIL that the longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada claimed to have communicated with Leonardo da Vinci, Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, his grandfather, and several of his dead dogs, as well as the spirit of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [Source]

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15 July 2025 15:49

TIL Tetris is used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms [Source]

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15 July 2025 13:49

TIL that a Filipino king died visiting China's Ming Emperor in the 15th century. His two sons stayed in China to tend his tomb, converted to Islam, and intermarried with locals. Today their descendants number around 3,700. [Source]

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15 July 2025 09:49

TIL that Casanova, the famous womanizer, wrote a five-volume story about an underground world inhabited by dwarves [Source]

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15 July 2025 06:49

TIL that president Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest while giving a speech in 1912,but instead of going to the hospital, he insisted on finishing the speech first. He talked for over 80 minutes with a bullet lodged in his ribs, saying, It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. Absolute mad! [Source]

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15 July 2025 03:49

TIL Pope Leo X buried his pet elephant beneath the Vatican courtyard [Source]

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15 July 2025 00:49

TIL that in February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included an indigestible pigment that turned some children's feces pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Franken Berry stool". [Source]

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14 July 2025 22:49

Today I learned of Coturnism, or quail poisoning, where eating quail can cause spontaneous muscle breakdown, or Rhabdomyolysis. This happens if the quail you eat ate poisonous plants. [Source]

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14 July 2025 20:49

TIL that in 1978, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London with a ricin pellet fired from a modified umbrella—likely by Bulgarian secret police with KGB help. [Source]

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14 July 2025 19:49

TIL that the Tex-Mex dish nachos was created by a hotel worker named Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya to feed hungry guests one night after the hotel chef had left. The dish was so popular it was added to the menu as “Nacho’s Special”. [Source]

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15 July 2025 20:49

TIL Magdalene laundries were catholic institutions made to rehabilitate promiscuous women through forced labour. They housed an estimated 30,000 women who were deemed to have committed moral crimes. [Source]

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15 July 2025 19:49

TIL that Long Island is not legally recognized as an island, but a peninsula [Source]

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15 July 2025 18:49

TIL of Marcus Egnatius Rufus, who funded the first public (free of charge) firefighting force in ancient Rome, and was executed for conspiracy, likely because his popularity threatened the emperor Augustus [Source]

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15 July 2025 17:49

TIL 4th Graders (& Their Families) in the U.S. Can Visit National Parks for Free [Source]

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15 July 2025 16:49

TIL as of July 2024, only 4 states (NY, Massachusetts, Maryland, & New Jersey) have more landline phone users than those without landline phones [Source]

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15 July 2025 16:27

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15 July 2025 14:49

TIL Pornography is largely illegal in South Korea, with the exception of social media, which is a common source of legal pornography there. [Source]

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15 July 2025 11:49

TIL that men stop buying underwear during tough economic times, making it a nifty leading indicator for recession. [Source]

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15 July 2025 09:49

TIL that unless specifically limited by a contract, record companies may release as many greatest hits albums by their recording artist as they wish without requiring the artist's agreement or permission. [Source]

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15 July 2025 04:49

TIL there is a Filipino dish called pinapaitan, a kind of goat stew. It is seasoned with the goat’s bile (which makes it bitter) and offal, such as tripe, kidneys, liver, heart, intestines, pancreas, spleen, hide, or blood. One researcher suggested that men consume the dish as a display of machismo. [Source]

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15 July 2025 01:49

TIL that the human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause penile, anal and mouth/throat cancer in men in addition to cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancer in women [Source]

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14 July 2025 23:49

TIL most living areas in ancient Roman Cities lacked any kitchen area, with most citizens either getting food from from a communal kitchen or buying prepared foods from street vendors [Source]

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14 July 2025 22:49

TIL in 2001, the managing director of Aston Manor, Britain’s 3rd-biggest cidery, plotted to contaminate the market leader, Bulmer’s, with yeast that would cause vomiting. The employee paid to introduce the yeast reported him to the police, and he was jailed for 18 months [Source]

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14 July 2025 20:49

TIL about Dudeism. A modern form of Taoism, stripped of its metaphysical and medical doctrines, that emerged from the cult classic The Big Lebowski. It advocates for “going with the flow”, “being cool headed”, & “taking it easy” in the face of life’s difficulties. [Source]

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14 July 2025 18:49

TIL That Vanilla beans are the product of the world's only fruit-producing orchid, the Vanilla planifolia [Source]