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10 April 2026 04:49

TIL that there are cases of mountaineers getting sunburn on the roof of their mouths due to the reflection of the snow [Source]

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10 April 2026 04:49

TIL that one of the founders of Sleep Country got addicted to crack after discovering his stripper girlfriend was an addict. When he tried to get her to quit, she suggested he try it to see how hard it was. [Source]

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10 April 2026 01:49

TIL putting bread in the fridge makes it go stale quicker. [Source]

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10 April 2026 00:49

TIL that the Chernobyl accident was caused by an accident simulation test; it also set off radiation alarms in a power plant in Sweden, over 1,000 km away. [Source]

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09 April 2026 23:49

TIL Until 2015 there was a part of India inside part of Bangladesh inside part of India inside Bangladesh making it the only third order enclave in the world. [Source]

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09 April 2026 22:49

TIL that in 1977, 2 American boys cheated an ice cream chain offering free sundaes on birthdays by making up a boy. In 1984, they received a reminder for the fake boy to register for the draft, which exposed that the government used the chain's mailing list without permission. [Source]

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09 April 2026 20:49

TIL that the most simultaneous platform releases for a single video game in publisher THQ's history was the tie-in game for the Pixar film, Ratatouille. It released on 11 different platforms and required collaboration between four studios to develop. [Source]

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09 April 2026 19:49

TIL of Scolopendra cataracta, the first known amphibious centipede, discovered in 2000. They measure 20 cm/8 in in length and can swim by moving their body in a wave-like motion, akin to eels. [Source]

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09 April 2026 18:49

TIL of Operation Burnt Frost the Shoot Down of the Satellite USA 193 which was a mission of safeguarding human life against the uncontrolled re-entry of a 5,000-pound satellite containing over 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine propellant. [Source]

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09 April 2026 17:49

TIL that Bologna (Italy) "was probably the first city in the world to abolish slavery" [Source]

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09 April 2026 11:49

TIL George Lucas originally planned for Darth Maul to return as the primary antagonist in his Star Wars Episodes VII-IX. After the fall of the Empire, Maul was to become the "godfather of crime" in the galaxy, leading the united criminal syndicates while Luke Skywalker rebuilt the Jedi Order [Source]

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09 April 2026 09:49

TIL One third of American Adults have some sort of criminal record. [Source]

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09 April 2026 07:49

TIL Yoko Ono's 7-year old daughter Kyoko was kidnapped by her father Tony Cox (Ono's ex-husband) in 1971. Yoko wouldn't see her daughter again until 1994 when Kyoko was 31 years old. [Source]

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09 April 2026 03:49

TIL $150,000 worth of Star Trek TNG outfits were stolen off the Paramount lot in 1990. The thief was found attempting to trade the outfits for a replica K.I.T.T car. [Source]

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09 April 2026 03:49

TIL that in the 2004 tsunami, an oral tradition called "smong" on Simeulue Island told residents to run to the hills if the sea receded after an earthquake. 7 of 78,000 people died. On the mainland 60km away, where the tradition had been lost, over 170,000 were killed. [Source]

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10 April 2026 04:49

TIL that ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad is actually Norwegian by birth. A "German child" of WWII, she was taken to Sweden as an infant for her own protection. [Source]

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10 April 2026 02:49

TIL - For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. Then suddenly, one set charged the other, touching off yearslong bloodshed that researchers are comparing to a human civil war. [Source]

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10 April 2026 00:49

TIL that babies backwash when they're breastfeeding [Source]

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09 April 2026 23:49

TIL King County, WA was renamed to King County, WA, changing it from being named after Vice President William Rufus King to being named after Martin Luther King [Source]

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09 April 2026 22:49

TIL there are over 2,300 USB flash drives cemented into walls worldwide as part of an art project called "Dead Drops" for anonymous offline file sharing [Source]

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09 April 2026 20:49

TIL about Hogzilla, a large male hybrid of wild hog and domestic pig that was shot and killed in the United States in 2004. It weighed 800 pounds (360 kg) and was between 6.9 feet (2.1 m) and 8.6 feet (2.6 m) long. It was originally widely considered a hoax or urban legend [Source]

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09 April 2026 19:49

TIL that from 1977 to 2011, the flag of Libya was just a solid green rectangle with nothing else to it [Source]

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09 April 2026 19:49

TIL of the The F-15 Streak Eagle a purposely prepared F15 A aircraft that broke eight time-to-altitude records in 17 days (five of them in a single day) and was a major PR Stunt by the US Airforce. [Source]

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09 April 2026 17:49

TIL in the early 2000s Mike Tyson had a $50k hit put on his head by a notorious gang leader [Source]

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09 April 2026 15:49

TIL after a 6-feet sevengill shark latched onto a man's ankle and severed one of his arteries, he called out for help to some nearby fishermen, but they weren't able hear him. However, his dog in his truck heard him and sprinted to his rescue by biting the shark's tail & pulling it off of his owner. [Source]

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09 April 2026 10:49

TIL it’s been illegal in Alabama to impersonate a priest since 1965, when out of state priests and nuns joined civil rights marches that shamed Alabama segregation [Source]

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09 April 2026 07:49

TIL men in the US are required to register for the military draft selection service within 30 days of turning 18 unless they are continuously home bound between the ages of 18-26. [Source]

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09 April 2026 06:49

TIL that Japan is roughly the size of California (Japan is slightly smaller), but Japan holds thrice the population of California. Japan hold about 122 million people, while California holds 39 million people. [Source]

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09 April 2026 03:49

TIL that when Ringo Starr became ill prior to the Beatles' 1964 tour, session drummer Jimmie Nicol was quickly hired as a replacement. From getting the call to performing in front of 4500 fans it was 27 hours. He played 8 shows total and was gifted $500 ($14,638 in 2026) and an engraved gold watch. [Source]

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09 April 2026 02:49

TIL about BIRGing. Basking in reflected glory (BIRGing) is a self-serving cognition whereby an individual associates themselves with known successful others such that the winner's success becomes the individual's own accomplishment. [Source]