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18 March 2026 19:49

TIL that while there are rogue waves there are also rogue holes in the ocean [Source]

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18 March 2026 18:49

TIL that when you remember something you're not accessing the original memory. your brain reconstructs it from scratch every time and slightly rewrites it in the process which is why memories change over time [Source]

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18 March 2026 17:50

TIL that the Artotyrites were an early Christian sect that rather than offering bread and wine for Communion, offered bread and cheese. [Source]

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18 March 2026 16:49

TIL that we actually forget 70% of what we read in a day. [Source]

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18 March 2026 12:49

TIL Sir Isaac Newton was not being humble when he wrote he “stood on the shoulder of giants”, he was suggesting he did not need help from short people, specifically his rival Robert Hooke [Source]

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18 March 2026 09:49

TIL that there are good mosquitoes. The Elephant Mosquito does not suck blood, but rather drink nectar and fruit juices, thus helping to pollinate flowers. They cleverly lay their eggs near other mosquito eggs, such that their babies can feast on mosquitoes. [Source]

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18 March 2026 07:49

TIL that the "holograms" used to bring Tupac and Michael Jackson back to life on stage were actually a 160-year-old Victorian theater trick called "Pepper’s Ghost." The same principle is used in modern teleprompters-reflecting an image off a hidden screen onto a pane of glass [Source]

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18 March 2026 04:49

TIL the word "fragrance" on your products can legally hide more than 3,000 undisclosed chemicals [Source]

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18 March 2026 03:49

TIL in the video game F1 2020, there's a circuit located in Hanoi, Vietnam, based on the real Hanoi Circuit. However, the real circuit has never been used for a race since completion in 2020 due to the Vietnamese Grand Prix got cancelled from pandemic, and there's still no new race planned. [Source]

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18 March 2026 00:49

TIL that Gandhi (1982) holds the Guinness World Record for the most extras in a single scene, featuring over 300K people. Out of these, 200K were volunteers and 94K were paid actors. [Source]

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17 March 2026 22:49

TIL Michael B. Jordan's father is named Michael A. Jordan [Source]

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17 March 2026 20:49

TIL that the world’s youngest doctor was Dr. Balamurali Ambati, who graduated from med school at age 17. [Source]

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17 March 2026 19:49

TIL Emperor Franz Joseph suffered several personal tragedies. His brother was executed in Mexico in 1867, his son committed suicide in 1889, his wife was assassinated by an anarchist in 1898 and eventually his nephew and heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914. [Source]

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17 March 2026 17:49

TIL that NASA discussed putting Sesame Street’s Big Bird on the Space Shuttle Challenger. There wasn’t enough room so the puppet was replaced by teacher Christa McAuliffe. The shuttle was lost with all lives in an accident in January 1986. [Source]

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17 March 2026 15:49

TIL humans are considered by biologists to be self-domesticated [Source]

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18 March 2026 19:49

TIL In the US the highest nominal price ever for gas per gallon was $4.22 on average in April 2022. The second highest was $4.06 per gallon on average in July 2008. [Source]

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18 March 2026 18:49

TIL there are still 3 confirmed living Nazi War Criminals. Helma Kissner, Bruno Dey, and Yaroslav Hunka [Source]

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18 March 2026 16:49

TIL that in 1841 Joseph Whitworth created the world’s first national screw thread standard, defining thread angle and pitch—and descendants of his system are still used today, including in cameras and computers [Source]

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18 March 2026 14:49

TIL that the French foreign legion maintains its own vineyard, with wine created by the retired legionnaires, and sold to support the villa. [Source]

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18 March 2026 11:49

TIL bilinguals given the trolley problem in their native language chose to sacrifice one to save five less than 20% of the time. In their second language, about 50% chose to, because a foreign language lowers emotional resonance and triggers more utilitarian reasoning. [Source]

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18 March 2026 08:49

TIL that the body of Patrice Lumumba, the DR Congo's first Prime Minister, was dissolved in acid after his execution, with only a single good tooth surviving among his remains. [Source]

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18 March 2026 05:49

TIL about Clark Stanley, the original snake oil salesman. His claims began in 1879 and continued until his ‘snake oil’ was proven to be a sham in 1916. [Source]

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18 March 2026 04:49

TIL that your gut bacteria can influence your food cravings and some researchers believe the bacteria literally send chemical signals to your brain requesting the nutrients they need to survive [Source]

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18 March 2026 02:49

TIL that actors Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles drugged Christopher Jones during the production of Ryan's Daughter (1970) so that he could film a love scene with Miles that he had refused to do. [Source]

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17 March 2026 22:49

TIL that Eva Braun, the longtime partner and future wife of Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, met when she was 17 and Hitler was 40 years old. [Source]

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17 March 2026 21:49

TIL the Kelvin scale is a loop. Negative values represent temperatures even hotter than infinity, and the hottest (theoretical) temperature is -0 Kelvin. [Source]

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17 March 2026 20:49

TIL the last Blockbuster video store in Bend, Oregon hosted a school field trip in 2024 for first graders who were learning about what life was like when their grandparents and parents were growing up. [Source]

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17 March 2026 17:49

TIL The prime minister of Spain under the latter years of Franco's rule was assassinated by 80kg of explosives packed into a tunnel dug under a roadway. The explosion sent the prime minister's Dodge Dart 20 metres (66 ft) into the air and landed on the opposite side of a 5 story church. [Source]

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17 March 2026 16:50

TIL that methamphetamine was legal, widely prescribed, and even given to soldiers during WWII by multiple countries including Germany, the US, and Britain as a performance-enhancing drug. [Source]

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17 March 2026 14:49

Today I learned of the 'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal... Necrophilic hooligan penguins [Source]