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TIL in only two seasons in Oakland, the American Basketball Association Oakland Oaks won 28% of their games the first year and 77% in their second, including the 1969 ABA Championship. The main difference was Rick Barry, who joined for one year after a salary dispute with the NBA’s Warriors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Oaks_(ABA)
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TIL beaver dams saved a wetland in the Czech Republic. The government was planning to do the same thing, but the bureaucracy took too long. The dams saved $1.2 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jrd3id/til_beaver_dams_saved_a_wetland_in_the_czech/


TIL in 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building between the 78th & 80th floors, which killed 14 people and injured 26 others. Although on a normal workday, as many as 15,000 people worked in the skyscraper, but the crash happened to occur on a Saturday with only 1,500 present.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-b-25-empire-state-building-cras…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jrcju9/til_in_1945_a_b25_bomber_crashed_into_the_empire/


TIL to help finance the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, producers secured funding from Led Zeppelin, Elton John, and Pink Floyd. The British comedy was first released 50 years ago this week, in April 1975.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jrceyl/til_to_help_finance_the_film_monty_python_and_the/


TIL about the Smooth-Hawley tariff act of 1930 which increased US tariffs (by an average of 20%) on over 20,000 imported goods, while it seemed succesful at first by 1933 US exports had declined by 61% and its GNP by almost 50%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jrbbnp/til_about_the_smoothhawley_tariff_act_of_1930/


TIL that in 18th century England, people would pay to attend Bedlam, a private lunatic asylum, to watch the mentally ill as entertainment

https://retrospectjournal.com/2024/03/24/bedlam-the-mental-asylum-that-became-londons-top-tourist-attraction/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jradzd/til_that_in_18th_century_england_people_would_pay/


TIL in 1961, astronomer Frank Drake created the Drake Equation, a formula to estimate the number of communicative alien civilizations in our galaxy, sparking the modern search for extraterrestrial life.

https://www.seti.org/drake-equation-index
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TIL about Giuseppe Garibaldi II, the Australian-born grandson of the Italian unifier who also fought in the Mexican Revolution and served under Pancho Villa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppino_Garibaldi?wprov=sfti1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jr9lkm/til_about_giuseppe_garibaldi_ii_the/


TIL In an effort to boost the declining birth rate, some Chinese provinces are offering 30 days of paid "marriage leave" to young newlyweds.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-22/chinese-paid-marriage-leave-boost-birth-rate/102007340
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jr8wf9/til_in_an_effort_to_boost_the_declining_birth/


TIL about Clinical lycanthropy a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is a non-human animal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_lycanthropy
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jr8q30/til_about_clinical_lycanthropy_a_rare_psychiatric/


TIL The cost of raising a child in China is 3.3 times more expensive than raising a child in Australia, making it the second highest in the world, which helps to explain why DINK couples are growing in the country.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-20/couples-in-china-share-views-on-not-having-children/102367934
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jr8ptp/til_the_cost_of_raising_a_child_in_china_is_33/


TIL The 1828 Tariff of Abominations, meant to be so “abominable” it would fail, was meant as a political trap by Southern Democrats to hurt John Quincy Adams. But enough New Englanders unexpectedly supported that it passed, raising tariffs on various goods to unprecedented highs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_Abominations
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jr8mct/til_the_1828_tariff_of_abominations_meant_to_be/


TIL that on 10th February 1890 an estimated 180,000 mummified cats, weighing 19.5 tons, were shipped from Egypt to Liverpool, auctioned, and sold for fertilizer

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/mummified-cat-22
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jr87oc/til_that_on_10th_february_1890_an_estimated/


TIL: Jacques Cousteau's Calypso had a 1000 litre stainless steel wine tank.

https://youtu.be/bKL1HTM0ij0?si=M9ZgJLY-qV63fBEV
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jr85ag/til_jacques_cousteaus_calypso_had_a_1000_litre/


TIL that US tried to get Karl Dönitz, the man that succeeded Hilter, sentenced for War Crimes for ordering the German Navy not to rescue Allied survivors, only for it to be found out that order was created because the US Airforce attacked German Naval vessels trying to rescue Allied survivors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jpsyn2/til_that_us_tried_to_get_karl_dönitz_the_man_that/


TIL that in 2004, a 16 year old Iranian girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh was hanged for "adultery" after being assaulted multiple times

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5217424.stm
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jpqamm/til_that_in_2004_a_16_year_old_iranian_girl_named/


TIL woodpeckers wrap their tongues around their brains to cushion against the impact when they peck.

https://abcbirds.org/blog21/woodpecker-tongues/
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TIL the dodo was not hunted to extinction. Its extinction was most likely the result of hurricanes, local floods, deforestation, and their eggs and young being eaten by pigs and monkeys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo#Extinction
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jposi7/til_the_dodo_was_not_hunted_to_extinction_its/


TIL in 2011 Harper Collins published new editions of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark with new art. After mass controversy from fans, the original Stephen Gammell illustrations were used in subsequent printings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jlw77j/til_in_2011_harper_collins_published_new_editions/


TIL that Agatha Christie—1st recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award & "Best Writer of the Century" (Bouchercon World Mystery Conv.)—was criticized by Raymond Chandler, Julian Symons, and Edmund Wilson for being too artificial, banal, and superficial in her writings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie#Critical_reception
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jlw66l/til_that_agatha_christie1st_recipient_of_the/


TIL Eternal Recurrence is the idea that everything you experience will repeat in exactly the same way, forever. Expanded on by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, it encourages living fully, as your life will be eternally relived in the same moments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return
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TIL ruminant red meat and dairy have naturally occurring trans fats, most (70-80%) of which are 18:1 isomers that are harmful to human health.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/animal-science/articles/10.3389/fanim.2023.1278966/full
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jluqux/til_ruminant_red_meat_and_dairy_have_naturally/


TIL Bruce Lee's great-uncle was Robert Ho Tung, the founder of one of the "four big families of Hong Kong" - so called because of their wealth and impact on HK's economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_big_families_of_Hong_Kong
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jlty1i/til_bruce_lees_greatuncle_was_robert_ho_tung_the/


TIL the Call of Duty video game franchise has had the #1 best-selling game in the US by dollar sales every year from 2008-2024 except for Grand Theft Auto V in 2013, Red Dead Redemption II in 2018, and Hogwarts Legacy in 2023.

https://www.ign.com/articles/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-is-the-best-selling-game-of-2024-in-the-us
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jltc8v/til_the_call_of_duty_video_game_franchise_has_had/


TIL that a P-61 Blackwidow was used during the raid on the Carbantuan POW camp. The plane would fly several passes at 500 feet, shutting one of its engines off, then turning it back on to cause a loud bang. This distracted the prison guards to allow the Alamo Scouts to get into position.

https://arsof-history.org/articles/v14n2_cabanatuan_page_1.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jlshmy/til_that_a_p61_blackwidow_was_used_during_the/


TIL how to tile tabs in the Vivaldi browser. Thank you, @Vivaldi !! This was the one thing that had me missing Arc daily.

Now not only do I not need it, Vivaldi does it better.

#TIL #browser #productivity


TIL the term Heimweh (homesickness) was coined in the 17th century for Swiss mercenaries. It was seen as a medical condition that supposedly only affected the Swiss—until the 19th century, when it was recognized as universal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesickness
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