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TIL an 1854 London cholera outbreak was curbed by a man who defied the day's medical beliefs. Dr John Snow, father of modern epidemiology, traced the outbreak to a tainted water pump. The pump handle was removed, basically ending outbreak. The theory that disease spread by "bad air" soon unraveled.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/15/john-snow-cholera…
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TIL that, from 1935, the SS-managed Lebensborn foundation managed a network of maternity homes for unmarried mothers and orphanages for kidnapped children in order to further the Aryan race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
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TIL that SR71A "start carts" exhausted USA's junkyards of 400 cubic inch Buick V8 engines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoD6kFb85co&ab_channel=AirZoo
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TIL Liberia's 1927 general election had a 1,590% turnout. It is though to be the most rigged elections in history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927_Liberian_general_election
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TIL Service Dog etiquette requires leaving them alone to avoid distracting their focus. If a service dog comes to you for attention, find their owner immediately, as they are trained to use this as a signal for help.

https://spotpet.com/blog/lifestyle/service-dog-etiquette
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Service Dog Etiquette: 6 Tips & Best Practices

Encountering a service dog? Learn proper etiquette to ensure the dog's focus remains on their important job. Discover respectful ways to interact and how to offer assistance if needed.
Spot Pet Insurance
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TIL: about the Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919. It officially ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations and territorial losses on Germany, reshaping Europe’s political landscape and setting the stage for future conflicts

https://youtu.be/CjAfkjq2vBQ
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TIL that largest flying creature on earth was an Azhdarchid Pterodactyl named Arambourgiania. It's wings were 12 to 13 meters.

https://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/arambourgiania.html
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Arambourgiania - Pteros

The only known fossil of Arambourgiania was found by chance near the side of a railway in the 1940s. It represents one of the first discoveries of an azhdarchid, and one of the largest of all known pterosaurs.
www.pteros.com
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TIL that the Sun has a (very hot) "atmosphere" ~5x bigger than the rest of the Sun

https://www.space.com/26381-sun-atmosphere-size-nasa-spacecraft.html
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Giant Waves Reveal Surprising True Size of Sun's Atmosphere

The sun's volatile atmosphere is even bigger than scientists expected, a NASA spacecraft has revealed. The space agency's STEREO satellite found that the solar atmosphere, known as the corona, stretches 5 million miles above the sun's surface.
Megan Gannon (Space)
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TIL of the Himalayan fossil hoax, in which an Indian paleontologist bought, stole and/or was gifted fossils from other parts of the world and claimed they were from the Himalayas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_fossil_hoax
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TIL that not only has it been more than fifty years since a person last set foot on the moon, the entire period of crewed missions to the lunar surface only lasted three and a half years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
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TIL that on Halloween in 2008 Doritos released a horror game called Hotel 626 that you could only play from 6pm to 6am and would call you in the middle of the night to scare you

https://lostmediawiki.com/Hotel_626/Asylum_626_(lost_series_of_online_browser_games;_2008-2011)
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TIL that scientists at Stanford University have developed a smart toilet that reads your anus like a fingerprint and monitors the health of your poop and pee. The lead researcher said, "We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique."

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/smart-toilet-monitors-for-signs-of-disease.html
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‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

A disease-detecting “precision health” toilet can sense multiple signs of illness through automated urine and stool analysis, a new Stanford study reports.
News Center
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TIL charging any additional fees for debit cards is illegal in the US. Convenience fees/cash discount price cannot be different from the debit card price.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/14/2023-24034/debit-card-interchange-fees-and-routing
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TIL: There is currently someone in jail for 50 years in Thailand for insulting the king on social media. Thailand still has Lèse-majesté laws from 1908, which is the strictest defamation law in the world. Even insulting the King's pet or attempting to insult the King leads to decades of jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand
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TIL there's a town in Upstate New York called Mexico who's founding predates the country of Mexico by about 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico,_New_York
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TIL that back in the 1950s, the gap between the vocabulary levels of adults and children was much smaller than it is in the early 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
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TIL there were more than 100 reported cases of Human Sacrifice in India between 2014 and 2021.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/human-sacrifice-india-arrests-hindu-temple-ritual-murder-police-say/
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5 men arrested and accused of carrying out a ritual human sacrifice at a Hindu temple in India

"The accused apparently believed that the sacrifice would appease the soul" of his late brother, according to the head of the local police force.
Arshad R. Zargar (CBS News)
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TIL: Butt plugs were invented in the 1890s to cure insanity. Dr. Young's Ideal Rectal Dilators came in sets of four varying in diameter from half an inch to 4 inches. Dr. Young admitted that some patients panicked at the sight of the devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Young%27s_Ideal_Rectal_Dilators
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TIL the manchineel tree, one of the deadliest plants on Earth, produces a sweet, apple-like fruit that’s highly toxic. Native to the Caribbean and Florida, its sap causes severe burns and blistering on contact, and even a taste of the fruit or inhaling smoke from its wood can be fatal.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/manchineel-tree.htm
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The Manchineel, or 'Death Apple,' Is the World's Most Dangerous Tree

Found along beaches and in the mangrove swamps of tropical climates, the fruit of the manchineel tree was called the 'little apple of death' by Spanish conquistadors.
Katie Carman (HowStuffWorks)
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TIL: there exists a porn parody of “Bob’s Burgers” titled “Bob’s Boners” and most of the shows cast and crew is aware of it.

https://youtu.be/p6ZMvJI3WU4?si=NT4QvuEYzop4iIhV
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TIL Japan has been the top creditor in the world, holding the highest net external assets since 1990

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/05/28b8f25554fc-japan-net-external-assets-hit-record-in-2022-as-biggest-creditor.html
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Japan net external assets hit record in 2022 as biggest creditor

Japan's net balance of external assets hit a record 418.63 trillion yen ($3 trillion) in 2022, up 0.2 percent from a year earlier, inflated by the yen's sharp depreciation, the Finance Ministry said on May 26.
KYODO NEWS (KYODO NEWS+)
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TIL: IKEA has its own "dictionary" where the quirky product names are actually derived from Swedish words, places, and categories.

https://lar5.com/ikea/index.html
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TIL that in Sparta, Ancient Greece, they had “shouting elections”. Candidates would take turns walking into assembly rooms, and judges would compare the volume of the crowd’s shouts and cheers of approval to determine the winner.

http://www.history.com/news/ancient-elections-voting
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How People Voted in Ancient Elections

In Athens and Rome, voting could entail shouting contests, secret stone ballots and an election system with built-in bias for the wealthy.
Dave Roos (HISTORY)
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TIl In 1891, when the first Thai typewriter was developed, two lesser-used consonants were left out because they did not fit on the typewriter; this contributed to their eventual obsolescence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_typewriter#First_Thai_typewriters
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TIL that Ocean Spray, the cranberry company, is a cooperative owned by the farmers

https://www.modernretail.co/retailers/why-ocean-sprays-cooperative-business-model-is-getting-a-second-look/
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Why Ocean Spray’s cooperative business model is getting a second look

Lost in Ocean Spray’s accidental moment in the spotlight is this fact: Ocean Spray is one of America’s oldest — and largest — retail coops. Since its founding, a network of farmers have owned and run the business.
Michael Waters (Modern Retail)
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TIL former Billionaire Chuck Feeney donated over $8 Billion, virtually all of his wealth, to different causes supporting human rights, inequality and health programs. He spent his last days in a rented apartment in San Francisco with no assets under his name.

https://businessideaslab.com/chuck-feeney-biography/
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Who Is Chuck Feeney? Founder of DFS, The Atlantic Philanthropies and the "Giving While Living" Movement - Uncategorized

The amazing biography of Chuck Feeney (Charles Francis Feeney). A billionaire who practiced "Giving While Living", founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, DFS - Duty-Free Shoppers Group.
Entrepreneur Writer (Top Business Ideas, Start-Ups, Entrepreneurs)
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TIL Ronald Reagan was almost strangled by a chimpanzee while filming a movie

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52538/time-ronald-reagan-was-nearly-strangled-chimp
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The Time Ronald Reagan Was Nearly Strangled By A Chimp

Making Bedtime for Bonzo was certainly not monkey business; in fact, one unfortunate run-in with its leading ape nearly cost future president Ronald Reagan his life.
Mark Mancini (Mental Floss)
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TIL: In the David Fincher directed movie The Game (1997), Fincher cast famous Super Mario voice actor Charles Martinet to play Michael Douglas’s father in archival footage. “Itsameeee TRAUMA!”

https://youtu.be/VRPO8-_fB8g?si=CEpY5m_WFZhumygP
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TIL of the prominent political Frelinghuysen family of New Jersey. They helped established Rutgers University, attended the continental congress, ran for VP in 1844, and had a family member in congress as recently as 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frelinghuysen_family
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TIL After a heart attack, the body increases sleep time in order to limit heart inflammation and damage

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39478215/
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Myocardial infarction augments sleep to limit cardiac inflammation and damage - PubMed

Sleep is integral to cardiovascular health1,2. Yet, the circuits that connect cardiovascular pathology and sleep are incompletely understood.
PubMed
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TIL Punch drinks originated from India, and the word punch is a loanword from Hindi पाँच (pāñch), meaning "five", as the drink was frequently made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, juice from either a lime or a lemon, water, and spices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(drink)
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