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TIL Elizabeth Pitcairn was gifted the 1720 Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius when she was 17 and in high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Pitcairn?wprov=sfti1#Career
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TIL about Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th century sword-fighting, bisexual opera singer who lived a colorful & storied life. She once wounded a man in a duel & after nursing him back to health took him as a lover. Another time she set a fire in a convent to fake the death of a nun who she had an affair with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny
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TIL: Renegades Auberjonois was a Bonaparte

https://shannonselin.com/2018/04/living-descendants-napoleon-bonapartes/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghywdz/til_renegades_auberjonois_was_a_bonaparte/

Living Descendants of Napoleon and the Bonapartes - Shannon Selin

Does Napoleon have any living descendants? How about his Bonaparte siblings? Do any of them live in America? Here's a handy summary.
Shannon Selin
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TIL: That The Web of Life offers a critique on concepts like nature, wilderness, Gaia, and our everyday environments, challenging how we perceive the world around us.

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/1/63
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The Web of Life: A Critique of Nature, Wilderness, Gaia and the «Common Household»

A two-word summary of the following article might be «Words matter». It matters whether we conceive of the non-built world as nature, as «wilderness», as Gaia/Mother Earth, or as «our common home».
MDPI
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TIL Colorado’s Department of Transportation regularly shuts down one of its major interstates on sunny mornings due to extreme sun glare

https://www.codot.gov/travel/sunglare
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghyq5l/til_colorados_department_of_transportation/

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TIL On November 2nd, 1963, Reviewing The Beatles' concert the night before in Cheltenham, England, the British paper Daily Mirror uses the headline "BEATLEMANIA! It's happening everywhere ... even in sedate Cheltenham"; effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatlemania
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghy5oj/til_on_november_2nd_1963_reviewing_the_beatles/

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TIL that during a single Senate term from 1949 to 1955, Nebraska's Class 2 seat was occupied by six different senators due to two deaths, three appointments, two special elections, and one resignation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Nebraska
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghy309/til_that_during_a_single_senate_term_from_1949_to/

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TIL about the Black Horse fly.The black horse fly (Tabanus atratus) is a large, agile fly with a body length of 20–25 mm. They can be entirely black, or dark brown to blackish purple, with prominent compound eyes and pronounced wing venation. Their bites are painful and can transmit diseases like an

https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/370135#:~:text=Tabanus%20is%20a%…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghxpnl/til_about_the_black_horse_flythe_black_horse_fly/

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TIL that Jed, the dog who played the "villain" dog in the 1982 film The Thing was the same dog that played White Fang in the 1991 Disney movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_(wolfdog)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghwgab/til_that_jed_the_dog_who_played_the_villain_dog/
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TIL: Holy water in a container can be topped up with unholy water. As long as the added water doesn’t exceed 50%, the whole container is still considered holy water.

https://www.catholic.com/qa/adding-to-holy-water
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Adding to Holy Water

The common custom (though not officially recognized) is that so long as the water added to the holy water does not amount to half the amount of the holy water t...
Fr. Charles Grondin (Catholic Answers)
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TIL that the hulls of the famous first "six frigates" of the US Navy were constructed from the wood of the American live oak, a species unique to the northeastern United States with timber so dense that "a nail driven into it was nearly impossible to extract".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Frigates
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TIL Swiss cars need a "CH" sticker when driving abroad, required by the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. Swiss plates have no country code, only the Swiss and cantonal coat of arms and the cantonal code.

https://lenews.ch/2022/08/05/how-important-is-the-ch-sticker-on-swiss-cars-abroad/
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How important is the "CH" sticker on Swiss cars abroad?

The “CH” sticker that Swiss drivers must legally put on their vehicles before entering another country is required under the 1968 international convention on road traffic. © Lightpoet | Dreamstime.
Le News
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TIL that Vitali Klitschko was never knocked down in his boxing career and also had a KO percentage of 87%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Klitschko
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghvdio/til_that_vitali_klitschko_was_never_knocked_down/

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TIL that after Buddy Holly’s death, Waylon Jennings put Holly’s guitar and amp in a locker at Grand Central Terminal in New York City and sent the keys to Holly’s widow. Jennings, who had given up his seat on the flight, felt guilty about the crash, a burden he carried throughout his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylon_Jennings?wprov=sfti1#Winter_Dance_Party_Tour
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghv2no/til_that_after_buddy_hollys_death_waylon_jennings/

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TIL the first documented case of babies being switched at birth in NHS history

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3njqd9nl9o
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghtvkl/til_the_first_documented_case_of_babies_being/

The DNA test that showed two women had been swapped at birth

It was only a home DNA test but its unexpected results rocked two families to their core.
Jenny Kleeman (BBC News)
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TIL that despite Saturn being 8 times further from the Sun than the Earth, it also has an Aurora Borealis but is only visible by ultraviolet light.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/saturns-auroras/#:~:text=However%2C%20unlike%20on%20Earth%2C%20Saturn's,and%20independent%20of%20planet%20rotation.
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Saturn's Auroras - NASA

Saturn was 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) away when the Hubble Space Telescope took this ultraviolet image of the planet, revealing a vivid auroral display rising thousands of miles above the cloud tops over both of the planet's poles.
NASA
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TIL that Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood comes from a community of Bargees (also known as "water gypsies"), and that his generation was the first to not be born on a boat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Wood#Early_life
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TIL There was once a king who had never been attracted to women, one day, he saw a beautiful beggar and fell in love with her. He brought her to his palace and made her sit on his thrown and then kneeled before her and asked her to be his queen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_the_Beggar-maid
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TIL of English financier Clarence Hatry. His fraudulent operations, wiped the equivalent to 1.8 billion today off the market, and lead in part to the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Hatry who served as a librarian while in prison, would later acquire and revitalise the bookshop Hatchards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Hatry
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghs14d/til_of_english_financier_clarence_hatry_his/
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TIL that the first documented prototype of a "flying car" was created in 1917 by inventor Glenn Curtiss, known as the “Hammond Flying Car.” This innovative vehicle featured folding wings for transitioning between flying and driving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_Autoplane
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghr7xm/til_that_the_first_documented_prototype_of_a/

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TIL That Tom Major Ball, the Father of former UK Prime Minister John Major, was a Circus performer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Major-Ball
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghqrpy/til_that_tom_major_ball_the_father_of_former_uk/
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TIL: There existed elephant duels in SE Asia. Opposing army leaders of equal status would face each other on the battlefield in single combat atop elephants. It was seen as honorable and heroic as it avoided troop losses. The practice died when the Portuguese introduced guns in the 16th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_duel
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TIL that the phenomenon of struggling to fall asleep in a new bed is called the 'dolphin effect' or 'dolphin mode.' Dolphins can fully rest while keeping part of their brain awake, and something similar happens to us when we can't sleep in unfamiliar surroundings.

https://casper.com/blog/cant-fall-asleep-in-new-bed/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghqh5f/til_that_the_phenomenon_of_struggling_to_fall/

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TIL that citizens born in Puerto Rico are natural-born citizens of the US and can therefore become President as long as they live in the 50 States for at least 14 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implications_of_Puerto_Rico's_political_status#Citizenship
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghpo1z/til_that_citizens_born_in_puerto_rico_are/
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Today I Learned that the longest judicial trial in the history of the United States was the Pizza Connection Trial, where the Sicilian Mafia processed Heroin and Morphine for sale in Pizza Parlors during the 70's and 80's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial
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Today I learned that the chorus of the song "Oh My Darling, Clementine" is from the point of view of a man who was romantically in love with Clementine, not that of Clementine's father.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Darling,_Clementine
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghoh8g/today_i_learned_that_the_chorus_of_the_song_oh_my/

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TIL The British government safeguarded the supply of fish and chips during the first and second world wars. It was one of the few foods in the UK not subject to rationing during the wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips?wprov=sfla1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gho5fc/til_the_british_government_safeguarded_the_supply/

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TIL of Alex Stepney, an English soccer goalkeeper so got so angry at his own team-mates, he literally dislocated his jaw screaming at them.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gallery/7245423
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghmlfz/til_of_alex_stepney_an_english_soccer_goalkeeper/

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TIL the Diving Bell Spider spends almost all it's life underwater, it survives by spinning a web between underwater plants and then carries air from the surface down to its web via its body hairs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell_spider#Uniqueness_of_aquatic_behavior
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TIL Nikola Tesla predicted the rise of the modern smartphone over a century ago. He described a world where people would communicate wirelessly across the globe with devices small enough to carry in their pockets, envisioning what he called “a world wireless system.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wireless_System
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TIL about the Murchison Murders (1929-30). An escaped convict (allegedly) killed 3 people and disposed of the remains using a method divulged to him by a novelist who was struggling to develop the plot of his story because the technique would not leave enough clues for the main character to follow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_Murders?wprov=sfla1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghln9o/til_about_the_murchison_murders_192930_an_escaped/

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TIL that Five Guys provides extra fries and piles them into the bottom of the bag, so customers think they got a great deal; albeit this is already calculated into the total price. Jerry Murrell, its founder, claims it's better for customers to feel that they their serving of fries was too large.

https://www.mashed.com/228032/why-five-guys-always-gives-you-so-many-extr…
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Why Five Guys Always Gives You So Many Extra Fries

Five Guys takes french fries quite seriously. They go the extra mile to ensure their fries are delicious, and they give you a whole bunch of them. Why?
Molly Harris (Mashed)
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TIL: The Pizza Effect - The phenomenon of a nation's or people's culture being transformed elsewhere, then re-exported to their culture of origin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect
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TIL There is an estimated number of 97 walls gates and roads called peace lines in Belfast. 67% of the deaths during the troubles happened within 500 meters of where the peace lines exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_lines
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TIL that The Official Register Of Color Names (ORCN) includes many colors including piss yellow

https://color-register.org/color/piss-yellow
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Piss Yellow color - #DDD618 - The Official Register of Color Names

Piss Yellow (#DDD618) Color Page. Variations: Shades, Tints, Hues, Tones and Harmonies. HEX, RGB, CMYK Conversions. #DDD618 Color images.
color-register.org
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TIL that there are 72 names of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved on the Eiffel Tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_72_names_on_the_Eiffel_Tower
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