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TIL that David Carradine died in a hotel room in Bangkok, the reported result of autoerotic asphyxiation - the intentional restriction of oxygen for sexual pleasure. His family and agent believed that Carradine was murdered.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=7763422&page=1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd7bp0/til_that_david_carradine_died_in_a_hotel_room_in/

Police: Carradine's Death Likely Sex Accident

New details emerge in bizarre death of David Carradine
ABC News
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TIL: Ukehi is a Japanese Shinto divination ritual that has 6 functions. To kill your enemies, manipulate the weather, animate living beings, predict an outcome, establish the will of kami, or ask for information. Normally it is used to ask a question. If nothing happens, the kami disapproves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukehi
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd71tn/til_ukehi_is_a_japanese_shinto_divination_ritual/
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TIL 'Dr. Death' Harold Shipman, a GP in the UK, was convicted of murdering 15 patients and is suspected of killing over 250.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd69ty/til_dr_death_harold_shipman_a_gp_in_the_uk_was/

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TIL how speedcubers (aka speed solvers) solve a Rubik's Cube in less than 10 seconds. The steps include solving the cross, the first two layers, and then orienting and permuting the last layer.

https://youtube.com/shorts/TIqNFNhz_kc?feature=share
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd4sbn/til_how_speedcubers_aka_speed_solvers_solve_a/

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
youtube.com
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TIL - NVIDIA's unofficial company motto is "Our company is thirty days from going out of business."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd31dc/til_nvidias_unofficial_company_motto_is_our/

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TIL that political opponents used to insult each other with the label "Pharaoh" before Hitler came around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd2mvg/til_that_political_opponents_used_to_insult_each/

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TIL in 2021 a woman who ran out of her regular hair spray used Gorilla Glue Spray instead, believing it to also be hair spray. This resulted in her hair becoming stuck to her scalp. Eventually, a plastic surgeon performed a 4-hour long surgical procedure on her for free to remove the adhesive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessica_Brown
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd103f/til_in_2021_a_woman_who_ran_out_of_her_regular/
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TIL scientists were "blown away" when they found a 1,700-year-old chicken egg in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire with the yolk and egg white still inside. It's thought to be the only one of its kind.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68247184
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd0rmy/til_scientists_were_blown_away_when_they_found_a/

Aylesbury Roman egg with contents a 'world first', say scientists

Scientists are "blown away" to find a 1,700-year-old Roman chicken egg still has its yolk inside.
By Helen Burchell (BBC News)
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TIL: Agent 355 is one of the first female spies for the US. She was active during the Revolution, but her identity remained secret. There is ongoing speculation whether she existed at all. However, many assert she was real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_355
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gd04sm/til_agent_355_is_one_of_the_first_female_spies/

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TIL the Ovsiankina effect describes the innate human urge to finish tasks we've initiated. This tendency to resume an interrupted action is especially prevalent when the action hasn't yet been achieved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovsiankina_effect
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcztmc/til_the_ovsiankina_effect_describes_the_innate/
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TIL that all Medal of Honour recipients receive a special license plate (state dependant) to display on their vehicle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcztj6/til_that_all_medal_of_honour_recipients_receive_a/

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TIL the piece of paper on top of a Hershey kiss is called a niggly wiggly

https://www.wytv.com/news/daybreak/fun-facts-about-the-hershey-kiss/amp/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gczozj/til_the_piece_of_paper_on_top_of_a_hershey_kiss/

Fun facts about the Hershey Kiss

Hershey Kisses have been around for a long time and it’s a worldwide candy — let’s unwrap a few.
Jim Loboy (WYTV)
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TIL that despite being slightly smaller than our moon, Europa is thought to have twice the amount of water here on Earth.

https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/europa/europa-facts/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcyt70/til_that_despite_being_slightly_smaller_than_our/

Europa: Facts - NASA Science

Europa’s ocean is considered one of the most promising places in the solar system to look for life beyond Earth.
science.nasa.gov
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TIL about the Henokiens, an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henokiens
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcx1d7/til_about_the_henokiens_an_association_of/
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TIL that the populations of Denmark, Finland, and Norway are almost identical: 5.98 million, 5.63 million, and 5.57 million respectively

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcwq3d/til_that_the_populations_of_denmark_finland_and/

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TIL Pineapple Express is more than a pot reference and a movie, it's a weather phenomenon that brings moisture from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcwp2r/til_pineapple_express_is_more_than_a_pot/

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TIL the existence of black holes was first proposed in 1783 by John Michell. We weren’t able to capture an image of a black hole until 2019.

https://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1979JHA....10...42S/0000042.000.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcwk2v/til_the_existence_of_black_holes_was_first/
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TIL: a 12-year-old Jewish violin prodigy named Motele Schlein, after witnessing his family’s murder by Nazis, joined the resistance and planted explosives in a restaurant where he performed, killing over 100 high-ranking Nazi SS officers

https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/remembering-motele-schlein-jewish-violin-prodigy-and-partisan-hero/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcwaw3/til_a_12yearold_jewish_violin_prodigy_named/

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TIL that the longest running laboratory experiment started in 1927 and is still being conducted.

https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcvds6/til_that_the_longest_running_laboratory/
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TIL American Airlines is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and daily flights.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcuxj8/til_american_airlines_is_the_largest_airline_in/
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TIL The remains of a complete male A. dirus (Dire Wolf) are sometimes easy to identify compared to other Canis specimens because the baculum (penis bone) of the dire wolf is very different from that of all other living canids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gctavm/til_the_remains_of_a_complete_male_a_dirus_dire/

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TIL there's a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding. It's a fruit native to Central and South America called diospyros nigra, or black sapote, that tastes like chocolate and sweet custard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros_nigra
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcsx8t/til_theres_a_fruit_that_tastes_like_chocolate/

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TIL the Earth's water is older than the sun

https://www.popsci.com/trappist-exoplanet-water-alien-life/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcseez/til_the_earths_water_is_older_than_the_sun/

Good news: these exoplanets probably have water. Bad news: AHHH SO MUCH WATER.

But after so many years of looking for signs of water on other worlds, how could there possibly be a place where there’s too much water for life? Let’s take a look.
Mary Beth Griggs (Popular Science)
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TIL While traveling to the Tehran Conference in 1943 on the USS Iowa, FDR’s ship was almost torpedoed by the escorting destroyer USS William D Porter. The incident was caused when one of the destroyer’s crew members failed to remove the primer of the torpedo while doing a training exercise.

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022/10/12/that-one-time-…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcsbrd/til_while_traveling_to_the_tehran_conference_in/

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TIL about virgin boy eggs, a traditional dish of Dongyang, Zhejiang, China in which eggs are boiled in the urine of young boys, preferably under the age of ten.

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/urine-soaked-eggs-a-spring-taste-treat-in-china-city-idUSBRE82S0EF/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcs9dm/til_about_virgin_boy_eggs_a_traditional_dish_of/
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TIL that Halley's Comet was seen in England in 1066, the year of the Norman Conquest, being interpreted as an omen, with a contemporary observer referring to it as a "source of tears to many mothers", portending "the downfall of my country."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcre9b/til_that_halleys_comet_was_seen_in_england_in/

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TIL that in the 1860s when the US was in Civil War, the French Emperir Napoleon III tried to place an Emperor in Mexico. After th US Civil War ended, members of the conservative Confederacy went into Mexico to support the Emperor while the rest of the US supplied arms to the liberal resistance.

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/complex-and-character-d…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcr80l/til_that_in_the_1860s_when_the_us_was_in_civil/

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TIL Birds and crocodilians (the order containing both alligators and crocodiles) share a common Clade classification group called Archosauria (lit. 'ruling reptiles'). This indicates they shared a common ancestor around 250 million years ago, along with many kinds of dinosaurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosaur
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcr7nr/til_birds_and_crocodilians_the_order_containing/

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TIL Antarctica, if it were a country, would be the second-largest country with a land size of 5.5 million mi² (14.2 million km²)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Geography
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcqjra/til_antarctica_if_it_were_a_country_would_be_the/

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TIL the A26 motorway in France is so heavily used by British holidaymakers that it's officially nicknamed "Autoroute des Anglais" or "Motorway of the English"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A26_autoroute
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcq629/til_the_a26_motorway_in_france_is_so_heavily_used/

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TIL that the British Empire was the largest in human history, about six times larger than the Roman Empire, occupying close to a quarter of the world

https://www.britannica.com/place/British-Empire
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcpq4c/til_that_the_british_empire_was_the_largest_in/

British Empire | History, Countries, Map, Size, & Facts | Britannica

British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies—colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British governmen…
Encyclopedia Britannica
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TIL in WWI, half of the French army mutinied in 1917. Soldiers remained in trenches, but refused orders to attack after the failure of the Nivelle Offensive, which General Nivelle promised a 48 hour victory. The mutinies were heavily suppressed by the French and were not fully disclosed until 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_French_Army_mutinies
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcpag8/til_in_wwi_half_of_the_french_army_mutinied_in/

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TIL that the old testament was not written with the same hebrew alphabet that is used today. It was written using the paleo-hebrew alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcnr4u/til_that_the_old_testament_was_not_written_with/
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TIL that Rose McGowan and Joaquin, River, Summer and Rain Phoenix were all raised by their parents in the religious cult known as Family International (formerly Children of God). The controversial group is notorious and has been investigated for child abduction and sexual misconduct.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a29374581/children-of-god-cult-joaquin-phoenix-rose…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gcl6ot/til_that_rose_mcgowan_and_joaquin_river_summer/

Joaquin Phoenix and Rose McGowan Spent Their Early Years in a Religious Cult. Then it Became Infamous.

The Phoenix family were members of the Children of God, a cult helmed by a rogue preacher named David Berg that would later become infamous amid allegations of child sexual abuse.
Gabrielle Bruney (Esquire)
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