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TIL of the Ryongchon disaster in North Korea, where in April 2004, two trains carrying explosive materials exploded through a collision with each other, or with a power line. Notably, there were some Syrian casualties alongside hundreds of North Koreans. Some sources allege foreign involvement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryongchon_disaster
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g57qjh/til_of_the_ryongchon_disaster_in_north_korea/
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TIL about the "London Resort", a proposed theme park and resort. It was first announced in 2012 and has since been repeatedly delayed. As of 2024, the land earmarked for the resort has gone up for sale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Resort
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g574yc/til_about_the_london_resort_a_proposed_theme_park/

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TIL Outback Steakhouse was inspired by the popularity of the movie "Crocodile Dundee" and the founders, who have never been to Australia, decided to harness the rugged and carefree vibe of Australian culture into their Aussie-themed restaurant

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a47700/facts-about-outback-steakhouse/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g56usg/til_outback_steakhouse_was_inspired_by_the/

13 Things You Need to Know Before You Eat at Outback Steakhouse

For starters, the founders have never even been Down Under.
Rheanna O'Neil Bellomo (Delish)
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TIL that plants can be albino, too. They have no chloroplasts and produce no chlorophyll of their own, so they either die early, or adapt to become parasites of the plants closest to them, and steal nutrients from them. Like vampire plants. Crazy!

https://www.earth.com/news/albino-plants-without-chlorophyll/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g5509j/til_that_plants_can_be_albino_too_they_have_no/

Botanical albinos: The science behind plants without chlorophyll - Earth.com

Albino plants, lacking the chlorophyll they need to make food, typically die as seedlings after the energy stored in the seed is used up.
Richard Pallardy (Earth.com)
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TIL in 1926 Harry Houdini argued in congress for four days trying to convince them to pass his bill, House Resolution 8989, that would outlaw fortune-telling in the District of Columbia. The arguments nearly got physical and police were called several times.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-1926-houdini-spent-4-days-shaming-congress-for-being-in-thrall-to-fortun…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g53mz6/til_in_1926_harry_houdini_argued_in_congress_for/

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TIL that in 1962, a laughter epidemic in Tanzania caused uncontrollable bouts of laughter, affecting over 1,000 people and forcing 14 schools to close for months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g547iz/til_that_in_1962_a_laughter_epidemic_in_tanzania/

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TIL that a woman from New Zealand was detained in Kazakhstan because authorities didn't believe New Zealand actually existed. When she was asked to point out her country on a map, the map they provided didn't include New Zealand.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/kiwi-traveller/87233886/kiwi-detained-in-kazakhstan-after-officials-refuse-to-recognise-new-zealand-as-country
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g53zgc/til_that_a_woman_from_new_zealand_was_detained_in/

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TIL that the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g530gh/til_that_the_world_wide_web_www_was_invented_in/

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TIL about the Robertson family who tried to sail around the world in 1970s. They were shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after orcas bashed their boat yet the family survived for 38 days on a dinghy before being rescued.

https://nmmc.co.uk/2022/05/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-robertson-family-rescue/
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The Robertson Family Rescue | NMMC

It's 09:57 AM on 15 June 1972 and the Robertson family's yacht has just been hit by three killer whales and is sinking fast. Their fight for survival has begun.
NMMC
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TIL that, the astronomer Patrick Moore, whose fiancée was killed by a German bomb in 1943, said in 2012 that “We must take care. The Germans will try again, given another chance” and “the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g52fxn/til_that_the_astronomer_patrick_moore_whose/

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TIL that thanks to Bromelain, a digestive enzyme found in some fruits, when you eat pineapple, the pineapple is eating you back! Same for kiwi and papaya.

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/bromelain-in-pineapple-how-it-works.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g522cg/til_that_thanks_to_bromelain_a_digestive_enzyme/

Can A Pineapple Eat You?

Pineapples have an enzyme called bromelain that can break proteins. That enzyme digests the cells in your mouth.
Salama Udaipurwala (ScienceABC)
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TIL there hasn't been a Major League Baseball player who regularly played catcher left-handed since Jack Clements, who played from 1884 to 1900. Clements was also the first catcher to wear a chest protector.

https://www.mlb.com/news/why-there-are-no-left-handed-catchers-in-mlb
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g50s80/til_there_hasnt_been_a_major_league_baseball/

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TIL The Rolling Stones, the cast of Empire Strikes Back, and Monty Python’s Eric Idle partied together one night at his house in London in 1979

https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/star-wars-mark-hamill-epic-story-empire-strikes-eric-idle-rolling-stones-party/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g50nmz/til_the_rolling_stones_the_cast_of_empire_strikes/

Star Wars: Mark Hamill Confirms Epic Story From The Empire Strikes Back’s Production Days

Mark Hamill may not be at Star Wars Celebration this weekend, but that’s not stopping the actor from sharing fun Star Wars content on social media.
Jamie Jirak (ComicBook.com)
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TIL: The first use of the term “Genocide” and as a crime against humanity in a legal context was the Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial led by chief US prosecutor Ben Ferencz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen_trial
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g5052e/til_the_first_use_of_the_term_genocide_and_as_a/

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TIL about pishtacos, an Andean Indigenous legend. People feared Spanish missionaries (pishtacos), believing the missionaries were killing people for fat, thereafter oiling church bells to make them especially sonorous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pishtaco
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g5050z/til_about_pishtacos_an_andean_indigenous_legend/

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TIL that the reason names are rarely in the same order as the faces across a movie poster is because the name order is according to the billing order and contract-bound.

https://www.greig.cc/why-names-rarely-match-up-with-faces-on-movie-posters
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Why names rarely match up with faces on movie posters

This has been bugging me for, oh I don’t know, a decade or so. I thought perhaps it was a running joke in the movie industry, like the Wilhelm Scream, but this being Hollywood it turns out it’s just an ego thing: The name order is determined accordin…
James Greig
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TIL That the heaviest known neutron star PSR J0952-0607 also known as a Black Widow Pulsar is 2.35 times heavier than the Sun despite only being 7.5 to 12.5 miles in diameter

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/a-black-widow-pulsar-became-the-heaviest-neutron-star-by-devouring-its-mate/
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A Black Widow Pulsar Became the Heaviest Neutron Star by Devouring Its Mate

Sometimes stars just gotta eat.
Eric Mack (CNET)
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TIL the official British Royal Family surname is ‘Windsor’ as of 1917, when it was changed from ‘Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’ as a result of anti-German sentiment.

https://www.royal.uk/house-windsor
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TIL Sub-Saharan Africans trace up to 19% of their genetic ancestry to an extinct hominin species that is NOT found in the DNA of present-day Asians or Caucasians.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4z9d8/til_subsaharan_africans_trace_up_to_19_of_their/
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TIL that the state of Indiana has 11 recognized time zones, due to individual counties switching between Eastern and Central over the years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4ydnd/til_that_the_state_of_indiana_has_11_recognized/

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TIL that Hawaiians who were sent to the leper colony at Kalaupapa were also declared legally dead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaupapa,_Hawaii
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4xhwn/til_that_hawaiians_who_were_sent_to_the_leper/

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TIL of the Triforce. A 2002 arcade board based on Gamecube hardware and jointly developed by Sega, Nintendo and Namco.

https://segaretro.org/Triforce
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4wuix/til_of_the_triforce_a_2002_arcade_board_based_on/

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TIL that the word "Yenta" doesn't actually refer to a Jewish matchmaker but is instead a Yiddish give name for girls which became associated with matchmaking because of the musical Fiddler on the Roof

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5694282/jewish/What-Does-Yenta-Mean.htm
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4w1i2/til_that_the_word_yenta_doesnt_actually_refer_to/
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TIL of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra which was founded as an piece of comedic performance art, and so was open to anyone, regardless of musical training or proficency in their chosen instrument. They achieved a level of fame in the 1970s due to their recordings of popular classics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4v43d/til_of_the_portsmouth_sinfonia_an_orchestra_which/

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TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can, Fredric J. Baur, was so proud of his creation that he requested to be buried in one. After he passed away in 2008, his family honored his wish by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles can before burying it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/02/usa2
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TIL in the US, a private company can prosecute and incarcerate you themselves if they have enough money.

https://youtu.be/9OtIAZMqrZE?feature=shared
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4tgvi/til_in_the_us_a_private_company_can_prosecute_and/

- 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.
youtu.be
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TIL the most popular first name is the world is Maria, with one in every 119 people bearing the name. But coming in third is "Mohammed", which also ranks fifth when spelled "Muhammad," sixth when spelled "Mohamed" and eighth when spelled "Mohammad."

https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/national-traditions/most-common-last-names-in-world.htm#:~:text=become%…
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5 Most Common Last Names on Each Continent (Except Antarctica)

The surnames popular around the globe reflect everything from one's ancestry to regional colonizers to occupations.
Melanie Radzicki McManus (HowStuffWorks)
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TIL it takes more than 60 days to climb mount everest.

https://www.marveladventure.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-climb-mount-everest
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How Long Does it Take to Climb Mount Everest | Difficulty | Best Time | Tips

Are you thinking about how long it takes to climb Mount Everest? It takes about 66 days to reach Mount Everest. Find the detailed itinerary to climb Everest
Marvel Adventure Pvt. Ltd.
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TIL The High Treason Incident was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor in 1910

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Treason_Incident
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4rrty/til_the_high_treason_incident_was_a/
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TIL that Leela from Futurama is voiced by Peggy from Married... with Children.

https://ew.com/tv/katy-sagal-most-famous-roles/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4remu/til_that_leela_from_futurama_is_voiced_by_peggy/

Katey Sagal breaks down the roles that fans most recognize her for

'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Married… With Children' alum Katey Sagal breaks down her most memorable roles.
Dan Snierson (Entertainment Weekly)
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TIL about boredom room, an employee exit management strategy whereby employees are transferred to another department where they are assigned meaningless work until they become disheartened and resign. This strategy is commonly used in countries that have strong labor laws, such as France and Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banishment_room
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4q4rc/til_about_boredom_room_an_employee_exit/

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TIL that Frank Abagnale, the real-life inspiration for Catch Me If You Can, fabricated most of his infamous conman exploits, and much of his story was a hoax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale#Veracity_of_claims
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g4q3zk/til_that_frank_abagnale_the_reallife_inspiration/

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