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TIL That the screenplay for the James Bond film "You only live twice" was written by Roald Dahl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fywyb4/til_that_the_screenplay_for_the_james_bond_film/

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TIL Self-Defense from a Tutorial Created in 1933

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLIE1GKfluk
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- 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.
www.youtube.com
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TIL That Peter Dinklage is only 3 inches shorter than Simone Biles

https://www.britannica.com/question/How-tall-is-Simone-Biles#:~:text=Simone%20Biles%20is%204%20feet,4%20inches%20(1.63%20meters).
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyu0z2/til_that_peter_dinklage_is_only_3_inches_shorter/

How tall is Simone Biles? | Britannica

How tall is Simone Biles? Simone Biles is 4 feet 8 inches (1.4 meters) tall, which is about 4 inches (10 cm) below the average height of a female gy
Encyclopedia Britannica
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TIL there is a species of jumping spider in Africa which specializes in feeding on blood-filled female mosquitoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evarcha_culicivora
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fysytd/til_there_is_a_species_of_jumping_spider_in/

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TIL that Tyrannosaurus lived 66 million years ago. Stegosaurus lived 145 million years ago. We are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus than Tyrannosaurus is to Stegosaurus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyskf7/til_that_tyrannosaurus_lived_66_million_years_ago/

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TIL Ruth Brown, a 1950s R & B superstar had her earnings withheld by her record company. She then spent several years working low paying jobs until making a comeback in 1976. She used her newfound fame to fight for musicians to receive royalties for their music.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/23/559070707/forebears-ruth-brown-the-fabulous-miss-rhythm
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fysi6v/til_ruth_brown_a_1950s_r_b_superstar_had_her/

Ruth Brown, The Fabulous Miss Rhythm

While many fans know Brown for her later career — focused on blues, jazz and show tunes — her early chart-topping contributions to the canon of American popular music should not be forgotten.
NPR
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TIL that honeybees have five eyes. They have two large compound eyes and three smaller simple eyes on top of their heads, which help them navigate and detect light.

https://wildflowermeadows.com/2022/02/the-five-eyes-of-the-honeybee/
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The Five Eyes of the Honeybee - Wildflower Meadows

The compound eyes are located on either side of the bee’s head, while the ocelli are arranged in a triangular pattern on top of the bee’s head.
Wildflowermeadows (Wildflower Meadows)
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TIL that ethics books are substantially more likely to go missing from university libraries than books about other fields of philosophy

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/dec/13/ethics-study-steal-books-moral
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyqkbu/til_that_ethics_books_are_substantially_more/

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TIL that Polaris (the North Star), is only 45-67 million years old. It wasn't around in the time of the dinosaurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyq7u2/til_that_polaris_the_north_star_is_only_4567/

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TIL of mouth puffing, which is when patients continued to try mouth breathing during sleep even after their mouths had been taped shut

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/mouth-taping
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Mouth Taping: Is It Safe?

Mouth taping is when you tape your mouth shut while sleeping. It’s not a recommended treatment for sleep apnea or snoring because there isn’t enough evidence to suggest it has benefits.
Cleveland Clinic
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TIL : a group of doctors studied 75 specific causes of death between woman and men. Men are more likely to die in virtually every single scenario whether sickness, violence, accidents etc than woman.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781916/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyo0k0/til_a_group_of_doctors_studied_75_specific_causes/

The Contribution of Specific Causes of Death to Sex Differences in Mortality

Men have higher mortality rates than women for most causes of death. This study was conducted to determine the contribution of specific causes of death to the sex difference in years of potential life lost (YPLL).
PubMed Central (PMC)
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TIL that Pantone’s infamous “ugliest color” was renamed from olive green in Australia after offense from actual olive growers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone_448_C
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fynjro/til_that_pantones_infamous_ugliest_color_was/

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Today i learned the co-owner of Macy's and his wife died in the sinking of the Titanic. His wife refused to board a lifeboat and save herself, instead choosing to stay with her husband and go down with the ship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Straus
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fymxnr/today_i_learned_the_coowner_of_macys_and_his_wife/

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TIL that Murong Xi, emperor of the Later Yan dynasty of China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, had sexual intercourse with the corpse of his deceased wife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murong_Xi
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fykmr4/til_that_murong_xi_emperor_of_the_later_yan/
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TIL that the incorrect usage of an apostrophe in english for a plural noun (e.g. "burger's") is called a greengrocer's apostrophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrophes_(%22greengrocers'_apostrophes%22)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyk5zw/til_that_the_incorrect_usage_of_an_apostrophe_in/

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TIL it was legal to enslave children in Switzerland until 1981

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/education/recognising-switzerland-s-slave-children/35429120
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyjpw6/til_it_was_legal_to_enslave_children_in/

Recognising Switzerland’s “slave children”

It is a chapter in Swiss history that has left painful scars. Now victims of these measures have been invited to a “ceremony of commemoration” in Bern on Thursday. “I was born without a father and my mother gave me to my grandmother to look after.
www.swissinfo.ch
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TIL that Nintendo bought up the rights of two 1993 pornographic parodies of the Super Mario video game series to halt their distribution indefinitely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hornio_Brothers
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyjku2/til_that_nintendo_bought_up_the_rights_of_two/

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TIL The movie Footloose, which is about a town where dancing is prohibited, is inspired from a real town, Elmore City, Oklahoma. The ban started before statehood, and high-schoolers petitioned in 1980 to be able to dance at prom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmore_City,_Oklahoma
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyj4rz/til_the_movie_footloose_which_is_about_a_town/

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TIL the tension between Marlon Brando & director Frank Oz while filming The Score escalated to such a point that Brando refused to be on set if Oz was there. So co-star Robert De Niro ended up directing Brando with Oz stationed at a distance while he privately passed directorial messages to De Niro.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/feud-ruined-marlon-brando-robert-de-niro/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyhelw/til_the_tension_between_marlon_brando_director/

The feud that ruined Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro’s only movie

"I bet you wish I was a puppet..."
Gareth Bowen (Far Out Magazine)
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TIL George Michael woke from a coma in 2011 speaking with a West Country accent due to Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare condition often caused by brain injuries that alters speech patterns, making it sound like a different accent despite still using the native language

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Michael
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Today I Learned that there was an 870-person-capacity jail boat moored off Riker's Island in NYC which was in use as recently as last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_C._Bain_Correctional_Center
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fygqif/today_i_learned_that_there_was_an/

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TIL a levitating coin shaped like a flying saucer was commissioned by Cameroon's national bank to be used as legal tender in that country, minted with help from Poland's Mint. A tiny motor hidden inside it creates a magnetic field between it and the specially designed base below it, making it float.

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/polish-mint-creates-worlds-first-le…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyftfo/til_a_levitating_coin_shaped_like_a_flying_saucer/

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TIL that the jazz singer Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar best known in the Western world from his collaboration with ex-Beatle George Harrison. She and her half-sister Anoushka were both nominated for Grammys in 2003 (where Norah won in 5 categories).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_Jones?wprov=sfla1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyfczy/til_that_the_jazz_singer_norah_jones_is_the/

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TIL that Sky Group, the British media conglomerate, has trademarked the word "Sky". They made Microsoft change the name of the "SkyDrive" to the "OneDrive" and also sued the developers of the videogame "No Man's Sky"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Sky
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyevpy/til_that_sky_group_the_british_media_conglomerate/

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TIL About The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum which is housed in a converted brassiere factory, located in McLean, Texas. It was officially opened in 1991 and focuses on barbed wire and its history. The museum is thought to have the largest collection of published material concerning barbed wire.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Rope_Barbed_Wire_Museum
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyeiai/til_about_the_devils_rope_barbed_wire_museum/

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TIL that the Richmond Bridge in London was financed through a tontine, with the toll charged to cross the bridge shared between the investors, each receiving a larger share as the others died, and the bridge became free to cross after the final survivor's death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Bridge,_London
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyd6p7/til_that_the_richmond_bridge_in_london_was/

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TIL Michael Bay was under consideration to direct the movie Phone Booth (2002), but he was removed from consideration after the first question he had about the script was, "OK, how do we get this thing out of the damn telephone booth?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_Booth_(film)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fybzhz/til_michael_bay_was_under_consideration_to_direct/

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TIL A permanent move to daylight saving time would prevent 2,054 human injuries, 33 human deaths, and $1.19 billion in damages each year.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134239948/daylight-savings-time-deer-vehicle-crashes
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fybwsl/til_a_permanent_move_to_daylight_saving_time/

The end of daylight saving time means an uptick in vehicles crashing into deer

In a new study, researchers found that deer-vehicle collisions peaked in October and November, partly due to both daylight saving time and deer mating season.
NPR
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TIL that in 2013, the British singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner streamed the recording of his album live for 5 weeks. His home studio in East London was set up with 4 cameras, to allow fans to follow every detail of recording the album – with no producer or engineer, only Faulkner and a few guests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Zoo
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fyaytz/til_that_in_2013_the_british_singersongwriter/

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TIL about Jacques Tits, a French Mathematician who worked in group theory and incidence geometry, and is famous introducing the Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric in mathematics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tits
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fya2hj/til_about_jacques_tits_a_french_mathematician_who/

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TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 18th century, had a bizarre endless appetite. He ate a meal made for 15 people in one sitting, live puppies, cats and snakes and it got so bad while hospitalised he attempted to eat corpses from the morgue, patient's blood and a suspected one year old toddler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fy9n3d/til_that_tarrare_a_man_living_in_the_18th_century/

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TIL In London, there is a woman who takes the tube every day and sits on the platform just to hear the announcement recorded by her husband in 1950.

https://vibetopics.com/2024/09/27/margaret-mccollum/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fy9juw/til_in_london_there_is_a_woman_who_takes_the_tube/
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TIL capybaras live in small family groups of about 10-20; pups are communally nursed by all the females.

https://animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/capybara/
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Capybara Facts for Kids | Animal Fact Guide

Capable of staying submerged for up to 5 minutes, capybaras can press their ears against their heads to keep water out. Learn more at Animal Fact Guide!
admin (Animal Fact Guide)
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