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TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow is not just a harmless grifter

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TIL March is Irish American heritage month, but we don't have a British-American, or Scottish-American heritage month.

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TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks

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There are French controlled islands off the coast of Newfoundland (Canada)

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Some owls have skinny long legs

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Vladamir Putin played the piano and sang 'Blueberry Hill' in English

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TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths

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TIL There's a mostly herbivorous spider in Mexico and central America

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TIL there is a monument to the peer review process in Moscow, Russia

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TIL some cities (like NYC) pump nitrogen into their phone lines to keep water out.

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TIL only 3% of manufactured foods sold in the U.S. are deemed "healthy" by the Food and Drug Administration

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TIL the etymology of british isles names

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TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, a psychological concept wherein you strategically fail to perform something you don't actually want to do

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TIL there is a meat loving sea fleas that casually nibble on your skin at the beach but in rare sever cases it can cause real injuries

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TIL - The Library of Congress has a collection of slave stories, records and photos

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TIL a woman delivered three minutes of Patton Oswalt's 9-minute Parks and Rec Star Wars filibuster speech at a real Michigan city council meeting in 2019.

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TIL There was a 1964 tsunami in Alaska, that reached 170 feet above sea level

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TIL- Ben Stiller performed Jesus Christ Superstar on Conan Obrien

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TIL the smallest body in the solar system with rings is a small icy rock 160 mi (257.5 km) across. It may have a 3.73 mi (6 km) across moon.

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TIL that Eminem opened a restaurant in Detroit called Mom's Spaghetti

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TIL Dane Cook holds the record for the longest set at the Laugh Factory at 7 hours and 34 minutes on January 2, 2008.

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TIL the reason doorbells go "ding-dong" is because of Handel's opera The Messiah

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TIL most ancient texts were read out loud and it was strange if someone read to themself

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TIL Sweden was one of the few countries to grant asylum to Vietnam War resisters and deserters. Over 1,000 people were granted asylum status between 1968 and 1973, two thirds of which deserted the war

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TIL about forced molting where chickens are intentionally starved for 7-14 days to increase their rate of egg production afterwards

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TIL- Monopoly was stolen from a game called The Landord's Game

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TIL Canadian Bacon is Not a Canadian Thing; Hawaiian Pizza, On The Other Hand, Is Invented in Canada.

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TIL 4 people died (including a child) and over 200 were seriously injured after two men stole a caesium-137 radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap, hoping to make money.

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TIL that Sir David Attenborough is largely responsible for tennis balls being yellow (or green, depending on who you ask).

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TIL about The Day of the Locust, a 1939 book and 1975 movie that have a main character named "Homer Simpson"

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TIL that holding a left mouse button pressed over a youtube video, speeds it up x2 until you release the button

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TIL that shirt buttons are on the right for men, but on the left for women.

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TIL about Robert Richards, a Du Pont heir who avoided jail time after sexually abusing his 3 year old daughter

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TIL - the .ch country code is for Switzerland.

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TIL the Ancient Romans could have played D and D because they (and the Egyptians) invented the 20-sided die.

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TIL the word "stadium" derives from the Ancient Greek word "stadion" which meant exactly 600 human feet. Because the length of a human foot varies, this means it is between about 150 and 210 meters.

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TIL that likely the very first person to ever survive rabies via inoculation was a 9 year old boy named Joseph Meister, who was infected in 1885 and inoculated by Louis Pasteur.

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TIL the opera song used in recent Google Chrome ads was originally composed for the 2015 Steve Jobs biopic

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TIL that a year after an officer pleaded guilty to lying to a judge to get the warrant to search Breonna Taylor's apartment, no one involved has served a day of jail time

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TIL a fleet of electric taxi cars was first introduced to London, UK in 1897

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TIL The sunrise/set duration changes throughout the year

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TIL Where the word "scupper" comes from

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TIL the correct spelling of "nowadays"

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TIL South Carolina grows more than twice as many peaches than Georgia

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TIL - Laboratory experiments show that bacteria really do eat and digest plastic

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TIL of "feedback" where the pork industry intentionally feeds dead disease-infected piglets and their feces to adult breeding pigs

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TIL of Naba Baongo II, a sub-national monarch in Burkina Faso. In 2015, he played a key role in ending a military coup in the country peacefully, without any bloodshed. His kingdom is 528+ years old

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The CDC Monitors Your Waste for Signs of Covid-19

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TIL in the 17th century, the San people in Southern Africa created rock art depicting colonial ships and colonists following first contact

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[TIL] Lobster's have two bladders that are located beneath their brain. They release urine to communicate with each other.

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TIL of Taos Pueblo, a Native American 'Pueblo' built between 1000CE and 1450CE, containing some of the oldest continuously inhabited houses still occupied in the US

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TIL in 1956, Malta had a referendum on whether or not it wanted to be fully integrated with the United Kingdom. 76% voted 'Yes'. The referendum result was ignored. In 1964 Malta gained independence

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TIL in 2013, an Italian mafia "Ndrangheta" made more money than McDonald's and Deutsche Bank combined (€53bn / £44bn)

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TIL John Astin, the father of Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee), auditioned for the part of Gandalf, & had previously starred in Peter Jackson's horror comedy 'The Frighteners'

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TIL of Supai, Arizona, the only place in the US where mail is still delivered by mules. The community has been referred to as "the most remote community" in the contiguous United States

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TIL that following the Roman departure from Britain (410 CE), systematic construction of paved highways in the UK did not resume until the early 18th century

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