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TIL MLB Player Ty Cobb beat up a heckling fan with no hands stating “I don't care if he has no feet!”
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TIL that as of 2022, there had never been a recorded death at any legal supervised drug injection site worldwide
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TIL One of Edison's original intended applications of the phonograph was to make books accessible to blind people
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TIL French children were served wine at school until 1981.
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TIL that Pakistan has an estimated 3.5-4 million bonded labors in the brick kiln industry. Also known as debt bondage, uneducated workers are trapped as modern slaves unable to pay their debts. They are forced to work until their debt is paid off.
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TIL English pensioner Peter Oakley was the most subscribed YouTuber in 2006, reaching that position in just over a week, but held it for only 28 days. His channel was the first to reach 20,000 subscribers
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TIL a 9-year-old girl researched the decibel levels of public hand dryers after noticing her ears were ringing after using one. Nearly 4 years later, her research was accepted into the Canadian journal Paediatrics & Child Health, and Dyson planned to have her meet with an acoustic engineer.
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TIL the United States once attempted to sue Coca-Cola and force them to remove caffeine from their products in "United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola"
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TIL that while the exact origins of the Abrahamic religions is murky, the first Complete Abrahamic text, the Torah, dates back to 400BC, and was compiled for the Persian Empire
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TIL that in 1984, "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody song "Eat It" went No. 1 in Australia, surpassing the original, Michael Jackson's "Beat It," which only hit No. 3 in that country. "Eat It," personally approved by Michael Jackson, went gold in multiple countries and landed Yankovic a Grammy Award.
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TIL that in the 1980s, realizing large emergencies would overwhelm first responders, the US government created the Community Emergency Response Training program, which provides free emergency/disaster training to all US citizens.
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TIL that the tallest cliff on Earth is a 4100 foot drop on Mt. Thor in Canada.
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TIL that time moves faster at the top of a mountain than at the sea level. This happens because gravity bends time, so the further you are from Earth's core, the faster clocks tick.
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TIL that the land in Mumbai, India used to be islands until they were merged with land reclamation projects in 1845.
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TIL that 10 of the 12 largest high school gymnasiums in the USA are located in the state of Indiana.
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TIL that about 62% of Argentina’s population has some degree of Italian ancestry. Argentina has the second-largest community of Italians outside of Italy.
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TIL that every extra 4 inches of body height raises cancer risk by 11% for women and 6% for men
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TIL that Saint Lucia, the tiny island country in the Caribbean, is the only sovereign state in the world named after a woman (Saint Lucy of Syracuse)
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TIL the gaur is the world's largest wild cattle species, with bulls standing up to 2.2 m (7.2 ft) at the shoulder and weighing as much as 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Despite often being mistaken for descendants of the extinct aurochs, gaurs are actually a parallel relative that evolved alongside them
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TIL that December 25 being the birthday of Jesus was decided by pope Julius I around year 350, and nobody really knows why Julius made this decision and chose this specific date. There are various theories, but his actual reasoning for the decision is lost history.
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TIL about the "Wicked Bible", a printing of the King James Bible which accidentally omitted the word "not" from "Thou shalt not commit adultery"
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TIL Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse, wrote poetry which wasn't always well received. After Philoxenus, another poet, criticised his work, Dionysius imprisoned him for a day. He then released him, read him another poem and asked for his opinion. Philoxenus replied "take me back to the quarries"
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TIL the "black" you see with your eyes closed isn't black - it's called Eigengrau ("intrinsic grey"). Even in total darkness your retina fires faint random noise, so your brain never receives true black; it generates a dim grey static floor instead.
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TIL about the obsolete scientific theory of Racial Senescence, that species would “grow old” like individuals, and supposed signs of “evolutionary old age” signaling imminent extinction were increasing size and more horns or spikes on the body. This was thought to be how the dinosaurs died out.
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TIL that Mexico banned cartoon mascots, celebrities, and animated characters from unhealthy food packaging in 2021 to curb child-targeted advertising and combat rising rates of childhood obesity and diabetes.
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