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TIL that women exposed to music rate men as more attractive than women who aren't (www.myscience.org)

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TIL in 2005 a British Airways 747 (G-BNLG) had an engine flame out and attempted to fly from LAX back to the London Heathrow on 3 engines, it ended up diverting to Manchester Uk instead (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL a message in a bottle originating from Massachusetts by a 5th grader named Ben Lyons in 1997 washed ashore last year in France and was found by Hubert Eriau. Ben's bottle was part of a class p... (www.usatoday.com)

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Original Title: TIL a message in a bottle originating from Massachusetts by a 5th grader named Ben Lyons in 1997 washed ashore last year in France and was found by Hubert Eriau. Ben's bottle was part of a class project he did while studying the ocean currents. Ben began his message with "Dear Beachcomber."

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TIL that when Michael Jackshon died, he was deeply in debt. This was due to dwindling income from not touring in 12 years, while continuing to live the same expensive lifestyle. One forensic analy... (www.billboard.com)

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Original Title: TIL that when Michael Jackshon died, he was deeply in debt. This was due to dwindling income from not touring in 12 years, while continuing to live the same expensive lifestyle. One forensic analyst estimated that he spent between $20 to $30 million more per year than he was earning.

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TIL about "Cool Japan", a Japanese government initiative since 2010 that aims to promote Japan's attractiveness abroad. It does this by focusing on the aspects of Japanese culture that non-Japanes... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL about "Cool Japan", a Japanese government initiative since 2010 that aims to promote Japan's attractiveness abroad. It does this by focusing on the aspects of Japanese culture that non-Japanese people find "cool" such as anime, games, cuisine etc.

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TIL the term Tennis bracelet originated from an incident during the 1987 US Open, when Chris Everett’s diamond bracelet flew off during a serve and they stopped play to search for it. (4cs.gia.edu)

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TIL that famed scientist George Washington Carver had a respiratory infection in his youth which him with an unusually high pitched voice that “startled all who met him.” (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL the "Aztecs" never referred to themselves as that. They called themselves the Mexica (Me-SHEE-ka). The modern use of "Aztec" was coined by a Prussian Scholar in 1810, and derives from a term m... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL the "Aztecs" never referred to themselves as that. They called themselves the Mexica (Me-SHEE-ka). The modern use of "Aztec" was coined by a Prussian Scholar in 1810, and derives from a term meaning "people from Aztlan", a mythical place of origin for several ethnic groups in central Mexico.

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TIL 90% of workers in Iceland are in a union (www.researchgate.net)

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TIL about Mount Athos - A 336 square KM peninsula in Greece where women are prohibited by law from entering and can face up to 2 years of imprisonment if caught (www.newworldencyclopedia.org)

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TIL: Grasshopper are nearly 200 million years older than grass. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL the Czech Republic remains the leader in per capita beer drinking for the 29th year. In 2021, the average Czech drank more than 184 liters of beer. In fact, nine of the top 10 consumers of bee... (www.visualcapitalist.com)

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Original Title: TIL the Czech Republic remains the leader in per capita beer drinking for the 29th year. In 2021, the average Czech drank more than 184 liters of beer. In fact, nine of the top 10 consumers of beer per capita are European nations.

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TIL that a city in Turkmenistan was once the biggest city in the world, until the entire population was massacred by the Mongols. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL: that Otto Von Bismarck managed a posthumous snub of Wilhelm II, by having his own sarcophagus inscribed with the words, “A loyal German servant of Emperor Wilhelm I”. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL as a food item, certain large centipedes are consumed in China, usually skewered and grilled or deep fried. They are often seen in street vendors’ stalls in large cities, including Donghuamen ... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL as a food item, certain large centipedes are consumed in China, usually skewered and grilled or deep fried. They are often seen in street vendors’ stalls in large cities, including Donghuamen and Wangfujing markets in Beijing. Large centipedes are steeped in alcohol to make centipede vodka.

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TIL that Los Pepes, a vigilante group designed to combat Pablo Escobar, was themselves funded by rival drug cartels (notably the Cali Cartel) and had links themselves with law enforcement. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL about the Dickin medal which was created in 1943 in the UK to award the work of animals in World War II. It has been awarded 75 times, most recently in 2023 to Bass, a Belgian Malinois of the ... (www.pdsa.org.uk)

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Original Title: TIL about the Dickin medal which was created in 1943 in the UK to award the work of animals in World War II. It has been awarded 75 times, most recently in 2023 to Bass, a Belgian Malinois of the US Marine Special Operation Command.

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TIL the Chinese had incense clocks in which a trail of an incense with a known rate of combustion was laid out under a labyrinth and the time calculated. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL: That the iconic Black Betty by Ram Jam (1977) is a white appropriation of a black folk song first recorded in 1933 by an inmate of a Sugar Land, TX Prison Farm. (youtu.be)

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TIL 'Glugging' is a real scientific phenomenon and not just a homophone. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL with its 26th season, south park passed Arthur to become the second longest running animated series of all time (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL after Space Invaders received an officially licensed port to the Atari 2600 in 1980, its availability on the console quadrupled the system's sales. (www.pastemagazine.com)

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TIL Sperm Whales consume roughly twice as much seafood as all of humanity combined per year. With Sperm Whales (the largest toothed predators) consuming roughly 300 million tonnes per year and hum... (www.fisheries.noaa.gov)

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Original Title: TIL Sperm Whales consume roughly twice as much seafood as all of humanity combined per year. With Sperm Whales (the largest toothed predators) consuming roughly 300 million tonnes per year and humans consuming about 160 million tonnes. (Further sources in comments)

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TIL Jenna Ortega choreographed the "Wednesday dance" (www.youtube.com)

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TIL: The first and last fatalities of building the Hoover Dam were a father and his son. They died on the same day, 14 years apart. (bouldercityreview.com)

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