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TIL that Nigel Richards, the greatest Scrabble player of all time, not only won the English championships but also the Spanish and french championships despite never speaking the languages.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 06:22PM by Zxiguess
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TIL In 1893 an envelope cutter named Walter Cowles was drinking at a tavern in London when he boasted he could fit a billiard ball in his mouth and close it fully. He inserted the ball in his mouth but swallowed it subsequently choking to death.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 11:56AM by Ill_Definition8074
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TIL about a hardcore punk band Minor Threat, which brought an alcohol-, sex- and drug-free culture to the youth called the Straight Edge. It was focused on keeping the mind clean by rejecting all recreational drugs and activities. Followers would put a big letter X on their palm
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 04:13PM by Aleksandr_Ulyev
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TIL that the inhabitants of Madagascar (Malagasy people) are the descendants of approximately 30 Indonesian mothers who sailed on a transoceanic voyage 1200 years ago.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 02:44PM by Ineedamedic68
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TIL that William Shatner offered to wrestle a real Bengal tiger that had been brought onto the set of Star Trek: The Original Series, only to quickly back down once he actually saw the animal up close.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 02:22PM by Maximum-Artist448
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TIL that on a 1977 school trip to Washington DC, a senior made a bet to get his classmates and himself set up for an unannounced tour of the White House. With a local payphone he gradually convinced officials, under the guise of reporting for his school's newspaper, to allow the student body inside.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 09:31AM by 60s_timer
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TIL Japanese idol Momoka Tojo was forced by her agency to post a "good night" selfie on X every day for a full year as a "purification" punishment after leaking a photo with her boyfriend. She complied every night, even after leaving her group, before finally regaining her freedom.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 09:23AM by delano1998
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TIL Director Guy Ritchie was married to Madonna from 2000 to 2008 and got 60 million dollars from her after she filed for divorce
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 08:09AM by Shoe_boooo
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TIL a person died in 1974 while working at Pepperidge Farms when he fell into a vat of chocolate, and his name was Robert C.H Hershey
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 05:44AM by LostwaveLunar9999
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TIL that "25 or 6 to 4" means 3:34 or 3:35 AM - it is literally is a song about writing a song in the wee hours of the morning
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 04:34AM by selg2000
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TIL Cabin in the Woods (2011) was meant to have a tie-in with the Valve video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009), serving as an additional DLC level for the game. The collaboration fell through due to MGM's financial troubles, but Valve allowed 3 infected (Tank, Witch Boomer) to be in the film background.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 04:50AM by OfficerSmiles
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TIL Audrey Hepburn secretly delivered messages for the Dutch Resistance as a teenager during WWII and reportedly helped raise money for the resistance through underground performances.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 03:59AM by Bitter-Argument4597
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TIL that Pierce Brosnan was fired from the James Bond series during a 2 minute phone call with the producers.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 02:19AM by stanxv
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TIL Elizabeth Olsen said the Avengers: Infinity War cast learned the movie's ending inside an AC van on the day they filmed it.
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Submitted September 22, 2026 at 01:31AM by Sea-Ask8703
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TIL that Mt. Sunflower, Kansas' highest point, is merely the high point in a farmer's relatively flat field.
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Submitted September 21, 2026 at 10:31PM by DrakeSavory
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TIL Yu-Gi-Oh!'s old exclusive distributor, Upper Deck, lost rights to the game after it turned out they were counterfeiting their own cards
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Submitted September 21, 2026 at 11:24PM by talithaiel
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TIL that the odds of a Canadian NHL franchise not winning the Stanley Cup from 1993 to 2026 are roughly 1 in 2500, or 0.04%. Actuarial organizations use this as an example that "highly unlikely" is not the same as "impossible".
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Submitted September 21, 2026 at 10:02PM by Dizzy-Cartoonist3011
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TIL that Evan Almighty was the most expensive comedy to ever exist at the time, made with a budget of 200 million dollars
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Submitted September 21, 2026 at 10:12PM by tandyman234
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TIL that in France, they passed the "Right to Disconnect law" back in 2017. Making it illegal for companies with over 50 employees to penalize their workers for ignoring work emails/ messages after work hours.
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Submitted September 21, 2026 at 09:45PM by SarahWills95
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TIL that during the selection process for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the U.S. Air Force required candidates to be married. The Air Force believed that having a family provided a psychological safeguard against defection
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Submitted September 21, 2026 at 09:08PM by later-91
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