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TIL about the Mojave megaphone, a large, megaphone-shaped mystery object is bolted to two rocks on top of a 100-foot hill along a remote strip of desert between the towns of Baker and Ludlow, CA.
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Submitted July 5, 2026 at 04:53AM by fjbruzr
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TIL Neapolitan ice cream was originally pistachio, vanilla, and cherry (green, white, and red), matching the Italian flag.
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Submitted July 5, 2026 at 04:23AM by goodtrackrecord
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TIL that after Christopher Eccleston left his role as the Doctor in Doctor Who, the BBC made a false statement about his reasons for leaving, and subsequently blacklisted him. Eccleston has since said he would not return to the show unless the producers responsible were sacked.
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Submitted July 5, 2026 at 04:38AM by Sebastianlim
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TIL the indie pop band Her's and their tour manager were all killed in a car crash caused by a wrong-way driver while on tour in the U.S. in 2019.
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Submitted July 5, 2026 at 12:52AM by Euphoric_Effort_9816
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TIL the U.S. Military shot live goats and pigs to train medics to treat battlefield wounds, in a recently ended practice.
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Submitted July 5, 2026 at 12:02AM by Mulliganasty
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TIL that when Robin Givens went public about being abused by Mike Tyson, the public sided so heavily with Tyson that Givens was named the "Most Hated Woman in America," agents and producers refused to work with her, and a CNN poll showed that 93% of respondents blamed her for the breakup
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Submitted July 5, 2026 at 12:04AM by Competitive_Swan_130
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TIL NASA discovered dozens of previously unknown bacterial species living inside its ultra-sterile spacecraft clean rooms despite disinfecting them.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 10:48PM by cryptic_dcoder
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TIL Halle Berry was given a fake script for X-Men: The Last Stand that included a fake plotline which centered on Berry's character Storm in order to trick Berry into signing on for the film. Matthew Vaughan was originally going to direct it, but quit after learning about the fake Halle Berry script
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 11:04PM by tyrion2024
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TIL that Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! Died on July 4th while saving an American Soldier from drowning
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 10:25PM by TX_Templar
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TIL that at an air show in Texas in 1976, a restored B-29 aircraft was featured in a reenactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This was followed by a complaint from the Japanese government which the U.S. embassy had to apologize for.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 09:02PM by Hemorrhoid_Eater
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TIL Casu martzu (rotten cheese) is an Italian cheese that contains live maggots from the cheese fly used for fermentation in Sardinia. Despite the EU ban for hygiene-health concerns, it is still sold on the black market. In 2019, the illegal production worth was estimated to be €2–3 million
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 07:29PM by CraftyFoxeYT
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TIL about Princess Caraboo. Mary Baker was an English impostor. Wearing exotic clothes who was speaking an unknown language, posing as the fictional Princess Caraboo, Baker pretended to come from a far-off island kingdom, fooling the local gentry before being unmasked.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 06:36PM by johnsmithoncemore
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TIL a species thought extinct, the black-footed ferret, was rediscovered after a ranch dog brought home a dead one which kickstarted its conservation comeback.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 06:09PM by cryptic_dcoder
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TIL Not only did the Spartans resist minting any gold or silver coins until 310 BC, but their iron currency was quenched in vinegar during the minting process, making the currency even less valuable than the raw iron that was used to make it
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 07:07PM by Mors_Acerba
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TIL that the United States had 134 blimps built by Goodyear for WW2. Only one was lost to enemy action, with the K-74 being shot down by the German U-134 off the coast of Florida. The entire crew survived for 8 hours treading water, until one was killed by a shark mere minutes before their rescue.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 02:50PM by Roselucky777
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TIL On July 4, 1826-exactly 50 years after the adoption and signing of the Declaration of Independence-Founding Fathers and former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both passed away hours apart due to failing health. James Monroe, the 5th president, would die 5 years later on July 4, 1831.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 05:07PM by Pathetic_lriG43
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TIL that Woody and Jessy from the Toy Story Franchise are canonically siblings and not a couple!
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 04:41PM by We_Are_Charlie_Kirk_
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TIL Alan Rickman thought the script for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was "terrible" & asked his friends to "punch up" his scenes by giving him better lines. When he told director Kevin Reynolds about it, Reynolds said he could add in whatever he liked. Rickman then won a BAFTA for his performance.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 04:33PM by tyrion2024
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TIL a flying boat flew over Mecca, during Hajj, in the middle of WW2, while trying to return home from New Zealand to United States.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 02:11PM by The_Student_Official
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TIL Victoria (2015) is one of the few feature films shot in a single continuous take. Although, its budget only permitted 3 attempts to capture that one take. After the first 2 attempts didn't go well, the director gave the cast a "hairdryer speech" before the final attempt which was successful.
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Submitted July 4, 2026 at 02:00PM by tyrion2024
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