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TIL that the Chevy Suburban has a Hollywood Star, the first dedicated to an inanimate object. It has been featured in 1750 films, has made a movie appearance every year since 1952
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Submitted 2026-09-01T13:07:01Z by Jabrono
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TIL the last eight years of Sweden’s King Charles XIII’s life, his health deteriorated badly after repeated strokes, severe memory loss and eventually he could barely communicate. Napoleon’s former marshal effectively ran the country while Charles remained king in name. Charles died in 1818.
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Submitted 2026-09-01T13:05:00Z by carboncopy95437
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TIL British Isrаelism is a pseudohistorical belief that the people of Great Britain are "genetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants" of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Isrаel. It was popular during the 19th century with numerous organizations being set up throughout the Empire.
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Submitted 2026-09-01T12:51:30Z by Skychu768
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TIL on September 9, 2002, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second human to set foot on the moon, was walking outside a Beverly Hills hotel when a conspiracy theorist started harassing him and accusing him of lying about the Apollo 11 moon landing. Incensed, Aldrin punched him in the face.
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Submitted 2026-09-01T12:50:08Z by Acrobatic-Post9811
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TIL future President Chester Arthur kept a man employed under him in the New York Customs House despite the job being Republican patronage and the employee in question being a Democrat because Arthur was a huge fan of the man's books. The employee? Herman Melville.
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Submitted 2026-09-01T12:16:28Z by Greene_Mr
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TIL 14,300 years ago a solar storm that was at least 10 times more intense than the Carrington Event of 1859 occurred
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Submitted 2026-09-01T12:00:55Z by Better_March5308
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TIL that Ariana Richards, who played Lex Murphy in Jurassic Park, auditioned for the part by sending a video tape of her screaming. Spielberg chose her after her audition scream was the only one was loud enough to wake up his sleeping wife, and cause her to go check on their children.
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Submitted 2026-09-01T07:21:14Z by Sebastianlim
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TIL that a seriel killer murdered his final victim by killing a fellow inmate using C4 explossives.
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Submitted 2026-09-01T06:27:48Z by Hellaciousstasis
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TIL A study showed that by driving more than 30 minutes a day increased your risk of overweight and obesity than those who drove for less than 30 minutes a day. More driving can lead to frequent visits to drive-thru, meaning more fast food
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Submitted 2026-09-01T04:48:40Z by ubcstaffer123
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TIL Andre Geim is the only person in the world (so far) who has won Ig Nobel and Nobel prizes - the former for levitating a frog in 1997 and the latter for co-discovering graphene with Konstantin Novoselov in 2004.
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Submitted 2026-09-01T03:28:03Z by YappinZappin
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TIL the lightest recorded adult, Lucía Zárate, weighed just 4.7lbs (2.1kg) and stood at about 2'3 tall (68cm)
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Submitted 2026-09-01T02:27:22Z by Ophelia_Y2K
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TIL Odysseus is ultimately killed by his illegitimate son by Circe in the Telegony, a follow-up poem to the Odyssey in the Epic Cycle
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Submitted 2026-09-01T02:01:32Z by Mr_Westerfield
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TIL former contract killer turned boxing coach Dennis "Cutty" Wise from The Wire is named after a real killer who got out of jail, quit gang life, and abecame an anti-violence advocate. However, the real Dennis Wise was only released from prison in 2017, nearly a decade after The Wire happened.
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Submitted 2026-08-31T23:25:42Z by ProfessionalGear3020
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TIL about Gregory of Nyssa (c.335 – c. 394). An Orthodox Christian Saint Who Was The First Person In Recorded History To Have Written Against All forms Of Slavery, Declaring The Institution Inherently Sinful.
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Submitted 2026-08-31T23:03:37Z by Key4Lif3
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TIL frisson, the tingling and goosebumps music can produce in about 50% of people isn’t uniquely musical. It can also be triggered by intense moments of understanding, like during a scientific breakthrough, or during a powerful religious ceremony.
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Submitted 2026-08-31T19:33:53Z by UltimateOreo
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TIL that in 1803, a mob led by Col. Harrison and his regiment attempted to 'tar and feather' an ill future-President Andrew Jackson. Instead of hiding, Jackson threw his door wide open and dared Harrison to lead his men and not follow them. The mob dissolved.
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Submitted 2026-08-31T18:13:22Z by Flashy_Combination32
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TIL Mosul Dam in Iraq, holding back enough water to threaten up to 1.5 million people, sits on dissolving gypsum bedrock and requires 24/7 cement injection just to exist
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Submitted 2026-08-31T17:51:48Z by PerezGosented
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TIL that the Battle of Shiloh (1862) resulted in more American causalities than the total number of casualties from all previous American wars.
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Submitted 2026-08-31T16:55:18Z by MrMojoFomo
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TIL NASA lost contact with a spacecraft for over 12 years, only for an amateur astronomer to rediscover its signal in 2018.
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Submitted 2026-08-31T14:52:56Z by signaldecoderr
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TIL the largest meteorite ever found in the US (~15.5 tons), was found by Ellis Hughes in 1902 on land owned by the Oregon Iron and Steel Company. He spent about three months secretly hauling it mile to his own property on a home-built cart and charged admission to see it.
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Submitted 2026-08-31T14:52:53Z by dinosaruman
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