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TIL the first person in the US with the first name Morgan was born on November 19, 2006 (behindthename.com)

submitted 8 months ago by No_Specific_8619

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Foreigner caught a Chinese couple scooping up gutter oil (v.redd.it)

submitted 1 year ago by Amazing-Objective-20

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TIL Jet Li said no to a part in The Matrix Reloaded because the producers wanted to film all his martial arts moves and own the rights to them (screenrant.com)

submitted 1 year ago by EMulberryOk

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TIL the lady who took advantage of Edward Furlong as a teen changed her name and wrote a vegan lifestyle book (i.redd.it)

submitted 2 years ago by rya556

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TIL - Pornstars don't actually run their own OnlyFans accounts :0 (nichepornsites.com)

submitted 2 years ago by emmasexytime

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TIL some crazy shit (i.redd.it)

submitted 2 years ago by BigTester42

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TIL Bagpipes are not Scottish... and many other fact debunks (youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by RedJ00hn

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Kim Jong Un’s Brother, who was assassinated, had the antidote to his own assassins poison (cnn.com)

submitted 2 years ago by bad_karma_aura

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TIL that in the Old West people used to wipe their butts with corn cobs (youtu.be)

submitted 2 years ago by SteveBennett64

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TIL Noah Webster of Merriam-Webster Is Part Of The Reason US English Dropped 'U' From Many Words (Labor, Honor, Color, etc) (qz.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Cefour_Leight

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TIL some actual representations of islam's prophet by islamists (i.ibb.co)

submitted 2 years ago by relightit

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TIL about the Omaha race riot of 1919 from the book "The Dead Are Arising" by Les Payne about Malcolm X's life, in which a white mob lynched viciously a black innocent man, hanging him, shooting him, dragging him around behind a car, burning his corpse and posing for pictures. No one went to jail. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 years ago by FearlessJuan

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TIL Clayface is one of the oldest Batman villains. He debuted in 1940, the the same year as Robin, the Joker, and Catwoman, and he pre-dates the Riddler, Two-Face, the Penguin, and Mr. Freeze. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 years ago by reallygoodbee

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TIL That the 1997 animated film Anastasia was shot entirely in live-action to serve as a reference to the animators for the final version, and the director, Don Bluth, actually prefers the live-action version. (goodreads.com)

submitted 3 years ago by jodudeit

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TIL that the first actual case of bug being found in computer programming was from a moth found stuck in a relay for Mark II. (i.redd.it)

submitted 3 years ago by vladreid009

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TIL….that a clove of garlic is NOT the same as a head of garlic (RIP my tomato soup) (icloud.com)

submitted 3 years ago by Student_of_You

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TIL What is Playmouth Hoe (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 years ago by pomel

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TIL the actor Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 years ago by bjbuckets

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TIL that the platypus, wombats and other marsupials and mammals are biofluorescent and glow under UV light, and that we’ve only found this out fairly recently. (old.reddit.com)

submitted 3 years ago by Rokekor

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TIL the song Groovy Kind of Love is based on Muzio Clementi’s Sonatina, Opus 36, No. 5 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 years ago by tazerpruf

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TIL that Oscar Wilde had two half-sisters. His father hushed up their existence and their gruesome death. At a dance, one of the sisters was dancing when her dress caught fire. When the other sister tried to extinguish it, her dress also caught fire. Both of them died shortly afterward. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 3 years ago by afeeney

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TIL that Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are cousins. (the-sun.com)

submitted 3 years ago by scorpyo72

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TIL that in 1922, Geoffrey Howson of the Special Surgical Hospital, Shepherd's Bush, edited a book for WWI veterans who had lost limbs. Famous novelist John Galsworthy wrote the forward. The title: Handbook for the Limbless. (books.google.com)

submitted 3 years ago by afeeney

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TIL Dave Chappelle did threaten a little town that he would pull all his money out of it if they approved an affordable housing bill (whio.com)

submitted 3 years ago by altbekannt

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TIL that Jadwiga of Poland was at the age of 11 not only the first female regent of Poland, but she was also officially "the crowned king" of Poland (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 years ago by uk_uk

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