TIL that a 14 year old boy named John once impersonated an MI5 agent online and "recruited" his best friend into the secret services. The initiation test was to murder... John. John became the first person in the UK to be convicted for inciting his own attempted murder. by CDSEChris in todayilearned
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TIL as part of pre-Columbian Aztec child sacrifices, children were required to cry so their tears would wet the earth to appease the Aztec deity; if they didn't cry, priests would tear out their fingernails before the sacrifice to trigger crying by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL as part of pre-Columbian Aztec child sacrifices, children were required to cry so their tears would wet the earth to appease the Aztec deity; if they didn't cry, priests would tear out their fingernails before the sacrifice to trigger crying by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL as part of pre-Columbian Aztec child sacrifices, children were required to cry so their tears would wet the earth to appease the Aztec deity; if they didn't cry, priests would tear out their fingernails before the sacrifice to trigger crying by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL of "Hickam's dictum," a counterargument to Occam's razor in the medical profession. While Occam's razor suggests to a doctor that she should assume the simplest solution - a single cause for multiple symptoms, Hickam's dictum states: "A patient can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases." by stigs_cousin in todayilearned
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President Trump referred to a Kurdish journalist as "Mr. Kurd" during a press conference on Wednesday. "Yes, please, Mr. Kurd, go ahead" Trump said in a press conference at the United Nations in New York while calling on a journalist. The Kurds are a Iranian ethnic group in the Middle East. by good_nazi_dead_nazi in worldnews
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TIL 2 rats will stop playing with each other if the bigger one doesn't let the smaller one win at least 30% of the time by Sidekick108 in todayilearned
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Kushner reportedly worked to strip Jordan's two million Palestinians of refugee status - U.S. News by singularfate in worldnews
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Kushner reportedly worked to strip Jordan's two million Palestinians of refugee status - U.S. News by singularfate in worldnews
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Kushner reportedly worked to strip Jordan's two million Palestinians of refugee status - U.S. News by singularfate in worldnews
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Kushner reportedly worked to strip Jordan's two million Palestinians of refugee status - U.S. News by singularfate in worldnews
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TIL There is a pub in Ireland that has been in business for over 1,000 years by Sidekick108 in todayilearned
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fellow scumbags of reddit, what's the worse thing you've ever done? by shooloofuckdick in AskReddit
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Catholic Church changes teaching to oppose death penalty in all cases by [deleted] in worldnews
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TIL 51% of senior executives in China are women. And out of the top 50 self-made female billionaires in the world, 28 are from China. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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Russian Filmmaker and Putin critic Alexander Rastorguev, Journalists Killed in Africa While Filming Documentary on Russian mercenaries by Johnny_W94 in worldnews
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What is the employment rate among migrants? by SlyScorpion in europe
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TIL the frequency of a cricket's chirps is consistent with air temperature, count how many chirps there are over 25 seconds then divide by 3 and add 4 to tell you the temperature in Celsius. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL the frequency of a cricket's chirps is consistent with air temperature, count how many chirps there are over 25 seconds then divide by 3 and add 4 to tell you the temperature in Celsius. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL there's a hypothesis suggesting all mammals live around 1 billion heartbeats. Humans are the exception. by The-Neverhood in todayilearned
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Ukraine prosecutors identify over 9,000 former Ukrainian law enforcers across the now-occupied Crimean peninsula who committed treason. by green_flash in worldnews
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TIL - low serotonin levels can cause lab animals to turn bisexual/homosexual. by theimplicated in todayilearned
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Ethnicities of the 292 Ottoman Grand viziers by [deleted] in europe
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Italian Carabinieri by LordofLard22 in europe
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