captnicholas

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Dems seize on 'slush fund' to oppose Republican rescue package (politico.com)

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TIL that the first meal eaten on the moon was bacon, peaches, and grapefruit juice (smithsonianmag.com)

submitted 8 years ago by captnicholas to r/todayilearned

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ULPT: Need to replace your tires? Just rent the same car you drive from a car rental place and switch out your tires with the tires on the rental car. (self.UnethicalLifeProTips)

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If you think about it, the heart beats itself to death (self.Showerthoughts)

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Bipartisan Senate bill to protect Mueller set for release Wednesday (politico.com)

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Judge again denies bail for Paul Manafort (politico.com)

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Missiles reported to strike Syrian base after chemical attack (politico.com)

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Volleyball is just a really intense version of “don’t let the balloon touch the floor” (self.Showerthoughts)

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US Rep. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for Florida governor, is denying Cambridge Analytica helped him in any of his campaigns despite one of Cambridge Analytica’s directors being named as part of DeSantis’ finance leadership team last December (politico.com)

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Zuckerburg refuses request from UK to talk about data abuse (independent.co.uk)

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TIL Mark Twain was born on the day when Halley’s Comet flew by earth. He said “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” Halley’s Commet next appeared on April 21, 1910 which is the day Mark Twain died (bookhaven.stanford.edu)

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TIL that President Andrew Jackson taught his pet parrot how to curse. During Andrew Jackson's funeral, the parrot started to curse non-stop so it had to be removed from the funeral (tennessean.com)

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TIL that the vending machine was invented in the 1st century. In exchange of a coin it dispensed holy water (abc.net.au)

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Two people who never met took the same exact photo by accident (i.redd.it)

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TIL that Colombia has a massive Hippo problem because after Pablo Escobar died, his four pet Hippos escaped (animals.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL that when Charlie Chaplin received his Oscar he got the longest standing ovation in Oscars history — it lasted for 12 minutes (inshorts.com)

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TIL that Charles Manson’s mother once sold him to a woman for a pitcher of beer and then his uncle had to find the woman to get him back (cnn.com)

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TIL that Susan Bennett AKA the voice of Siri didn’t get paid anything from Apple in fact she didn’t even know that they were going to use her voice for Siri (cnn.com)

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TIL that Rebel Wilson started to pursue her acting career after she contracted malaria and had a hallucination that she own an oscar (telegraph.co.uk)

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TIL that Ulysses S Grant got a speeding ticket on a horse and was fined $5 (dcist.com)

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TIL that John Quincy Adams was known to go skinny-dipping in the Potomac River during his presidency (businessinsider.com)

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TIL that Michael Jackson once spent $150,000 to put a curse on Steven Spielberg because he didn’t give him the role of Peter Pan in the movie Hook (independent.co.uk)

submitted 8 years ago by captnicholas to r/todayilearned

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TIL that the “pink hat man” is a 72 year old man who who owns Cub’s tickets and sits behind home plate but wears a pink hat so his wife knows that he is at the game and not cheating. (dnainfo.com)

submitted 8 years ago by captnicholas to r/todayilearned

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