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TIL about "moon trees" (www.express.co.uk)

posted by angeredwhackjob

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TIL there used to be plagues... of dancing (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by Dii_Casses

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TIL there is a statue of Columbo in Budapest, Hungary (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by jobes

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TIL: I've been using my toilet plunger incorrectly. (www.youtube.com)

posted by GuyIDisagreeWith

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Project Feels: How USA Today, ESPN and The New York Times are targeting ads to mood (digiday.com)

posted by Justintoxicated

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Missouri allows open containers of alcohol / passengers to drink in moving vehicles (www.whig.com)

posted by doggone

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TIL that "Monkey Island" is a sort of deck located at the topmost accessible height of the ship and just above the bridge. (www.marineinsight.com)

posted by GuyIDisagreeWith

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TIL that after Apollo 11 was recovered by USS Hornet, the astronauts were quarantined in a converted mobile home on the flight deck in case they picked up some alien disease from the moon (useruploads.phuks.net)

posted by Dii_Casses

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TIL that Dick Bong is the top flying ace American fighter pilot during WW2 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

posted by PhunkyPlatypus

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TIL that the testicles of a Right Whale weighs one ton. (weightofstuff.com)

posted by GuyIDisagreeWith

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TIL that ticks can survive underwater for two weeks. (www.sciencedirect.com)

posted by GuyIDisagreeWith

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TIL that before the Covid vaccine, Moderna has never brought a product to market, or gotten any of its nine or so vaccine candidates approved for use by the FDA. It has also never brought a product to the third and final phase of a clinical trial. (web.archive.org)

posted by jobes

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Neanderthals appeared to have been a lot smarter than we originally thought (www.smithsonianmag.com)

posted by Valdus

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TIL - Mario Cuomo Campaign Slogan "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" in Race against Ed Koch (nypost.com)

posted by Justintoxicated

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Today I learned in 1979 my parents dressed for Halloween as a black face pimp and a whore

posted by PhunkyPlatypus

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TIL France still has territory in North Anerica (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by angeredwhackjob

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TIL Mick Fleetwood is still alive (twitter.com)

posted by doggone

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TIL the US Postal Service delivers mail to the bottom of the Grand Canyon via mule train (historydaily.org)

posted by Dii_Casses

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TIL Iceland had a reality TV show called 'Keeping Up With the Kattarshians' where kittens lived in a tiny house and hidden cameras recorded them (time.com)

posted by jobes

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TIL During the Cultural Revolution in China, Red to Meant Go and Green Meant Stop at Traffic Lights (www.theguardian.com)

posted by ohphukimintrouble

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TIL that the state of Florida is shaped somewhat like a gun.

posted by Handroid7

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Today I Learned Julia Child's Last Meal Was French Onion Soup (www.latimes.com)

posted by OeeThaGreat

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Today I learned that I used to jerk it to "Pennsatucky" from Orange is the new black

posted by PhunkyPlatypus

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TIL NZ has more pipe bands per capita than Scotland (news.bbc.co.uk)

posted by ohphukimintrouble

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TIL that cops don't like it when people use their turnarounds in highway medians.

posted by Butler_crosley

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