No matter what they say, there are some things you don’t learn in school. In fact, there are many, but let’s just all pretend that those volumes of school books devoured back in our childhood years did make a difference.

You see, learning facts is about being world-savvy. Like, when you’re out at the pub quiz competing for beers on the house, you may throw out some of the best Today I Learned’s for a killer checkmate. Formerly known as “Did you know that?” facts, Today I Learned has all their good qualities minus the annoying and needlessly pretentious vibe.

And thanks to the unofficial powerhouse of the knowledge-hungry ones among us, also known as the r/TodayILearned subreddit with 24.8 million members, we now have the most sought-after collection of randomly interesting facts out there. So take your notebooks out, kids, we’re gonna take those brain cells for a ride.

For those who believe that knowledge is power, more hand-picked facts from r/TodayILearned can be found here, here, and here.

#1 Today I Learned

Slaveholders in the US knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that all enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.

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#2 Today I Learned

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has disdain for money and large wealth accumulation. In 2017 he said he didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values. When Apple went public, Wozniak offered $10 million of his stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused to do.

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#3 Today I Learned

The California Genocide, an oft-forgotten event in U.S. history due to occurring at the same time at the California Gold Rush. The Native American population of California decreased from as many as 150,000 in 1848 to 30,000 in 1870. Tribes such as the Yahi were hunted to extinction.

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#4 Today I Learned

A school principal once made a student who’d gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.

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#5 Today I Learned

A pregnant mother with twins lost one fetus in the first trimester and the other developed a coccyx tumor the size of a fetus that was killing it. Doctors removed baby LynLee from the womb, cut off the tumor, then put her back in the womb and she was ‘born again’ healthy 12 weeks later.

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#6 Today I Learned

In 2014, four tenants refused to move out of their homes when developers wanted to create one of the most exclusive residences in Manhattan. Eventually, they all received huge payouts. The last tenant was so savvy and stubborn he received $17 million, plus use of a $2 million residence for life.

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#7 Today I Learned

Susan Travers, the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, waited until she was 91 to write her autobiography so everyone mentioned had already died

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#8 Today I Learned

Mexico passed a law that requires food packages to display large black octagonal “warnings” if the product is high in sugar, sodium, calories, or unhealthy fats.

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#9 Today I Learned

Ancient Egyptians would shave off their eyebrows when their cats died and shave off all body hair (including their head) when their dog died to mourn until it grew back.

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#10 Today I Learned

In 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.

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#11 Today I Learned

People who quit smoking before the age of 40 may live as long as people who never smoked at all. Researchers found a smoker loses roughly 10 years of life to the habit but regained most of that time if they quit before 40. The benefit is increased the sooner before 40 you quit.

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#12 Today I Learned

When Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was 15 years old, his family was going through a rough period. After losing their apartment, his mother Ata Johnson, stopped their car on a Nashville highway and tried to walk into oncoming traffic. The Rock grabbed her and pulled her back, saving her life.

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#13 Today I Learned

A man was killed when he tried to shoot down a 125-year old Saguaro cactus. The man blasted most the way through and poked at one of the plants arms. The 500lb arm then fell crushing him.

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#14 Today I Learned

Vietnamese farmers after the war repurposed external fuel tanks jettisoned by American planes into river canoes, which have lasted for nearly 5 decades.

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#15 Today I Learned

After the murder of his father, Genghis Khan went into poverty, even being enslaved at one point. It wasn’t until he was in his 50’s did he rise to power and become the Khan of Mongolia

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#16 Today I Learned

Leif Erikson was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.

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#17 Today I Learned

There is an Australian pine growing out of an old railroad bridge in the Florida Keys named Fred the Tree. Fred survives with salt spray, lots of sunshine, and no apparent soil. Fred even withstood Hurricane Irma!

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#18 Today I Learned

About brothel candles, which burned for precisely 7 minutes and were heavily used during Victorian times. The individual would pay the fee, light the candle, and when the candle burned out, the session was over.

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#19 Today I Learned

In 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.

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#20 Today I Learned

Charles Lightoller the second officer on the Titanic stayed onboard untill the end. And got trapped underwater until a boiler explosion blew him free. He survived by clinging to a capsized collapsible B. Later he volunteered in WWII and helped evacuate over 120 men from Dunkirk.

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#21 Today I Learned

In 1991, 60 Minutes suggested red wine was the answer to the “French Paradox” (France enjoys a low incidence of heart disease despite a diet high in saturated fats). Within a year, American consumption of wine increased 40% and some wine sellers began promoting their products as “health food”

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#22 Today I Learned

When Prohibition was enacted in USA, it took less than an hour for the first documented violation of it to happen

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#23 Today I Learned

Graffiti artist Banksy sought to trademark his image of a protester throwing flowers. The trademark office denied it on the grounds of him having no interest in selling his work. In the ruling they used a quote from one of Banksy’s books: “copyright is for losers”

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#24 Today I Learned

Steve Jobs never coded for Apple. According to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, he didn’t do any original design and one of Apple’s earliest employees also stated that Woz was the inventor while Jobs was the marketing person.

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#25 Today I Learned

Ninjas would carry crickets or cicadas to disguise their sound when they needed.

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#26 Today I Learned

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “William Wilson”, a story where doppelgangers share a name and similar traits. In the 1980s, there were 2 switch hitter, center fielders, that shared similar traits and backgrounds, playing in the MLB. Their names were William Wilson.

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#27 Til That Sudan Has More Pyramids Than Any Other Country On Earth – Even More Than Egypt. There Are At Least 223 Pyramids In The Sudanese Cities Of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal And Meroë. They Are Generally 20 To 30 Metres High And Steep Sided

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#28 Today I Learned

A sports writer wrote a rude and snarky article about the WNBA even though he had never been to a game. He was confronted by a WNBA star who chided him and invited him to watch her play. Two years later they were married.

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#29 Today I Learned

Irène Curie and her husband received a Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity, 30 years after Irène’s parents received their Nobel Prize. She died due to overexposure to radiation, also just like her parents. Her children are still alive and are also prominent scientists.

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#30 Today I Learned

Min horses are used as blind guides. They have a very wide range of vision, with a range of nearly 350 degrees. Horses are the only guide animals capable of independent eye movement and they can track potential danger with each eye. Horses can see clearly in almost total darkness.

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#31 Til That There Is An Area In The Middle Of The Pacific Ocean In Which Scientists Have Discovered Great White Sharks Congregate At Every Year. They Have Nicknamed This Stretch Of Ocean “The White Shark Cafe”

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#32 Til In 2018 An Oregon Man Stole A Car In Front Of Deputies And LED Them On A 40-Mile Chase. When He Got Arrested, He Explained That He Had Taken Lsd And Thought He Was Living A Real-Life Version Of Grand Theft Auto

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#33 Til Robert Frost Couldn’t Read The Poem He Wrote For John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration Due To The Glare On The Snow Being Too Strong. So He Instead Recited One He Knew From Memory

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#34 Til Elizabeth Blackwell Became The First Woman To Be Accepted At A Medical School In The Us, Because The Students Thought Her Application Was A Prank From A Rival School And Voted To Let Her Attend

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#35 Til The Danish Police Resisted Nazi Command So Fiercely That 1,960 Of Its 10,000 Police Members Were Arrested And Sent To Concentration Camps. Faced With Nazi Demands, The Danish Police Administration Was Inclined To Accepted Them, But The Police Organizations Refused, Leading To The Deportations

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#36 Til Eminem Broke The “Fastest Rap In A #1 Single” World Record Three Times In A Row – After Having Set The Record With 6.46 Words Per Second In “Rap God”, He Then Broke It In “Majesty” At 6.5 Wps And Later Broke It Once Again By Rapping At 7.5 Wps In “Godzilla”

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#37 Today I Learned

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.

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#38 Til Bears At Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center In Mt Have Jobs: Try To Open Coolers/Dumpsters/Containers Of Treats. If Bears Can’t Make More Than A Tiny Hole, The Item Is Certified Bear-Proof. The Gwdc Is The Only Place Where Products Can Earn A Certificate From The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee

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#39 Til When The # And * Keys Were First Put On Phones They Had No Purpose Whatsoever And Were Only Included Because Touch Tone Phones Could Create Up To Twelve Tones

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#40 Til When France Increased The Price Of Cigarettes By 66% Over An Eight-Year Period, The Smoking Rate Among French Executives And Professionals Declined. However, The Smoking Rate Among Manual Laborers Remained About The Same And Among The Unemployed, It Increased

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#41 Til Danny Devito Asks For A Trampoline In His Dressing Room And Uses It As Part Of His Warm-Up Routine

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#42 Til That Wood Ants Practice Chemistry, And Will Synthesize An Antibiotic Substance Using Tree Resin And Formic Acid To Protect The Health Of Their Colony. It Is Considered To Be The Most Advanced Act Of Evolutionary Pharmacology Seen In The Animal Kingdom

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#43 Til Mike Birbiglia Is A Diagnosed Sleepwalker Who Jumped Through A Second Story Window While Dreaming That A Missile Was About To Hit His Hotel. Birbiglia Restrains Himself By Sleeping In A Sleeping Bag And Wearing Mittens At Night

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#44 Til That Women Also Competed As Gladiators In Ancient Rome And There Is A Marble Relief Dating To Around The 2nd Century A.d. Depicting A Bout Between Two Women Dubbed “Amazon” And “Achillia,” Whom The Inscription Says Fought To An Honorable Draw

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#45 Til That Despite Increases In Computer Power, Each Shrek Film Has Taken About Twice As Many Hours To Render As The One Before It. Dreamworks Calls This “Shrek’s Law”

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#46 Til That After Landing On The Moon During Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin Accidentally Damaged The Circuit Breaker That Would Arm The Ascent Engine That Would Get Them Off The Moon. The Astronauts Activated The Engine By Triggering The Circuit With A Felt-Tipped Pen

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#47 Til The People Of Africa Have More Genetic Diversity Than The Rest Of The World Combined

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#48 Til That In 1989, The Buffalo Sabres Goalie Had His Neck Sliced By Another Players Skate, Severing His Carotid Artery, Resulting In So Much Blood Loss That It Caused Eleven Fans To Faint, Two More To Have Heart Attacks, And Three Players To Vomit On The Ice. His Life Was Saved By The Team Trainer

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#49 Til That A Woman Experienced A Brazil Nut Allergy After The Allergen Was Passed To Her From Her Partner’s Semen During Intercourse. The Researchers Believe This To Be The First Case Of A Sexually Transmitted Allergic Reaction

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#50 Til The Beatles Were All Still In Their 20s When They Broke Up. George Harrison Was 26, Paul Mccartney Was 27, John Lennon Was 28, And Ringo Starr Was 29

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#51 Til That Iceland Has Largest Banana Plantation In Europe. They Use Geothermal Energy To Heat Greenhouses, Allowing For The Production Of Tropical Fruits Like Bananas

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#52 Til That “Shaun Of The Dead” Was Considering The Title “From Dusk Till Shaun.” And That “Into The Spider-Verse” Has A “From Dusk Till Shaun” Movie Poster In The Background- Suggesting It Exists In A Parallel Universe

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#53 Til Nearly 8% Of The Human Genome Is Virus Dna. Meaning Some Of Our Ancestors Survived A Virus But Still Carry The Dna It Inserted

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#54 Til That There’s A Grocery Chain In The UK Called Iceland Foods That Once Pursued Legal Action Against Icelandic Companies That Use The Name Iceland In Their Names. Iceland Foods Was Founded In 1970, While The Country Iceland Was Established In 874

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#55 Til In 2018 Nabisco Freed Its Animal Cracker Mascots From Their Cages, Changing A Box Design That Was Used Since 1902

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#56 Til Only 128 People In The United States Are Licensed To Fly Blimps

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#57 Til That The First Polish Encyclopaedia Included Such Definitions As “Horse: Everyone Knows What A Horse Is”, And “Dragon: Dragon Is Hard To Overcome, Yet One Shall Try”

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#58 Til In Stocks, Being “Short” A Stock Means You Have Sold A Borrowed Share, In Hopes That It Gets Cheaper. You Owe A Share Back, But You Are “Short” It Until You Buy It Back To Return To The Lender

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#59 Til Not Only Do Bats Make High-Pitched Sounds For Echolocation, Many Bat Species Also Sing. A Team Of Scientists That Analyzed One Species’ Song Translated It As A Sequence That Opens With A Hello, Then A Gender Identification, Then Some Geographic Information, & Then A “Let’s Talk” Section

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#60 Til In 2001 A Chinese Steel Firm Purchased An Entire Shuttered Steel Mill From Germany For Its Scrap Price, Disassembled It, Shipped It Back To China, And Reassembled It. Production Was Resumed In Less Than Two Years

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#61 Til That The Medici Family Build A Elevated Walkway In Florence In 1565 Just To Avoid Contact With The Common People. They Even Connected It To Their Private Lodge At The Felicica Church And Moved The Ponte Vecchio Meat Market To Avoid The Smells

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#62 Til Judge Judy Earns $47 Million A Year For Taping ‘Judge Judy.’ In An Interview She Said That Every 3 Years She Would Present Her Salary Request To The Cbs TV Distribution President. Once, When He Gave Her A Counter Offer In An Envelope, She Refused To Open It Saying “This Isn’t A Negotiation”

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#63 Til At The Peak Of The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Volkswagen Became The Most Valuable Company In The World For One Day Despite Being On The Brink Of Bankruptcy

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#64 Til That Tolkien’s Dislike Of Snow White LED Him To Prohibit The Disney Studio From Ever Producing His Works

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#65 Til Walt Disney Was Close Friends With J. Edgar Hoover, And Was An FBI Informant For 26 Years

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#66 Til Pole Dancing Became More Common During The Great Depression Since Traveling Performers Would Dance In Tents At This Time. Eventually, These Performers Began To Incorporate The Tent Pole Into Their Striptease Routines

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#67 Til Babylonians Were Using A Rudimentary Form Of Calculus To Calculate Jupiter’s Displacement Each Day Along The Ecliptic, The Path That The Sun Appears To Trace Through The Stars. Historians Had Thought Such Techniques Did Not Emerge Until More Than 1400 Years Later, In 14th Century Europe

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#68 Til That In An Effort To Avoid Raising The Nominal Price Of 5 Cents, Coca-Cola Had Vending Machines That Would Not Dispense A Coke One Out Of Nine Times A Nickel Was Put In

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#69 Til After A Bite From The Inland Taipan, Your Muscles Start To Dissolve Into Your Blood. A Typical Cause Of Death Is Then Kidney Failure Because They Can Not Handle Processing All The Dissolved Muscle Tissue

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#70 Til Despite Her Repeated Claims To Be More Than 85% Correct, A 2013 Article Found That “Psychic” Sylvia Browne Was Accurate In 0/33 Of Her Predictions. For Example, She Had Predicted That She Would Die At Age 88; She Died At Age 77

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#71 Til That There Is A Ancient Monument In Ireland Called Newgrange And Every Winter Solstice Its Chamber Is Illuminated For 17 Minutes By A Beam Of Light Which Reveals The Mysterious Carvings Within

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#72 Til In 1978, Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards Was Convicted Of Heroin Possession In Canada Where He Was Ordered By The Judge To Play A Benefit Concert At The Canadian National Institute For The Blind

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#73 Til A Man In Atlanta Confounded Doctors And Specialists For Over A Year With A Condition Which Did Not Respond To Any Therapies. After He Mentioned That He Played Clarinet In A Dixieland Jazz Band, Researchers Examined His Instrument And Discovered Exophiala Fungus Inside His Mouthpiece

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#74 Til: The Discoverer Of Neutron (James Chadwick) Was A Student Of Discoverer Of Proton (E. Rutherford) Which In Turn Was A Student Of Discoverer Of Electron (J.J. Thomson)

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#75 Til About The Nazi Program To Develop Nuclear Weapons. The Program Suffered From A Lack Of Scientists, As The Politicization Of Research In Nazi Germany Had Pushed Most Scientists To Flee To The United States

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#76 Til That Martin Luther King Jr Was Actually Named Michael King Jr On His Birth. His Father, Aptly Named Michael King Sr, Was A Pastor And Eventually Decided To Rename Himself And His Son To Martin Luther King Jr/Sr After Becoming Inspired By Protestant Reformation Leader Martin Luther

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#77 Til The Communal Chatter Of Snapping Shrimp Colonies On The Ocean Floor Created Enough White Noise That The U.S. Navy Successfully Hid Submarines Near Them During Wwii, Avoiding Detection By Underwater Japanese Hydrophones

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#78 Til That Us President Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge Used To Buzz For His Secret Service And Then Would Hide Under His Desk While They Frantically Searched For Him

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#79 Til That Swearing Emerges By Age Two And Becomes Adult-Like By Ages 11 Or 12. By The Time Children Enter School, They Have A Working Vocabulary Of 30-40 Offensive Words

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#80 Til That The Thick Sheet You Find At The Foot Of Hotel Beds Are Known As Beds Scarves And Are Meant To Keep The Bed Clean If Someone Lies Down With Their Shoes Still On

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#81 Til Of The CSI Effect. Due To Popular TV Shows Exaggerating The Capabilities And Techniques Of Forensic Science In Criminal Investigations, Many Jurors Have Begun To Demand A Greater Amount Of Evidence From The Prosecution During Trials, Raising The Standard Of Proof Needed For A Conviction

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#82 Til Of King Alexander Of Greece Who Died After Being Bitten By A Monkey That Had Attacked His German Shepherd. This Significantly Impacted Balkan History And Winston Churchill Later Wrote, “It Is Perhaps No Exaggeration To Remark That A Quarter Of A Million Persons Died Of This Monkey’s Bite”

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#83 Til That During The 1930’s, Brothers Homer And Langley Collyer Filled Their House With Over 140 Tons Of Debris (Including Guns, Human Organs In Jars, And Fourteen Pianos) Which They Made Into A Booby-Trapped Maze. Langley Was Killed By One Of The Traps In 1947, And Homer, Unable To Escape, Starved

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#84 Til About The Practice Of Widow’s Succession. This Was A Practice Used By Several Countries In The Early 20th Century Were If A Politician Died In Office They Would Be Succeeded By Their Widow. The Practice Resulted In Some Of The Earliest Women To Hold Political Office In Modern Times

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#85 Til: A Hedge Fund Has 35 Days To Close Out A “Failure To Deliver” On A Short Sale

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#86 Til Adam Mattocks Is The Only Aviator To Bail Out Of A B-52 Cockpit Without An Ejector Seat And Survive. The B-52, Carrying Two 3.8-Megaton H-Bombs, Crashed In North Carolina. Upon Reaching An Air Force Base To Explain His Story, Mattocks, An African-American, Was Arrested For Stealing A Parachute

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#87 Til In 1984 David Letterman Introduced The World To “Velcro Jumping” By Proving That With Enough Velcro A Man Could Stick To A Wall. And By The 1990s, It Had Become A Favorite Pub Activity In New Zealand

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#88 Til Of Georgi Dimitrov, An Influential Bulgarian Antifascists Communist. In 1933 He Was Arrested By Nazis Following The Reichstag Fire. He Refused Juridical Counsel, And His Defense And Conduct Became So Famous A Popular Saying Spread: “There Is Only One Brave Man In Germany, And He Is A Bulgarian”

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#89 Til That It Is Illegal To Trade Onion Futures In The United States Due To The 1958 Onion Futures Act, After Two Traders In 1955 Purchased 98% Of The Onions In Chicago And Subsequently Crashed Onion Prices While Holding Short Positions On Onion Futures

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#90 Til The Motel Where Mlk Was Assassinated Is Now The National Civil Rights Museum

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#91 Til Wolverine Dads Often Visit Their Young Until They Reach 10 Weeks Of Age. Sometimes When The Young Reach 6 Months Of Age, They May Reconnect With Their Fathers And Travel Together For A Time

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#92 Til Horses Can’t Vomit Because They Have A Strong Lower Esophageal Sphincter That Acts As A One-Way Valve, Preventing Food From Coming Up

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#93 Til All Us Military Rations Come With A Packet Of Tabasco Sauce, Which Was Introduced By CEO Walter Mcilhenny, A Former General In The Military During Wwii

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#94 Til Contract Killings Made Up 5% Of All Murders In Scotland From 1993 To 2002

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#95 Til The Only Two Countries On The Planet That Make It Illegal To Pass A Stopped And Loading/Unloading School Bus Are The US And Canada

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#96 Til That The Full Moon Always Rises Near Sunset, The First Quarter Moon Near Noon, The New Moon Near Sunrise, And The Last Quarter Moon Near Midnight

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#97 Til About The Craze Of Pet Rocks In 1975. For About 6 Months, They Sold Over One Million Pet Rocks For $4 Each. It Was Just A Rock In A Box With Some Straw And A Care Manual For Tricks To Teach. The Creator Had The Idea In A Bar As His Friends Complained About Their Pets

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#98 Til That Witches Are Banned From Flying Above 150 Meters In The Landlocked African Nation Of Eswatini. Any Witch Caught Flying Their Broomstick Above The Limit Faces Arrest And A Hefty R500,000 Fine According To The Country’s Civil Aviation Authority. There’s No Penalty For Flying Below 150 Meters

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#99 Til When The FBI Went Undercover To Expose The McDonald’s Monopoly Promotion Scam That Occurred Between 1989-2001 They Posed As A Production Company That Interviewed Supposed Winners For TV Commercials And Named It Shamrock Productions With The Byline “‘Cause You’re Just Lucky” Printed On Their Van

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#100 Til There Is A 1,700 Year Old Ethiopian Counterpart Of The Rosetta Stone Called The Ezana Stone. The Inscription Commemorates Ethiopian Military Victories And Their Conversion To Christianity In Their Native Language Ge’ez, As Well As Ancient Greek And South Arabian Sabaen

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#101 Til In X-Men First Class, 2011. Hugh Jackman Used 8 Takes To Try To Get His Line Just Right. The Line Was Originally, “Fuck Off” But On The 8th Take Jackman Improvised By Saying, “Go Fuck Yourself”, Which Became The Line Used In The Film And Also Gave A Genuine Reaction From Mcavoy And Fassbender

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#102 Til Alexander Graham Bell Invented The Metal Detector To Try And Find The Bullet Lodge In President James Garfield. The Device Worked But Had Interference From The Metal Springs In The Bed. The Chief Physician Only Allowed A Search Of The Right Side Of The Body. The Bullet Was On The Left Side

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#103 Til That Venice, Italy Has No Centralized Sewage Treatment Or Modern Sewer System. Septic Tanks Are Being Added But For The Most Part, The Canals And The Tides Do The Job. Tourists Complain About The Smell

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#104 Til After The Uss William D Porter Accidentally Fired A Torpedo At The Battleship Carrying President Roosevelt To The Tehran Conference During Wwii, Other Ships Began Greeting The Porter By Signaling “Don’t Shoot, We’re Republicans”

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#105 Til Censorship Board In Philippines Wanted To Cut Nudity/Sex Scenes From Schindler’s List. Spielberg Refused, And Pulled The Film From Screening In Philippine Cinemas, Which Prompted The Senate To Demand The Abolition Of The Censorship Board

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#106 Til Sushruta, The First Known Plastic Surgeon Specialized In Rhinoplasty I.e. Nose Reconstruction. This Was Important In Ancient India As Convicted Criminals And Women Accused Of Adultry Had Their Noses Amputated As A Mark Of Untrustworthiness. Rhinoplasty Offered Them A Chance To Escape The Stigma

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#107 Til Ronald Reagan Holds The Record For Both The Coldest Inauguration (7 Degrees) And The Record For The Warmest Inaguration (55 Degrees)

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#108 Til That The Common Method For A Spacecraft To Shift Between Two Orbits Is Called A Hohmann Transfer, And That The Guy Who Calculated It (In 1925) Was Inspired By A Science Fiction Book Written In 1897, Which Gave A Generally Correct Explanation Of The Concept Of Orbit Trajectory

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#109 Til That Children From Roosevelt’s Family Would Crawl Through The Space Between Ceilings And Floors In The White House, Where No Living Being But Rats And Ferrets Had Been For Years

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#110 Til The Most Powerful Volcanic Eruption In The Last 7,000 Years, On The Indonesian Island Of Lombok, LED To A Global Mini-Ice Age That Contributed To The Disappearance Of The Greenland Vikings

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#111 Til When Jerry Lewis Taught Film Directing At Usc In The Late ‘60s, George Lucas Was One Of His Students And Steven Spielberg Audited Some Of His Classes. Lewis Later Screened Spielberg’s Short Film Amblin’ (1968) And Told His Students, “That’s What Filmmaking Is All About”

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#112 Til On January 13, 1920, A New York Times Editorial Said Rockets Could Never Work In Space Because In A Vacuum There Was Nothing For Them To Push Against. The Paper Later Said It Regretted The Error

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#113 Til There Is A Diving Beetle Named After Stephen Colbert Because, According To The Naming Scientist, “Stephen Shamelessly Asked The Science Community To Name Something Cooler Than A Spider To Honor Him”

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#114 Til That Ponzi Schemes Are At Their Highest Levels In Ten Years. There Were At Least 60 Major Ponzi Schemes In 2020 Alone, Costing Investors Over $3 Billion. The Sec And Others Say “If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is”

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#115 Til About The ‘Worst Book Ever Written’ Called ‘English As She Is Spoke’, A Portuguese-English Phrasebook Written By A Man Who Did Not Speak English, Instead Relying On A Portuguese–french Phrasebook And A French–english Dictionary

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#116 Til During The Edo Period In Japan, Some Firefighters Set Fires Intentionally So They Could Show Off Their Firefighting Skills In Public Or Create More Business For Themselves Since Some Firefighters Had Construction Businesses. Some Firefighters Were Executed For This

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#117 Til That Two Playstation 1 Games Featured A Scratch And Sniff Disc. Fifa 2001 Smelled Like A Soccer Field And Grand Turismo 2 Smelled Like Car Tires

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#118 Til That Spaceballs Was Originally Going To Be Titled Planet Moron, But Was Changed When A Film Titled Morons From Outer Space Was Released; Spaceballs, Despite The Assumed Innuendo, Was A Result Of Needing “Space” In The Title And Brooks Considering It One Of His Trademark “Screwball” Comedies

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#119 Til Of Canadian Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant, Dispatched To Kill A Female Black Bear Found Eating From A Freezer In A Mobile Home Park. He Complied With The Order To Kill The Mother Bear But Got Fired For Refusing To Kill Her 2 Cubs. He Finally Won A Legal Battle To Vindicate His Decision

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#120 Til Pope John Paul II Liked Yoohoo. During His Visit To Denver, Colorado, He Requested A Couple Of Cases Be Brought Back With Him. Because Popes Don’t Give Commercial Endorsements, The Vatican Was Forced To Release A Statement Denying The Pope Had A Preference For American Chocolate Milk Drinks

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#121 Til About Senator’s Strom Thurmond’s 24h 18min Filibuster To Delay And Obstruct The Passage Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1957

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#122 Til That Darryl Dawkins “Chocolate Thunder”, Who Was Most Famous For His Two Glass Shattering Dunks, Was The First Nba Player To Play Out Of High School. He Once Claimed To Be An Alien From The Planet Lovetron, Where He Spent The Off-Season Practicing “Interplanetary Funkmanship” With GF Juicy Lucy

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#123 Til People In The Us Got Free Flights By Buying Money From The Government. People Would Buy 1$ Coins In Bulk From The Us Mint (Free Shipping) And Pay Off Their Credit Card Bill With The Coins. They Would Buy The Coins With Credit Cards That Awarded Frequent Flyer Miles, Thus Getting Them Free Miles

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#124 Til That There Was A LEGO Mmo That Was Cancelled Because Inappropriate Players Kept Creating Penis’ And Despite The Team’s Best Efforts, Their Software Was Unable To Keep Up With The Detection Of Them

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#125 Til The “Heidi Game” Was A 1968 Football Game Between The Oakland Raiders And The New York Jets. The Raiders Scored Two Touchdowns In The Final Minute To Win By 43–32. However, Nbc Broke Away To Broadcast Heidi Resulting In Many Viewers Missing The Raiders’ Comeback

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#126 Til Stanley Kubrick Hired Composer Alex North To Create The Sound Track To 2001: A Space Odyssey But Later Decided To Replace North’s Music With The First 22 Bars Of ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’. North Wasn’t Aware His Music Had Been Dropped Until He Went To The Film’s New York City Premiere

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#127 The Guillotine Was Still Being Used When The First Star Wars Movie Came Out

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