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05 июля 2025 17:49

TIL Napoleon was once attacked by a horde of bunnies during a hunting event: the tame rabbits were released all at once and charged him en masse, mistaking it for feeding time [Source]

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05 июля 2025 15:49

TIL that France's second-largest airport, Nice Côte d'Azur, had to close a runway for 5 hours due to a snail invasion. Heavy rains drove hundreds of thousands of snails onto the tarmac, covering it in slime and forcing a massive cleanup operation. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 14:49

TIL that in Romania, witches are officially recognized as professionals and have to pay taxes like everyone else. Since 2011, they’re required to register their services, issue receipts, and contribute to health and pension funds. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 12:49

TIL that in 1955, Dodge had a special custom package on their custom Royal Lancer to appeal to women buyers. The LA Femme was a two tone punk over white body and had such accessories as a matching purse and lipstick [Source]

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05 июля 2025 10:49

TIL When Kentucky Fried Chicken first entered the Chinese market in the 1980s, its slogan "It's finger lickin' good!" was mistranslated as "Eat your fingers off." The error was later corrected. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 06:49

TIL that a Greek man living in Canada who specialized in Chinese food invented the Hawaiian pizza [Source]

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05 июля 2025 05:49

TIL about the Goiânia Accident. A piece of radioactive material was stolen from a hospital in Brazil leading to four deaths, and 112,000 possible exposures. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 01:49

TIL After Mario Puzo won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for The Godfather, having had no prior experience writing screenplays, he bought a book on screenwriting. The book's instruction was basically "Study The Godfather" [Source]

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04 июля 2025 23:49

TIL Paul Rudd, who made an appearance on the final episode of Friends, saw the entire cast was crying, and to lighten the mood, went up to a sobbing Jennifer Aniston and said, “We did it, huh? What a ride.” She did not find it funny. [Source]

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04 июля 2025 20:49

TIL that Geoff Peterson, the animatronic human skeleton who served as the sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, was designed and built by MythBusters' Grant Imahara. [Source]

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04 июля 2025 18:49

TIL that the Tata family, one of India's most prominent business dynasties and the founders of the Tata Group, are Zoroastrians. An ancient Persian religion with fewer than 100,000 adherents worldwide. [Source]

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04 июля 2025 17:49

TIL that David Attenborough has more letters after his name than in it [Source]

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04 июля 2025 15:49

TIL there is an Independence From Britain Day celebration almost EVERY WEEK from countries across the world! [Source]

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04 июля 2025 13:49

TIL that Zohran Mamdani's Mother, Golden Lion winner & Oscar, BAFTA, & Golden Globe nominee, Mira Nair, was offered to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), and was convinced by Zohran to turn it down in favor of making The Namesake (2006) and to cast Kal Penn in it. [Source]

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04 июля 2025 11:49

TIL Billy Bob Thornton has a phobia of antique furniture and certain types of silverware. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 16:49

TIL The 1977 exploitation horror film Last House on Dead End Street had a budget of $3,000. However only $800 was actually spent on making the film; the remaining $2,200 was instead used to purchase drugs. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 14:49

TIL Keiko Fukuda, a Japanese-American martial artist, was the highest-ranked female judoka in history. She became the first woman to hold the rank of 9th dan and is also the first and, so far, only woman to have been promoted to 10th dan in judo. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 13:49

TIL the founder of McDonald's Japan, Den Fujita, stated "if we eat McDonald's hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become white, and our hair blonde" as part of his strategy to sell McDonald's in Japan. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 10:49

TIL the McDonalds character Grimace was originally introduced as an antagonist known as "Evil Grimace" and had two pairs of arms which were used to steal milkshakes and Cokes. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 08:49

TIL Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name [Source]

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05 июля 2025 06:49

TIL about a congential disorder in humans where the walls of the bladder, vagina, and anus fuse together, creating a cloaca [Source]

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05 июля 2025 02:49

TIL that David Attenborough has more letters after his name than in it. His full title is Sir David Attenborough OM GSMG CH CVO CBE FRS FSA FRSA FZS FRSGS FRSB. [Source]

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05 июля 2025 00:49

TIL that the company Hoover in 1992 offered 2 free flights to customers if they bought products for at least a 100 dollars. The flights were worth 600 dollars each and Hoover underestimated the customers fervour to obtain them and tried to go back on their offer and caused public outrage. [Source]

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04 июля 2025 22:49

TIL that in 2008 humans sent a message to the planet Gilese 581c. It will arrive in 2029. If life on the planet responds, we would first hear back from them in 2050. [Source]

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04 июля 2025 18:49

TIL in Dec 1943, the B-24 Leon Crane was copiloting experienced engine failure & crashed into an Alaskan mountaintop. He was the only survivor of the 5 crew after he managed to bail in time. He then survived 84 days in the wilderness starting with only some matches, a Boy Scout knife & his parachute [Source]

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04 июля 2025 17:49

TIL an American cyclist covered 4,707 km (2,925 mi) to create the 'world's largest GPS drawing by bicycle' in memory of her dog, Slinky. Kristy Bellmer started the 2-month journey on Slinky's birthday. Beginning & ending in Amsterdam, she went through Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany & Czechia. [Source]

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04 июля 2025 16:49

TIL during the Vietnam War, pilot Bob Pardo used his F-4 Phantom II aircraft to physically push his wingman's heavily damaged Phantom through the air to friendly airspace to avoid them having to bail out over North Vietnamese territory, even when his own jet's engine caught fire [Source]

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04 июля 2025 14:49

TIL A 'Tropical Night' in Europe is one where the nighttime temperature does not fall below 20 °C [Source]

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04 июля 2025 12:49

TIL Japan has Professional Apologizers you can hire if you don’t to personally do it yourself [Source]

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04 июля 2025 10:49

TIL A 2023 study found that Chinstrap penguins take over 10,000 micro-naps a day, each lasting 4 seconds. When combined, that totals more than 11 hours of sleep daily. They are also generally considered to be the most aggressive and ill-tempered species of penguin.[ [Source]