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11 апреля 2025 15:50

TIL in 2001 a 6-year-old boy died during an MRI exam when the machine's magnetic field jerked a metal oxygen tank across the room, fracturing his skull and injuring his brain. The child was under sedation at the time of the accident. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 13:49

TIL about Nagoro, a creepy village in the valleys of Shikoku, Japan, where around 350 life-size dolls outnumber the human residents. Created by Tsukimi Ayano, who returned to her hometown 11 years ago, each doll represents a former villager who either moved away or died. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 12:49

TIL that the ship used by scientology as a first headquarter was sunk by a train in 1980 [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 08:49

TIL The golden age of Jewish culture in Spain was a Muslim ruled era of Spain, with the state name of Al-Andalus, lasting 800 years, whose state lasted from 711 to 1492 A.D. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 05:49

TIL the Hanford Site in Washington made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and the first nuclear test at Trinity—while exposing thousands of workers to deadly radiation. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 04:49

TIL that amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann named his son Agamemnon in honour of an Ancient Greek funerary mask he discovered in 1876, which he erroneously claimed belonged to the legendary king of the same name. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 02:49

TIL that it is possible to reach negative Kelvin in advanced physics: a system's temperature is above 0K if adding energy increases its entropy (disorder of the particles). However, once the entropy is maximum, adding more energy makes it decrease, meaning the system's temperature drops below 0K. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 02:49

TIL that in 2019, the TV series 'River Monsters' ended because host Jeremy Wade had caught nearly every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on Earth, leaving no content for future episodes. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 00:49

TIL that Dr Seuss invented the word “Nerd” [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 23:49

TIL that remittances (the practice of a foreign worker sending money back to their families) account for 20% of Haiti's GDP, the highest rate in the world. [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 21:49

TIL that Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak died by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt after a bystander hit the assassin with a purse [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 19:49

TIL that The Piltdown man, found by Charles Dawson in England from 1910–1912 and thought to be a key human-ape link, was revealed in 1953–54 as a hoax made from a modern human skull, an orangutan jaw, and a chimpanzee tooth, deliberately faked to trick scientists. [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 17:49

TIL a New Jersey man won the lottery for $315 million after his wife made him return a $5 bottle of orange juice because “it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere.” He used the change to buy two lottery tickets and one of them was the Powerball jackpot. [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 15:49

TIL In the American civil war Two percent of the American population perished in the line of duty, the equivalent of six million people dying in the ranks today. 750,000 lives lost [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 13:49

TIL Mississippi refused to air Sesame Street in 1970 due to its mixed-race cast. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 13:49

TIL Paul Newman started his own salad dressing company back in 1982. He would then go on to donate 100% of the profits to multiple charities [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 13:49

TIL among young, elite chess players, not only was a higher IQ no advantage, but it seemed to put them at a slight disadvantage. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 09:49

TIL that the world's oldest code of law, the Code of Ur-Nammu, contains the rule "if a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver." It generally suggests fines rather than physical punishment. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 07:49

TIL Carl Tanzler became obsessed with tuberculosis patient Elena Hoyos, and after her death, he removed her corpse from the grave, living with it for seven years. Allegations of necrophilia surfaced later, though they remain controversial and unproven. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 05:49

TIL It's not clear who owns/uses the largest yacht in the world. The Azzam is officially a charter boat, which are exempt to European property tax, but does not offer charters. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 03:49

TIL that in 1873, Adolph Coors founded a company in Golden, Colorado, that produces beer and ceramics. The ceramics-branch of what is now Keystone LLC is known as CoorsTek, supplying high-end porcelains for technical applications in many industries worldwide. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 02:49

TIL Before the asteroid impact hypothesis was firmly established in 1977, the proposed explanations as to why dinosaurs went extinct included theories such as "The T rex ate all the eggs of the last generation of dinosaurs" and "their brain shrunk until they became too stupid to live" [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 01:49

TIL There are historical accounts of lion populations living in Europe as late as 12th century CE. In most parts of Europe, lion became extinct until 4th century CE. [Source]

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11 апреля 2025 00:49

TIL that at one point, there was so much human waste in the streets of medieval Paris, they had more than one street named using the French word for 'shit'. [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 21:49

TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky had a crippling gambling addiction. He was frequently in debt, and wrote an entire novel based on this addiction, titled "The Gambler". Once, his financial situation was so dire his wife was reportedly forced to pawn off her underwear. [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 20:49

Till that deaf people have actually been seen to use sign language in their sleep. [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 17:49

TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky had a crippling addiction to gambling. He went bankrupt multiple times due to this habit, and one of his novels, "The Gambler", was written exclusively to pay off his debts. Once, his financial situation was so dire his wife was reportedly forced to pawn her underwear. [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 16:49

TIL that Elizabeth I was likely molested by her stepfather Thomas Seymour. He would forcefully tickle her, slap her butt, and at one point cut her dress ‘into a hundred pieces’. This only ended when Thomas and Elizabeth where caught alone in embrace, resulting in Elizabeth being sent away [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 14:49

TIL sloths only poo once a week and can lose up to a third of their body weight with one poo. They come down from trees and dig a hole to poo in, and no one is sure why they risk their lives to do this [Source]

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10 апреля 2025 12:49

TIL about "bear raids" in finance, which is a term used to describe a situation where an investor, group, or entity attempts to influence the price of stocks downward in order to either profit from a short position or acquire a new long position at a lower price. [Source]