TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/25/443519599/episode-653-the-anti-store?Ujc
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TIL the Abenaki word for "white man" awanoch is a combination of the words awani meaning "who" and uji meaning "from". Thus, the word for "white man" literally translates to "Who is this man and where does he come from?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki?wprov=sfla1
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TIL: you can plant tomato slices in pots and sprout your own tomato plants.
https://youtu.be/Rz025XlnhYQ?si=EG2FBxdx-7KkrNyO
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eahhls/til_you_can_plant_tomato_slices_in_pots_and/
TIL pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value. The United States has lost nearly half a billion dollars minting pennies and nickels over the past 3 years(2021-2023).
https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-Annual-Report.pdf
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TIL: Ivan Pavlov of Pavlov’s dogs also experimented on orphaned children which involved drilling a hole in their cheeks and applying electric shocks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov#Studies_of_digestion
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TIL that until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987, it was widely assumed that infants didn't feel pain, leading to many undergoing major surgeries without anesthesia.
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/long-life-early-pain
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1e7ey9s/til_that_until_infant_pain_was_formally/
TIL despite surviving an assassination attempt while running for president again, Theodore Roosevelt did not win re-election!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Theodore_Roosevelt
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TIL Fruit Loops are all the same flavor.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1e2o4h9/til_fruit_loops_are_all_the_same_flavor/
TIL the US federal government wastes 247 billion dollars in taxpayer money each year
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/heres-how-the-federal-government-wastes-tax-money.html
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TIL the meaning of the expression "out of the blue".
https://grammarist.com/idiom/out-of-the-blue/
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TIL that Dr. Benjamin Spock, a pediatrician, wrote the best-selling book of the 20th century, "Baby and Child Care," in 1946. His advice to parents to show affection and see their children as individuals changed how parents raised their kids.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock
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TIL that Dave Grohl played drums on all of Tenacious D’s studio albums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_D?wprov=sfti1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dl7gf0/til_that_dave_grohl_played_drums_on_all_of/
TIL: Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico by a guy named Caesar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad
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TIL that birth ratios seem to skew towards more females during famine. Mothers in good condition are more likely to give birth to sons, whereas mothers in poor condition are more likely to give birth to daughters.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10331
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TIL of an archeological dig site northeast of the Dead Sea in the southern Jordan River Valley that has many striking characteristics to the Biblical city of Sodom.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
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TIL the California Avocado Association renamed the Alligator Pear to Avocado in 1915 to better appeal to consumers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado
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TIL that Warren Buffett made over 99% of his wealth AFTER the age of 65
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/03/most-of-warren-buffetts-wealth-came-after-age-65-heres-why.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dbnehi/til_that_warren_buffett_made_over_99_of_his/
TIL that Mongolia has tye highest Testosterone level in the world followed by Ethiopia and Nigeria.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/testosterone-levels-by-country
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TIL A male Wyandotte chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
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TIL that actor Tom Hanks is distantly related to "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" host Fred Rogers. Hanks is sixth cousins with Rogers, and they share the same great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Johannes Mefford.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tom-hanks-related-fred-rogers/
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