TIL Humans have a third set of teeth, but the genes for this set are inactive.
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TIL about the butt bandit, a man who left greasy buttprints on Nebraska storefronts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27912944
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TIL about the Hundred Flowers Campaign (1956–57) in China, where the government briefly encouraged open criticism and debate, only to later suppress dissent through arrests and crackdowns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
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TIL About the African Dodger Game. In the 1920s people would throw baseballs at black people's heads at carnivals, causing great injuries and even death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_dodger?wprov=sfla1
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TIL that while the Emperor Titus has received almost universal praise, one Roman historian dared to point out that this was likely because his reign barely lasted two years before he suddenly died.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/66*.html#18
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TIL of the Disappointment Islands in French Polynesia, so named by a British explorer in 1765 because of hostile natives, they are arid and lacking in water, and nowadays most of the islands are uninhabited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappointment_Islands
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i53mn7/til_of_the_disappointment_islands_in_french/
TIL in 1953 Nazi rocket-physicist Wernher von Braun wrote a sci-fi book called Project Mars. In it, the Mars colony has a leader known as 'the Elon.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale#The_%22Elon%22
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TIL that in 1943, Canadian legislation created a temporary extraterritorial space for the birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. This ensured that Margriet was not born on foreign soil, which would have made her ineligible for the royal succession under the Constitution of the Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritoriality_of_Princess_Margriet%27s…
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TIL: The Lord of the Rings is presented as a translation of a book originally written in Westron, the common speech of Middle-earth. Therefore, Frodo Baggins' real name in Westron is Maura Labingi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frodo_Baggins
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i3xi7s/til_the_lord_of_the_rings_is_presented_as_a/
TIL you can stay in a hotel in Japan for $1 a night if you agree your entire stay to be livestreamed 24/7
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/livestream-hotel-room-japan-intl-hnk/index.html
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TIL that Hey Arnold originally began as a short film called Arnold Escapes from Church, which was made in 1994. It was a part of a series of Nickelodeon animated shorts.
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TIL a copy of Action Comics #1 (first appearance of Superman) was found in the wall of a house, during renovations in 2013. The comic ended up getting ripped when exchanged between the man and his wife’s aunt. The rip is estimated to have cost them $75k, with the comic selling for $175k.
https://www.cbr.com/action-comics-1-found-in-wall-of-house-sells-for-175000/
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TIL Marcus Licinius Crassus, often called "the richest man in Rome," formed the first fire brigade, saving burning buildings only if owners sold at a low price. Otherwise, he let them burn. The buildings would then be leased back to the former owners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus#Rise_to_power_and_wealth
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TIL: That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_Office
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TIL Split-Brain Experiments by Sperry and Gazzaniga showed in patients with severed corpus callosums (to treat severe epilepsy), the two hemispheres were unable to communicate. The experiment showed consciousness can “split” into two separate streams within the same person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1hyykbx/til_splitbrain_experiments_by_sperry_and/
TIL that Indomie Mie Goreng (Fried Noodles) was invented in 1982 by a lady who back then had just graduated from a degree in food technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunuk_Nuraini
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TIL in 2017 a couple survived a wildfire in California by jumping into a neighbors pool and staying submerged for 6 hours. They came up for air only when they needed to, using wet t-shirts to shield their faces from falling embers.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1hyy2vv/til_in_2017_a_couple_survived_a_wildfire_in/
TIL Housewife of the Year was an annual contest in Ireland between 1967 and 1995.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housewife_of_the_Year
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TIL that koalas have unique fingerprints that are so similar to human fingerprints, they’ve been confused in crime scene investigations.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/koala-fingerprints/
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TIL: Vaginal Steaming is used as an alternative health treatment in Africa and Central America. It involves smoking the vag by sitting above fire or hot coals. Side effects include 2nd degree burns, allergic reactions, and infection. There is no evidence it works. Gwyneth Paltrow reviewed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_steaming
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