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TIL The Spirit Bear survived, in part, because the Native Americans never spoke of them to fur trappers (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by NoNations

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TIL that after Kanye West interrupted Tayor Swift, Comedy Central played South Park's 'Fishsticks' episode on repeat for 2 hours. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by himynameisjake

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TIL multiplayer mode in Goldeneye was made by 2 guys in the last six weeks of development, and was added in without Nintendo's knowledge (youtu.be)

submitted ago by elartepubs

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TIL in America, a recurring joke in Futurama is that French is a dead language by the 31st century; in the French dub, however, German is the dead language. (theinfosphere.org)

submitted ago by bibby66

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TIL Lou Pearlman, who signed N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and other boy bands in the 90's would choose one boy from each band to molest as a condition of signing them. A former employee is quoted as saying "There was one guy in every band — one sacrifice ... who takes it for Lou." (mtv.com)

submitted ago by FrogusTheDogus

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TIL there was a TV show piloted in Germany where twelve contestants donated their sperm to a lab where doctors observed their seed race towards an egg. The winner of The Sperm Race got a Porsche. (tv.com)

submitted ago by Nadal12

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TIL there is a Japanese NES game called "Holy Diver" in which you play as Randy Rhoads. In the game, your father is Emperor Ronnie James Dio, your mentor is Ozzy Osbourne, and for the final level you fuse with your brother, Zakk Wylde. (hardcoregaming101.net)

submitted ago by Snarky-Username

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TIL a group of friends have been playing a very clever game of tag for 23 years (sportsgrid.com)

submitted ago by chuck_not_norris

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TIL that there is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone—and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by thebravelittlenublet

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TIL movie theater popcorn costs more per ounce than filet mignon (abcnews.go.com)

submitted ago by LeanGreenBean

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TIL Jane's Addiction is named for a real woman, who is still alive and is now sober. (feelnumb.com)

submitted ago by Agnostalypse

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TIL Arnold from "Hey Arnold!" had 4 different voice actors throughout the series (imdb.com)

submitted ago by Suzerian_Mimms

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TIL Metallica's Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett drew cards to decide who would get to choose a bunk on their tour bus in 1986. Burton drew the Ace of Spades, chose the bunk Hammett had been occupying, and was thrown out of the window when the bus crashed. He died at the scene. (ultimateclassicrock.com)

submitted ago by johnnyhammer

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TIL "The Powerpuff Girls" were originaly called "The Whoopass Girls" (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by OhMrBigshot

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TIL that Reddit is owned by the same company that operates Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker and House & Garden (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by b0yakasha

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TIL that Dr. Eugene Lazowski saved an estimated 8000 Polish Jews from concentration camps during WWII by injecting them with Typhus to create the appearance of an epidemic, causing them to be quarantined while not actually making them ill. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by aufmerksam

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TIL that Edgar Allen Poe's death is still a mystery and that a masked man puts roses and cognac on his grave once a year! (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by TheHydroGentleman

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TIL During WW2 a Polish woman risked her life to conceal a Jewish man and his wife because the man once let her take some goods from his shop when she didn't have enough money to pay him. (thestar.com)

submitted ago by getlostyeah

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TIL corn [maize] needs to be cooked in limewater before its nutrients can be absorbed into the human body. While Native Americans knew this, early New World colonial settlers did not, which resulted in many deaths from malnutrition for those who using it as a staple food. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by DonTago

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TIL Quentin Tarantino set out to film Reservoir Dogs with a $30,000 budget and a 16mm camera. Tarantino received a message from Harvey Keitel who wanted to help produce and star in the film. Keitel helped raise the budget to $1.5 million. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by Moderateor

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TIL Human "night owls" may be more successful in the work place, better at lateral thinking (independent.co.uk)

submitted ago by marzolian

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TIL that had *Batman & Robin* been successful, WB had already planned a fifth film, which would have been titled *Batman Triumphant*. Directed by Joel Schumacher, it was to feature Scarecrow and Harley Quinn as its villains, with a possible hallucinatory appearance by Jack Nicholson as the Joker. (imdb.com)

submitted ago by -iPood-

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TIL women are subconsciously attracted to the scent of black licorice. (health.howstuffworks.com)

submitted ago by Nick2the4reaper7

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TIL - There is an Islamic tenet that says 'money is only a medium of exchange, a way of defining the value of a thing; it has no value in itself, and therefore should not be allowed to give rise to more money, via fixed interest payments'. (islamic-banking.com)

submitted ago by Crickey-Mate

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TIL the first youtube video uploaded was of a guy talking about an elephant (youtu.be)

submitted ago by georide

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