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TIL a Norwegian comedian wanted to prove that songs could become club hits without making any sense, so he collected randoms words and names in Spanish (a language he did not speak) as lyrics and added cliché saxophones and accordion mixes. The song charted across Europe, reaching #1 in some places. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by Exceon

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TIL words and phrases that are often misspoken or misspelled in a certain way (e.g. "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes") are called eggcorns, with the term itself being an eggcorn for the word "acorn". (npr.org)

submitted by hannibalincoln

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TIL that people with anxiety perceive the world differently-their brain lumps both safe and unsafe things together and labels them all unsafe. (mentalfloss.com)

submitted by bubblypuff95

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TIL that a man in NJ was charged $3750 for a bottle of wine, ordering it after a waitress told him that it was "thirty seven fifty". (foxnews.com)

submitted by waldman4u

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TIL Kublia Khan's niece Khutulun insisted that any man who wished to marry her must defeat her in wrestling and forfeit horses to her if they lost. She gained 10,000 horses defeating prospective suitors. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by Fifthwiel

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TIL in 1933 America's most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representatives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him in a coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist government. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by ThaBearJew

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TIL Adolf Hitler had a Nephew who moved to Germany during Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, then fearing ulterior motives he later moved back to the United States and fought on the US side in WWII. He also wrote an article title "Why I hate my uncle" about his relationship with Adolf Hitler. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by twin802

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TIL that Google will award $30M to the first privately funded teams to successfully 1) land a robot on the Moon, 2) navigate it for more than 500m on its surface, and 3) transmit back high-def videos and images of the feat. Countries like Brazil, Chile, India, Hungary have joined the competition. (lunar.xprize.org)

submitted by dewylde

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TIL Boston has hidden poems on its sidewalks that are only visible when wet. When it rains, pedstrians are treated to the work of Langston Hughes and others. (mentalfloss.com)

submitted by sivribiber

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TIL King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan (1919-1929) once gave a public speech in which he said "Islam did not require women to cover their bodies or wear any special kind of veil". At the conclusion of the speech, Queen Soraya tore off her veil (hejab) in public. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by Denzak

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TIL Unlike many other big cats, snow leopards are not aggressive towards humans. There has never been a verified snow leopard attack on a human being. (snowleopard.org)

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TIL When hot water freezes faster than cold water, the effect is called "the Mpemba Effect". It's named after Tanzanian Erasto Mpemba who was originally ridiculed for bringing it up in class after noticing his warmer ice cream mix was freezing before the cooler batch (zidbits.com)

submitted by buzzkillpop

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TIL that, in order to communicate with the Shoshone tribe, Lewis and Clark would speak English to Corps member Francois Labiche, who would speak French to the interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, who would speak Hidatsa to his Shoshone wife Sacagawea, who would speak Shoshone to Chief Cameahwait. (pbs.org)

submitted by wexfun

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TIL every time Io passes into Jupiter's shadow, Io's atmosphere freezes solid and smashes into the surface. When Io moves back into sunlight, the frozen atmosphere thaws and returns to a gas. (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

submitted by anklestraps

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TIL a Soviet soldier who went missing after a battle in Afghanistan in 1980 was found alive in 2013, living in the Afghan city of Herat. He had been rescued by locals and eventually became a nomadic sheikh and healer under the name of Sheikh Abdullah. (theguardian.com)

submitted by AHidell

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TIL: In order to offset some of the environmental damage caused by smoking, Indian Prasadam Industries has embedded seeds into its cigarette filters. Their biodegradable cigarette filters flower into trees when thrown away. (trueactivist.com)

submitted by mftheoryArts

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TIL that in 2009 armed robbers used a helicopter to abseil onto the roof of a cash depot in Sweden. The cash was dropped into a local lake where it was picked up boat. To deter police the robbers used caltrops on local roads and fake IED's on the police helicopters to keep them grounded. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that US ski jumper Anders Haugen finished 4th at the 1924 Olympics, when 50 years later a Norwegian historian discovered a scoring error was made and Haugen should have gotten the bronze medal, which was handed to him in Norway in 1974 by the daughter of the original bronze medal winner (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL in 1993 when a US Military food scientist was asked what should be used in the pictograph instructions to prop up the heater of their new "Meal, Ready-to-Eat" rations, he replied "I don't know. Let's make it a rock or something." The rock illustration and the iconic phrase remain on MREs today. (army.mil)

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TIL hip hop mogul, Nas is now a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, on the verge of becoming a billionaire. (news.deviantnoise.com)

submitted by thedirewulf

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TIL the 1679 Habeas Corpus Act was only passed in Parliament because its supporters jokingly counted a fat lord as ten votes and the opposition never noticed. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL That one of the World's largest retailers gives out free fruit to children in all UK stores to eat whilst their parents do the shopping, after a member of checkout staff suggested it in her store. (tescoplc.com)

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TIL that Samoa is 24 hours ahead of American Samoa despite being only 30 miles away (timeanddate.com)

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TIL that many people who saw the movie Wall Street were inspired to join the business world and model themselves after Gordon Gekko. This was the complete opposite takeaway that the film's writers had intended (articles.latimes.com)

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TIL "Inside Out" was going to have another imaginary character named "Corner Sun," who was literally a quarter of Sun as kids would draw in the corner of their drawings (disney.wikia.com)

submitted by brianunderstands

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