TIL about the Münchhausen trilemma - The philosophical argument that all attempts to prove something true eventually rely on circular logic, endless regress, or an unsupported assumption.
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Münchhausen trilemma
thought experiment about the impossibility of proving any truth: in response to repeated "but why?"s, only the circular argument, infinite regress, or axiomatic argument are possible
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TIL that Mark Cuban purchased the town of Mustang, Texas for 2 million dollars.
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Mustang, Texas
town in Navarro County, Texas, United States
TIL Titan submersible engineers plotted their sensor responses against time - not against depth - and were thus seeing naught but "noise" in their data. Had plotting been done against depth they would have known that sensor responses underwent drastic change towards later dives, and imminent failure
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TIL Torpedo Juice was first mixed in WWII and made from pineapple juice and the 180-proof grain alcohol fuel used in US Navy torpedo motors. The US Navy then added poisonous additives to the fuel alcohol to discourage sailors. Recipe was two parts ethyl alcohol and three parts pineapple juice.
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Torpedo juice
alcoholic drink made from torpedo fuel
Til the legal method of executing royalty in ancient Thailand was to beat them to death with clubs.
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Execution of Thai royalty
Historical ceremonial execution of Thai royalty
TIL In 1926, Agatha Christie vanished for 11 days after a fight with her husband, sparking a massive manhunt. She was found safe at a spa hotel, registered under the surname of her husband's mistress. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became involved by taking one of her gloves to a psychic to help find her
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Historic Mysteries
Agatha Christie’s Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair? - Historic Mysteries
Agatha Christie, the famous author and creator of Hercule Poirot, disappeared suddenly in 1926. Found 11 days later in a hotel, she claimed amnesia and never revealed what had happened.
TIL "slumming" was a Gilded Age tourist craze, when wealthy patrons paid guides for nighttime tours of New York’s Chinatown to watch the poor. Demand got so high that operators staged fake opium dens with hired actors so the rich would get the squalor they paid for.
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New York Almanack
Chuck Connors & Slum Tourism in Chinatown - New York Almanack
Dating from 1785, Edward Mooney House at 18 Bowery, at the corner of Pell Street in Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown, is one of New York’s oldest surviving brick
TIL that during the 1904 Olympic Marathon in St. Louis, the first-place finisher drove a car for 11 miles, the official winner nearly died from drinking rat poison as a performance enhancer, and another runner was chased a mile off course by wild dogs.
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Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards (40 km).[1]
TIL during a delay while filming the CBS show Cover Up, to lighten the mood, actor Jon-Erik Hexum loaded one blank in the gun being used in the scene, spun the cylinder, put the gun to his head, and pulled the trigger. The muzzle force shattered his skull and he was declared brain dead 6 day later.
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Jon-Erik Hexum
American actor and model (1957-1984)
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TIL After his his death in battle against the Parthians, the head of Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus was delivered to the king of Parthia while the king was in the middle of watching a play. The lead actor then decided to grab the head and improvise by using it as a stage prop
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TIL Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica was once shown at a car showroom in Manchester.
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Tate
Guernica... In a car showroom? – Tate Etc | Tate
Tate Etc. issue 24 Helen Little on Picasso’s Guernica
TIL that Sixty-five per cent of the exploratory dives into the deep have taken place within 200 nautical miles of either the US, Japan or New Zealand. And almost all observations of the deep seafloor – around 97 per cent – were carried out by those three countries, plus France and Germany.
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BBC Science Focus Magazine
The strange reasons 99.999% of the ocean floor remains unexplored | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The Ocean is unbelievably large and hard to navigate, but are we any nearer to understanding it?
TIL that in 1978, The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton made a film based on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and its soundtrack became the first album to go “reverse Platinum;” four million copies were returned and thousands more were destroyed because of how poorly it was received.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a double album produced by George Martin,[1] featuring covers of songs by the Beatles. It was released in July 1978 by RSO Records as the soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which starred…
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TIL A Canadian man once held up a CBC television station because they weren’t showing the Toronto Maple Leafs game his son was playing in.
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Los Angeles Times
Sports Legend Revealed: A father of an NHL player held up a TV station to force them to show his son's game
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
TIL one of the reasons the Missouri constitutional convention of 1861-1863 cited for voting against secession was that if they joined the Confederacy they would have “no better right to recapture a slave found in a free state than we now have in Canada”
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TIL in 1976, undisputed champion Muhammad Ali fought wrestler Antonio Inoki. Rules barred Inoki from grappling, so he spent 15 rounds on his back landing 107 leg kicks. Ali landed just 2 punches, got severe blood clots, and doctors debated amputation. The match was a draw.
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Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki
Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki, billed as The War of the Worlds,[1] was a fight between American professional boxer Muhammad Ali and Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki, held at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, Japan, on June 26, 1976. At the time…
TIL Alfred Dreyfus, of the Dreyfus affair, served with distinction in the first world war
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Submitted July 23, 2026 at 03:50PM by Hrtzy
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Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus[a] (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair. In 1894, Dreyfus fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that eventually sparked a major political crisis in the French Third Republic…
TIL the Romans had a ritual called "evocatio": during a siege, they formally invited the enemy city's guardian deity to abandon it for the Roman side, promising a more lavish temple. It doubled as psychological warfare and mitigated the otherwise sacrilegious looting of religious images.
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Glossary of ancient Roman religion
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TIL archaeologists and historians don’t know for sure what language the ancient Trojan people spoke. Whatever language it was, it probably wasn’t Greek; the former site of Troy is devoid of Greek writings from the relevant historical period, and the current evidence points away from a Greek origin.
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Trojan language
language
TIL in 1954, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita) instigated a CIA backed coup in Guatemala after government reforms threatened their profits and exploitative labor practices.
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1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
The democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was deposed in a coup d'état in 1954, marking the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian…