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TIL the soap opera Days of our Lives has aired over 15,000 episodes.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:31AM by FittedSheets88
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TIL that although rare, a specific type of protein in your brain can fold the wrong way, causing a chain reaction that leads to a Prion Disease. An incurable , always fatal Neurodegenerative Disease.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 11:44AM by Rigamortus2005
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TIL that the Ford "deathtrap" Pinto was in fact safer than other cars in its class and on average just as safe as other cars on the road.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 02:04PM by EddiewithHeartofGold
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TIL about C.V. Raman, Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was so confident of winning that year that he booked steamboat tickets to Stockholm for himself and his wife in July 1930. He didn't want to wait for the official announcement later that year due to long travel time.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 01:48PM by timoleo
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TIL that on January 6th, 1853, a tragic train derailment killed the 11 year old son of Franklin Pierce, who was President-Elect of the United States at the time. His wife believed that the accident was God punishing them because Pierce ran for President against her wishes.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 03:31PM by JackThaBongRipper
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TIL in 1930 more than 65% of the US population went to the movies weekly. That means that out of every 5 people someone knew, 3 of them went out to the movies every week. Since around 1964, the portion of the US population to go to the movies every week has consistently been under 10%.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 04:59PM by tyrion2024
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TIL Bruce Willis was offered $3 million (for four days of work) to return in The Expendables 3 (2014), but turned it down because he wanted $4 million instead. Sylvester Stallone and "everybody else involved" rejected Willis' demand and moved on by replacing him with Harrison Ford within 72 hours.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 06:06PM by tyrion2024
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TIL Phossy jaw was an occupational disease affecting those who worked with white phosphorus (also known as yellow phosphorus) without proper safeguards.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 05:51PM by VelvetDreamers
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TIL the Six Flags theme park gets its name from the six nations that have governed Texas -- Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, United States of America, and Confederate States of America
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:06PM by woeful_haichi
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TIL that in Canada before 1947, women lost their citizenship if they married foreign (non-British) men
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:37PM by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL acetaminophen is a regional name used in America, Canada and Japan. Other countries call headache medicine Paracetamol. Instead of Tylenol, they have Panadol.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 06:48PM by Mommyof2Muggles
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TIL When Alexander the Great conquered Jerusalem he made a generous deal with the local Jewish population to give them autonomy. Out of gratitude to Alexander, the Jews agreed to name every child born the next year “Alexander.”. It was eventually adapted to “Sender” and became a common Jewish name.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:37PM by UndyingCorn
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TIL of the Ig Nobel prize, a parody of the Nobel prize dedicated to ten achievements that “first make you laugh, then make you think”, such as the 1993 award for mathematics awarded to a man who calculated the exact odds of Mikhail Gorbachev being the Antichrist (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1)
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:57PM by badastronaut7
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TIL Bill Wilson of AA fame asked for whiskey several times on his deathbed, but was refused.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 09:58PM by One-Incident3208
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TIL One of the first recorded juveniles to be executed in France was Claudine de Culan, 16, who was executed in 1601 for beastiality with a dog, almost getting the charges dropped until the dog jumped on her during an examination by midwifes, her and the dog were burnt alive 13 days later
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 10:11PM by BlackberryActual6378
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TIL James Wilson—a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and one of the six original members of the U.S. Supreme Court—was the first and only Supreme Court justice to be jailed while on the Court.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 11:11PM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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TIL George Washington borrowed "The Law of Nations" from the New York Society Library & never returned it. In 2010, the head librarian joked that, though they weren't "pursuing the overdue fines," they'd appreciate having it back. A month later, the Mount Vernon estate returned it, 221 years overdue
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 02:32AM by tyrion2024
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TIL the US worked to develop "Bat Bomb" - bombs that were loaded with 1k chilled bats with time-release Napalm glued to their bodies. The project was canceled because the Atomic Bomb was finished first.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 03:00AM by TheUncleBob
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TIL the video game, Cyberpunk 2077, has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures after its catastrophic, bug-filled, launch
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:03AM by WarEagleGo
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