TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as a homicide, but it was later revealed that he had done it, while lost in the underwater cave, to avoid the pain of drowning.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 02:55PM by tyrion2024
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 02:55PM by tyrion2024
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TIL about James Price, an English alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to do it in front of credible witnesses, he agreed, only to instead commit suicide by drinking prussic acid in front of the witnesses.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 03:21PM by JackThaBongRipper
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 03:21PM by JackThaBongRipper
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TIL the Air Force tasked 4 pilots to fly into the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first H-bomb. One of them, Jimmy Robinson, never made it home.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:26PM by BigZaddy64
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Chemistry World
Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
USAF pilots flew into mushroom clouds to bring back samples that turned out to contain new elements - one of them didn't make it home
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TIL that Nullsoft didn't release a 4th version of Winamp, jumping straight from Winamp3 to Winamp 5, joking "nobody wants to see a Winamp 4 skin" ("4 skin" being a pun on foreskin).
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 05:47PM by LookAtThatBacon
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 05:47PM by LookAtThatBacon
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TIL a duel between two doctors was averted because one refused to fight in the morning and the other refused to fight in the afternoon
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:57PM by uselessprofession
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:57PM by uselessprofession
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TIL Canadian hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989, and his frozen body was only found 14 years later inside a glacier.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 06:07PM by GDW312
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 06:07PM by GDW312
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TIL about Smoky, the first recorded therapy dog, who was rescued from a WWII foxhole. While backpacking across the Pacific theater with the soldier who found her, Smoky experienced 12 combat missions, 150 air raids, a typhoon and was awarded 8 battle stars.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 10:00PM by jstohler
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TIL Reagan had 8 government shutdowns. Two lasted for 3 days, two for 2 days and four lasted for just 1 day.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:13AM by Double-decker_trams
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:13AM by Double-decker_trams
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www.abc.net.au
Trump has overseen the two longest US government shutdowns in history
The government shutdown is continuing in the US and some of the worst effects are yet to be felt.
TIL about 'the Harrying of the North', a brutal military campaign waged by William the Conqueror to suppress rebellions in northern England. His scorched-earth tactics killed or displaced up to 75% of the population.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:10AM by SomethingMoreToSay
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TIL that Drew Carey was fired from his role as a spokesperson for A&W Canada in 1998 after an episode of The Drew Carey Show depicted him eating at a McDonald's.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:09AM by Spider-Fan77
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TIL after two Finnish divers died in a cave in Norway, it was determined that retrieving their bodies would be too difficult, so a diving ban was placed on the cave. Despite this, four of their friends led a team of 27 divers (101 diving hours) who secretly and successfully recovered their bodies.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:47AM by tyrion2024
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BBC News
The cave divers who went back for their friends
In February 2014 two divers died at a depth of more than 100m in a huge cave system in Norway. Seven weeks later, their three friends went back to get their bodies.
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TIL the only actors who have turned down Quentin Tarantino twice are Sylvester Stallone & Mickey Rourke. Stallone turned down Robert DeNiro's role in Jackie Brown & Kurt Russell's role in Death Proof. Rourke also turned down Russell's role in Death Proof, as well as Bruce Willis role in Pulp Fiction
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:44AM by tyrion2024
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Far Out Magazine
The only actors who turned down Quentin Tarantino twice
Most actors would give anything for the chance to work with Quentin Tarantino, but these select few turned him down... twice!
TIL that the “cool S,” a common symbol in graffiti and children’s doodles since the 1980s, was trademarked in 2020. The trademark holder had no hand in the symbol’s creation, but stated no intention to sue other users of it.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 03:13AM by MoistLewis
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TIL finger pinching conspiracy theory is an antifeminist conspiracy theory from South Korea. It claims there is a deliberate plot to spread and promote misandry through symbolic hand gestures, and that radical feminist groups have propagated these hidden messages to humiliate men with small penises.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 06:24AM by Agreeable_Plastic_27
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TIL: Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters of the British Post Office were wrongfully prosecuted for supposed "financial irregularities" and 13 of them ended up committing suicide. The "financial irregularities" were in fact caused by a bug in the accounting software.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 06:39AM by zahrul3
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TIL that a U.S. ship captain wrecked off the Sahara in 1815 was captured, enslaved, marched across the desert with almost no food or water, and lived to write a detailed eyewitness account of his suffering — a book Abraham Lincoln later named as one of the most influential of his by life.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 05:56AM by hirschhulde
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TIL that while there are still traditional blimps in use, as of 2017, the "Goodyear Blimps" are actually a type of modern semi-rigid Zeppelin, manufactured by the Zeppelin NT corporation.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 09:06AM by MississippiJoel
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TIL about Antechinus, a small Australian marsupial, that during breeding season the males hormones go into such overdrive they go on a 3 week sex fuelled rampage, at the end of which they die due to an overdose of testosterone and cortisol. They are capable of mating for up to 14 hours straight.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 11:55AM by Idontwanttousethis
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the Guardian
Antechinus males drop dead after breeding, poisoned by raging hormones. Some also get eaten by their own | Andrew M Baker for the…
When males die from sex-fuelled exhaustion, still-living members of the species are known to feast on fallen comrades
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TIL in 2011, Family Radio spent over $100 million to spread the word that the rapture would take place on May 21, 2011. On May 23, the organization announced that it would not return money donated by followers to publicize the May 21 prediction, saying "We're not at the end. Why would we return it?"
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:49PM by nuttybudd
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TIL that violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini lost his fortune on a failed Paris casino, auctioning his instruments to recoup losses. When he died in 1840, rumours of a pact with the devil led the Church to deny him a Catholic burial; his body was finally interred in 1876.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:47PM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:47PM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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TIL that when the Barcode was invented it was actually very unpopular, several conspiracies were made about it, and the Barcode industry fought back saying that "luddites" were the only ones against it. It took 40 years for even half of all registered grocery stores to use barcodes, due to expenses
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 05:10PM by throwitonthegrillboi
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 05:10PM by throwitonthegrillboi
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Slate Magazine
This Incredibly Popular Tech Was Nearly a Total Failure. Now It’s Everywhere.
It took years of controversy, protests, and legal battles just to change the way you buy a pack of gum.