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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!
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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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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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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.
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TIL that in December 1984 an engineer named Stanley Watras set off radiation alarms at the under construction Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania, despite the fact no nuclear fuel was yet onsite.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 04:50PM by ByCromThatsAHotTake
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The BrickKicker
The Story of How Radon was Discovered in Homes
Who is Radio Active Stanely? In January of 1984, Stanely Watras and his young family moved into their new home in Boyerstown, Pennsylvania. Stanely began
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TIL of the Kīlauea lava cricket. Endemic to the island of Hawai'i, the cricket is the first creature to appear on recently cooled lava flows from the island's volcanoes, and lives there exclusively. Once the lava field is colonized by plants, the cricket disappears and is seen nowhere else
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 04:57PM by MrMojoFomo
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TIL about FunGuyz, a Canadian store that openly sold magic mushrooms which are illegal over there, had a number of chains across Ontario and Quebec but closed most of them due to frequent raids. They currently operate an online store.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 09:03PM by delano1998
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TIL about James Morrill, an English sailor who was shipwrecked off northern Australia in 1846 and taken in by an Aboriginal group. He lived amongst them for 17 years as an equal and learned eight of their local dialects.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 04:04PM by dogmanrul
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TIL Lil Nas X's song "Old Town Road" samples "34 Ghosts IV" by Nine Inch Nails. The producer never intended for the sample to be used for a country song and had never heard of NIN until discovering the song through YouTube's suggestions algorithm
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 10:30PM by savvystrider
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TIL the island of Himakajima, Japan, has a single set of traffic lights and turns green only once a year to teach kids how to cross roads safely before they move to the mainland
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 11:38PM by imHeroT
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SoraNews24
Himakajima: The Japanese island with one traffic light that only turns green once a year
In this town, green means its time to renew your Netflix subscription.
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TIL that the United States defense readiness condition (DEFCON) alert system ranges from 5 (lowest state of readiness) to 1 (nuclear war is imminent). The highest it has been is DEFCON 2, which occurred during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1991 Gulf War, but only for the Strategic Air Command
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 09:37PM by MrMojoFomo
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TIL actor Kurt Russell played 3 plus seasons in minor league baseball and hit .292
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 07:23PM by muddy_cat
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Baseball-Reference.com
Kurt Russell Minor Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com
Kurt Russell Minor Leagues Statistics including batting, fielding, prospect rankings and more on Baseball-Reference.com
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TIL about Vince Coleman, who died in the 1917 Halifax Explosion when he stayed at his post and telegraphed an incoming train to stop out of town. His warning: "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye, boys."
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 04:01AM by Ok_Employer7837
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