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TIL that in 2019, an Egyptian train driver left his moving train (with brakes not engaged) to fight with another driver; the now unmanned train crashed and exploded, killing 25 people
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 06:22AM by duga404
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TIL bout Nobukazu Kuriki, a Japanese mountaineer who repeatedly attempted to climb Everest alone and supposedly without using oxygen bottles. He made eight failed attempts, losing nine of his fingers in the process, before dying of illness on his way back from his eighth attempt.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 09:30AM by Sebastianlim
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TIL of the B-36 Peacemaker aircraft developed in the 1940’s, which operated 6 prop engines + 4 jet engines, had a range of 10,000 miles, a service ceiling of 40,000 feet, the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft, and flew 40 hours straight without the need to refuel.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 06:51AM by justhere4thecats
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TIL that donating blood plasma can significantly reduce the levels of PFAs/forever chemicals in your blood
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 01:28PM by TextureStudies
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the Guardian
Here’s another reason to donate blood: it reduces ‘forever chemicals’ in your body | Adrienne Matei
While the $4tn global wellness industry bends over backwards to sell us dubious detox products, there is an accessible, easy, and free way to genuinely rid our bloodstreams of toxins
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TIL that during the production of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, scripts were chemically marked so the studio could trace leaks. They even replaced “Spock” with the codename “Nacluv" which is “Vulcan” spelled backwards, to hide his role.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 02:10PM by 0khalek0
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TIL that in Home Alone’s (1990) fake gangster movie “Angels with Filthy Souls”, Johnny and Snakes were originally cast the other way around — but because Ralph Foody had just undergone knee replacement surgery and couldn’t kneel for the death scene, he swapped roles with Michael Guido.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 03:00PM by Aryeh-Lavi
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Keep The Change, You Filthy Animal: The Wild Story Behind Home Alone's Fake Movie
All about Angels with Filthy Souls.
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TIL that during WW2, the United States government made a video encouraging its farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. The hemp was used to make ropes for the U.S Navy. After the war ended, hemp reverted back to being illegal.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 05:01PM by JackThaBongRipper
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TIL that Maldives is the only country where Friday is the first day of the week
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 03:59PM by RiverMesa
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TIL Keiko, the orca who starred in Free Willy, was actually freed years after the movie, but after struggling to adapt to life in the wild and repeatedly seeking out humans for companionship, he died of pneumonia just a year after his release.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 06:29PM by internet_czar
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TIL that the longest professional baseball game was between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. The 8-hour-plus minor league game began on April 18, 1981, and was suspended at 4:09 a.m. after 32 innings. They played the final inning on June 23. Pawtucket won 3-2.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 03:51PM by PikesPique
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MiLB.com
The Longest Game in History
The Official Site of Minor League Baseball web site includes features, news, rosters, statistics, schedules, teams, live game radio broadcasts, and video clips.
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TIL At the end of the credits of “Scream” Wes Craven added “No Thanks Whatsoever to The Santa Rosa City School District Board” due to the school board having approved filming on the Santa Rosa High School , and then reneging on it after reading the script and realizing it’s a slasher film
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 07:11PM by Morganbanefort
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TIL that Volvo perfected the modern 3-point seatbelt in 1959 and instead of profiting, they opened the patent to the world. It’s considered one of the greatest acts of corporate responsibility ever.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 07:59PM by send420nudes
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The three-point safety belt - over 1 million lives saved
In 1959 Volvo revealed the three-point safety belt and made its patent available to all who wished to use it. It remains one of the most effective safety systems ever developed, having saved more than 1 million lives.
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TIL That since 2017, the Kentucky Coal Miners Museum runs on solar power
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 07:13PM by imav8n
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kycoalmuseum.southeast.kctcs.edu
KENTUCKY COAL MUSEUM LOOKING TO SOLAR POWER TO HELP CUT ELECTRICAL COSTS
BENHAM, Ky. – The Kentucky Coal Museum, which is owned by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College (SKCTC), is hoping to soon be mostly powered by the sun.
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TIL that convicted child sex offender Rolf Harris presented a 20-minute short film for kids in 1985 with advice on how to avoid predators, nearly 30 years before his own arrest
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 09:09PM by MysteryNews4
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TIL that Toyota used to sell a GT86 in Japan called the RC with steelies, plastic bumpers, no A/C or screen. It was 100lb lighter and about 2k cheaper.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 09:48PM by Lucajames2309
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TIL that for decades, it was accepted that 54,246 Americans had died in the Korean War, and the Korean War memorial in Washington was etched with that number. In 2000, the figure was revised to 36,940 after it was discovered that a government clerk had made a clerical error in compiling the total.
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Submitted October 28, 2025 at 10:33PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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the Guardian
Admin error 'killed' 20,000 troops
The lives of nearly 20,000 people appeared to have been saved retrospectively yesterday when a glitch appeared in the approved US history of the Korean war.
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TIL that during the 1970s energy crisis, Richard Nixon skipped Air Force One and took a regular United Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles. This is the only time a sitting US president has ever flown commercially.
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Submitted October 29, 2025 at 12:43AM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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TIL that the first human DNA sequenced took 13 years (Human Genome Project 1990-2003). This year, the Guinness World Record bestowed the title for fastest DNA sequencing of less than 4 hours to a team from Roche Sequencing Solutions, Broad Clinical Labs and Boston Children’s Hospital.
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Submitted October 29, 2025 at 03:02AM by Italophilia27
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Guinness World Records
Fastest DNA sequencing technique
Who Broad Clinical Labs, Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc., Boston Children's Hospital What 3:58:59 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) Where United States (Burlington) When 15 September 2025
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TIL Faqing, a monk during the Northern Wei Dynasty founded a buddhist sect that encourages massacres and chaos. He encouraged people to ‘kill people and cause chaos’, saying that ‘those who kill one person will attain the first level Bodhisattva, and those who kill ten people are tenth level Boddhis
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Submitted October 29, 2025 at 04:38AM by whoisfourthwall
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TIL that milkshakes were originally alcoholic with whiskey as one of the ingredients. After the 1900s, milkshakes began to use syrups instead and the name changed its meaning.
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Submitted October 29, 2025 at 04:30AM by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL Abolitionist John Brown had originally asked Frederick Douglass to join him in his raid on Harpers Ferry, but Douglass declined as he believed Brown's plan was suicidal. John Brown was later tried and executed for the raid less than two months after its occurrence.
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Submitted October 29, 2025 at 06:31AM by CreeperRussS
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