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TIL about Kate Saunders, the first woman to use an ejector seat in the UK, suffering a broken leg and pelvis. She was seriously ill with 28% burns; the ejection seat was typically designed for the weight of a male; a lighter female would, likely, have more acceleration.
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 03:07PM by johnsmithoncemore
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TIL that Portugal's 1974 Eurovision winning entry, E depois do adeus, was one of two secret signals which alerted rebel soldiers to begin the Carnation Revolution
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 02:08PM by dorgoth12
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TIL about two-thirds of all scurvy is found in autistic people
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 04:42PM by blankblank
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TIL about the British pornographic magazine Whitehouse. Substantially more explicit than its predecessors, it was allegedly named after the anti-pornography campaigner Mary Whitehouse, though the publisher David Sullivan always denied this.
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 04:32PM by johnsmithoncemore
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TIL Margot Robbie convinced Martin Scorsese to cast her in The Wolf of Wall Street by hauling off & giving Leonardo DiCaprio an improvised "thunderclap of a slap on the face" during her first audition that stunned DiCaprio & Scorsese. Both men burst out laughing afterwards and thought it was great.
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 07:29PM by tyrion2024
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TIL artist Thomas Dambo creates giant troll sculptures from recycled wood and hides them in forests around the world like a real life scavenger hunt
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 07:00PM by Technical-Paint3179
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TIL on 17 May 1995, a drunk California man named Shawn Nelson stole an M60A3 tank from a National Guard armoury in San Diego. He went on a rampage in a nearby neighbourhood, crushing cars and knocking over utility poles, before crashing into a barrier. Miraculously, nobody else was injured.
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 07:49PM by NateNate60
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TIL that in 1997, Gueorgui Makharadze, the deputy ambassador from Georgia, struck and killed a 16-year old girl while driving drunk. Georgia agreed to waive his diplomatic immunity and he served 3 years in prison in North Carolina
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 08:14PM by cupacupacupacupacup
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TIL on August 19th, 1980 Saudia Flight 163 experienced an onboard fire 7 minutes after takeoff. Despite being able to land safely back at Riyadh Airport & taxiing to a stop, the plane was not evacuated, leading to the death of all 301 onboard. It's the deadliest accident involving the L-1011 Tristar
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 08:07PM by The-TIL-Nerd
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TIL in 2014, Ben Affleck received a lifetime ban from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after surveillance footage showed him counting cards during a high-stakes game. Security informed him he was "too good" and classified him as an advantage player.
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 09:42PM by Friendly_Hivemind
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TIL that American ginseng is so valuable ($300-$500 a pound) that poachers risk jail time to steal roots from the Appalachia mountains
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 10:17PM by Comfortable_List3413
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TIL a man in a unicorn pool floaty was fishing near the beach in Fort Lauderdale when he hooked a 10-foot shark that proceeded to drag him four miles offshore in his floaty. He was eventually rescued by the crew of a larger fishing vessel who were baffled at the situation when they happened upon him
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Submitted May 18, 2026 at 12:14AM by tyrion2024
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TIL In the 1994 movie Leon: The professional, Gary Oldman screams "EVERYONE!" at one of his henchman. This amateur actor was actually a New York fireman, killed 7 years later on 9/11 where his remains were never found.
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Submitted May 17, 2026 at 08:57PM by OperationSuch5054
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TIL Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, was escorted by crew members wearing brightly colored vests and told not to wander off set wearing his costume while on location for 'Return of the Jedi' Endor scenes, so that hunters in the California redwood forests would not mistake him for Bigfoot.
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Submitted May 18, 2026 at 02:02AM by Sandstorm400
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TIL Prince was the original choice to play the role of Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element, which Chris Tucker ended up playing, but he backed out because Jean Paul Gaultier’s costumes were ‘too effeminate.’
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Submitted May 18, 2026 at 04:06AM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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til that your brain literally washes itself while you sleep. the brain cells actually shrink in size so cerebrospinal fluid can rush in and flush out all the toxic proteins built up during the day
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Submitted May 18, 2026 at 03:36AM by Square-Message1152
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TIL that in 1858 the Vatican heard of a Jewish boy who was baptised by his nanny, without his Jewish parent's consent, and decided to kidnap the boy with the still running - and legally binding - Inquisition.
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Submitted May 18, 2026 at 01:14AM by the6thReplicant
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TIL Tommy McHugh once pooped so hard after a knock on the toilet door that it burst 2 blood vessels that led him to a coma. He ended up getting savant syndrome and began to express everything in poetry & art for the rest of his life until his death in 2012
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Submitted May 18, 2026 at 03:14AM by CrackFun
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TIL in 2005, Nintendo Power (At the time published by Nintendo of America) considered Superman 64 the worst game ever released on one of their platforms. Nintendo's statement in the magazine was "Why have you forsaken me?"
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Submitted May 18, 2026 at 02:07AM by paraspooder
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