TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky
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Quintus Quincy Quigley - Wikipedia
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TIL the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
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Mona Lisa - Wikipedia
TIL that Nintendo was founded in 1889.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ezveou/til_that_nintendo_was_founded_in_1889/
BBC Newsround
History of Nintendo: Where did Nintendo come from?
Over a century ago, a small card company in the Japanese city of Kyoto was created. Little did anyone know what the legacy of that card company wou...
TIL (from a YouTube video from The Paint Explainer) Warnock's dilemma is the explication of why there is no sure way to understand why nobody comments on community post you made.
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Warnock's dilemma - Wikipedia
TIL between 1978 and 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Out of 31 officials who were tested, 12 accepted the bribe and were convicted
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
ABSCAM | Federal Bureau of Investigation
On February 2, 1980, the world learned of our high-level investigation into public corruption and organized crime, infamously code-named ABSCAM.
TIL there is desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been kept filled with candy since 1965. It’s called the ‘Candy Desk’.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eo8dvg/til_there_is_desk_on_the_floor_of_the_us_senate/
Candy Desk - Wikipedia
TIL that Hitler ensured the safety of his Jewish family doctor Eduard Bloch (who treated Hitler's mother for breast cancer at reduced cost). He was allowed to emigrate to the US in 1940.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1enmpr7/til_that_hitler_ensured_the_safety_of_his_jewish/
Eduard Bloch - Wikipedia
TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Wikipedia
TIL in 1184, 60 noblemen died after a wooden floor collapsed in a church, causing them to fall into a "latrine cesspit" (liquid shit) which hadn't been emptied for a while. Their cause of death was drowning.
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Toilets of the World
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster
That Time When Sixty Members of Nobility Died in a Latrine Disaster — A blog about toilets
TIL there is a cheese called Pantysgawn
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Pantysgawn - Wikipedia
TIL people used to do their laundry in Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. They would put their clothes in the geyser and it would erupt with clean clothes.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eglflc/til_people_used_to_do_their_laundry_in_old/
Old Faithful - Wikipedia
TIL that pineapples do not grow on trees, but on the ground
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farmsandfarmer24.com - All Bangla News for the World, its about poultry, dairy, agriculture, fishing, farms and farmer related news site.
আনারস চাষ করবেন যেভাবে - farmsandfarmer24.com
আনারস অত্যন্ত সুস্বাদু ও পুষ্টিকর ফল। টিনজাত খাদ্য হিস...
TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/25/443519599/episode-653-the-anti-store?Ujc
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eax3gi/til_costco_purposefully_designed_their_store/
TIL the Abenaki word for "white man" awanoch is a combination of the words awani meaning "who" and uji meaning "from". Thus, the word for "white man" literally translates to "Who is this man and where does he come from?"
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1earqun/til_the_abenaki_word_for_white_man_awanoch_is_a/
Abenaki - Wikipedia
TIL: you can plant tomato slices in pots and sprout your own tomato plants.
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TIL pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value. The United States has lost nearly half a billion dollars minting pennies and nickels over the past 3 years(2021-2023).
https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-Annual-Report.pdf
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eabc2g/til_pennies_and_nickels_cost_more_to_produce_than/
TIL: Ivan Pavlov of Pavlov’s dogs also experimented on orphaned children which involved drilling a hole in their cheeks and applying electric shocks.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1e9djl3/til_ivan_pavlov_of_pavlovs_dogs_also_experimented/
Ivan Pavlov - Wikipedia
TIL that until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987, it was widely assumed that infants didn't feel pain, leading to many undergoing major surgeries without anesthesia.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1e7ey9s/til_that_until_infant_pain_was_formally/
Pardon Our Interruption
TIL despite surviving an assassination attempt while running for president again, Theodore Roosevelt did not win re-election!
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Attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt - Wikipedia
TIL Fruit Loops are all the same flavor.
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Froot Loops - Wikipedia