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TIL the only in-flight structural breakup of an airliner to ever be caused by air turbulence alone was a case of a plane flying directly through a tornado

September 15, 2022, 11:22 pm
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TIL in order to study under Pythagoras, students had to remain silent for five years.

September 15, 2022, 10:10 pm
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TIL that Cards Against Humanity joked about how they could have bought a small private island with the money they donated to charity. So in 2014 they did, renaming it “Hawaii 2”

September 15, 2022, 10:00 pm
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TIL: Edward Bernays, in an effort to market bananas to the United States, ended up toppling the Guatemalan government and starting a 30 year civil war

September 15, 2022, 9:33 pm
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TIL about a set of reports known as ‘The Family Jewels’ detailing illegal activities conducted by the the CIA from 1959 to 1973 including funding of behavior modification research on unwitting US citizens, including unscientific, non-consensual human experiments.

September 15, 2022, 9:27 pm
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TIL Rats Love to Play Hide and Seek

September 15, 2022, 9:17 pm
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TIL the terms “booze” , “fed up”, “hoodwinked”, “under her thumb” and “wrapped around her finger” come from falconry

September 15, 2022, 9:11 pm
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TIL that “miniatures” small illustrations used to decorate manuscripts, are not named after their size but actually draw roots from the Latin verb miniare, “to colour with minium”, a red lead

September 15, 2022, 8:54 pm
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TIL All of Mr Rogers’ sweaters were knitted by his mom

September 15, 2022, 8:48 pm
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TIL ancient graffiti found in Pompeii calls into dispute the date Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. A millennia would pass before archeologist’s would discover a workers charcoal inscription dated 17 October 79 AD. 2 months after the infamous city was allegedly buried under 20 feet of ash and pumice stone.

September 15, 2022, 8:37 pm
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