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TIL in Southern Norway there’s the world’s largest underwater restaurant, with seating capacity for 100 guests, and it was also awarded one star in both the 2020/21 edition of the prestigious Michelin Guide

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 8:15 pm

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TIL A Japanese company has actually awarded it’s non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 1:56 pm

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TIL that the US army awarded 20 Medals of Honor, the highest and most prestigious military decoration, to soldiers for their actions at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Many of those killed by US troops during the massacre were unarmed women and children.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 2:25 pm

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TIL Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a nobel prize, the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes, and her manuscripts are still so radioactive that they are stored in lead boxes.

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 1:12 pm

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TIL that the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to the three men who invented the blue LED. Until their discovery in the 90s, white LED lights couldn’t be produced.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 5:56 am

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TIL Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, was pressed into Navy service as a troop carrier during WW1. In May 1918 Olympic spotted a surfaced German U-boat, went full speed and rammed it causing the U-boat crew to abandon ship. It’s captain was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for the attack.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 1:53 pm

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TIL Cecil Jacobson, a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them, was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology in 1992, “for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.”

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 10:00 am

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TIL A turkish mother that read lecture notes for four years to her blind daughter in law school, has been awarded an honorary degree with the daughter

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 10:05 am

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TIL when Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1996, Jones said: “Well, what can I say in the face of such humiliating evidence? I stand guilty before the world of directing over 300 cartoons in the last 50 or 60 years. Hopefully, this means you’ve forgiven me.”

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 4:17 am

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POV: someone awarded your comment

by CopyPastaArchive April 20, 2022, 8:37 am

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TIL a Canadian mob boss sued a magazine for 1.25M for calling him “godfather”, but was awarded $2

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 10:56 pm

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TIL LCPL Emilio A. De La Garza, Jr. A US Marine, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic action that occured on April 11, 1970 in Vietnam. He saved the lives of 2 of his fellow marines by Blocking them from the blast of an enemy soldier’s hidden grenade.

by whatilearned April 11, 2022, 10:47 am

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