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TIL that the artist who created Mike Tyson’s face tattoo sued Warner Bros because the same design was used on Ed Helms’ face in ‘Hangover II’. The artist had previously copyrighted the image and Warner Bros ended up setting the law suit.

by whatilearned July 20, 2022, 4:34 pm

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TIL Napoleon made Bavaria a kingdom, adopted his wife’s non-noble niece, gave her a title and dowry, and got her engaged to a powerful prince, just so he could get his step-son to marry another powerful princess, who had been previously engaged to the prince

by whatilearned July 9, 2022, 6:27 am

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TIL that in the Talmud, regarding to the question of the method of verifying if a previously perforated penis is healed, a Rabbi presents the solution of making someone cum from the heat of warm barley bread placed in the anus, to see if the cum does not go out from the perforation.

by whatilearned July 8, 2022, 12:49 am

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TIL the first and last Australian torchbearers for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were Nova Peris & Cathy Freeman, who are both Aboriginal women, both Olympic gold medalists, both holders of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and were both previously awarded Young Australian of the Year.

by whatilearned July 6, 2022, 12:39 pm

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TIL one of the first uses of biological agents for murder was in Calcutta, 1933, when Benoyendra Pandey secretly injected Plague into his brother on a train station over a property dispute. He had a previously failed attempt using Tetanus laced spectacles

by whatilearned July 5, 2022, 7:44 am

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TIL of Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots basketball team in the Philippines. Owned by a food and beverage corporation, they have previously been known as Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs, Coney Island Ice Cream Stars, and the Corned Beef Cowboys, among others.

by whatilearned June 15, 2022, 1:11 pm

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TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.

by whatilearned June 12, 2022, 6:26 am

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TIL about the Great Attractor which it was previously thought the Milky Way was moving towards at 1,342,162 mph, but now the Great Atractor AND the Milky Way are both moving towards Shapely Supercluster. Observation of these areas is blocked by the Milky Way for the next 100 million years.

by whatilearned June 8, 2022, 3:51 pm

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TIL cryptomnesia is an implicit memory phenomenon in which people mistakenly believe that a current thought or idea is a product of their own mind when, in truth, they have encountered it previously and then misremembered it. It’s also referred to as inadvertent or unconscious plagiarism

by whatilearned May 26, 2022, 1:24 am

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TIL Ttongsul is a traditional medicinal wine with 9% alcohol content. It is made with 70% boiled non-glutinous rice, 30% glutinous rice and yeast, blended with the previously fermented poop of a 4-7 year old child. The smell and visual appearance of this drink are worse than its actual taste

by whatilearned May 25, 2022, 1:06 am

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Cum Demon (previously Bean Demon)

by CopyPastaArchive May 24, 2022, 10:02 pm

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TIL that before drummer Neil Peart joined the progressive-rock band Rush, he was previously in another rock band called “Hush”

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 6:18 pm

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