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TIL the Rocky Horror Picture Show is the longest-running theatrical release in history. It has been shown in theaters continuously since its 1975 premiere – a run of more than 2,400 weeks.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 7:30 am

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TIL sandplay therapy, the playing with sand & objects in a tray, can facilitate a healing process as the unconscious expresses itself in the sand & influences the sand player. The effectiveness of play therapy is comparable to that of psychotherapy

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 6:57 am

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TIL that Ants live more than a year, breaking my conception of them not living more than month’s.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 5:33 am

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TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow marketed jade eggs for women to insert into their vaginas, and got sued for false claims and misleading information

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 5:14 am

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TIL Star Trek: The Animated Series was the first Star Trek series to win an Emmy.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 4:36 am

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TIL after North Korean soldiers killed two members of a work crew that were trimming a tree in the demilitarized zone, America and South Korea launched Operation Paul Bunyan to cut down the tree with the aid of overwhelming force: 813 men, 27 helicopters, a tank. The tree was cut down successfully.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 3:29 am

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TIL two nuclear bombs were ejected over farms in North Carolina. Neither detonated. The military’s investigation found that six of the seven steps required to detonate the bombs had been completed. There was only one trigger which had stopped the blast.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 2:46 am

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TIL A man was wrongfully imprisoned for 8 years, He read up on the law trying to prove his own innocence now he’s a defense lawyer

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 2:40 am

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TIL of the human sacrifice of a 5 year old boy by a tribe in Chile following an earthquake. 2 men were sentenced, but neither served more than 2 years, with a judge ruling they “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 2:14 am

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TIL it takes a crane and $50 000 to castrate a hippo in Columbia

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 1:20 am

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TIL that Mexico’s second president was black, fought against the Spanish in the Mexican war of independence, and abolished slavery.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 1:00 am

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TIL A statue to the Vice President to the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, sits inside the US Capitol building. It was selected in 1927 by Georgia as one of two statues to represent the state.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 12:49 am

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