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What is a disturbing fact most people are unaware of?

by QuestionGuy May 16, 2022, 1:30 pm

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TIL in 1245, Pope Innocent IV sent a letter by emissary to Karakoram to implore the mongols for peace, unaware their translation for peace meant “subjection”. The khan, Guyuk, responded by demanding the pope’s immediate submission.

by whatilearned March 7, 2022, 3:55 am

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My partner had a go at me because at night, unaware, I go on about Hobbits, Rings and Orcs.

by cringeyjokesman February 10, 2022, 12:00 pm

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TIL although Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, the 2011 Prize in Physiology and Medicine for Ralph M. Steinman still stands because the committee was unaware he had died three days before the announcement.

by whatilearned January 28, 2022, 5:33 am

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TIL Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton left his wife months after she gave birth to their third child, to live with his girlfriend – with whom he had three children. He maintained a deception of having stayed with his original family and his own mother died unaware of the truth 24 years later

by whatilearned January 28, 2022, 4:40 am

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TIL the guitar Kurt Russell smashed in The Hateful Eight (2015) was not a prop and in fact a 1870s antique on loan from the Martin Guitar Museum. Russell was unaware the guitar was supposed to be switched for the scene and Jennifer Jason Leigh’s reaction in the scene is genuine.

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 3:41 pm

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TIL Of the Shackleton expedition to reach the south pole. The ship got frozen in the ice then sank, the crew lived on the ice for months, before an 800 mile lifeboat voyage and a 26 mile mountain hike to safety. The crew were gone for so long, they were unaware of the first world war.

by whatilearned November 11, 2021, 6:54 pm

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TIL Tina Fey was slashed in the face by a stranger in an alley by her house in kindergarten. The attack left a large scar on the left side of her face. In “30 Rock” her character favored her right side, although she states she was fairly unaware of it growing up. “I was a very confident little kid.”

by whatilearned November 5, 2021, 5:39 pm

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TIL of the Pintupi Nine, a group of Aboriginal Australians that lived a traditional lifestyle and were unaware of the outside world. In 1984 they made contact with other Pintupi peoples living in remote Western Australia.

by whatilearned November 3, 2021, 1:49 pm

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TIL about “Operation Moolah”, which offered large cash rewards to North Korean pilots who defected with an intact MiG-15 jet fighter. However, the only defector who ever met the conditions, No Kum-sok, was unaware of the offer. He was still paid $100,000 ($967,289 in today’s money).

by whatilearned October 27, 2021, 3:14 pm

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People who block the aisle with their shopping cart, why are you so unaware of your surroundings?

by QuestionGuy August 16, 2021, 11:40 pm

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TIL that Kratos is the name of an actual Greek god, but the creators of the God of War games were unaware of this when they created their main character Kratos. Ironically, the games’ Kratos frees Prometheus from his rock while the mythological Kratos was the one who chained him.

by whatilearned July 14, 2021, 2:11 pm

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