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TIL what an Eigenharp is. It's awesome. [VID] (youtube.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by Unidan

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TIL that there is a town by the name of Okay, OK. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 8 hours ago by whiteboy1190

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TIL that the hundreds of billions of dollars of national student-loan debt has now overtaken American credit-card debt. Oh, and that going to college is a bad investment. (washingtonpost.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by iAmNotFunny

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TIL the US Government is making a new $100 bill with real color on it (newmoney.gov)

submitted 3 hours ago by unquietwiki

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TIL that someone volunteered to go to Auschwitz to organize the resistance. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 7 hours ago by Stair_Car

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TIL: Gandalf's famous "You shall not pass" line in LOTR book/movie is an allusion to a propaganda slogan predating WWI (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 11 hours ago by robotempire

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TIL the US Government was sued after astronauts read from the Book of Genesis, the case was dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 hours ago by murderlicious

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TIL that ~140 y.-o. photographs have better quality that today's digital pictures. (toolserver.org)

submitted 11 hours ago by BanX

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TIL: What 'vajazzling' is [mildly NSFW] (theluxuryspot.com)

submitted 8 hours ago by am__

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TIL 30% - 40% of the population in India is vegetarian (~400 million people) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 7 hours ago by roger_

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TIL that Wikipedia is also in Latin. (la.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 hours ago by Grasshole

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TIL: Jesus wasn't called Jesus (survivingtheworld.net)

submitted 15 hours ago by WhyEvenTry

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TIL that dicktowel.com, from It's Always Sunny is real (dicktowel.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by bmathieu

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TIL Thora Birch was barely 17 during the filming of American Beauty (imdb.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by GreatWhiteBuffalo

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TIL that production of OK SODA was cancelled just 7 months after its release. Too bad, I liked it. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 11 hours ago by matlockdown

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TIL How my washing machine timer works, and it was damned interesting (self.todayilearned)

submitted 12 hours ago by aaronwright

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TIL the red and yellow M&M's from those commercials are voiced by Fry from Futurama and J. Jonah Jameson. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 hours ago by jackmasker

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TIL the phrase "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" was coined by Benjamin Franklin. I now have a new favorite historical figure. (self.todayilearned)

submitted 10 hours ago by SwarleyJr

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TIL oysters can not only catch herpes, but die from it. (news.discovery.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by ballarion

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TIL That the BookIt Program is still around. (bookitprogram.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by GonzoUCF

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TIL Interpol was originally created as part of a ‘Secret Protocol for the International War on Anarchism’ (cas.sc.edu)

submitted 12 hours ago by yellowcakewalk

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TIL that the melody to the Ghostbusters theme song sounds just like the melody from a Huey Lewis and the News song titled "I want a New Drug" written that same year. (youtube.com)

submitted 8 hours ago by wildncrazyguy

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TIL about Granny Gatewood, the 67-year old woman who thru-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail wearing Keds sneakers, because she "thought it would be a nice lark." (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 hours ago by d9-thc

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TIL the incredible evolutionary association between squid and bacteria. (self.todayilearned)

submitted 5 hours ago by craig5005

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TIL the members of the 1972 U.S. Olympic mens basketball team have still refused to accept their silver metals (one has even put it into his will that his heirs cannot accept his posthumously). (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 day ago by fatty-mcfatass

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