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25.04.202520:00
TIL there are an estimated 3 million plus undiscovered shipwrecks in the worlds oceans. [source, comments]
25.04.202511:00
TIL a father (5 years) & son (4 years) were sentenced to prison after they cashed in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a 10-year period, laundered more than $20m, & then failed to pay the IRS $6m. They bought the tickets at a discount from people who wanted to avoid being identified by the state. [source, comments]
25.04.202507:00
TIL: Alexander Hamilton was six months younger than Elizabeth Schuyler when they married in 1780. Their marriage lasted 24 years—until he was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr. Elizabeth lived nearly 50 more years, fiercely protecting his legacy [source, comments]
25.04.202504:00
TIL Jazz musician, Fats Waller, was kidnapped by 4 men and “given” to Al Capone as a birthday gift. He performed for 3 days and was found drunk with thousands of dollars in cash stuffed in his pockets. [source, comments]
25.04.202500:00
TIL that when William Penn was granted a land charter by King Charles II in 1670, Penn became the largest non-royal landowner, owning around 45,000 square miles of land. This included land in what is now Pennsylvania and Delaware. [source, comments]
24.04.202518:00
TIL: Diamond engagement rings aren’t an old tradition—they were invented by marketers. In 1938, the diamond company De Beers hired an ad agency to convince people diamonds = love. They launched “A Diamond Is Forever”—a slogan that took off, even though diamonds aren’t rare and are hard to resell. [source, comments]
25.04.202516:00
TIL that in the early 20th century it was believed that submerging yourself for 30 hours inside a decomposing whale would releave rheumatism arthritis for up to a year. [source, comments]
25.04.202511:00
TIL the president of NBC at the time tried to persuade the creator of Family Ties to replace Michael J. Fox. He said "that’s not a face you’re going to see on a lunchbox". Fox later had a lunchbox made with his picture on it and sent it to the exec with a note, "this is for you to put your crow in". [source, comments]
25.04.202505:00
TIL alcohol is the leading global risk factor for premature death and disability among people aged 15–49, causing more deaths than malaria, tuberculosis, and violence combined. [source, comments]
25.04.202503:00
TIL Napoleon had planned an invasion of the UK but it was never carried out. Preparations were financed by the sale of the Louisiana territory to the US which the US financed with a loan from a British bank, so Britain was indirectly funding an invasion of itself. [source, comments]
24.04.202523:00
TIL that in the city of Lincoln, IL, a phone booth was installed in the 1960s on the rooftop of City Hall, a 3 story building. Why? Weather watching and reporting. It is still there. [source, comments]
24.04.202518:00
TIL In the 1990s, many computers used two-digit years. To prevent systems from reading "00" as 1900 in the year 2000, governments and companies spent billions updating systems. Thanks to these efforts, major failures in banking, flights, and utilities were avoided. [source, comments]
25.04.202515:00
TIL Steven Spielberg offered Tom Sizemore a role in Saving Private Ryan (1998) under the condition that he would be given a drug test at the end of every day of filming, and if he failed even one time, all his scenes would be re-shot with someone else. He stayed clean and completed the movie. [source, comments]
25.04.202510:00
TIL that the British royal family owns a stamp collection worth over £100 million. In 1904, The Prince of Wales paid £1,450 for a rare stamp. A courtier asked the prince if he had seen "that some damned fool had paid as much as £1,400 for one stamp". "Yes," George replied. "I was that damned fool!" [source, comments]
25.04.202505:00
TIL a Sheffield man killed his neighbor using a bag of Pokémon cards after an argument. Suffering from psychosis worsened by cannabis, he bludgeoned, stamped, and beat the victim, later saying it was “an act of mercy.” He got life with 17 years minimum. [source, comments]
25.04.202502:00
TIL of Henry "Hang-On Hank" Dempsey, who accidentally ended outside of a plane and hung on until his co-pilot landed the plane. [source, comments]
24.04.202522:00
TIL Anaxagoras was one of the first to assert that the Moon reflected sunlight and did not produce light by itself; a statement translated as “the sun induces the moon with brightness” was found in his writings. [source, comments]
24.04.202516:00
TIL that in 2018, the entire Greek football league was suspended after the president of a team stormed the pitch during a match to confront a referee while carrying a gun [source, comments]
25.04.202514:00
TIL that a cat named Tommy called 911 to help its owner, Gary, who had fallen from his wheelchair and couldn't get up. Gary had tried to train Tommy to call 911, but never expected it to work. [source, comments]
25.04.202509:00
TIL In 1857, Archduke Maximilian of Austria married Princess Charlotte of Belgium. Napoleon III later urged them to rule Mexico, where monarchists sought a crown. It ended badly—Maximilian died by firing squad and Charlotte suffered a mental breakdown. [source, comments]
25.04.202504:00
TIL about Bishnu Shrestha, a Nepalese-Ghurka soldier who went up against 30+ train robbers after they tried SAing an 18yo near him. He refused money offered by her family, saying "Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier. Taking on the thugs on the train was my duty as a human being". [source, comments]
25.04.202501:00
TIL the Ancient Roman structure known as a 'vomitorium' was not designed to facilitate people's vomiting, as is commonly misunderstood; it was a type of doorway intended to accommodate crowds as they exited [source, comments]
24.04.202520:00
TIL that despite Christians being 1% of the Japanese population, there have been 9 Christian prime ministers since 1900 in Japan. [source, comments]
24.04.202515:00
TIL That the man who took the photo used in the original "I want to believe" poster depicted in the X-files claims to be a reincarnation of various prophets including Jesus and Mohammed, and that he has had contact with aliens since he was 5. [source, comments]
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