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TIL 66% of Fortune 500 companies and more than half of all publicly traded corporations listed in the New York Stock Exchange are incorporated in Delaware because of its corporate friendly laws. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/podrick_pleasure on 2024-12-06 18:13:15.
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TIL that Keanu Reeves once rescued a woman stranded on the roadside by pushing her broken and dirty car. That woman was Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer. (www.youtube.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Alvinyuu on 2024-12-06 17:45:59.
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TIL: Contrary to a rumor that has circulated on the internet, Jägermeister does not contain deer or elk blood. (www.snopes.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/HazardousHacker on 2024-12-06 16:11:38.
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TIL there is a Las Vegas, New Mexico AND that it was where most of the 1984 film Red Dawn was filmed (www.fast-rewind.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/mattpeloquin on 2024-12-06 14:43:45.
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TIL The Battle Hymn of the Republic was used as a French Christmas carol called "Glory Alleluia" (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/WatIsThisThatThisIs on 2024-12-06 11:59:42.
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TIL that the Amazon is slowly pirating part of the Orinoco (www.enn.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Sly1969 on 2024-12-06 08:04:04.
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TIL of Wakaliwood, the Ugawood studio that made the 85$ Tarantinoesque hit YouTube film ‘Who Killed Captaiin Alex?’ (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/huninnuvna69 on 2024-12-06 03:56:10.
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TIL there is still one actor from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz alive, Caren Marsh Doll, who was Judy Garland's stand-in, and it is in fact her feet seen in the film when Dorothy taps the heels ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ATSTlover on 2024-12-06 14:56:01.

Original Title: TIL there is still one actor from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz alive, Caren Marsh Doll, who was Judy Garland's stand-in, and it is in fact her feet seen in the film when Dorothy taps the heels of the slippers together. Caren is 105 years old.

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TIL that an $80 Windows program sold in 1995 claimed to double your system’s RAM. Researchers found that it just changed a system setting users could change for free, and reported false system inf... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2024-12-06 13:58:37.

Original Title: TIL that an $80 Windows program sold in 1995 claimed to double your system’s RAM. Researchers found that it just changed a system setting users could change for free, and reported false system information to the user. After an FTC settlement, buyers got a $10 refund.

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TIL a violent Welsh Nationlist movement attempted to bomb Prince Charles in 1969, only for their bomb to accidentally detonate a day early, killing two of the bombers. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Weavel on 2024-12-06 13:50:59.
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TIL Converse sneakers have a thin layer of felt on the bottom so that they can legally be classified as slippers and be subjected to lower import costs. (www.fool.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2024-12-06 10:22:41.
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TIL Richard Feynman and his wife, Gweneth Howarth, bought a Dodge Tradesman Maxivan in 1975, and had it painted with Feynman diagrams. The license plate was ‘QANTUM’. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jordansrowles on 2024-12-06 09:43:41.
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TIL Al Copeland, the founder of Popeyes, in the early 1960s spend 10 years in the doughnut business before creating his first restaurant that sells chicken. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Valentinocaronte on 2024-12-06 07:20:17.
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TIL of Mexican General Jose De Urrea. Urrea was undefeated, having a victory over every Texas opponent, he encountered during the Texas Revolution. However, his successes were seen as overshadowin... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/HallowedAndHarrowed on 2024-12-06 06:46:05.

Original Title: TIL of Mexican General Jose De Urrea. Urrea was undefeated, having a victory over every Texas opponent, he encountered during the Texas Revolution. However, his successes were seen as overshadowing his superiors and they took over from him, to disastrous effect.

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TIL although the film is only 1 hour and 37 minutes, the word Michael was said 114 times in the 1987 film the lost boys (bloody-disgusting.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Turbulent_Click_964 on 2024-12-06 06:20:34.
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TIL newsboys across New York went on strike against Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper in 1899 (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Camtastrophe on 2024-12-06 04:22:03.
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TIL of a heavy metal band from Finland called Heavisaurus, which is aimed for children . (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/RampagingElks on 2024-12-06 02:56:53.
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TIL the current Spanish-language World Champion for Scrabble has previously also won the French-language and English-language championships. A New Zealander, he only speaks English. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/SirBackrooms on 2024-12-06 02:03:49.
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TIL that the castaways in Gilligan's Island never escaped the island in the show's original run. In a 1978 TV movie they make it off the island, only to end up stranded again. A final 1981 film fe... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/WavesAndSaves on 2024-12-06 01:50:01.

Original Title: TIL that the castaways in Gilligan's Island never escaped the island in the show's original run. In a 1978 TV movie they make it off the island, only to end up stranded again. A final 1981 film features the Harlem Globetrotters visiting a resort the castaways set up on the island after being rescued

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TIL the oldest known human drawing is a 73,000-year-old cross-hatched pattern made with ochre on stone flake, found in South Africa. This discovery predates previously known drawings by at least 3... (theconversation.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ralphbernardo on 2024-12-06 01:32:30.

Original Title: TIL the oldest known human drawing is a 73,000-year-old cross-hatched pattern made with ochre on stone flake, found in South Africa. This discovery predates previously known drawings by at least 30,000 years, revealing early Homo sapiens' ability to create symbolic designs using various techniques.

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TIL: US President Gerald Ford turned down offers to play in the NFL for the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers after graduating from the University of Michigan (footballfoundation.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/GingerMellow5 on 2024-12-05 23:53:32.
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TIL Dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994 due to fears that they could spread diseases to the native seal population. (www.chrisdobo.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/haddock420 on 2024-12-05 23:24:44.
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TIL that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas argued that plants, geographic features, and even air deserve legal standing to sue for their own protection against modern technology and life. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/BoazCorey on 2024-12-05 22:15:26.
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TIL the first person known to have been killed by an automobile was a naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental ste... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/XaltotunTheUndead on 2024-12-05 20:34:22.

Original Title: TIL the first person known to have been killed by an automobile was a naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins.

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TIL: 1993’s Macarena (which inspired one of largest dance crazes in history) song lyrics are about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend when he enlists in the military by having a ménage à trois wit... (boingboing.net)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ivebeenabadgirl4 on 2024-12-05 19:08:15.

Original Title: TIL: 1993’s Macarena (which inspired one of largest dance crazes in history) song lyrics are about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend when he enlists in the military by having a ménage à trois with two other men.

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