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TIL that every Texas Ranger's badge is carved from Mexican silver, rather than cast like most other badges. Standard issue badges are all made almost exclusively using 1947 or 1948 Cinco Peso coin... (authentictexas.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/dabmandan on 2025-02-03 14:32:26.

Original Title: TIL that every Texas Ranger's badge is carved from Mexican silver, rather than cast like most other badges. Standard issue badges are all made almost exclusively using 1947 or 1948 Cinco Peso coins by only three master silversmiths and engravers.

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TIL the business name "Holiday Inn" was originally suggested as a joke. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-02-03 12:42:20.
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TIL the Aztec language Nahuatl (and varieties from the Uto-Aztecan language family) are spoken by over 1 million people, some of whom only speak that language (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-02-03 12:03:42.
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TIL Ted Fujita, meteorology scientist and father of the Fujita tornado scale, had his life saved by the weather. He was in Kokura on the day of the second atomic bombing. Kokura was the first targ... (news.uchicago.edu)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/rawrsthehusky on 2025-02-03 11:15:46.

Original Title: TIL Ted Fujita, meteorology scientist and father of the Fujita tornado scale, had his life saved by the weather. He was in Kokura on the day of the second atomic bombing. Kokura was the first target, which couldn’t be done due to bad weather, they went with the secondary target of Nagasaki.

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TIL about Zersetzung, a psychological warfare technique by which the Stasi repressed opponents in East Germany by methods such as gaslighting or spreading rumors (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Johannes_P on 2025-02-03 10:23:58.
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TIL that early semiconductors, before CAD, were made by hand drawing the circuit design on graph paper at an extremely enlarged scale, then cutting that design onto a film called Rubylith, which w... (www.asianometry.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-02-03 09:15:46.

Original Title: TIL that early semiconductors, before CAD, were made by hand drawing the circuit design on graph paper at an extremely enlarged scale, then cutting that design onto a film called Rubylith, which was used to create the final photolithographic mask. Repeat for all layers on a chip.

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TIL "I've Never Met a Nice South African" was a 1986 anti-apartheid song where the songs narrator states that despite the numerous unlikely things they've seen they've never met a nice South Afric... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/MajesticBread9147 on 2025-02-03 09:21:11.

Original Title: TIL "I've Never Met a Nice South African" was a 1986 anti-apartheid song where the songs narrator states that despite the numerous unlikely things they've seen they've never met a nice South African. The chorus has South Africans describing themselves as "arrogant bastards who hate black people"

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TIL that Harvard boasts 188 billionaire alumni, nearly surpassing the next three schools combined: #2 Stanford (74) #3 Penn (64) and #4 Columbia (53) (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-02-03 04:06:42.
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TIL that 1984's "The Terminator" was made for a budget of $6.4M -- less than $20M today when adjusted for inflation. By contrast, 2019 bomb "Terminator: Dark Fate" had a production budget of $196M. (www.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/BrickHerder on 2025-02-03 03:48:53.
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TIL the achilles tendon on an ape is short or non-existent whereas humans have long ones. Computer models suggest that energy stored in the tendon increases top running speed by over 80% and reduc... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ProudReaction2204 on 2025-02-03 02:45:28.

Original Title: TIL the achilles tendon on an ape is short or non-existent whereas humans have long ones. Computer models suggest that energy stored in the tendon increases top running speed by over 80% and reduces energy consumption by more than 3/4

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TIL Charles Lindbergh's flight, while being the first solo transatlantic nonstop crossing, was not the first ever; that was achieved 8 years earlier by British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brow... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/the2belo on 2025-02-03 01:16:33.

Original Title: TIL Charles Lindbergh's flight, while being the first solo transatlantic nonstop crossing, was not the first ever; that was achieved 8 years earlier by British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919

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TIL: For All Moonkind is a nonprofit working with the UN to preserve human heritage in space to protect damage to historical sites by tourists or errant explorers. It consists of Space Lawyers, po... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-02-02 22:22:37.

Original Title: TIL: For All Moonkind is a nonprofit working with the UN to preserve human heritage in space to protect damage to historical sites by tourists or errant explorers. It consists of Space Lawyers, policymakers, and space archeologists. It receives bipartisan support in the US.

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TIL about hemochromatosis, a condition that makes you absorb excess iron in your blood. The main therapy method is to donate blood every 1-16 weeks. (www.cc.nih.gov)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Future_Green_7222 on 2025-02-02 18:21:09.
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TIL 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, the second highest in US history, prompted retaliatory tariffs by many other countries and was a contributing factor to worsening the Great Depression (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/1poundbookingfee on 2025-02-03 03:26:27.
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TIL: 54% of Americans read under a 6th grade level (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ReturnOfTheRover on 2025-02-03 02:40:43.
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TIL Sojourner Truth's first language was Dutch, and her famous "Ain't I A Woman" speech was rewritten to sound more stereotypically Black (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Critical_Reveal6667 on 2025-02-03 02:32:10.
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TIL that duo to a loophole in Kentucky's law, a wedding officiated by Cocaine Bear can't be invalidated if the parties believe that it had the authority to solemnize it (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/LukeD1992 on 2025-02-03 02:11:19.
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TIL The Sonic Hedgehog protein, a signaling molecule in the human body that regulates embryonic development. (wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Trender_man on 2025-02-02 23:31:05.
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TIL that under New York City, on the lower concourse of Grand Central Station, there’s a windowless, 440-seat oyster and seafood bar that has been serving customers since the terminal’s opening in... (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-02-02 22:15:36.

Original Title: TIL that under New York City, on the lower concourse of Grand Central Station, there’s a windowless, 440-seat oyster and seafood bar that has been serving customers since the terminal’s opening in 1913. Except for brief closures for a fire in 1997 and COVID-19 it has operated continuously.

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TIL that due to an agreement between the National Archives and Caroline Kennedy, the jacket Jackie Kennedy wore on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated cannot be displayed in public until 2103 (edition.cnn.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Arstotzkanmoose on 2025-02-02 21:32:41.
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TIL the "Elephant's Foot" mass of radioactive material beneath the Chernobyl disaster was so dense that they needed to use armor-piercing rounds fired from an AK-47 rifle to break off samples. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/syn_vamp on 2025-02-02 20:20:35.
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TIL that before Chris Hansen worked on To Catch a Predator, he was an NBC correspondent and investigative reporter that covered, through means of hidden cameras, corruption involving child slave l... (www.nbcnews.com)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Tall_Ant9568 on 2025-02-02 19:20:33.

Original Title: TIL that before Chris Hansen worked on To Catch a Predator, he was an NBC correspondent and investigative reporter that covered, through means of hidden cameras, corruption involving child slave labor and U.S citizen’s collusion with terror groups surrounding the September 11th attacks

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TIL From 2001 to 2006, a Spanish Woman staged 7 fake kidnappings of her children, receiving over 600,000 euros in "ransom" from her husband. (news.bbc.co.uk)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-02-02 18:59:32.
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TIL about Richard Henry Boyd, a successful business owner who also developed beautiful black dolls in 1908, made to be dolls for black girls to play with without being caricatures (tennesseehistory.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Comfortable_Ad2908 on 2025-02-02 18:22:34.
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TIL rabies kills 59 thousand people a year (en.wikipedia.org)
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Acanthaceae6880 on 2025-02-02 18:18:38.
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