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TIL That the 'Wedding Ring Effect' (the idea that women find men signalling engagement or having a partner more attractive) does not exist.

PubMed

Human mate choice and the wedding ring effect : Are married men more attractive? - PubMed

Individuals are often restricted to indirect cues when assessing the mate value of a potential partner. Females of some species have been shown to ...

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TIL "A True Story", the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare, begins with an explanation that the story is not at all "true" and ends with a lie that their future adventures will be described in the upcoming sequels.

A True Story - Wikipedia

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TIL Before 2022, it was unknown how eels reproduced

How do eels reproduce? | BBC Science Focus

It is only now are we learning more about the reproductive habits of these long, silvery, endangered fish.

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TIL Microwaved food and liquids cool faster than conventional heating due to uneven heating of molecules.

Esquire

Why Microwaved Food Cools Faster

The answer to a nagging question

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TIL In 1949 Oregon state senator Dean Walker tried to ban popcorn from movie theaters.

Dean Walker - Wikipedia

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TIL about the Korean Axe Murder Incident, occurring in the North & South Korean DMZ in 1976. Incensed at US troops trimming a historical tree, North Korean troops attacked, killing two US Army officers. Retaliating with an overwhelming show of force, US troops returned and chopped down the tree.

Panmunjom axe murder incident - Wikipedia

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TIL: a site managers' poor attempt to unstuck a flatbed truck sent that truck rolling down a cliff where it blocked a railway tunnel entrance, just as an express train was barreling into the tunnel. 49 people died as the train hit the fallen truck, derailed, then hit the tunnel entrance head on.

2021 Hualien train derailment - Wikipedia

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TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.

HMS Warspite (03) - Wikipedia

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TIL that RATFUCKING is a slang term used by U.S. military personnel to describe the targeted pillaging of MREs

Meal, Ready-to-Eat - Wikipedia

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TIL during the filming of 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, it became a secret running joke between Tom Holland and Michael Keaton that Keaton would often whisper in a deep voice“I’m Batman” in Tom’s ear on set during a few fight scenes.

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TIL a study shows time passes 4 nanoseconds faster per day at the 450m-high Tokyo Skytree observation deck than at ground level. A University of Tokyo professor said clocks "will become tools for measuring time and space, such as differences in altitude, in line with the theory of relativity". https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13284896 #til #todayilearned

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TIL Christopher Langan-allegedly the ‘smartest person in the world’- is a fraud #til #todayilearned

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TIL that some people are born with their internal organs mirrored horizontally across their body, known as *Situs Inversus*. 🫀

Cleveland Clinic

What Is Situs Inversus?

Situs inversus flips your chest and abdominal organs like you’re looking at them in a mirror. Learn about the types and causes.

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TIL that the number of US federal government employees has hovered between approx. 2.7Mil and 3Mil since 1967. Lowering the per capita ratio from 1.5 employees per 100 people to 0.9 employees per 100 people.

All Employees, Federal

Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Federal (CES9091000001) from Jan 1939 to Feb 2026 about establishment survey, federal, governme...

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TIL Kangaroo and wallabies have 3 vaginas and 2 uterus.

Grist

Kangaroo genitals are weirder than you ever thought possible

Animal lovers, listen up: Critters are cute and everything, but you should know that nature is fucking weird. And nothing fucks weirder than kangar...

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TIL the McLaren F1 is so valuable now, that it is essentially impossible for one to be "written off" by an insurance company, since the repair costs will always be less than the value of the car. Furthermore, McLaren will fully repair a crashed F1, no matter how substantial the damage.

MotorBiscuit

It Is Basically Impossible to Total a McLaren F1

Car wrecks are an unfortunately common thing here in the U.S., and we can’t seem to figure out how to stop them. As long as people are safe and t...

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TIL Raccoon dogs exist #til #todayilearned

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TIL, that Painless Parker was a street dentist that created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon while a band played. The band attracted large crowds and hid the moans and cries of patients who were given whiskey or a cocaine solution.

Painless Parker - Wikipedia

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TIL that when F1 driver Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix, becoming the first ever Mexican driver to win an F1 race, the organizers didn't have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the Mexican hat dance. After that, Rodriguez always traveled with a record of the anthem with him

Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver) - Wikipedia

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TIL that "cryptomnesia" is a psychological phenomenon where your brain "borrows" old memories and makes you think they’re brand-new ideas. It’s like accidentally plagiarizing your own brain.

Cryptomnesia - Wikipedia

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