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Learn Something New With 24 Facts We Just Learned
The world and the web are full of information, it is impossible to learn it all. Aside from all of the broad knowledge people have to know, there are millions of small, fun facts to learn about that might surprise you. There is something new to learn every single day. From history facts to gossip and everything in between. Learning something new is fun and interesting for everyone involved.
If you haven't learnt anything new today, don't worry. There are tons of places online where people share all of the small yet interesting facts and tidbits of information they find and figure out. Today, everyone can learn something new with the help of others.
So, for those who want some food for thought or for those who want to test their own knowledge, here is a collection of 25 facts we only just learned today, so everyone else can learn them, too.
TIL that Ken Allen, an orangutan at the San Diego Zoo, became famous for his many successful escapes. During his escapes, he would peacefully stroll around the zoo looking at other animals. He never acted aggressively toward patrons, but would throw rocks at Otis, another orangutan he “despised”
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TIL that since it's discovery in 1930, Pluto has still yet to complete a full orbit around the sun, and will only do so by 2178.
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TIL that Dippin Dots, the popular ice cream snack commonly found in stadiums, arenas, and theme parks, was originally created as cryogenically frozen cow feed.
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TIL a human brain uses 12 watts to think while, if it could, an AI system doing the same processing could use 2.7 billion watts.
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TIL that Bruce Lee was only 32 years old when he died from a brain edema after not being able to be woken up from a nap.
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TIL in the 1980s, a woman bought a ring at a car boot sale for £10 & proceeded to wear it regularly under the assumption it was a piece of costume jewelry. However when she had it appraised decades later, it was identified as a real 26-carat diamond ring from the 1800s, which she then sold for £656K.
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TIL of the 85 known drugs that interact with grapefruit, 43 can have serious side-effects including sudden death, acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, and bone marrow suppression in people with weakened immune systems.
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TIL Clarence King, discoverer of Mount Whitney and one of the USA's best-known scientists, revealed on his deathbed in 1901 that he had a second life, wife & five kids, living as a Black man named James Todd.
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TIL that ancient Greek and Roman historians wrote about a species of headless humans with faces in their chest who supposedly populated Libya and Aethopia.
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TIL of the 4 students who passed their final exams in Einstein's department, he got the lowest mark & was the only one who wasn't offered a job as an assistant teacher at their alma mater.
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TIL of The British pet massacre, where an estimated 750,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England's pet population, were euthanized due to a government pamphlet suggesting the public do so, at the beginning of WW2.
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TIL of Torpedo Juice which was drunk by sailors in WW2 by combining 180-proof ethyl alcohol with pineapple juice.
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TIL frogs will in fact try to escape a slowly boiling pot. The myth is based on 19th century experiments in which the frogs have had their brains removed before boiling.
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TIL Marottichal a village in India was rife with alcoholism and illicit gambling, but everything changed after one man taught the town to play chess. Miraculously, the game’s popularity flourished while drinking and gambling declined.
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TIL that Roman ladies would pay to have the sweat and muck of Gladiator's bodies scraped off, so that they could use it as a moisturiser.
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TIL that, in the first printed attestation of orangutans in western sources, Malays claimed the ape could talk but preferred not to “lest he be compelled to labour”.
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TIL that so many Chinese women get plastic surgery in South Korea that China now warns them to get a doctor’s note since their appearance no longer matches their passport.
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TIL while a woman was mowing the lawn, a 4-ft snake fell out of the sky from nowhere & wrapped around her arm. As she tried to get it off, it tried to bite her face. Then chaos ensued when a hawk swooped down & tried take it off her arm 4 times before succeeding.
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TIL Over 80% of the world has never taken a flight.
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TIL that with a net worth of $500 million, German Shepherd, Gunther IV is the world's richest dog. He inherited his fortune from his father, Gunther III, the previous richest dog in the world.
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TIL that Margaret Atwood based The Handmaid’s Tale entirely on real historical events with every element of oppression in the book having already happened somewhere.
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TIL that doctors warn that sitting on the toilet for more than 10 minutes is bad for you.
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