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STICKY You ever heard of Matar judíos? [720x2845 - 835KB]

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TIL there's 'fool-proofing mechanisms' aka 'poka-yoke'/'baka-yoke' [1250x600 - 91KB]

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Forgotten History: The Chicago White People’s Uprising of 1966

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TIL Sunflowers track the sun during the day but also reorient at night in anticipation dawn

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TIL Food additives Carmine, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, or E120 mean bugs

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The ‘California Premium’: Why the Golden State’s ‘Take Per Gallon’ consistently outpaces refiner earnings

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TIL nigger in arabic is زنجي zanji. Fucking zanjis

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Polyphony was a Russian Orthodox practice of many different clergy members speaking different prayers at the same time, thus saving time, so Mass was shorter, and you had more time to get drunk afterwards.

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TIL In the photo of dead Hitler there is body double Gustav Weler

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Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960–1961. In April 1961 he had developed appendicitis while at Novolazarevskaya Station, and being the only medical professional there at the time, had to perform his own appendectomy.

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TIL I am not white. I am Trans racial. I am a Black man!

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TIL the Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges. Sixteen plant families are currently recognized by botanists to be part of Poales.

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Why babies can't eat honey — the bacteria that causes infant botulism

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TIL155 Irish fought over 3000 africans and walked away alive

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TIL that a chicken sexer is specially trained to visually determine the sex of chicken hatchlings?

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TIL geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 to 60 cm (0.64 to 24 inches). Most geckos cannot blink, but they often lick their eyes to keep them clean and moist.

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TIL Waikiki is most famous for Waikiki Beach, which is one of six beaches in the district, along with Queen's Beach, Kuhio Beach, Gray's Beach, Fort DeRussy Beach and Kahanamoku Beach. Waikiki Beach is almost entirely man-made.

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TIL the night before Thanksgiving is the biggest drinking night of the year, even bigger than St. Patrick's Day or New Year's Eve.

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TIL Xenon gas is the new secret to scaling Mt Everest — quickly.

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Benedict XVI has a nigger in his coat of arms.

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TIL one possible method to decode the Voynich manuscript, part 2 (33:57)

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TIL Doge Coin is God eCoin!

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Geographic tautologies

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Epiphany has two meanings

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TIL as recently as 2006 genetic testing confirmed the existence of polar bear-grizzly bear hybrids, also known as ‘grolar bears’ or ‘pizzly bears’.

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