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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 03:06

TIL: When Ken Burns Civil War originally aired in 1990, blank VHS tape sales rose 40% nationwide.

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/realestate/ken-burns-new-hampshire-home.html

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 02:51

TIL that one of the many ways it seems that Alexander the Great grieved his Hephaestion was by creating a cult dedicated in his honor, complete with followers, shrines, art, sacrifices, altars and temples. His cult even seems to have eclipsed the Athenians native Greek gods in worship.

http://www.alexanderstomb.com/alexanderdiogenes.html#:~:text=The%20most%20remarkable%20clu…

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 02:36

TIL US taxpayers funded the development of every drug approved in the decade 2010-2019.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dollars-funded-every-new-pharmaceutical-in-the-last-decade

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 02:21

TIL in 1347, Cola di Rienzo, after reading about ancient Rome, ousted the city's government & nobility. He titled himself "Tribune of the Roman people" & sought to unify Italy & restore the Roman Republic. He defeated crime, gave Roman citizenship to all Italian cities, & tried to elect an emperor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_di_Rienzo

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 02:06

TIL that up until 2015, Dahala Khagrabari was the world’s only 3rd-order enclave. It was a piece of land belonging to India inside a piece of Bangladesh, inside a piece of India, inside Bangladesh

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-turducken-border-disputes-180956161/

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 01:51

TIL: Orcas live in matrilineal families

https://princeofwhales.com/5-facts-about-orcas/

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 01:36

TIL that out of the 13 official Disney Princesses, only Tiana from The Princess and the Frog was born in the United States. She was born around 1910 in New Orleans. While Pocahontas was born around 1596 in what is now Virginia, the United States didn’t exist at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Princess

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 01:21

TIL 35% of whole blood donors become iron-deficient (defined as ferritin levels of below 25 µg/L). Daily iron supplementation (37 mg of iron) for at least 8 weeks after is expected to replenish iron loss from one whole blood donation.

https://professionaleducation.blood.ca/en/transfusion/publications/importance-iron-whole-blood-donors-canadian-perspective

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 00:51

TIL that prior to 1880, there was no official time in Great Britain. Cities would often keep their own time, different from neighboring cities. Also, GB was the first nation in the world to adopt a universal time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 22:36

TIL that a 39 mile-long sausage was created in Romania in 2014

https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-sets-new-world-record-for-longest-sausage?amp

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 22:21

TIl That Burma Dictator Ne Win announced the demonetisation of the 25, 35, and 75 kyat notes, leaving only the 1, 5, and 10 kyat bills valid and replaced them with 45 and 90 bills, wiping out 60-80% of legal tender and peoples savings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Win

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 22:06

TIL that Betty White was the oldest of the four main actresses on The Golden Girls and the last to pass away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:51

TIL that Canada now has higher property and violent crime rates than the United States of America.

https://tnc.news/2024/11/28/canada-higher-crime-rates-than-us/

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:36

TIL The St. Johns River is the longest river in Florida, and the longest river in the United States that flows northward

https://gnome.orr.noaa.gov/doc/location_files/st_johns_river_tech.html

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:21

TIL 1066 and 1936 were the only years in English history with three different kings, both due to a short reign by the second king. In 1066, Harold II ruled 282 days before dying at Hastings. In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated after 326 days to marry an American divorcée.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest-reigning_monarchs

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:06

TIL: "Itasha" which translates to "painful" or "cringeworthy" car is a subculture that originated in Japan which involves wrapping cars in flashy graphics, typically anime girls. In recent years it has been growing in popularity in the US with specialized businesses such as "The Weeb Stop".

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-anime-car-18392345.php

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:51

TIL the same voice actor voiced both the character He-Man and Morris the Cat in the 9 Lives cat food commercials.

https://deadline.com/2025/01/john-erwin-dead-1236274489/

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:36

TIL Mark Matthews was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, enlisting in 1910 and retiring in 1949 before becoming a security guard and retiring again in 1970. He died in 2005 at the age of 111.

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/886

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:21

TIL under suspicion that he might join protests at the republican party convention in 1972, John Lennon was under heavy CIA surveillance. Lennon and his wife were aware they were under surveillance to some degree, but were still shocked once they were informed about the full extent of it

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000303620003-6.pdf

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:06

TIL that the final article of the Greek Constitution says all Greeks "have the right and the duty to resist by all possible means against anyone who attempts the violent abolition of the Constitution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_120_of_the_Greek_Constitution

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