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TIL Most Explosives used by Hamas Are Unexploded Israeli Bombs Dropped on Palestine (medium.com)

TIL Chess Boxing is a real thing (en.m.wikipedia.org)

TIL the middle finger was used offensively from 423 BC (www.dictionary.com)

TIL that the two people to have been the oldest when serving as POTUS are Joe Biden and Donald Trump (en.wikipedia.org)

This is based on their age at the beginning of their term....

TIL John Lennon made a song "Working Class Hero" that was intended to jolt the system (www.youtube.com)

I was reading this article from 1970 and he’s obviously a complicated dude: archive.is/POtvB...

TIL about Wirtz pumps. Put a hose in a vertical spiral and spin it in a body of water and it'll pump water through the hose with way more pressure than you would think. (www.youtube.com)

TIL There is a subgenre of porn called Zombie Porn. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that the connection between Parkinson's and pesticides was discovered after Californian drug users injected themselves with faulty heroin that contained a neurotoxin byproduct, subsequently exhibiting symptoms (www.iospress.com)

It was only in the early 1980s that the first tangible evidence connecting a toxicant with neurodegeneration came to light. In a tragic experiment of nature, a group of drug users in California accidentally injected themselves with a bad batch of designer heroin and began suffering from symptoms closely resembling those of...

TIL depression peaks at ages 20-24 in the US. (ourworldindata.org)

Different countries have different distributions, click “change”. Canada, Australia, New Zealand have similar to the US. France, Germany, UK peak 40-44.

TIL VH1's Pop Up Video is "lost media". Due to licensing issues, the only way that episodes can be found is through home recordings of the show from when it aired (lostmediawiki.com)

Currently, all the master copies of the episodes from the original run are being held by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. They were donated by Tad Low, the creator of the show. Although master copies are known to exist, they are not publicly available due to licensing. […] With the sheer number of episodes produced, the fact that...

TIL the word "vamoose" is an Americanization of the Spanish word "vamos" for "let's go".

Obligatory vamoose you little varmint.

TIL past psilocybin use is strongly associated with working less overtime hours (www.tandfonline.com)

TIL in 1818, an Englishman accused of murder demanded a trial by combat. Surprisingly, the law that allowed for trial by combat was still valid, and the man was acquitted when his accuser declined the (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL in 1818, an Englishman accused of murder demanded a trial by combat. Surprisingly, the law that allowed for trial by combat was still valid, and the man was acquitted when his accuser declined the offer of battle. Trial by combat was abolished the following year.

TIL that the telescope that capted the Wow! Signal (only likely candidate to be of ET origin) was razed to make room for a golf course (skeptoid.com)

TIL: Queen frontman Freddie Mercury left his London estate to his ex-girlfriend, who put it up for sale at $38 million (www.elledecor.com)

TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists. (en.wikipedia.org)

aired from 1936-1937. if anyone has a copy pls lemme know

TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex (en.m.wikipedia.org)

It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....