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Today I learned they make diapers for ducks and other birds
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TIL in the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, a bell that has been ringing, nonstop, for at least 175 years. It's powered by a single battery that was installed in 1840.
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TIL: In 1994 Karl Wendlinger crashed his formula 1 car in the Monaco Grand Prix and survived a crash that rated 360g’s
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TIL After being shot, kicked, and spat upon, the bodies of Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hung upside down on meathooks from the roof of an Esso gas station. The bodies were then stoned by civilians from below. NSFW
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TIL - During the gold rush these items would cost (in todays equivalent) you: eggs - $90, butter slice of bread $56, a pick axe $1500. Inflation during the Tech Boom was nothing compared to the Gold Rush - article from 2015.
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TIL the character of Fagin in “Oliver Twist” was a “vicious” Jewish stereotype until Charles Dickens met a Jewish banker and subsequently removed all derogatory references to Fagin being a Jew in later editions.