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TIL Less than half (~48.48%) of Reddit’s most popular links get noticed on their first submission to the site (Academic Paper)

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gwXy TIL of a 83 year old lady from Wyoming who maintains and regularly uses a 122 year old sourdough culture, she makes pancakes out of it.
9YNaM TIL that sometime in 1981, President Ronald Reagan ordered an SR-71 to spy on a secret North Korean conference, not because there was anything to learn, but because the repeated sonic booms would interrupt the conference and there wasn’t a weapon on earth which could shoot the craft down.
rNXLM TIL because of naval tradition, submarines are usually referred to as boats rather than as ships, regardless of their size.
b9ngp TIL that the Australian bush ballad "Waltzing Matilda", also known as the country's unofficial national anthem, is actually about a travelling worker who steals the local landowners sheep to eat. Upon being chased by him and three policemen, he commits suicide by drowning himself in a local river.
grxjD TIL that one of the rarest events in baseball is the unassisted triple play, wherein one defensive player makes three outs on a single play. There have only been 15 in MLB history, making it rarer than a perfect game.