/r/todayilearned
TIL that, due to fires and poor archiving and storage methods, approximately 90% of films from the Silent Era (1890s-1920s) are lost
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TIL that the Pokemon Anime debuting on the Kids WB network started the "decline" of WB Original Cartoons where original WB cartoons would be cancelled due to Pokemon garnering more Child Viewers on the network, Initially causing an era of WB Cartoons that started in 1990 to end.
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TIL that Hawaii is the only state within the U.S. that does not have a state police, state patrol, or highway patrol.
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TIL Cristiano Ronaldo was named in honor of his dad’s favorite movie actor’s (and American President at the time of his birth), Ronald Reagan.
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TIL: George Bredig escaped the Nazi regime when Princeton offered him a job in 1940. Scientists and professors who did not swear an oath to the regime were fired. He managed to save his research and made significant contributions to electro chemistry. The Nazis lost 26% of their university chemists.
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TIL There are around 300 petroglyph sites on the British Columbia coast, with concentrations on Gabriola Island. Only fewer than 30 can be dated and erosion means it is unlikely ancient carvings would be preserved. The Snuneymuxw request no photographs or rubbings be taken of the petroglyphs
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TIL that the shockwave generated by the Tsar Bomba was so powerful that it was recorded by seismic stations around the world, confirming that the seismic shockwave circled the globe three times, shattering glass windows in buildings more than 400 miles away.
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TIL about dry water, which is made by mixing silicon dioxide dust with water creating an air-water emulsion which is a powder.
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TIL that in 2018, after a tanker truck fire shut down a freeway in Los Angeles, a taco truck opened up on the freeway
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