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TIL Katy Sagal’s sisters were once the double mint twins

4 upvotes • bigyack

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TIL men in Ireland, Poland, Italy, and Portugal have lighter skin than women in these countries.

4 upvotes • BossOf_Bosses

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TIL that the time zone UTC-12:00 is the only one that is completely uninhabited

4 upvotes • Paradoxbox00

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TIl that Rokeby Venus is the only surviving nude artwork of Diego Velázquez. NSFW

4 upvotes • Antique_Radish_7227

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TIL there are 70,000 realtors in Toronto, Canada

4 upvotes • Comprehensive_Math17

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TIL when George R.R. Martin was writing A Storm of Swords he skipped over the chapter with the Red Wedding in it & finished the rest of the book before making himself go back to write it. It was very hard & painful for him to kill off the characters in that scene that he'd lived with for so long.

4 upvotes • tyrion2024

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TIL In the past 24 years, the only NBA player to win 3 consecutive championships is Patrick McCaw, who kept getting traded to winning teams before dropping out of the NBA

4 upvotes • Negative-Net7551

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TIL that the shape of a Pringle is called "hyperbolic paraboloid", and has its own equation.

3 upvotes • NinaMoss8Me

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TIL Isadore in Ida Strauss, the founders of the Macy's department store, died on the Titanic. They have a great-great-granddaughter. Who was she married to? Stockton Rush. The guy who died on the Oceangate/Titanic submersible implosion.

3 upvotes • george_graves

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TIL about the Nazi DirleWanger Brigade in World War 2 which played 'bayonet catch' with live babies among many other systematic atrocities

3 upvotes • anotherwave1

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
TIL Katy Sagal’s sisters were once the double mint twins	4	bigyack
TIL men in Ireland, Poland, Italy, and Portugal have lighter skin than women in these countries.	4	BossOf_Bosses
TIL that the time zone UTC-12:00 is the only one that is completely uninhabited	4	Paradoxbox00
TIl that Rokeby Venus is the only surviving nude artwork of Diego Velázquez. NSFW	4	Antique_Radish_7227
TIL there are 70,000 realtors in Toronto, Canada	4	Comprehensive_Math17
TIL when George R.R. Martin was writing A Storm of Swords he skipped over the chapter with the Red Wedding in it & finished the rest of the book before making himself go back to write it. It was very hard & painful for him to kill off the characters in that scene that he'd lived with for so long.	4	tyrion2024
TIL In the past 24 years, the only NBA player to win 3 consecutive championships is Patrick McCaw, who kept getting traded to winning teams before dropping out of the NBA	4	Negative-Net7551
TIL that the shape of a Pringle is called "hyperbolic paraboloid", and has its own equation.	3	NinaMoss8Me
TIL Isadore in Ida Strauss, the founders of the Macy's department store, died on the Titanic. They have a great-great-granddaughter. Who was she married to? Stockton Rush. The guy who died on the Oceangate/Titanic submersible implosion.	3	george_graves
TIL about the Nazi DirleWanger Brigade in World War 2 which played 'bayonet catch' with live babies among many other systematic atrocities	3	anotherwave1