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TIL First grown in Africa about 5,000 years ago, yellow watermelons went through generations of selective cross-breeding for texture, color and sweetness before any pink variety ever appeared. As ... (farmflavor.com)

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Original Title: TIL First grown in Africa about 5,000 years ago, yellow watermelons went through generations of selective cross-breeding for texture, color and sweetness before any pink variety ever appeared. As the lycopene content of hybrid varieties increased over time, the fruit naturally became redder and redd

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TIL maternal prepregnancy obesity was associated with an increased risk of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality through 1 year post partum; it appeared to be mediated by hypertensive disorders (jamanetwork.com)

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TIL that Blame It On The Boogie was written by M. Jackson - that's Mick Jackson, song writer from the UK - so The Jacksons' version is actually a cover (www.youtube.com)

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TIL that since 2013 The Price is Right has been directed by Adam Sandler. But, not that Adam Sandler. (www.distractify.com)

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TIL that Puff the Magic Dragon really was written as a children’s poem and isn’t a euphemism for smoking weed. (americansongwriter.com)

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TIL The GEICO Cavemen had their own short-lived TV series in 2007, which was described as one of the "worst TV shows ever" in the Chicago Tribune (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that the first cure for tuberculosis, streptomycin, was developed by a 23 year old grad student at Rutgers, Albert Schatz. It was also effective against other penicillin resistant infections a... (www.govinfo.gov)

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Original Title: TIL that the first cure for tuberculosis, streptomycin, was developed by a 23 year old grad student at Rutgers, Albert Schatz. It was also effective against other penicillin resistant infections and the first life saved with the drug was a young lieutenant wounded in Italy named Bob Dole.

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TIL, vegan horseback riding, aka hobby horsing, is a sport. (www.horseandhound.co.uk)

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TIL that roughly in a million cicadas have blue eyes instead of red. There's an urban myth that they are worth thousands of dollars. (news.vanderbilt.edu)

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TIL that “heat lightning” is a misnomer. It is simply lightning from distant thunderstorms. Lightning can be seen up to 100 miles away in the right conditions, while the sound of thunder doesn’t t... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL that “heat lightning” is a misnomer. It is simply lightning from distant thunderstorms. Lightning can be seen up to 100 miles away in the right conditions, while the sound of thunder doesn’t travel nearly as far.

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TIL the Minuteman ICBM had a smaller more portable brother, the Midgetman missile (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Mickey Jones aka Pete from “Home Improvement” was Bob Dylan’s drummer shortly after Dylan went electric in 1966 (www.chron.com)

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TIL: You can't take pictures in the Sistine Chapel because a Japanese broadcaster said so and the Vatican ran with it (www.rd.com)

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TIL Woody Guthrie composed "This Land is Your Land" and then forgot about it, not doing anything with it for 5 years (en.wikipedia.org)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mankls3 on 2023-08-12 22:19:07+00:00.

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TIL before WW1 ended on November 11th 1918, Romania re-entered the war on November 10th. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL renowned horror director George Romero got his start working on Mister Roger's Neighborhood. (screenrant.com)

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TIL that in 1938 the Nazis would only create a German version of The Hobbit if Tolkien proved his Aryan heritage. Tolkien wrote back that he disavows any sort of "race doctrine". (lithub.com)

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TIL that the Gregorian Calendar is used in all but 4 countries: Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran, and Afghanistan. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Hitler loathed New Zealanders as a “lower form of human being”. At a speech given on 15 July 1925 he argued that New Zealanders lived in trees and ”clambered around on all fours”, having not y... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL Hitler loathed New Zealanders as a “lower form of human being”. At a speech given on 15 July 1925 he argued that New Zealanders lived in trees and ”clambered around on all fours”, having not yet learned to walk upright.

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TIL: In 1562, Spanish bishop Diego de Landa burned 27 Mayan manuscripts in front of the Maya people of Maní, Yucatan. This was an attempt to erase their memories of their Gods and beliefs so that ... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL: In 1562, Spanish bishop Diego de Landa burned 27 Mayan manuscripts in front of the Maya people of Maní, Yucatan. This was an attempt to erase their memories of their Gods and beliefs so that they were more easily coerced into converting to Catholicism. Today, only four Mayan manuscripts exist.

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TIL that The world's oldest underground station is considered to be "Baker Street" station in London, which opened in 1863 as part of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway . (www.thetravel.com)

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TIL the song Hey You wasn't in Pink Floyd's The Wall movie because Alan Parker and Roger Waters decided it was simply too depressing and botched the film's pacing, so they had it removed. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that this is one of the first crime scene photos ever taken, Featured is the corpse of Madame Debeinche, who was murdered in her Paris apartment on May 5, 1903 . (www.history.com)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/vKylar on 2023-08-12 19:54:23+00:00.

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TIL there’s a percentage of a percentage of the population that will fall asleep when things get too emotional, regardless of where they are or what they’re doing. It’s called Type 1 Narcolepsy. (www.healthline.com)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NarcolepAwkPenguin on 2023-08-12 19:36:51+00:00.

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TIL John Carpenter's The Thing (1982 film) was based on the shortened version of a novel that wasn't published until 2019 (en.wikipedia.org)

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