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TIL that Po Boy Sandwiches originated in New Orleans, and are derived from fried oyster sandwiches, called Oyster Loaves. A wide selection of fillings include roast beef, ham, shrimp, sausage, french fries and fried chicken. A "dressed" po' boy has shredded lettuce, tomato, pickles, and mayo.

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Submitted by jdward01 t3_11zk6j7 on March 23, 2023 at 1:19 PM in todayilearned

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TIL The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.

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Submitted by jamescookenotthatone t3_11zh2up on March 23, 2023 at 11:10 AM in todayilearned

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TIL On average, the United States has only eight public toilets per 100,000 people

qssupplies.co.uk

Submitted by mankls3 t3_11z2p7t on March 23, 2023 at 12:32 AM in todayilearned

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TIL of "The Paradox of Choice." Research indicates that when we are given too many options to choose from, we tend to end up less satisfied than if we had fewer options to choose from. Increased choice leads to higher expectations, followed by regret and self-blame.

theguardian.com

Submitted by AspireAgain t3_11yyumj on March 22, 2023 at 10:18 PM in todayilearned

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TIL the world's longest constitution was the Constitution of Alabama from 1901-2022. At 388,882 words, it was 51 times longer than the U.S. Constitution and 12 times longer than the average U.S. state constitution.

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Submitted by Jugales t3_11ys39a on March 22, 2023 at 6:33 PM in todayilearned

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TIL Burt Ward once claimed that his penis was so big that ABC prescribed him penis-shrinking pills.

menshealth.com

Submitted by RealTheAsh t3_11ym5wp on March 22, 2023 at 3:17 PM in todayilearned

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TIL that Paprika is made from red peppers

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Submitted by tencoffeesaday t3_11y6kyf on March 22, 2023 at 4:16 AM in todayilearned

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TIL of Ettore Majorana, an Italian theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the neutron and neutrino before disappearing without a trace in 1938

cerncourier.com

Submitted by UWCG t3_11y2qi1 on March 22, 2023 at 1:47 AM in todayilearned

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TIL the Army of the United States is not the same as the US Army. The Army of the US is one of four components, also including the Regular Army, the Army Reserve and the National Guard. If you're drafted you go into the Army of the US, but it's been dormant since 1973.

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Submitted by HeavyMetalOverbite t3_11xvvwc on March 21, 2023 at 9:48 PM in todayilearned

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TIL the U.S. largest state: Alaska, is bigger than California, Texas, and Montana combined, and over 2500 miles from east to west.

alaska.org

Submitted by ryraps5892 t3_11xm5ug on March 21, 2023 at 4:32 PM in todayilearned

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TIL that one of Hitler's earliest allies and close friends, Ernst Röhm, was actually openly homosexual, despite the Nazis' hatred for homosexuality. He was the leader of the SA until 1934, when he was killed during the Night of the Long Knives.

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Submitted by FaZe_Boris69 t3_11xkvuc on March 21, 2023 at 3:50 PM in todayilearned

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TIL the Big Gulp was invented in 1976, when Coca-Cola suggested that 7-11 use 32 oz. cups, much larger than 20 oz. cups being used by McDonalds at the time. The first regional order of 500 Big Gulp cups sold out in a week, eventually forcing automakers to make cupholders bigger as popularity grew.

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Submitted by jdward01 t3_11xiky1 on March 21, 2023 at 2:31 PM in todayilearned

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TIL that as the reigning monarch of 14 countries, King Charles III is allowed to travel without a passport and drive without a license.

natgeokids.com

Submitted by heavy_pterodactyl t3_11xg3cf on March 21, 2023 at 12:58 PM in todayilearned

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TIL Iceland has no McDonald's restaurants anywhere in the country. McDonald's left Iceland on 30 October 2009, as a result of the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis and high import tariff on imported ingredients which required the prices of their products to increase.

icelandreview.com

Submitted by False_Employ9474 t3_11x3nnn on March 21, 2023 at 2:04 AM in todayilearned

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TIL that Icelandic Air allows up to a 7 day layover in Iceland at no additional cost

icelandair.com

Submitted by scottie315 t3_11wlgl6 on March 20, 2023 at 3:16 PM in todayilearned

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TIL A 69 year old woman took South Korea's written driving test 960 times before she finally passed and was given her license

nasdaq.com

Submitted by Ok_Copy5217 t3_11wftle on March 20, 2023 at 11:12 AM in todayilearned

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TIL That, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, Eugene Stoner, inventor of the AR-15, and Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47, met near Washington DC and developed a friendship that lasted until Stoner's death seven years later.

onthisday.com

Submitted by GentPc t3_11w1q06 on March 19, 2023 at 11:41 PM in todayilearned

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TIL a man suffering from fatal familial insomnia, a condition whereby you become biologically incapable of sleep, attempted vitamin therapy, sensory deprivation, narcoleptics, and anesthesia to sleep, which prolonged his life by 12 months.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Submitted by Sausage_fingies t3_11w0ul5 on March 19, 2023 at 11:08 PM in todayilearned

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TIL Ohio has license plates reading "Birthplace of Aviation" and North Carolina reads "First in Flight" because the two states both claim the Wright Brothers as their own. The Wrights performed the first controlled, powered flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. but built their plane in Ohio

bbc.com

Submitted by Specialist_Check t3_11v25g0 on March 18, 2023 at 9:57 PM in todayilearned

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TIL Dolphin Spermatozoa are capable of penetrating zona intact bovine oocytes and producing hybrid embryos via IVF (In Vitro Fertilization).

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Submitted by Beelzebub003 t3_11uy4qm on March 18, 2023 at 7:42 PM in todayilearned

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TIL President Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon named Rebecca. He got it as a gift in place of a turkey for Thanksgiving and Coolidge had no interest in eating it so he kept Rebecca as a pet and had a “White House Raccoon” tag made for her.

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Submitted by Dr_Cigs t3_11uuqxt on March 18, 2023 at 5:42 PM in todayilearned

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TIL: In 1903 Daniel Barringer gambled his entire fortune on a mineshaft believing geologists had misclassified a meteor creator as a volcano and a $1 billion iron ore deposit was to be found. He was correct that the site was a meteor creator, but didn't realize the iron ore had vaporized on impact.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by Fifth_Down t3_11uu31v on March 18, 2023 at 5:16 PM in todayilearned

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TIL in 1990 Marge Simpson wrote a letter to First Lady Barbara Bush after Barbara said The Simpsons was ‘the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen’.

news.lettersofnote.com

Submitted by ConfidenceBooster1 t3_11ulrsw on March 18, 2023 at 11:25 AM in todayilearned

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TIL When random people of varying physical attractiveness get placed into a room, the most physically attractive people tend to seek out each other and to congregate with only each other.

ox.ac.uk

Submitted by AdUtronicious t3_11u4wzf on March 17, 2023 at 9:47 PM in todayilearned

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TIL An estimated 50.000 Irish were made into indentured servants by Cromwell after he took Ireland in 1653.

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Submitted by DeadeyeClock t3_11twso3 on March 17, 2023 at 4:57 PM in todayilearned

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