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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WrongEarth4 on 2023-08-08 01:50:16.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2023-08-08 00:51:58.

Original Title: TIL after a serious accident that left him with a permanent injury, Emperor Maximilian I became mordibly depressed in his later year. For the last four years of his life, he wouldn't travel anywhere without his coffin

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AspireAgain on 2023-08-07 23:41:02.

Original Title: TIL that the Teletubbies from the BBC Children's series had a hit single - "Teletubbies say Eh-oh!" - which reached Number One on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in December 1997. It remained in the top 100 for a total of 41 weeks and sold well enough to be certified double platinum.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/firstpc13 on 2023-08-08 00:02:49.

Original Title: TIL the featured speaker at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, not Lincoln. He gave a 2 hour speech preceding the Gettysburg Address. After, he wrote to Lincoln "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LandscapeKind4598 on 2023-08-07 22:41:51.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/starkfr on 2023-08-07 22:12:17.

Original Title: TIL that the earliest known depiction of a handshake is an ancient Assyrian relief of the 9th century BC depicting the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III shaking the hand of the Babylonian King Marduk-Zakir-Shumi I to seal an alliance.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DemocrrrracyManifest on 2023-08-07 21:28:32.

Original Title: TIL that in the UK, a thick beef paste called Bovril is spread on toast or reconstituted into “beef tea.” It’s name comes from the Latin bovinus, for ox; and vril, a substance from a late 1800s novel used by a secret master race to give them special powers.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/purplerainbowsrule on 2023-08-07 20:33:27.

Original Title: TIL that Irving Berlin is the only Academy Award winner in history who presented the award to themselves. He won for writing ‘White Christmas’, and declared that opening the envelope was extremely awkward. The rules were then changed to prevent this ever happening again.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/blueberrisorbet on 2023-08-07 20:15:23.

Original Title: TIL when the town of Exeter, Massachusetts renamed itself to honor Benjamin Franklin in 1778, they asked Franklin to donate a bell to the town church. Franklin responded with a donation of books instead, which formed the founding collection of America's first public library.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vektor0 on 2023-08-07 19:50:03.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WizardWolf5 on 2023-08-07 19:44:08.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ForceSmuggler on 2023-08-07 19:34:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HOMER_J_FONG on 2023-08-07 19:19:38.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/robin_f_reba on 2023-08-07 18:26:07.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Such-Track5369 on 2023-08-07 18:52:03.

Original Title: TIL Out of 7 recorded incidents of "talk-down landings" - when the pilot becomes incapacitated and the plane is landed by a passenger with assistance over the radio - All were successful, with no injuries on landing

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RagiModi on 2023-08-07 18:28:12.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/froggy_diggum on 2023-08-07 18:15:41.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/IllustriousDudeIDK on 2023-08-07 17:25:03.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DAL59 on 2023-08-07 16:58:30.

Original Title: TIL moss grows in sloths' fur, and there's a moth species that only lives in sloth fur moss. Sloths make risky descents to defecate rather than defecating from the canopy so moths which lay eggs in their dung and make their moss more nutritious can live in their moss.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xyzerb on 2023-08-07 17:31:05.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Loki-L on 2023-08-07 16:37:43.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/hconfiance on 2023-08-07 15:50:15.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bayesianganglia on 2023-08-07 15:40:37.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/deepmush on 2023-08-07 13:43:56.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SpergerQuing on 2023-08-07 14:49:24.