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Today I Learned (TIL)

r/todayilearned

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Posted by6 hours ago

TIL NBC offered a role to James Gandolfini to replace Michael Scott on "The Office", but HBO paid him $3 million to not take the role

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Posted by13 hours ago

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TIL that in 2017 all GPS coordinates in Australia were shifted 1.8 m to account for continental drift since the last update in 1994. Moving north 7 cm a year, the Australian plate is one of the fastest-drifting plates in the world

theconversation.com/austra...

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Posted by10 hours ago

TIL the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was given to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for curing mental illness by giving patients malaria. (He was, in fact, curing them of syphilis because the malaria fevers are so high that they kill the bacteria. The malaria was subsequently cured with quinine.)

nobelprize.org/prizes...

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Posted by12 hours ago

TIL of Peter Kinloch, who went blind shortly after summiting Mount Everest and had to be abandoned by his team

theguardian.com/world/...

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Posted by4 hours ago

TIL: During the Medieval period, Divorce by combat which is depicted in the 1467 German book, Fechtbuch. The wife is given 3 rocks in a sling due to her husbands physical advantages while the husband is given a club and is forced to stay in a hole.

aemma.org/online...

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Posted by9 hours ago

TIL that NBC had another sitcom in the works at the same time as Seinfeld also named for its main actor called Ann Jillian that scored better with test audiences than Seinfeld's pilot episode and NBC executives gave a full season order. It was canceled after just one season.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

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