submitted by Preventer79 to todayilearned
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
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TIL the famous Socrates quote about children being disrespectful and having bad manners was actually a fabrication written by a Canadian college student in 1907
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Today I learned that Bhutan is a very communal society. They even get together and build houses for each other! Oh, and they decorate them with cocks.
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https://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/bhutan/penispage.html -
TIL: In 1979 Park Chung Hee, the third president of South Korea, was assassinated during a dinner, the gun jammed at the 3rd shot.
submitted by glowing_hans to todayilearned
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Park_Chung_Hee#Rivalry_between_Kim_Jae-gyu_and_Cha_Ji-chulUsed for the assassination: Small handguns; Smith & Wesson Model 36 and Walther PPK
Kim Jae-gyu fired the gun twice at Park’s chest from a distance of two to three meters, but the PPK jammed on a third shot.
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Fascism was founded by an illegal immigrant
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TIL In 1975, the US overthrew the democratically elected leader of Australia for his opposition to the war on Vietnam.
submitted by dessalines to todayilearned
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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/remembering-november-11-1975-pine-gap-cia-and-coup-remove-whitlamA few more articles on this:
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Today I learned: Epstein Island had an area of 28 ha
submitted by glowing_hans to todayilearned
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_islandThe island was Epstein’s primary residence,[4][14] and he called the island “Little St. Jeff”.
In April 1998, a company called L.S.J. LLC purchased the island for $7.95 million, and documents showed that Jeffrey Epstein was the sole member of L.S.J
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TIL the United States has 94 nuclear power plants.
submitted by crozilla to todayilearned
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https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65104In 2024, U.S. utilities operated 94 nuclear reactors with a total net generating capacity of nearly 97 gigawatts (GW), the largest commercial nuclear power generation fleet in the world.
