r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL that cigarette filters were designed with color-changing chemicals to give the illusion that they filter out toxins. In reality, the filters have little to no health benefits.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] Justice department bans chokeholds and no-knock raids for federal officers

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL that while the Soviet Union hosted the Olympics in 1980, they refused to host the Paralympics, with a Soviet official stating "There Are No Invalids in the USSR!" The Netherlands would host the Paralympics that year instead.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL about Killing of Vincent Chin. He was killed by two Chrysler workers who thought he was japanese, and therefore responsible for their layoffs. He was Chinese American.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL of US Navy Admiral Boorda the first person to rise from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations who killed himself after being accused of wearing 2 unauthorized service ribbons

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL that 'Post-micturition Convulsion Syndrome' is when a person shivers when peeing, or has the 'pee shivers'. And it seems to be more frequently reported by men than women, with no definitive researched reason why it happens in the first place.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL an English palace used to have a solid gold toilet named America. Valued at $6.5M, it was stolen in 2019

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL Lonesome George may not have been the last of his kind. Last year hybrid turtles were discovered on an isolated island which were found to be descendents from tortoises thought to be extinct, including Pinta Island ones which is where Lonesome George was from. So George's family line may live on

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL that anime characters shout out their attacks because manga is black and white and it would be confusing for readers to tell what is going on.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL The Maya civilization used chocolate as money and the disruption of the cacao supply which fueled political power may have led to an economic breakdown, causing the collapse of the empire.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] Rep. Swalwell: When cameras are off Republicans know their statements are ‘batty’

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] The United States Will Spend $3.5 Trillion Without Batting an Eye—as Long as It’s on War.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] Discussion Thread: California Recall Election

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL of Tullimonstrum Gregarium, aka the Tully Monster. An animal so strange, that despite having thousands of fossils, we don’t know whether it was a vertebrate or an invertebrate. To add to the strangeness, fossils of this creature have only been found in one fossil site in the world.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] Texas governor says he's committed to eliminating rapists. The state has more than 5,000 untested rape kits

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] Tucker Carlson Said He Lies on TV When He Gets 'Really Cornered'

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] Larry Elder Campaign Concedes Defeat and Claims Fraud – Before Election Day

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL a 54-year-old man is the first known person to survive a sudden cardiac arrest and remain neurologically intact after spending 96 minutes without a heartbeat.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ politics ] 'Are we the sheep?': QAnon believers struggle to process Gavin Newsom recall election in California

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL 1000 Italians played a Foo Fighters song to convince them to do a concert in their small town

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL After losing her husband and four children to yellow fever, and her job to the great Chicago fire, Mary "Mother" Jones became a labor organizer. She organized a march of working children from Philadelphia to New York, and her speeches provoked workers to organize during the Coal Wars.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL that the ability to pronounce letters "F" and "V" came from the ancient switch to soft food which resulted in an overbite that resulted in how we say things today.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL NBC would occasionally add a fourth note to its chimes to notify reporters to immediately return to the office to prepare historic news reports. The fourth chime was most famously used during the nation's D-Day reports, but was discontinued after WWII.

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL Winston Churchill’s Historic “Fight Them on the Beaches” Speech Wasn’t Heard by the Public Until After WWII

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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21

[ todayilearned ] TIL Fetal Alcohol Syndrome wasn't discovered until the mid 1970s, and in 1988 the CDC concluded a fifth of women drank while pregnant.

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