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Let’s give a farewell to all those sleepless nights at school, sweaty exams, and never-ending misery that permeated the greatest part of our early adulthood, because there’s another side of the coin called the power of knowledge. And we’re talking bits of wisdom that didn’t find a place in textbooks but rather gave us a whole new way of learning new things.
Welcome to r/TIL—the internet’s homage to the continuous curiosity we carry through life, picking up all the interesting segments on the way. So get ready to soak in a new batch of hand-picked factoids below, and be sure to check out our previous posts on things people just learned here, here, and here.
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#1
TIL: A park bench in Bristol was given an official postal address so doctors could register the homeless as patients
CJ 4 years ago
this is sad. let's provide housing for the homeless. nah. lets make the park bench their official address.
Hayley Rodgers 4 years ago
They could be working on housing as well, but this was a quick fix to allow them Healthcare while working on the bigger and more complicated issues
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Brendan 4 years ago
Plus, I'm from Bristol - Woop woop! Shout out to all my G's!
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Mindy Keys 4 years ago
Every city in the US should do this. Homeless veterans can't even get their pension checks without an address (PO boxes do not work). But, I guess since the homeless (and a lot of homed) in these "Great" United States don't have even basic health benefits, it's moot.
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#2
TIL US Airways kicked a blind and and his dog off a plane in 2013 after the Dog repositioned itself during a two hour delay. They cancelled the flight after passengers disembarked in protest saying the flight attendant responsible be kicked off instead of the man and his service dog.
Claudia Dugral 4 years ago
I rather have dogs than people on my flights. (Flight attendant here)
Gabby M 4 years ago
Yeah I'm confused by that. Doesn't that just mean the dog moved? I'm guessing the dog went to the bathroom or something.
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Louloubelle 4 years ago
Maybe I'm a bit dense, but what was meant by "repositioned"? Just getting up and moving a bit? Like you do when you sleep?
Nomadus Aureus 4 years ago
The guide dog is expected to stay at your foot, neatly crammed into that minuscule space between your legs and the seat in front of you. While they are trained to obey orders, you can imagine how insanely uncomfortable a large dog will get. The poor thing probably lied down and their nose/tail/paws ended up in the aisle, becoming a "tripping hazard".
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Llama_flower93 4 years ago
And we're talking SERVICE dog here, not the emotional support type. This guy has to have his dog for goodness sake, he's blind.
New Prometheus 4 years ago
Kicked off a plane? :D It took me several reads. Positioned itself during a delay? I don't get it.
Aroha 4 years ago
To me it reads like the plane was delayed on the ground, and the dog moved. So the flight attendant wanted to kick them off the flight. I think...?
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
WTF?! Just for THAT?! Was it a threatening move??? Offensive manner??? F****d up shitiot pissant assholes.
Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
clearly the passengers had more compassion and common sense than the airline
#3
TIL In 1802, Napoleon added a Polish legion to fight off the slave rebellion in Haiti. However, the Polish army joined the Haitian slaves in the fight for independence. Haiti's first head of state called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe", which was then regarded as a great honour.
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
Me too...I have a whole new affinity for the Polish now!! That rocks!
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denzoren 4 years ago (edited)
The Caribbean has a really rich history (very sad I might add...a lot of slavery etc.) but a very good read for anyone interested. The Haitian revolution was of epic proportions.
Kines Tezja 4 years ago (edited)
Poles lost their whole country at the end of XVIII century to Russia, Prussia and Austria and during the whole XIX century their favourite topic was fight for freedom. Joachim Lelewel, first real Polish historian once said "za wolność waszą i naszą" (for your and our freedom) and it was a motto of Polish soldiers fighting for various enslaved and conquered nations (including their own).
Ben Moss 4 years ago (edited)
Idk why people seem to respect Naploleon now, he was a grade-A prick. He destroyed democracy and re-introduced slavery and was no better than Loius XVI. France owes reparations to Haiti.
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
France has actually forced Haiti to repay them for their so-called "losses" due to Haitian independence. Some nerve.
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奈那子 青い 4 years ago
I am Polish... and I learned it today... why haven't I heard of this in any of my history classes?
Smutná_elfka 4 years ago
Many slavic nations have their own history of oppression. No wonder they didn't want to take part in oppressing others.
#4
TIL that during WW1, the MI5 used Girl Guides to deliver secret messages. They used Girl Guides instead of Boy Scouts because they found out that Boy Scouts weren't efficient enough, boisterous and talkative.
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
This is similar to how women became telephone operators, they initially used boys first, but they were rude, would refuse to connect people, insult the callers, fight, smoke and generally misbehave.
Lisa Taylor 4 years ago
There's a wonderful book called "How the Girl Guides Won The War" by Janie Hampton that's packed with amazing tales. Guides & Scouts played big parts in resistance movements in occupied territories.
Guido Pisano 4 years ago
In Italy scouts (male and female) were active against nazi-fascism they were called "Aquile Randagie"
#5
TIL of Bessie Coleman, the first African American and Native American female pilot who would only perform if the crowds were desegregated and entered thru the same gates.
Enna S 4 years ago
There's so much more to her story! She is incredible. No flight school in North America would take her due to her race and gender. She didn't let that stop her. She spent some time earning money as a beautician and learning French. She then attended the Caudron Brothers' School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France and earned her international pilot's license. And she wasn't just a pilot, she was a barnstormer. She would do all the loop-de-loops and stunts of the early air shows. She also gave flight lessons to women and really just wanted to share the joy of aviation. Brave Bessie is the Queen of the Sky. Look her up!
Jaclyn Levy 4 years ago
I also think she is the one who trained to become a pilot abroad because no one would train her in the US. She got her pilots license then came back. Incredible!
Ivy la Sangrienta 4 years ago
Pilots would put on aerial shows. So she was both.
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TIL that Fermilab used to clean its particle accelerators with a ferret named Felicia, who would run through the tubes with cleaning supplies attached and be rewarded with hamburger meat
Mary Beth Miller 4 years ago
My dad worked in the project and he would bring Felicia home so she had somewhere to stay when not working. She was a fun little critter. This is pretty much my only claim to fame.
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Mindy Keys 4 years ago
Ferrets also ran all of the underground wiring for the televised wedding of Charles and Diana in the UK.
Karen Grace 4 years ago
Interesting. In the US they tend to use mice for that. Their noses are so sensitive they can smell something like cheese for quite a distance so they place the mouse at the beginning and cheese where they need the wiring to come out. I think they get "paid" with the 🧀.
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Must Be Bored Again 4 years ago
Ferrets are very smart and their antics will keep you laughing so much your eyes will tear up.
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
I do, too. They were SO funny and always made me laugh with the clucking and side-jumping.
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#7
TIL that at the age of 17, Steven Spielberg directed a sci-fi film called "Firelight". The budget was $500, and it was shown at a local cinema, with 500 people coming, and tickets costing a dollar each. However, one person paid $2, so the movie made $1, making it Spielberg's first commercial success
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
WOW. Jealous bitchweed much??? You really nailed shitpie mode. Same for Johnee and anyone else like that.
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Ali H M Salehuddin 4 years ago
Bored Panda users seems to have this mentality, if you are against the dissenting view with the main premise of the post, you are going to be downvoted. I do see a logic in your argument. You should be upvoted, not downvoted. Let see, the same will happen to this comment too.
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TIL In 1911 The Rigby family included their cat Tom in their census form. 'Tom Cat' was listed as being an 8-year old, married Mouse-Catcher, Soloist and Thief with 16 children. His birthplace was listed as Cheshire and he was described as being 'speechless' in the infirmity section of the form.
Sharon Collier 4 years ago
My friends got a VISA credit card offer for their cat. They filled it out with her name, age (4 years), and inked her paw and printed it for the signature. VISA sent her a card, which was used for buying cat food and toys. They paid it off every month in full. That cat had a great credit score!
Mili Del Rio 4 years ago
I've always felt they should be claimed on our taxes because they cost a bit to keep and are priceless family members. I see my two catkids WAY more than any human. And my boys follow me wherever I go. I adore them.
#9
TIL Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura devoted his life revitalising deserts in Afghanistan, making forests and wheat farmland and contributing to peace. Nakamura was decorated with the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun and Afghan National Medal.
#10
TIL that Mesopotamians figured out that the Earth orbited the sun about 1,700 years before Copernicus and Newton. They also figured out that the moon causes the tides and that the Earth rotates around its axis.
Guido Pisano 4 years ago
if earth were flat cats would have pushed all objects over the edge
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Knowledge gets lost and relearned throughout our history. Ie Romans had scissors and aqueducts, ancient Egyptians used toilet chairs and bowls of sand for toileting, and yet fast forward to middle ages and we are throwing poo out our windows and wondering why we are all getting sick
Radek Suski 4 years ago
240 B.C. Eratosthenes Measures the Earth and discovers it is round ... then Christianity appears
LaLaMama 4 years ago
It is a common misconception that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat. They didn't. They knew it was round. They just couldn't show that in their maps, that's why they look flat.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Aristarchus, anyone?... FYI, what's the citation on this thing in Mesopotamia? I can't find anything about ancient Babylonia etc. specifically mentioning heliocentrism. Seriously curious here, please tell me?
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Those Mesopotamians were really ahead of their time since that was over 6000 years ago so god hadn’t even created the world yet! (sarcasm)
Debora Shuger 4 years ago
Source? I think we're talking about a period ca 650 BC. Do you have a reference for Mesopotamian astronomy ca 4000 BC?
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Worth remembering that first observational data proving heliocentric hypothesis was mid-19th century detection of expected parallax. And before the observational data recorded in the 16th century, there was no reason to prefer the heliocentric over a geocentric model. Ancient heliocentrism (e.g. that of Pythagoras) had a religious basis, not an empirical one.
Debora Shuger 4 years ago
I'm not actually seeing any evidence for Mesopotamian heliocentrism. A quick search of standard sources came up empty handed.
theshow2k8 4 years ago
Well technically the moon is a 'Big Satellite' but it is a natural one. The Earth is also a satellite as we are in the gravitational pull of the Sun.
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Janus Sanders 4 years ago
please please please let this be sarcasm, it's so hard to tell on the internet
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Dynein 4 years ago
By observing the stars, planets and moon. The rotation of the earth is actually pretty obvious - the stars circle across the sky each night, with the rotational axis being the polar star (which is almost exactly positioned above the earths rotational axis). And if you track the trajectories of various celestial objects and try to figure out how it all fits together, the most natural solution is the planetary system against the stars as background. What is needed most to lean this is the time and interest, some maths, and a way of documentation - all of which the Mesopotamians had.
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TIL that anatomically dogs have two arms and two legs - not four legs; the front legs (arms) have wrist joints and are connected to the skeleton by muscle and the back legs have hip joints and knee caps.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Even the bone structure of a bats wing is a "hand and arm", we are all mammals :)
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
For all the mammals yep, even dolphins. I'm not sure on marsupials but probably, also not sure on reptiles and such (like how snakes don't have limbs)
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Louloubelle 4 years ago
My kids, who always refer to the dog's front legs as arms, will feel vindicated.
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
Yes, and any other vertebrate with 4 limbs, however weird it seems.
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sylvanticx 4 years ago (edited)
many vertebrates have the same general limb structure. whales have the same bones in their arms as we do. EDIT: i put legs. i don't know why. i removed legs.
François Carré 4 years ago
This is true of all "four-legged" animals. Forelimbs and hindlimbs have different bone and muscle structures, as their purpose is also slightly different. Backlegs tend to be thicker since they provide propulsion strength. Arms are frequently designed for extra purposes such as grabbing food, digging, self-defence, etc. Otherwise we humans would'nt even have hands to work with. And birds' (and bats') wings are just transformed arms, which is very obvious if you look at their skeleton.
Brenda Bernaldez 4 years ago
Not true for all four-legged animals since elephant do have 4 legs and no"arms"
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Chaos&Roses 4 years ago
How are people only realising this? Don't people use simple observation anymore?
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TIL that in 2009 Icelandic engineers accidentally drilled into a magma chamber with temperatures up to 1000C (1832F). Instead of abandoning the well like a previous project in Hawaii, they decided to pump water down and became the most powerful geothermal well ever created.
John C 4 years ago (edited)
When life gives you magma, make steam! (That play on "lemons to lemonade" sounded better in my head, but I'm still going with it)
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Which is why Iceland has some of the cheapest energy on the planet ..... Good thinking Iceland (as are many things in that wonderful country, including my ex girlfriend x)
Chris Allan 4 years ago
The more I read and watch about Iceland, the more I want to visit... or move to.
Lauren W. 4 years ago
I highly recommend going there. It's one of the most beautiful, remarkable countries in the world.
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
Iceland's entire power grid relies on thermal power, but it will run out at some point, apparently.
Lauren W. 4 years ago
Not the entire power grid. Only about 25% of overall power in Iceland is geothermal, but 90% of homes are heated using geothermal power. And it won't ever run out. That's why it's considered a renewable resource. It comes from the earth. As long as there is volcanic activity in Iceland, there will be geothermal power. And thanks to the relative slowness of plate tectonics and the mantle plume (hotspot), this will be the case for at least tens of millions of years more. :-)
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#13
TIL although Wayne’s World (1992) was released after Freddie Mercury died, he got to see the car headbanging scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody shortly before he passed away on November 24, 1991. He loved it and foresaw how the use of the song would ignite a comeback for Queen in the United States.
Nadja Lambacher 4 years ago
The producers wanted Guns n Roses, but Mike Myers insisted on Queen since that is the music he grew up with. And then in the Bohemian Rhapsody movie he plays the guy in the record company who refuses to release the song as a single. So funny.
Noel Benavente 4 years ago
I understood the reference when he said: "This is the kind of music a bunch of guys want to listen and headbang in their car" (or something like that) but i didn't knew it was him until a couple of days after!!
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Jim Day 4 years ago
I am having problems with this one, initially because it sounds suspiciously like such happy story. According to Internet Movie Data Base, the filming period was 2 August 1991 - 24 September 1991 with a release date for the UK on 22 May 1992. This would leave a very narrow window of opportunity for Mercury to view the result, assuming he saw a cut that was unedited. An additional complication was Mercury's blindness and final illness [see Wikipedia, "Near the end of his life, Mercury began to lose his sight, and declined so that he was unable to leave his bed", ”Mary Austin Shares Her Memories" – March, 17th 2000. OK! Magazine. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
Josef Tingbratt 4 years ago
I thought the same thing here. Sounds too good to be true
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Dana Carvey who played Garth, didn't know the song, so he just lip synced, while the others actually sang they lyrics.
Elena House 4 years ago (edited)
Almost 30 years later, I STILL headbang at the appropriate moment whenever this song plays. Especially (but not only) if I'm in a car.
#14
TIL The Godfather's famous cat-in-lap scene was entirely unscripted. A stray cat randomly wandered onto the set, so Coppola grabbed it and put it in Marlin Brando's lap without a word.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Brando was a real life cat lover and as the cat was a stray he adopted the cat when the movie wrapped. One of his famous quotes was "I live in my cat's house!" A sentiment most if not every cat owner can attest to.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I'm sure that cat was like, "I have no idea what is happening but I get pets so it's fine."
Laura Gillette 4 years ago
Oh, I thought Brando grabbed it because he was such an animal lover. Also the cat was causing audio problems because it was purring so loudly.
glowworm2 4 years ago
I've heard two versions of this story. 1. That the cat was a stray and Brando decided to use them in the scene or 2. That Coppola gave Brando the cat during the scene and he improvised with them. Either way, it's a great story and the cat ended up being part of a very memorable scene due to some quick and clever improvising.
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Lion's Stare 4 years ago
I heard another version, where Brando simply brought the cat, and the production team just went with it
Connie Martin 4 years ago
I have seen somewhere that they had to loop Brando's dialogue in that scene because the cat was purring so loud
#15
TIL early-20th-century actress, Maude Adams, wanted to do a film version of Peter Pan, but was against doing it in black-and-white. She began working with experts on those obstacles, i.e. lack of color film and inadequate lighting. She earned several electric-light patents in the 1930s.
Just An Avocado 4 years ago
Ok look I agree she’s gorgeous, but can we all take notice about how all the comments on this post are about her looks rather than her accomplishments?
Marvin HeartofGold 4 years ago
What a sexy mind she had. I love a woman who sees the obstacles and then finds ways to remove them. 😍
#16
TIL in 1977, Ben Cohen was a struggling potter & Jerry Greenfield was getting rejected by medical schools. The pair decided to open a bagel shop, but the cost of bagel machines was too high. As a result, they enrolled in a $5 ice cream making course instead. A year later, they created Ben & Jerry's
troufaki13 4 years ago
It's very overrated in my opinion. There are ice-creams way better than Ben & Jerry's.
Hayley Rodgers 4 years ago
Over hyped but still really good with some interesting flavors. Havent seen anything else like it in stores around here
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Lilou S. Pumpkins 4 years ago
I think the point is less about the actual ice cream, and more about how two down on their luck dudes became successful in a completely unexpected way. Good for them! Phish Food and Cherry Garcia forever.
Leonel Roque 4 years ago
Phish food is the best!! Never had cherry Garcia tho):
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Everyone calm down 4 years ago
They called for the police to be defunded - don’t give them your money.
Sue McDaniels 4 years ago
They went to my high school on Long Island, graduated one year before me.
#17
TIL of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough, England, which had 365 rooms for each day of the year, 52 chimneys for the weeks, 12 floors for months of the year, and was shaped in a V to represent Queen Victoria
achilles get down from there 4 years ago
How much to rent the whole thing and play tag for 48 hours straight
Scagsy 4 years ago (edited)
Visit at your peril! It is a beautiful building with some stunning views but this is a hotel of horrors. Microbiologist Jim Francis did some undercover testing for the BBC's Inside Out programme and the results were terrifying. E.Coli and Staphylococcus Aureus were among 8 types of bacteria found in the hotel. A salad contained more than 3million bacteria compared with an expected count of 10,000 and the scientist concluded: "It is without doubt, the worst hotel I've ever visited and inspected." I've stayed at the Grand myself and wouldn't return for all the tea in China. Britannia Hotels just run these places into the ground. The only thing that was good about it was the staff who were lovely.
Rebecca Murdoch 4 years ago
My mother and sister stayed there a few years ago.... They lasted less than 2 hours until they booked another hotel that was clean
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
It was used as a temporary billet for soldiers during WW2 and recent restoration work uncovered lots of unsent love letters, ration books, etc. hidden under the floorboards. Hopefully it’ll return to its former glory at some point.
#18
TIL, the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea is a wildlife haven. While most natural wildlife and rare plants have been killed off in the South, the DMZ hasn’t been touched in over 60 years, which resulted in unique species of flora and fauna to flourish in this area.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
This is what happens in all demilitarized zones and even areas used for military training. Same thing happened along the German border.
Karin Lange 4 years ago
the same applies to the former death strip between East and West Germany.
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
PBS Nature did a program on this - very special place for wildlife
Hilary Mol 4 years ago (edited)
I've heard people speak of the DMZ of the Korean divide as an area of "life and death". This TIL nugget proves that it's literally true.
Robert T 4 years ago
I suspect only wildlife small enough not to set off the landmines though.
Giovanni 4 years ago (edited)
A Korean guide told me that sometimes some fat deer blows up because of the mines, it would be fun if it wasn't so sad ...
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Doesn't the DMZ have landmines? Fauna: Frolic, frolic, frolic BOOM Flora: heh heh heh.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
Yes but only in certain areas. They used to do a lot of maintenance in the DMZ but had to quit because of North Koreans soldiers trying to kill people whenever they had the chance. They still randomly shoot across the DMZ too. A friend's friend got hit with one such bullet, gave him a bruise.
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Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago
Give the N. Koreans a change, well not the "people" per se, but the Government will ruin it as fast as they can.
#19
TIL when giraffes are born, they fall six feet on their head, but it's the fall that gets them to start breathing
Alex the awful German 4 years ago
according to my Mom that is pretty much what happened when I was born. (I am not a giraffe)
lunar eclipse 4 years ago
The last info was extremely necessary. Thank you Not Giraffe.
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Axolotl King 4 years ago
And (in the wild) if a baby giraffe is too short to nurse the mother abandons it. We had a zoo thing near my house (they're like a traveling zoo and they usually go to schools but covid happened so they were doing drive thru zoos instead) and a lot of people online were bashing them for having animals in captivity but all of their animals (including a giraffe that I GOT TO PET AND FEED) are actually rescues that would've died without them. That's how I know the giraffe thingy.
Ria De Gooijer 4 years ago
There was a zoo who felt sorry for the baby giraffe to fall down on the hard floor after birth. So they created a soft floor. But the baby giraffes didn't service. Then they found out it had to fall on the hard floor because of the lung function to start.
GoodCatto 4 years ago
I can't believe people really make these things for the animals that don't need them.
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AqualiaGuineaPiggyWolfCat 4 years ago
apparently, newborn giraffes are also as tall as an average 6-year-old :/
Jo Davies 4 years ago
I live in South Africa and we have a game park maintained by a local petrol company. Free to access, which is awesome. We have 4 giraffe here, 2 of which we're born here! We can see them when we are just driving down the road, and it has been amazing to watch these guys grow up.
#20
TIL Certain oak tree populations will synchronize to produce almost no acorns, only to rain them down excessively the following year, known as a "mast" year. The year preceding the mast year is thought to starve off the mammal populations feeding on the acorns.
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
Man, I dread the day the true extent of our horrific hubris will be unveiled to us. Sometimes I wonder if all other life is more sentient than we are and is indulging us, nudging us along on our way to understanding.
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selioraxemaia 4 years ago
Plants recognize their offspring, can call for help when being attacked by insects and trees will actually feed their young! I am not making this up. See if you can find a Nature documentary called 'What Plants Talk About'. It's jaw dropping.
alwaysMispelled 4 years ago
I recommend a book called The Secret Life of Trees
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T Simmons 4 years ago
Not just oak, most hardwood trees with edible seeds do this. Foresters (like myself) try to time harvesting activities to co-incident with mast years to increase the chance of natural regeneration
Jerry Mathers 4 years ago
I always thought that having the mammals eat the acorn was a way to spread the seeds. As a Forester, do you have any insight on that?
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littlesaresare 4 years ago
Having everyone in a population breed at once is a common strategy. Flood the place with more offspring than there are predators to keep up. Ensures that some survive.
Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
plants have always been way more amazing than we've given them credit for...
#21
TIL as a young boy Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) had his village occupied by nazis, his family forced to work while living in a 3 by 3 meter mud hut for 21 months, saw his little brother being hanged (but saved by his parents) and his two older siblings deported for slave labor (who escaped).
Ffaelan Condragh 4 years ago
Most US astronauts come from Ohio. What does that say about Ohio? 😂
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Llama_flower93 4 years ago
I was going to say "so where can I watch the movie?". And though he seemed to have had a spectacular life that ending isn't very satisfying.
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Lee F. 4 years ago
Honestly the Slavic population has had it so rough. Enslaved several times over throughout history. When the name of your people stems from the word slave, oh boy.
Boredzzz 4 years ago
Obviously, the word Slavic is not derived from English at all and has nothing to do with slavery
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Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Of the Vanguard Six who were chosen to be the first Cosmonauts, Pavel Popovich was considered by his peers to be the most likely one to go first but he had one fatal flaw, he was Ukrainian. The Soviets paid lip service to equality but there was no doubt that the first would have to be Russian.
backatya 4 years ago
the damn Russian gov knew something was wrong with his space craft and sent him up anyway. They said either him or his friend. Since he was picked first he decided to take the risk. He told his wife if something should happen to him to have an open casket so the gov. can see at his wake what they did to him.
#22
TIL that the Amazon River was named after the conquistador Francisco de Orellana was defeated by a few tribes of women, thus naming it after the warrior women of Greek legend.
Norah Reilly 4 years ago
As per the t-shirt, "Underestimate me. This will be fun."
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And they're discovering that viking graves long assumed to be male warriors were actually female warriors... so much of women's history got written by small-minded men.
RandomBeing 4 years ago
I'm glad I live in a time where all this is being questioned ^u^
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Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
Amazon women keep fighting to defend the jungle... but they are being murdered to keep oil industries moving... their collective is called Mujeres Amazónicas, look them up and help them
Confused Flamingo 4 years ago
Wasn't she a God in the film tho, like the rest of them were Amazon's but the mother said Diana wasn't one🤔
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
and now it's being systematically destroyed by a president who has zero clue what he's done...
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
oh he knows exactly what's he's doing but he only cares about money
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 4 years ago
Close... First it was the rain forest that was named 'Amazon' first, the river was then named 'Rio Amazon' or 'Amazon river' for us English speakers. Secondly, it wasn't 'a few tribes of women', it was a few tribes, the largest of which had a custom of women being trained to fight and going to war with the men. But yeah, it's a cool story.
#23
TIL In 2007, a local Japanese railway station “hired” a cat named Tama as an official, helping the local economy bring in over 1 billion yen during her service. When she died 8 years later, thousands of people came to her funeral.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Tama (died at the age of 16) has a shrine and her successor is called Nitama, and current stationmaster.
Solidhog 4 years ago
And they have a station one stop along where they have another younger cat in training ready to take over when it dies.
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Tama is now a Shinto goddess. Niitama is now station master. Sun-Tama-Tama was meant to be Niitama's successor but she was sent to Okoyama for training and they won't return her, so Sun-Tama-Tama is the station master for a station in Okoyama. Yontama is being trained at the station Niitama trained at.
Mary Ryan 4 years ago
The number of people riding the train increased greatly when she became statiommaster and she was used in promotial ads and souvineer items
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#24
TIL Caffeine is the coffee plant's natural defense mechanism. It leaches into the surrounding soil as leaves from the plant drop and are decomposed into the soil. Since caffeine is toxic to other plants, it prevents other plants from growing around the coffee plant and competing for sunlight.
Radek Suski 4 years ago
Coffee plant: develops toxins as defence mechanism ..... Humans: this is some serious gourmet sh...t
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
LOL true, same fate for peppers too.
Load More Replies... H Edwards 4 years ago
If caffeine is toxic to other plants, how come people use coffee grounds as fertilizer?
Hayley Rodgers 4 years ago
It's probably the dosage. Coffee grounds have a lot of the caffeine and other chemicals taken out of them when you brew coffee. Probably dilutes it enough
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Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
And in recent times the plant has domesticated humans to weed those plants that tries to grow too close.
Sharon Collier 4 years ago
Black walnut trees are also allopathic. They secrete some chemical from their roots that stunts/suppresses the growth of nearby plants.
#25
TIL that in 2019, Pope Francis received a bottle of Oban malt whiskey while visiting Scottish priests, and declared it to be 'the real holy water'. The BBC captured the footage for a documentary, which was censored by the Vatican.
Wistiti 4 years ago
Then Oban, the the town, must be a real piece of heaven. The distillery in town gives the place a real whiff!
Scagsy 4 years ago
And if you've been a good person in life, when you die, they send you to Bonny Scotland! But if you've been bad, they send you to Detroit.
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Top comment on Reddit is really interesting: "Yeah its a bit of a play on words. Aqua Vitae in Latin or Uisce Beatha in Irish (slight variation on this spelling in Scots Gaelic) means water of life. Uisce Beatha was anglicized to Whiskey."
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
A bit of a pedantic point but Scots spirit is “Whisky” and Irish is “Whiskey”. Good way of quickly identifying what country’s product you’re drinking 🤪
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
It is often referred to as Uisge Beatha, ( pronounced ishka beaha) meaning the Water of Life in Scots Gaelic.
Beverly 4 years ago
Oban is a lovely place, and the distillery is hundreds of years old. My daughter and I took the distillery tour and found it fascinating, even though the amount of whisky I can drink is about a quarter of a teaspoon.
Karen Grace 4 years ago
That's a quarter of a teaspoon more than I can have unless it's made of corn with no wheat or barley. Saddening because I used to love a whisky sour.
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TIL - Mozart has a pet starling (bird) which could sing part of his piano concerto in G Major. He had bought it from a shop after hearing it sing a phrase from a work he wrote six weeks previously, which had not yet been performed in public
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
If the bird was in a pet shop, and he wrote it 6 weeks previously.... How would the bird learn that phase as it wasn’t even released
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
My guess: during the composing, Mozart inadvertently copied the starlings' song that he heard through his window. So his music was already starling-'infected' and when he had finished the piece and heard the bird, he noticed the similarity and thought the bird had copied from him when in reality, it was the other way around (that's all just guessing, but it sounds plausible in my head)
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Tami 4 years ago
Starlings are amazing birds. They're very intelligent, can learn to talk, and also imitate other birds' calls. I often hear them imitating the red wing black birds that live in the pond many blocks away.
Merrill N. Munro 4 years ago
Starlings are related to another taking bird.... the mynah bird! They can actually mimic speech, too.
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NeonDisco 4 years ago
It's more likely he heard the bird sing and wrote his song later......how could the bird know his song otherwise?
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Ah - I just wrote a long paragraph about that exact same thought and you had it already! Should have read first. :-)
Load More Replies... Sarah 4 years ago
Could've heard it played (from Mozart's nearby house?) even if never in a formal public performance.
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Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
He copied the bird but bought it to stop copy write issues, clever man.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
On the radio, they were announcing something about Mozart's new album! But it fell on deaf ears.
#27
TIL during the Golden Age of Piracy, women sometimes became pirates by disguising themselves as men in an effort to take advantage of freedom and rights that men could only enjoy. Anne and Mary were two famous female pirates of that time who fell in love with each others' disguised manly appearance!
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Some didnt even dress as a man. The biggest pirate army in asia was under the control of a female pirate. Zheng Yi Sao
Yettichild 4 years ago
She was a total badass. Even strong armed the government into giving her a pardon. There is also Mary Read, Irish pirate captain.
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Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Women also entered many wars disguised as men. Among the reasons: better pay.
Yort 4 years ago
They were both in actual relationships with biological men as well. think there’s a term for women who are attracted to men, but I’m not sure what it is...
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If I recall correctly there’s actually no contemporary evidence that happened. Like the earliest source for them falling in love with each other dates from well after they both would’ve died.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
That's what I learned, too. There's not much official evidence of them, but the facts are that they both existed, stole a sloop with the pirate John Rackham together and were arrested for privacy. During the sentencing, it was revealed that both were pregnant - which certainly rules some guy-involvement into their lives - and they were given an execution-delay until after birth. One of them supposedly died during childbirth while the other... was never mentioned again. She disappeared from records, but she certainly wasn't executed (because that would have been on record) Here's a very interesting article about them and female pirates - and women in general - during the high-times of piracy https://csphistorical.com/2016/05/08/anne-bonny-and-mary-read-female-pirates-and-maritime-women-page-one/
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#28
TIL that a breed of wool dogs existed on the pacific northwest coast. Indigenous people would keep the dogs isolated on small islands to prevent inter breeding with hunting dogs. The wool dogs were cared for and feed a rich diet of seafood to produce strong yarn to make blankets from.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
Dog wool is called chiengora, and it's up to 80% warmer than sheep's wool.
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
But the blankets cane wake you up at night if they see a squirrel.
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Well now I want a dog wool blanket. I mean just imagine the marketing. "Made of Wool Sourced From 100% Good Boys".
Katrina B. 4 years ago
No. The breed died out in the early 1900s due to sheep wool becoming available to the tribes in the area (Salish tribes). I did a paper for one of my anthropology classes on the dogs.
Load More Replies... Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago (edited)
I had wondered about this! I know a lot of Indigenous and First Nations cultures in the Pacific Northwest have amazing, amazing weaving traditions and I always wondered what fibers were traditionally used.
Lynne Stark 4 years ago
Please, obviously they cleaned it just like any wool
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
To think so many dogs get yelled at everyday for shedding everywhere in the house, while they're just trying to recreate that amazing wool production process.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
WTF, who would yell at the dog for shedding? It's not their fault, and I'm sure they'd rather not be so itchy..
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Lynne Stark 4 years ago
Fascinating, they are extinct. Is that an actual photo of one? I live on the Puget Sound in Washington. There is an island across the way called Hat Island. I've heard they kept the dogs there. The local first peoples were highly protective of this valuable resource.
PandaMonium 4 years ago
A knitter on Etsy made a scarf out of a bag of our Newfoundland's long fur. It's a cool thing to have but it's the scratchiest scarf I've ever felt.
#29
TIL “The road not taken” by Robert Frost, was actually written to mock an indecisive friend and intended to inspire no one.
Purbasha Banai 4 years ago
Proves how English teacher would suck out the meaning off anything and everything. Oh look a wall full of ivy! The sadness it bestows, the happiness it foreshadows. -_-
Pamela Blue 4 years ago
LOL! I used to say that when I was in school. I'd read all my books at the beginning of the year so that I could enjoy them before the teacher destroyed them for me.
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Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 4 years ago
Well Known Fact: Frost, while brilliant and a breathtaking poet, was an A**Hole...
BetterBitterButter 4 years ago
I read it somewhere. Also that friend was moved by the poem and ended up joining the military. He died in a war.
Shelby P 4 years ago (edited)
I helped my daughter understand this poem earlier this school year. That was the first time I read it. I totally get this. I have an indecisive coworker who is extremely annoying and often wants others to make decisions for her. The poem reminded me so much of her that I totally get the mocking tone.
Flying Captain 4 years ago
Here's the plot twist provided by wiki: "Thomas was indecisive about which road to take and in retrospect often lamented that they should have taken the other one. After Frost returned to New Hampshire in 1915, he sent Thomas an advance copy of "The Road Not Taken". Thomas took the poem seriously and personally, and it may have been significant in Thomas' decision to enlist in World War I. Thomas was killed two years later in the Battle of Arras."
#30
TIL when Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs first opened in 1916, the owner hired people to dress as doctors and eat hot dogs outside his shop, to convince people his hot dogs were healthy.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
I leaned last night that RedBull did a similar trick. Instead of spending a ton on advertising they just went around putting empty Redbull cans in public garbages, implying that lots of people were drinking the drink (and you just weren't in the know).
Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
cannot convince me hotdogs are good for anything except getting my dog/cat to take their pills.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Man, and I thought grabbing a friend's lab coat to cut the line at the university cafeteria was smart!
Paulo Antonio Moreira 4 years ago
So, what you're paying for is not the purse itself, but the exclusiveness of having one. Sad.
Marilyn Holt 4 years ago
You can look back at cigarette ads in the 40's sand 50's and see similar things--actors in white coats touting the health benefits of smoking.
#31
TIL measles gives your immune system 'amnesia.' Exposure to measles leaves the victim with a strong response to the measles virus, but an increased vulnerability to all other pathogens.
H Edwards 4 years ago
That's interesting. I had measles as a child but I have not been ill that much over the course of my life otherwise.
A.M. Pierre 4 years ago
IIRC, the immune effect lasts for about 3 years. Scientists discovered it when they observed that developing nations had the rates of a wide range of childhood diseases drop dramatically after children were vaccinated against only measles.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
INFECTION with measles ----- getting the disease ----- can cause this. Vaccination does not do this. ---- have an MD, we hear this as justification from antivaxxers, and it's wrong. You have to HAVE measles. Vaccination is GOOD. Just clarifying.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
I am wondering if this effect can't in some way be harnessed to serve say, sufferers of major allergies. Of course its unethical to intentionally infect people with a highly contagious measles.
Zophra 4 years ago
I just read reports on it - it only lasts for 2 years before Ab titers were normals again on the studied children. I got the feeling that it was plasma Abs also, so not sure if it would even decrease allergies with bound Abs.
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Layla Corman 4 years ago
Several years ago, my daughter (now 10) had her first MMR. About 2 days after, she was covered head to toe in a rash and felt lame. We went to the hospital as a precaution. They locked us in isolation, came in in all the PPP you see now with covid, and shut down the waiting room where we sat. Doctors from all over NYS, PA, and Maryland flew in to check her because it was suspected she had the measles. Her own primary care Dr, who had seen measles before came and assured everyone it was NOT a case of the measles. It was advised that we steer clear of MMR shot 2. 2-3 years ago, NYS Department of Education released new mandates on vaccines for children in school. Again, her primary care physician decided to check her titers before giving her MMR #2. Long story short, my daughter is/was already infact completely immune to Measles, Mumps and Rubella. All she needed was the Varicella which they gave seperate. We all wonder to this day what really happened with that "rash".
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
That rash was,probably b/c her body *over*reacted to her first MMR shot. Not measles, just a generic "ack, what do I do?" response, like a FUO (fever of unknown origin) in kids. Pediatrics is the he**-zone for me, and seeing kids with measles is why I kept my MD but did not go into practice. I couldn't hack the emotional impact of seeing kids blind or brain-damaged from something that we can prevent and should by now have eradicated. *sigh*.... So.... yeah, she probably had a one-off reaction. We'll never fully explain all of it. Or, as a med school prof told us, "in medicine, one size never fits all"!
Load More Replies... Katy McMouse 4 years ago
Where does the word "measles" come from? Seriously, it's an odd word and I couldn't find an answer for my question. Anyone have the answer?
Hannah M 4 years ago
Middle English maseles, probably from Middle Dutch masel ‘pustule’ (compare with modern Dutch mazelen ‘measles’).
Load More Replies... Elisabeth Chai 4 years ago
Can someone explain to me when measles became so dangerous? I had it as a child, so did all the other children, heck, we were send to visit the sick children, to get it and get it over with. Nobody died, went blind, deaf or had any of the other consequences. Nobody isolated anybody. This was way before a vaccine was developed, btw.
Aileen Grist 4 years ago
I had measles as a child and got TB from drinking milk not long after I recovered. I've also been ill for most of my life with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
#32
TIL the eye sockets of the Moai statues in Easter Island used to have eyes made of coral
Refugee Pups 4 years ago
Also, both Greek and Roman statues - bronze and marble - had the eyes painted in. So when we see pristine, all-white, elegant carvings, or the cool green bronze, they actually had cartoonish, semi-creepy eyes pained in, pupil and all!
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
I think its amazing that their lower torsos are still intact but buried.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
They also have torsos going down into the earth, and some have legs bent in a squat or crouch.
Sharon Collier 4 years ago
They found some of the eyes and inserted them back into the statues.
#33
TIL:During a SAS special operation against Nazi forces in Italy, using a force including Italians, a Scottish bagpiper volunteered to join the attack so that the Nazi's would think it was solely a British operation and not attack the locals
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Nazis didn't need reasons to murder civilians. They would have executed the locals anyway if they desired so.
*me* 4 years ago
Nazis: how dare you we don’t do that we will execute you and your family for saying that and your town
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*me* 4 years ago
He joined up so when he played the bagpipes, they would think the British are attacking because of the music. If he didn’t, the Germans would know the group was Italian and they would retaliate by killing civilians
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TIL that Brazil was a monarchy until Crown Princess Isabel signed a law emancipating all slaves in Brazil in 1888. This was unpopular among the rich plantation owners and the imperial family was deposed in a military coup
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
At least posterity will forever remember her as a person who did the right thing!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
They were not even considered human beings...... even now there are people thinking that black people are made of lower quality or something.....
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
And ever since, rich Brazilians haven't changed their minds a single bit.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
Check out how America obtained Hawaii. I get why the islanders don't generally like outsiders
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TIL Louis Vuitton burn any excess stock at the end of each year to main exclusivity, theft and avoid discount prices
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Personal opinion here: any clothing or accessory with giant logo or name to show "look how much this cost" is tasteless and kitschy.
Iggy 4 years ago
I'm glad you said that. I've always thought Vuitton stuff to be tacky.
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Celeste Grant 4 years ago
What an utter waste of product but also of the earth's resources used in making and creating the materials needed for their products. Utterly shameful in the face of climate change and limited resources
#36
TIL Texas didn’t have safety regulations on natural gas until after a school blew up and killed hundreds of children. Nobody was held accountable, but they passed strict regulations afterwards. It was so bad that even Hitler sent a letter of condolence.
Láďa Durchánek 4 years ago
You know you really messed up with gas when Hitler sends his condolences.
Seabeast 4 years ago (edited)
Because of this disaster, natural gas is artificially scented at gas plants before reaching customers with mercaptons, foul smelling sulphur compounds. It doesn't have any natural scent.
Seabeast 4 years ago
Not in 1937. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/oh-my-god-its-our-children/
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V33333P 4 years ago
And yet after all these school shootings, no regulation changes at all. Hmmm.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
The New London disaster in 1937. There are a couple of books on the subject: "Gone at 3:17" and "My Boys and Girls Are in There."
Seedy Vine 4 years ago
Texas is still the only state not connected to the national energy grid because they don't want to be regulated.
Sarah 4 years ago
And now they know how well that works (see: 2021 Texas power crisis). And yet, they won't vote to change it.
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#37
TIL that monkeys in Japan learned to wash sweet potatoes in fresh water to clean them. They later switched to washing sweet potatoes in salt water. It is theorized that this is because they like the salty taste more than plain potatoes.
John C 4 years ago
damn, next they'll be cooking the potatoes, building houses and capturing all those annoying homosapiens running around.
Otter 4 years ago
Next the famously clever Japanese monkeys will be putting the potatoes in their hot springs to cook while they bathe, and then running them to the sea for some seasoning! But if they ever come up with a way to deep fry their taters, I'm building that bunker.
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Chimpanzees - and some species of monkeys (capuchin) - have entered their own stone age, just like our ancestors did
François Carré 4 years ago
This story served as a reference to Japanese primatologist Kinji Imanishi in the construction of his theory about animal culture or "Kaluchua". He proved that smart and social species are very open to innovation, capable of inventing tools and teaching their peers how to use them, and thus form some common, durable knowledge that can be related to what we define as culture in human societies.
#38
TIL That in 1948 the Idaho Department of Fish and Game used surplus parachutes from WWII to drop threatened beavers into a nearby protected area. After some careful calibrations, 76 beavers made the skydive and all but one survived the drop.
D. Pitbull 4 years ago
Can you imagine... you're camping... you hear a *squeak* *thud* *squeakthudthudthud* - you wake up... beavers. Beavers everywhere.
somnomania 4 years ago
why would they do this, wouldn't that traumatize the animals? why not just release them normally?
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
They couldn't be transported by cars because of the remote location they should be released in. They tried donkeys and sleds but the beavers got so sick from the rocking motions that they died. So they dropped them in wooden cages they could easily chew their way out of and they were fine. There's an episode of "The Dollop" American history podcast about it that I highly recommend.
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Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
This sounds like something out of Hunter S. Thompson novel: "I knew the acid had kicked in when I saw a sky full of beavers with parachutes swooping down..."
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
There are some really good photos of this event, so why use a stock photograph of a beaver? That's just lazy.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Why would you drop them instead of gently lowering them?
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
Right? 😂 Who had the bright idea "These threatened beavers, can we throw them from a plane?"
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TIL that beer bottles are brown as it blocks out the sun's rays and helps preserve the taste. A shortage of brown glass after the Second World War meant higher quality beer makers chose green to distinguish themselves from the companies using clear glass.
Eslamala 4 years ago
Same thing with wine bottles that are used to contain any type of red wine.
Mary Ryan 4 years ago
It would have been that fact that sulfer was used to help color the glass and that played a large pat in the war efforts
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Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
Read about that's why Corona encourages you to drink it with lemon, to enhace the taste lost by sun rays.
#40
TIL there are 23 floating-year-round boat schools in Bangladesh due to constant flooding in the country. Starting in 2002, these schools ensure year-round education in a country where heavy monsoon rains can submerge 70% of the land mass under water.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
This is so important. Bangladesh is so impoverished. I hope that education and aid can help the people there. Ironically the people there have little access to *clean* water. The surface water is often polluted or carries water-borne illnesses and a lot of the tube wells dug in the 1970s and 1980s hit arsenic-rich bedrock. If they're stuck with lots of undrinkable water, at least they can float a school on it.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
over 45000 children under 5 die each year in Bangladesh due to illness caused by bad water.
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Amir Ahmed Asif 4 years ago
By the way, often a piece of information is not representative of the whole country. There are marsh lands and water logged parts, but that is a little part of the country. 23 boats cannot teach all kids in a nation. If you go to Bangaldesh and ask the first local you meet about these boat schools, that person would not have a clue! Most of the land is dry, there are hilly regions and so on. Again, Bangladesh is not a "Dubaia, but at the same time it is not exactly what the media show as highlights.
Amir Ahmed Asif 4 years ago
Addition: Bangladesh has 108,515 schools (Wikipedia says) and 23 are operated on boat. So, while this is a good idea for some parts, it is not a common thing there. I (a born and raised Bangladeshi) heard about this boat schools while I am abroad.
#41
TIL a man built the world's largest treehouse after claiming God told him to do so. It was 97 feet tall. It took 12 years to build and burned down in 15 minutes in 2019.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Guess he forgot about a functional sprinkler system
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
The fact that it was destroyed so easily before I could even learn about its existence is very disappointing and frustrating to me.
Otter 4 years ago
God, being prescient and omniscient, knew He would want to roast some almighty marshmallows in 2019!
Load More Replies... Noel Benavente 4 years ago
Televangelist: God told me i should have a 50M private jet. Believers: lets give him the money / This man: God told me to build a giant treehouse. Believers: what an idiot! hahahahaha!
Scorpio Maurus 4 years ago
This looks like the forts people built in Fallout 4 before all the extensive mods like Homemaker and S.O.E. were released.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago (edited)
God telling him it was supposed to be another ark so get it right next time.
#42
TIL that in 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing and an FBI investigation. Although she was not charged in the incident, she was also not allowed back on the plane.
troufaki13 4 years ago
During my first (and only) transatlantic trip to the US, the people sitting in the front row from me were farting the entire flight! It was a gas chamber for 6 hours!!
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
Everybody farts more on planes. The elevation expands gasses. Fart away, air travellers!
Celeste Grant 4 years ago
As someone with a digestive disability, I'm constantly worried about passing really bad gas in public. It's happened a couple of times and I was mortified. Whilst I don't agree with the lady lighting matches in a plane, I do understand why she might be desperate to cover her miasma
Craig Silberman 4 years ago
the best part about farting on a plane (or any crowded situation) is that nobody knows you did it
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
I thought everyone used flights to blow off - then look round in disgust to disguise the fact it was you. Very satisfying. If you can’t beat them, etc.
#43
TIL In 1443, King Sejong single-handedly created Hangul, the Korean alphabet, in response to the immense difficulty that common people faced learning Chinese characters. The publication date of the document revealed in 1446 detailing the new alphabet is now a national holiday in both Koreas.
Dave Jones 4 years ago
Wasn't the real reason because they wanted to create their own language and culture? Still, many words have very similar sounds to Mandarin.
ProbablyIsaac 4 years ago
Sejong created written Hangul; spoken Korean was around hundreds of years before Sejong. The similarity to Mandarin is because Korea borrowed the Chinese writing system before Hangul was written, called Hanja.
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François Carré 4 years ago
It appears to be very practical and quite easy to learn compared to Chinese characters, even for strangers.
Bad Mole 4 years ago
It is. I lived in Korea for a year, it was easy to read. Each character is a combination of consonant/vowel so it's a syllable.
Load More Replies... BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
A bit more context, after Hangul came into existence, it wasn't used by most men. It was considered inferior because it was 'easy' and therfore called a 'Woman's language.' All official documents were still in hanja. This was mostly true in SK until the 1980's (1986 if I remember correctly), when there was a push to get rid of hanja so the average citizen could know the laws and their rights. For NK, they pushed to 'purify' their Korean shortly after they claimed their indepence. They not only got rid of hanja, but also as many non-Korean words as possible, having to resuscitate ancient, unused words. It is quite fascinating and I'm looking forward to the NK regime to fall so some linguistics and sociologists can do some research. A nice side-bonus of the NK people getting improved living conditions.
Laura Mortensen 4 years ago
South Korea has 97.9% literacy. I lived there for two years, and although I'm not great at languages I learned to read Hangul.
Moneythink 4 years ago
"Minister! Grab that scholar and tell him to create a new alphabet, or his head comes off". 6 weeks later, the royal decree comes out proclaiming that the king has created a NEW ALPHABET!
#44
TIL In 2008, a man altered an old story he had written to resemble Kung Fu Panda, then sued DreamWorks for $12 million. After the court found out he was lying, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
BorPand8 4 years ago (edited)
And meanwhile Andrew Wakefield, the guy who started the whole anti-vax nonsense with a full-on fraudulent paper, got zero jailtime. I know this is off-topic, but I just watched a documentary and I'm feeling grumpy. Seeing that pic of the poor baby with measles didn't help at all.
Load More Replies... Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Has anybody heard of the knockoff KFP movie, "Little Panda Fighter"? It's truly cursed @-@
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Let's talk about "The Lion King". It is a complete rip off of "Kimba the White Lion" written by Osamu Tezuka. The storyline is identical, yet Disney has passed off Kimba-- sorry, I mean *Simba* as an original production. Tezuka died in '89 but his three kids should have made bank off this shameless theft of copyrighted material.
Sebastian Domino Østergaard 4 years ago
Kung Fu Panda is DreamWorks, not Disney
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TIL It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked one on top of another to destroy the bottom brick. The tower would be nearly 12,000 feet tall.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
The 2x2 bricks are designed to sustain 400lbs of force
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
At least i know i weigh less than 375,000 lego bricks now, as it crushes my foot not vice versa :D
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
After a nuclear war, only the cockroaches and Lego blocks would remain.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
They could build houses and homes out of them and live peacefully in insect-heaven on empty-Earth until they manage to navigate the spaceships
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Laura Williams 1 year ago
I still say micro machines were worse. Especially the planes. Yes I'm old.
#46
TIL a 1000 year old bronze buckle from East Asia was discovered in Alaska, showing that indigenous people in North America might have been interacting with the Old World earlier than previously thought
François Carré 4 years ago
Siberian people had crossed the Bering land bridge during the ice age, it's probable even after it became a strait they managed to go to Alaska from time to time, when it was covered by pack ice.
Lee F. 4 years ago
Also there’s a reason that Siberian Inuit and Canadian Inuit look similar, they share a lot of DNA, including ancestors in Asia.
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J. F. 4 years ago
There is a lot we still don't know or isn't common knowledge - like ancient egypts trading with South American civilizations or how the "cloud people" (Chachapoya) came to have similarities to west-european kelts.
Coleen 4 years ago
My understanding has always been that this is where the "indigenous" people came from.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Look at the time, though - the buckles i 1000 years old! That would date the exchange somewhere to the year 1020, which means way before Columbus but also a lot later than the original wandering of humans across the Bering bridge (now strait)
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2011/11/14/ancient-bronze-artifact-east-asia-unearthed-alaska-archaeology-site. (Its really interesting, well I think it is lol, this stuff is my wheelhouse! Mum used to fence wee bits of garden off with string on washing pegs, and give me an old toothbrush and trowel, and I would excavate)
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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
We already know that people from Asia migrated across the Bering Strait and settled in that continent. If you look closely at the features of indigenous people in the Americas, you can see similarities with Asian features. I read about that many years ago.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Sure, but look at the date: 1000 years ago would make the exchange to be somewhere in the year 1020, which is far FAR past the time the Asians travelled across the Strait but still a long time until Columbus came to set foot on the continent
Load More Replies... John Powers 4 years ago
Been a lot of artifacts found, that prove this too. Many shows on like history channel, show these artifacts too.
Adam Belaire 4 years ago (edited)
They was other evidence found in NFL, Canada too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX2KTkgo2Lk
#47
TIL that Einstein's support for pacifist, civil rights and left-wing causes in Europe had drawn suspicion from J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, and after his arrival to America, the Bureau launched what would eventually become a 22-year surveillance campaign since the FBI believed Einstein was a Soviet spy.
ProbablyIsaac 4 years ago
By jove, all people are equal? Commie for sure.
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#48
TIL that flowers are physically growing with darker coloured petals nowadays due to their rapid adaptation to combat the suns radiation from the thinning ozone layer.
John Juan 4 years ago
The ozone layer is actually healing. https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1046452
Ross Keim 4 years ago
Yeah but that didn’t stop the flowers from getting darker when it was being depleted, the UN says recovered in 2030, NASA says 2070
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Ronna Stefan 4 years ago
The ozone layer is better off now than 20-30 years ago, so something is wrong with this post.
#49
TIL Lafayette’s grave in Paris is filled with dirt from Massachusetts as he wished to be buried in American soil. Additionally, I learned the flag remained in place during WW2 because the Nazis never looked behind the private cemetery’s walls.
BorPand8 4 years ago
That would be Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, who paid his own way to the US to fight in their revolution against the British.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
And after he returned to Paris, it was quite the Thing for diplomats and politicians from the US to visit him or meet with him as he became one of the last living famous figures of the US Revolutionary War.
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sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Hard to forgive him his part in the Champs de Mars massacre. Ironic coincidence that almost 229 years later, Donald Trump also used armed troops to disperse protesters from a park named after Lafayette.
Reagan Maher 4 years ago
George Washington did a quite similar thing during Shays rebellion
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Bow, I’m a Slytherclaw 4 years ago
I’m Lafayette! Watch me engagin' em! Escapin' em! Enragin' em! I'm Lafayette! I go to France for more funds Lafayette! I come back with more guns And ships, And so the balance shifts, We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts We can end this war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but. For this to succeed, there is someone else we need I know. Hamilton! Sir, he knows what to do in a trench, Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean- Hamilton! Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually, What's he gonna do on the bench ami? Hamilton! No one has more resilience Or matches my practical tactical brilliance. Hamilton! You wanna fight for your land back? Hamilton! I need my right-hand man back! Ah! Uh, get ya right-hand man, back. You know you gotta get ya right-hand man back. I mean you gotta put some thought. Into the letter but the sooner the better. To get your right-hand man back.
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Red Ruffensor 4 years ago
The German army in WWII was strictly ordered to not disturb any war cemeteries.
#50
TIL : During the Salem witch trials, the accused witches weren’t actually burned at the stake. The majority were jailed, and some were hanged. But none of the 2,000 people accused ever got burned alive.
Chich 4 years ago
And one man, Giles Corey, was "pressed". Crushed by rocks because he refused to confess.
Zophra 4 years ago
Ah, another wonderful moment brought to you by... religion.
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MizAdeleM 4 years ago
Everybody thinks that people were burned, but that was done in Europe. In Salem we erected a monument to the victims in 1992 (300th anniversary), and a memorial at Proctor's Ledge on Pope Street, location of the execution site. We get thousands of visitors here to see those memorials. Google info about the Giles Corey curse on Salem, too.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Not that the ones who were jailed got off easy. It was dark, cold in the winter and hot in the summer, cramped, filthy, the jail didn't provide food or water to the prisoners, everyone was sick, and a great many people died in jail.
Martha Higgins 4 years ago (edited)
One of those "witches" killed was my ancestor Ann Pudeator.
F. H. 4 years ago
Even in Europe witches were often hanged or drowned. The punishment for witchcraft (or in some older law books: defrauding people by pretending to do magic) in what is now Germany was burning. But that punishment was expensive and a lot of work for the executioners. During the great witch hunts where some areas saw more than one execution a day, it was just impossible to do. Bamberg, for example, is infamous for its witch trials. They had more than 900 victims of which only about 240 were burned, the rest was hanged.
#51
TIL the insulin pumps used by at least 350K Americans with diabetes (couldn't find the global number) were invented as a direct result of some of the earliest NASA technology from the Apollo program.
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 4 years ago
But, of course, space exploration is a waste of money, right? Sigh,...
#52
TIL During the Second Opium War (1860), French and British troops reached the Imperial Palace in Peking, China. The troops *looted* everything in sight—including five Pekingese dogs. The dogs were taken back to England and one of the dogs was given to Queen Victoria. She named the dog “Looty"
Shelp 4 years ago
Pretty ironic considering that one of the reasons for that war was that they didn't wanted to be called "Barbarians" anymore by the Chinese diplomats
Carrie Henderson 4 years ago
It was actually a well-thought out strategic move on the part of military leaders which was designed to damage the Chinese nobility rather than hurt the ordinary people.
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#53
TIL that sea snakes can die of thirst and rely on rainwater to make pools on the ocean surface in order to survive.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
TIL also that rainwater can pool on sea water!! Different surface tensions maybe, as the rain first settles?
Amy Dodds 4 years ago
And different density. Saltwater is denser than rain so the rainwater floats on top.
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#54
TIL Christopher Columbus' efforts to obtain support for his voyages were hampered not by belief in a flat Earth but by valid worries that the East Indies were farther than he realized. In fact, Columbus grossly underestimated the Earth's circumference and caused he and his crew's near starvation.
achilles get down from there 4 years ago
Funny how knowledge is found, lost, found again - didn’t we know the circumference of the earth in Ancient Greece?
Shelp 4 years ago
We did, but Columbus felt he was better than that. He would actually have deserved not to find anything, such an entitled jerk.
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
The flat Earth theory is so obviously wrong that no civilization with a bare minimum of cosmological and navigation knowledge has ever taken it seriously. In Columbus' time, the Portuguese were already well-advanced in the exploration of the African coasts and knew pretty much about the possible maritime ways to Asia. Not to mention Chinese exploration of the Indian and Pacific oceans 60 years earlier.
Pappy West 4 years ago
~250 BC, The Greek mathematician and poet Eratosthenes calculated the diameter/circumference of the Earth to within a few percent of accuracy with sticks, stones, rope, shadows, and a guy willing to walk a long way. Carl Saga explained it beautifully in the original Cosmos series. There are plenty of versions of that five minute segment on YouTube. Not a TIL item, more like 40 years ago, but his point always stuck with me that humans do not always need high-level technology to assess the world around us. I am a long-time IT engineer, so it is good to be reminded of that occasionally to level-set my perspective.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
And when he arrived in Haiti (he never got to the North American continent), he declared that he was in India, despite the complete lack of international trade.
#55
TIL that Mexico has a Ley Seca (no alcohol) tradition during elections to promote peace and order and holds elections on Sunday allowing the most voters to participate without worry of missing school or work.
MCathenaE 4 years ago (edited)
Here in the US, we make election days on work days during business hours so it is difficult for everyone but the old retired men to vote. That's why old white men run our country with absolutely no idea how most of our population lives.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
I've heard also that some people can't vote or are not allowed to register... and then some votes are worth more than others?? I don't get it, here in Mexico you register at 18 and you are pretty much ready to vote until you die... just have to keep your identification current
Load More Replies... Dynein 4 years ago
Isn't that the case for most European countries? I'm sure that in fact most democracies in the world have an arrangement where election either is held on a work-free day or is defined as a work-free day by itself. The US system is asinine...
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Jro308 4 years ago
There have been 88 murders of political candidates in Mexico since campaigning begin in Sept 2020 (mostly by drug cartels). The most recent one was killed on 5/25/21 two hours after she posted a FB live giving her location so people could come meet her in person. People running for office in Mexico are very brave!
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
people running for office here in Mexico are very greedy... we have a very corrupt government... they want that money so bad they are willing to risk their life... if they get the position they will get family members and friends jobs so I guess it's worth it
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
Elections are always held on Sunday in France. Not that it changes anything about alcohol consumption though...
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Over here in bastion and spreader of democracy and freedom the USA, elections are held on... Oh.... anyways 'MURICA F*CK YEAH!
Johnny Calavera 4 years ago
Mexican here, we always prepare for election weekend with a lot of alcohol
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
You could be absolutely drunk and vote in the Netherlands. We don't fight over politics, we all know we're screwed one way or another, no matter which political party wins.
#56
TIL: Brazil forbids anyone to visit the island "Ilha da Queimada Grande" without a special permit. It's crawling with the endangered Golden Lancehead Vipers and its venom is so strong it can melt human flesh. Poachers visit the island because specimens can fetch $10-30K on the black market.
Sarah 4 years ago
True. And its appearance also says: "I am badass deadly."
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Eduardo Kraszczuk 4 years ago
As far as I'm concerned, I'll never set foot on that island. Just the picture is enough to creep me out.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I think a live cam might be cool in an area the snakes frequent
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#57
TIL there's a material called FOGBANK that's used by the US Department of Energy that's so top secret and compartmentalized, that the government once actually "forgot" how to make it due to a lack of actual records and dwindling institutional knowledge
H Edwards 4 years ago
Something they use in nuclear weapons. There's a Wikipedia page about it.
Load More Replies... Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 4 years ago
Wiklipedea: FOGBANK is a code name given to a material used in nuclear weapons such as the W76, W78 and W80.[1] FOGBANK's precise nature is classified; in the words of former Oak Ridge general manager Dennis Ruddy, "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified."[2] Department of Energy Nuclear Explosive Safety documents simply describe it as a material "used in nuclear weapons and nuclear explosives" along with lithium hydride (LiH) and lithium deuteride (LiD), beryllium (Be), uranium hydride (UH3), and plutonium hydride.
PandaMonium 4 years ago
The best part of the Wikipedia entry on FOGBANK is this quote.: "... in the words of former Oak Ridge [National Laboratory] general manager Dennis Ruddy, "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified." ...That's some shady [classified]
Bobby 4 years ago
I know a bit about nuclear power, very little about weapons, but I would guess its either used to shape the conventional charges that trigger the nuclear explosion, or some sort of neutron poison that limits the number of fissions that take place in the warhead so that the mass of U-235 stays relatively constant
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Probably kept so secret so only government personally has access and use of it
#58
TIL water is not colorless. The pure water has a slight blue color that becomes a deeper green as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The blue hue of the water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of white light.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
I mean this makes sense if you look at every body of water on the planet. We aren't called the blue planet for nothing.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
That is not entirely correct, the colour is how the light reflects off the water.
Deena Salzman 4 years ago
I had always thought the ocean was only blue because it reflects the sky
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TIL that glassblowers in Alexandria, Egypt were the first to produce clear glass around 100 AD through the introduction of manganese dioxide into the glass making process. Thereafter, the Romans began to use clear glass for architectural purposes.
Yettichild 4 years ago
Glassblowing is fun as hell, if you ever get the chance to try it you won't be disappointed.
#60
TIL The 'Mona Lisa' painting was created and 'tweaked' over a period of sixteen years (1503 - 1519). Da Vinci never relinquished ownership until his death and instead carried it on the backs of mules as he travelled from Florence to Milan to Rome and finally France.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Never understood the fascination with this not too attractive woman/ painting.
Kira Okah 4 years ago
It's a very beautiful painting that demonstrates some amazing painting techniques. There is the issue is the badly oxidised varnish that covers it, but the painting is too delicate to do something about the varnish.
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Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago (edited)
YIL (Yesterday I Learned) Leonardo Da Vinci was arrested for "sodomy" which almost exclusively meant homosexuality. Mona Lisa is most widely recognized as being the wife of a silk trader, but there is also a theory a man modeled at least partially for the painting. One of the renaissance's biggest genuises was gay or bi 🏳️🌈
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Interestingly, back in renaissance Italy, homosexuality was not a crime, nor was it overly frowned upon by anyone other than the church. Weirdly though, the 'Act of sodomy' was illegal. It's believed that the original writing of the law was intended to protect women as they were being "convinced" to partake of sex before marriage and maintaining their virginity by doing a**l. But as it wasn't specified... But yes, most evidence does suggest that Da Vinci was Bi, with a preference towards men.
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TIL about the "London Necropolis Railway", a railway line opened in 1854 just to carry corpses (and mourners) to a cemetery (at the time the largest in the world) 37km away from the city. There were even two stations in the cemetery, one for the Anglicans and one for non-Anglicans.
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
We have a Mortuary Station in Sydney. It's been turned into a function venue!
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
!!! I want to see this! I love some good Victorian Death Culture stuff.
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
The auckland western rail line goes right past Waikumete cemetary and was used for the same
#62
TIL, shortly after the Korean War, there were few refrigerators or protein-dense foods in South Korea. Koreans would barter with American troops for Spam (canned pork). As South Korea continued to develop, Spam turned into a staple food and it is often a common gift given during Korean Thanksgiving.
Eslamala 4 years ago
During Allende's presidency in Chile, there was shortage of food, and they started importing Spam. It was commonly given to people after hours of queueing in order to get government approved food. This was years before I was born, but my grandparents always talk about how awful that period was, and it tends to be overlooked because of the "dictatorship" that followed as a consequence of said disaster.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Fun fact. The Monty Python Show is the reason we call junk e-mail 'spam'. https://www.devinedesign.net/why-is-junk-email-called-spam/
Jro308 4 years ago
They really do, they even have a secret warehouse of it just in case
Load More Replies... Memere 4 years ago
There are many countries that have their own Thanksgiving celebrations, Canada is one. Here's a list for you...https://allthatsinteresting.com/thanksgiving-in-other-countries
Load More Replies... Niffler_13 4 years ago
Spam stands for Spare Ham, when Hams were more commonly sold in Metal containers, they would cut off the bits that wouldn't fit, process it and sell it as Spam.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
I've never had it. We always had cans of it, but only my grandparents ate it.
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
I've had it since I was 9, mostly in sandwiches.
Load More Replies... BasedWang 4 years ago
This would happen DURING the war too as well as poor people sneaking onto the bases and getting a hold of whatever they could. Those being highly processed foods that wouldn't go bad which led to the famous Korean Stew budae jjigae (aka Army Base Stew) which included dried noodles, gochujang, gouchugaru, kimchi, hot dogs, spam, tofu, mushrooms, american cheese and whatever else you can get a hold of.
#63
TIL For the movie Star Wars, the sound designer for the Stormtrooper's blasters came up with the sound of the blaster during a family backpacking trip. He hit the guy-wire of an AM radio transmitter tower with a hammer and recorded the sound with a microphone close to the impact.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
The imagination of sound engineers for TV film and especially radio was clearly like no other!
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
This one is rather common knowledge - unless whoever just learned it is somewhat young?
Sarah 4 years ago
I'm 64 and I've never heard it before. And I've been a Star Wars fan since 1977.
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#64
TIL That silver miners in the 1800s would discard their old work jeans in the mines. These jeans now can be sold for prices over $30,000, Levis going for the most! Many people have started hobbies going into the silver mines in hopes of finding them.
BorPand8 4 years ago
So they just stripped off their jeans and left the mine in their underwear? Or brought new jeans, put them on, and then dumped the old ones in the mine? Wore the new jeans and brought the old ones along the dump in the mine? So many questions...
D. Pitbull 4 years ago
*snert* sorry - just the thought of all these pantsless miners calmly going about continuing their work...
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Noel Benavente 4 years ago
the equivalent today would be like finding a waterproof work suit in a sewer... who knows, maybe in 100 years they will worth something. :$
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
That pair did. Some things can sell for more than others, depending on all sorts of variables including where they were found, age, condition, whether you get multiple interested parties on the auction day to drive up the price, etc. Variables. They matter.
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TIL: in 2001, Pizza Hut become the first company in the world to deliver its food to outer space, they paid a million dollars to send a salami pizza to the International Space Station (ISS).
Oerff On Tour 4 years ago
The astronauts didn't have to pay for it, because delivery took more than half an hour
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
They could have used a million dollars to feed a lot of hungry people, but feeding hungry people isn't the main objective of Pizza Hut.
Jill Tremblay 4 years ago
This sounds like BS to me. Hopefully. If not, I am really disgusted with how money is spent when it is needed for so many other things. Like feeding the starving maybe?
#66
TIL Dr. John Snow discovered cholera is spread through water and not air. He discovered this during an outbreak in London in 1854 in which hundreds of people became infected and died. The only ones not infected were those who only drank beer, not water
Bill Anderson 4 years ago
Nope. He traced people who drank from aspe pric well and showed that they contracted cholera even tho they were living in another area: the well had a special taste so people would get bottles of it's water sent to them and thus caught cholera. The taste came from the source being contaminated ated with sewage and dead bodies of animals carelessly disposed of in the feeder pool.
Bill Anderson 4 years ago
Oops. "Specific" and "contaminated". See the book "the ghost map" et al
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Laura Gillette 4 years ago
Yeah and nobody believed him so people continued to get cholera for many years...
Otter 4 years ago
Dr. John Snow was also the world's first anesthesiologist, or the first specialist in anesthesia. Other doctors had used inhaled anesthetics before, but he was the first one to realize that Starling's Law could be used to calculate safe dosages. He anesthetized Queen Victoria during childbirth to get the message about safe use of inhaled drugs out, and it worked! The man's contributions to science and human welfare cannot be overstated.
Connie Hirsch 4 years ago
Note that the TIL info is wrong -- although if you boiled your water for tea or drank beer more often, your chances of getting the cholera were decreased.
#67
TIL author H.P. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from his earnings as an author. His book "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", written one year before his death, sold a meagre 200 copies. He died in poverty at age 46.
BorPand8 4 years ago
And he was married to a Jewish lady named Sonia, also a writer, who supported them for a while with her hat-making business. He always thought he was too good to work for a living though, and they divorced after 2 years. I was so surprised to learn that someone married him.
Kira Okah 4 years ago
"Too good to work"? While they were married, h was a published author. When she lost her job and fell ill, he took up multiple jobs to support her. He refused an editor job at his publisher because it would have forced him to relocate, so his publisher started rejecting his work out of spite. His wife's job meant that she was constantly moving so they lived apart for some time, and he was still working as a writer. They divorced amicably after several years - not just two - because their jobs kept them apart a lot, Sonia stated that he was a good lover but his messy upbringing by his mother meant that she had to take the initiative.
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Does anybody else think Lovecraft and Mark Zuckerberg were separated at birth?
François Carré 4 years ago
He was a perfect introvert. A kind and faithful friend in distant relationships, writing thousands of letters, but incapable to cope with social life requirements. A brilliant, imaginative mind, sadly filled with fear, racism and other crappy political ideas. Still the source of a huge part of fantastic literature though.
John C 4 years ago
...and upon reincarnation invented Facebook (Why are there no comments pointing out the obvious similarity to Zuckerberg? It's such an odd and unique look!)
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I know... I have what's called a "Marfanoid" appearance (because my appearance is similar to that of a person with Marfan Syndrome) and HPL seems a bit Marfanoid too, but I can't be sure, but I've sometimes wondered about that. (For a more obvious example of a Marfanoid appearance, look at Michael Phelps, who is very Marfanoid.)
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TIL Apple purchased the iPhone.org domain name in 1999, eight years before the official introduction of the iPhone.
Eduardo Kraszczuk 4 years ago
And yet a Brazilian company registered the name before them in Brazil (for a diferent product, as far as I know it was a coincidence)
#69
TIL that chocolate was classified as “candy” under the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921, and so it was taxed as such. Hershey’s sued to recover about $8,000,000 in taxes by arguing it was “food”, and so had been wrongly taxed. The Supreme Court ruled it was “candy”.
John C 4 years ago
Subway had a similar fight in europe, which they lost. Their bread has so much sugar in it it's taxed as cake/dessert instead of bread.
Vetus Vespertilio 4 years ago
Many types of homemade bread contain no sugar at all, just flour, salt, yeast, and water, with flavour developing from the slow rises. If sugar is required, it’s generally in small amounts, unless it’s intended to be a sweet bread. Large amounts of sugar generally indicate that the bread hasn’t much flavour on its own. Subway bread tastes like doughnuts to me.
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DarkAngelNic 4 years ago
I just saw a comment that said if it has sugar then it is candy. So using that dumb logic that means (in the US anyway) bread, ketchup, salad dressing, pasta sauce, yogurt, premade coleslaws, fruit, etc. are all considered candy. LMAO.
Some Cool Guy 4 years ago
Pretty much all you listed (except fruit ofc) doesn't have sugar in most of the rest of the world
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#70
TIL that Queen Elizabeth II has a body double, Ella Slack, who takes her place during all rehearsals. She is, however, not allowed to sit on the throne at the House of the Lords during the rehearsals. She has never accepted payment for her services, describing it as a "pleasure and an honour."
Justin Mills 4 years ago
FYI, I don't want to be that guy as I've noticed a few of these TIL's being questioned for their validity and most deserve no response. However, the top search for "Ella Slack" will generate links to royalcentral.co.uk, the BBC, Marie Claire, and Hello Magazine (I didn't want to put the daily mail anywhere as the US edition is something I'd use to find the fib in 2 Truths & A Lie). While the comment, "Don't believe everything you read online" is absolutely true, I'd also suggest don't believe someone just because they say "I have......".
D. Pitbull 4 years ago
Reminds me of a previous post where someone tried to argue with me that the posted picture showed an East-Asian Dragon ... when it was actually a traditional Lion Dance costume - and they tried quoting the "daily co UK" as their source - and I was like "Okay, so all my family, extended family, Chinatown, Google of 'Lion Dance' have been lying to me my whole life? ... or maybe the daily co UK had a typo. I wonder."
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P Douglas Innes 4 years ago
Ella Slack does body-double work for the queen. Here's the BBC article about it: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-isle-of-man-41097184
Patricia Healton 4 years ago
https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/queen/meet-ella-slack-the-woman-who-has-stood-in-for-the-queen-as-her-body-double-for-over-three-decades-151425/ It is the truth.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
It is true. I saw an account of this awhile ago but it wasnt the throne in the House of Lords she wasn't allowed to sit in, but the throne at Buckingham, which explains why that guy didn't see her while watching what he was watching. She is the stand-in for rehearsing palace functions.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Seriously, wrong again dear panda. You have claimed many of these posts are false, and this is the only time there's a slight error (in that it was not ALL rehearsals). Slow down and check it out, if it's untrue or true it's pretty easy to have a check on google, or ask a panda or something
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kjorn 4 years ago
Considering the monster that was Hitler i consider this one a nice one: Canadian National Vimy Memorial. With the second WW they were rumour about the destruction of the Vimy Memorial, either during the fighting or at the hands of the Germans, was widely reported in Canada and the United Kingdom. The rumours led the German Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda to formally deny accusations that Germany had damaged or desecrated the memorial. To demonstrate the memorial had not been desecrated, Adolf Hitler, who reportedly admired the memorial for its peaceful nature, was photographed by the press while personally touring it and the preserved trenches on 2 June 1940
Janus Sanders 4 years ago
another bot? at least that's what you seem to be. why are there so many bots on this website lol
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kjorn 4 years ago
Considering the monster that was Hitler i consider this one a nice one: Canadian National Vimy Memorial. With the second WW they were rumour about the destruction of the Vimy Memorial, either during the fighting or at the hands of the Germans, was widely reported in Canada and the United Kingdom. The rumours led the German Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda to formally deny accusations that Germany had damaged or desecrated the memorial. To demonstrate the memorial had not been desecrated, Adolf Hitler, who reportedly admired the memorial for its peaceful nature, was photographed by the press while personally touring it and the preserved trenches on 2 June 1940
Janus Sanders 4 years ago
another bot? at least that's what you seem to be. why are there so many bots on this website lol
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