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“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts)
Did you know that humans have been making our favorite TV snack, popcorn, for over 7000 years? It seems hilarious to imagine the first person seeing a solid corn kernel “explode” into a white, edible puff. While it often gets lost in the onslaught of information out there, the truth is that there are cool new details about our planet and universe being discovered every day.
We’ve gathered some fascinating facts about the world that people only stumbled across recently. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites and share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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#1
Elephant (Tarra) and a dog (Bella) had become close friends at a sanctuary in Tennessee. Unfortunately, one day Bella was killed by coyotes, and Tarra found her body and carried it a mile back to the barn where the staff were.
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#2
When Fox refused to pay for Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick to be on set every day during filming, Ryan Reynolds paid with his own money to make sure they were there in order to keep the project on the right track & maintain the original creative team.
#3
Billy Idol was first choice for the role of T-1000 in Terminator 2, but a motorcycle accident in 1990 prevented it. During his time in hospital he also swore never to wear the Confederate flag again after a black employee explained his feelings on it.
#4
There was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.
Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago (edited)
Yup, otherwise our ancerstors wouldn't have survived and we wouldn't be here. Human together strong, human alone gets an infection or a cold, can't hunt/gather for 3 days, and dies.
KnightOwl 1 year ago
I read a book about this about 10yrs ago and surprisingly still remember a lot about it. The 6 boys became known as the Tongan castaways, they were aged between 13 and 16 and survived on a deserted island for over a year. They set up a shelter in the ruins of an old settlement on the island, collected rainwater and hunted to survive. They all pulled their weight and stuck to strict routines while supporting each other mentally and emotionally. They became very famous all over the world after they were rescued by a passing fishing boat.
Moon 1 year ago
One of the reasons I don't like lord of the flies. People wanted a gritty story about how awful humans were- that was the trend at the time. People ate it up, and didn't give a second thought to accuracy.
October 1 year ago
To be fair, the book was published nine years after the eind of WW II. It's understandable humans were seen as rather awful at the time.
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robin aldrich 1 year ago
Weren't they Pacific Islanders and had a unique skill set which helped them survive??? which I I know I would be the first one dead cuz I just couldn't do anything in that situation..
Ahmad Hamad 1 year ago
it's weird that this story didn't attract media streams to make a movie or a tv series or at least a documentary about it.
Janice Seagraves 1 year ago
Their survival might have a lot to do with their culture. I can't see Americans doing this.
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago (edited)
No. The boys in Lord of the Flies are products of the British public school system. The book is as much a critique of that institution as it is a novelisation of Hobbes' Leviathan. And, of course, Golding was absolutely right; the British public schools continue to turn out embittered psychopaths, though thankfully many of them are unemployed as of last Friday.
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When the studio refused to meet Sienna Miller's pay request to star in the film 21 Bridges, Chadwick Boseman gave her part of his salary in order meet her number because he said "that's what you should be paid".
#6
That elephants stay cancer free as they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one.
#7
In parts of the UK, a rule from 1902 mandates that homes facing each other at the rear must be built 21 meters apart. This specific distance was determined by two urban designers who measured how far apart they could see each other's nipples through their shirts.
#8
Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's, and his wife Ida died on the Titanic after refusing a lifeboat to prioritize women and children.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
There was a reference to them in the couple who is in bed in James's Cameron Titanic.
#9
The Luddites were not anti-technology. They were highly-skilled laborers who protested wage reduction and job replacement due to automation.
#10
Astronauts on board the ISS need to sleep near a ventilator fan. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of carbon dioxide.
#11
During a screening of "A Fish Called Wanda," Danish audiologist Ole Bentzen died from heart fibrillation, caused by an increased heart rate due to extended laughter. Newspapers reported he died laughing. Writer John Cleese considered using it for publicity but ultimately deemed it inappropriate.
#12
In 2012 a British man named Wesley Carrington bought a metal detector and within 20 minutes found gold from the Roman Age worth £100,000.
#13
Stephen Hawking completed a final multiverse theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes just 10 days before he died.
#14
Scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus.
#15
when Domino’s Pizza entered the Italian market in 2015, the company had an ambitious plan of opening 880 outlets across the country by 2030. It got as far as opening 29 branches, that were all closed by 2022
#16
There are over 1,000 homes in Edinburgh, Scotland that nobody has lived in for over 10 years. The most common reason is a reclusive homeowner passing away and nobody realizing they've inherited the property.
#17
In 2022 seat belt use in the US was 91.6% of occupants (8.4% unrestrained) and unrestrained occupant deaths accounted for 49.8% of deaths.
#18
Columbia Pictures refused to greenlight the 1993 film Groundhog Day without explaining why Phil becomes trapped in the same day. Producer Trevor Albert and director Harold Ramis appeased the studio, but deliberately placed the scenes too late in the shooting schedule to be filmed.
#19
In 1968, over 6000 sheep were killed in Utah and popular theories pointed to the Army. It was revealed 30 years later that it was indeed the result of nerve agent testing. Families nearby developed nervous system illnesses, but the Army accepted no responsibility.
#20
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) was written by Robert Louis Stevenson during a 6-day [substance] binge. His wife Fanny said: "That an invalid in my husband's condition of health" was able to do "the manual labour alone of putting 60K words on paper in 6 days seems almost incredible".
#21
Possum Trot, a small town in Texas, adopted all the foster kids on a waiting list, eliminating the need for foster homes within a 100-mile radius.
Bored Birgit 1 year ago
It is now a film "Sound of hope". 22 families from a rural Black church adopted 77 kids from the foster system.
#22
Anne, Queen of Great Britain had at least 17 pregnancies over a 17-year period & had miscarried or given birth to stillborn children at least 12 times. Of her 5 liveborn children, 4 died before the age of two & her sole surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died at age eleven.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
This is why we think people didn't live as long in the past - children died so often and in such numbers it lowered the average age of death.
#23
In 1967 at the outbreak of the Six Day War the Suez Canal was shut down stranding fifteen ships, anchored together the crews formed a yachting club, held lifeboat races, and produced their own postage stamps — the ships would remain there until 1974.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
At that piont they might as well have declared themselves an independent nation
#24
After actor Sean Astin turned 18, he left numerous personal items at his mother Patty Duke's house. Upon returning for them, many items, including the treasure map from "The Goonies," were gone. “It’s an item that would probably be worth $100,000 now,” he said. “And I think my mom threw it out.”
#25
Harrison Okene (a cook) survived 3 days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken ship by finding an air pocket.
#26
After ABC executives & producers encouraged Margaret Cho to go on a crash diet, while filming her TV series All-American Girl in 1994, she lost 30 lbs (14 kg) in 2 weeks. This resulted in her hospitalization for kidney failure & led to major health issues that continued for years after the show.
troufaki13 1 year ago
Hollywood please stop imposing ridiculous beauty standards to your employees and consequently to the rest of the world.
#27
Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.
#28
Most newborns cry for 45 minutes to two hours every day during the first six months of life because crying is the only way they communicate.
#29
A study where monkeys were shown to be willing to pay (sacrificing food) for risque photos of other monkeys.
#30
That the Wizard of OZ is only the 1st of 14 original works, and a total of 40 books in a series about the Land of OZ.
#31
That in 1956 the canals in Venice, Italy were drained and cleaned.
#32
Buzz Aldrin battled depression and alcohol addiction after the Moon landing.
Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago (edited)
I kinda get it. When your goal is that encompassing you need something to replace it after you reached it. Otherwise you've got a lot of void to stare at.
#33
A mathematics professor at Stanford University was [unalived] by his doctoral student who had been trying to get a PhD for 19 years.
#34
Bob The Builder was altered for Japanese children so they wouldn’t confuse him for a Yakuza member.
#35
Michelangelo spent two months hiding in the underground chamber while evading a death sentence ordered by the Pope.
#36
During the 1920s, Guinness was recommended to pregnant women due to the perceived high iron content of the drink.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
Yep, a pint a day was recommended to a lot of people for medical reasons. There's barely any iron in Guinness, btw.
#37
A pizzeria owner discovered DoorDash was conducting a "demand test" and had a lower price for his pizza even though he had not asked for the pizzeria to be on the app. The owner ordered 10 pizzas on the app, paid $160, and had them delivered to a friend. DoorDash paid the restaurant $240.
Emma London 1 year ago
That wouldn't fly in EU. Adding individual restaurants in you ordering service for free sounds like a good idea, BUT it's purpose is to gain a monopoly in the area and then rise the prices after the customers have learned to use only them.
#38
During “Hell week” of Navy SEAL training, candidates are given no more than 4 hours sleep over five and a half days, all while under continual mental and physical stress.
#39
Elizabeth I had a lot of missing teeth from eating too much sweets, making it difficult for foreign ambassadors to understand what she was saying.
#40
A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is 'uncharacteristically' at 20 letters.
#41
From 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3.
Onan Hag All 1 year ago
Sam Fox, Melinda Messenger, Linda Lusardi, Jodie Marsh.. Fond memories, (fond mammaries?)
#42
Six-year-old Cao Qixian set a new women's world record by solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in an average time of 5.97 seconds. She became the first female ever to achieve an average time of under 6 seconds.
SlightlyTarnished 1 year ago
I don't get why the differentiation between the sexes, it's a puzzle, not olympic shot putting.
#44
The Prussian language, which has been extinct since the 17th century, is slowly being revived, and for the first time, children are growing up with it as their first language.
#45
Human Genome Project started in 1990 and by 2003, scientists had successfully documented 92% of the genome. However, it would take until 2022 before the final 8% was mapped and a full human genome was completely sequenced.
marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
Most animals have genes that do the same thing in any species. Like 2 eyes, ears, a nose and mouth. Food goes in one end and out the other. And so on. So it was probably easy to ID those genes. It's the ones that made us humans were the tough ones. BTW bananas and humans share roughly 50-60% of our DNA. Cats 90%. Dogs 84%. Pigs 98%.
#46
The capital of Canada once alternated between Toronto and Québec every four years. Queen Victoria selected Ottawa in 1857 because it sits far from the American border and it is situated on a cliff, making it easier to defend from a possible attack.
Blayze Infyrno 1 year ago
Well ok, the PROVINCE of Canada, before Confederation. And before that, Kingston. Ottawa was ultimately chosen because it's on the border of Ontario and Quebec, the two original provinces of the country of Canada.
#47
Frank Zappa’s son was born, the nurse refused to register him with the name “Dweezil,” so Zappa started listing names of musicians he knew, which became his son’s legal name(s). When Dweezil was five, his parents fought to legally change his name to Dweezil at his request and won.
#48
Every even number is the sum of two primes, according to the Goldbach Conjecture, which has been verified up to 19 digits.
#49
In 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread.
#50
When Napoleon surrendered after Waterloo he assumed he would be allowed to see out his exile comfortably as a foreign monarch in Britain, writing to the Prince Regent to ask "for a country house ‘about ten or twelve leagues from London – a big enough house to accommodate all my suite’."
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
My great-great-great-great grandfather was in Napoleon's army. I don't know if that is relevant. I just thought I would throw it in.
#51
Drivers have complained of being trapped inside their electric vehicle after the vehicle's 12-volt battery died and they did not know how to open the car doors.
#52
When England held its first lottery in 1567 everyone who bought a ticket got immunity from one arrest as long as it was not piracy, murder, felonies, or treason. Prizes for winning the lottery were £5,000 in cash, but also goods like plate, tapestries and “good linen cloth.”
#53
A teen got hyperacusis after an airhorn was blasted near her ear. Her type of hyperacusis makes her so sensitive to sound that it hurts and caused her to drop out of school because the voices of teachers were too painful. She also needs special noise cancelling headphones at the mall.
#54
When "old age" is cited as cause of death in a medical context, the person had multiple illnesses and it is not clear which one [ended] them; it has gotten less common over time due to better medical detection.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I actually got to see my grandfather's death certificate and he did indeed have a string of different conditions listed, but the one cited as his cause of death was "respiratory failure".
#55
According to actor Rick Moranis, in the original script for the 1987 film Spaceballs, the description of Dark Helmet was that the whole costume was one gigantic helmet. Then it got scaled back to just an exaggerated version of the Darth Vader helmet.
#56
The quote "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant" by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor), was actually from the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!
#57
In the past decade, total US college enrollment has dropped by nearly 1.5 million students, or by about 7.4%.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
Hardly surprising. Trades can make good money and won't drown you in debt.
#58
The organizers of the 1985 song "We Are the World" didn't invite Madonna to participate on the recording because "they didn't think she could sing" and "it broke her heart" that that was the case.
#59
After a week into the general run of the movie 'The Shining', Kubrick cut a scene at the end that took place in a hospital, where it's explained that Jack's body couldn't be found. The scene was physically cut out of prints by projectionists and sent back to the studio.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
The version where he is frozen is better. There was only one way for him to end up after the building got its grip on him.
#60
After the F5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri a rare flesh-eating fungal infection known as 'cutaneous necrotizing mucormycosis' followed, infecting 13 and ultimately killing 5.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
As a healthy person, fungal infections aren’t that easy to ‘catch’, I wonder what made this one particularly virulent.
#61
Virgin queen bees will release battle cries and fight to the death until only one remains in the hive.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
The disdain sleeted over her, tearing the planetary body of Magrat Garlick to pieces. She’d never be any good. She’d never be beautiful, intelligent, or strong. She’d never be anything at all. Self confidence? Confidence in what? The eyes of the Queen were all she could see. All she wanted to do was lose herself in them… And the ablation of Magrat Garlick roared on, tearing at the strata of her soul… …exposing the core. She bunched up a fist and hit the Queen between the eyes. There was a moment of terminal perplexity before the Queen screamed, and Magrat hit her again. Only one queen in a hive! Slash! Stab! –Terry Pratchett, “Lords and Ladies”
#62
Up to 25% of the Caucasian population cannot process codeine properly & the medication may not have an effect at all on up to 10% of the Caucasian population.
clairebear 1 year ago
I am one of them, makes my pain worse. It has no effect at all on my sister,
#63
News anchors in Turkmenistan, both men and women, were prevented from wearing any make-up after the former president discovered he was unable to tell the difference between them when presenters wore it.
#64
Kobe Bryant is the only person to have won both an Olympic medal and an Oscar.
#65
In his will, George Washington left directions to emancipate all of the enslaved people that he owned after the death of Martha Washington. On January 1, 1801, all of the enslaved people he owned were freed. The Emancipation Proclamation was put into act on January 1, 1863, 62 years later.
#66
Lady Diana Spencer wanted to marry the Prince of Wales in a secret marriage but the Prime Minister got word of it from spies and prevented the union. She died at young age - in 1735.
#67
Peter Higg's original paper predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson was originally rejected by a scientific journal for being "of no obvious relevance to physics".
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago (edited)
There is a movement in evolutionary biology right now that there may be some mechanism(s) for directing adaptations beyond purely random mutations. But, that idea is getting a lot of push-back from other biologists, because they think it sounds like religious nonsense.
#68
China does not recognize international time zones within its borders. The entire country uses China Standard Time which is aligned to Beijing Time.
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
What even is time. Theres no physical evidence to say that today is Monday we just have to hope that someone has kept track from the first time we started naming days
#69
The Hanoi incident where a man lived after his hand was inside a particle accelerator while it was on. This incident sparked international attention to the dangers of using foreign translated instructions in experiments involving radiation.
#70
Rihanna was discovered by American producer Evan Rogers in 2003, who saw the singer performing with a girl group while he was on holiday. “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist,” he said.
#71
There is a scholarship at Loyola University Chicago that gives full tuition if you are Catholic and have the last name Zolp.
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
Hang on a minute I just need to change my surname and find a decent Catholic church.
#72
Eddie Slovik is the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
MondoLogo 1 year ago
A 1974 movie starring Martin Sheen. He was good in it of course, and it's based on the actual historical record but is kind of slow and really depressing. If you thought Paths of Glory was interesting. this is an USA version. If you're a Martin fan who wants go beyond Apocalypse Now check out this, Badlands and the original Dead Zone, of course. https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24955/the-execution-of-private-slovik/
#73
The 2011 film “The Worst Movie Ever!”, unintentionally, had the worst box office opening ever recorded. One single person paid admission to see the film during its premiere, earning it a whopping $11.
#74
Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River because it drained sewage into Lake Michigan where many got/get their drinking water from.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Now what do they do with the water? Has to go somewhere. Need more Info.
#75
In 1955 a runaway light plane took off by itself and spent 3 hours flying unpiloted over Sydney, Australia. Three separate Airforce attempts to shoot it down failed, before two Navy pilots made a successful 'kill' 5 miles offshore.
Andrew Read 1 year ago
No, they didn’t. All attempts to shoot down the tiger moth failed, because it was wood and fabric. They monitored the aircraft until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.the navy pilots were flying seafuries and were part of the fleet air arm.
#76
In the US only, the strength of the placebo effect is so high that medical companies have trouble getting new painkillers approved through clinical trials.
Ace 1 year ago
Two completely unrelated things there. Public resistance to novel OTC products due to namebrand loyalty is huge, not only in the US. I was at the dentist last week and she told me to take Dafalgan, a Swiss brand of paracetamol; (acetaminophen) in the US many people don't realise that Advil and Tylenol are just brand names of ibuprofen and paracetamol. The 'placebo' effect here is just that patients believe the brand named products are better.
#77
The authors for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” had never been to a ball game before putting together their now-famous song.
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
The song was penned in 1908 by 29-year-old Jack Norworth, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter who, by his own account, had never been to a baseball game. On a New York subway train, he spotted a sign announcing: "Baseball Today—Polo Grounds." He then sketched out two verses about a girl named Katie Casey who had "baseball fever," plus the chorus we sing today. When her beau asked her to see a show, Katie answered, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame!" Lyrics in hand, Norworth asked his friend Albert Von Tilzer to write a melody; Norworth's wife, Nora Bayers, sang it on vaudeville. That same year, singer Edward Meeker recorded it for Edison Records.
#78
13% of the U.S. Population consumes pizza on any given day. The percentage is 25% among males aged 6-19.
#79
There are 16.7 million IP addresses reserved specifically for amateur HAM radio operators.
#80
The record for longest non stop run belongs to Dean Karnazes, who ran 350 miles (560 km), it took him 80 hours and 44 minutes.
David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
He wrote a book called "Ultramarathon Man" which is extremely well written and I thoroughly recommend reading it. By the end of the book, his longest nonstop run was about 350 km, and he kept increasing on that each year.
#81
One of the owners of the Arm & Hammer baking soda brand was businessman Armand Hammer. The brand was created 30 years before Hammer was born.
#82
In 1968, North Korea attacked a US spy ship and captured her 83 crew members. In response, the US considered a blockade of N Korean ports, airstrikes on military targets, a land attack across the demilitarized zone, and even nuclear bombardment if the crew were not released.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
There is nothing surprising about "considering" every possible option. There is nothing surprising about dismissing many of those options immediately, either.
#83
Louisiana State Penitentiary ("Angola"), the largest maximum-security prison in the USA, has a radio station, a TV station, a magazine, a fire station, sugarcane fields, market gardens and herds of cattle and horses.
#84
In 2022 two Californians filed a class action lawsuit against Barilla pasta because they thought it was made in Italy. They argue they suffered financial harm because they would not have bought it if they knew it was made in the US. The combined total they spent was $6.
#85
During the Truman reconstruction of the White House, a souvenir program was authorized. It allowed members of the public to order old pieces of the building such as timbers, bricks, facing stones, and paneling. Demand exceeded initial expectations and receipts exceeded expenses by $10,000.
#86
Before the PB&J sandwich was invented, peanut butter was originally originally paired with savory foods like Worcestershire sauce & cheese.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Peanut butter goes with just about any solid food, and most not so solid foods.
#87
The most expensive error banknote is a US $20 bill with a Del Monte fruit sticker stuck to it that sold for $396K in 2021. It was discovered in 2003 when a college student got it from an ATM & sold it online for $10K. Experts believe the sticker was likely placed deliberately by a bored employee.
James Frail 1 year ago
This post lacks the most basic fundamental aspect of the story. The sticker was placed during production, and is therefore has the serial number printed over the sticker. As written, it just calls it an error because it has a sticker on it.
#88
Mathematician Kurt Godel's wife Adele was employed as a dancer at a cabaret when they met. Aside from the continuing disapproval of his family, Adele faced rejection and isolation in the academic community as well, particularly when the couple settled at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.
#89
Stephen Hawking's famous wheelchair was sold at auction for almost 300,000 pounds. Hawking used this wheelchair from the end of the 1980s until the early years of the 1990s, before he became unable to use his hands to drive a wheelchair.
#91
On average, a child will be afflicted by the common cold 6-8 times per year.
#92
No Kill Shelters aren’t actually no kill. They save 90% of their animals to be considered no kill.
#93
BBC interviewed a man who married a fictional girl. In 2019, 12% of people in Japan reported falling in love with anime/game characters. According to Sociologist Masahiro Yamada, the rise in pseudo relationships is due to hard work life and a dwindling pool of well paid men.
#94
Katy Perry released her debut album "Katy Hudson" through the Red Hill Records label. The album was a commercial failure and the label soon went bankrupt.
#95
The current “land speed record” - the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land - is 763 mph. It was achieved in 1997 by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green and has not been beaten since.
#96
A signed, typed letter (1983) from Steve Jobs, in which he wrote "I'm afraid I don't sign autographs", sold at auction for $478,939.
#97
In 2012, Maryland manufactured and distributed a new license plate to celebrate the War of 1812. 800,000 of these plates include a link that promotes a Filipino gambling site.
#99
During the gulf war an American F-15 dropped a bomb through an enemy helicopter that was attacking friendly forces.
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
During both Gulf Wars, pilots in the RAF and other European forces were advised to let the Americans go off in front because of the US pilots trigger happy attitude. 'Friendly' fire is not a thing regardless of who's shooting at you, but it's doubly difficult when you are hit by fire from those who are supposed to be looking after your back .... My Brother was a navigator on Tornadoes during GW1, I know this because his aircraft was hit TWICE by 'friendly' fire, one of which he and his pilot had to eject into enemy territory, which was interesting (his words) plus losing a close friend who was shot out of the sky by a gung ho idiot who just fired off missiles before checking who he was firing at. His Widow didn't even get an apology.
#100
Larry Ellison founder of oracle owns 98% of the sixth biggest Hawaiian island, Lānaʻi.
#101
Prior to setting the 1964 and 1965 land speed records, Art Arfons bought a jet engine from a F-104 Starfighter from a scrap dealer for $600. He successfully fixed the engine and tested it by tying it to trees in his garden, despite objections from the government and his neighbors.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago (edited)
There was a guy who owned a jet engine like this, and would blast the damn thing every day with flames coming out and everything. His neighbour was of course not happy and complained to the authorities. Guy invited him over to discuss the issue, and vaporised the neighbour with it.
#102
Henry Ford once set the world record for fastest speed achieved on land. In 1904 he drove a Ford 999 on a frozen lake and reached a speed of 91.37mph despite hitting a bump in the ice sending him airborne at one point. The record helped popularize Ford's company.
#103
Steve Jobs hated Android OS so much he would spend billions to destroy it since he believed it is "stolen product".
#104
Blackjack has a house advantage of only around 1-2% for skilled players & up to around 20% for unskilled players, while craps has a house advantage as low as less than 1% for skilled players & up to around 16% for unskilled players.
#105
In 1969 North Korea shot down a US surveillance aircraft over the Sea of Japan, [ending] all 31 on board and that the US did not retaliate at all.
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ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
As always, take anything on TIL with a grain of salt. Welcome to the internet. Stay safe, friends.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Exactly, if anything piques your interest please do your own research first folks
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ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
As always, take anything on TIL with a grain of salt. Welcome to the internet. Stay safe, friends.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Exactly, if anything piques your interest please do your own research first folks
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