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Whether people are setting up Trivial Pursuit at home or attending a pub trivia night, the basic premise remains the same: they're enjoying the thrill of providing correct answers to questions about lesser-known facts.
"You get a rush or a neuro-reward signal or a dopamine burst from winning," John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. "I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It's sort of like gambling."
Only it doesn't really have any downsides.
To prepare you for these battles (or at least to make your Friday more interesting), Bored Panda snuck inside the 'Today I Learned' (TIL) subreddit and hand-picked some of the most interesting tidbits of information that people have shared there.
Oh, and if you want more, fire up our earlier TIL lists here, here, and here.
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#1
TIL a woman quit her job to search for her border collie who escaped from a hotel room during a thunderstorm while on vacation in Kalispell, Montana. After 57 days of searching and posting hundreds of flyers around town, she finally found ‘Katie’ who was starving, but otherwise OK.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Anyone who would do that in order to find her dog? My reply would be to not worry about your job. I'll just put it down as a leave of absence for a family emergency.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Poor thing, I would not be able to lay my head down at night knowing my lil Jerry is out there somewhere lost
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#2
TIL an Austrian man left $2.4 million to the French village that hid him from the Nazis
Nicolas Schirvel 4 years ago
Yeah, but the money must have go to the national public treasury for sure... There is no local public donation possible in France...
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D S 4 years ago (edited)
Imagine the kind of person you had to be to put your and your family´s life´s and safety at risk to save a random stranger... It amazes me to know there are beautiful human beings like that out in the world. That they kept helping other´s, sometimes with seriously high risks for themselves..... One of my favourite people from my home country is Aristides de Sousa Mendes exactly for what he did to save people from the Nazi´s, while going against direct orders from our former dictactor. The dictactor had forbidden him to help and he gave a lot of visas to save people , despite knowning he and his family could be in danger if they where caught (not only by the Nazi´s but by the dictator himself)... He allegedly said "From now on, I will give visas to everyone, there are no more nationalities, race or religion"" and after being reprimanded by Lisbon for the first time he told them "If it is necessary to disobey, I prefer it to be an order of men than an order of God" and kept on doing his thing and saving lifes instead of stopping and doing what the dictator wanted. He ended up responding for that disobedience.
Natalie 4 years ago
One of my neighbours in my childhood was a Polish Jewish man who came to the UK as a refugee from the Nazis. He used to do so much community work, driving the elderly to shops and appointments, that sort of thing and said it was because he was so grateful the country had taken him in. He was one of the nicest people I've ever met and a fascinating, clever, thoughtful man. RIP Robert Motz, the world is the lesser for your passing.
Dave P 4 years ago
Edit: Jewish Man, he was a Jew from Austria before in 1938 he was stripped of his Austrian Citizenship and fled to France where he later came again under Nazi control. He wasnt Austrian, he was Jewish
Burs 4 years ago
No. He as an Austrian man who happened to be Jewish. Jewish isn’t a nacionality
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Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
They saved his life at the risk of their own lives and he payed it back
#3
TIL there is a group of wolves in British Columbia known as "sea wolves" and 90% of their food comes from the sea. They have distinct DNA that sets them apart from interior wolves and they're entirely dedicated to the sea swimming several miles everyday in search of food.
Angela Brisebois 4 years ago
They've also learned not to eat the head of the salmon they catch because there are deadly worms and/or parasites in the head/brain that can harm them.
glowworm2 4 years ago (edited)
Sea wolves sound adorable. Reminds me of the wulver, a friendly werewolf who would share fish with humans.
debrina blackmoon 4 years ago
Yes, they do! :) Also, wulvers sound really cool; I just read about them!
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Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
And 20 million years later, the Sea Wolves dominate the Leopard Seals... For real, this is how the land based ancestor of seals got theirs toes in the water Back in the Day...
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
They're already here! Look for otaria flavescens.
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Wyn Williams 4 years ago (edited)
That is pretty much how great whales evolved :) Seals as well, they used to be wolf like land creatures who adapted to hunting in the sea and why they are mammals ;)
#4
TIL of Vince Coleman, a train dispatcher who sacrificed his life to save hundreds, warning of a massive boat explosion nearby. The message: "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye, boys."
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
If there is a Heaven, for this act he should have been absolved of most, if not all, of his sins.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Hero: a person who, when he becomes aware he's going to die very shortly, stays calm and does everything he can to save others.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
One of the largest non nuclear blasts in history. Happened in Halifax Nova Scotia.
Little Wonder 4 years ago
Not only saved hundreds of lives, but his message meant supplies and rescue could be dispatched immediately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8jIgvA8fo
Steve Goodman 4 years ago
Another Canadian History Moment... they used to play that commercial all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-FbwmzPKo
Mark Melton 4 years ago
Same thing happened in the huge rocket propellant factory explosion in the desert in America. One worker was in a wheelchair and knew he wouldn't have time to escape, so he stayed at the telephone giving needed information to rescuers/fire department. I've seen some amazingly selfless acts by regular people in my life. Love for ones brothers can be strong.
#5
TIL That elephants stay cancer free as they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one.
K Witmer 4 years ago
I love elephants so much that when I see them I could cry bc I know they are treated so bad
Viviane 4 years ago
A local charity asked me to pay for tickets to send two children to a circus that includes elephants. I turned them down.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is close to the truth. They are resistant to cancer, not immune. About 5% die from it, which is still much lower than us. They have a couple genes we think might help this, not 20 and we are studying those genes looking for help
Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
In 2050 they'll be setting up fetuses with 20 copies of that gene. If you're rich!
Allan Breum 4 years ago
You know what this means, right? Time to Gene-mod those 19 extra copies into us.
Peter Ledoux 3 years ago
Now how to make it work in us. What a world changing event that would be.
#6
TIL 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.
Grant Barke 4 years ago
Imagine how much is still out there buried just waiting to be found.
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
Sadly, he would probably have had to hand it all over to the government. I don't think you're allowed to keep these kinds of finds in the UK. National interest and all that. but still, how excited must he have been! I live very close to all kinds of former Roman roads and settlements. Maybe I should get me a metal detector.
Peter Ledoux 3 years ago
Always wonder about a metal detector working to find gold, it's not magnetic. Maybe they react to mass?
Sabs 4 years ago
I doubt he got any of the money those coins are worth, in most countries found artifacts are by law property of the country they are found in and the government usually takes them. He probably got a small finders fee amount.
Wilf 4 years ago
The UK has a Treasure Act- where precious metals over a certain value have to be declared to the government. They are then assessed for value and purchased. The finder can keep the proceeds, but will have to share it with the owner of the land on which it was found. It's a good system that means significant artefacts remain in public ownership, not getting sold off to private (often overseas) buyers, after which they are never seen (or studied) in public ever again.
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#7
TIL that Apples are not ‘true to seed’, so the seeds from any particular variety apple will not grow to be the same variety as the apple tree they came from. E.g. If you planted seeds of Granny Smith it likely will produce a wide variety of different and unknown apple tree types.
Norart 4 years ago
People still tripping about GMO foods. Learn the very basics of genetics and you will know what our agrarian ancestors have known for thousands of years. Yes modifying genetics of plants and hybridizing for positive traits is not only desirable, it's how we've managed to feed the world effectively.
Tami 4 years ago (edited)
True, and the reason GMO produce might be unhealthy is because it's often been modified to be resistant to herbicides, so when you eat GMO produce you're probably eating plants that have been sprayed with Roundup or something like that.
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Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
This is common in a lot of today’s fruit: oranges, limes, mangoes, etc. trees have to be grafted to produce edible fruit
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
And that's why the red delicious, which was the most popular apple has become reviled. Same name, same lineage, not the same taste.
Anna roberts 4 years ago
Gala apples are closer to what the red delicious used to taste like, at least to me
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
This is a genetics thing. When one has children, there is a very small chance that your kids will be identical to you. Even twins can look a little different because different genes can be turned on. The only way to guarantee it is to make a clone. Like people, there are alot of different genes in apples and many other fruits that we have literally thousands of varieties. We guarantee getting the same apple by taking a piece of the fruit tree we want and grafting onto another tree so the exact same genes continue to make the same apple. This is also why we are making a big deal about heirloom crops and GMO. Over thousands of years, we've bred most crops to only have 1 set of genes so they will always breed true. Heirlooms and GMO are important to provide variety so we can re-select them for new traits and environmental factors.
Zophra 4 years ago
I am so pleasantly shocked that this thread is pro-GMO. It is rare in many comment threads.
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More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
If people had this anomaly, racism would be a thing of the past/
#8
TIL that in 2006, a couple lost for three nights in the San Jacinto Mountains of CA were rescued because they were able to light a signal fire from matches they found in the abandoned camp of a lost hiker who vanished exactly One year before their incident.
Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
Three of anything is the universal emergency signal. You can make three big circles in snow to alert a plane, three fires is obviously best. Or spell out SOS in a field anyway you can, with branches, with scraped lines in dirt, whatever.
Mazer 4 years ago
Never go out without telling someone your plans and when you plan to return. Carry water, a whistle, an SOL emergency blanket, food, water, fire rod, knife, headlamp and extra batteries as well as a current map of the area. All this can fit in a small pack. It can save your life and/or shorten your ordeal. I carry these items and a couple more things every time I hit the trail, even if I only plan to be out a couple of hours. Stay safe, stay curious
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Mazer 4 years ago
Unfortunately they were in the same place the other hiker died. They located his body, read is diary of his desperate last days. As a result, they were saved and they reported the corpse to the authorities, who notified the family that their loved one had been found. Amazing story
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Sadly, the first guy was still there. Or at least his corpse was. (MrBallen on YouTube did a typically excellent video on this story).
Twodogsandapicnictable 4 years ago
They ended up stuck in that ravine when they saw his tent and thought they'd been saved then got trapped just like he had. They literally had to start a forest fire because all the downed wood was to wet for a camp fire to stay lit.
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 4 years ago
Just saw the mrballen YouTube on this story, amongst a few others.....ok a lot of others - I'm mildly addicted to mrballen and that chapter on YouTube)
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
Mr Ballen did a video about this on his youtube channel. It was very interesting.
#9
TIL that the details of the Manhattan Project were so secret that many workers had no idea why they did their jobs. A laundrywoman had a dedicated duty to "hold up an instrument and listen for a clicking noise" without knowing why. It was a Geiger counter testing the radiation levels of uniforms.
I I 4 years ago
wow , thats got to be illegal , subjecting people to radiation with out their knowledge , immoral at the least
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
That was in the 1940s, so it probably wasn't something deemed illegal at the time.
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jk nbt 4 years ago
worse than that, the US military used their own sailors as guinea pigs on ships docked next to the south Pacific islands where above-ground nuclear testing was performed in the 1950s... they needed human subjects to measure the effects of radiation in wartime... the men died from horrible, painful cancers resulting from the exposure... the military leadership never had any accountability since the experiments were classified
Juds Conne 4 years ago
My father was military in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project years and the government knew exactly the levels of danger to which they exposed those who served. Same thing for those who were not only allowed but encouraged to view the tests. These things are standard practice by those we believe to hold our best interests. All the things mentioned in these replies, and so much more. I learned this when I was an adult when my ex was working on our families genealogy, but I had already lost any remaining faith or belief because of what our government withholds, because of Vietnam and the Tuskegee Airmen.
Susan Bosse 4 years ago
Lots of the lower positions were filled by illiterates so that they could not read anything they came across.
Beth Palmer 4 years ago
I am a native OAk Ridge Tn woman. That's where the Manhattan Project was. No native Americans lived in the area (rural Tn). Many scientists engineers laborers etc... came here for work and I'm guessing 99% had no idea of the outcome. My grandmother was a guard Cracks me up. The OR National Lab still big employer here. There were 3 "plants". Only 2 now. No more uranium made or stored here. Again - OR city was created by TN Valley Authority flooding and used for power (we still do). Many people were saved in the US due to the work here. There is one museum dedicated to this still here. Plenty of info available NOW about this top secret event that occurred to ultimately win the WW. And yes - many people got sick and died due to radiation exposure from testing and working here. Testing still ongoing if the effects from radiation in soil. There is govt office now to help those victims and surviving family members with compensation. Doesn't bring them back but helps
Jaclyn Levy 4 years ago
I live in this town and love reading about the history. There are several museums in town about the Manhattan Project and what life was like then. Back then we didn't know the full effects of radiation but we had some idea, hence the clickers checking the clothes. Many jobs were filled by small town women just out of high school. Look up the calutron girls!
Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
The Nazis were close to a bomb themselves; it was Get One First or lose the war, the way they thought at the time. Then we won with conventional arms and they repurposed the weapon. Sadly, the use of the bombs on Japan probably saved a million lives by forcing a fast surrender. War is the Original Sin of mankind.
humdrum 4 years ago
Japan was already surrendering; the bombs did nothing to shorten the war.
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TIL when Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old he was hit by a bus and managed to survive with a fractured skull. He received a $6,000 settlement from the city that was to be collected from a trust fund when he turned 18. When Buscemi turned 18, he used part of the money to pay for full-time acting classes.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
He was also an NYC firefighter from 1980 to 1984 and later volunteered during the 9/11 attacks.
Michelle M 4 years ago
Yes. I read about him after watching 'King of Staten island' by David Peterson.
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Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
Love him. The only good thing that came from Adam Sandler's movies.
#11
TIL: Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts, but very few scientists have the patience to try and study them
K Witmer 4 years ago
That's so sad. Cmon ladies let's all become cat scientists and have our own field we thrive in. We have patience we have to
Bill 4 years ago
Why only ladies? I study my cat 's behavior and even have a section in my library on cat books
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Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
Cat guy here. Yeah they understand fine. They just choose not to deal with it. Ornery little sh*ts. Love them to pieces.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
Same here, my 2 cats are little buggers but I love them.
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Seán Baron 4 years ago
Cats are extremely clever as they're the only animal to domesticate themselves to take advantage of humans.
Burs 4 years ago
Actually it is quite likely that the domestication of wolves into dogs was similar. More wolves becomes a costumed to humans than humans actively taming them.
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Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
Mine has figured out she has my instant attention if she licks my face at 3am. I'm not sure any human has figured this out and lived to tell the tale.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Cats can tell time. Each day at exactly 4 PM my cat taps on my hand to tell me that it's time for her treat.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I was having this conversation the other day. Cats have excellent sense of smell just like dogs. They are very intelligent and could take on a lot of the helpful roles that dogs have. They just don't want to.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
I'm skeptical on this one. Jane Goodall was willing to spend 60 years living in the jungle to study chimpanzees and BBC shows documentaries of someone following lions for 10 years but the reason we don't know more about cats is lack of patience. If Fancy Feast has the people to figure out which new flavor cat food Princess would prefer, there are plenty of cat lovers who would be willing to be paid to study other traits.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I wonder if the issue is that there are not any scientists available to show interest, or if they cannot find someone to finance the study!
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Those scientist just have to learn one thing, and then the studies become a cakewalk; Dogs do stuff that pleases you. Cats do stuff that pleases them.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Dogs are loyal without thinking about it much, cats are less quick to trust and less willing to forgive. They live on their own terms so many animal tests for "intelligence" would struggle anyway
Laurie McCutchan 4 years ago
Dogs can learn up to 250 words and gestures, can count up to five and do simple math. Equivalent human age 3 Cats don't give a f**k and are sick of your s**t. Equivalent human age 42.
#12
TIL that in his acceptance speech for the 1976 Best Album Grammy, Paul Simon jokingly thanked Stevie Wonder for not releasing an album that year. Stevie Wonder had won Best Album in the previous two years and would go on to win again in 1977 for Songs in the Key of Life.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Steve Wonder and his fellow Motown singers could SING and compose music
Kimberly Brown 4 years ago
And Kanye West screams the Grammys are racist when Taylor Swift keeps winning
#13
TIL that in 1982, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was rushed to hospital when a fish bone became stuck in her throat, and she ended up having an operation to remove it. Being a keen fisher, she calmly joked when it was done: "The salmon have got their own back".
Hel-B 4 years ago
I remember this because my mum had a fishbone stuck in her throat at the exact same time. She was advised to go home and eat dry toast til it dislodged. Which it did, eventually.
Sawdust 4 years ago
Well, the only fish bone surgeon in Britain was busy with another patient.
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'82 was a damn good year, many awesome things happened. Best being the birth of your truly - cheers mum
marianne eliza 4 years ago
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; born August 4, 1900; died March 30, 2002. What changes, happiness, sadness, and horrors she witness in her life. A very great lady.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Ah, I remember visiting Her Majesty when she was only two years old. Man, the '20s were a weird time...and they're happening again, in practically the same way. This is why immortality sucks, people. You have to watch everyone make the same mistakes over and over again, never being able to help them out of the loop.
marianne eliza 4 years ago
Except this Her Majesty, The Queen Mum was born in 1900. Perhaps you mean the current Her Majesty, born 1926?
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I have heard she as a wonderful person (distant family knows Queen Elizabeth from when she was young).
Robert T 4 years ago
I remember the story. Though in 1982 she would only be known as the Queen Mother.
Effin Fred 4 years ago
Too bad she didn't die. That would've been just once for all those she murdered!
#14
TIL A bank robber in France made a fictitious, coded document which he claimed as evidence during his trial. While the judge was distracted by the document, Albert Spaggiari jumped out of a window, landing safely on a parked car and escaped on a waiting motorcycle. He was never seen again.
Jean Lancelin 4 years ago
Ruined, Albert Spaggiari died, 12 years after his escape, from a throat cancer.
Nicolas Schirvel 4 years ago
There is a film called : Sans armes, ni violence (Nor guns, nor violence) about this guy He organised the ballsiest bank robbery in all France's bank robbery history, using tunnel in the sewer's and fake concrete to drill to the main vault of Nice's Société Générale.
Dispatcherqueen 4 years ago
He was found dead in his mother's front yard. He wrote a book, Fric Frac
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
An internet search "USA courtroom escape" gives you so many hits.
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#15
TIL that Albert I of Belgium is called the "Knight King" because he personally led his army in combat for all of WWI; also his wife, Elizabeth of Bavaria, served as a nurse in front-line field hospitals.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Wasn't there another king of Belgium who was a murdering psychopath in Africa?
Seán Baron 4 years ago
Yes. Leopold II. He was the owner and absolute ruler of the Congo Free State between 1885 to 1908. He was also a total b astard. Interestingly the Congo area is where AIDS and HIV can be traced back to, back in the 1920s, the Belgians set up brothels there, and that is where the diseases history starts.
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Leah Helbig 4 years ago
All leaders should have to go to war and fight if their willing to send some one else they should go too
Mark Melton 4 years ago
I think all wars should be fought by the deceitful old men that start them.
Seán Baron 4 years ago
The last Titian's King to do that was George II, at the battle of Dettingen during the War of Austrian Succession.
#16
TIL President Lincoln’s blockade of Confederate cotton caused famine in English mill towns. Suffering Manchester workers nevertheless sent a letter of support to Lincoln and he responded with thanks and a gift of food. A statue of Lincoln in Manchester displays excerpts from both letters.
Seán Baron 4 years ago
I've been past that statue many times. I was very surprised when I first saw it. But it's on a nice quiet side street.
Robert T 4 years ago
I never even knew it was there. Must've walked past hundreds of times a couple of streets over going from my flat to the shops.
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Leah L 4 years ago
True story. General Grant suspected a group of Jews of smuggling cotton. So he issued a declaration expelling all the Jewish people from the area he controlled. Word got back to Lincoln and he signed a declaration that overrode grants declaration and allowing the Jews to return to their home. Lincoln would sign this declaration the morning of the day he signed the Emancipation proclamation
Dave P 4 years ago
Grant never suspected, he was an antisemite who in his own writings admitting he was looking for an excuse to rid himself of Jews. Later as president he was the first US president to attend a synogogue service and appologized for his actions
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Ambrosia Feathers 4 years ago
OKay but in all seriousness, I thought that was a statue of Bill Nye and was very impressed.
Aileen Grist 4 years ago
Alexandra Park in Oldham came about as work for cotton mill workers when the war was on, to keep them from starving
Bradley Holt 4 years ago
If I had a Pound (£) for every American I've surprised with this snippet of information, here in Manchester, I'd have £8.00. (And they all said "No way!")
Wilf 4 years ago
The situation led the curious situation that many of the UK's main liberal politicians and newspapers actually supported the Confederacy- they believed the US Government was destroying industries and causing widespread poverty in England. The Guardian newspaper, now the UK's leading left-wing newspaper, frequently described Lincoln as "evil" and after his assassination wrote "of his rule, we can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent to every true notion of constitutional right and human liberty".
#17
TIL we use 100% of our brain. It is a myth we only use a small portion of our brain, and no scientific evidence supports such a hypothesis as a valid theory.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Because there are people who only have the capacity to use 20% of their brains will literally believe anything they're told.
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Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
Clearly haven't heard of anti-vaxxers or flat-earthers or Trump-supporters.
An Co 4 years ago (edited)
While we use 100% of our brain, we do not do it all at once. Myth came from finding that at any one time about 10% was active. Just as we do not use our lower leg muscles when we lifting a spoon to our mouth, we do not use the part of our brain that remembers the 1985 Superbowl while we are swimming.
Les Izmore 4 years ago
The myth is based on a small portion of neurons firing at any one instant. The whole brain is used, just not all in the same millisecond
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
Perhaps this myth is perpetuated by people who only use a small portion of their brains . . . . .
Allan Breum 4 years ago
I think this myth come from old scans that indicated that we only use, on average, about 10% at a time.
Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
Until you consider that Einstein's brain was no different from that of the average person. He not only used more of it, he used it better
#18
TIL that the world record for the most passengers on an aircraft was set during Israel's evacuation of Jews from Ethiopia in 1991, when a single 747 carried at least 1,088 people, including two babies who were born on the flight.
E X P O S U R E 4 years ago
Great joke, but circumcision is only 8 days after birth. Yes, I'm fun at parties.
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eddy edward 4 years ago (edited)
More than a few were pretending to be Jews; no prejudice intended, just fact. Can't blame them for wanting a better life.
Marie 4 years ago
Wasn't that record broken the other day by the refugees out of Afghanistan, or something?
Mz Phit 4 years ago
Close, but that plane carried approximately 800 people. I've heard it being claimed as record breaking, but it sounds like the flight quoted in this post is the original record holder. The photo (of the one from Kabul) is incredible! I hope they will continue to rescue these terrified desperate people as long as possible.
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TIL the Dr. Heimlich fought against the Red Cross for 20 years over the practice of giving "5 back slaps" being a better alternative to the Heimlich Maneuver.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
I was in lifeguard training, and we were taught the 5 back slap move, which seems to be better for choking on liquids (eg. some water in the lungs), and in helping babies and toddlers. Heimlich maneuver is painful, but is great when an adult is choking on hard items (eg. pieces of food).
Aaricia 4 years ago
Learned that in first aid too, 5 slaps for liquid and heimlich for solids.
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Bama Belle 4 years ago
My time to shine with my useless trivia knowledge! Dr. Heimlich, for the first time in his life, used the Heimlich Maneuver when he was an elderly man in an elder care facility. A fellow resident was choking and he saved her life. AND he's the uncle of actor Anson Williams, aka Potsie Weber from Happy Days. The More You Know...
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
IF YOU'RE ALONE = Throw yourself onto the back of a chair or the corner of your couch back, aiming for the sternum (where the other person would put their fist).
The Cute Cat 4 years ago
As a paramedic, it is my first time to see Dr. Heimlich photo.. He is a legend
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Pretty much anyone is able to give 5 back slaps. Far fewer people would be able to physically get someone into the correct position and correctly administer the Heimlich manoeuvre. The movies make it look so simple, but it's not.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
I just finished nursing school and a new RN when that first came out. (1976😱) My mom was watching the Dinah Shore Show a week before this incident happened. The actors from the TV show "Emergency" which was about the first firefighter paramedics were on her show and demonstrated the maneuver. A week later we were sitting down front in a show in Las Vegas, my mom sitting beside me. I had shortly before had back surgery and was in a brace. I choked on a cherry from my drink. No one realized what was happening until I made a fist and hit my lower chest, my thumb facing towards my chest. Exact hand position. Mom realized immediately what was wrong. She wouldn't have known if she hadn't watched the show. Obviously had never done it before, was doing it from beside me and i had a back brace on. She saved my life. So, really when you have to, you CAN do it. And, it didn't hurt a bit.
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Bexxxxx 4 years ago
The Red Cross pays their CEO hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. I had a short job as one of their “canvassers” about 10 years ago (going door-to-door asking for donations) and if we didn’t sign anyone up (for monthly recurring donation payments that involve giving the stranger with an iPad at their front door their credit card information) we would only be paid $10 as a per diem for an 8-10 hour day. I live in Canada and I don’t understand how this was legal. This, among many other things (look it up) made me stop donating to the Red Cross. If there’s a natural disaster etc somewhere, please do a little research and find a charity that will do the most good with your money. Please do not donate to Red Cross.
Beans 4 years ago (edited)
The CEO of the US Red Cross makes like 690,000 a year to be exact. Most charities do, it's not just them.This is why I always check charity navigator and see their CEO wage and admin costs before donating. No charity CEO should be on over 100k or so imo
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Doc Thissen 4 years ago
Raise your arms over your head when choking, it helps to facilitate removing the obstruction. The best part is, no broken ribs!
Mooncat83 4 years ago
You have to know what you're doing to perform Heimlich, or you could break someone's ribs
Bob Standen 4 years ago
I used the Heimlich Maneuver on my neighbor who had a lump of apple stuck in her windpipe.
#20
TIL Otis Redding's widow, Zelma Redding, wrote a letter to Michael Bolton saying his cover of "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" was her favorite. She remarked that it brought tears to her eyes as it reminded her so much of her husband. Bolton had the letter framed and it hangs on his office wall.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I genuinely don't think I've ever heard a cover of it. Gonna have to check that out!
Patrick Ryan 4 years ago
Yeah, I'm not a Bolton fan but I actually want to hear his rendition!
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lara 4 years ago
I don't know why there is so much "trash talking" about Bolton. I love his music, just like I love Johnathan Antoine's music. Music is music.
Sleepy Panda 4 years ago
Music is awesome, but he is very well known as an arrogant asshole.
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#21
TIL that after the Black Plague, depopulation in Europe caused a shortage of laborers, who then were able to demand higher wages for work. Some estimates state that the typical worker's wages had increased by 50 percent
May 4 years ago
Seems like the current 'plague' is set to increase wages for American workers, hopefully
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
It does look like wages will be higher. Less because everybody died, then the government supported people, so they could choose to leave a shitty job and get a better one. Fewer people being willing to work the shitty jobs, meant those workers could demand better wages, benefits and work-life-balance. (p.s. I learned all about this from a Great course called "The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World" I highly recommend it. I bought it with an Audible monthly free credit, so it cost me 14.95 instead of 71.17)
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Łukasz Markuszewski 4 years ago
Black Plague lead to shortages of labour force, but this lead not to higher wages (as most of peasants in Europe lived under serfdom these days) but to worsening conditions of work - these people had to do their job and a job of people who died. This lead to peasant uprisings (like french jacquerie or Wat Tyler's Rebellion ) in western countries and this finally led in some of them to positive change (like lowering targets, like we would say today) but not everywhere and not for everyone.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Good to know medieval serfs and peasants had more leverage than today’s US workers…
Benjamin Tang 4 years ago
You do have leverage. Anyone can strike or unionize.
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
That is a falsity, read "A Distant Mirror" by Barbara Tuchman. It lays out in great detail why and how modern states, modern languages, cities and education arose, she also shows the reasons behind the decline of Latin as a "universal language" and the rise of women in business. She also lays out in great detail what was meant by "City Air Makes Free". And THEN the rise of "wages." Which is and of it self a modern term that has little to do with the Middle Ages.
BastWren 4 years ago
A brilliant book! Anyone looking for a true and accurate depiction of the fourteenth century (a VERY interesting epoch) should read it. Or for that matter, anyone who is capable of reading should read it.
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Laura Williams 1 year ago
Sadly some countries tried to put limits on it. Read on different list. Lead to revolt somewhere.
Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
It also created the middle class. Maybe this plague will help bring it back.
Katchen 4 years ago
In the Ken Follett book World Without End, after the Black Death a convent recruits workers from the neighboring land by offering higher wages. The landowner, rather than offering higher wages to win his laborers back, goes to the king, who makes it illegal for peasants to move. Problem “solved.”
#22
TIL According to the convention of Geneva an ejected pilot in the air is not a combatant and therefore attacking him is a war crime.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Well, not really. An oxymoron is 'a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction'. War and crime are more like synonyms imho.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
According to the Geneva convention it's also a war crime to refuse prisoners of war medical aid. Which theoretically means that it's better to be a sick prisoner of war than a sick US citizen.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is an example of classism. The people writing the document had friends who flew planes in the war and dropped bombs instead of jumping out of them to shoot people directly. This lead to the double standard of don't shoot my friends in the air but its fine to shoot the guys who worked for him.
Wyn Williams 4 years ago
I don't think so.. it's called ' hors de combat ' rule 47 of the Geneva convention and also covers unarmed soldiers '[p]ersons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause'
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
One of the worst things for fighter pilots was jumping out of their planes and being machine gunned by the "enemy." You cannot imagine the horror of American pilots seeing their compatriots and friends jumping from a fighter plane and being machine gunned by the Japanese. They also machine gunned survivors of ships that were torpedoed or sunk by Japanese surface ships.
Patrick Ryan 4 years ago
I think we can all agree, no matter where we are from, that taking teen aged kids, putting them through boot camp, teaching them to kill, and then dropping them in a war zone with a weapon to experience the most extreme horror, violence, heartbreak, and stress imaginable is the real war crime. Then the old, rich people who start said wars sit back and watch - moving them around like pawns. Although the rise of extremism and the lies and propaganda that come along with it that we've all seen increasing lately kind of negates my argument.
Markus Holstein 4 years ago
Your are also not allowed to shackle or in any other way restrain prisoners of war. Therefore merely carrying handcuffs or other restraining implements as a soldier is considered a war crime.
LesAnimaux 4 years ago
Makes sense, what are you gonna do while ejected flying through the air hoping not to die anyway?
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
So remember, if you bail out: don’t get mixed in with a stick of paratroops or you’re fair game.
#23
TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.
T Simmons 4 years ago
ive always wondered why you can be over-whelmed or under-whelmed, but never 'whelmed'. "How was the movie?" "Whelming"
Kye 4 years ago
"I think you can in Europe" Thanks 10 things I hate about you lol
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Deena Salzman 4 years ago
I've never heard them called lonely negatives, but I have heard of the absent words (gruntled, gusted, etc) called lost positives. Many of these words used to exist but fell out of use.
Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
"Gruntled" is a real word, just a very uncommon one these days.
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Gabby M 4 years ago
I WANT TO KNOW: Why the past tense of being HANGED isn't HUNG. ANYONE? Hanged sounds stupid. Drives me crazy!!
SCamp 4 years ago
It’s more a usage ‘rule’ (like many things in English): things are hung (e.g. pictures), people are hanged
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#24
TIL the last French soldier to die in WW1 was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire. He was delivering a message to his unit that soup would be served for lunch.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
I live in the north of France near the maginot line. We have heard lots of stories. I even have a WWI bunker on my land.
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Will Tiernan 4 years ago
As an indication of how little movement there was on the Western Front in WW1 the first and last Commonwealth soldiers to die in the war are buried just a few meters apart in the same cemetery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Symphorien_Military_Cemetery
Chris Hardtke 4 years ago (edited)
Henry Gunther, an American, died at 10:59, one minute before the armistice went into affect.
#25
TIL that in USA, parents are 12.7% less likely to be happy than childless people.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
The common denominator is that other people that you share a house with are hell on earth.
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K Witmer 4 years ago
Single childless women in the USA are the happiest and healthiest throughout their lives. Speaks volumes. Married men w a family are the happiest and we wonder why marriage and kids are pushed on women relentlessly in a patriarchal society and yet men are told to have their cake and eat it too
Otter 4 years ago
Honestly, it seems to me that while a wife will usually add to a straight man's well being... a husband detracts from a straight woman's well-being. All the polls bear this out. Think about that, straight men.
Load More Replies... Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
Zophra 4 years ago
"... with an uncleanth room." (Shakespeare forgot to add it...)
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Becky Samuel 4 years ago
It's almost as if the USA has looked at life and tried its very hardest to make living conditions and society as unbearable as possible for the majority. Financial insecurity in the 'richest ' country in the world - 25% of Americans report that they are unable to pay medical bills, shocking. Women are forced back into work after mere hours of maternity leave. Suburbs are designed such that there is little sense of community, and transport is almost entirely by car - no room for any socialising there.
Connie Bonneville 4 years ago
This is interesting! My biggest joy in my life is my children... they're my favorite people ever!
K Witmer 4 years ago
No one said that's not true as well but decades of studying this show women as a whole are more content healthier have way less anxiety and depression feel secure in themselves less eating disorders more content in their careers and live longer etc when they are childless and single.
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Paddling Panda 4 years ago
Never married, never had human kids, and I have zero regrets regarding either of these.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
Single people don't have to stress about what may be happening when their child is out of sight, or if their cough means covid-19 or something else deadly. Nor are singletons subjected to judgemental people giving "helpful child-rearing advice" & calling CPS (or?) for imagined problems. And being terrified that anything you say or do could cause the child a lifelong problem that you never even considered possible. Among other things. So, yeah, this makes sense now that you mention it.
K Witmer 4 years ago
I never worried about cps being called on me. And single people especially women are bombarded w people giving advice on when they should get married and have kids. Men are happier being married bc they are taken care of. Women that are free to do as they please wo being tied down is freeing and I can see why they'd be much happier wo others to take care of every single day and worry about bc they are the only caretaker.
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TIL that the North America — and the USA in particular, has the world's most extreme weather, averaging more than 10,000 severe thunderstorm events per year, with more than 1,000 tornadoes.
Jjiinnee 4 years ago
It's a HUGE land mass. We literally have every type of eco system possible here. It's beautiful and amazing to go on a cross country tour.
François Carré 4 years ago
A huge land mass indeed, but still hardly more than 50% of Asia's size - another continent which has quite extreme weather as well IIRC ;-)
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
Although this is true, our numbers could be escalated by sampling bias. Every square foot of Kansas is covered by multiple TV stations all blasting out their own radar to find twisters while Inner Mongolia at the same latitude and similar grasslands doesn't have that same number of people looking for them. There's no denying our tornado alley but our ability to spend money tracking them means we to miss less of them than other parts of the world. Singapore and Florida fight for lightning capitol of the world because they both own thousands of detectors but scientist suspect Central Africa may have 10-15x more than both of them per square mile.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
American here, and I once did a little research on this because it seemed to me that we get hit with every damned weather catastrophe possible. I live in the Southeast. Here, we have to contend with hurricanes and tornadoes, year round. The most horrifying to me would be forest fires. I thought I was safe from those until the Great Smoky Mountains caught fire in 2016.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Floridian here. I know, lol. We were considered Lightning Capital of the World for years.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
It seems I've read about a tourist in Florida getting struck and killed by lightning every week this summer.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Currently in New England. We suddenly began having serious tornados a few years ago...some even sprang into being in the mountains, which I feel shouldn't be possible. We're now waiting to be hit by the first hurricane we've had since 1991.
Jennifer Crompton 4 years ago
Is Hurricane Sandy not considered a New England hurricane?
Load More Replies... Laura kelly 4 years ago
Part of the weather problem seems to stem from the fact that mountain ranges in Eurasia often run east to west and block cold air from the high latitudes, whereas in North America mountains run north to south and funnel cold air and storms down. I think that analysis is from Jared Diamond.
#27
TIL the U.S. military has used superstition and pretended to be vampires and ghosts to scare enemies away. They dispersed scary horoscopes in Germany, staged vampire attacks in the Philippines, and in Vietnam blasted ghost tapes which consisted of spooky music and eerie voices. Only vampires worked.
Adonimar Pugales 4 years ago
not surprised the vampire attack worked in the philippines, we filipinos tend to believe in supernatural and superstitious solely to our culture.
Troux 4 years ago (edited)
Specifically, it was the Aswang. But to clarify, this was not to scare away enemies (US and Philippines were allies) but to scare away remote Filipino villagers from a potentially strategic location when they refused to leave. If I recall, they kidnapped one of the villagers, drained all the blood out of him from small holes, then left the corpse nearby where it would be found.
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Surya Amriza 4 years ago
Between Germany, the Philippines, and Vietnam, I could tell you which country is hypothetically the most religious.
Mavis Mayfield 4 years ago
Lol Vietnamese were like. Yeh ghost are fine. We honour them with offering, they are our pals.
Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
Not so sure that vampires are a mere superstition when you regard some of today's corporate practices.
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
Soldiers staging atacks... so they did atacked civils and then said it had been done by vampires? I'm not sure if people believed so but they'd be afraid for sure. By the way, did you read the Ickybog?
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Psychological Warfare. Playing on superstitions and fears of the enemy’s culture. Always seemed rather underhanded and abusive to me, as it would have terrible long term effects on innocent civilians (believe it or not, not every member of the “enemy’s” population is gung ho in favor of their country’s current leaders and their agenda—-unfortunately, a lot of them would be imprisoned or killed as traitors if they spoke out against it).
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
"Staged" vampire attacks in the Phillipines? Excuse me? WAS I HIRED FOR THAT JOB FOR NOTHING?!?!
Viviane 4 years ago
We appreciate your zeal, but it's okay if you stick to the job description.
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TIL there were no tomatoes, potatoes, blueberries, peanuts, corn, beans, chocolate, vanilla, or tobacco in the old world until about the year 1500, as they are native to the Americas. This was part of the Columbian Exchange which also included many other plants, animals, fungi and diseases.
Kari Panda 4 years ago
Tomatos were also used as decorative plants in some European countries at first rather than as food sources.
Eucritta 4 years ago
Tomatoes - along with potatoes, chiles, and eggplant, among others - are members of the family Solanaceae, or nightshades, which also includes tobacco, datura, belladonna, and mandrake. Among others. A lot of garden flowers, for one group.
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Nubis Knight 4 years ago
Many sorts of beans originate outside of America like soy-beans, adzuki-beans, broad beans etc.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
And what did the European explorers and merchants give the native people in exchange? Cholera, syphilis, smallpox, guns, and total decimation of their populations.
Fulsome Kitten 4 years ago
A few hundred years later, a fungi pathogen from Central/South America would reach Europe destroying the potato crops triggering the Irish Potato Famine (a.k.a. the Great Starvation).
DE Ray 4 years ago
Though of course, the Famine was more politically constructed. The potato blight didn't affect all the wheat, oats, beef, or other foodstuffs produced in Ireland which was then exported to England by the largely English landowners. During the six years of the Famine, there wasn't a single month when food wasn't exported from Ireland.
Load More Replies... Burs 4 years ago
Also that Americans didn’t have any of the modern meat sources like chicken, sheep, cows or pigs. We brought meat to America and they gave us amazing vegetables and fruits.
Arenite 4 years ago (edited)
Buffalo, deer, antelope, mountain goats, turkeys, ducks, geese, quail and other game birds.
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Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
Smallpox yes, but the origin of syphilis is still debated and there is some evidence that it went from New world to Old. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956094/
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 4 years ago
Not only did we import most of this stuff, but we have managed to develop a lot of plants/fruits/veg to be unrecognizable from their original forms. Have a look at what a true original banana looks like, versus the ones we have cultured.
Christel Nellemann 4 years ago
And thenagain, thereare several hundred species of banana. But yes, very cultivated indeed, I know, the usual available aubergine was originally much more bitter,grown to loose much of that.
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TIL in WWII, Germany carried out only one land operation in north America, the installation of a secret weather station in Newfoundland. They scattered American cigarette packets and planted a sign saying "Canadian Meteor Service" in case anyone found it, and the site wasn't rediscovered until 1977.
Dave P 4 years ago
Not true, in 1943 the Germans landed teams of over 50 commandos, all Germans who spoke perfect English to sabatoge. One member who was US born, had a change of heart and ratted out the rest, who were rounded up. But for 2 months the Germans had a full blown commando team on US soil
Markus Holstein 4 years ago
Wow! I've never heard of that. Do you have a source for further reading?
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David Butler 4 years ago (edited)
Not to be pedantic, but what about the "Free Society of Teutonia", the "Friends of New Germany", and the "German American Bund"? The Society was made up of German-Americans who attempted to form a Nazi-affiliated organization in Chicago in 1924-1932; after Hitler "won" in 1933, the Friends were Nazis who migrated to New York in order to establish an American Nazi Party by "colonizing" existing German-American organizations. After the Friends were recalled to Germany in 1935, German-Americans (and American-Germans) formed the Bund in 1936, rallying against the "Judeo-Bolshevism" of FDR's "Jew Deal" until late 1941. Given that the "American Nazi Party" was finally established by George Lincoln Rockwell at Arlington, Virginia, in 1959, having been inspired by Joseph McCarthy and Douglas MacArthur -- as well as the events of 6 January 2021 -- I'd say this counts as a "land operation in North America" that bore strange fruit.
Seabeast 4 years ago
That makes more sense. Newfoundland is small enough that it should have been discovered long before 1977.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Planting a sign saying ""Canadian Meteor Service"" and painting "Wettervorhersageinstallation" on the devices wouldn't fool anyone, though...
Martha Higgins 4 years ago
During WWII, two German spies landed in Hancock County, Maine, from a small submarine. They were reported as suspicious as they walked down a snowy road in dressy wool overcoats that were very out of place in Maine. They were captured quite quickly.
Jaime Sellars 4 years ago
I am from Newfoundland and would Love to know where this information came from, as My Dad was a soldier in WWII...
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
What can you do that's so bad that even Hitler thinks the only punishment is to banish you to a weather station in Newfoundland? This is the villain equivalent of being so mad at your kid for burning down the toolshed, you put them on a 1-way flight to grandma's in Florida. Florida isn't necessarily a bad place, but I"m pretty sure its not where they want to be.
#30
TIL Hitler planned to replace Berlin with a megacity, Germania, to showcase Nazi power. The plan was a metropolis of madness, with wide thoroughfares only for military parades, car and foot traffic directed to underground tunnels, and no traffic lights anywhere.
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Thank God this was thwarted, and we have rational cities instead, like Las Vegas and Dubai
K Witmer 4 years ago
Trump has this plan too. Tall gold buildings emblazoned w his name and military parades w maga flags chanting trumps name. That's what the terrorists fought for when they invaded the capital. The republican white taliban
Load More Replies... Fulsome Kitten 4 years ago
Annnd he was an opiate addict who had his soldiers pumped with crystal meth. Check out "Blitzed" by Norman Ohler.
Viviane 4 years ago
There's a theory that withdrawal was the reason his health seemed to visibly deteriorate at the end.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 4 years ago
The sad fact about Hitler was that he had some really incredible ideas about civic infrastructure that would have been amazing. He was a vegetarian, a tee-totaller, an accomplished artist. He just had that one teeny-weeny flaw (I'm being really sarcastic, folks) of eugenic thinking, and wanting to wipe out millions of innocent people.
Skulduggery Pheasant 4 years ago
Apparently he wasn't a veggie, and, according to former servants, quite enjoyed meat-pies (and stuff like that).
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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
The soil of Berlin could not support these kind of giant buildings.....
Skulduggery Pheasant 4 years ago
If I remember correctly (from a book I once read), Speer designed a massive building/hall - of sorts - that would hold thousands of people, chanting fascist things etc. There would be so many people (supposedly) that their hot breath would rise into small clouds, and rain created by their own breath would fall down upon them. The dreams of a madman, I suppose...
#31
TIL the reason there are so many Thai restaurants in America (and the world) is because a Thai governmental program, using a tactic known as gastrodiplomacy, was established to create at least 3,000 Thai restaurants worldwide
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
. For a while, it was illegal for a non Chinese person to open a Chinese restaurant. It was used as path for immigration, everyone wins.
Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
I wondered what was up with a thousand Thai restaurants. Love the food though!
#32
TIL Wiz Khalifa sparked outrage in 2017 during a visit to Pablo Escobar's grave when he posted pictures of flowers at the grave's headstone. Medellin’s mayor, Federico Gutierrez, called the rapper disrespectful saying he should have brought flowers to the victims of Escobar's violence instead.
BastWren 4 years ago
Absolutely, ADHORTATOR. I mean, did Wiz not know who Escobar was and what he was responsible for, or was he aware and just placing the flowers on his grave to be "shocking" for publicity? Either way it was sick and wrong, and I fully agree with Federico Gutierrez.
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and then to say there's salty colombians. HMM why do you think that may be??
Mazer 4 years ago
Can’t argue with that. Though Pablo Escobar helped out many people who were living in severe poverty, and although they knew of his ruthlessness, those he helped remained loyal to him throughout.
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
Both the American Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza have done similar things.
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TIL in 1982, a freelance writer submitted the screenplay to "Casablanca" under a different title to hundreds of Hollywood agencies; of the 79 which read the script, only 33 recognized it, while 38 rejected it with critical notes like "story line was weak" and "dialogue could have been sharper"
jk nbt 4 years ago
the Casablanca storyline was a good fit for the pre-WW2 era... The storyline doesn't particularly fit the 1980s or the current era... Any studio in the 1980s would have noticed that. What makes the movie special is the performances by the actors. Trivia question for you: who said, "Play it again, Sam"?
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
No one. "Play it, Sam" (sic) "If she can stand it, so can I. Play it."
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TIL Bill Murray got so annoyed with producers on the set of 'Groundhog Day' that he hired a deaf Personal Assistant to handle all interactions with the studio, despite him nor anyone else knowing sign language.
Emma Byrne 4 years ago
Bit of a sh!tty thing to do to the assistant, unless they were in on it.
Fulsome Kitten 4 years ago
This is a tough one for me. I love Bill Murray's movies/characters too but I just gotta point out the hypocrisy of our current cancel culture. Example, he has been accused (in court) of spousal abuse (twice) and co-stars have called him physically abusive on sets (What About Bob?) but he gets a pass from society. Why is Johnny Depp a shunned "wife beater" but Bill Murray is just quirky? What message does that send to women who are in abusive relationships? No one will care about the violence you endured if your abuser is charismatic, famous, and/or a comedian? I'm obs still going to watch and loooove his art, but try not to confuse the persona with the actual flawed man.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
Another national treasure that must be protected at all cost (Betty White being the other).
#35
TIL Panko is made from bread baked by electrical current, which yields a bread without a crust. The unique method developed during World War II out of a necessity to cook bread without access to an oven
Papa Bonez 4 years ago
My kids would have loved that. Why am I now just hearing about this method????
David Butler 4 years ago
After "reading" (via Google Translate) the Wikipedia page for panko, a paragraph led me to "denki-pan" (electric-bread): https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%BB%E6%B0%97%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3
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TIL that the opening song sung by the prisoners in O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) is actually a recording from the 1950s sung by real prisoners. The lead prisoner singing in the recording, James Carter, received a royalty check four decades after having originally sung the piece.
#37
TIL that inhaled rubbing alcohol relieves nausea & vomiting better than a prescription antiemetic widely used for chemo patients
Batwench 4 years ago
I hope you never have to have chemo and use this remedy. Best of health to you.
Load More Replies... Bama Belle 4 years ago
Peppermint oil works great too. I had just taken medicine when I was overcome with a need to hurl. I didn't wanna lose my meds, and I remembered reading that smelling (not ingesting) peppermint oil relieved nausea. I quickly sprinkled some in a wash cloth and started breathing it in. It worked like a charm. I now take some with me if I ever go on carnival rides.
Cray Melton 4 years ago
Smell it - don't inhale it! Yes, this worked for my husband. He wafted alcohol wipes.
Mazer 4 years ago
Coca Cola syrup (without the fizzy bubbles) also combats nausea, and has been prescribed to many women in order to combat morning sickness in pregnancy)
Peko 4 years ago
Flat cola was one of my mum's remedies for an upset stomach.
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Alison Brohman 4 years ago
After about 30 years of migraine + vomiting and many of those years also having inexplicable, intense, many hours-long nausea every single day in late child hood and adolescence I just started inexplicably "inhaling" rubbing alcohol. Just days later, still in 2021, I got an email from the Cleveland Clinic weekday newsletter outlining this exact fact: that inhaling rubbing alcohol relieves nausea! :)
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Uh.. I think inhaling such things is very dangerous and should not be tried by just anyone!
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
You think wrong. Doctors give this after surgery if you wake up nauseated.
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TIL That the 2nd Wealthiest Former NBA Player Behind Michael Jordan is Junior Bridgeman with a Net Worth of Over $600MM. He Worked at Wendy's in the Off-Season to Learn the Business Eventually Owning Over 100 Franchises and a Coke Bottling Plant
#39
TIL one of the Dead Sea Scroll caves, discovered in 1952, contained up to 15,000 torn fragments. One archaeologist spent his life piecing them together, but died in 1979 with the work unfinished.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
If I’m not mistaken, what takes the longest with the scrolls is preservation—-just carefully and painstakingly unrolling them to make sure they’re not damaged and unreadable.
lara 4 years ago
Did you learn that until the Israelis "captured" the area that contained the site that was "studying" the Dead Sea Scrolls, NO ONE was allowed to read or study or copy them without the permission of several groups who NEVER allowed ANY "outsiders" to even look at them. When the Israelis took over they immediately allowed all researchers access to the scrolls and then more and more was discovered.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Wait until you learn about the 'Gospel of Judas' and the 'Gospel of Mary' scrolls!
Kira Okah 4 years ago
Those are believed to be gnostic texts, written after the compilation of the Bible, and not considered as gospels as they are not about the teachings of Jesus. Also no one is sure which Mary the Gospel of Mary refers to.
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Marysue Watches 4 years ago
Anyone who studies the Bible will tell you that it is not a scientific text. The old testament is also not an historical text. The new testament is a different story as it talks about people who actually lived. But the thing is, the Bible is a religious text, it's about faith, not science. If you interpret the Bible with a scientific approach it would be like measuring water with a tape measure.
Load More Replies... iblowsheep 4 years ago
Biblical scholars do not think that, and agree that they have no idea who actually authored any of it.
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#40
TIL that Americans are consistently more confident than Britons in which animals they believe they can beat in an unarmed fight, with 8% thinking they could take out an elephant if needed
Donkey boi 4 years ago
We got chased by a bull elephant in Kenya, I can confidently say 0% of humans could beat one in unarmed combat. I think they meant to say 'Americans are consistently more overconfident'.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
That's the culture of arrogance (I know anly about half of Americans are like that. Re: the elections)
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Oh god, I read that. Over half of them thought they could kill a bear. I wish I could find the list. It was hysterical. To be fair, far too many people from different countries thought they could beat wild animals.
Viviane 4 years ago (edited)
Years ago, I did beat a mosquito in mortal combat.
Load More Replies... Bama Belle 4 years ago
This is a ridiculous statement. It reminds me of a poll that once made the international news. It claimed that something like 30% of Americans believed they'd been abducted by aliens. Anyone with an ounce of sense should know that was a lie, but it didn't stop the xenophobic jokes from coming. I was bored so I decided to do a little research on this poll. It took me awhile but I finally found the source. The "Americans" polled were 300 college kids from the same campus.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
Your research is flawed. The poll the submitter got their numbers from was ran by yougov.com and included 1224 US residents purposefully chosen to reflect the demographics of the country as a whole. Every study has sample bias but this poll was designed by a group that makes their living eliminating it as much as possible. This study was done by them for publicity so the McDonalds and Mom's diners of the world can see they can find out anything about your customer base. https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/07vgk5e81j/YouGov%20-%20Human%20vs%20animal%20fight.pdf
Load More Replies... sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Send the elephant into a pub in Croydon at closing time and see how shy the Brits are.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
I don't know how anyone could believe that any agency has actually conducted a survey among Americans and Brits to see which ones think they could fight an elephant.
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Láďa Durchánek 4 years ago
Do they really think they could take out an elephant or just don’t understand what “unarmed” means?
alwaysMispelled 4 years ago
As an American, I am sure these asshats genuinely believe they could take out an elephant. There are so many ignorant pieces of trash here, it's embarrassing. As an American and as a human being.
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TIL The common pain reliever, acetaminophen (Tylenol/etc) increases risk-taking. Its pain reduction effects extend to various psychological processes, lowering people's receptivity to hurt feelings, experiencing reduced empathy, & even blunting cognitive functions.
Christine Rockwell 4 years ago
I can believe this, my mother takes Tylenol day and night, and is not a pleasant person, could care less about others, basically miserable.
lara 4 years ago
They are now re-thinking the use of aspirin as a weapon in the fight against cancer. The GREATEST threat to your body is inflammation. Inflammation is the body's response, the immune system's response, to invasion. Fevers mean your body is fighting an invasion. Inflammation means your immune system is attacking a part of your body that is not necessarily infected. Thus arthritis and other immune body responses. I have psoriatic arthritis. But I refuse to take ANY steroids, as they suppress the immune system and that is, generally, your only defense against cancer cells that are in your body now.
Shine Caramia 4 years ago
I (accidentally) noticed that acetaminophen stopped my daughter's panic attacks in their tracks a couple of years before this research was published, and I'm really grateful for it. Our brain processes physical and emotional pain through the same pathways, and so "blunting cognitive functions" can be extremely useful when those functions are in overdrive.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
But exactly how much do you need to ingest for this to happen? Probably way more than most people take for a headache. I have heard of people overdosing on aspirin and having some of these symptoms. But they had to take it by the fistful to achieve that. In other words, go ahead and take an aspirin if your head hurts—-just don’t swallow the whole bottle full.
Jon Garrett 4 years ago
Robert T, we use this all the time in the UK, and you can buy it over the counter. It's just we call it paracetamol.
Robert T 4 years ago
Is this the most commonly prescribed drug in the US healthcare system then? (It is not something we use in the UK and I'm not sure European countries use it either).
Peko 4 years ago
Paracetamol as it's also known is very common where I live and is not a prescription drug.
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
It’s always b st to remember when learning anything about absolute statements and any aspect of medicine..,,Medicine is called a practice for a reason, even though people have the same basic functions, one body can not be compared to another IE: some people have no receptors in their brains to get any benefit from taking CBD, they have no reaction whatsoever, where others might get paranoid and have hallucinations. Mother Nature throwing absolute thinking a curve ball
#42
TIL nearly every claim by Frank W. Abagnale Jr. in "Catch Me if you Can" has been debunked.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
An awful lot of it was true, just... exaggerated. He was arrested a lot more times that the film would have you believed. He was also not as charming as they made out.
Load More Replies... Anna roberts 4 years ago
Yes and no. He did pass the bar in Louisiana and was hired by the FBI as a consultant. Some of the cons are true, like pretending to be a pilot, but that was used to con a stewardess's parents, which he stole checks from. He forged documents from Harvard law school to be able to take the bar, and although it took him 3 times he did pass it.
#43
TIL The NY Yankees used to play the Frank Sinatra version of "New York, New York" after wins and the Liza Minnelli version after losses. Minnelli complained and asked them to play her version after wins or not at all. So the Yankees began playing the Sinatra version after every game, win or lose.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
Yeah, I don't blame her. It's as if they were purposely disrespecting her, and for no reason.
#44
TIL that Guillermo Del Toro introduced James Cameron to the Alita: Battle Angel manga in the 90's, which he fell in love with and then strived to adapt into a movie ever since by making Titanic and Avatar, in order for SFX tech to evolve enough that adapting the manga would be possible
Sarah Gershaw 4 years ago
Honestly it's a very good movie. Not his usual masterpiece level, but underrated. The only problem is it ends on a major cliffhanger.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Welp, now I'm not watching it even more. I hate cliffhangers.
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TIL it takes the poop excreted by the climbers at Mt Everest's highest base camp five years to move through the ice and arrive at the lowest base camp, where it is consumed by climbers in the drinking water.
Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
Only now they are required to pack it all out. Last year the Nepali government cleared 11 tons of trash off of Everest; in addition to a deposit initiative launched in 2014, which refunds a climbers' required $4,000 deposit when they return with their 18 pounds of generated garbage. No more taking a dump on the mountain, climbers have special bags they use for their toilet
John Juan 4 years ago
Yet another reason I won't ever climb it. Not that I've considered it anyway.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Just something else to take off your bucket list.
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#46
TIL Curtis Mayfield became paralyzed from the neck down after stage lighting equipment fell on him while he was being introduced at an outdoor concert. He discovered he could continue to sing by lying down and letting gravity pull down on his chest and lungs and went on to record an album in 1996.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
Soul singer Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed from the neck down and remains in serious condition after being hit by a lighting scaffold blown down by a strong gust of wind during an outdoor concert Monday night in Brooklyn, N.Y. ... The scaffold struck Mayfield from behind and broke his neck.14 Aug 1990. He died in 1999 sadly
#47
TIL that a 13-year-old kid won a contest to draw their own Robot Master for the game Mega Man 4, that kid went on to be the artist of the One Punch Man manga
Sarah Gershaw 4 years ago
And One Punch then went on to be an extremely anime (if you don't already know.)
#48
TIL That the first known accident between two airbag-equipped cars took place in 1990 when a 1989 Chrysler LeBaron crossed the center line and hit another 1989 Chrysler LeBaron head-on, causing both driver airbags to deploy. Both drivers survived with minor injuries.
Russ Batson 4 years ago
In a further irony, the accident occurred near the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety HQ and test lab near Charlottesville, VA, and the IIHS obtained the cars for permanent display in its building.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
In 1895, there were only 2 cars registered in the US state of Ohio. Although they lived ~100 miles apart, and the highway was 50 years away, they somehow ended up running into each other in the world's first two car accident.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It's also not very well known that with the increasing safety of cars, people have started to drive more careless and unsafe. After the introduction of ABS, drivers thought that they could always come to a stop in time so they didn't keep a safe distance. Many were proven wrong.
#49
TIL that medical students practice some of the more invasive exams (i.e. rectal, vaginal) on specially trained actors, who guide them through the procedure, as going through real patients from the get-go could damage the confidence of med students
Kristin Saak 4 years ago
I worked as a “professional patient” for nearly 10 years —I worked with third year medical students on their OB/Gyn rotations where I provided feedback to them while they performed breast and pelvic exams on me. I’m not an actor, however. The job paid extremely well and I even received recognition for my contributions to education.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
My university had work-study jobs acting as patient's for the medical school. You'd go in 2 hours each weekday and they'd hand you a notecard to learn your symptoms and answers to the expected questions from the students. You'd settle into a study cubicle with a door. and about 15 minutes later, groups of students and their instructor would start cycling through and you'd be their guinea pig. Fun days were pretending to have a marble up your nose while less fun days were pretending to have a dislocated shoulder. Having 20 people trying pop your "broken" shoulder back into place hurts.
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Tony Rozensky 4 years ago
....starred in The Big Box and The Big Asshole....
Load More Replies... jk nbt 4 years ago (edited)
"going through real patients from the get-go could damage the confidence of med students"... and also damage the patients, by the way. I prefer that the doctors who hurt me have at least completed their degrees & residencies, no amateurs, please..
BastWren 4 years ago
These actors (called "standardized patients") aren't only involved in educating medical students about invasive exams such as those stated here. Rather, they are trained to act as patients in clinical settings representing a wide variety of medical symptoms and diagnoses, not just vaginal and rectal exams.
lorrie rothstein 4 years ago
Reminds of Seinfeld when Kramer and his friend pretended to have stds
I I 4 years ago
you'd hope , i'd want to be if i was guiding some one through my own prostate exam
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TIL In an analysis of repetitiveness of song lyrics using file compression, Daft Punk's Around the World was found to be the most repetitive song, being able to be reduced 98% from 2,610 to 61 characters.
Aisling Raye 4 years ago
Can we conduct this study again? I feel like there are currently more repetitive songs lol
#51
TIL The US is one of 3 countries on Earth not using the metric system, but the US N.I.S.T. says that's a myth because the US has been metric for years.
alwaysMispelled 4 years ago
We learn both systems in school. Working as a nurse, we use metric.
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Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
Science might use the metric system. The rest of America has not caught on.
Michigan Guy 4 years ago
science, health, manufacturing, technology. it's here, but not in general use amongst us general population types...
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Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
The US HAS the metric system, it just chooses not to use it officially. At best, I've seen MPH signs with Miles & Kilometers on them. Usually not, though.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
In science, and two liter soda bottles, sure. But not everywhere else.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
Technically both are correct. A fast majority of the US refuses to use the metric system even though they are supposed to. Congress passed a law in 1866 making metric legal and in 1893 the "standard"units of yard, pound, gallon, and bushel were officially re-defined using metric measurements instead of the traditional ones. The official 1lb bar in the Standards office in Boulder, CO actually weighs 453.592 g. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 officially made the metric system the US unit of measurements but permitted the temporary use of the old measurements until we transferred everything over. We all know how well that went.
Wilf 4 years ago
Never quite understood why the US didn't adopt metric at the outset of its independent existence. They made a lot of other conscious decisions to break with the colonial past- and align themselves with modern republics such as France. This included things such as simplifying grammar and spelling rules, using decimal currency, etc. But they didn't adopt metric measures and weights or Celsius temperature? Why was that?
Patrick Ryan 4 years ago
Yeah, most of us aren't opposed to the metric system it just gets confusing because you are taught standard. Then import products that use metric. So, when I work on my car for instance I have to have two sets of tools. But, it's not all just us Americans being stubborn. As a former colony, we adopted the British measurement system. Then the industrial revolution occurred and factories popped up everywhere. They went with the Imperial standard. So their workers did as well. So schools taught Imperial, businesses sold in Imperial. It became ingrained. Later on when most everyone else was metric there was discussion about converting. But, converting the machines, tools, etc and teaching everyone metric would have been expensive. And corporations don't like spending money. So, here we are. And then there's the stubbornness - "OH, everyone is making fun of us for not using metric? Well, f you and the horse you rode in on - we like it!" 😂😂.
#52
TIL: The Killers' Mr. Brightside set a new chart record, after spending 260 weeks - or five whole years - in the UK's Top 100.
K Witmer 4 years ago
Uh oh are you sounding like your parents? Lol I took my daughter and her friends to an Ariana grande concert and slept the whole way through it
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ABBA's ABBA Gold album has been in the UK's album chart Top 100 ever since it's release back in 1992. It is now the second best selling album of all time in the UK. Beaten only by Queen's first Greatest Hits album.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
Never heard of this song so went to YouTube to watch the video and it a brilliant song
#53
TIL a survey in 2011 revealed that nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe in angels
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
The ones in paintings or the ones described to look like Lovecraftian horrors? That´s what I am curious about.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
The ones described in the bible were Lovecraftian as well. One set described by Ezekiel were golden wheels covered in eyes. Another set described by him had 4 different animal faces at the same time with 4 wings, 4 hands, and brass cow's feet. Isaiah's seraphim were 6 winged and looked like the cobra on King Tut's headpiece. The other place the word shows up in ancient Hebrew texts, it means fiery serpents.
Load More Replies... Deena Salzman 4 years ago
Ok, but can we talk about how the angel in this picture is wearing blue body paint instead of a top?
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Yes, but a majority of Americans own guns and think universal health care is a communist plot. Need I say more?
Fulsome Kitten 4 years ago
TIL 80% of Americans will believe any stat they see on the internet without even considering the source. Not saying angels aren't real, that's a personal choice that I'm open to, just saying it's way too easy for an anonymous person on the internet to make up a fact or stat and people see it as confirmation-bias and believe it without question. This is how conspiracy theories get started. If you see a stat or a fact online, always ask more questions before furthering misinformation online.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
The sample size of that survey must have been pretty small. Probably done outside of a church as well.
Terd Fergison 4 years ago
No wonder people in the USA believe in baseless conspiracy theories (looking at you, Q), and are unwilling to get the vaccine. Is this an education problem? A critical thinking problem?
#54
TIL Words that share a semantic relationship and are grouped in a specific order are called Irreversible Binomials/Trinomials. This can include things like 'mac & cheese', 'spick and span', and 'lock, stock, and barrel'.
Papa Bonez 4 years ago
"Lock, Stock, and two smoking barrels" was a great movie. Followed up by the sequel "Snatch"
John Carr 4 years ago
Snatch is not a sequel of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Both films deal with London gangsters and are both written and directed by Guy Ritchie but they are separate films. Oh, and they both star Vinnie Jones, but as different characters.
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PurpleDoople 4 years ago
Cheese and Mac. Right and left. Clyde and Bonnie. Rose and jack. The list goes on.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
I would imagine the first and last are American but the middle 'spick and span' is British
#55
TIL that an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210, upset many parents because a teenage character "suffered no consequences and showed no remorse" for losing her virginity, prompting the network to "punish" the characters via a pregnancy scare
K Witmer 4 years ago
I remember this when It happened. The stupid pearl clutchers were perfectly fine w an alcoholic violent teen boy that slept around though
TTorrest Author 4 years ago
Meanwhile, we teens were cheering for a great episode. Dylan and Brenda were in love, discussed having sex well ahead of actually doing it, still waited, then took the necessary precautions once they decided they were ready. No consequences or remorse needed.
K Witmer 4 years ago
Yep and only Brenda the woman character received the backlash
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TIL that Apple Records, the record company created by The Beatles in 1968, has had many legal battles with Apple Inc over the years. It started with trademark infringement in 1978 and later because Apple Records claimed Apple Inc violated an agreement to stay out of the music business.
CultOfBambi 4 years ago
Seems almost absurd - two groups of mega-wealthy people fighting over who 'owns' the name of a common piece of fruit.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
Apple Inc started in 1976, which is 8 yrs later than Apple Records. So it's quite clear who should own the name of a common piece of fruit, especially in music business.
Load More Replies... Gin. No tonic 4 years ago (edited)
Apple Inc chose their name in order to be above Atari, their main competitor, in the phone books. They have might as well used AHole Inc to be even higher, and that would have represented their brand over the years even better.
Seán Baron 4 years ago
They did come to an agreement regarding Apple Inc's move into music. They now pay a certain amount of money every year to Apple Records, especially as we now have Apple Music.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
Apple Corps Ltd. Apple Corps logo.png Apple Corps' logo, featuring a Granny Smith apple TypePrivate limited company Industry Entertainment Mass Media Founded2 April 1968; 53 years ago HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom Area servedWorldwide Key peopleJeff Jones (CEO) Revenue£18.6 million (2019) Operating income£5.5 million (2019) Net income£4.4 million (2019) OwnerPaul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison SubsidiariesList of Apple Corps Subsidiaries Websitewww.applecorps.com Apple Corps Limited (informally known as Apple) is a multi-armed multimedia corporation founded in London in January 1968 by the members of the Beatles to replace their earlier company (Beatles Ltd.) and to form a conglomerate. Its name (pronounced "apple core") is a pun.[1] Its chief division is Apple Records, which was launched in the same year. Other divisions included Apple Electronics, Apple Films, Apple Publishing and Apple Retail, whose most notable venture was the short-lived Apple
#57
TIL the oldest known symbolic burial site was found in a cave, south of the modern day city of Nazareth, where a nine-year old was found buried with their legs bent and a deer antler cradled in their arms. The site was dated to circa 92,000 BP, making it about 95,000 years old.
Henrik Eriksson 4 years ago
BP is before present and present is 1950 as that is when carbon(c-14) dating began
TheEternalferret 4 years ago
Because they're terms rooted in Christianity. BP or BCE are secular terms.
Load More Replies... Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
Just use AD and BC like we have always done don’t be stupid and try to change it.
#58
TIL: King Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, was a socialist who wrote a book describing his vision of the U.S. population living in a single utopian metropolis/building powered by Niagara Falls. Only 1 in 7 people would need to work, and it would be free of money and thus free of crime.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
Just drove past that gargantuan hydro power generation plant yesterday.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
Lack of oxygen isn't the sole source of death either but like money and crime, its less likely to occur if you have enough to survive.
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TIL that a man who ran a small liquor store in Orange County, CA for years — Nguyễn Cao Kỳ — had once been the most powerful man in South Vietnam, serving as a general, vice president, and prime minister.
Mazer 4 years ago
He died in 2011. Check out his bio on Wikipedia. Amazing life
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TIL the movie "Fifty First Dates" is actually inspired by a true story. Michelle Philpots suffered two auto accidents, and over the following few years developed memory issues which eventually caused her to wake up every morning stuck in 1994 and before.
#61
TIL of the “Muffler Men” - Large fiberglass statues that were originally designed as a single Paul Bunyan statue for a restaurant but which was never paid for or collected, so they were later repurposed as other characters and used for advertising all over the USA.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago (edited)
There was one outside Dooley's Hardware store in Long Beach, California. Another along the 405 freeway not far from Redondo Beach, ironically at a miniature golf course. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/a-visit-with-babe.1082823/
#62
TIL that the US once had a "postal savings system" in which post offices could essentially double as banks. Many countries have active postal savings systems. The US' was discontinued in 1966.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
I hope we still have one in the UK. I have 5 shillings in from the 60's
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
We still have this in the uk you can do banking there for all the banks.
#63
TIL that the green slime from Nickelodeon is an edible mixture of vanilla pudding, oatmeal, applesauce, and green food coloring.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Don't know if it's true, but I "heard" that the creature slime in Alien was the thickener used in McDonald's milkshakes. Anyone know?
#64
TIL the first Ford Mustang (Serial #000001) got delivered and sold before anyone noticed, and they had to trade the 1,000,001st to the owner to get it back.
Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
After not so great sales in the late 1990s - early 2000’s. Ford polled the general public in an attempt to get sales of the Mustang back. They asked the public what they wanted to see in a new Mustang. The overwhelming response, customers loved the front end look of the 1960’s models. So the 2005 Mustang debuted with a squared-off shape that payed proper homage to the first-generation Mustang, boosting sales and making Ford Mustang fans happy
Michael Vickery 4 years ago
I remember reading about this. He was a Canadian airline pilot. He should have kept it, the car is probably worth over a million dollars now, the car they gave him rusted out and was eventually scrapped.
AdamKingXV 4 years ago
How does that get missed? It's not like the paperwork would get lost in the shuffle or anything, it's at the bottom of the stack!
#65
TIL the American Cold War era stealth plane, the Lockheed SR-71, was made of 92% titanium. Most of this titanium was bought through shell companies directly from the USSR. Enough was supplied to build 32 planes.
Tony Rozensky 4 years ago
I was a buyer for Titanium in the mid to late 90's just as there was a worldwide shortage. Everyone was scrambling as the costs skyrocketed. Lockheed had heard that there was a 20 year supply in the USSR. They sent a team there to investigate, only to find it was a one year supply that it took the Soviets 20 years to mine.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
Its all a matter of scale. The amount of titanium needed to make 1 SR-71 a year could make 100 years of titanium white oil paint.
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Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
It also expands so much during supersonic flight, that the expansion joints leak when it's on the ground and it drips fuel
#66
TIL Blink 182 removed the red cross from the (adult actress) nurse's hat on their album "Enema of the State" because the American Red Cross told them it was a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
If that's true, they were lied to. The Geneva convention rules only applies during times of conflict. If I remember correctly the album was released in 1999, during that time the the only US military activity was in Kosovo for a few months where they were operating on behalf of NATO and not on behalf of the United States. There is section about 'Misuse' of the red cross being protected by international law but it's just vague enough to suggest that this also relates to military/combat matters.
Virgil Blue 4 years ago
I remember we had a cute nurse cartoon with a red Cross cap on a kids entertainment site on the troubleshooting page. We were told to remove that cross as well. The letter we got about is was kind of petty, going on about how people might get confused by our cartoon and think it was sponsored by the Red Cross or something.
#67
TIL that Walt Disney Imagineering developed plans to build a "tiny" Harry Potter ride similar to Buzz Lightyear, with a wand instead of a gun. J.K. Rowling, unimpressed, turned to Universal Studios, who "seemed to understand the size and scope needed" and created The Wizarding World.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
She is an amazing woman who not afraid to speak out against the snowflakes of this world Who rush off to cry to mummy if challenged.
#68
TIL: when Michael Jordan said he wore his UNC basketball shorts under his uniform in every NBA game in the Space Jam (1996 film) he was in fact telling the truth.
T Simmons 4 years ago
He wore longer shorts to cover them, and every body copied his style. That's why basketball players wear long shorts
Mazer 4 years ago
Spot on. In the 1980’s Michael Jordan is credited for adding inches to the hemline. So the story goes, while playing with the Chicago Bulls he requested that the team's manufacturer, Champion, drop the seam because he had a habit of tugging on his shorts while playing defense. it’s weird to watch highlights of pre 1980 games when players wore the ever popular running shorts.
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TIL a man spent his $2,600 life savings at a carnival game in hopes of winning an XBox Kinect only to walk away with a stuffed banana with dreadlocks.
John Juan 4 years ago
TIL that 37.4% of all statistics are simply made up on the spot.
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Bama Belle 4 years ago (edited)
Yes! I remember this. There are pictures, even video of interviews with him, carrying around that hilarious banana.
Papa Bonez 4 years ago
It would have been so much cheaper to buy the kinect outright. At least he didn't leave empty handed.
#70
TIL that tomatoes were only introduced in Italian cuisine after the 16th century. Although tomatoes are mostly saw as one of the key Italian cuisine and culture symbols, it's actually originated in the Americas around 80,000 years ago in Andean countries like Chile and Equator
Jo Choto 4 years ago
And for a long time, it was believed that tomatoes were poisonous because people died after eating them. But it turned out that plates were being made out of lead back then and the acid from the tomatoes was leaching the lead out of the plates, so people were actually dying from lead poisoning, not tomato poisoning. Now we know.
Seán Baron 4 years ago
They were thought to be poisonous at first by the Italians and were known as Wolf Apples.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Yes, the Irish famine was really the fault of the Americas
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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
Thank you, thank you. I was going to go back to the top to see if it was explained!!!!!!
Load More Replies... BastWren 4 years ago
A very interesting article, to me at least. When the information is accurate, as it seems to be this time, it is great reading for trivia buffs like me. Thanks, BP.
Wandaluzt 4 years ago
BP didn't write it. They copy and pasted the posts off a Reddit thread where users there post stuff. BP don't do original content, they rip everyone else's off.
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Julie 4 years ago
Being an indigenous woman of the USA, I wonder why every one claims to have native heritage and gives respect...yet we are still hurt and killed and degraded, and my sisters are the most vanished people with no task force or police solving their murders. Native Indians are still hated, murdered and still considered expendable pieces of s**t.
Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
Apparently, a German sociologist established a correlation between a nation's tendency to overestimate itself and the income disparity between that nation' poorest and its richest. Enter USA!!!!
Whatshername 4 years ago (edited)
TIL our national (The Netherlands) lottery is 50 years older than the USA is 🤯
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
Thank you, thank you. I was going to go back to the top to see if it was explained!!!!!!
Load More Replies... BastWren 4 years ago
A very interesting article, to me at least. When the information is accurate, as it seems to be this time, it is great reading for trivia buffs like me. Thanks, BP.
Wandaluzt 4 years ago
BP didn't write it. They copy and pasted the posts off a Reddit thread where users there post stuff. BP don't do original content, they rip everyone else's off.
Load More Replies... Julie 4 years ago
Being an indigenous woman of the USA, I wonder why every one claims to have native heritage and gives respect...yet we are still hurt and killed and degraded, and my sisters are the most vanished people with no task force or police solving their murders. Native Indians are still hated, murdered and still considered expendable pieces of s**t.
Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
Apparently, a German sociologist established a correlation between a nation's tendency to overestimate itself and the income disparity between that nation' poorest and its richest. Enter USA!!!!
Whatshername 4 years ago (edited)
TIL our national (The Netherlands) lottery is 50 years older than the USA is 🤯
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