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Life can be an enticing, never-ending lesson if you have enough curiosity and an open mind to look at the world with fresh eyes, an eagerness to expand your knowledge, and the wisdom to set your ego aside. Many of you Ravenclaws probably already know about the incredibly popular and fast-growing ‘Today I Learned’ community on Reddit, boasting a whopping 26.5 million members.
It’s been an integral part of Reddit since 2008 and has been responsible for reigniting many an internet user’s curiosity about everything from history to science, all the stuff in between the two (and beyond it, too).
Bored Panda is such a big fan of the TIL community that we’ve featured it for your edutainment time and time again, dear Readers. You can read our latest articles about interesting trivia about life on Planet Earth right here, here, and here, once you’re done taking notes on today’s list of intriguing facts. Oh, and don’t forget to vote up the facts that you never knew! Got any TIL-worthy trivia to share with us? You can do so in the comment section.
Bored Panda reached out to parenting blogger Samantha Scroggin, the founder of Walking Outside in Slippers, to hear about how parents can nurture the desire to learn more about the world as kids grow up and how to deal with the constant questions of 'why?' that curious munchkins have all the time. All the while avoiding forcing them to have only the same interests as their parents do. You'll find Samantha's thoughts and insights as you scroll down below.
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#1
Good Doggo
Final score:
557points
Jo Jones 3 years ago
What about Salty ?? He was a dog on 71st floor -“At one point, a co-worker tried to take Salty’s leash, thinking he was being helpful. But Salty refused to leave his owner’s side and didn’t need any help guiding his master. After an hour and fifteen minutes, the dog successfully guided Rivera (and other people )down from the 71st floor and into the lobby . Both dogs were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Real heros ❤️
Imogene Cargeaux 3 years ago
Where's her statue? She needs a statue. We'll make statues of racists but not of a beautiful dog who saved lives and helped people who were panicking? I'll send money to whomever can make this dog a statue. I'd do it but I actually want it to look like this dog. Not like this dog as if it were microwaved.
Splash Bach 3 years ago
This is a repost from yesterday but I don't care as Roselle is awesome 😍
Ramona Rhein 3 years ago
I heard about the dog, but this is the first I heard about the woman. My face is on auto smile.
PixieVonBehr 3 years ago
Please listen to the podcast episode 'Roselle and Michael ' by 'This is Love'. It will warm your cockles ❤
Vicky Adams 3 years ago
I've listened to a podcast on this. Her name will never be used by the American guide dog association again. Its been retired in the same way basketball stars numbers are!
"Kids asking 'why?' is an important part of their natural curiosity. That said, the constant chatter and questions can grow tedious. I am very open with my kids, and answer just about any question they bring to me. But sometimes I tell them, not right now. I need quiet. And they rarely grant me that quiet. But still, I ask," parenting blogger Samantha was very open with Bored Panda about how she tackles her kids' non-stop curiosity.
Children constantly asking you questions about how the world works and why things are as they are is an ongoing situation that many of you Pandas who have families might be familiar with. The important thing is not to stifle your children's curiosity while giving parents enough time to recharge mentally.
Samantha noted that one of the best things that parents can do is to create a safe space for kids to develop their own skills and talents without the fear of being judged. "And to avoid the temptation to push them down a certain path just because it's familiar and more comfortable for us," she added that we have to do our best to avoid forcing our kids to enjoy certain interests just because we're fans of them.
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#2
Facts
TIL that reindeer is the only mammal to change eye colour to adjust the amount of light that enters the eyes in different seasons. They have golden eyes in summer and blue in winter
Bob Belcher 3 years ago
I Haye having blue eyes, everything is always so bright.
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Mazer 3 years ago
Commonly known by two names -The reindeer and the caribou, caribou if they are wild and reindeer if they are domesticated. Both male and females grow antlers
J. F. 3 years ago
But only the females have antlers during the winter, making Santa's reindeer an all female crew on all pictures
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
and what do you call a blind reindeer? .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... no idea.
Haunting Spirit 3 years ago (edited)
All eyes are brown because they of the levels of melanin. Melanin is brown by itself. The more melanin in your eyes the darker the colour. If you have less the light is reflected. Because of the short bandwidth of the reflection the colour changes. Blue for a very short bandwidth, green and green with a bit wider bandwidth. The reindeer decreases the melanin in the summer and increases it in the winter.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
Some humans have this too. Most people that live where there is a considerable change to the the number of daylight hours have a ever so slight (barely noticeable) change to the shade of their eye colour, but some change so much that they become a different colour. My wife is one of those, Green eyes in the summer, blue in the winter. Autumn is my favourite when her green eyes have tiny blue streaks in them. It's all to do with melanin.
#3
Facts
TIL that the owner of the Café de la Rotonde in Paris would allow starving artists to pay for their drinks with a painting or drawing. In the 1900s the walls of the cafe would have been casually adorned with works now considered priceless.
Pascale Pierloot 3 years ago
Actually although that a nice intention, canvas and paints were costly, even then. 😉
I was interested to understand whether children naturally pick up some of the same interests and talents as their parents growing up. Samantha was happy to elaborate on what things are like in her family.
"The genes are strong in my family. My husband and I are both writers, and my kids are both artsy types. My son, 10, is a little actor and singer who even appeared on Kids Say the Darndest Things this year. My 6-year-old daughter amazes me with her drawing ability," she said.
"Although my kids' talents are not identical to my husband and me, they are likewise little creative powerhouses. We as parents have made them feel safe and comfortable being themselves and expressing their skills. Then there are some abilities that clearly pass on directly from the parents. For example, my son and daughter are both math whizzes like my husband, while math has always been my nemesis."
#4
Facts
TIL An Australian Fisherman caught a tiger shark and brought it to a local aquarium. The shark puked up a human arm in front of spectators. Investigators were able to distinguish that the arm was not bitten off by the shark,but was cut off and then eaten. The investigation led to a murder charge.
Christopher Walkies 3 years ago
*Looks over sunglasses*. The main thing is that the shark has been disarmed.
Mad Dragon 3 years ago (edited)
The shark in question had eaten a smaller shark earlier. It was that smaller shark which ate the arm of James Smith after he was murdered.
Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
That morning: "Let's take the kiddies to the aquarium, it will be fun and educational"
Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
The guys from Buzzfeed Unsolved did a rather entertaining investigation into this as well as the Somerton man. Highly recommend on You Tube.
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
The shark admitted to the charges of murder and would not reveal how he cut up the victim. One witness commented, "It was terrible! When I saw that arm pop out... I mean... The watch had stopped and no one would wind it back up!"
Dani Alexander 3 years ago
I’m pretty sure the shark didn’t find the arm and eat it, but he are another smaller shark and the smaller shark had eaten the arm that the big shark puked out. Dramaaa
#5
Facts
TIL A Soviet surgeon removed his own appendix during an Antarctic expedition in 1961. He was the only doctor of the expedition and become seriously ill. Operating mostly by feeling around, the surgeon worked for an hour and 45 minutes.
Linda Riebel 3 years ago
A doctor in Antarctica did her own breast cancer surgery since they couldn't get her back to a hospital in time.
aubergine10003 3 years ago
Did he also append balls of steel to himself at the same time, because DAMN
Anthony Mann 3 years ago
Very cool fact! But don't let Marjorie Taylor Greene hear about this, or she'll start calling it 'Biden's new Socialist Health Care plan'.
Acceber 3 years ago
Isn't it now a rule that the doctor/surgeon has to have their appendix out before going?
Travis Fox 3 years ago
I can't look that good on my best days n here he's laying there with the perfect smile n hair all "I'm fine come join me". Some people just suck
Gabriel Holbrook 3 years ago
Dude. He looks good lmao I thought the exact same s**t. !
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TIL Neil Gaiman's Coraline almost wasn't published, his editor said it was too scary, but was convinced after her daughter said it was fine. Years later, the daughter said she was terrified but wanted to know what happened next so she never let on
Mad Dragon 3 years ago
Coraline is my daughter’s favorite movie.I think it’s creepy, but whatever.
Mardie Mohamed 3 years ago
It was my niece's too. She was a toddler and will play the film over and over again. Now as a teenager, she's a scaredy cat.
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TTorrest Author 3 years ago
I just read a tweet from Gaiman yesterday where he said he wrote the entire book at a pace of about 50 words a night. Some inspiration for any of you aspiring writers out there.
Laura Mende (Human) 3 years ago
We went to the cinema to watch it when i was 8. Never again, adult horror movies aren't this scary. 😱
Dani Alexander 3 years ago
Imagine if they make a live action coraline, how scary would that be
Briana Landers 3 years ago
When i first learned that some people were terrified of coraline i was shocked. Its spooky maybe yeah but its not scary and definitely not all that shocking compared to some things.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
I liked those things as a kid, but I can see the more sheltered and sensitive kids being scared. My sister is one, but she also is banned (by the family and her husband) from watching Lilo & Stich, 5mins in and she’ll be crying for the next 60mins 😂
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Annie Bieber 3 years ago
I saw this at 50 & it's still one THE creepiest damn things I've ever seen. Had NO clue 'twas a kiddie horror show...
Regal Kitten 3 years ago
In fairness, it's a horror book, isn't it? arent they supposed to be scary.
Ivana 3 years ago
Coraline is my favorite animation. Favorite live action is The Shinning. I went to see this in theaters with my husband when we first started dating. If I am sad my husband puts this movie or the Shinning on for me. He seems to prefer this to the Shinning, but I think that is because I watch the Shinning way too much.
Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
I still cannot watch The Shining, The Excorcist, any Ring or Saw movies. There are others but the list is too long and I can't remember many right now but would rather forget them all.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
What's even more disturbing is this movie depicts capgras delusion.
The way that we learn things has changed dramatically over the decades and centuries. Lenore Skenazy, the founder and president of the Let Grow nonprofit that promotes childhood independence, and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement, explained to me earlier that for much of history most people didn’t learn about the world at schools growing up, as they do now.
“In the United States, for instance, school only became compulsory a little over 100 years ago. Previously—for hundreds of thousands of years of human history—kids learned simply by watching, copying, helping, and playing. In other words, they’d hang around the adults, see how they made things like baskets and arrowheads, they’d ask questions, noodle around, and try to copy what their elders were doing,” she told Bored Panda.
#7
Facts
TIL in 1921 there were 14 million telephones in the US & Canada. On August 4th all of them were simultaneously silenced by the telephone companies for one minute. This was done as a mark of respect for the telephone inventor Alexander Graham-Bell on the day of his funeral.
Caro Caro 3 years ago (edited)
We should still do that for 16 hours every single day with ALL the phones! EDIT for all you here who are worried: You can still use your phone for emergencies. Feel better now?
Krisz 3 years ago
that would be great for emergencies... stupidest idea ever
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Pearl 3 years ago
It's not just one person, you see. Lots of people had the idea, and it is often debated who came up with it first. Google only lists this many names; but I'm sure there were many more people involved Screenshot...92ed47.png 
Marco Conti 3 years ago
So when Zuckerberg kicks the bucket can we look forward to a few minutes without Facebook?
Timea Peter 3 years ago
Fun fact: A Hungarian engineer called Puskás Tivadar invented the telephone exchange. While testing his first word was Hallod? which in Hungarian means do you hear me? and that why we answet the phone telling Hello?
Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
Bell also developed a method for the deaf to learn speech. Mainly with children.
#8
Facts
TIL that watching a fire can lower your blood pressure
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I love watching the lit fireplace or a campfire after dark, so very believable.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Last night, with a glass of wine and cheese (I'm not kidding).
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Marcellus II 3 years ago
Almost everything CAN lower your blood pressure. Watching your house burn down however doesn't.
Otter 3 years ago
Same for fish tanks. My favorite fish tank for watching is the giant kelp bed tank in the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where the kelp sways as if in tidal currents. Sit down by that sucker and you can literally feel your blood pressure dropping.
Question everything 3 years ago
I used to watch a fish tank for a couple of minutes just to realise it had been more like 20 minutes. Every time.
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
My blood pressure also goes down when I am watching the funeral pyres of my enemies.
Monday 3 years ago
Oddly enough this works with videos of fire too as long as it includes the audio of a crackling fire too, though it seems to be more a case of distraction lowers stress than fire itself being the cause.
Carrie Laughs 3 years ago
That can be more effective! Growing up we only had log fires as a form of heating (old farmhouse) and some of those logs crackle and spark and the spark can shoot right across the room! My parents never bought a fireguard. We had to rush over to dampen the spark. Yes, the carpet was awful. Yes, our blood pressure was probably high!
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So, THAT'S how to say 'I love watching things burn!' without sounding like an arsonist!
#9
Facts
TIL that when Nichelle Nichols read for the part of a communications officer in 'Star Trek', she had a copy of Robert Ruark's 'Uhuru' with her. 'Uhuru' is Swahili for 'freedom', and when Gene Roddenberry heard what the word meant, he changed the character's name to 'Uhura'.
Otter 3 years ago
Uhura was all kinds of awesome! Broke so many racial and sex-based barriers, and she was a delight to watch. And she was perhaps the first female military officer to appear on US televesion, and certainly the first one who in a crisis, she didn't run for her romantic interest... she stayed at her post and did her job like an officer.
Mike Crow 3 years ago
Not just military officer but a bridge officer which was a huge deal.
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Monday 3 years ago
Uhura was initially going to be Sulu, but that name was later given to George Takei's character instead.
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
She was hired by NASA to recruit more diverse men and women into the space program. She recruit Guion Bluford, the first black astronaut.
Theoretical Empiricist 3 years ago
And also inspired the likes of Mae Jemison.
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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
That was in 1968, but it was not the first interracial kiss. That was on a show called You in Your Small Corner was first broadcast live on ITV in June 1962
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Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
Yes! Still pissed that a christian woman I knew long ago(probably many others too) claimed he based all the other strange/scary-looking species on demons.
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Brandy Grote 3 years ago
There is a Go Fund Me going to help Ms. Nichols deal with the elder abuse and theft she has experienced. Please help.
PickledZucchini11 3 years ago
Ooh this should be at the top! Although it might just be me, I'm a bit if a star trek nerd 🤓
Kas Curell 3 years ago
Still pissed she has to deal with that conservatorship s**t! She should be allowed to live where she wants!
“They’d also help out as soon as they could—fetching things, tracking animals, whatever—and in between they’d be playing with a group of mixed-age kids. All these activities were fueled by curiosity,” Lenore went into detail about how kids would learn about the world and life by experiencing everything first-hand and giving their family and community members a helping hand.
“You were motivated to learn what the bigger kids in your group knew, too, because they were so cool. Your entire day consisted of observing and practicing the stuff you needed to know— skills and games. If you weren’t curious, you weren’t going to enjoy life, or succeed at it,” the childhood independence expert said.
“One reason kids might seem less curious today is because most of their education, inside and outside of school, doesn’t require self-motivation, it requires compliance. The drive is extrinsic, not intrinsic. Kids fill out worksheets because they have to, not because these seem interesting, or have any immediate connection to the ‘real’ world,” she said that the trend has reached extracurricular activities as well, unfortunately.
#10
Facts
TIL the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has donated over $16,000,000 to charity since they started touring
Orange is aging 3 years ago
I read “they are an amazing person!” And was confused as to why no one corrected you
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LivingTheDream 3 years ago
TSO originated from the members of the 8o's metal band Savatage. Check out Prelude to Madness and Hall of the Mountain King and you will hear the influence.
Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago
I have never been to one of their concerts but I love their music and I didn't know about the charity thing but now I love them even more
Isabel De La O-Pedrozo 3 years ago
I was going to say exactly everything you said. I still want to go to one of their concerts.
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Just went to their first Christmas concert this year. It is their 25th anniversary. I have seen them four times. This years production was so good I will never see them again because nothing could ever surpass it!
Caro Caro 3 years ago
I've never heard of them. Maybe I should check out YT?
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#11
Facts
TIL Cats domesticated themselves. They existed unchanged until the Middle Ages; and even now are genetically extremely close to their ancestors.
Monday 3 years ago
They realized these mostly hairless, two-legged creatures would worship and pamper them if they allowed it. They domesticated us.
Dave P 3 years ago
Cats came to humans because humans were learning to store grain, but rats and mice cam along. Cats came because there was food and humans realized there was a great partnership. Thus cats became part of human life as a public health helper. They are the reason why we have beer, they protected the grain silos leading to excess grain, which then needed to be converted to beer and liquor to avoid spoilage, etc.
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deathrose 3 years ago
One of the cats I have now jumped in my car and yelled at me until I took her home. After feeding her she decided that the couch was now hers.
easter bunny 3 years ago
Don't you mean cats successfully domesticated humans? My house routine revolves around a tiny, furry dictator.
Pixie 3 years ago
I just love this fact. Kind of like it happens today often enough: Cat walks in "Hi human, I live here now. Feed and pet me as much as it pleases me." *purrs*
LadyEncredible Rand 3 years ago
This comment resonated with me so much because that's literally how I got one of my cats. I Feed the stray cats in my neighborhood and one started walking with me and my dog, so he walked home with us one day and just came right on in the house and started drinking the water and eating food. I let him and figured he would leave after, but he did not, he proceed to make himself comfortable where my boys sleep and that was it lol
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The Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) is a European wildcat population in Scotland. It is estimated to comprise between 1,000 and 4,000 individuals, of which about 400 cats are thought to meet the morphological and genetic criteria of a wildcat. Even native born Scots sometimes think it’s a feral house cat
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
I've only ever seen one in Edinburgh zoo - never in the wild. I did watch something about a program to try to increase the population as they're becoming so rare, and more have some genetic differences due to breeding with domesticated cats so they were trying to get the ones with the highest percents of wildcat genes to breed together. I'll now need to go look into it and fall down a wildcat rabbit hole - see ya in a month
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 3 years ago
Have you guys heard of Savannah cats? They're basically half-domestic half-wild and look like mini cheetahs.
Megan O'Neill 3 years ago
Yes, but tons of human intervention involved with these cats. Not a naturally occurring cat.
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
We store grain, it attracts rodents, it attracts cats? Cats, it's a good thing (Martha Stewart voice)
Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
"What did the Romans ever do for us?" "They probably introduced the ancestors of modern housecats to Britain"
#12
Facts
TIL Alan Alda met his wife at a mutual friend's dinner party; when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor, they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
I used to watch Mash when I was a kid. My mom told me to eat it before it got cold
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I started on MASH the movie, with Elliot Gould as Hawkeye, and fell in love with it. When the show came out, I was immediately smitten with Alan Alda. I always liked his father too, but Alan was probably my first really hard crush. I love everything about him, his politics, his ethics, his brain. MASH is one of the few comedies that aged well, and is as funny today as it was then. I took the day off to watch the finale, and cried and cried...
Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
Is anyone else seeing in their head the scene from Friends where Rachel, Chandler and Joey are eating a cheesecake off the floor? One of the most adorable "how me wet" stories i've ever heard, being utter pigs together!
Springy The Non Binary Boi(They/Them) 3 years ago
Alright what we having?
Load More Replies...“Learning soccer means doing the drills the coach assigns, as opposed to tagging along with the older kids and working hard to get good enough so that they’d start letting you play. The key to curiosity, then, is giving kids enough free, unstructured time for them to find something they love to do for its own sake—not for a grade, or coach.”
Lenore’s advice? We should let our kids explore their curiosity for the sake of it, not because they were told to do so in a formal setting. “Not every interest has to lead to formal instruction, or at least not until a child really wants it. There’s a big difference between running for a coach, and running for plain old fun. Curiosity and self-direction go hand in hand.”
#13
Facts
TIL for over 300 years Europeans could not grow vanilla seeds since bringing it from South America. In 1836 it was finally discovered that a bee from Mexico was the only capable pollinator of the vanilla orchid.
Mazer 3 years ago
Co-evolution is fascinating, plants evolving on specific soil types or requiring specific mycorrhizae fungi strains to live.
Steve Riddle 3 years ago
And the Poison chemicals used by Capitalist Greed are destroying the Bees. In some areas of China they have to pollinate fruit trees with poles because the Bees were wiped out by pollution.
Kanga9ine 3 years ago
Hence the birth of chemically replicated vanilla. The Aztecs had such a relationship with a certain type of bees that makes different flavored honey depending on flowers the Aztecs fed them. The could reach into the hive without any of these gentle bees stinging them.
Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
Those bees couldn't sting. There are bees that bite (harmless unless in the eyes or mucous membranes) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee It's not a relationship ship it's just they existed like that before man in the area
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#14
Facts
TIL of Rebecca: a raccoon that had been sent to the White House to be served as the 1926 Thanksgiving dinner entrée. Coolidge instead adopted it as his pet.
Martin Kaine 3 years ago
Check out the book "Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America." Raccoon was a popular entree.
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Ashley Oleson 3 years ago
I have a old cookbook from the 1940s with a recipe for raccoon. Also have a neighbor and anoother coworker eat raccoon in hard times.
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Andy Acceber 3 years ago
Rebecca joined the Coolidge family's other White House pets including 11 dogs, 6 songbirds, 2 cats, a donkey, geese, a bobcat, and a pygmy hippopotamus.
Otter 3 years ago
I wonder which of the Coolidges was the animal enthusiast who rescued Thanksgiving raccoons? I suspect it was Grace, she's the one holding the little bandit in this picture.
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Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
Yet to taste raccoon, i've been told it tastes a bit like beaver, and beaver tastes like garbage.
#15
Facts
TIL Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, once sent an original drawing to a little boy who had written to him. The boy loved the card so much that he ate it.
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
That’s the crucial part of the story ain’t it? The child knew little of the value of the image or indeed the fame of the man who sent it, he just did what children do. 😀
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Brendan Roberts 3 years ago
I love that book! However, I only came across it in my mid-thirties when I looked for a new book for my son.
#16
Facts
TIL That the victims of Pompeii had near-perfect dental health due to a low-sugar diet and a local water source rich in fluorine.
Otter 3 years ago (edited)
Well, they were also more likely to be prosperous than the average person of that era. Pompeii was a wealthy resort town, where the rich came to relax by the seaside. And then as now, money means better odds of good nutrition and good overall health.
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Being wealthy actually doesn't mean good dental health. In late medieval/ early modern Europe just the opposite. High sugar high fat diets of the rich meant they had rotten teeth and it became fashionable for a time to dye teeth black to emulate the look ( nothing whatsoever to do with geisha tooth blackening in Japan, which occurred for different reasons.) The fashionable paleness of the 18th -19th centuries also represented people dying of tuberculosis.
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Bunzilla 3 years ago
Actually, the high levels of natural fluoride in the water actually caused health issues for them in the form of skeletal fluorosis. It leads a whole host of problems, including weakened bones and joints, can cause ligaments to calcify... horrible stuff. They didn't see the issues at first because of the fact that they'd poured plaster into the cavities left by the bodies, but nearby Herculaneum which was buried at the same time (around 3x as deep) offers more clues.
Robert Bailey 3 years ago
That guy in the back looks like he was making a valiant struggle to survive before he went.
WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago
This is a little irrelevant, but I actually went and saw the Pompeii bodies a couple years ago... It was very surreal and a little creepy... IMG_201908...86a6fd.jpg 
AnnaBanana 3 years ago
I found it terribly sad and couldn't help wondering what their last hours must have been like.
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Allan Breum 3 years ago
And, they found a dude in a pose that indicated he was masturbating furiously. "The world is ending, might as well come as I go."
#17
Facts
TIL there is one small area in Canada where the ranges of black bears, grizzly bears, and polar bears all overlap.
Mazer 3 years ago (edited)
There is evidence of breeding between species. Recent times polar bear -Grizzly bear hybrids have been found. Mostly due to environmental pressures on Polar bears who specialize in predating almost exclusively on marine mammals, the Polar Bear is considered a Marine Mammal
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The resulting hybrid is called a Grolar Bear, right? I saw a picture once - they're eff off HUGE.
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Carol Emory 3 years ago
They have also seen breeding between Polar Bears and Grizzly Bears resulting in hybrid cubs.
Valley Girl 3 years ago
I wonder about the health/longevity of these animals. I seem to recall hearing ligers have much shorter lifespans.
Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
I suggest looking up pictures of the mixed breeds as cubs. Adorable!
#18
Facts
TIL that the second tallest mountain on Earth, K2, is much deadlier to climb that Everest. Approximately one person dies on the mountain for every four who reach the summit
Otter 3 years ago (edited)
Annapurna is even deadlier, because about 99% of its surface is avalanche chutes. I met someone who later went to Annapurna and never left, and yes, it was an avalanche.
NK 3 years ago
Did you meet them before or after the avalanche? Asking for a friend.
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Pungent Sauce 3 years ago
Everest climbs used to be documentaries, now they’re Instagram fodder. Check out Nimsdai Purja in ‘14 Peaks, Nothing is impossible” on Netflix. Mind blowing.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
There is actually a dramatic play written with a cast of two climbers. The stage set is a pitch on that mountain.
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
I just watched a documentary about this subject...well some i'm not done, it's called 14 peaks. (there are only 14 peaks in the world that is taller than 8,000 km (m?)This climber from Nepal sets out to traverse all 14 in SEVEN months. before him it took roughly SIXTEEN years to do it by another climber. and K2 isn't a "peak" it's a series of peaks they range in numbers for their height and danger factor, and it's one out of every three die, not four. As Otter stated, Annapurna is super dangerous and fascinating. It's on Netflix if you're interested.
#19
Facts
TIL that after Lady Diana's death two Slovakian tourists were each given a 28-day prison sentence for having taken eleven teddy bears and a number of flowers from the pile outside the palace. This was reduced to a fine of £200 each.
Ricky Moore 3 years ago
Easy looking back and commenting like this, but at the time plastic was the norm,.... remember everything is relative....
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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
I would say I am shocked, but I have seen people steal memorial candles from one grave to put on their own family grave, so... yea. Slovakia. (We´re not all assholes, I swear!)
Nicole A 3 years ago
It happens everywhere. I'm in USA and one day I was in a craft store and a lady was gathering supplies to make a lovely grave marker for her deceased grandmother. (It was a large 1 meter tall metal cross with ribbons and silk flowers) She told me it was the 3rd time in 2 weeks she had to do this because people were stealing the ones she left before. On a fresh grave people were stealing directly from the grave. Other shoppers who heard this said that people did the same things to their loved ones graves as well. So it's not just Slovakia.
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Mad Dragon 3 years ago
She wasn’t “Lady Diana,” she was “Princess Diana.” One of the things she won in the divorce was the right to keep her title.
Andy 3 years ago
Although she was commonly called Princess Diana, that wasn't actually her title. She was officially Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess coming at the start of the name is usually only preserved for people born into the royal family, and if someone who marries into the family does use it, it's the actual name of the person they married that's used, such as Princess Michael of Kent
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J. Normal 3 years ago
I understand wanting to show your loss/hurt, Please put that money to good use. Instead of a toy left on the side of a road, donate it to a childs center in your loved one's name. purchased flowers, send to a senior home or better send the money to a charity.
Nicole A 3 years ago
Truly. It was a nice gesture but I'm sure Diana would have preferred the money be donated to charities instead.
Load More Replies... Kitty Jordan 3 years ago
I mean, on the one hand, no, I don't want anyone stealing flowers from a gravesite because it's disrespectful. On the other hand, what happens to the teddy bears or other things like that? Do they just leave them there until they start to rot, then throw them out? I kind of like the idea of having them out for a set period of time, then donating them to a children's hospital or something. That seems like it would still be respectful.
Daniel Haynes 3 years ago (edited)
That was truly the first time that this type of display took place in the UK. Before this, public memorials like this were an American thing, and thought to be disrespectful contrary to proper British values. Diana's death forever changed those old ways.
#20
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TIL that the first Paddington Bear toy was designed by Shirley and Eddie Clarkson in 1972 and given to their son Jeremy, the future presenter of Top Gear & The Grand Tour.
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
Wow ok that is pretty unexpected. I also thought Paddington bear was older than that for some reason 🤷♀️
Carrie Laughs 3 years ago
The stories of the bear are, but this is the first soft toy version of the bear.
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Tiny Dancer 3 years ago (edited)
That's a recent bronze statue in Leicester Square, not a picture of the first Paddington toy, of course, so here ya go: 1972_First...219586.jpg 
Nicole A 3 years ago
I read somewhere that the very first Paddington made was given to Jeremy.
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Hugh Walter 3 years ago
Technically - The first Paddinton was the one Michael Bond based Paddington Bear on - a lone teddy bear he noticed on a shelf in a London store near Paddington Station on Christmas Eve 1956, while Clarkson's was a prototype for the first commercial, licensed bear, don't give him more credit for anything, his head's big enough already!
Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
He talked about on a Top Gear episode when he was sewing.
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#21
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TIL that the Milky Way got its name because the Greek goddess Hera pulled a breastfeeding Hercules off of her boob and milk sprayed across the galaxy.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 3 years ago (edited)
Wasn't Hercules born to a human mother? I could be remembering incorrectly, but I thought I read that Hera hated any sign of her husband's infidelity. Edit: never mind, I just looked it up. Zeus was a real piece of work...
Curt Gleason 3 years ago
Yeah, Zeus was a tramp. He wanted Heracles to gain godlike powers by nursing at Hera's breast... She has a reputation as a shrew, but, c'mon! Some messed up stuff back then. Medusa was cursed for being raped by Poseidon...
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Petros Vrasivanopoulos 3 years ago
milky way in greek means galaxy. our galaxy's name is galaxy
Patsy 3 years ago
Side note on your comment, Mars Inc. have chocolate bars called Galaxy AND Milky Way 🤣🤣
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
Been there! God forbid anyone is in the squirt zone - even managed to get it in my own eye once
AnnaBanana 3 years ago
Apparently it's a great antibiotic for eyes - but only if it's your own milk.
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Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
I thought Hercules was hated by Hera. She was the reason why he had to do all his trials
error_404_user_not_found 3 years ago
Apparently Hera was tricked, and didn't know that it was Hercules
Load More Replies... Otter 3 years ago (edited)
Isn't there another origin myth from Asia, where some deity threw a pail of milk across the sky?
Tami 3 years ago
It has many different names from many different cultures. An interesting google, never really thought about that before.
Load More Replies... Marcellus II 3 years ago
You still haven't paid attention though: "Galaxy" is Greek for "Milky way" (gala = milk). So no, the milky way isn't explained as spraying milk along the milky way.
Chewie Baron 3 years ago
It was called the Milky Way first, then the word galaxy was used when they discovered more of them. So they did learn something. You were just being a d**k.
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TIL Kenny G was one of the original investors in Starbucks and has made more money investing than from his music career.
Marcellus II 3 years ago
TIL "Kenny G is one of the best-selling artists of all time, with global sales totaling more than 75 million records". I'd never heard of the good man, and after a few YouTube minutes, Buddha willing I'll never hear of him again.
Kanga9ine 3 years ago
I try to listen to Kenny G but he gets a groove going like a lover who takes his time and then goes all squirrelly on you and it's over. I'll bet he falls asleep as soon as he does that. Or maybe it's just a caffeine rush from all that coffee. Decaf Kenny. Decaf.
ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
So my anecdote about KG. I was in a car driving about a 2 hour drive with a colleague from work. He put on Kenny G. The particular track came out in like 1993 or something, so I was surprised, since that seems like pretty old music for a young male to play. Anyway, I say to him "Dude I'm not your type hey, I prefer women." He burst out laughing and then said "Why?" and I said "Because that's what this music is for, schmalzy seduction moves". He had to stop driving for a bit he was laughing so much.
Nicole A 3 years ago
I think it's the curls. They both have great hair if you're into curls.
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#23
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TIL The man who took the first up close photo of a snowflake, Wilson A. Bentley in 1885, also started the concept "No two snowflakes are alike". In his lifetime, he took over 5k photos of snowflakes.
Pixie 3 years ago
It's not a concept, but a scientific fact. Since there are about 10 quintillion water molecules which make up a typical snowflake, it is (ok, almost) impossible for two of them to be identical.
Lorcan McGann 3 years ago
Quick lookup suggests that "No two snowflakes are the same" is the myth. Over 1 septillion snowflakes are estimated to fall in the US alone every year. Taking your fact of 10 quadrillion water molecules per snowflake as true, their arrangements are limited, as all snowflakes have 6 sided basic geometry. While rare due to the large number of variations possible, the huge numbers of snowflakes falling every year suggests that duplicates likely happen every day.
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TheHappyBookCat 3 years ago
Those are only the impressive ones, though. He didn't take any that didn't show "crystalline beauty".
#24
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TIL the Rat Pack were a group of entertainers who were friends in the 1950's. When one performed in Vegas, others would often come without an official booking and perform at the first one's show. Hotel marquees would read "Dean Martin, Maybe Frank (Sinatra), Maybe Sammy (Davis, Jr.)”
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago (edited)
They were the best! Talented singers and actors, and Sammy Davis Jr. could do everything. He was a fantastic singer and dancer, fine actor, did excellent impressions, and was well known for his quick draw skills with cowboy- style handguns. Brilliant entertainer. Watch them on youtube.
Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
Peter Lawford accounts for approximately 5% of the talent in this photo
Dave P 3 years ago
and you should listen to hoe they joked with each other. Such politically incorrect racial humor, but you can see they loved each other while they did it (Dean Martin had a joke about how Sammy Davis Jr would never be allowed to move into his neighborhood, both for being black and jewish), though that was a different time.
BasedWang 3 years ago
And Sinatra backed Sammy all the time when the skin color bullshit would come up. Sammy was breakin barriers
April 3 years ago
Actually, you should listen to a podcast called, "You Must Remember This." Clarifies a lot of those beliefs.
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Steve Barnett 3 years ago
I believe that the term ‘Rat Pack’ was coined by Lauren Bacall (The ‘Queen Rat/ Rat Queen’?), Humphrey Bogart’s wife. Bogart, I think, was part of the original Rat Pack. This is from memory, therefore please correct me if I’m wrong.
#25
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TIL, that in 1838 a 14 year old boy nicknamed "The boy Jones" broke into Buckingham Palace and stole Queen Victoria's underwear
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
Teenage boy teenage boy where have you been? I've been to London to visit the Queen. Teenage boy teenage boy what did you there? I 'knicked' a pair of her underwear 😃
Ragnhild Nilsen 3 years ago
At that time she was 19 years old, and concidered one of the most beautiful young women in Europe. Towards the end of her life she was wider that she was tall and looked more or less like one of her own pugs. They showed her corset and a pair of bloomers in QI some years ago, and they were massive.
Catherine Graffham 3 years ago
I’ve been to Osborne House, the home she retreated to over the summer and spent a significant time in after Albert’s death. There is a lift(elevator) there that she used when her mobility got too bad. It was a large space with a large chair she could sit in because she couldn’t stand. It was very fascinating
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Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
An early example of the incredibly lax security at Buckingham Palace
Tom Susala 3 years ago
The underwear was returned after it was determined that the garment made his a** look fat
#26
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TIL that Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the automatic machine gun, spent so much time test-firing his guns that he became completely deaf. His son Hiram Percy Maxim eventually invented the silencer, but too late to save his father's hearing.
RaroaRaroa 3 years ago
Pretty sure plugging your ears has been an option for centuries. Didn't need to wait for the silencer to be invented.
Dave P 3 years ago
This is actually a myth that is not true, and his son invented the Suppressor, no such thing as a silencer. He was a pacifist who thought if he created a super destructive weapon and sold it cheap to everyone, that no one would go to war because it would be super destructive. He was wrong. His son invented the car muffler and realized that the same things could be used to create a sound supressor for a gun.
Kanga9ine 3 years ago
So basically he figured make it Wal-Mart cheap so everybody could get one and then we'd just kill each other off this there was no one to fight a war if one broke out?
Load More Replies... Kanga9ine 3 years ago
Well the family that can make a killing machine and refine it is a rare thing. I would have made the next improvement by silencing the screams of those shot. I would wish I were were deaf after hearing just one of those sounds that would haunt me and never stop playing in my head.
Ian Reynolds 3 years ago
Not sad that the inventer of a mass killing machine was harmed in the making of the mass killing machine.
J. F. 3 years ago
In the end it was the fault of Thomas Edison - he send him to London where he got bored
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TIL McDonalds lost the 'Big Mac' naming rights in england after trying to sue an irish company called Supermac (that predated McDonalds) , allowing Burger King to troll them by calling their burgers things such as 'like a big mac, but actually big'
EEF🤓 3 years ago
Supermacs arent in England. Only Ireland. McDonalds still have 'big macs'. Their issue was the name itself. But as supermacs pre date McDonalds they didnt have a leg to stand on.
Patsy 3 years ago
If I'm being honest, I'd pick Supermacs Mackers any day. Garlic cheese chips from Supermac after a night on the lash...*chef's kiss*
Patsy 3 years ago
*Supermacs over Mackers...app won't let me edit my comment.
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Paul O'Connor 3 years ago
McDonald's were trying to stop Supermac's from using their own name saying it infringed on their rights. Its not so much about McDs losing rights as Supermac's retaining theirs against strong arm tactics by a global super corporation.
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Matt Tyson 3 years ago
I love in the movie, Coming to America, where the owner of McDowells says that his burger is like the Big Mac except that it doesn't have a sesame seed bun.
Kathy 3 years ago (edited)
First: It's not just the UK. It was an EU wide decision ruled by the EUIPO in 2019 covering all member states back then and also applied to the cloned UK trademark upon Brexit because they were "copied" to the UK database from the EU parent. Second: The trademark itself was not deleted, only certain goods from the list of goods and services on which no proof of use could be presented by the big M company during cancellation proceedings.
Calyfan Yelood 3 years ago
yeah, I remember the 'big Jack' ads from Hungry Jacks (aussie burger king; no difference)
buttonpusher 3 years ago
I was surprised McDonald's lost to Supermac's tbh but then I didn't know Supermac's was around first. They're not bad either although I haven't been there for years.
#28
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TIL During WW II the US Army was aware that mail to soldiers was critical for morale, but overwhelmed with the volume and space it took to ship. So the resuscitated a British/Eastman Kodak method where every letter was photographed, and the film was shipped, then printed. It was called V Mail.
Mad Dragon 3 years ago
Short for “Victory Mail,” it drastically reduced the space needed to ship messages and freed up valuable space for necessary supplies.
Jeffrey Diehl 3 years ago
I have several V-mail letters that my grandfather saved from that time. One detailing my father's fifth birthday party.
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
T-Mail. I pity the fool who doesn't clear their notifications.
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Vicky Zar 3 years ago
If the letters on paper took too much space…. What do you thing how many telegraphs they would have had to send? I imagine it would have been a months worth of telegraphing for 1 day of letters
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#29
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TIL Mary Shelley published her novel "Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus" at 19 years old, its themes of birth and death reflecting the deaths of both her first infant child and sister within a short timeframe, followed by pregnancy with another child who she carried throughout the book's writing.
Mad Dragon 3 years ago (edited)
She wrote it as a response to a challenge by Lord Byron and her husband, Percy Shelley, to think of a horror story during their vacation. Whoever wrote the best story would be declared the winner.
Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
Byron's doctor, John Polidori, wrote a vampire story that influenced Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
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Lynda Gutierrez 3 years ago (edited)
Because of Frankenstein, she is widely considered to be the creator of the first piece of science fiction.
Janey Bielenda 3 years ago
And it was written in the "year without a summer", 1816, when a volcanic eruption caused a weather phenomenon that caused temperatures to dip.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
The story itself is cool, but if you've ever read the book, it sounds very much like it's written by a nineteen year old. The descriptions are done poorly, there are countless loopholes, and Dr Frankenstein constantly faints like a gothic heroine with his corset tied too tight.
Catherine Graffham 3 years ago
She also came up with the idea during a competition between her, her eventual husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron to create the best horror story
Rose Romano 3 years ago
In the introduction of the edition I have, if I'm remembering correctly, it says that Frankenstein represented her father and his monster represented her, because she was abandoned by her father. Is that what her dream was about?
#30
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TIL that Oskar Schindler abandoned his wife after going bankrupt and returned to Germany, leaving her in Argentina. They never saw each other again in the 20 years before his death, though they remained married. The final scene of Schindler's List was her first time ever seeing his grave.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Schindler continued to bribe SS officials to prevent the execution of his workers until the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, by which time he had spent his entire fortune on bribes and black market purchases of supplies for his workers. Schindler moved to West Germany after the war, where he was supported by assistance payments from Jewish relief organizations. After receiving a partial reimbursement for his wartime expenses, he moved with his wife Emilie to Argentina, where they took up farming. When he went bankrupt in 1958, Schindler left his wife and returned to Germany, where he failed at several business ventures and relied on financial support from Schindlerjuden ("Schindler Jews")—the people whose lives he had saved during the war. He died on 9 October 1974 in Hildesheim, Germany, and was buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, the only former member of the Nazi Party to be honoured in this way. He and his wife Emilie were named Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli
Dave P 3 years ago
People forget that Israel offered him a lifetime pension and a free beachfront apartment in Tel Aviv if he moved to Israel. He turned down the offer. He did however visit Israel several times to visit "his children" and one orphan he saved, he went to Israel to her wedding to walk her down the isle.
Load More Replies... Otter 3 years ago
The movie rather slighted her, in real life she did a lot to keep the Jewish refugees safe and fed, and all she does in the movie is stand around and look elegant.
Ellie Rosser 3 years ago
Why are we assuming he "left" her there? I think many people might prefer Argentina to post-war Germany if they had a choice.
Tina B 3 years ago
How are those exclusive? He's the one who chose not to stay. At minimum, he abandoned the union.
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Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
She supports him and puts up with his infidelity, flees her homeland to be by his side, and he abandons her. Typical.
#31
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TIL that Jack Nicholson grew up believing his mother was actually his sister. His mom June was 17 years old and unmarried when she gave birth to him. Her parents agreed to raise Jack as their own child with June acting as his sister. Reporters from Time magazine revealed this to Jack in 1974.
Karli Hasse 3 years ago
They actually only reveled it to him personally & never published the results. They used to be classy. Now days it would be a different story.
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Ludwig Michiel 3 years ago
Similar story for Eric Clapton: he found out his "older sister" was actually his mother when he was 9 years old.
Otter 3 years ago
It was considered "the right thing to do" in the early 20th century. It saved the girl's "reputation", it saved the child from the stigma of illegitimacy, and gave the kid a "stable" upbringing. Because yes, the social penalties for having a child out of wedlock were terrible for both the mother and her baby, but not the baby's father.
Load More Replies... Kanga9ine 3 years ago
Good thing he found a place in films. Ted Bundy had the same situation. And he achieved fame in quite a different way.
Nicole A 3 years ago
The reporter was asking because of the similar story line in the movie Chinatown that Nicholson was in. In the book/movie, Faye Dunaway's character is raped by her father and gives birth to a girl who is then raised as Faye's sister. So the reported found out that Nicholson was basically in the same situation and the reporter asked him about how he felt playing so close to home. I don't think he was trying to be malicious about it.
Imogene Cargeaux 3 years ago
Imagine finding out this way... also how the F**k did they know this?
BarBeeGirl 3 years ago
Growing up I had a friend who discovered that her aunt was actually her sister.
Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago (edited)
If it was something the media was able to surmise, it’s something he was able to surmise. This failure is on the part of his mother (sister) and grandparents (parents) for not recognizing that he’s easily find out.
Jeffrey Diehl 3 years ago
Disney used this and based the TV show Andi Mack on just such a scenario.
#32
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TIL that a nuclear worker in Japan was exposed to 17 Sieverts of radiation (twice the amount that should kill a person). He was kept alive for 83 days, suffering serious radiation burns to his body, severe organ failure, and an almost zero white blood cell count.
Mazer 3 years ago
Kept alive against his will. ****WARNING, the article is loaded with very unpleasant facts about the accident and the aftermath https://historyofyesterday.com/the-man-kept-alive-against-his-will-647c7a24784
Pixie 3 years ago
Wow. There's also a photo. The article has a trigger warning that is warranted. I didn't know that someone looking like this can be alive. Those doctors are evil.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Supposedly his last recorded words were "Please let me die. I am not a guinea pig."
Marcellus II 3 years ago
TIL the URL of this article still contains the word "fun", which was in the original title of this collection of factoids... Wonder why they changed it?
Bilja M 3 years ago
As I understand doctors weren't allowed to let him die. That happens even today when people suffer horribly but are forced to live. Basically what happened to him was worst thing imaginable, radiation killed his chromosomes' ability to multiply cells. So, at first he looked "fine" and unharmed. But as neither cell on his body was regenerating anymore, he just fell apart alive. And doctors were told to keep him alive at any cost. That was inhumane but I doubt that medical workers in some hospital are all sadistic monster. there had to be something more to that.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
They were trying to learn effects of radiation. He begged to be killed and screamed in pain until he died truly awful. Also why I don't jump down all rabbit holes.
buttonpusher 3 years ago
Cruelty for the sake of research. The pics are horrible. I can't imagine the pain.
#33
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TIL that, due to gravitational time dilation, Earth’s core is about 2.5 years younger than its surface.
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)
Time dilation has always been frustrating for me, I want to understand but I just don't. I think it means the faster you travel in space the more out of synch your own time becomes relative to your destination or something? Or is time dilation about the universe/time slowing down as it spreads out? So much to Google after reading this list!
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Time is constant only in its own frame of reference. E.g. inside a rocket, or on earth's surface, etc. If there's a significant speed difference between two things (like much greater than normal earth-surface speeds), time starts to distort/stretch. It's implied in Einstein's famous equation. The faster you go (approaching lightspeed), the more time slows down. It effectively stops at lightspeed. However, and this is why "going back" in time is nonsense, it never goes to minus/negative time, it only slows to a halt. So to "go back" in time, you'd need to exceed lightspeed, which in Einsteins equations is impossible, because your mass would become infinite. It's really weird.
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Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
I wish I could get my head around all this - my husband has a masters in physics but I went the biology route so I'm clueless - maybe I should buy a physics for dummies book or something
Jeffrey Diehl 3 years ago
Time is not strictly linear but a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. At least that's what my Doctor told me.
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
I love it! I'm guessing that's THE Doctor, given the wording?
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Cactus McCoy 3 years ago (edited)
Gravity at the core is higher. Higher gravity makes time go slower (don't think too much about it). So time for the core passes a little bit slower than for the surface. A clock on a satellite that is in space for long enough time at a sufficent distance will run a little bit faster than a clock on earth. Additional fun fact: In a black hole time probably comes to an almost full halt. Check Stephen Hawkings "A Briefer History of Time" for more information. Have some LSD on hand.
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#34
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TIL all of Teddy Roosevelt’s sons were injured or died serving in world wars. Quentin was killed in aerial combat over France in WWI, Archibald was injured in WWI & WWII, Kermit committed suicide while serving as Army Intelligence in Alaska, and Ted died of a heart attack after invading Utah Beach.
Dodo 3 years ago
It was a surname from Roosevelt's second wife's side of the family. Was quite common to use the wife's maiden name as a first name in history.
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Wilf 3 years ago
Roosevelt spent decades advocating for a boyish romanticism of military conflict- from rough riders to "big stick" diplomacy. He was an enthusiastic advocate for US involvement in WWI. I wonder whether he ever reflected on his own part in his son's death. The same happened to British poet Rudyard Kipling, who had spent years writing patriotic pro-empire poetry who in 1915 then lost his own son at the battle of Loos fighting in a war driven by patriotic fervour, imperialism and jingoism.
Yvette Desmarais 3 years ago
According to at least one biographer he did suffer remorse for his attitude after losing his sons.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Quentin was his youngest child and his favorite. He was a truly fine young man, very highly regarded by his fellow soldiers. I believe he was the only child offspring to die during TR's lifetime.
Steve Riddle 3 years ago
The World Leaders start Wars and send the young to die. A Death Cult!
Shannon Butt 3 years ago
Hi, can we stop saying "committed suicide" like it's a crime, and transition to "died by suicide" like everyone else in the world?
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
He also had a daughter named Alice. He never once called her by name since his wife, who had died, was also named Alice.
#35
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TIL There was a romance novel about KFC, set in medieval England. It launched in 2017 for mothers day, and was called "Tender Wings of Desire".
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
Ooh the colonel got some wings himself! Love her medieval purse and hairstyle!
Mad Dragon 3 years ago
For those of you wondering, here is the entire novel: http://readingonlinenovel.com/Tender_Wings_of_Desire/p
Monday 3 years ago
There is also a visual novel/dating sim type game.....the KFC fandom is weird.
juice 3 years ago
https://www.qsrmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/story_page/public/news-image/kfc-launches-i-love-you-colonel-sanders-dating-simulator.jpg?itok=TCMFlm0X
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Alison Peters 3 years ago
Check this out! I watched it when it originally aired. Mario Lopez portrayed Colonel Sanders! https://youtu.be/o5805oFdG5E
Samantha Becker 3 years ago
For anyone wondering, it was 15 minutes long and leaned into the cheesy Lifetime/Hallmark movie tropes with a wink and a nod.
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Iltsuu Idersuut 3 years ago
not sure if the purse and hairstyle is medieval and it's also weird to me
#36
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TIL a teenage tyrannosaurus rex would go through a growth spurt where it gained 35-45 pounds a week
Xottel 3 years ago (edited)
I read 'teenage tyrannosaurus rex' and now a quite disturbing dramedy plays in my head. Like getting bullied in middle school because Rexinald is carrying a clutch since he cannot wear a backpack. "Hey guys, guess who never skips leg day..." laughter ensues. Rexinald begins to sob but is unable to bury his face in his hands. He eventually gets in trouble with the school principal for having taken part in a brawl where he of course couldnt throw punches with his tiny arms and instead just bit the other kid's head off. No one understands or cares for him but Stacey thinks he's kinda cute.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Wait and see what I can do after Christmas dinner ;)
Load More Replies... Nixxy 3 years ago
And they were most likely scavengers; to slow to hunt but big and strong enough to scare away the original eaters of the meal
Otter 3 years ago
I've got a book on the history of the dinosaurs, and vaguely remember something about a fossil find where a t-rex was killed in the act of hunting and killing another dinosaur. But I'm too tired to get out of bed and look it up.
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Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago (edited)
Makes me imagine The Land Before Time movies, but with the dinosaurs being teenagers...
#37
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TIL - Shortly after the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, the Nazis had set up an area with captured Yugoslav aircraft. But while the German guards were listening to the news, local communists moved the fence separating the working ones from the non-working ones, leading to all aircraft being scrapped.
Gerard Neaux 3 years ago
By scrapped do we mean destroyed or unguarded so it was stolen by communists?
#38
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TIL that the film It's a Wonderful Life was initially a flop that bankrupted a studio and ended legendary careers until it entered public domain.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Someone forgot to renew the rights, so it entered public domain very early and now every TV station could air it for free. Which they did, and this led to it becoming a Christmas staple.
Pungent Sauce 3 years ago
It wasn’t a critical success, but it wasn’t the beginning or the end of RKO’s misfortunes. Worth a Google, if you’ve got the time and interest. (It has Howard Hughes!)
Greta Denmark 3 years ago
Loved that movie as a child and thought how wonderful Americans are to see old man Potter as the crook he was. Then in 2016 the American people elected him president ...
#39
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TIL that General Motors attempted to discredit Ralph Nader by tapping his phone and, when that failed to uncover any salacious information, hiring prostitutes in an attempt to catch him in a compromising situation.
#40
Facts
TIL Daddy Long Legs Spiders used to be called Shepherd Spiders; named after French shepherds who would use stilts to travel over grasslands. Not only were locals able to get around more easily, the stilts were allegedly an extremely speedy method of transport; as fast as a horse in full trot.
Fat Harry 3 years ago
These are not spiders, they are opilliones. They're also not (generally) called Daddy Long Legs, as those are crane flies. We know these as Harvestmen.
Micah<3 3 years ago
I was gonna say, these don't look like the daddy long legs we have where I am
Load More Replies... Caro Caro 3 years ago
Yeah and walking on stilts over grasslands lets you avoid the ticks.
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#41
Facts
TIL, Angostura bitters has a label that doesn't fit because two brothers in 1870 redesigned the bottle and label but did not consult one another. They entered a contest but did not win. One of the judges convinced them to keep it as "signature labelling."
Jo Davies 3 years ago
Always annoys me, always want to tear it off. Will resist now I know why.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
It’s a nightmare at work in bars etc, normal bottles you can wipe/ rinse down etc…… but that label makes it impossible
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Facts
TIL the Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona is the only nuclear plant in the world not near a major body of water. Instead its 20,000 gallons/ minute of cooling water comes from local wastewater.
Mike Price 1 year ago
The "body of water" in the background is an artificial treated wastewater storage pond.
#43
Facts
TIL on December 28 1983, Dennis Wilson, co-founder and drummer of the Beach Boys, drowned at Marina Del Rey after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover his ex-wife's belongings, previously thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier amidst their divorce.
Max Power 3 years ago
Drink and dive responsibly, obviously if your drunk diving that's a recipe for disaster. I've been on liveaboards, smelling alcohol on people, it's actually fairly common in this part of the world. I have no problem with it as long as they are in control.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
The brothers didn't have easy lives from their childhood. So talented, though.
#44
Facts
TIL in 1986, the 18-year-old Prince of Orange Willem-Alexander participated in the 120 mile long ice skating tour known as 'Elfstedentocht'. He entered under the pseudonym 'W.A. van Buren', and managed to finish the tour that passes 11 historic cities in the Dutch province of Friesland.
Eric D 3 years ago
W.A. van Buren also acts as a pilot on commercial airliners (737) a couple of times a year. Strange to see the king taking place in the cockpit and fly off to your holliday destination.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
The fourteenth Elfstedentocht was skated on February 26, 1986, just over a year after the thirteenth Elfstedentocht. As in 1985, Evert van Benthem from Sint Jansklooster won the tour, in a time of 6.55.17. Tineke Dijkshoorn was the fastest among the women. Perhaps even better known is that Crown Prince Willem-Alexander made the trip under the pseudonym W.A. van Buren completed. It was only during the tour that it was announced that he was participating. At the finish he was met by his proud parents. The 1986 Elfstedentocht was held under favorable weather conditions. A total of 16,999 people started the journey.
#45
Facts
TIL Stone crabs aren't killed for their meat. You simply remove one claw and throw them back in. They will eventually regrow their claw making them a renewable resource.
Angelar 3 years ago
Lobsters feel that they are boiled because they can't go into shock.
Load More Replies... Mad Dragon 3 years ago
They may be alive after they are thrown back in, but the removal of their claw leaves them nearly defenseless.
DC 3 years ago
... still, this is an act of sheer violence, of cruelty, justified only by taste and taste alone - which is by no means a sufficient reason. Just let animals live in peace and they'll return the favor - have there ever been humans attacked by crabs, unprovoked, even deadly? I guess not. Just never treating anything that feels worse than it treats us might be a simple solution, and still, it isn't even good - it just is not bad...
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
They use the small nipper (the one not torn off by a person doing this 😞) for eating usually anyways, teeny bits from the teeny claw. Big claw is for defensive uses or the best part to eat according to sea food eaters.
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Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
Would that be the same as forcing liposuction on a human for lard harvest?
Bernadette Circle 3 years ago
Not quite. We don’t use our flab for defense very often
Load More Replies... François Carré 3 years ago
Just leave them the f**k alone. You can survive without eating crab claws and besides, other living beings are not on Earth just to serve as your food resource, renewable or not.
#46
Facts
TIL The first time the Beatles took acid, it was given to them by their dentist, without their knowledge or consent
Jo Davies 3 years ago
OK, the facts missing here: John and George, with their wives were having a dinner party at George's dentist. After dinner they had coffee, after which the dentist informed John that he had laced it with LSD. John freaked out, told everyone and they left, even though the dentist wanted them. They went to a night club (not sure why they decided this), and hullucinated fires and freaked out. A while later John suggested the fab 4 do it together, which was the first tkmes The Beatles did it together.
AnxietyRiddenMom 3 years ago
I knew there had to be more to this. It just didn't add up.
Load More Replies... RaroaRaroa 3 years ago
So they all went to the dentist together? Or one went, said they had a great time, so they took turns going? Was it a legal and normal anesthetic a the time?
Mad Dragon 3 years ago
The dentist was a guest at a dinner party they all attended.
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DuchessDegu 3 years ago
Not sure but why not, if you have a good dentist you're likely recommend it to your family or friends
Load More Replies... Carrie Laughs 3 years ago
Got the dentist this afternoon... should I be worried????
Load More Replies... Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
But..I have a question... Was this at a party? I had a vision of a dental visit by all of the Beatles and realized, week that ain't right!
#47
Facts
TIL: Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States in which all the major professional teams share the same primary colors (black and gold).
#48
Facts
TIL William Randolph Hearst's attempts to stifle Citizen Kane included banning any advertising, reviewing, or mentioning it in his papers, having theaters ban the film, accusing Welles of being a communist, and a Hearst underling allegedly hid a 14 year old girl in Welles' hotel room closet.
Adam Jeff 3 years ago
Well that backfired. If he'd have just let it be, it would have probably sunk without a trace because it's so damn boring. How anyone thinks it's the greatest film ever is beyond me.
Steve Barnett 3 years ago
It is an excellent film, but I agree, I wouldn't say it's the ‘greatest’ film ever. I believe Tokyo Story has now been rated as the ‘greatest’.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
And Hearst allegedly shot his best friend, movie maker Thomas Ince.. Watch the movie The Cat's Meow for that story.
#49
Facts
TIL That Sabbath Mode is an option for some ovens and kitchen appliances. It exists to allow for use of the appliance while still observing restrictions on certain activities during Jewish Sabbath and holidays that might otherwise be violated by operating the appliance in its usual manner.
Otter 3 years ago (edited)
In my long and varied life, I have acted as Shabbas Goy for friends!
Pungent Sauce 3 years ago
Religion(s) would be kind of cute if they didn’t involve the killings of “unbelievers”
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Prior to this food was prepared ahead of time and placed in coals or low heat to cook from sundown on Friday to lunchtime on Saturday. So the new timers did basically the same task.
RaroaRaroa 3 years ago
How do appliances come to play a part in religions that pre-date appliances by a very long way?
ADHORTATOR 3 years ago
Jewish are not allowed to light a fire on sabbath. Rabbis concluded that electric light or ovens are equivalent. These smart guys try to fool their own god with the sabbath mode ("Look, Jehova, it wasn' t me, the oven started to heat all alone - it' s a kind of miracle" That makes me smile :-)
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
I don't understand what is and isn't appropriate oven use for the Sabbath .. is this so it doesn't operate at all on holidays and Sabbath, or only does some things? This is a great TIL list
Jonathan 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, that's why cholent is a popular shabbat dish as it finishes up as the oven is cooling down.
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#50
Facts
TIL Neither the 'White Russian' or 'Black Russian' cocktails have any Russian origin. The White Russian was 1st mentioned in the Oakland Tribune newspaper in 1965 & gained popularity after the 1998 film 'The Big Lebowski'.
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
The name comes from the fact the they have vodka in them and vodka is traditionally a Russian alcohol. Ex bartender here.
Fat Harry 3 years ago
I thought this was common knowledge? Perhaps I just drink too much!
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Eithne Griffiths 3 years ago
TIL. And yet, the White Russian endures. The drink was conceived in 1949 when Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, created the cocktail, along with its sister cocktail, the black Russian – a White Russian without any cream – at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.
#51
Facts
TIL after the civil war, the pumpkin pie was resisted in southern states as a symbol of Yankee culture imposed on the south, where there was no tradition of eating pumpkin pie.
Pungent Sauce 3 years ago
The War of Northern Aggression is still a big deal to a lot folks on the losing side, and is definitely a factor in the current unraveling of that country.
Rose Rosee 3 years ago
I'm a New Yorker, trust me sweet potato pie is very popular up here as well.
Load More Replies... Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
Have you ever tasted a sweet potato pie next to a pumpkin pie? You'll never eat another pumpkin pie in your life!! But if it's a good sweet potato pie! Even a bad one is better than pumpkin.
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Just another way to show that people under the Confederate flag are idiots and still are.
#52
Facts
TIL The average NHL player only spends 47 seconds on the ice at one time.
Stephen Steve Stephenson III 3 years ago
During a shift. The average shift (i.e., time spent on the ice at one time) is 45 seconds. You may know this already. Hockey players fluidly rotate in and out of play. They don’t have to check in like in basketball, for example.
Load More Replies... Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
a shift? yeah who cares. Hockey players beat the s**t out of themselves during those 47 seconds.
#53
Warp Drives Might Work
Final score:
8points
ZAPanda (Submission author) 3 years ago
that Miguel Alcubierre, a Mexican mathematician, tackled the warp drive through his mathematical calculation. In 1994, he proposed that this science fiction-like discovery could allow space vehicles to traverse the universe without violating any physics laws. In the latest findings in the European Physics Journal, the DARPA project appears to be closer to the set Alcubierre metric to attain the creation of a warp drive. It was mentioned there that the negative energy density distribution somehow matches the original requirements. --techtimes dot com
#54
There Are More LEGO Pieces Made Every Year Than There Are Oranges
Final score:
-4points
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
i don't know how i feel about that. i love lego like everyone else, but that's a craptonne of plastic
DC 3 years ago
Lego ain't oneway packagery, therefore, I think as it usually isn't thrown away Once the pieces get weak, they still serve well enough if the only stress applied is pressure - as long as nothing pulls, the connectors only guide the pieces within each other. Larger buildings require a lot of walls and structures that only are under pressure, so we should give them stones, another chance. And, unless they're truly destroyed, do they go into the trash anyway?
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