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42 New Facts From The ‘Today I Learned’ Community That Don’t Disappoint (New Facts)
Now that autumn (or fall for our fellow Americans) is approaching and evenings are getting longer, you might lack inspiration for fun activities to avoid the looming seasonal blues. So we suggest you gather your family and/or friends for an ultimate trivia soirée!
We even took care of compiling a bunch of fresh and fascinating facts from the ‘Today I Learned’ community that are perfect for quizzing even your most knowledgeable close ones. Scroll down to find them below, and don’t forget to upvote the ones that would tie you in a knot during a trivia night.
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#1
TIL Eminem once turned down a joint tour with Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg that would've been worth $100m (£80.2m) collectively. He said no because the lengthy tour wouldn't allow him to see his daughter Hailie for a long period of time. He said "I just don’t want to go on tour & come back & Hailie's grown"
The Majestic Opossum 3 months ago
I always have. He's had his priorities straight from the get go.
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StrangeOne 3 months ago
Eminem treated his career like a 9-5. In an interview, Dre recounted the times he and Em were in the studio, nearly done with an album. Then Em stopped and went home right at about 4 or 5pm, because it was just time for him to go home and spend time with his family, have some supper and all that. He even took lunch breaks at the same time.
FranSinclair 3 months ago (edited)
Im not sure theres too many people that would say hes a bad rapper either. His styles unique. You know its him when you hear him.
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Panda Kicki 3 months ago
Not like he needed the money either. But nice to see he looks after his child.
StrangeOne 3 months ago
It wasn't about the money to him. He got a large advance early on, Dre asked Eminem why he isn't blowing it on gold chains and expensive clothes. But Eminem didn't care about that. Being poor, he was just used to being frugal, and knew it was better to watch his spending until he was actually making enough to not have to worry so much.
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Sue Mullen Andersen 3 months ago
His daughter was homecoming queen (at the public school she attended in Clinton Township, Michigan), and he stayed off the field in the building to watch on camera as she was crowned, so his presence didn't take away from her moment. He really is a great Dad.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 months ago
When you already have more money than you know what to do with, chasing more just for the sake of the money is simple greed, as far as I am concerned. Kudos to him for putting family first.
Crystalwitch60 3 months ago
Always loved that guy , his music is bloody brilliant ,n he’s one of the few music legends,that actually cares about his kids , x
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Eminem is the only white rapper I've respected from the beginning. That Dr. Dre went on to produce his music proved to me I chose correctly.
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#2
TIL an entire squad of Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera, "undetected". Two somersaulted for 300m, another pair pretended to be a cardboard box, and one guy pretended to be a bush. The AI could not detect a single one of them.
Elmo 3 months ago
"Guys, we need to test this AI cameras, be serious. Remember your training." "Fúck that, I'm a bush." "Wha-" "I'm. A. Bush"
Jrog 3 months ago
First, know that there is the very likely possibility that this is a made up story: its only source is the book "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Paul Scharre. There is little documentation about when and where it happened, and the details are so vague that it looks like a made up anecdote to support the books theories. Second, according to the story it was done on purpose during an AI training, where 8 marines were tasked with fooling the camera recognition software with unusual techniques. The "pretending to be a bush" is not in the book and is OP exaggerating stuff.
Jrog 3 months ago
Even assuming this story is true, it must be very old (despite being published in 2023). Current vision detection AIs do rely on multiple camera feeds to be effective, typically integrating UV, IR, Visible and even Lidar or ultrasound detectors that can easily identify camouflaged persons from their heat signature, or from moving volumes. This tech is so prominent that it can already be found on civilian alarm systems.
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Remi (He/Him) 3 months ago
My thought exactly, lol. The box hiding is such a silly move from Kojima
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
So, if we want to commit a crime with AI cameras watching our every move we must first learn how to somersault, be a cardboard box, or a bush. Got it.
Janissary35680 3 months ago
Not stuff that hasn't been seen before certainly.
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Learner Panda 3 months ago
This was some years ago and I would imagine things have progressed by now.
#3
TIL the mobile game "Send Me to Heaven" involved throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. The creator made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.
Ian Webling 3 months ago
Why would Apple ban it? Surely the idiots playing the game would need to buy new phones?
Onan Hag All 3 months ago (edited)
I thought Apple would have profited from the dumbasses doing this.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
I think they didn't want any attention drawn to how easy it was to gull their customer base.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 3 months ago
I would *LOVE* to know how many idiots fell for this before it was banned. Inquiring Minds want to know!
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Just how dumb can you be? I really fear for the future if lamebrains are throwing their expensive phones in the air.
If we haven’t yet convinced you to start organizing a trivia night with your close ones, you should hear about all the benefits that it has to offer.
"I would say that trivia nights help increase a person's confidence in their intellect. So many times, players will say, 'I'm no good at trivia,' but then they are the person on their team who came through with the one clutch answer that helped them win the game. So if you want to feel smarter, come to trivia!" Brianna Liestman, the brand engagement director behind Trivia Mafia, previously told Bored Panda.
Trivia Mafia is a bar operation based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known to produce the highest-quality quiz nights in bars, taprooms, distilleries, and private events. How fun!
#4
TIL that in 1792, 400,000 British people gave up sugar to boycott slavery when the UK population was at 6 million
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
What I’ve learnt through my reading, including works by black historians and writers, is that ordinary British people bought into the idea that these people were ‘subhuman’ until they met them. Any enslaved people brought into the UK (which had confused laws because slavery was not legal, in that it couldn’t be recognised or enforced, but neither was it illegal) that managed to escape were often, in fact usually, able to disappear. This would only have been possible with the complicity of working class Brits. If their natural inclination was racism the runaways would have been given up very quickly.
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
The Brits get a bad rap over slavery, but were the first country to outlaw it.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
And 233 yrs later, we in the US can't get workers to strike in order to bring greedy corporations/businesses to their knees. It's Labor Day, which just doesn't have any more meaning than a day off for some.
Rich Black 2 months ago
it didn't work. slavery remained legal in england for another 40 years. It wasn't banned until 1834
Learner Panda 3 months ago
A lot of people who were adults at the time of the Second World War gave up sugar because it was rationed.
Sally Moen 3 months ago
Because of the sugar triangle: slaves acquired from west coast of Africa transported to West Indies/Caribbean, where they were made to work in the sugar cane fields, then sugar was shipped north to east coast of America, then shipped to European ports like Liverpool. Also tobacco was a profitable early export out of colonial America, and slaves began to be bought to process tobacco in the cure sheds
Bailey 3 months ago
Sugar was no longer as much of a luxury item in Britain by the 1790s, the price had steadily declined over the century. It wasn't an everyday item a lot of people, but by then even the working class were consumers
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TIL Car mufflers and firearm silencers function based on the exact same principles and were both developed by the same inventor
Jrog 3 months ago
His father was the inventor of the automatic machine gun, and his uncle was the inventor of the smokeless gunpowder as well as a bunch of mining explosives. 4th of July at the Maxims would have been.... interesting.
David 3 months ago
his father also invented the spring loaded mouse trap (the famous bait spring one we all know of) and the automatic fire supression system (same core system we use today)
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angelmomoffour62 3 months ago
It's like 2 ends of the spectrum. Car mufflers and firearm silencers.
#6
TIL: the roof on an oil storage tank is not attached to the walls, but floats on the surface of the oil to avoid creating a space for flammable vapors to accumulate and explode.
Agfox 3 months ago
I had to check the volume in those types of tanks back in the 1960's during the annual stocktake. It wasn't a fun job to do in Winter with the oil Company's Installation being located on the wharves. Even less fun when you climbed the outside metal stairway to the top of the tank & discovered the roof was floating well below you, necessitating climbing backwards down a dodgy ladder. Once on the roof, which moved slightly but disconcertingly under your weight, you had to check a gauge, make a note of the volume level then climb out again. Two 4-person teams would stocktake the entire Installation over a weekend & compare records at the end of each day. Any differences had to be be physically checked again by a member of each team. The one positive was that the overtime payment amount was significant
Chris Robertson 2 months ago
Why not just lower a weighted line until it touched the top and measure the length of the line?
Rich Black 2 months ago
does this mean that the flammable vapor are constantly escaping from the storage tank, and can be set off by random spark?
Foxglove🇮🇪 3 months ago
Most of the oil tanks I know are all one peice of moulded plastic, just have a hole on top to refill. Kerosene is commonly used for home heating in Ireland.
"Personally, I think participating in trivia helps boost memory and recall. I often receive messages from my players telling me facts and anecdotes that they were reminded of by one of my questions,” said Brie Zulkiewicz, host of trivia events at bars and birthday parties, work events, and even weddings.
#7
TIL that being awake for 20 hours is equivalent to being drunk enough to be forbidden from driving.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago (edited)
Yes, they do. And they deserve credit for their efforts. I was never called on for that, but one time after an idiot coworker destroyed our main user file server, I had to work 36 hours nonstop to repair the hardware, install the O/S, configure the system, and restore the latest backup. This is in no way comparable to a surgeon in the operating room - for one thing, no lives were on the line - but I can state from experience that when I was done, I was well and truly fried. And then drove home from downtown DC. Fortunately, I made it home safely.
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
I watched an episode of a TV show (I forget what show, but I do remember it was British) where the host volunteered to try this. He did a shooting range exercise where you run through a house shooting cardboard cutouts of enemy combatants while avoiding civilian cutouts. He did quite well. Then, once he was massively sleep-deprived he tried it again. This time he was all over the place and shot multiple "civilians" because he just could not concentrate at all. He didn't make it to the full 20 hours and was last seen grumpily telling the camera crew to get lost because he was going to bed!
Pyla 3 months ago (edited)
The funniest Dìck Van Dÿke episode is when he stays up to set a record on a radio show he hosts.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
I went to grad school with the guy who did all the distracted and tired driver research. In addition to all the good reasons not to do either, if I get caught, I have to talk to Dave.
Trisec 3 months ago
Which is why there are hours-of-service rules for professional drivers. (Violated all the time, BTW.)
Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
Not so much since they started requiring electronic logs. The early ones you could edge around, but anything from the last 5 years is pretty much impossible to spoof, at least at the big companies.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 3 months ago
Prolonged periods with no sleep can trigger a psychotic episode. So please, I’m begging you, get your sleep, folks.
Littlemiss 3 months ago
Please tell my burnt out brain that. It won't listen to me.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I'm willing to bet that the majority of drivers don't know this or equate their fatigue driving with drunk driving.
Zero Costa 3 months ago
this is also why, as it turns out, your local motor vehicle department wants to know if you use a CPAP machine! turns out I had to get a medical report because of mine. and they will take your license away until you get one. which was a fun few months.
Zero Costa 3 months ago
now I'm not advocating for lying on a government form, but not being able to drive from mid Dec to around mid Feb was a real pain in the àss
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#8
TIL That Decca declined signing The Beatles in 1962. "Guitar groups are on their way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business. "
StPaul9 3 months ago
But they did sign some band called The Rolling Stones after, who seem to be doing quite well.
Ace 3 months ago
The comment about guitar groups is disputed, and not supported by the fact that they chose to sign another guitar group (the Tremeloes) instead of the Beatles at that time. By later in the year after the Beatles had started being hugely successful with EMI, all the other record labels were clamouring for guitar groups to sign, including the Stones.
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Danthropologist 3 months ago
From the Tremeloes Wikipedia page: On New Year's Day, 1962, Decca, looking for a beat group, auditioned two promising young bands: Brian Poole and the Tremeloes and another combo (also heavily influenced by Buddy Holly) from Liverpool, the Beatles. Decca chose Brian Poole and the Tremeloes over the Beatles, reportedly, in part, based on location – the Tremeloes were from the London area, making them more accessible than the Liverpool-based Beatles.[4] Basically it was cheaper for Decca to pay for 4 return train tickets to and from Dagenham for the Tremeloes than it was to pay for 4 return tickets to and from Liverpool and probably an overnight stay for the Beatles. Nobody knew the Beatles were going to be the biggest band in the world
Luke Branwen 3 months ago
I always remember Mark Wakefield, the very first singer of Linkin Park (before Chester) who left the band because he saw "no future in it".
Ace 2 months ago
Err no, The idea was that they were assuming that "rock and roll" which had been been big for the previous few years, was just passing fad.
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TIL on one occasion, Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally consumed the drink laced with sleeping pills that was intended for his guest. When he awoke the following day, he discovered that his potential victim had stolen several items of clothing, $300, & a watch. He never officially reported the incident.
G A 3 months ago
No not good. If he had reported it the police may have caught him quicker
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago (edited)
Yeah, those who knew him said that if you could get him to actually talk to you (which wasn't easy), you found out pretty quickly that he was very intelligent. What a waste.
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 3 months ago
After he was caught, he went on to confess everything - in disturbing detail
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I wonder why. Even his sick, twisted mind knew it bring too much attention to him.
And that’s not all! Participating in a trivia night can be a great stress reliever, too. Taking your mind off whatever is causing you anxiety or stress and focusing on the game offers a great distraction. Playing and especially winning in a relaxed environment can release a rush of dopamine into your brain, making you feel excited, satisfied, and even euphoric. All the more reason to play!
#10
TIL that there are giant concrete arrows placed every 10 miles across the U.S., stretching from New York City to San Francisco. They were originally built to help USPS airmail pilots navigate coast-to-coast before modern instruments made visual navigation obsolete.
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
I agree, I will sleep better tonight knowing this.
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Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Back in the 60's Superman comics, the key to his Fortress of Solitude was a giant arrow-shaped key up in the Arctic. It was disguised as one of these navigation markers.
tameson 3 months ago
How could I never have known this! Husband and I now frantically looking for the closest one to us so we can go look at it.
tameson 3 months ago
Found it! https://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/arrows.html Looks like we are heading to Socorro County.
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 3 months ago
Would be very useful in Europe whenever Russian leaders decide to put up the gps jamming.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Now they've been repurposed for use by the aliens when no crop circles are available. Aliens are notoriously bad navigators.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Handy thing to have once the electromagnetic pulse happens. Of course those same electronics that make up our society will be fried as well.
#11
TIL that, of the ninety-nine emperors of the Roman Empire (and later the Western Roman Empire), around 54-69 of them were murdered or committed s****de. That is a 55-70% mortality rate from murder or s****de.
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
LOL, I saw your first two words and thought you were going with ‘far fewer world leaders are murdéred or dié by their own hands nowadays.
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Nils Skirnir 3 months ago
This is where oligarchy and autocracy lead. Especially when it’s buried under the trappings of a constitutional republic with no clear method of succession. Hear that USA?
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
Actually the US has a clear method of succession, called elections. George Washington purposely limited the length of his presidency because the new country, which had so recently broken with the UK and its monarchy, should not turn around and, even unintentionally, flirt with the possibility of establishing its own monarchy with the Washington family. George ensured we would hold regular elections, limit our elected officials’ tenure in office, along with making them work hard during election years to win their positions back, and not make their political offices into things they can simply pass down to their kids. We’re also supposed to have a system of checks and balances, to ensure that no one branch of government could hold the lion’s share of the power and not need the other branches to help them pass legislation.
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David Paterson 3 months ago (edited)
Am I rght in think that this excludes those who died in office from "unknown causes"? You might want to increase that mortality rate.
Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
Well, they had a year with 4 emperors and a year with 5 emperors, so that's a decent chunk of them.
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Giulia Fortunati 3 months ago
Emperor Constantine was an emperors serial killer, he killed at least 3 of them!
Nicola Roberts 3 months ago
He couldn't have been, serial killer wasn't coined until 1970s. Joking that is a good fact 😁
Load More Replies... Foxglove🇮🇪 3 months ago
And if I remember correctly, only one actually got to retire (most were killed either in battle or via assassination) - Diocletian was born in what is now Croatia and built a palace in Split, where he lived after he abdicated in 305 until his death in around 312, aged about 68.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
It has been true for almost 50 years - you have much higher odds of going to prison as an ex-governor in Illinois than a m**h dealer does.
Rich Black 2 months ago
national leaders have always fostered extreme hatred from their subjects.
#12
TIL During the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2004, a Taiwanese woman took a bath in 40.5% ethanol in the belief that it would protect her from the virus. She absorbed the ethanol through her skin and died of ethanol poisoning.
Rika 3 months ago
During the pandemic, I drank a lot of 40% vodka. I guess it worked because I never got Covid.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
"Better to die than to listen to experienced and knowledgeable medical professionals!"
Billo66 3 months ago
Our local farmers co-op sold tons of ivermectin during that time. Some people swear it works. I don't. Can't get it at the pharmacy but you can get a gallon of it at the farm store. Also, remember when folks risked life and limb to steal ammonia from farmers anhydrous tanks? Ammonium nitrate is like 40 dollars for a 50 pound bag at the farm store. Not that I would ever mix it with solvated electrons in a non-polar solvent. That might result in (2S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine. Which is illegal and very bad for you.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
I give Ivermectin to my horses as a wormer. No way would I put that in my own body!
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Phil Green 3 months ago
Funnily enough a "very stable genius" also advocated injecting bleach.
Crystalwitch60 3 months ago
Well she didn’t get sars did she 😂🤷♀️so you could say it worked 😂🤦♀️
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 3 months ago
Round 1; Ethanol Alcohol. Round 2; Sodium Hypochlorite.
Captain Kakapo 3 months ago
ethanol is not absorbed through skin... through vapors, however - yes
2WheelTravlr 3 months ago
It is, but not as efficiently as our stomach absorbs it. Vapors in high concentration can cause some pretty dire symptoms. Interestingly, testing has been done to see if ethanol vapor treatment could be used to combat lung infections, but the ethanol damages epithelial cells in the process.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 2 months ago
it wasn't just a bath. she remained in the tub for at least 12 hours. because ethanol evaporates readily, they were unable to determine if she imbibed any, or if the fumes are what killed her.
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
CoronaVirus Disease Covid-(20)19 was caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Load More Replies...Now that we’ve probably convinced you to host a trivia night, the trivia experts have a few tips on how to make it the best it can be. Brianna from Trivia Mafia suggests that the most important thing that makes it successful is the quality of the questions.
"Trivia Mafia's approach to trivia is to avoid too many 'either you know it or you don't' questions. We write round themes, and those theme descriptions are often really helpful in giving players a clue as to what the answer to a question could be.
For instance, at a recent trivia night, I am the kind of person who is hopeless with sports knowledge. But because I knew just enough about major players in baseball and I knew the rules of the round, I was able to get the answer."
#13
TIL that photographer Robert Landsburg sacrificed his life in an attempt to save his photos during the Mount St. Helens eruption. He laid on top of his film, letting the volcanic ash cover him. Seventeen days later, his body and the preserved photos were recovered and used to document the eruption.
karenkterry1986 3 months ago
Sacrificed his life for photos seems a bit dramatic. He took the photos, realized he couldn’t outrun his fate and made a decision to do his best to preserve his last works in his life. Which is noble but not sacrificial
Alex Kennedy 3 months ago
Good, because sacrificing your life as a good photographer to save some good photos would be pretty stupid!
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Agfox 3 months ago (edited)
Exactly, he had a large ash cloud readily available, too.../S
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Reminds me of the violin player who was in a plane crash and whose body was found wrapped protectively around her violin in its case. The violin survived.
#14
TIL Dog hair is up to 80% warmer than wool but not elastic.
Auntriarch 3 months ago
I bought a book about spinning dog hair into yarn, it was called Why wear something from a sheep you've never met. Made me want to set up a husky grooming business 😂
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
I know someone who made a plushie which she stuffed with hair from her German Shepherd. Her kids named the plushie Mr Stinky, guess why.
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Cindy Brick 3 months ago
Okay. And what would your sweater, spun from dog hair, smell like on a wet day?
Jude Bennett 3 months ago
I had my Samoyed's hair spun into yarn. Gorgeous to wear and very warm.
MAKtheknife 3 months ago
Yes, and I've heard of people making items out of dog fur, and it was okay until it got wet!
Sally Moen 3 months ago
You can't spin dog hair into yarn to knit a sweater, its gotta be a mix of wool and dog hair.
Jude Bennett 3 months ago
Samoyeds have a double coat so wool is not needed.
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 3 months ago
Makes really good knitted sweaters and mittens though when spun into yarn.
Trillian 3 months ago
A friend of my mom's tried that but said they were itchy beyond belief
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TIL about Bir Tawil, an 800-square-mile area of land between Egypt and Sudan that is terra nullius (land belonging to no one) because both countries refuse to claim it. Claiming Bir Tawil would legally force them to give up their claim on the more valuable Hala'ib Triangle.
Oerff On Tour 3 months ago
I claim it! And as the national anthem I'll take the tune of Woody Woodpecker. Tidelideedee
STress (I/me) 3 months ago
That doesn't mean that the area is unclaimed. Among at least five claims, the most famous is the first one - in June 2014, Jeremiah Heaton, a 39-year-old farmer from Virginia, United States arrived at Bir Tawil and declared the formation of the Kingdom of North Sudan. Heaton's motives included making his daughter, Emily, a princess.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Surprised the US or the UK haven't swooped in to claim since they can't help themselves from mucking about in the Middle East and causing trouble.
Oerff On Tour 3 months ago
The Brits have given the world enough Independence days
Load More Replies... Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
Both sides say the area belongs to the other side, and they both don't allow anyone else to claim it.
Other things Brianna finds crucial for an enjoyable trivia night are an engaging host and the pace of the game.
“Our games are typically 90-120 minutes, and our hosts have flexibility within that time frame to pace trivia appropriately. Some players and businesses want the host to move a little faster so people can close their tabs or get their kids to bed on a school night. Other places want a longer experience, where folks are really taking their time answering questions, eating and/or drinking, and enjoying a night out."
#16
TIL horseshoe crab blood is worth 60,000$ per gallon
She who must not be named 3 months ago
Horseshoe crab blood is expensive because it contains Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), a crucial component for detecting dangerous bacterial endotoxins in medical products. This ancient immune response, where amebocytes clot around invaders, provides a vital, highly sensitive, and reliable test to ensure vaccines and medical devices are safe. The high demand from the pharmaceutical industry, coupled with the complex and intensive harvesting process that can cause significant mortality among the crabs, drives up the blood's price. (Copied and pasted from Google AI because I was intrigued)
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 3 months ago
I've seen the way they draw the blood. It's totally brutal.
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Michael Largey 3 months ago
It's getting the milking pail underneath them that's the hard part.
Foxglove🇮🇪 3 months ago
Their blood is bright blue because they use the copper-based hemocyanin rather than the iron-based hemoglobin of most animals. The blood of a horseshoe crab contains cells known as amebocytes. These play a similar role to the white blood cells of vertebrates in defending the organism against pathogens. Amebocytes from the blood of Limulus polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in medical applications. here is a high demand for blood, the harvest of which involves collecting the animals, bleeding them, and then releasing them back into the sea. Wikipedia
FichenDich 2 months ago
TIL A horseshoe crab has a teaspoon of blood that takes at least five minutes to extract and that there are 640 teaspoons in a gallon.
Learner Panda 3 months ago
Horseshoe crab blood is used to create Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), a substance that detects bacterial endotoxins, a critical safety component for testing vaccines, d***s, and medical devices for contamination before human use. The LAL reacts to these toxins by clotting, ensuring that harmful bacteria do not enter the human bloodstream and cause illness or death. While LAL is a vital medical breakthrough, the reliance on harvesting horseshoe crabs has raised ethical concerns, and new synthetic alternatives are being developed and adopted, though the transition is not yet complete.
David Smith 3 months ago
What is horseshoe crab blood used for? Maybe my mother in law had several!
#17
TIL Antarctica has a full-time professional fire department, and maintains about 46 staff.
Rika 3 months ago
There are quite a few scientific bases in Antarctica. I don't find it so weird to have people ready in case of a fire.
2WheelTravlr 3 months ago
Yes, and fighting fire in intensely cold conditions is very difficult and requires trained firefighters and proper equipment.
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Michael Largey 3 months ago
"Why did you yell 'Chocolate!'?" "Because no one in Antarctica would come if I yelled 'Fire!'".
Ace 3 months ago
I think of all the adjectives you could choose to describe living in Antarctica "nice" would be close to the bottom of the list for most people.
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TIL in 2021 in Austria, during a routine bandage change that occurred 2 days after a patient's leg amputation surgery, it was discovered that the wrong leg had been amputated. The surgeon was found guilty of gross negligence and fined €2,700 and the patient's widow was awarded €5,000 in damages.
BeesEelsAndPups 3 months ago
The patient's widow? Did he die because the wrong leg was amputated?
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
It was an "elderly" patient, who died before the case got to court. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59498082
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Cases like this are why, when I went in for surgery I was asked at every single stage to confirm who I was and what surgery I was getting, right up until I got into the operating theatre. (It was successful and they fixed my beak right up, if anybody's wondering).
Danielle 3 months ago
When I had my operation they also wrote what the surgeon was supposed to be doing on my arm and got me to read and agree it was correct!
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Rika 3 months ago
When I was a teen in France, I read the testimony of a young girl who was set to have her wisdom teeth removed. As she was wheeled in, she heard the surgeon and nurses talk about the amputation, she tried to tell them she wasn't there for that but they assumed she was being delirious or delusional and they were about to put her under when another nurse burst in to say they got the wrong patient. I was going to have my wisdom teeth removed under GA a couple of weeks later, you bet I made sure to remind all medical personnel that I'm not getting an effing amputation.
B Jones 2 months ago
One good result of USA dentistry separated from general medical. The dentist would never try to amputate a limb
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 3 months ago
In Washington State, the law requires the patient and doctor to both sign and date the surgery site on the body, which is documented by a photo. After he explained that to me, "Good to know. I was hoping you were going to operate on the purple leg."
Janissary35680 3 months ago
Bob Rivers, Wrong Foot Amputated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnvoM1ACsrA ("Don't try to say I got a two for one sale")
Riley Quinn 3 months ago (edited)
I've only had a couple of surgeries, but I mark the body part that's being operated on with a marker. Too many distractions in a hospital to rely on overworked staff.
Meanwhile, Brie highlights the importance of knowing the players.
"The most important part of planning a successful trivia night is knowing your audience. You will want very different questions for a busy, crowded night at a sports bar versus a bridal shower brunch. Questions should always be tailored to ensure that the group is engaged and entertained rather than always prioritizing difficulty.”
#19
TIL that former MLB pitcher Randy Johnson kept a bag of baseballs by his bed to throw at home invaders
David 3 months ago
considering he threw over 100mph and that famous bird video, any thief would not be alive after getting hit in the head
BrunoVI 3 months ago
If y'all don't know what David means, a bird once had the misfortune of swooping down into the trajectory of Johnson's fastball and appeared to the TV camera to turn into an explosion of feathers. I don't care how many times you've seen predators in NatGeo specials, you're going to go "OOOF!" if you watch the video.
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Major Harris 3 months ago
need to watch the clip when, sadly, i bird crossed his path just when he let a fastball loose. explosion of feathers.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
For him that's better than a gun. He's probably more accurate with the balls.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
And jockeys keep a stableful of horses to stampede and trample intruders.
#20
TIL that houseflies can get addicted to Nicotine and C*****e. In smoker's homes, house and fruit flies will change their evolutionary behaviors to seek out cigarette smoke, even though nicotine is extremely toxic to them
NapQueen 3 months ago
So, I would like to know how somebody can wake up one morning and decide to test the hypothesis that FLIES are addicted to Nicotine and Cocain3....
Ace 3 months ago (edited)
They didn't. This one's a fake. There have been some studies on the affects of tobacco smoke on fruit flies, for example to study how it affects the heart, but nothing involving addictionn (I was interested to find how they could try to measure that), and not even anything I could find in the way of urban myths suggesting that they're attracted to smoke, whereas there's a wealth of collective wisdom that smoke generally repels flying insects.
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Riley Quinn 3 months ago (edited)
I call BS based on empirical evidence. I'm a heavy smoker, and the fruit flies don't hang out with me in the living room. They stay in the kitchen where the food is located. Ditto for the occasional house fly that makes it's way in.
Sven Horlemann 3 months ago
Ok, so be ready in the next quiz, where they ask "what do flies and humans have in common"?
Ace 3 months ago
Not so; it's still perfectly legal to smoke in private spaces like your own home.
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TIL in the early 1840s, Ohio's Oberline College banned students from consuming meat, seasonings, condiments, and most caffeinated beverages, and at one point many students were living on bread and water.
CloudberryRushXo:
This was part of the "Grahamite" health movement, which promoted a bland, vegetarian diet for moral and physical purity.
The extreme rules banning spices and caffeine were very unpopular and quickly abandoned due to student protests over poor nutrition.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Oh, the good old days when students protested and weren't deported or arrested for it.
Kelly H. Wilder 3 months ago
Kellogg, founder of Kelloggs cereal, advocated a very similar diet
Sven Horlemann 3 months ago
Oh, this is why the morals of all of us are in decline. I get it now!
With the game now organized, how do you improve your chances of winning? We all want to be winners, don’t we?
Brianna’s piece of advice for winning is to make more friends with different interests or with plentiful life experiences.
“The teams that do the best with trivia have a really wide Venn diagram of knowledge, even if there aren't a lot of people on the team. Intergenerational teams also do really well, because there are zeitgeist moments that will be obvious to them that won't be as obvious to the person across the table. They can work together using their individual strengths."
#22
TIL that the American Indian Wars only ended a 101 years ago in August 1924 with the conclusion of the Apache War and the granting of citizenship to all Amerindians in June 1924.
Tabitha 3 months ago
The US government granting Native Americans citizenship in the country they occupied FIRST is downright oxymoronic.
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Charlie the Cat 3 months ago (edited)
So before that, they were not considered citizens? In their own country? What!!!? 🙄
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago (edited)
They were given the ownership of reservations in perpetuity or until oil or other natural resources were found on their land, so they were moved to other permanent reservations.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago (edited)
I don't even know how to respond to this level of irony and cruelty. White immigrants granted the native peoples citizenship, stuck them in isolated areas, took their children away to educate them in the "proper, christian" way (which is it's own heinous story). It's difficult not to hate this government and the arrogant racists who reside here.
MAKtheknife 3 months ago
You mean granting citizenship to the white folks? The Indians were already citizens.
#23
TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn't want to fill his car up covered in tears
DennyS (denzoren) 3 months ago
Oliver is the best ever...second might just be the WRX from the Africa special.
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 months ago
I cried too. Poor Hamster. I adore him. Even got Helsinki Syndrome once.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 3 months ago
He was always my favourite… and I say that as somebody who only ever watched the show as a kid when pops had it on.
#24
TIL in 2007 a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale brewed in 1852 was put up for auction online, however it was misspelt 'Allsop's Arctic Ale' in the listing. This made it hard to search for, so the winning bid was only $304. The buyer then relisted it with the correct spelling and it sold for $503,300.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
The original owner should have set a reserve price.
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Uncle Panda 3 months ago
It's obscene someone spent half a mil on an old bottle on a planet where people are starving. We need new morals.
DeoManus Argentem 3 months ago
Not as historic or amazing as this, but my dad got me my first car (a Chevrolet Camaro) at an almost steal because the lady listing it (it was her ex-husband's) wrote it up as "Camero" in the newspaper and never got any interest.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Must be related to that guy here on BP who keeps spelling it 'Camero'. Bonus - it was a picture of a Dodge.
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Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
What kind of crappy search engine / method were they using? Its only one letter off. Thats like not being able to find the Mona Lisa because it said "Mona Liza"
Rich Black 2 months ago
this is why people believe they can get rich from collectables: pokemon cards, star wars light sabers, and signed baseballs.
Brie, on the other hand, recommends practicing. "Trivia, like many hobbies, is something a player can improve on with practice. In general, staying aware of current events and taking time to read for enjoyment will improve your odds of success."
Brie added, "I always encourage players not to focus on winning or losing, but to lean into what they got out of the process. There are almost always questions that one can’t answer, but paying attention and reflecting on them can often be as personally beneficial as knowing the right answer."
#25
TIL On August 11, 1952, the Jordanian parliament forced King Talal to abdicate less than 13 months into his rule due to his mental illness. He would spend the rest of his life in a sanatorium.
Molly A. Block 3 months ago
Why can't' we do the same here in the USA? I mean, COME ON, "patriots," DO something! Enough with our king geoffrey with the orange spray tan, enough with the firearms, enough with the hatred towards anything even considered the be DEI, enough hating our blacks, our Hispanics, our Jews, our LGBTQ+++, enough with the divisiveness he is causing. He is splitting our country and making us hate each other! Someone has to do something!
David 3 months ago
Allegedly, there has never been provided evidence he had any mental illness. What happened right before is he forced a new constitution that granted equal rights, and gave some power to the people. made the Prime Minister and all the ministers subordinate to the Parliament which was given more power. He also was anti-British and wanted to fire all the British officers in the Jordanian military like the CinC of the Jordanian Arab Legion, Sir John Glubb, and over 150 British officers and replace them with Jordanians. He also wanted to make peace with Israel, which the hardliners opposed (make the ceasefire line an official border and a non-aggression pact with Israel, for which he was nearly assassinated for). What happened is pro-British Prime Minister Tawfik Abu al-Huda and Pro-British Jordanian Queen Zein al-Sharaf (his wife, who wanted her son on the throne giving her power) tried to oust him,
David 3 months ago
when it failed they approach Sir John Glubb the British general on loan to command the Jordanian military to help with the actions to remove him. Glubb arrested all officers who were loyalists to the King, and using the ones who opposed the reforms with his core of British officers, with the PM, and old guard Royal officials who opposed the reforms, forced the Parliament, with troops in the chamber to force him to abdicate and then institionaized him. Shortly later the PM and Queens ruled as regents until the new king was of age, and kept Jordan as essentially an extension of the British Empire fully dependent on British investment, weapons, officers, and more. But those people kept their power in Jordan.
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Rich Black 2 months ago
not precisely true. he was "ousted" by the british for failing to sign onto a peace deal with israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talal_of_Jordan
#26
TIL about HTTP 451, an error status code displayed when the user requests a resource which cannot be served for legal reasons. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451", in which books are outlawed..
#27
TIL the most reliable record-high IQ score ever recorded belongs to mathematician Terence Tao, with a confirmed IQ of 230.
Alex Kennedy 3 months ago
230 is a meaningless IQ score (and Terence Tao would know that). It is 8.6 standard deviations above the mean, meaning that (I believe; I cannot find an online calculator that goes that high) that the score would suggest that out of a population of one trillion, less than one person did that well.
Alex Kennedy 3 months ago (edited)
Also, IQ Tests were developed to test children’s achievements in school — any other applications are just total BS, often originally motivated by racism. (And because I score very high on those BS tests, if you believe they are an accurate measure of general intelligence, you should believe me when I say they are BS).
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Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
High scores on standardized tests means that you are good at taking standardized tests.
Agfox 3 months ago
This article provides a lot of information about Terrence Tao https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tao/
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
IQ tests aren't pseudo-science, however according to Science Daily, "scientists concluded that the notion of measuring one's intelligence quotient or IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly misleading."
David Shaw 2 months ago
There are so many things wrong with IQ scores that they are totally worthless. For example - what, actually, is intelligence? We don't know; we have no definition of it, so how do we know what we're measuring or that we're measuring it in an appropriate and accurate manner? And the scores are fiddled *ahem* I mean, of course, "adjusted" every year so that both the mean and median are exactly 100, so it's impossible to compare scores from one year to the next. Then there's all the cultural factors which affect the scores - proven beyond reasonable doubt to exist, despite the IQ testers claims that the tests aren't affected by them - which means that someone who scores above genius level on a Western test could quite conceivably score below average on an Asian test. And don't forget the socio-economic factors which aren't taken into account but which definitely have an effect. All in all, the whole thing is suspect and, in my opinion, on a par with homeopathy and other such woowoo.
Bartlet for world domination 3 months ago (edited)
Reading is hard, isn't it. And why would you ask Alex' opinion and then accuse them of lying? Would you believe their answer?
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TIL the country that eats the most pizza per capita is Norway, with each person eating about 11 pounds of pizza a year.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Wouldn't have been my first guess, so I had to look up popular toppings. Seems it's meat, cheese, and red sauce, and the other popular topping's are sweet corn, salad, and shrimp.
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 3 months ago
The poster is confused by the metric system. It is 11.4kg, or 25lb
Load More Replies... Francois 3 months ago
Not surprising, normal restaurants in Norway are very expensive. Pizzas and burgers are the only food you can get for less then £20/$25.
Remi (He/Him) 3 months ago
A lot of the pizza eaten is of the frozen variety. Grandiosa pizza company leading the way
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TIL That London's Billingsgate Fish and Smithfield Meat Markets will both close in 2028, after the Corporation of London decided against building them new locations in Dagenham. Smithfields has existed since the 10th Century and Billingsgate since the 16th Century.
Crystalwitch60 3 months ago
This has been on the news a lot here in uk, they are fighting to keep it open
XenoMurph 3 months ago
Everything dies. I was sad that a local hardware store was closing, it had been open for three generations. Then I realised I got all my stuff for work from screwfix because the hardware store was on a street with no parking, and it just took too much time to get there, I'd not shopped there in 15 years. No wonder it closed. "This stone axe business has been in my Family since my father Ugh's great grandfather's great grandfather. Who will make our stone axes now? This bronze thing is just a fad."
Load More Replies... Foxglove🇮🇪 3 months ago
FFS, no sense of history. Does the corporation want to pull them down?
Serena Myers 3 months ago
Apparently the decision was made not to spend money on relocation and instead to provide financial support to the traders so that they could move to new locations of their choosing. Increasing traffic restrictions, congestion, and in the case of Smithfield, a Grade II listed site, meant that the traders were not prospering. Or something like that. From City of London info.
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eddy edward 2 months ago
While working night shift at nearby St. Bart's Hospital in the 80s, we used to love piling into the pubs around Smithfield because they opened around 6/7am to cater to the meat market night workers (special historical laws for that area).
Rich Black 2 months ago
been in business for 400 years, and never saved up enough money to build a replacement market when the old one finally wore out?
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 3 months ago
City of London Corporation operates independently of the mayor of London's office. But blame Khan for everything.
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TIL Approximately 70,000 years ago, the human population was between 5,000 and 10,000
Grape Walls of Ire 3 months ago
Impossible! Everyone says the Earth is only 6000 years old. /s
Khavrinen 3 months ago
Don't be ridiculous. Anyone with a calendar knows it's only 2025 years old. ( also /s )
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Colin Roach 3 months ago
I take it you are volunteering to take yourself out of the Gene pool then? To start the process.
Load More Replies... Sven Horlemann 3 months ago
WRONG. There is nothing in the bible about it. Fire the statistics guy!
Rich Black 2 months ago
they were confined to a coastal region in africa because of climate change . . .
#31
TIL Ian Fleming, author of the original 007 novels, was against the casting of Sean Connery as James Bond, calling him an “overgrown stuntman”, and criticizing his appearance. However, he ended up liking Connery’s performance so much that he characterized Bond based on him in future novels.
Jrog 3 months ago (edited)
Fleming was... a piece of work to say the least. He was a chain smoker and heavy drinker, often starting his day with a martini or a bourbon and going through four packs a day. He alternated cigs and drinks with strong coffee and hated anyone who drank tea. He was obsessive about bespoke clothing, was a gambling a****t and drove like a madman, most of 007 defining acts were him playing his fantasies. He was a conservative edgelord, strongly traditionalist but outspoken against institutions. He often played mean pranks on his friends, including serving food with wasps inside, or placing scorpions and large insects in the guest rooms. He bragged about being a WW2 spy and special ops agents, but his service records dispute this (he was personal assistant to rear-admiral Godfrey) and had a hand in devising some plans, but never participated actively.
Auntriarch 3 months ago
Talking about being a spy is generally an indication to the contrary
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Onan Hag All 3 months ago
Read "Opperation Mincemeat" to get a picture of Ian Fleming, a man who contributed greatly to the UK's war efforts.
2WheelTravlr 3 months ago
I was fortunate to see the Broadway play last month, it was amazing. Crazy they can cram so much humor, history, and fantastic music into a few hours of entertainment.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Sean Connery will always be the best Bond, despite the misogyny of the movies, in my opinion. Really liked the other actors' portrayals, but he was the first that got the franchise going strong.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Fleming made Bond to be of Scottish descent in his books because Connery was a Scot.
Janissary35680 3 months ago
To be honest I never really warmed to any of the versions of Bond post-Connery.
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
H8s wife would disagree. I went to school with her son.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 3 months ago (edited)
Actually watch one of the movies, take note of what a t**t Bond is and ask yourself if you would really want to know someone like him.
Moving Enigma 3 months ago
At least they're easier to understand than this illiterate un-punctuated drivel, please for the sake of others sanity it's not n it's and - you clearly have enough time to type it out given the number of contents you post here!
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TIL Matt Groening was approached to adapt his 'Life in Hell' comic for The Tracey Ullman Show. Fearing he’d lose ownership and hurt his comic if the show failed, Groening quickly created The Simpsons
BrunoVI 3 months ago
What's with all the toxic a******s piling on Pyla; I don't agree but I do know people who were HUGE fans of Life in Hell and it's totally valid opinion.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
Yes, but The Simpsons is one of the best shows ever made. I think a lot of people must feel strongly about it.
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#33
TIL the last conviction for private and conseual homosexual acts in the USA was in 1998.
London Paris 3 months ago
Guess where . . . .go on, have a guess 😄 YEP, IT WAS TEXAS . . . of COURSE it was texas 🤣
Jrog 3 months ago (edited)
If it's stupid, it's Florida. If it's evil, it's Texas. If it's incestous, it's Alabama. If it's religious BS it's Utah.
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Rika 3 months ago
Military service used to be mandatory in France at a time when homosexuality was still considered a mental illness. A classmate's uncle and his roommate wanted to avoid military service so they faked being gay and made out in public for everyone to see. It worked, they were considered too mentally ill to be in the army.
elmortero 3 months ago
Last one SO FAR, looks you guys over there might be going back to those times
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 months ago
If this GOP Administration has it's way, it will be illegal again
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Wish they were as punitive with ped0philes, but they seem to be able to continue their nonconsensual behavior with impunity.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
Socities that actively punish people for homosexuality are usually not the most developed ones in other departments either, so I don't know why anybody would actively want to be part of one
#34
TIL that the saliva of Komodo dragons - contrary to popular belief - doesn't have more bacteria than other carnivores, and actually have a very good mouth hygiene.
Rika 3 months ago
"Doesn't have more bacteria than other carnivores" means... you're likely to die anyway. You can survive being attacked by a lion or a shark, your biggest concern should be the infection that happens next, this is what will probably end you despite all the medical care you get. (And while it's still up for debate, Komodo dragons are believed to produce anticoagulant, which means you'll just... bleed to death from a single wound.)
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Unlike domestic cats. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore cats, and my immune system is strong enough to ward off any infection. My ex, on the other hand, had blood poisoning 3X from our healthy cats due to the bacteria in their mouths.
Jon Lee 2 months ago
I nearly lost a hand due to septicaemia following a cat bite. Emergency surgery and 3 days on an antibiotic drip.
Load More Replies... Learner Panda 3 months ago
Komodo dragon saliva contains a potent, venomous cocktail of toxins that lowers blood pressure, prevents blood clotting, and induces shock, rather than relying on bacteria as once thought. While their saliva does contain some bacteria from their diet, the primary lethal weapon in a Komodo dragon's bite is its venom. This venom, combined with the dragon's sharp, serrated teeth that tear flesh, incapacitates prey, making them vulnerable to blood loss and shock.
B Jones 2 months ago
I've also heard humans were in the way to evolve a similar venomous cocktail in their saliva
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TIL when Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace premiered in May 1999, it's estimated that 2.2 million full-time employees in the US missed work to attend the film, which resulted in a $293 million loss of productivity.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Now, imagine what would happen if twice or three times as many workers pulled this stunt in the name of crippling greedy owners who don't pay them fairly.
John O'Donnell 3 months ago
I went to see it on a date, (her idea not mine) yeah, that was the end of that.
Cammy Mack 3 months ago
I don't remember skipping work, but I hoped it would be good, but that most hated of characters kept jerking me out of enjoyment. But I was not an adolescent, and George Lucas is competent business man, and he knew by making it a certain way he could capture another generation in addition to his original fans, with acceptable losses. And he succeeded. By dismissing his concepts for a sequel trilogy, Disney effectively shot themselves in the foot, and it's a long walk to the bank now.
Sofia 3 months ago (edited)
it is a good movie but could have been great if only they would have gave more space to qui obi jinn and darth maul
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Darth Maul was so under-utilized.
Load More Replies... Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
I've seen the movie once. But ive watched the red letter media review of it at least 4 times
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago (edited)
Fvck productivity. Even watching Jar Jar Binks is better than going to work.
#36
TIL that in 2021, a Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando to Knoxville was cancelled, leaving 13 people stranded, with no other flights for another two days. The group worked together to rent a minivan and drove the entire distance, making it there the following morning.
Krystle Deschene 3 months ago
Awe! It's just like home alone! I wonder if they played polka music. 🤣
CooperDooper81 3 months ago
It's nothing like Home Alone but it is like Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
Load More Replies... tameson 3 months ago (edited)
I read about this when it happened. It sounded like they all had a great time! https://abc7news.com/post/flight-canceled-road-trip-strangers-flights/12540021/#:~:text=They%20had%20one%20thing%20in,selfie%20from%20inside%20the%20van.&text=When%20the%20idea%20first%20started,of%20history%2C%22%20he%20says.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 months ago
The title is misleading, according to the Reddit thread, they rented a 15-passenger van.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I remember this story. It was in all the media. Smart thinking travelers.
#37
TIL that the $2 bill is still being printed and circulated today. The reason it feels rare is because so many people believe it’s rare and end up hoarding it, which keeps it out of circulation.
BeesEelsAndPups 3 months ago
A lot of banks don't put them into distribution because of people's reluctance to spend them. You can ask your back for a few notes, and they usually have them. Post office sometimes does to. They aren't usually worth more than face value. The notes stamped by the post office on 1976 can be worth tens of dollars. Circulated bills from before 1900 can be hundreds of dollars. Uncirculated bills from prior to 1966 can be thousands of dollars.
Kelly Scott 3 months ago
In a traditional bank drawer used for storing money at the teller station, there isn't a place to put a $2 bill. Likewise, very few coin trays have any place to put Eisenhower dollars or Sacajawea coins, either.
Load More Replies... FreeTheUnicorn 3 months ago
Strip clubs, casinos and bingo halls are the stereotype of where to find them
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
People went nuts over the US' Bicentennial Quarter in 1976, but they made the same number of coins that year as before and after.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
Be VERY careful if you spend them, I almost got arrested for that down at the local 7/11. Took a teller from the local bank to convince the cop not to have me arrested for paper hanging.
Dre Mosley 3 months ago
I used to have have one in my piggy bank as a kid and some buffalo nickels.
George Costanza 3 months ago
I know a couple strip clubs that only give you change in $2 bills to increase the girls' tips.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I never liked them, rare or not. It was a stupid idea. But, if the government is wasting our money, it's okay.
#38
TIL that up to 31% of kids and 10–15% of adults grind or clench their teeth in their sleep. It’s linked to stress, anxiety, depression, headaches, TMJ pain, and sore jaws. Night guards don’t stop it, they just protect teeth from the damage
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
If this is a problem the first thing to try is taking a daily magnesium supplement. We require calcium to contract our muscles and magnesium to relax them, and for most of us in the West the balance in our bodies is too far towards the calcium.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago (edited)
And if you DO take a Magnesium Supplement, know this: The most common Magnesium supplement in the stores is Magnesium Oxide - which is *very* poorly absorbed by the body. Look for Magnesium Citrate or Magnesium Glycinate. These are much more readily absorbed, and the different formulations appear to have somewhat different benefits. There is also Magnesium L-Threonate, with a different set of benefits, but it can be expensive and hard to find. My doctor recommended Magnesium for me. After I learned about the different types, I switched to Citrate and Glycinate gummies - like fruit-flavored gum drops; they're delicious. Purely anecdotal, but since the switch, I don't ache nearly as badly when I get up in the morning. (They're supposed to support 'muscle relaxation'.) Your mileage will probably vary.
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Sally Moen 3 months ago
Botox injected in the jaw muscles will relieve the pain for about 6 months. Idk if its hard to chew after Botox
#39
TIL that Andreas Mihavecz, the person who holds the record with longest survival without food or water,* was locked in a holding cell and forgotten for 18 days
Bartlet for world domination 3 months ago
*He survived because he was able to consume condensation from the cell walls.
Isabella K 3 months ago
O my... just read the wikipedia article. That was in austria. We have a really twisted relationship with basements...
Nicola Roberts 3 months ago
On 1 April 1979, the then 18-year-old Mihavecz[1] was mistakenly put into custody in a holding cell for being a passenger in a crashed car and completely forgotten about by the three policemen responsible for him. Each of them thought that the two others had already freed Mihavecz - Wiki
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Jane Hower 2 months ago
3 min without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food, 30 hours without sleep.
#40
TIL Sampoong Department store collapse. The owner changed building design that removed support columns for floor space. Years later when warned about the risk of imminent collapse he refused to evacuate people out the building over fears of revenue loss. 502 victims died
Jrog 3 months ago
This is a broad simplification. Columns were not removed, they were redesigned to be smaller and further apart. Then, there were other major factors. Design changes including adding extra floors. Concrete made with seawater and beach sand instead of clean water and good aggregates, with half the rebar required. Heavy machinery on the roof that got moved around without any structural consideration. Multiple ignored signs of structural instability ignored. Orders for evacuation postponed to avoid losing sales....
panther 3 months ago
And then people will complain about building codes being so strict.
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B Jones 2 months ago
This is what I heard, now if management is leaving I'm leaving too.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Another greedy business person is OK with letting people die so he can save money. In other news, sun rises in east.
#41
TIL Romani people were chattel slaves in Romania until 1856
PeepPeep the duck 3 months ago
Chattel is - forever slaves / property slaves. As opposed to indentured / debt slaves
qpnf96zhn5 3 months ago
Thank you for explaining that. Now I have learned something new today too.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
The history and culture of the Roma people is fascinating with an ancestry originating in India. No longer chattel, but not welcomed in most places due to ethnic stereotypes they are still forced to live with.
#42
TIL that gold can be made so thin that 1 ounce can cover 300 square feet ft as “gold leaf”.
Agfox 3 months ago
Using google, approx 4,431 bananas would be needed to cover a 300 sq foot area
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Jrog 3 months ago (edited)
We already checked the numbers on this, and this is BS. 31,1 g of gold spread over 27,9 square meters would mean the gold leaf is 57 nm thick. That is way less than the standard thickness for gold leaf (300-500 nm) and half the thinnest commercially available leaves. It would be a leaf 2 atoms thick, about as thick as the thinnest possible gold leaf created in laboratory conditions (0,47 nm)
Sacred Panda 3 months ago
I think that is the reason they used a weird system so nobody could run the maths
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#43
TIL that during Benito Mussolini's rule in Italy, homosexuals were rounded up and sent to the Tremiti archipelago.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
So they sent gay guys to a place that was all men. How long was the waiting list?
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
Well he his regime literally is the father of facism, does somebody expect tolerance from any dictatorship?
Eastendbird 3 months ago
There's a play by Martin Sherman called Bent, which is all about the persecution of gay people in N**i Germany. They were arrested, tortured, imprisoned and sent to concentration camps.
#44
TIL about ortolan bunting, the French practice of force-feeding a bird, dunking it in liquor, frying it in its own fat, then eating it whole. It is customary to cover one’s face with a cloth while consuming it to “hide oneself from God’s judgment.” Their hunting and consumption is banned in the EU.
Pyla 3 months ago
There was a very good article about one of Mitterand’s last meals and ortolan was on the menu…….. it is important to know europe has a very bad bird poaching problem. CABS monitors, catches and tries to prevent it, but they are insane for sooting migratory birds, trapping songbirds, and killing hawks. It’s really bad. CABS is committee against bird slaughter and could use support
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I will never understand animal cruelty. Genesis 1:26 claims man's dominion over animals, but it doesn't say they should be sick, twisted, sadistic torturers. My father taught me to always be respectful, even when hunting, by taking the animal down quickly to spare its suffering.
#45
TIL that there's an average of 22cm height disparity between rich and poor people in the Philippines. The highest in the world due to nutrition differences and other socio-economic factors.
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
In London there is an area known as Kensington. The average life expectancy between people born in South Ken and North Ken is ten years. That’s what privilege brings you.
BrunoVI 3 months ago
America has seen little old ladies serve as a reminder of waves of immigration from poorer countries. In the 1980s, little old Italian ladies were popular in pop culture, like Sophia Petrillo. Then it was little old Asian ladies. Today, it's little old Central American ladies. The men were more likely to eat more protein and more likely to die young. This is of course within my memory. I suppose there was a time when little old German ladies were common.
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
Umm, that wasn’t a joke. That was horrible, racist, and also implies that there’s something wrong with a man being little or having a smaller dîck than average.
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TIL in 2023 a Kenyan male chess player wore a burka as a disguise to enter a women’s chess tournament for prize money, but was caught after his strong performance, silence and "masculine" shoes raised suspicion
London Paris 3 months ago
"Strong performance". At chess? His strong performance at chess? So in other words, women can't play chess very well so anyone winning must be a man ?. . . . . . . God help us if a lesbian turns in Dock Martens 💪
Linus Nilsson 3 months ago (edited)
I would guess that it is because he entered as an un-rated player, and then proceeded to play consistently better than everyone else. That would raise suspicion about cheating. Part of the investigation would be to check for hidden devices, which would reveal that he was not a woman. Edit: I found an article, and I was wrong. The judges for suspicious that a previously unknown player could be so strong. When they finally confronted him he admitted immediately. That's when they found out that he was a man as well, as he hadn't spoken before.
Load More Replies... Unholy Diver 3 months ago
The one of very few sports/competitions where gender actually doesn't make any difference.
David Shaw 2 months ago
I heard a female chess Grand Master say once that she had never won a game against a male Grand Master, that they always had some excuse why they lost to her, they 'had a headache' or were 'distracted' by something or whatever. Toxic masculinity really is both pervasive and quite, quite pathetic.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 3 months ago
I think they should drop all gender requirements for sports and let the people settle out by ability. Strangely, neither side wants that.
#47
TIL a Texas woman found she had a felony charge against her in Oklahoma by accident when she got married, after a VHS was rented with her name when she lived there 21 years earlier and wasn't returned. This explained her own mystery of having troubles with employment during these years.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago (edited)
Ah yes, Oklahoma, the home of ignoring the 1st's admonishment of establishing religion.
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2WheelTravlr 3 months ago
I thought there was no way this is the real story. But...yep, it's the real story! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vhs-tape-caron-mcbride-texas-felony-charge-sabrina-the-teenage-witch/
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Checking your CORI and credit rating are things people should do every now and then. Errors on these documents can keep you from renting a car to renting a flat or getting a loan.
Tabitha 3 months ago
I’m just wondering whether she ever got late notices from Blockbuster, or wherever she rented the tape.
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TIL about “Dolbear’s Law” - a way to (roughly) estimate temperature by counting the number of cricket chirps in a 15 second timeframe, then adding 40!
Rika 3 months ago
There are lots of crickets at my gran's place in the countryside, they chirp non-stop in the summer. She says she doesn't hear them, I assumed she was old and losing her hearing though she isn't hard of hearing in general. But when I brought my husband there and he told me that he can't hear the crickets, I wondered if it was some kind of frequency some can't hear. Either way, I hate that constant chirping, it's the kind of noise I can't stand for longer than a couple of minutes.
My O My 3 months ago
That's intresting! I can hear them. Are there pandas that can't hear them?
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 3 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s_law I learned about this when I was 10 or so. I remember testing it and finding it wasn't very accurate though. I guess we had "field crickets". Where I live now we have cicadas (Lyristes gemellus). Their chirping is definitely related to ambient temperature (they start when it reaches about 30 C or so but there's no temperature-chirps per minute correlation so far as I can tell.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Rural folks have always known this, but then there's a heckava lot more crickets chirping in the country.
#49
TIL there is an archipelago just off the coast of Canada that is a French overseas territory. Its inhabitants are French and EU citizens.
Hmmm hmmmm 3 months ago
Similarly Frances largest land border is with Brazil as a result of french Guyana , it's colony in south America
David Paterson 3 months ago
France has four borders with Australia. In the coral sea between New Caledonia and Qld, south of the Indian Ocean between Kerlighan islands and Heard Island. And two borders in Antarctica, one either side of the disputed Adele land. France's land border with Brazil is shorter than the Antarctic ones with Australia.
Load More Replies... Mat O'Dowd 3 months ago
France has the second biggest Exclusive Economic Zone after the USA. EEZ is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. All this, thanks to extensive hard work /s (colonialism, is closer to the truth!!! ) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
FreeTheUnicorn 3 months ago
St Pierre er Miquelon. But all the French overseas territories are in the EU, just as Dutch, Danish, Spanish and Portuguese territories are all part of the EU.
Oerff On Tour 3 months ago
The world's longest domestic flight is also in France. To the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean
#50
TIL that college graduates who joined fraternities have higher incomes despite their lower grades.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
You can be the most useless incompetent jerk on the planet, but as long as you're in the good books of the right people that won't hold you back much.
Janissary35680 3 months ago
Not nepotism. Nepotism is when relatives are favored over non-relatives. This is more in the nature of "Who You Know".
Load More Replies... 웅장한 거북이 🇰🇷🇰🇭 3 months ago
Where is the surprise? You can allways count on the biggest asshats stick together
Rosecrucian Roeth 3 months ago
It is not what you know, it is who you know....................
#51
TIL after Tim Duncan's sophomore year in college he was already a top NBA prospect. Jerry West, the Lakers GM, said he could've been the #1 pick in the '95 draft. But he finished college instead because he promised his dying mom he'd get a degree. It didn't hurt his draft position, he went #1 in '97
#52
TIL that NATO tanks fire rounds with semi-combustible nitrocellulose casings; Basically Explosive paper. Most of the casing burns up when fired, leaving only a small metal stub for the crew to remove, reducing weight and increasing fire rate.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago (edited)
'Nitrocellulose', otherwise known as 'Guncotton'. As I understand it, it was accidentally discovered when someone used a cotton towel to wipe up some spilled nitric acid and put it behind his stove to dry. Once dried, he saw a spark from the stove hit it and the whole thing instantly combusted, 'Whoosh'! It was refined and used as propellant for projectiles. I believe it produced much less smoke than the gunpowder of those days. P.S. - In his novel "From the Earth to the Moon", Jules Verne had the Baltimore Gun Club's 'Columbiad' cannon, intended to throw a projectile to the Moon, charged with guncotton instead of gunpowder. Amusingly, the Columbiad was constructed near where Cape Canaveral is now, the projectile was roughly the same dimensions and shape as the Apollo Command/Service Module, and it carried a crew of three.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
It's good for the environment! What will they think of next? There must be even better ways to annihilate people that's being conceived right now.
#53
TIL wealth consultants told the actors on the TV show Succession not to duck their heads when exiting a helicopter because "you would've been doing this your whole lives. You know where the propeller is. You wouldn’t duck your head, you’d just walk right the f**k out."
Jrog 3 months ago
That is plain stupid. People working with helicopters daily duck their heads. Pilots do so. Medevac crews do so. It's actually part of mandatory safety training for those people, since 1) blades flex significantly when slowing down 2) ground may be uneven 3) if you are primed on ducking you are less likely to raise a hand or jump 4) some helos have the blades much lower than others. Ducking as an automatic reflex greatly reduces the overall risk, is generally good practice and it helps is not receiving raised dust in your eyes.
Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
But she's talking about rich SOBs who are too important to worry about silly things like safety practices. They need to show they are in control.
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Wealth consultants: Don’t duck, it looks better Safety Officer: Sign this waiver
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago (edited)
Consultant, if you knew anything about wealth you'd know it's a rotor, not a propellor.
Crystalwitch60 3 months ago (edited)
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Moving Enigma 3 months ago
I have no idea what an erm is... "Environmental Resources Management", perhaps?!
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TIL Disney has a code word for when guests attempt to scatter ashes at one of their theme parks: a "white powder alert"
Tucker Cahooter 3 months ago
So what code word do they use then for someone trying to snort c*****e?
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
It is; I've got my grandfather's ashes right here to confirm.
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TIL William Thornton, who designed the US Capitol building, was called to Mt Vernon to treat a dying George Washington, only to arrive after the president had died. Thornton proposed ressurrecting the frozen corpse by heating it up, inflating the lungs, and infusing lamb's blood. His family declined
#56
TIL that The Old Man and the Sea was one of Saddam Hussein’s favourite books because it was about “struggling against overwhelming odds with courage, perseverance and dignity”
Gunný Petersen 3 months ago (edited)
Exactly. A good example Trump and his stupid the art of the deal and his supposed writer the orange himself. I bet my life that he hasn't read it by himself. Someone haf to read it out loud to him because it's pretty obvious that the garbage c**p can't read or reads at a first grade level if that is even not to fast for him to comprehend. He says that the bible is his favourite book ever but then why can't he for his dearest s****y life quote not even one word of it? And that's a very hard long book to read for a r******d person with the patience of a 3 year old.
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TIL a 2023 study found sniffing women’s tears reduced male aggression by 44%
Tucker Cahooter 3 months ago
No doubt male aggression was the primary cause of the tears in the first place
Cammy Mack 3 months ago
Not always. Sometimes the kids cry because their mother is an a****r to the male marriage mate that was part of bringing children into their lives, and the typical usual feminine tenderness towards children that generally comes from mothers comes from the father instead.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 3 months ago
I presumed that one of the reasons that women cry more easily than men is to indicate that they’re not a threat so he knows he doesn’t need to be aggressive.
Tabitha 3 months ago
Too bad the overwhelming majority of men are so nose blind to that. Olfactorily obtuse, in fact.
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TIL that the state with the highest obesity rate is West Virginia, at just over 41%
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Take me home, country roads. But slowly, with a stop-off at McDonald's if you please.
Gunný Petersen 3 months ago
It's one thing to be fat but a whole different thing to be an american fat. My mother who was about 140 kg went to florid and went and bought pants of the rack in a big girls store and took XLL like she used to buy here at home Iceland 🇮🇸. When she tried them on when she came home both her legs fitted in one of the half of the pants. She could not believe how unbelievably big those pants were and the shear size of them.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
She bought them without trying them on first? Hell, I’m American and I try everything on before buying it, because sizing is so haphazard that a size 6 in one store is a 4 in the next store, and maybe even a 12 in yet another store—-and sometimes it can even vary in articles of clothing of the same design that are hanging on the same rack in the same store!
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#59
TIL that when Ronnie James Dio came to record his part of Tenaciou's D's "Kickapoo," he brought his own mic. The producer told Dio that he wouldn't need it as their mic was top of the line. One his first take, Dio effectively destroyed the studio's mic and they had to use his
#60
TIL: Video game character Lara Croft was originally envisioned as a Latina woman named Laura Cruz; however, after consulting with a book of baby names and a local phonebook, the name was changed to Lara Croft.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
The developers gave her a backstory after (to their surprise) players got really interested in just who this woman was and wanted to know more about her. I remember reading it in the gaming manual back in the day (remember when games came with those little books full of lore and instructions on how to play?).
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Another victim of the current epidemic of glorifying illiteracy.
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Rika 3 months ago
I once watched a movie about Cara Loft seeking the uteruses of crystal. It was... strangely interesting for a p*rn movie.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Check out 'Flesh Gordon' sometime. A soft-p0rn parody of the old Saturday morning 'Flash Gordon' serials, it is surprisingly entertaining and quite an imaginative parody if you're not a prude. Lots of good talent behind the camera, too.
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TIL about the Empires of the Deep, an ambitious $130 million mermaid epic blockbuster funded by Jon Jiang, a real estate billionaire. It was intended to be a China–Hollywood co-production that would rival Avatar. While the film itself is finished, it remains unreleased.
#62
TIL volleyball only used to allow scoring for the serving team rather than the current system which awards a point on every rally regardless of serving team
#63
TIL that Isabela Merced got started in acting because her parents thought it would be a helpful distraction from their house burning down
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Fun fact, the guy who created The Sims was inspired by HIS house burning down and the process of building a new one.
웅장한 거북이 🇰🇷🇰🇭 3 months ago
When my son was about six i wanted to build a little house with him in the garden to play in it, i used the sims to plan it and it turned out pretty cool 😂
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TIL Kaitlin Olson was accidentally waterboarded for real while filming the season 4 IASIP episode, "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis"
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 months ago
Apparently they put wetsuit material over her face thinking it would block the water? She had also recently broken her back, sounds like an all around bad time.
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TIL EA Games holds 30+ patents to accessibility technology in video games with the promise to not enforce them and to keep them available to the public
Alex Kennedy 3 months ago
Yep, I’m sure their unenforceable promise will be kept right up until the point it becomes unprofitable to do so.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 months ago
Really? EA? Of all gaming companies? Not monetizing something and using it for their own gain? Reminder that to own all of the Sims 4 legally, with all the DLC and expansion packs, is well over one thousand dollars. It's not worth it. DLC unlockers are super easy to find, btw.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago (edited)
I'm sure we can totally trust EA Games to be super helpful and unselfish.
#66
TIL a few tech companies (ie. AOL) used to fight spam with Haikus (poems) embedded into an email licensed from a company named Habeas. Habeas would sue mass spammers for copyright infringement. In one case, they won a $100k judgement.
Glix Drap 3 months ago
Surely this should be - What is this i see, It makes little sense to me, I shall think on it.
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#67
TIL Emanuel Bronner, Of Bronner's Soap, Escaped a Mental Hospital in the 1940s
#68
TIL 70mm IMAX systems require a PalmOS device to operate. During the release of Oppenheimer on IMAX, a PalmOS emulator running on a Windows 10 tablet was used to show the film.
#69
TIL that a 12 inch semiconductor wafer costs $19000 to make and produces around 215000 RFID chips for use in disposable subway tickets. Each chips are around 0.5x0.5 mm in size
#70
TIL George Lucas wanted 2Pac to be Mace Windu in the prequels, but he passed away before he could audition for the role.
G A 3 months ago (edited)
Rubbish. Wasn't even a black character until Samuel L Jackdon begged on live UK TV for a job as he was a SW fan, and they were filming locally. He only had a minimal part in TPM.
웅장한 거북이 🇰🇷🇰🇭 3 months ago
Oh dear, you made the tupac fans angry 😰, have an upvote
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Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Reading about the Brits boycotting sugar to protest slavery. I recently read that in WWII many US soldiers were appalled to find that non whites were allowed in restaurants, pubs etc when they were sent to England.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
The US command was also displeased how their black soldiers were treated by the french soldiers in WWI - indifferent. The black colonial troops in WWII that fought in France also weren't allowed to march even close to US troops during the victory parade in Paris
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
And here's my contribution! Jervis Bay is legally part of the Australian Capital Territory because in order to qualify as a capital city, Canberra was required to have a sea port. And Canberra is landlocked (though it does have a lake).
FreeTheUnicorn 3 months ago
That sounds like they just annexed land and made up a rule. The international community recognises more than 40 while countries that are landlocked.
Load More Replies... PenguinEmp 3 months ago
This just shows most people don't learn anything in the USA. Half of this I knew from school in the 80s
Bookworm 3 months ago (edited)
Judgemental comments like yours lead to the belief that learning is for dorks/squares etc and therefore "uncool". How about being happy because people are choosing to educate themselves regardless of when they do so?
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Reading about the Brits boycotting sugar to protest slavery. I recently read that in WWII many US soldiers were appalled to find that non whites were allowed in restaurants, pubs etc when they were sent to England.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
The US command was also displeased how their black soldiers were treated by the french soldiers in WWI - indifferent. The black colonial troops in WWII that fought in France also weren't allowed to march even close to US troops during the victory parade in Paris
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 3 months ago
And here's my contribution! Jervis Bay is legally part of the Australian Capital Territory because in order to qualify as a capital city, Canberra was required to have a sea port. And Canberra is landlocked (though it does have a lake).
FreeTheUnicorn 3 months ago
That sounds like they just annexed land and made up a rule. The international community recognises more than 40 while countries that are landlocked.
Load More Replies... PenguinEmp 3 months ago
This just shows most people don't learn anything in the USA. Half of this I knew from school in the 80s
Bookworm 3 months ago (edited)
Judgemental comments like yours lead to the belief that learning is for dorks/squares etc and therefore "uncool". How about being happy because people are choosing to educate themselves regardless of when they do so?
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