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41 Intriguing “Today I Learned” Facts That Show How Little We Actually Know (New Facts)
Between carving pumpkins, buying Halloween decorations, and dressing up for trick-or-treating, it seems people still had time to learn loads of new things over the past few weeks. Sometimes, purely by chance…
Many of us have been there. One minute you’re looking up a recipe, the next you’re going down a rabbit hole after discovering that 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species. Or, you’re casually watching an army movie when you learn that military dogs outrank their handlers. (More on that further down.)
The world is indeed filled with an endless amount of interesting facts about everything under the sun. And for some people, many of them only came to light for the first time last month.
Bored Panda has gathered our favorite mix of recent Today I Learned posts from an online community that refuses to gatekeep fascinating facts. Whether you’re a trivia fan or just someone who likes to sound impressive during awkward small talk, there should be something here for you… So sit back, keep scrolling, and don't forget to upvote the ones that had you saying, “Wait, what?!?”
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#1
TIL a woman had half of her brain removed when she was 8 due to a condition that caused her to have up to 150 seizures a day. Her doctors said she'd never drive, she got her license at 17. She went on to earn her bachelor's & master's degrees in just 5 years before becoming a speech pathologist.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
I remember watching a programme about this at the time of her surgery. She spoke to a man who had a similar condition and was also living without about 50% of his brain. Then her parents decided to go ahead with the procedure.
Robert T 1 month ago
I was puzzled by the term "speech pathologist" - sounded like someone who examines dead larynxes - turns out it is just another name for a speech therapist.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
And if she has the other half removed, she can become health secretary.
Smutsia 1 month ago
Her story sounds like trump’s, except that she succeeded in life but trump failed.
Kenneth Smith 1 month ago
I hate the guy with a hatred reserved for none other, but "failure" isn't exactly a word to describe a guy who got to be POTUS twice. Incompetent, stupid, narcissistic, cruel, evil, pathetic, cowardly, immature, tone deaf, whiny, craven, immoral; all those work though. 😁
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Nikolaj Christensen 1 month ago (edited)
I feel attacked! 🤣 we zero brainers do our best! Some even run countries!!!
Load More Replies...How cool is it that U.S. military dogs outrank their handlers? Or that they have a rank at all? They even receive awards, accolades and promotions. Much to the disdain of "non-dog" people.
According to Regina Johnson, Sgt. 1st Class and the operations superintendent at the Military Working Dog School, some people get offended when animals receive honors normally reserved for humans.
But Johnson reminds them that the dogs work hard and save lives. She adds that the dogs are so much more than just U.S. government property.
"These dogs are our partners," the expert says. "I remember trying to get into the K-9 program, and I had a human partner working in law enforcement at the time who commented to me that he couldn't believe I would choose to work with a dog over a human partner, a big strong guy as a partner."
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#2
TIL about Chaser, a border collie with the best tested memory of any non-human animal. She could recognize and fetch 1,022 toys by name and category.
Mel in Georgia 1 month ago
Border collies are the herding dogs of choice because they are so darn smart. Saw a sheep herding demo and what one dog could do with 10 sheep on voice commands alone was amazing!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Fenring, as a Belgian Malinois, is technically a herding breed as well, and Mals are another very intelligent breed - though Mals' intelligence is a bit more focused on problem-solving, usually. I taught Fen different words for his favorite toys - tire, rope, ball, pillow (it's a jute bite pillow from Leerburg), skin (long story, but that refers to a plushie toy that he long ago ripped apart, but he still loves playing with the bits of faux fur that remain.) So I can tell him "Go get your tire!" and he goes to grab his tire-shaped toy. He definitely doesn't know a LOT of words, but I think it's something most herding/working breeds could learn if the owner keeps at it! And as crazy as life is with a Malinois - I don't think I could handle a Border collie! They're amazing dogs and I love them, but you're right - they're so darn smart XD
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Verena 1 month ago
Most animals are very smart, it is up their owners to support them. This not only applies to pets, but to farm animals, too.
Becky Samuel 1 month ago
I've had a few dogs that were definitely not 'very smart' by any stretch of the imagination. One of them in particular was so dumb it was shocking.
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#3
TIL "the first unambiguous evidence" of an animal other than humans making plans in one mental state for a future mental state occurred in 1997 when a chimpanzee was observed (over 50x) calmly gathering stones into caches of 3-8 each in order to later throw at zoo visitors while in an agitated state.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
P*o not keeping them away, let's try something harder.
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Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
"I'm gonna collect these stones to throw at those nosy hairless bastards. "
CP 1 month ago
Humans are smarter than other animals but not special in any way. The idea the we are special causes a lot of problems.
Mari 1 month ago
I think cats are way smarter than us. They let us serve them. They just sleep, ask for food and try to ignore you.
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Bob Brooce 1 month ago
My HS biology teacher said he once saw a couple of kids tormenting a lion at a zoo. The lion backed up against the bars and pissed on them. He went on to speculate that a lion's bladder probably holds at least a quart.
Major Harris 1 month ago (edited)
a couple of years ago, zoo caretakers were flying a drone into the chimp enclave. they did not like that. so, one day, while a chimp held the attention of the drone flyers, another chimp with a heavy branch smashed it from behind! they displayed pre planning and tactics to rid themselves of the nuisance.
Max Fox 1 month ago
The mistake here is that they assumed that the chimpanzee was in "an agitated" state when they threw the stones, but was calm when they collected the stones. If there were humans outside the chimp enclosure, those stones would have been put to good use there and then. Chimps aren't thinking "people will p**s me off tomorrow so here are stones to throw at them". They think "humans p**s me off all the time, however, and they'll be here tomorrow, so lets prepare". Chimps, especially adult males, will attack humans without any provocation, the same way that they will attack other chimps without provocation. Furthermore, they will often plan these attacks.
Apparently, every military working dog is an NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer) - by tradition. If you're unfamiliar with the term, it's a high-ranking enlisted soldier who serves as the "backbone of the Army" by leading and training other soldiers. This means an Army dog is always one rank higher than its handler.
"That's out of respect," Johnson explains. "I see it all the time, especially in these young handlers. They make the mistake of thinking they're actually in charge. You've got to tell them, 'Hold up. That dog has trained 100 students. That dog is trying to tell you something.' I think the tradition grew out of a few handlers recognizing the dog as their partner."
#4
TIL that “The staff ate it later” is a caption shown on screen when food appears on Japanese TV programs to indicate that it was not thrown away after filming (Since it is generally not socially accepted to discard food in Japan).
Ace 1 month ago (edited)
Hah! They should tell that to Hollywood movie moms and their huge untouched breakfasts.
Robert T 1 month ago
Speaking of Hollywood, I once entered a baking competition with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry as judges. We had to bake two identical cakes and one was judged in a first round with the second held over for the final in case you made it through. I didn't get through to the final, so sadly didn't get to meet either Mary or Paul. However I did see one of the judges say something to another judge which looked to be "oooh this is nice" when she ate it. Anyway the staff ate both my cakes later!
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WindySwede 1 month ago
As it always should. For example, in Swedish Taskmaster, they waste food sometimes, I like the show but dislike the waste!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I dislike food waste too - it was Dia de los Muertos yesterday, and today I will be eating some of the food I placed as offerings on my dad's ofrenda (altar)! The belief is that the spirits of the dead eat the "essence" of the food you leave out for them, so when the living family members eat the physical food, it does not have any nutrition left, but the family eats it as both a way to prevent waste and also to connect with the spirits of our dead loved ones!
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monsieur mabel 1 month ago
.......i love watching certain foodtv shows and always wonder what happens to the food made.........probably a well fed and happy crew, most of the time :o)..........
sturmwesen 1 month ago
that's why I love Phil Rosenthal (well..one reason). He is always feeding staff and random people in the street or restaurant
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Seadog 1 month ago
Question for all non-US readers. What country are you in and does the food they serve come close to what they advertise? In the US what is served is nothing at all like what's advertised. False advertising, plain and simple. But the courts won't do anything about it.
Lee451 Henderson 1 month ago
My wet dream would be to work on a show like Alton Brown's. They probably make those dishes a dozens times (to get all stages of preparation right). What do they do with all that food? He can make brussel sprouts look delicious.
#5
TIL René Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816 because he thought it was improper to press his ear on a woman’s chest and found that a tube let him hear heart and lung sounds more clearly.
Detroit Citizen 1 month ago
I (M48) have always enjoyed his story. Proper gentleman.
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Detroit Citizen 1 month ago
And on the other side of that coin is the doctor that invented the chain saw for "helping" women give birth. It would get censored here, so if youre brave just google who invented it and why. Oof. Lets just say chain saws are much better and healthier to use to cut wood, not women.
Jaya 1 month ago
I saw this fact on another website, and most of the responses were "this guy had to ruin it for all future doctors". Absolutely disgusting, that so many boys/men think it's more important for a guy to have access to b***s than for a woman to have the right to not be touched.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Boys/men need to realize that consent is what makes s*x s**y. There is nothing more erotic than a heartfelt "Yes".
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Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
Still better than what they used to do. They'd stick a finger in the ear and listen for a buzzing noise, no noise = no life
Cla Ida 3 weeks ago
He was born in my town (Quimper, France)! We have a statue of him and his face painted on a cheese store. I really like walking past because his first patent was just a wooden tube with a metallic ear piece, yet it had such an impact. He also wrote a lot on the methodology of diagnosis and lung diseases, he's a big reference.
#6
TIL military working dogs usually outrank their handlers in order to ensure proper respect.
Roni Stone 1 month ago
And this is a sad commentary of humans' treatment toward animals even when those animals are doing their best to work for the human good. Carry on Major.
Load More Replies... Verena 1 month ago
Actually sad that this necessary. If soldiers cannot pay respect to their animal partners without being scared off due to a higher rank: a) the use of animals needs to stop and b) the mindset of mistreating anybody lower in rank is acceptable needs urgently to be addressed.
Max Fox 1 month ago
In fact, it is the opposite of sad. Very very few people who work with animals will think of abusing the animal. The fact that the military made these rules on the off chance that a psycho would make it through the filtering of people who train to work with dogs shows that the military is putting a lot of thought into of the safety of their dogs. The military does attract a good number of psychos, and the military are doing their best to protect their dogs from these people isn't sad at all.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 month ago
It is a violation of the military code of conduct to a*****t a superior officer. This was to ensure that people don't a***e the animals. Many horses also outrank enlisted personnel
Verena 1 month ago
So nobody protects soldiers in lower ranks from these psychos? If they "slip through selection" in numbers that make it necessary to put animals higher in rank to be protected from a***e, then the selection proces needs to be improved significantly.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
In the military, you can tell someone's rank by checking their dog tags.
Kenneth Smith 1 month ago
Call me crazy, but it should be irrelevant as harming a subordinate really isn't any better, and I would argue it's worse as the inferior is without the power to ensure there's recourse. Really, for any member of the service to disrespect or hurt another service member of any rank, human or dog, should be unacceptable. But honestly, if you're going to hurt a dog, you don't deserve to wear the uniform.
glowworm2 1 month ago
Much like the post that continuously mentioned "Tiger quolls", the captions here are mentioning "Rhianna slapped him". 🤣🤣
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Mook The Mediocre 1 month ago
I believe female nurses were given officer ranks in WW2 to ensure that soldiers obeyed their (medical) orders.
According to a U.S Army official site, when it comes to new working-dog handlers, experienced dogs help train the students. "They use dogs, known as training aids, that already understand commands," notes the site. "Once handlers graduate from the course, they go out into the force and are assigned a dog at their unit."
Military dogs have their work cut out for them... The K-9 teams aren't only deployed to war zones. They provide a variety of support, from patrol work around base to searches during health-and-welfare inspections and sweeps for explosives when VIPs arrive, explains the Army site.
#7
TIL the Jane Goodall Institute complained about one of Gary Larson's cartoons of her. She told them to be quiet, used the image to sell tshirts, and wrote the introduction to one of his collections.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
I had to look it up. Chimp picks a hair off another chimp saying "well, well, another blonde hair. Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
The Far Side was basically memes before there were memes. There's even a story from a real guy in one where people put up a photo of t-rexes smoking with the caption "the real reason dinos went extinct"
Bruce Mardle 1 month ago
There's a "Borderline" cartoon that refers to that one. It was early mammals selling cigarettes to dinosaurs 🙂
Load More Replies... camomooey 1 month ago
Why is the cartoon shown not the one they are talking about? This website sometimes....
Michael Largey 1 month ago
It's the fault of AI - artificial irrelevance.
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Major Harris 1 month ago
the late great robin williams also wrote the forward for "far side gallery 4" and it was FUNNY!
#8
TIL over half of Americans use subtitles at least some of the time while watching TV, and the biggest reason is that dialogue has become harder to hear. One contributing factor is digital sound recording that allows many overlapping audio tracks to run at once, which can make speech less clear.
Bri Tays 1 month ago
When we watch TV always with the remote control in the hand, the music and sound effects are too loud, so down with the volume, then you can't hear the actors talk so Volume +
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
Not just Americans. I use it too, and now YouTubers hide jokes in them sometimes
Bob Brezniak 1 month ago
I love the subtitles for how they describe some sound effects [Slurps Soup Aggressively]
Fluffy Cat Sleeps 1 month ago
When we were watching House MD, the channel would show [peeful mic] instead of [suspenseful music] every time. We still call suspenseful music that...
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
I do it so I don't constantly have to adjust the volume on the TV - between obnoxiously loud music and effects, and soft talking.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
Who else has to just abandon a movie because it's so dark that you can't see what's happening?
keyboardtek 1 month ago
We can send spacecraft to the moon, build a pocket computer, but they have not figured out how to create a TV with separate volume controls for dialogue and music.
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
It's also helpful for young kids learning how to read. Not as the only source of education of course, but as a supplement.
Crissy Newbury 1 month ago
I can’t watch anything anymore without subtitles. I just wish they would tone the music down. It’s so much louder than the voice tracks.
#9
TIL In 1956 a Swedish sailor named Åke Viking sent out a message in a bottle that read "To Someone Beautiful and Far Away" and it ended up reaching a 17-year-old Sicilian girl named Paolina, which sparked a correspondence between them that eventually culminated in their marriage in 1958.
Mimi M 1 month ago (edited)
From Reddit: 'Ake, a (20 year-old) Swedish sailor, relieved his tedium at sea one day in 1955 by writing a letter. "To Someone'Beautiful and Far Away," he poetically inscribed it. After giving his home address and a brief description of himself, he added, "Write to me, whoever you are," and signed his name. With that, he tucked the paper into an empty bottle of aqua vitae, replaced its cork and tossed it overboard. Two years went by. Then, on his return from another voyage, he found a letter, postmarked Syracuse, Sicily. The message was in Italian, which one of his shipmates obligingly translated.... (cont.)'
Mimi M 1 month ago
Cont.: 'It was from a 17-year-old girl, who wrote: "Last Tuesday, I found a bottle on the shore. Inside was a piece of paper, bearing writing in a strange language. I took it to our priest, who is a great scholar. He said the language was Swedish and, with the help of a dictionary, he read me your charming letter. I am not beautiful, but it seems so miraculous that this little bottle should have traveled so far and long to reach me that I must send you an answer ..." Other letters, consigned to ordinary post, followed the first two. Photographs were exchanged and, finally, vows. Ake set sail for Syracuse and now, together, he and his pretty, if not beautiful, correspondent, who has just turned 18, are embarked on the sea of matrimony.'
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Miss Tinker 1 month ago
They settled in Sweden, raised a family, and remained married for 43 years until Åke's death in 2001. Paolina has kept the original message and bottle on display, a reminder of how their story began. ❤️
Another October "Today I Learned" fact that we found quite intriguing was the one about the woman who had half of her brain removed when she was 8 years old, due to a condition that caused her to have up to 150 seizures a day. Needing to know a bit more, we went on a deep dive.
It turns out the woman's name is Christina Santhouse. In 1996, she was on a family beach vacation on the New Jersey shore when her foot began shaking uncontrollably. The little girl was rushed to hospital and underwent three days of gruelling tests.
Doctors diagnosed her with Rasmussen's encephalitis. It's a rare autoimmune disease, usually found in children. The body attacks the brain, and cells wither away as a result.
#10
TIL about Unitarian Universalism, a religion that encourages members to think for themselves and work towards a world where love and justice flourish.
Mark Savoie 1 month ago
Try Theitism. It has just one commandment: "Don't be an a*****e."
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Nils Skirnir 1 month ago
And it’s the most despised religion in the US South for exactly those reasons
Michael Largey 1 month ago
This is what the dictionary calls a contra-indicator.
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago (edited)
Woo-hoo! I'm a Unitarian! Family joined when I was 5. Taking my husband (from a strict Baptist background) to a Unitarian church for the first time was a nice culture shock, there being beer in the fridge and all. P.S. A quote from the American Unitarians - "On the East Coast, prayer is optional. In the Midwest, God is optional. On the West Coast, clothing is optional."
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Can confirm. I live on the West Coast and I currently do not have pants on. XD Seriously though, one of my friends in my teen years was Unitarian - his whole family was - and it always really interested me. I might look back into it now that I'm an adult!
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
I believe any religion can worship in their churches. My town's first Pagan fest was held on their property. The festival had to move to a larger location though.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
William Howard Taft was America's only Unitarian president. He had the guts to say publicly that he didn't regard Jesus as a divine being.
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
I went to U.U. several times, still too "churchy" for me. But the least churchy of all the alternatives.
veirdbuttrue 1 month ago
Yeah, I don't love this idea but I don't like any religious organisations
Load More Replies... Bad Alchemy 1 month ago
The Unitarians are so firm in their belief that everyone belongs and everyone is needed to create a just world, they even welcome atheists -- and don't expect them to convert.
#11
TIL Keanu Reeves’s stunt double in The Matrix went on to direct Keanu in the John Wick movies.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
Chad Stahelski. Their friendship began in 1999 when he was his stunt double and in 2014 he made his directorial debut with John Wick, and continuing to direct all of the future John Wick films.
JayWantsACat 1 month ago
Stahelski also supposedly had to step in and do reshoots or ghost direct for Ballerina because apparently the actual director was not up to the task.
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#12
TIL Titanic victim Jeremiah Burke threw a message in a bottle overboard that read "From Titanic, goodbye all, Burke of Glanmire, Cork". It washed ashore a year later only a few miles from his family home in Ireland. It then remained in his family for nearly a century before being donated to a museum.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
He was only 19 years old. His sister had emigrated to Boston in 1905 and he was traveling to be with her before the birth of her first child. Thirteen months after the Titanic sank, in the early summer of 1913, a postman walking his dog, found a small bottle on a shingle beach near Cork Harbour that contained his message.
dean tirmizi 1 month ago (edited)
Last port of call for the Titanic was Cobh. Glanmire (where I live) is only a few miles from Cobh. He could have thrown it overboard when he departed
Wonnie-Cookie713 1 month ago
Listening to piano while reading this made me cry. THIS POOR MAN AND FAMILY 😭😭
Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
"Rihanna slapped him" pops up on the title because it's in one part of it, not every part of the list
Load More Replies..."Treating the seizures sounded worse than the disease," reported ABC News in 2002. "Doctors said she would have to get a hemispherectomy, a procedure in which the diseased half of the brain is surgically removed. In short, Christina would be left with half a brain."
But little Christina went on to defy the odds. She excelled at school, and took part in athletics as a teen. In 2016, People magazine reported that she "got her driver’s license at 17, became a star bowler who competed in England and Australia, then decided to go away to college, enrolling in Misericordia University near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania."
The publication added that she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in five years. She went on to become a speech therapist, bought her own house, and got married.
#13
TIL Beethoven’s relationship with his brother Johann was strained. He opposed Johann marrying his housekeeper so much he tried contacting the authorities to stop it. After buying an estate, Johann signed a letter “your brother Johann, landowner.” Beethoven replied: “your brother Ludwig, brain owner.”
1 month ago (edited)
Pick a Johann, I guess? Ludwig van Beethoven's father was Johann, his youngest brother was Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven, and his youngest son was Johann van Beethoven. The correct answer is: Ludwig van Beethoven, returning home from a stay at the spa resort of Teplitz, visited his brother (Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven) in Linz. He regarded the proposed marriage as unsuitable, and tried to dissuade him. He also appealed to the local authority. He was not successful; Johann married Thérèse Obermeyer (1787–1828) on 8 November 1812.
Steve Kadner 1 month ago
Johann would often cover his ears and go "LaLaLaLa" when Ludwig would talk. Ludwig didn't find it funny
Rick Murray 1 month ago
"...illustrating Rihanna slapped him facts"? These image captions are word salad aren't they?
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 1 month ago
Beethoven had an unfortunate tendency to fall in love with women who didn't even like him
DaisyGirl 1 month ago
NOT related!!! Ludwig's brothers were Kaspar Anton Karl and Nicolaus Johann
1 month ago
Nicolaus Johann married his housekeeper: Ludwig van Beethoven, returning home from a stay at the spa resort of Teplitz, visited his brother in Linz. He regarded the proposed marriage as unsuitable, and tried to dissuade him. He also appealed to the local authority.
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TIL about Riley Horner, an Illinois teen who, in the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury, found that her memory kept resetting every two hours. She was eventually able to recover with the help of specialists, and graduated from Nursing School in 2025.
Jeremy James 1 month ago
So she could keep watching the movie, "50 First Dates," and it would be like the first time every time?
Teutonic Disaster 1 month ago
Probably. Don't get her hooked on "Groundhog Day" tho. 🤣 She'd go mad.
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Bruce Mardle 1 month ago
Reminds me of an episode of "My Name Is Earl". For those unfamiliar with the series, Earl tries to make amends with people he has wronged. In this case, it was made harder because the person couldn't remember anything from one day to the next.
#15
TIL in 2014, passengers were warned three times not to eat nuts on a Ryanair flight due to a 4-year-old girl's severe nut allergy, but a passenger sitting four rows away from the girl ate nuts anyway. The girl went into anaphylactic shock, and the passenger was banned from the airline for two years.
Pferdchen 1 month ago
I'm guessing because it might lead you away to other sites, thus reducing BP's ad revenue. A distant second guess is because it might allow users to view content that BP would "normally" censor.
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Andi 1 month ago
on a plane air is recycled and blown through the cabin so aiding partial distribution. As an aside check out the drop in oxygen content of plane air since the banning of smoking on planes. This also is linked to DVT and how people get drunk quicker on planes....
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
Banning smoking got rid of the cigarette smoke, not O2. The air in the cabin comes from outside and is perfectly normal air with 20.9% O2. The cabin pressure is generally at an altitude of 8000', so the pressure is reduced to about 78% of sea level pressure. That results in lower arterial gas pressure of O2, and that can increase the effect of alcohol and susceptibility to DVT. The main risk of DVT comes from sitting still for prolonged periods, possibly in a cramped position.
Load More Replies... Robert Millar 1 month ago
Now every Ryanair flight (that I am on anyway) has a nut allergic person on it, so they don't have to give out nuts. What a happy coincidence.
MsPlants 1 month ago
most planes have stopped giving out nuts as a precaution. im sorry that airlines are being cautions in causing passengers to go into anaphylactic shock so you have to wait a few hours to eat some peanuts you probably wouldnt have eaten anyways but as soon as someone said you cant you all of a sudden NEED them... this coming from someone that loves peanuts and peanut butter and eats some every day. If I have to give up peanuts on a flight so someone else is safe im ok with that.
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WindySwede 1 month ago
Research says this: " One study from 2021 pointed out that airborne peanut protein reactions are rare and do not usually cause severe symptoms." Se link below. But not 0%, so to avoid anything dont rely on this..
SummerVeE 1 month ago
I understand the courtesy aspect of minimizing discomfort of a passenger with allergies. We all hope that others will be empathetic. Realistically though, it's impossible to expect that every passenger with trail mix etc. is going to forgo eating the snacks they packed for their travels and instead pay to purchase a crappy airline snack for an obscene amount of money. What about all of the passengers who have been on that plane and eaten nuts previously? Doubtful that the entire cabin is completely sanitized from the top down with every turn around. What about all the passengers who ate nuts prior to boarding and have it on their hands, on their breath, in their pockets? If someone has allergies that are life threatening, it's ultimately on them to take precautions and protective measures.
st4x2gt974 1 month ago
Who in their right mind would bring a 4 year old on an airplane with hundreds of other passengers with that condition under those terms?!?! You can’t trust people not to voluntarily make a noise during a 10 second moment of silence! Where the Hell could this 4 yr old have possibly needed to be that their caregiver would make such a wreckless lapse of judgment call?!? We’re all upset at a human being for doing what human beings do. What about the parent who said, “what could go wrong?”
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 month ago
I agree! Sick of the whole world having to bend over backwards for crot.ch droppings.
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Now in her 30s, Christina is a mom to two kids. She revealed during an Associated Press interview that she's approached parenthood the same way she has everything else in her life since her 1996 surgery and rehabilitation:
"A lot of planning. A lot of preparation. A lot of faith. A lot of determination."
#16
TIL the village of Kräkångersnoret in Sweden changed its name because evolution in the Swedish language led to the name being ridiculed for essentially meaning “vomit regret snot”.
Remi (He/Him) 1 month ago
Meanwhile in Finland: Paskalampi is the second most common name for a pond and it means Shītpond. Place names also include Suolikulli (Boweldick), Velhonvittu (Wizard's cünt) and Terskanperä (Díckhead's end)
Earthquake903 1 month ago
Lol I love Sweden, you guys have the best bands and cool town names and everything
BrunoVI 1 month ago (edited)
New York features such lovely neighborhoods as Fishkill (k**l means "creek,"), Great Kills, Flushing, Cocksackie, Dank Place, Butternuts, Climax, Corona, Bed Stuy, White Castle (a brand of greasy hamburgers) and Swaztika.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 weeks ago
How did you get the K**L word not a row of asterisks?
Load More Replies... Lynchamigsakta 1 month ago
Oh there's still some absolutely hilarious place names in Sweden. Americans would probably appreciate Trosa (panties) Mensträsk (period swamp) or why not Mellangården (the area between your s*x organ and but hole)
#17
TIL that the Beatles' record label once sued Sesame Street over a parody song called "Hey Food." The lawsuit was settled for $50.
Marie BellaDonna 4 weeks ago
So "Hey Food" is obviously a parody of "Hey Jude". And "Hey Jude" always makes me think of a story my husband told me. He is a boomer (like, literally, lol), and a drummer. He's been drumming since he was about 5 or so. He formed a band with his friends who played other instruments, and they played together from grade school to high school. They story goes that in the 5th grade, they played "Hey Jude" for a school talent show. Hey said everybody in the auditorium sang along, and it was really cool, lol. And they won the talent show. I love this story, and now whenever I hear "Hey Jude", I picture my husband onstage as a boy, with his band, winning his school talent show. I think it's really neat to think about. 😊
GPawesomeness 1 month ago
So Weird Al must have gotten permission for all his parodies.........
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
He did, but parodies are protected speech under the first amendment, so permission isn't required in the US and many other countries follow the same reasoning. IMHO, the most interesting thing is that you don't even need to pay royalties for using the exact same non-parody music.
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Susan 1 month ago
That's disappointing, never thought I'd come across something here that would make me like the Beatles less.
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
You might notice that is says "the Beatles' record label" not "the Beatles". It's not at all unusual for the rights to music to be owned by an entity other than the musician.
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#18
TIL that proponents of Prohibition were so certain that enacting it would solve all crimes in United States that some communities sold their jails after the amendment passed.
General Anaesthesia 1 month ago (edited)
So now those jails are run as for-profit private prisons. /s
Controlled Insanity 1 month ago
LOL around my home area, they were turned into.... BARS! 😄
Load More Replies... WindySwede 1 month ago
Prohibitios usually solves all crimes.. yup. Just look how's that working out with *insert most things*
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
I want to congratulate d r u g s on a flawless victory in the War on D r u g s
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Kalevra 3 weeks ago
Im going to assume you're from the UK. How's your knife crime rates?
Load More Replies... QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Prohibition gave punk mobsters the superhighway they needed to become the extremely powerful and murderous organized crime syndicates. Oh, yeah, good choice, that one. Prohibit people from doing something they really, really want to do and are determined to do no matter what the law says. Brilliant.
Timothy Patel 4 weeks ago
Sort of like d***s. As long as there is demand, there will be supply.
Load More Replies... JayWantsACat 1 month ago
And the descendants of these genius are the people who sold their houses because The Rapture was happening last month or whenever.
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
Yet another proof that I'm not nearly smart enough to imagine the stupidity some people can muster.
keyboardtek 1 month ago
Well most humans live such dull empty lives that intoxication is their only break from the monotony. That is why cellphones and computers are such a hit.
“Motherhood brings a whole new set of challenges. It’s a constant effort to stay mentally and emotionally in the game, but the girls and my family are beyond worth it,” she said, adding that she's come to realize that different is okay.
"The way I care for the girls might look different or take a bit longer, but it always gets done, and it’s done with unconditional love.”
#19
TIL that 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species.
WindySwede 1 month ago
Plantspecies that are easily farmed, and I guess by coincidences on the selection dmfrom start?
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
Yes. Basically we selected them, it's not even surprising.
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Rika 1 month ago
Well, one elephant can feed more people than one chicken, but a single chicken could produce thousands of chicken within the 22 months it takes an elephant to have one calf. It's pure logic to breed chicken for food rather than elephants.
Sarah Belt 1 month ago
Plus chickens, despite their reputation for being difficult to herd, are a lot easier to handle at the farm level. And they're fun to hug if you raise them to be okay with being held! :)
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 month ago
What's even more amazing is that 7 of the plants and all 5 of the animals come from the ancient "fertile crescent" AKA Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
WindySwede 1 month ago
The list according to Reddit is "The 12 crops are: Wheat Rice Sugarcane Corn Soy Potatoes Palm oil Cassava Sorghum Millet Groundnuts Sweet Potatoes The 5 animals are: Chicken Pig Cattle Buffalo Goat". As far as I know, only Wheat, and Palm oil of from the crescent? But if you include Sorghum (Sudan) and Millet (India, Mali, Nigeria, and N***r) that are from outside of the Crescent. Then I get 4?. Rice, Asia. Sugarcane, Austronesia. Corn/Maize, southern Mexico. Soy, East Asia. Potatoes, Americas. Cassava, South America. Depending on what they mean with groundnuts, but Africa or Asia at closest according to Wiki. Sweet Potatoes, South America. 🤓
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David 1 month ago
But thousands of sub variants of those plants and animals. There are over 100 different chicken species eaten around the world for example. But Chicken is 1 animal. Of the 12 plants, Potatoes is 1, but there are hundreds of varieties, etc. So this is misleading
WindySwede 1 month ago
Any species have lots of varieties. Wheat have more than 10 000 varieties. There are over 5000 varieties of potatoes. They group them together. More or less good? But its hard to say we what we eat of they different varieties?
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TIL that cremated human remains aren’t actually ashes. After incineration, the leftover bone fragments are ground down in a machine called a cremulator to produce what we call ashes.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
When I was in my 20s, I had a very good friend who became a mortician. She told me a story that one day, the funeral parlor where she worked had to cremate a very obese man's corpse. She said that his fat melted, got everywhere, and actually dripped into the burners and caused an explosion and a grease fire. (She was very respectful about the deceased, she didn't mock him or anything in the story, she was mostly just telling me about the damage to the incinerator from the grease fire.) I wonder how the Church would have freaked out if they ever burned a fat witch at the stake! XD
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Bruce Mardle 1 month ago
This week I learned: cremating people with amalgam fillings is the second biggest source of mercury air pollution in the UK.
Marie BellaDonna 4 weeks ago
They are. The remains after cremation. Cremains. Ashes is just an informal name for cremains. One that is, as the caption explained, a bit of a misnomer, coming from the fact that it's what come out of the retort (crematory oven) after a body is burned. But the proper term is indeed cremains.
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neil jagurdo 1 month ago
Can confirm, worked briefly in the crematorium at a cemetery I worked at. Some bones just take too long to burn to ashes.
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 1 month ago
I've read about an italian company which specialized in recovering non-human remains from crematoriums: prosthetic hips, knees and the like. They collect them and recycle those precious materials. Afaik they expanded their business in other countries
Cybele Spanjaard 4 weeks ago (edited)
Good idea. I have two shoulders, a right hip, a left knee and some right foot ones. happy to donate after I am gone. Whomever removes them is welcome. Just be polite OK?
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TIL that during the Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger rivalry in the 1980s, Schwarzenegger once tricked Stallone into doing the critically panned 1992 film "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" by pretending that it was a brilliant movie and and that he was thinking of doing it himself.
OneHappyPuppy 1 month ago
Hey, it was a funny movie and Stalone in a comedy was refreshing to see...
Bruce Mardle 1 month ago
I love "Demolition Man", which includes a joke about Schwarzenegger becoming president. (When he became governor of California, it looked like it might happen.)
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago
Sometimes she just needs to take a break, it seems.
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Agnes Doig McIvor 2 weeks ago
Joke's on Arnie. Stallone got to work with the fabulous Estelle Getty.
#22
TIL that Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an Edict on Maximum Prices where prices and wages were capped. Profiteers and speculators who fail to follow were sentenced to [demise].
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Today profiteers and speculators are appointed by the emperor to head the Department of Government Efficiency.
David 1 month ago
What happened was during his reign there was massive inflation, so in 301, after 17 years of bad policies, he did an emergency measure to save the economy. It actually led to a near total economic collapse of the Roman Empire than most provincial governors after 1 year refused to enforce it, and by the time he abdicated in 304, it was not enforced anywhere and was repealed.
Ace 1 month ago
The price of bread was manipulated by Roman rulers for centuries, often lowering it (and paying the difference) ridiculously simply in order to gain goodwill from voters.
#23
TIL the busiest pharmacy in the world is the Vatican Pharmacy, owned and operated by the Vatican City State. It is open to the public and is very popular among Roman residents because it stocks hard-to-find medicines and is much cheaper (purchases aren't subject to Italian taxes).
Robert Millar 1 month ago
Maybe they have Axe body spray, which seems to be very effective.
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UKGrandad 1 month ago
Also, with a resident population of only around 800 people but millions of tourists each year, Vatican City State has the highest per capita crime rate in the world, with an average of almost one crime per person.
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 1 month ago
Not every resident is a priest or nun! So maybe the rate is higher...
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Patrick Bateman 1 week ago
Doing good & providing medicine for many who need it at lower costs yet still the unwarranted Anti-Catholic jokes appear. I guess it's ok to still attack certain groups in USA.
#24
TIL the Romans had so many different gods that in later antiquity one theologian noted that there were at least three different gods just dealing with doorways, including a specific god for the door's hinge.
Jeremy James 1 month ago
Cardea: The Guardian of the Hinge. She has the power to open what is closed and close what is open. Her holy anointing oil is a can of 4D-40.
zububonsai 1 month ago (edited)
You give me back hope with your vast knowledge 😉😆(I'm a Latin and History teacher and have never heard of THREE gods for doors, I only know of Janus 🤷🏻♀️. Buuuuut I know late antiquity was wild so if anybody knows the others' names plus sources where they are found I'm more than willing to learn) . PS: her anointing oil translated into German is "WD-40".
Load More Replies... Controlled Insanity 1 month ago
Were they.... wait for it.... UNHINGED when Christianity came along?
Ace 1 month ago
Their idea that each place had it's own god, known as a Deus Loci, goes back to Greek and earlier civilisations and continues to this day in some places, with a shrine being erected in a farmers field to placate the local god, for example.
Detroit Citizen 1 month ago
I read that Roman Soldiers used to get land after serving their time. But they had to have it blessed by their priests of the Goddess of Home and Hearth (Hera?) and that if the soldier was married that they had to have shrex right there on the ground with the clergy watching. I (M) couldnt perform for an audience lol
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#25
TIL The owner of the world's oldest cat (Creme Puff, 38, 1967 - 2005) also owned the world's sixth-oldest cat (Granpa Rexs Allen, 34, 1964-1998).
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
Ok so were the two cats genetically related, or are these folks just REALLLLLY good at caring for pets, or both?!
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
They either had cats with remarkably good genes or were excellent caretakers.
Jessica Bower 1 month ago
I have an 18 yr old Manx that looks and acts 4 still. No signs of slowing down or age. Going for the record!!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
"Creme Puff's owner, Jake Perry, said her diet consisted of dry cat food and claimed he supplemented it with broccoli, eggs, turkey bacon, coffee with cream, and every two days 'an eyedropper full of red wine.' Perry claimed that this diet was key to her longevity, and that the wine 'circulated the arteries.' " - I've always wondered about this, because caffeine and wine/grapes are both highly toxic to cats. I feel like at least SOME of this "diet" was BS.
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J Steven Tefertiller 4 weeks ago
My wife and I had a cat that lived 27 years. I thought that cat would never die!
Cybele Spanjaard 4 weeks ago
Wish my old ones 1-22 lived longer but without any health issues( Cancer)
#26
TIL the three actors in The Blair Witch Project signed a contract with a clause that allowed the studio to use their real names "for the purpose of this film". So when their identities were used again in the sequel without their permission, they sued the studio and won a settlement of $300,000 each.
Marie BellaDonna 4 weeks ago (edited)
I went to see "Blair Witch" with a date. He ended up being an absolute shitegoblin, and we didn't last long, but that's another story for another time. Anyway, this was when the movie was being HUGELY hyped, touted as real, and scaring audiences everywhere. So at my theater back then, when the lights went down after the previews, there was about a ten second pause before the movie started playing. In this brief moment of pitch black silence, when everyone was nervous about the scary movie about to start, I let out a bloodcurdling, terrified sounding scream. ISTG, everyone in the theater gasped. Then they all burst into laughter. No one knew for sure it was me, because it was dark and the theater crowded. But I was so proud of myself, lmao! It was just harmless fun, and of course I was quiet during the movie. I'm not a total àsshole, lol. But yeah, it was great. That's the only time in my life that I've trolled a whole room full of people. And I still smile when I think about it. 😂
Cybele Spanjaard 4 weeks ago
Easy money!( after the lawyers and court expenses took their cut)
#27
TIL that Brazil has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan, with over 2 million people.
Midoribird Aoi 1 month ago
Remember that the descendants of monsters were not the ones who committed the crimes. Even if your fact were true, leave the innocent be
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 month ago
Melbourne, Victoria, has the largest Greek population outside of Greece.
#28
TIL Central African Republic leader, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, spent years looking for his long-lost daughter Martine, whom he fathered while serving in Vietnam. The first "Martine” was exposed as a fraud when the real Martine was found. Bokassa accepted both as his daughters and adopted the fake Martine.
Ace 1 month ago
This was when the area was under French rule, known as French SE Asia, where there were independence movements fighting the colonialists, some years before the Americans started the war on the locally selected government. Anyway, the fraud was perpetrated by the fake daughter's mother. And the guy himself seems to have been something of a monster, ended up k*****g both daughters' husbands amongst other things.
MsPlants 1 month ago
yeah while reading this i was thinking to myself but wasnt this guy a a monster and k****d indiscriminately. This post makes him seem all cuddly so I thought I had him confused with someone else. But then you posted this and I was all yes I did have the right monster lol
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TIL that Oskar Speck paddled a folding kayak from Germany to Australia over seven years. He arrived in 1939, unaware World War II had begun, and was arrested as an enemy spy upon landing, spending the war interned in Australia before later becoming an opal trader.
Bruce Mardle 1 month ago
I would have thought he'd find out en route when on land for food or fresh water 🤷
Cybele Spanjaard 4 weeks ago
That was a very brave attempt, and surprised he made it. Seven years is a time to take to enjoy OS travels. I wonder how he survived the moods of the unsettled oceans? Must have landed where he could, I suppose. Not the most ideal craft for travelling far in any ocean. He was blessed by Hermes, the travel God, I reckon.
Ivy la Sangrienta 1 month ago
Interned in a camp. Like the yanks did to Japanese Americans.
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#30
TIL a British man won £1.45m on a six-race rollover jackpot after placing a £2 bet. He correctly selected 6 winners including the final horse, Lupita, who hadn't won in 26 races & jockey, Jessica Lodge, who had not previously won. He picked them because "Lodge is just a name that sticks in my head."
#31
TIL In 2006, Midas ran an "America's Longest Commute" award, won by electrical engineer Dave Givens. His commute was 186 miles each way, and he'd drink 30 cups of coffee per day. He was willing to make this long commute so that he could live in a scenic horse ranch.
WindySwede 1 month ago
300 km! 600 km each day?? Something like 3-4 h one way trip? So that is not much of living or enjoying a scenic ranch... 🤯
Auntriarch 1 month ago
Longer than that, imagine the stops he'd have to make after drinking that much coffee
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
Commuting 6+ hours a day doesn't give you much time to look at a scenic anything.
tee-lena 1 month ago
As i sit and drink my first cup, my stomach could never!
Load More Replies... David 1 month ago
As WindySwed pointed out, I can assure it isn't worth it...I lived in a beautiful rural area 90 miles from my job in NYC, commuted 6 hours a day. I left for work when it was dark, came back when it was dark, too tired on weekends to enjoy the home, got to use my pool 21 days of the year...so not worth it.
Sue User 1 month ago (edited)
There was some exec who lived in Boise, Idaho and commuted to California for a job. By plane.
Kelly Scott 1 month ago
Mine was three hours each way. So a forty-hour work week and a 30-hour commute. I did it for a year before I called it quits.
Trophy Husband 1 month ago
I had an uncle who had a job in one state and they moved four states away for his wife's job, but his job paid so well and he needed like a decade more for retirement with a company pension, so for that decade he flew every Monday morning and got a hotel room or maybe it was a apartment he rented for the week, and flew back Friday nights. I couldn't imagine dealing with that. But I guarantee you his commute was longer!
#32
TIL the most complex word in the English language is "run", with 645 possible different meanings.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
The word "dude" has multiple meanings, all of which are comprehensible based on the speaker's tone of voice.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
"Ruin" may have 645 possible different meanings, but the usage that's most important occurs on first dates.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
Yes, but it's often used to illustrate the English language on, for example, apps and websites because it's more universally recognised than the cross of Saint George.
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TIL of the Abilene paradox, a group fallacy in which a group collectively decides on a course of action that no or few members actually want to undertake, as each member mistakenly believes that their preferences are counter to the preferences of the group.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
Fun fact about the fun fact!: The name comes from an anecdote about a family that takes a long and unpleasant trip to Abilene, Texas, because each member agrees to go without voicing their actual preference not to.
Eliza 1 month ago
Makes me think of an episode of the big bang theory where Penny offers to go with Leonard to ComicCon and then the whole episode he's complaining to his friends that he doesn't want her there but can't tell her because then she'll feel left out and Penny's complaining to her friends that she doesn't want to go but doesn't want to disappoint Leonard.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 month ago
Most of us attending Catholic church mass on Sunday in our youth did not want to be there. But our parents thought it was good for us. Our parents did not want to be there either.
#34
TIL that DJ Mustard's given name is Dijon.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
Also it sounds like a small expensive breed of dog
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago
OK, I'm embarrassed to admit that I actually know who DJ Mustard is, but I had a LARGE crush on Ty Dolla $ign.
#35
TIL that in 1999, a 15-year-old named Jonathan James hacked into NASA’s computers, accessed source code used for the International Space Station, and forced NASA to shut down parts of its systems for 21 days.
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
At age 15 I bought my first computer and was baffled why a phone cord was included in the box. "Why on earth would I need THIS?!" Later I learned some high-tech folks were dialing in to shared information somehow. It sounded weird and tech-y.
OneHappyPuppy 1 month ago
What is your obsession with Rihanna and the need to comment about her on every single post here?
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Leesa DeAndrea 3 weeks ago
He k****d himself in 2008. He was being looked by investigators as being part of another huge cyber attack. His note said he was innocent but feared he'd be jailed anyway. Shot himself in his shower so as not to make a mess, I suppose.
Load More Replies... Controlled Insanity 1 month ago
At 15 I was riding my bike across town to go to the swimming pool all day with my friends. My father gave me money to buy a slice of pizza on my way, and enough leftover to buy a sandwich in the afternoon.😄
#36
TIL a Boeing chief test pilot improvised a barrel roll in new, untested 707 prototype during a public event. When his boss asked him what he thought he was doing rolling the plane, he replied, “I’m selling airplanes.”
Devin Schmitt 1 month ago
Fun Fact: The barrel roll was performed over the Seafair Hydroplane races (and attending crowds!) in Seattle.
Na Schi 1 month ago (edited)
Could have had a worse ending. Ramstein airshow in Germany comes to my mind.
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#37
TIL that the Navajo Reservation was under a 43 year development ban until 2009 - preventing things like fixing roofs, building houses, and installing gas and water lines.
Steve Kadner 1 month ago
"It was put in place in 1966 in order to promote negotiations over a land dispute between the Navajo and the Hopi and lasted until 2009. Officially lifted by President Barack Obama in 2009 after the Navajo and Hopi tribes reached a settlement agreement in 2006."
Eliza 1 month ago
Okay, from what I'm reading it seems separate treaties were signed that allocated the same land to Najavo and Hopi reservations. How they effed that up so bad is not entirely clear to me but both treaties were valid so no one could kick either tribe out and neither could develop anything. Ridiculous.
JB 1 month ago
Likely not an eff up, but a deliberate "f these guys, we'll give them the same land." It's usually how racism works. That or it was inconvenient (to the white people) for them to live anywhere else - racism is often "inconvenient" like that
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Hobby Hopper 1 month ago
I had no idea I was breaking the law when I helped a group fix a roof on the Navajo Reservation (true story).
KatWitch57 1 month ago
If you write the non-letters you may get past the censor : double forward slash en dot wikipedia dot org forward slash wiki sorward slash bennett lower dash freeze . time consuming but I think it works
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David 1 month ago
Why you ask? I'm sure the reason why is that white people were somehow involved.
Eliza 1 month ago
Sometimes I want to go back in time and slap my ancestors silly.
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TIL that most people only use about 1,500 to 3,000 words regularly in everyday conversation, a range known as the surface lexicon.
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
Given the caption that you see when you hold your cursor over this photo, apparently it takes that many words to explain the story of Rihanna slapping someone.
1 month ago
"Woman with curly hair and glasses explaining Rihanna slapped him story during a casual conversation indoors."
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Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 1 month ago (edited)
Captions are useful (mandatory in some instances) to let blind people know what's in the photos they find in the page. They are read like text, with speech apps or braille keyboard. That's why they are usually very detailed. Why Rihanna here I don't know...
Cybele Spanjaard 4 weeks ago
I use less, living alone, one tends to talk to the radio, the TV, also the pot plants..oh and the cat
#39
TIL a man fooled the computers at Columbia House Music Club & BMG Music Service by using 1,630 aliases to buy CDs at rates offered only to first-time buyers. Over four years, he bought 22,260 CDs for about $2.50 each. Operating as "CDs for Less", he then sold the CDs at flea markets for $10 a piece.
Ace 1 month ago (edited)
Seems like a lot of work. But the net profit of $167k, works out at $42k per year, so not a bad income, I guess. I wonder if he was technically (or actually) guilty of fraud? Edit: yes, he was prosecuted for it, found guilty, but I can't find his sentence. Search David Russo CD fraud
Savannah greenleaf 1 month ago
On the "Mental Floss" site it said he was convicted of a single count of mail fraud, but did not list any sentence. Not sure if that's a reputable site.
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Earonn - 1 month ago
Yes, and then companies ended these schemes because of people like him. Meaning others got nothing. But hey, selfishness is a virtue now, isn't it? Unless you are losing out, I bet then you whine and cry, you tw.at.
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TIL that the Sargasso Sea, located entirely within the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
What makes it a sea then? (Yes I know about Google but Pandas explain things better)
Verena 1 month ago
It is sort of secluded by currents. Other than the Gulf Stream, which keeps itself to itself mostly, but has an entry and exit point, it is a elliptic area, formed by currents circling around it. A bit like the undisturbed residue in the middle of a bucket or can when the fluid is swirled around.
Load More Replies... Trophy Husband 1 month ago
If you're going to call that a sea... Should we call the Gulf stream a river?
Verena 1 month ago
Yes. Stream is a different word for river in some languages.
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#41
TIL sports announcer Howard Cosell was once in a limo with co-broadcaster Al Michaels when they stopped at a street light and saw some teens fighting. Cosell got out of the car and started commentating on the fight. The teens looked at him awestruck, stopped fighting, and asked for his autograph.
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
Merriam-Webster definition (as Natasha tried to link us): "Commentate - transitive verb: to give a commentary on."
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#42
TIL: The modern Japanese Akita dogs are descended from a handful of dogs that survived World War II.
Pferdchen 1 month ago
Today in fun with pedantry: Technically, all dogs are descended from dogs that survived World War II.
#43
TIL a mother visiting Pismo Beach was fined over $88,000 due to her kids collecting 72 clams after they mistook them for seashells. The incident had violated clamming regulations but she was able to get the county judge to reduce the fine to $500 after explaining the confusion.
Verena 1 month ago
I remember this, it made the news in Europe, too. I live at a touristy spot at the coast and with most visitors being lovely and respecting the nature, the dumbness of some varies between distressing (for the rescue services and local fauna) and hilarious (for the locals). No one here believed that this was a "mistake". Even for a first time visitor of the coast the difference between an empty seashell and a living clam is very obvious.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
72 sounds a suspiciously high number for beachcombing kids.
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NerdingOut(NatureEdition) 1 month ago
Yeah in general don’t take it endangered clams BUUUUT if you do maybe make sure they aren’t open
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
While there is a living clam in the shell, it doesn't fit the usual definition of sea shell, indicating an uninhabited shell.
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TIL that when you burn a pound of fat, 84% leaves your body as CO2, so after you run, you are basically breathing out the fat you burned.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
I worked this out years ago, it's basic chemistry. Some mass is also lost in water, but less.
#45
TIL the only known uninterrupted audio of 9/11 is a conversation between a tax consultant and a tax assessor who was being investigated for taking bribes. The consultant, Stephen McArdle, was wearing a wiretap transmitting the conversation to the FBI from the Mariott World Trade Center's cafe.
#46
TIL about the "lesbian vampire" archetype, which was used in the 19th-century gothic horror genre to circumvent the heavy censorship of lesbian characters.
Niki 1 month ago
I was Carmilla last year for Halloween, and no one knew who it was :(
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Paul Batterbee 3 weeks ago
What did one lesbian vampire say to another lesbian vampire ? see you next month then , ha ha ha
#47
TIL that in 2024 biologists discovered "Obelisks", strange RNA elements that aren’t any known lifeform, and we have no idea where they belong on the tree of life.
WindySwede 1 month ago (edited)
🤔 edit; see link in my response below. 11 min info on the subject.
#48
TIL that as far back as 9500 years ago, a Native America culture existed called the Old Copper Complex. These Great Lakes natives created tools and weapons from 99% pure copper found laying around the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
Kat 1 month ago
That's amazing. I somehow never heard about this despite being a Michigan native, I wish I had.
Pferdchen 1 month ago
I saw a TV segment about an aerial LIDAR survey of hills in the UP that revealed an amazing number of previously undocumented shallow pit mines.
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Oh oh! Another lay, lie, lied, lain grammar throw-down. Let me get my popcorn. But really, who amongst us can not resist an occasional correction. But if this gets out of hand, we may have to get Rihanna in here to settle everyone down.
Detroit Citizen 1 month ago
As a Michigan native all my life, i can say it was. Just like when the gold rush started in California and prospectors were finding gold just sitting on the bottom of rivers and such. The UP has some of the biggest copper mines.
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TIL between 10%-15% of married couples reconcile after they separate and about 6% of couples marry each other again after they divorce.
Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
My dad's parents were in the 6%. But I think t hey got divorced a second time as they never lived together in my memory. Grandpa had untreated mental issues, some of which brought on during his time in the army in WWII.
Julie S 1 month ago
I worked with a woman who divorced her husband because he was an alcoholic. He gave up drinking after they divorced, they remarried and he started drinking again. So they divorced again and he then did the exact same thing with his second wife. I think he had a problem with marriage.
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
When I was a young teenager I had a friend whose mother was married either 5 or 6 times.
#50
TIL Alexander Alekhine, World Chess Champion from 1927 to 1935, once tried to cross the German-Polish border with no papers. He instead offered a declaration. “I am Alekhine, chess champion of the world. This is my cat. Her name is Chess. I need no passport.” He was arrested.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
Rihanna scooped up the cat and slapped Alekhine clear across the border
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Robert Trebor 1 month ago (edited)
He was just a påwn of the felino-chess complex. (Idiot censor censored p a w n)
Ian Webling 1 month ago
Pedant here. He was also world champion from 1937 till his death in 1946.
#51
Til raw kidney beans are toxic. Undercooked kidney beans are even more toxic. Can cause severe nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pains.
Serena Myers 1 month ago (edited)
"Between July 1976 and February 1989, 50 incidents of suspected red kidney bean poìsoning were reported in the UK". So says Google, anyway!
Hugo 1 month ago (edited)
Thanks for the warning. I have a packet of them in the store cupboard as emergency rations.
Verena 1 month ago
If they are canned or packed wet, they are cooked and readycto be used in a salad. However, check for instructions on the wrapper.
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 1 month ago
Dried legumes – always check the instructions and if unsure, cook for a long time and rinse
Facefullopubes 2 weeks ago
For dried beans, soak overnight then boil hard for at least 10 minutes then simmer until tender. Even more important to boil for 10 mins if going into a slow cooker.
Load More Replies... J Steven Tefertiller 4 weeks ago
Wait! If this is true, then why do kidney beans from a can still give me diarrhea, and abdominal pains?
Huddo's sister 3 weeks ago
Maybe a similar issue to IBS. Kidney (and most other) beans are high in galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) and fructans which cause digestive issues.
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TIL about the United States Housing Corporation, a federal agency that existed during WWI to provide housing to support the war effort. In just two years, they constructed neighborhoods and quality housing for over 170,000 people in dozens of cities across the US.
Nils Skirnir 1 month ago
Given the ultra-rightward drift in the US, this would be impossible now
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
Yeah, Nils...Richard Nixon signed the EPA bill in his presidency. Today he would cease to exist. BTW, the drama over Reagan's radio address about tariffs was in fact real, the drama was over the order of his words, not that he said them. Canada is my favorite place right now.
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April Pickett 1 month ago
This wouldn't happen today. If it had been started, the contracts would be cancelled and the money taken back by the government.
#53
TIL that the 90s-early 2000s icon Eliza Dushku was "inundated" with fan mails from prisoners due to her portrayal of Faith in the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Steve Kadner 1 month ago
Which she probably found preferable to being "inundated" by Michael Weatherly on the set of Bull
#54
TIL that after Robert Lawrence Jr. was selected as America's first Black astronaut in 1967, he was asked at a press conference "if he had to sit at the back of the space capsule." He never flew to space, [he was] in a plane crash less than a year after selection.
#55
TIL a woman who slashed Leonardo DiCaprio's face and neck with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party in 2005 was sentenced to two years in prison. She reportedly snuck into the party and attacked the actor after mistaking him for an ex-boyfriend. DiCaprio's injuries required 17 stitches.
DeoManus Argentem 1 month ago
Yeah, sounds like attempted m****r to me! It's California though.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
It could have been 30 years, but DiCaprio wasn't looking for anything over 25.
#56
TIL Stephen King wrote The Running Man in one week and it was "pretty much" published as a first draft.
cecilia kilian 1 month ago
"Richard Bachman". The Wikipedia plot summary begins, "In 2025, the world's economy is in shambles, and America has become a totalitarian dystopia."
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#57
TIL that in the late 18th century some wealthy individuals would pay poor people (preferably younger) to extract their teeth and have it transplanted into an empty socket. Results were usually unsuccessful.
Sue User 1 month ago
Income inequality in USA is currently greater that just before French Revolution.
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TIL during the Prohibition era in the US, the now-defunct drugstore chain Rexall sold a branded cologne/aftershave called “Bay Rum” which contained 58% grain alcohol but was labeled "for external use only." It quickly became a popular, somewhat toxic, source of legal beverage alcohol at the time.
Sue User 1 month ago
I shopped in McCrory. You can get Rexall mouthwash at the Dollar General.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
The Rexall d**g store chain is not defunct. It is alive and well in many countries.
Ace 1 month ago (edited)
Any toxicity would have been from extracts of the Bay (laurus) plants used - grain alcohol is not in itself toxic. Well, OK, all alcohol is, but pure grain (ethyl) alcohol is simply vodka, safe enough when used in moderation. It's methyl alcohol, which should not be present in Bay Rum, that's the stuff that kills or blinds (if they're lucky) hundreds of people yearly when it's illegally added to cheap liquor.
Giraffe Sitter 1 month ago
Alcohol legitimately sold for industrial purposes was legally required to be denatured to make it poisonous. The government’s position was “we told you not to drink, it’s your fault if you die.”
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#59
TIL about Luis Albino, a 6 year old boy who was kidnapped in 1951 and found alive by his relatives in 2024.
#60
TIL following the capitulation of France in WW2, ~1.8 million soldiers or approximately 10% of its adult male population became prisoners of war.
#61
TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber.
#62
TIL that after Steve Carell left “The Office,” James Gandolfini of the “Sopranos” was reportedly offered the role but HBO paid him 3 million to turn it down.
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
The character could've been a friend of Bob Vance (of Vance Refrigeration).
SummerVeE 1 month ago
The wealth disparity is gross. A network paid an actor 3 mill to *not* work? Seriously? Why not spend that seemingly disposable income on people who will have their lives changed because of it. Set up some scholarships. Contribute to a mid-income housing community and take some of the down payment burden off of homebuyers and give them a chance to get their foot in the door for home ownership. Pay off medical bills for patients? There are so many people whose lives would change from easing a difficult financial burden for them. But no, why not throw millions at an actor that the studio doesn't like for a role. Fh.
#63
TIL that three of the five likely oldest rivers on earth are in Appalachia.
#64
TIL that in Macau, the only city in China where casino gambling is legal, the game of baccarat is so incredibly popular that the tax levied on baccarat play is the city's largest source of revenue.
#65
TIL that Saturn's rings are incredibly thin. At their widest they are about 1 km thick, and at their thinnest about 10 meters thick. In width, they span from 7,000 km to 80,000 km away from Saturn's equator.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
And almost completely empty, as are all such rings and asteroid belts despite what sci fi films may like to depict.
David Paterson 1 month ago
I had thought that Saturn's rings were almost completely empty. They're not. Any object passing through the rings is sure to hit something. Some of the rings are dense enough to be opaque. It's the other rings and asteroid belts are almost completely empty.
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#66
TIL in 2006 every lock and key in a UK prison had to be changed after a TV news program aired shots of a prison key that the news crew had filmed on a recent media visit to the prison. In total, 11,000 locks and 3,200 keys needed to be replaced.
Hugo 1 month ago
Are we to understand that 11 thousand cells all used the same key, and that three thousand warders had a copy of it? Also that it was going to be easy for a criminal to make a copy after seeing the film clip?
marianne eliza 1 month ago
It's a good idea to have all the locks use the same key. For safety reasons mostly. If there's a problem, riot, illness, etc. who's going to search for the correct key?
Ronnie Beaton 4 weeks ago
I remember a similar story about a prison in (I think) Florida, that has to replace a brand new automated security system after it was discovered that every cell door would automatically open if someone broke wind.
#67
TIL - Jon Stewart, met his wife Tracey on a blind date set up by a producer on the film 'Wishful Thinking', proposed to her through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of Will Shortz, the crossword editor at The New York Times.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
This is awesome, two of my favorite people. I listen to Shortz do the "Puzzle" every week on NPR. And Stewart...well...
Michael Largey 1 month ago
I went to college with Shortz (although I didn't know him personally). He graduated from Indiana University in a degree he invented called "enigmatology" - the study of puzzles.
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TIL The Average weight for males in the United States ages 20 years and older is 199.8 pounds.
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
Yeah, and they are an average of 5'8" which means they are in normal to slightly overweight depending on their muscle mass. If you said that for Asia, then be very worried since most males are only 5'6' and that weight would be strongly obese.
pelemele 1 month ago
If you look at clothing sizes, it's striking to see that an XL in Europe corresponds to a M or S in the USA...
Ace 1 month ago
Is it? That's what, 90kg, doesn't sound too bad, I'm 80-85kg myself. Then again, I suppose that includes all the short-arses as well, so yeah, maybe. (I tend to consider myself a normal height, at ~185cm, so kinda forget about short people).
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TIL That the famous "Hillary Step" at the top of Mount Everest is no longer there. It was the last obstacle to the Summit. It is now an easier 45 degree slope instead of a vertical wall.
David Paterson 1 month ago
I had to check this up. Destroyed by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
veryvenasaur 1 month ago
For some reason my brain jumped right past google on my first read of your comment and assumed you were saying you were going to pop over to the top of mt Everest to see for yourself.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 month ago
Which is better because people kept dying at the step - or they got caught up in long lines of people trying to climb it.
#70
TIL that households in Turkey are estimated to hold about 5,000 tons of gold outside the banking system worth around $500 billion, which is nearly 35 % of Turkey’s GDP.
#71
TIL an analysis of more than 700,000 online gamblers found that only 4% of them had made money from online sports betting over a five-year period (2019-2023).
Kat 1 month ago
Drew Gooden has a great video on the uptick and complete pervasiveness of online betting in the last few years, it's easy to find on YouTube. Highly recommend.
Slmd 3 weeks ago
How ironic that he never wins anything, even WITH the app's help lolol
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TIL "Goal For Germany" [gol da Alemanha] is used as an expression in Brazilian Portuguese to describe a mishap or accident. This term was coined after Brazil's 1-7 World Cup Semi-Final defeat to Germany in 2014.
Ace 1 month ago
Hah! Reminiscent of Maradonna's "Hand of God" goal which knocked England out of the world cup. (he used his hand, not his head, an illegal action which he denied at the time, claiming the goal, which was allowed).
Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
If only we'd have had VAR then...(but not in the 1966 final)
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TIL the Honjo Masamune, considered one of the finest Japanese swords ever made, was taken by US forces after WW2 and never seen again.
Remi (He/Him) 1 month ago
Form Uncle panda's link: "The Honjō Masamune is the most important of the missing Japanese swords. Only vague theories exist as to the location of the sword." The one in Tokyo National Museum is Kanze Masamune by the same maker (Masamune) so maybe that's the reason for the confusion
Gen.Stal 1 month ago
A pity, historical objects belong to their respective cultures and people
Michael Largey 1 month ago
The responsibilty for war crimes also belong to their respective cultures and people. The Japanese have never come close to accepting the responsibility for theirs.
Load More Replies... Bruce Mardle 1 month ago
Fans of the TV series "Forever" know it was found "sticking out of some guy's chest on 32nd and Park" 😉 (It's just a brief mention.)
#74
TIL in 2009, a student, Teunis Tenbrook, won a ten-year legal battle after his ban from Erasmus University. The ban occurred after staff and students complained they could not concentrate due to his smelly feet. A judge ruled that foot odor was not a valid reason to ban a student from a university.
Verena 1 month ago (edited)
There is zero non-social-media source available to support this story. If that really happened, it would have been covered extensively by Dutch media, papers and TV. Zero stories in Dutch. Dutch are stubborn, but not dumb. Risking a diploma just because of refusing basic personal hygiene is not going to happen.
Rika 1 month ago
It depends on the reason he has smelly feet. If it's because of a medical condition, he shouldn't be banned for something he can't control. If it's because of a lack of hygiene, it's a valid reason to ban him. (Before someone says he might not have access to hygiene, I don't think anyone too poor to shower regularly would be spending 10 years in a legal battle for something so petty.)
SummerVeE 1 month ago
Would you feel the same if a new colleague had atrociously stanky toes that you could taste it was so bad, and you had to smell all day long, because it's due to a medical condition and not the person's fault? Medical condition or not, if you're not able to keep it under control, work outdoors or from home!
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TIL a couple dressed up as "Mary and her little lamb" for a Halloween party, and the man caught fire after deciding to light a cigarette. They sued Johnson & Johnson, which had manufactured the cotton batting he had worn. A jury awarded the couple $625,000, but the decision was overturned on appeal.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has produced talc-based baby powder for decades. However, internal documents and various reports have revealed that the talc used in their products was sometimes contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen. Asbestos and talc are often found in close proximity in natural deposits, making contamination a risk during mining.
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TIL in the movie This is the End (2013), Rihanna told Michael Cera he could actually slap her [behind] for a scene if she could actually slap him in the face in return. On the take used in the movie, Rihanna slapped him so hard, Cera had to go lay down in his trailer for around half an hour.
Gary 1 month ago
People find the story all very amusing until you think about reversing the roles. Then it get all dark and a*****e, and careers are ended.
Laserleader 1 month ago
It was consensual. Reversal wouldn't matter, if a guy slaps a girl who agreed it would be the same.
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago
Ironically, this is one of the few photos that DOESN'T describe Rihanna slapping someone if you hover over it.
Slmd 3 weeks ago
And it's the only one that makes sense with it, and where it all came from! lolol
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TIL that actor RJ Mitte of Breaking Bad fame was raised by his mother following his parents' separation. After she became paralyzed, Mitte assumed financial responsibility for his family at the young age of 13, which by then also included his sister, who had been born when he was 11.
#78
TIL only 1 in 5 US soldiers during WW2 were 'combat forces', everyone else was in support roles.
Pferdchen 1 month ago
Which is not to say those support roles couldn't be extremely dangerous. After his death over 70 years later, I learned that my father had to string communications lines from command to the front lines on Iwo Jima, requiring him to step over fatalities, including a friend he had made en route. Unsurprisingly, engineering units responsible for that duty had very high injury and fatality rates. My father never once spoke to me about his service.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
One type of support role was serving on a supply ship - which could be sunk by an enemy submarine at any time.
Nils Skirnir 1 month ago
And per the VA, most never left the Continental USA and its territorial waters.
#79
TIL that in 1968, Richard Nixon feared that there would be a breakthrough in the Paris Peace Talks between North and South Vietnam, resulting in the war ending and damaging his campaign. Nixon dispatched an aide to tell the South Vietnamese to withdraw from the talks and prolong the war.
Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
Nixon was scum, but he was scum who had the sense to resign after certain criminal allegations.
sofacushionfort 1 month ago
Nixon resigned after a Republican senator (Barry Goldwater) informed him his presidency wouldn’t survive an impeachment vote. This is not currently true of the Trump presidency (although hope springs eternal)
Load More Replies... Belynda Young 1 month ago
Regan asked that the hostages not be released too. All of them scum.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
It is possible to impeach someone after they leave office. Grant's secretary of war, for instance.
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TIL China has a 26-story skyscraper pig farm.
David Paterson 1 month ago
Invented for added biosecurity after China lost 200 million pigs to swine flu.
#81
TIL of Tomoaki Hamatsu, a Japanese comedian nicknamed Nasubi, who for a gameshow in the late 90s lived inside a small room for 15 months, starving and alone, surviving solely off of magazine contest prize winnings, whilst being broadcast to over 15 million viewers a week without his consent..
Slmd 3 weeks ago
Some people don't even reckon he actually won, just being given some things to keep him alive. It was pretty terrible.
Load More Replies... Day Andie 1 month ago
Is this something that would only happen in Japan or is it just a weird one-off that could happen anywhere? Is this world getting stranger?
Slmd 3 weeks ago
Well, this was from a while ago. I think it's because a lot of the East had looser laws around this kind of thing, and many "participants" were desperate. It was taking advantage of a struggling class.
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TIL that contrary to popular belief, few limb amputations during the American Civil War were done without anaesthesia. A post-war review found that 99.6% of surgeries performed were done under some form of general anaesthesia.
David Paterson 1 month ago (edited)
I'd be interested to know which one? You may not know that many anaesthetics were party dr*gs before they became used as anaesthetics. This includes rum, ether, nitrous oxide and chloroform.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
Personally, I'd prefer a solid punch to the jaw than no anaesthetic.
#83
TIL in the Philippines the presidential and vice presidential elections are separate, so the winners may end up to be from opposing parties.
Austzn 1 month ago
Oklahoma still does this for our governor and lt. governor positions. Of course, this is the least of Oklahoma's problems. At least that little t**d Ryan Walters left.
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Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
That's not a terrible idea. At least it wouldn't be if political parties would get along better in my country.
geezeronthehill 1 month ago
I would rather not depend on political parties getting along. Decades ago, Newt Gingrich declared that the era of political compromise was over. And here we are.
Load More Replies... Bruce Mardle 1 month ago (edited)
IIRC, John Brunner's novel "The Squares of The City" is set in a fictional South American country with the same set-up. The P and VP come up with an alarming way of settling their differences. (Must be time I reread it.)
#84
TIL the producer of the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate was a fertilizer salesman who bet that it was "not difficult to make a horror movie." The movie is today considered one of the worst movies ever made and was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 1 month ago
I thought that was Torgo dinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdink
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TIL that a hundred years ago, a quarter of the residents of New York would move house every single May 1st at exactly 9 AM.
Jeremy James 1 month ago
Looked it up: that is when all oral leases, which made up the majority of tenants in the city, simultaneously expired.
Nizumi 1 month ago
Montreal - every July 1st the city becomes jammed with everyone trying to move on the same day because that's when most leases end/start. Nothing like having to make sure your place is all packed up to go by midnight on June 30th, hoping that the place you're moving into is also packed up and ready to move on July 1st, while some joker thinks they can move into your place the night of June 30th. And then some genius decides the time to /start* packing is the morning of July 1st. Meanwhile the U-Haul trucks that usual rent for around $30/hr + mileage are going for $75/hr + mileage and you only have them for 4 hours or you get dinged with extra penalties. It's extortion. Mind you, these days the moving days are quieter. If you manage to find a place you can afford, you stay there for as long as you can!
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 1 month ago (edited)
Until the first half of the last century something like this happened in Naples (my hometown) Italy, on May 4th. Rentals expired on that day, by law. This dated back to 1600. The king decided that it was wise to have everybody switch houses at the same moment since people going around with their possessions every day of the year was a nuisance. But having everybody going around the same day was even worse... Anyway the tradition lasted many centuries
#86
TIL that the R-colored vowel (the “-er” sound in “butter,” as pronounced in North American English) is rare in languages, occurring in less than 1% of them. However, those languages include North American English and Mandarin Chinese, two of the most widely-spoken languages on earth.
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 month ago (edited)
TIL vowels can be coloured, and not vowels! Read the wiki entry and I'm none the wiser
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
I spent two years in speech therapy where I was forced to learn this sound, and if I was born anywhere else no one would care. That suckks
Carrie B 1 month ago
But most British accents drop the "er" sound. Yes it's English, but the pronunciation is North American.
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TIL that the 1955 children's book "When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town" is considered to have contributed significantly to criminology in Norway.
#88
TIL that Keith Moon, drummer for "The Who," was fond of blowing up hotel toilets. Starting with cherry bombs he later graduated to dynamite. Once, in response to a noise complaint, Moon asked a hotel manager to stay while he went to the bathroom, returned, and then waited for the toilet to explode.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 month ago
I saw an interview clip where Roger Daltrey was asked if Keith really drove a car into a hotel pool. He said that he didn't see it, but he did get the bill, so...
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
He went to Alice Cooper’s house for a party and spent about seven months there! He was found most days wandering around the house wearing a French maid’s outfit!
#89
TIL that Scientologists advocate "silent birth," in which everyone attending a birth avoids speaking as much as possible, because "any words spoken can have an abberrative effect on the mother and child."
Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
I think a woman should use words like Samuel L. Jackson in "Snakes on a Plane" or shout whatever else they want during childbirth...
April Pickett 1 month ago
How about Mommy? Is she allowed to scream/groan/cry during the birth experience?
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 1 month ago
no she isn't. scientologists are insane
Load More Replies... Martha Giles 1 week ago
People believe strange things about influences on unborn babies. My sister-in-law is from the Philippines. She believed that her son had a birthmark on his face because her father bet on c0ckfights (with roosters, not the other kind).
Huddo's sister 3 weeks ago
This reminds me of the 'lying in' procedure for royals during Tudor times. Mother had to be kept in a dark room, all windows and tapestries covered up and wasn't allowed music or to engage in much talking pre-labour.
#90
TIL that the Razzie Awards once nominated a 12 year-old for Worst Actress (Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Firestarter) and had to rescind the nomination because of backlash.
#91
TIL the gibberish In Missy Elliott's "Work It" is actually the previous line "I put my thing down flip it and reverse it", in reverse.
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
"During the chorus, the lyric "I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it" is followed by the same line played in reverse. In the middle of the song, after the lyric "Listen up close while I take you backwards", the lyric "Watch the way Missy like to take it backwards" is also played in reverse. Elliott also used reversed vocals in several of her productions during the following years."
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TIL Ludacris got the opportunity to act in 2 Fast 2 Furious after Ja Rule turned down $500K to return. Director John Singleton said "Ja was acting like he was too big to be in the sequel" & wouldn't return his calls. So Singleton offered Ludacris a role instead even though he'd never met him before.
#93
TIL The proper translation of the original Japanese for the phrase "All your base are belong to us" in Zero Wing should have been "With the help of Federation government forces, CATS has taken all of your bases."
Kat 1 month ago
On the early internet there was a meme (the era of ROFLMAO and i can haz cheeseburger) of "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US". It was quoting this mistranslation. I don't blame you for not knowing this reference, it's one of those "you had to be there" things, but for a specific generation, "all your base are belong to us" is pretty recognizable :)
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TIL that it's unclear from where Nation of Islam founder Wallace Fard Muhammad originated. While the NOI holds that Fard was Arabic, some evidence indicates he was south Asian, and once went by Wallie Dodd Ford. Fard appeared in Detroit in 1930 and disappeared without a trace in 1934.
#95
TIL that humans show a systematic aurofacial asymmetry, meaning that the eyes, nose and mouth are displaced to the left with respect to the midplane between the ears.
Belynda Young 1 month ago
TIL I don't always understand what the heck I just read, even when I understand all the words
Linz Endell 3 weeks ago
If you’re drawing a face, you tend to draw everything based on the vertical midline, so the mouth and nose are draw on that line and the eyes are equidistant from the line. If you take a photo of a face and draw a vertical midline, everything is actually slightly left of where it should be.
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Laserleader 1 month ago
My asymmetry leans to the right, along with my abnormal hair part on the right.
#96
TIL about the 1926 Baumes law, a New York statute where anyone convicted of more than three separate felonies would automatically receive life imprisonment, without regard to any extenuating circumstances. By 1930, 23 U.S. states adopted similar laws. Prison riots in NY led to reforms soon after.
Ace 1 month ago
Wasn't the "three strikes and you're out" rule reintroduced by some relatively recent republican government?
Antoinette the Red 1 month ago
I think it was applied to DUIs. First ticket and fines, 2nd, suspended license and 3rd time , revoked license and jail time, but not life.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
Police often found that pursuing a criminal for his third felony greatly increased the physical danger for the pursuer. Some criminals preferred risking being executed for k*****g a policeman to the certainty of life imprisonment. And if the state had no death penalty, there was no risk at all.
FoxThatHasFennecaphobia 1 month ago
So if you do something that gets you a week or a night in prison three times, you get life? Thats some great logic ⭐️
DeoManus Argentem 1 month ago
Felonies is the key word - generally meaning a prison sentence (not jail), of one year + one day.
Load More Replies... marianne eliza 1 month ago
We have a 3rd strike law here in CA. But too many repeaters have tax payer funded attorneys that know how to get around it.
Earonn - 1 month ago
As they should. Or are you against proper representation for everyone? In that case, just fvck off, you PoS. And I hope you'll not get proper help when you need it, since you dislike it so much.
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TIL that champignon mushrooms were originally all light brown in color. The white variety goes back to a chance mutation in 1925 when a white mushroom was discovered among a bed of brown ones.
Ace 1 month ago
These are just ordinary cultivated mushrooms, known as champignons de Paris in French. Never seen the terms used together like this, presumably it's an American thing? Anyway, the brown ones, which I know as chestnut mushrooms, are much nicer IMO, not sure why the white ones became more popular.
April Pickett 1 month ago
Probaby because white mushrooms look cleaner than brown mushrooms.
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#98
TIL that in order for Mia Farrow to legally adopt Soon-Yi Previn (now Woody Allen's wife) from a Korean orphanage, a one-off bill for the adoption was passed by Congress and signed by President Carter.
#99
TIL in 2009 PETA's European branch asked the British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys to rename themselves "Rescue Shelter Boys".
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
They also want carousels to stop using animals as part of the ride. They want non-living items like cars and trains. As if carousel animals are really alive. At one time they were advocating for people to stop riding horses altogether. Too stupid to realize that not everyone who owns a horse does so just to have a large pet, and many horses would be sent to slaughter if their owners couldn't ride them.
Bad Alchemy 1 month ago
PETA, always good for a snicker or a snort. I was once harangued by a PETA person at a party, who lit into me for eating the meatballs. So I asked them, very calmly, "Okay, let's suppose that everyone everywhere stopped eating beef tomorrow. What would happen to all of the cows?" They looked confused for a second and then said that the cows would be so much better off. I said, "No. The cows will go extinct, because who is going to bother with breeding and feeding and keeping cows as a hobby? Nobody. PETA will be responsible for the extinction of all cows everywhere." They had no response.
Robert Trebor 1 month ago (edited)
PETA told the town of Fishkill, NY they needed to change the name. It's derived from Dutch "fish stream".
Earonn - 1 month ago (edited)
Pretty sure that was a PR gag. They do that quite often, in order to make people aware of what they stand for. Do they go to far? IMHO, yes, sometimes. But do we as a society go too far in ignoring animal tor.ture because it gets us cheap food? Absolutely! We have no right to deem ourselves above them.
Slmd 3 weeks ago
Shock factor. A wonderful thing to get people to know you, but not to be remembered for. It's also ironic, considering all they've done.
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TIL that following the success of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Jim Carrey became the first comic actor to receive a $20 million upfront salary when he starred in The Cable Guy (1996).
Jeremy James 1 month ago
And I think we can all agree that, "The Cable Guy," was worth every penny! /s
Sue User 1 month ago
I recognise that most people enjoy his movies and he has contributed grestly to conematic history. I dont like that kind comedy.
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TIL that the sample for Jay-Z’s song for “Hard Knock Life” was only cleared after Jay-Z wrote a letter to Annie’s composer claiming that seeing the musical on Broadway as a child changed his life. Charles Strouse, the musical’s composer, gave Jay-Z permission despite the entire story being made up.
Nils Skirnir 1 month ago
Yeah changed it. Only beats his wife 6 days a week. Sunday is a holy day
#102
TIL Wham-O filed a lawsuit over a scene in "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" in which David Spade uses a Slip 'N Slide without water, later coats it with oil, and crashes into a fence. Wham-O sought the scene's removal or the addition of a disclaimer, claiming the scene violated safety guidelines.
#103
TIL Periconceptional alcohol consumption by fathers is associated with an increased risk of 1.43 times for autism and 2.71 times for ADHD.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
Or perhaps the conditions are genetic, and predispose the fathers to drink? Be careful of false correlations. They abound in almost all areas of science.
Earonn - 1 month ago
Possible. But why only the fathers, and why drinking? AFAIK, ADHD has an influence of add.iction behaviours, but not differentiated by "dr.ug" or gender.
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UKDeek 1 month ago
It is a fact that 100% of children born with autism and ADHD had mothers drink water whilst they were in the womb. This needs to be debated more, and women need to be made aware of this serious link between water and autism / ADHD.
Slmd 3 weeks ago
It's also 100% that all mothers who have autistic/ADHD kids die. This is a catastrophe!
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will not believe this in the absence of legit published research
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Verena 1 month ago
... and not necessarily true. Enjoy then, but check the facts before spreading anything.
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I was absolutely delighted to see that the AI generator used to generate the accompanying photo descriptors changed most of the descriptions to linking Rihanna with slapping someone in the photo. If you pause your cursor over the pix (assuming you are not on your phone) you can see this genius at work. 8`-)
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
I loved the list, but upset I never found who Rihanna slapped...
Verena 1 month ago
... and not necessarily true. Enjoy then, but check the facts before spreading anything.
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I was absolutely delighted to see that the AI generator used to generate the accompanying photo descriptors changed most of the descriptions to linking Rihanna with slapping someone in the photo. If you pause your cursor over the pix (assuming you are not on your phone) you can see this genius at work. 8`-)
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
I loved the list, but upset I never found who Rihanna slapped...
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