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Learning never ends! Or, well, at least it shouldn’t. Even if you’ve finished school or college, it doesn’t mean that you can kick back and relax for the rest of your life. Your mind needs to work out just like your body. Not to mention how deeply satisfying it is to discover new things about the world.
All that it takes is a dash of curiosity, a bit of patience, and—potentially—the support of a massively popular online community. That’s where the ‘Today I Learned’ or TIL subreddit comes in. Its 34.4 million eager members regularly share all the new things they’ve recently learned. We’ve collected some of their freshest and most astonishing insights for you, Pandas. Scroll down to check them out… and don’t forget to share them with your friends.
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#1
TIL that dogs intentionally try to make humans laugh. They understand that laughter means play, and play is positive.
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
My childhood dog was good at this. She would grab a toy and we were supposed to throw it up in the air. After she caught it, we would clap, and then she would begin bowing repeatedly. This made us laugh every time!
actaeon cross 1 year ago
Omg, that explains so much. My dog runs to get her toy when the husband is making me laugh
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Our companion animals do their best to tune into us—-tune into our vibe, so to speak—-and learn our habits and our ways of showing emotion. Of course they want to make us laugh, because it’s damned difficult to live with someone who isn’t happy, especially when you’re totally dependent on them for everything like our pets are. Plus, I don’t know about anyone else, but our pets love my husband and I. They like being with us. Unless they’re sound asleep, at least one of them is in the same room with us. If we move to another room, they move with us. When we’re sick in bed, they keep us company. When we’re sad, they do their best clowning around to try and get us to smile and laugh. They’re members of our little family, though insisting on being in the bathroom with us when we have to go is a little much. But whatcha gonna do, ya know? Kids or animals, or both, there’s no such thing as privacy.
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#2
TIL that the Australian Ibis (aka bin chickens) have learned how to eat the invasive and poisonous cane toad. They do this by picking the toad up, shaking it around to get it to expell its poison and empty is poison sacs, then washing the poison off with water.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
It'll never not be funny that Aussies refer to this bird as a "trashcan chicken". lmao
Donald Cox 1 year ago
My fav is the birds that hangout by traffic lights an wait till the cars stop an put their nuts in fron of the tires than the light changes the cars open the nuts an birds get them after them easy peasy
Mark 1 year ago
Bin chickens are smart but they’re still bin chickens, and no self respecting Australian should praise them. Tbf that is really smart
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
Yep, what kind of choice is that - cane toads or bin chickens?
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Ibises are really cool birds. We have ones in Gauteng (smallest province in South Africa; largest population) that are called the Hadeda Ibis. They make these "haaa! haaa!" sounds and are everywhere. They're also BIG birds! And not scared of cats.
#3
TIL about a phenomenon called "delayed implantation" in grizzly bears. The embryo will start gestation only after the mama bear has gained enough weight to avoid death by starvation during hibernation.
You don't need it 1 year ago
I'm waiting for Republicans to pass legislation to force the bear to gestate regardless of the mother's health.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
They already endanger the bear's lives by blocking as many environmental protection and wildlife protection policies that they can for the benefit of corporations.
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Sonja 1 year ago
Rabbits can reabsorb their embryos in the womb if there's not enough food or the burrow is overpopulated. That means the already developed embryos are, well, one could figuratively say, digested and eaten without even being born. An embryo is part of the mother until it gets born. It's not a separate entity before that. Nature knows that and acts accordingly.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Now I gotta ask myself, what if the lady bear is unable to reach the necessary weight to safely have the cubs? Does the embryo just stay there and wait for next year? Or does it get reabsorbed eventually and vanishes?
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
I was curious as well and had to look it up. This is what I found: "In addition, if the bears are unable to gain sufficient weight during fall to healthily give birth over the winter, the blastocyst will not implant and the bear will not have cubs that winter. This then allows bears to respond directly to the food conditions of a certain year and to only give birth during the years when the cubs and mother would have a high chance of survival."
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Birgit Sommer 1 year ago
Armadillos can postpone the entire birth process if it's too cold. They also always give birth to 4 babies with the same gender, never mixed.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
I believe I've read about this phenomenon in other species; white tailed deer being one.
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
Kangaroos can do even more -- pausing embryos at multiple stages of development till the time is right.
The long and short of it is that we have to consistently take care of our brains if we want to live a healthy, happy, and high-quality life. A very wide range of factors contribute to this. For one, the positive relationships we build with the people we care about are paramount. Strong social networks make us more resilient to stress. On the flip side, loneliness is absolutely awful for our bodies, minds, and longevity.
On top of that, you have to get plenty of sleep, eat nutritious food, and get lots of movement throughout the week. Your body and mind are intrinsically linked. No matter how intelligent and skilled you are, your brain won’t thank you if all you ever do is stay cooped up inside, staring at screens and eating junk food.
#4
TIL: A US Air Force cadet was reading about WWII when he stumbled upon the name of a janitor that worked at his USAF Academy. That’s how it was discovered at the academy that that janitor was a Medal of Honor recipient.
Nina 1 year ago
US treat veterans as they treat babies, once they're out, they're on their own.
Jonny Wilson 1 year ago
You’re right on that one it took me 10 years to get my disability recognized as service connected
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
This isn't a new thing. Masses of WWI vets marched on Washington, demanding what they were owed. It didn't go well for them.
Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago
He is the only enlisted soldier buried at the academy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Crawford
Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago
Thanks, i'm reading about him right now, thanks to you.
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Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
See the government treats our heroes as well as our service people in general. Has anyone seen what their look like? Not 2 mention the crappy equipment. Gee..I wonder polititical party cud be if favor of this?!
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
You think that guy ever thought "We all fought and sacrificed just for this?"
Margaret Shannon 1 year ago
I hope this reminds us all to treat everyone with respect and to remember all honest work is important.
#5
TIL 1 in 5 CEOs have psychopathic tendencies.
John L 1 year ago
The only difference between the two is if you care if you get caught.
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Lotekguy 1 year ago
Keep testing. You're missing a boatload of diagnoses.
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Donkeywheel 1 year ago (edited)
Any-pathic « tendencies » is a b******t concept that is not scientific. It doesn’t mean anything precisely, everybody has every tendency to some extent. But there are definitely not 20% of CEOs who are actually diagnosed as psychopaths.
Jonny Wilson 1 year ago
You actually can’t be diagnosed as a psychopath you’d be diagnosed with something like antisocial personality disorder
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
The chief difference between a CEO and a psychopath is that the CEO can afford a much better lawyer.
#6
TIL The Green Bay Packers (NFL) is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States.
HTakeover 1 year ago
The vast majority of the money is used on operating expenses - maintain facilities, pay players and staff, equipment, upgrade facilities, etc. Some goes to charity - local schools, youth outreach, food banks, etc. But as a percentage it's very little.
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Jojo on the Gogo 1 year ago
I'm a "stock holder". They sold "shares" like 10 years ago as a fundraiser to renovate their stadium. My dad is from Wisconsin and is a huge Packer fan, so he bought 1 share (1 per person allowed) for himself, my brother and me. They're not really worth anything and can only be transferred to family. But we got a super cool looking stock certificate, and every year a packet for voting on the Board Members. Pretty cool.
La Lucy 1 year ago
Actually, a single person can own up to 10,000 shares. Most just buy one to say they own it. They had an offering about 2 years ago as well.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
Another funny thing about this is that Green Bay is a fairly small city (100,000, not millions). It's unthinkable that such a small city could support one of the most successful sports franchises around. They do benefit from the Milwaukee TV market, but that's even a relatively small market and not that close. Milwaukee is WAY closer to Chicago than Green Bay.
Wisco_MKE 1 year ago
Yup! I even have a stock certificate for the team so I'm an "owner" of the Packers. GO PACK GO!
Dawn Welton 1 year ago
I am, too! My husband bought me shares for Christmas a couple years ago! GO PACK GO!!!!!!!💚💛🩷
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
WOO GO PACKERS I don’t really like football but that’s my state team
My “in my head” Voice 1 year ago
It mostly means that shares in the team are owned by fans. The shares are handed down, generation to generation, and there is a long waiting list of people who want to buy any shares that become available.
FloralDangerNoodle 1 year ago
Season tickets are that hard to come by, too!
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
Couple of things. If nothing else the packets can’t turncoat and move cities for attractive offers. Idk about team revenues, but citizens who live in GB definitely get w financial benefit. Lots and lots of outside money coming into the city in purchases at local businesses, bars, restaurants , hotels etc. individuals charge a lot to let people park in their yards, yes yards, to be close to the stadium. Lots of people are employed at the stadium.
Aside from investing in your relationships and taking better care of your health, you ought to give your mind some direct training as well. We all know how much better life is when we’re feeling fresh and sharp, not groggy and slow. But a big part of feeling bright and capable comes from taking the time and energy to try new things and learn new skills.
You could go for something as simple and fun as reading a book, putting together a puzzle, solving a crossword, or trying your hand at Sudoku. You could give learning a new language a try or pick an interesting subject to research, whether that’s something to do with psychology, history, science, or anything else.
Or you could pick up a new hobby to try out. Like painting, dancing, playing an instrument, or putting together an entire vintage car from scratch in your garage. It should be something that’s new to you but that you feel at least slightly enthusiastic about. Doing things that we find hard improves our willpower. However, we shouldn’t go through life having to force every single thing that we do. There’s a balance to be found here.
#7
TIL the next periodical emergence of the 13- and 17-year cicada broods is 2024. The last time these insects co-emerged was 221 years ago while Thomas Jefferson was president.
JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 1 year ago
People are so lucky they’ve never had a problem with cicadas!
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
If you DON'T live in the Eastern United States, you've probably never experienced a cicada brood. Imagine a plague of locusts that don't eat, but just make incredibly loud noises trying to get laid. Yeah, ONE locust makes a loud noise. (I used to think they would look like locusts, but they don't.) And in a given square mile, there could be BILLIONS of them. It's astonishing to think how predominant this one animal is during a brood eruption, and then to think that they're ALWAYS there, they're just usually underground where you can't see them. I think the survival strategy is that all predators combined could only ever eat a tiny portion of them, and that no predator that could eat a significant amount could survive until the next brood. And then one day they start to die, and you get out the snow shovel or rake and make a path to walk again.
Tamra 1 year ago
I live in Pennsylvania, so I'm very familiar with this sound. Constant, loud, high pitched droning/buzzing... it's insane. After a summer of this brood, I'm definitely anxious for the blessed silence of fall and winter.
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Lee F. 1 year ago (edited)
My friend from Saskatchewan came to visit me in Toronto one August and asked me why the trees were screaming 😭
Peruvian Chick 1 year ago
Thankfully we did not had ti suffer them during quarantine =$
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
In Texas, cicada song is just the music of summer, and we tune it out so it's kind of our white noise. I wouldn't know how to act if I didn't hear them announcing the end of spring.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
In Texas, you get perennial cicadas, unless you're right along the Red River. The difference between perennial cicadas and periodical cicads is the difference between seeing a candle at 1000 yards, and staring directly into a 10,000-watt flood light.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago
This post is nonsense. "Broods" refer to populations that emerge simultaneously; in my part of the U.S., we just HAD the 17-year brood a couple of years ago. If you're from a region that doesn't GET giant cicacda broods, you should know it was WIERD. See, you don't hear a cicada, you hear the bizarre, cumulative acoustic affect of millions upon millions of cicadas, a high-pitched, throbbing hum that sounds EXACTLY like space aliens from 1950s movies. Combined with dystopian coronavirus world, I just felt like I was living in a bad sci-fi movie.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I looked it up: The 17-year brood that will emerge in 2024 is centered around Northern Illinois. There's a 13-year brood that will emerge is in Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois in 2024. The area that these broods overlap is tiny, a few rural counties.
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John Murphy 1 year ago
Im so confused - if they are 17 year cycles, how did we arrive at 221 yrs
#8
TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.
David 1 year ago
absentee ballots back then were not mail in. Election officals went to the front lines, took the ballots from the soldiers, counted them, and sent the results back home. NY was the only state that did not allow that at the time, so NY units were rotated back home for "security duty" for a few weeks so they could vote in NY. And there were 4 Union slave states and 1 more with some slaves as they were still phasing it out.
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Kevin Beard 1 year ago
But the RepubliCons tell us slavery didn’t really exist and that they were better off because they learned a skill 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
David 1 year ago
Here is some other news, there were 4 Union Slave States. Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri, and loyalist regiments from Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia in the Union Army. Also NJ had outlawed slavery years earlier, but when they did so, all minor slaves were freed, and no new slaves, but any adult slaves would be legally slaves until they died or their owner freed them (it was called a gradual phase out), and there were about 1300 slaves in NJ in 1861
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago (edited)
The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t emancipate Union slave states.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Why are people making political comments on this post it's about new facts not politics.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Of course you mean your post to reflect the fact the the Democrats were the conservative party at the time. When it comes to race, the coservative element, regardless of party tag, that has been the problem.
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TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once Vice President of the United States, died at age 70 of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his 25 year old assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: "Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going".
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
Same goes for French president Félix Faure who died of a stroke while receiving oral sex from his mistress in his office. Afterwards there was a pretty popular phrase going around about him: « Il voulut être César, il ne fut que Pompée » " He wanted to be Cesar, but ended up only being Pompey", where "pompe" can also mean "blowjob"...
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Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
I learnt the other day that when one of the Rockefeller's was being interviewed he was asked 'how much is enough money?' and he replied 'just a little bit more' keeping in mind this was the wealthiest family in America at the time. I guess however much money you have you always want a bit more
Blue Mar 1 year ago
2 things are unlimited in human nature: stupidity and greediness
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Kurichfield 1 year ago
Still...what a way to go! Rather that than cancer or in a hospital bed alone.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
Rockefeller was appointed as VP by Gerald Ford, President, who also pardoned President Nixon who appointed Ford as VP when his VP, Spiro Agnew, was forced to resign for corruption.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
TBH I would be 100% ok with dying this way. Sounds like the best way to die.
Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
Not very nice for your 25 year old assistant though.
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Jennifer Ness 1 year ago
Check with your doctor before engaging in sexual activity as the Viagra ads always say
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
For those thinking this is a horrendous headline, may I remind you that he died in 1979. In case you missed it, the '70s and '80s were pretty nasty when it came to sexual jokes and comments. No way you'd get away with this headline today.
Dr. John N. Morris, the director of social and health policy at the Institute for Aging Research, which is affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, urges people to practice new and challenging activities.
“Eventually, your cognitive skills will wane and thinking and memory will be more challenging, so you need to build up your reserve. Embracing a new activity that also forces you to think and learn and requires ongoing practice can be one of the best ways to keep the brain healthy,” he said.
#10
TIL that when the first rail bridge over the Mississippi River was being planned, riverboat operators pushed for rigid standards in hopes of making the bridge impossible. Instead, the bridge pioneered multiple engineering techniques and still carries road and rail traffic 150 years later.
MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
Yes - also the first bridge over the Mississippi river. Used Carnegie steel.
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Michael None 1 year ago
I live in St. Louis and have driven across the Eads Bridge many times. It used to be the thing St. Louis was famous for and was a source of local pride. Then they built this giant arch and people forgot about it.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Now our crime rate gets so much attention, everyone forgets about the Arch.
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James Duvall 1 year ago
The first bridge over the Mississippi River was the first Rock Island Railroad bridge in the Quad Cities (1852-1856). The Rock Island bridge was later replaced three times, with the Government Bridge finished in 1896. The Eads Bridge (1867-1874) is the first bridge over the Mississippi River south of the Missouri River where the river is wider.
Allen Lavine 1 year ago
I've seen something about this on the series, the men who built America
Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6289199,-90.1792845,3a,60y,83.66h,84.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG7980EPudTwuWxr2OR7Z9A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
#11
TIL that sperm whales can generate sounds up to 230 decibels - far beyond the fatality threshold for humans.
Bob Newbie 1 year ago
Yes. Scientists estimate that 180+ decibels have the ability to kill you. Source: Smithsonian institute
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Sebastian Garcia 1 year ago
OH DADDY IM COMING is apparently louder than what humans can handle
#12
TIL that the leader of the Crips, Stanley Williams, lived a double life where during the day, he was an anti-gang youth counselor, and at night acted as the overboss of the Crips, committing violent gang crimes against the Bloods.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
That does seem to happen quite a bit. People leading hypocritical double lives (especially in the church)
Aria Whitaker 1 year ago (edited)
Do...people think he can just "retire" and politely inform the Crips he will no longer be leading them? Do they have any clue what will happen to him (or worse his family) if he does so? Clearly not. Being a gang leader is not like being an accountant, social worker or bus driver. Its like the mafia. It is HARD to get out. He may be doing what he can do to dissuade the kids from following in his steps. What he is doing is not "right" per se...but I have seen the very bad results of just regular gang members deciding to leave and what can happen..and he was no "regular" gang member.
Rina DSouza 1 year ago
Well he was executed by lethal injection in 2005 for 4 murders he committed, so there's that.
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Lady Gypsy Rain 1 year ago
Can I say, very much agree. Though it’s not just the pastors. These types of churches have multiple pastors and multiple layers of “governing authorities” that make it practically impossible to get an appointment with the head pastor unless you are a member or family member of the people in the governing authority. Ask me how I know. It only took me one year in a mega church to finally throw in the towel. I was in the choir so attended both morning services and Sunday and Wednesday evening services along with Wednesday evening choir practice and every Sunday school class for a solid year and the same person would greet me every service and ask if this was my first time attending. That man was my Sunday school teacher and choir director. He did not have any mental deficits and was employed by that churches university also on site as an instructor and choir teacher. I finally had enough and changed to a charismatic church that taught me so much and not just about the Bible. Acceptance
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
"but was he a crip from birth or did he become a crip later in life?" -- Jimmy Valmer.
Analyn Lahr 1 year ago
So he was a 'do as I say not as I do' type of dude? Or he used his day job to recruit members?
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
"Don't kill, children. Wait, is that a red bandana hanging out of that guy's back pocket?"
Morris stressed the fact that you cannot improve your memory if you don’t work at it. "The more time you devote to engaging your brain, the more it benefits. It is the constant repetition of working to improve, and not the quest for mastery, that can have the greatest impact.”
Which of the facts in this list surprised you the most? Were there any that you’d already heard about before, dear Pandas? Let us know in the comment section. In the meantime, if your curiosity is all fired up and you’d like to learn some more TIL facts about the world, feel free to read Bored Panda’s earlier posts.
#13
TIL that Sigourney Weaver earned $1,000,000 and a share of the profits for Aliens (1986), whereas she earned only $35,000 for Alien (1979).
Jeff White 1 year ago
Well WELL deserved. She probably should have paid the movie studios for 3 and 4. But Aliens remains the best 2nd movie ever.
Valdemar 1 year ago
3 and 4 are the fault of the producer and director, not the actor.
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LovingKnuckle 1 year ago
This is why it was so unbelievably stupid when Jenifer Lawrence claimed to be the first woman in a lead action role. Ellen Ripley and Sarah Conner were straight wrecking shít before she was even born
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
She saved that movie... With that kind of paycheck on the line its easy to see why she was so invested in keeping the production together... Glad she did because its the greatest SciFi action flick ever
bill marsano 1 year ago
It's critical to have a share of the Gross, not ther Net because Hollywood studio accountants are geniuses at making sure there is no net to share (e.g., the toilet paper in the johns is charged against the film). Winston Groom, creator of Forrest Gump had a share of the net of the film. It was stupendously successful, but somehow there was NO net. Accountants' sleight-of-hand made sure the movie merely broke even.
#14
TIL that in 1973, two brothers, an 18-year-old and a 10-year-old stayed in Tom Sawyer's River at Disneyland past closing time. When they tried to swim to leave, the older brother carried his younger brother, who didn't know how to swim, on his back and drowned. The younger survived.
QUINN SANE 1 year ago
There’s been quite a few deaths at Disneyland that are bizarre. Understandably, Disney tries to keep them secret.
2WheelTravlr 1 year ago
They don't try to keep them secret, the information is available from many sources. They obviously don't use in-park accidents and deaths as part of an advertising campaign, but they're not chasing down every source and buying their silence.
Load More Replies... Michelle C 1 year ago
This is bittersweet because the older dying is tragic and the younger surviving is good…💔
Telepathetic 1 year ago (edited)
Nobody dies at DW...they wait til the body is off premises to declare him/her Dead
#15
TIL that sharks do not produce sounds that humans can hear. Out of the 400-500 species, no organ capable of producing sound has ever been found.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Couple more fun shark facts: their blood doesn't coagulate in air, only salt water. They also evert their colons when they poop. They have to zigzag rapidly to keep other fish from biting off their colon when 'deployed'.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Bull sharks breath both salt and fresh water. Some sharks give birth while others lay eggs.
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Lady Gypsy Rain 1 year ago
Every time I see a shark, it’s already got accompanying music. I don’t tend to see sharks in swimming pools. If I ever do, God help us
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The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
If a shark bites you and no one is around to hear do you make a sound or fall or something..
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
So, does it not produce sounds we can hear or does it not produce sounds at all? This lists both and they're not the same thing.
#16
TIL that only about 20% of homes in the UK are completely detached with zero shared walls, whereas, almost 85% of homes in the US are detached.
Drew 1 year ago
Hardly surprising since the UK is 40 times smaller than the US. It also has a significantly higher population density - 274 inhabitants per km2 compared to 35 in the US
Donkey boi 1 year ago
For our USA friends, 274 inhabitants per Km2 is about 2 microwaves per Taylor Swift
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Aileen Grist 1 year ago
most homes in the UK are made from brick or stone which makes fastening them together in a run easier and much more economical - a mid terrace house is warmer too as you have only 2 outside walls - front and back.+
robin aldrich 1 year ago
Yeah, but with all the high density developments in the US, they may be detached, but there's not much space between them anymore.
Robert T 1 year ago
Oh, I don't know. Shared floors/ceilings are not fun if you have neighbours who like to drag furniture around at 2am.
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Was? There are still mortgaged, inhabited back to back houses in England.
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Lynn Morello 1 year ago
Never realised that, but yes, the only place I saw houses that were not attached was in Bury Lancs, Across the road from us all the houses were bungalows. Non attached single houses, Something I had never seen anywhere else.
#17
TIL of the antimony pill, aka the everlasting pill, used in the 18th and early 19th century for stomach relief. It was reusable after pooping it out, making it very cost effective. Entire families used the same pill, which some times went through multiple generations.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
yes, eewwww... and who's job was it to go fish it out of the outhouse pit? eewww!
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Chrissie Anit 1 year ago
"which some times went through multiple generations." - I see what you did there.
Mia Black 1 year ago
From wiki: this pill was a little bullet composed of metallic antimony which had or was believed to have the property of purging as often as it was swallowed. It is not inconceivable that it might have had such property, for it is possible that a minute amount was dissolved by the gastro-intestinal juices and this amount, plus the suggestion, was sufficient to produce cathartic action. Then again the everlasting pill probably aided peristalsis by its mechanical weight and motion. The bullet was passed out, recovered from the feces and used over and over again.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
I cant remember what illness or condition this treatment is for, but.. it's a stomach condition with a treatment of putting someone else's fecal matter into the patients stomach alleviates the problem. I guess maybe the patient can't make a certain compound found in *healthy* stool. So by putting it in the stomach it allows for the body to regain whatever its missing. That's what ghis reminds me of.
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Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
How about reusable condoms made out of animal intestines. Shared by friends and family.
Alicia M 1 year ago
I knew they made them out of animal intestines, but I guess I never thought about them being reused, or shared. Now I need brain bleach. 😂
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#18
TIL that, of the 50 oldest people on the planet, only ONE of them is a male.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Look at a lot of the stupid s**t we pull and it's no wonder! LOL!
laura lee 1 year ago
True, I don't see how yall make it out of adolescence
Load More Replies... El Dee 1 year ago
We still don't know if that's down to lifestyle ie men doing physical jobs that traditionally weren't done by women OR if it's due to something hormonal. Both or neither could be true but as traditional types of work have barely changed over the last century it may be many decades before we know for sure..
Becky Lombard 1 year ago (edited)
When I was just out of high school, I worked in a nursing home. My observation was that when men were admitted they just gave up and died fairly quickly, whereas women became engaged in their new community and lived longer. I felt like it was due to men feeling useless because they didn't have a purpose any longer. This was in 1976, when the norm was men working and women staying home.
Load More Replies... Steve 1 year ago
His name is Colin McCloud of the clan McCloud, because there can be only one.
Dave Pearson 1 year ago
Well clearly this is sexist and discriminatory and I for one am deeply offended.
Birgit Sommer 1 year ago
Why tho? Genetics? Less dangerous lifestyle? Pay more mind to their health?
Titian 1 year ago
Well, all of those really. Testosterone makes males biologically valuable to the tribe (larger, stronger and more aggressive - useful for protection and catching food), but it also has negative effects on the individual (heart disease, risk tolerance, and often fewer social impulses). What’s good for the tribe turns out to be less good for the person - at a biological level.
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 1 year ago
Deàth by stupidity will likely place in the list of auto accidents, illnesses, and, heart attacks. Meaning on a list of ways people dìe.
#19
TIL that Hong Kong actor Michael Chan is well-known for his various triad (gangster) roles and martial arts movies. It was later discovered he was actually the No. 2 boss in the 14k Triad.
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
A lot of people who lived in Hong Kong in the time he did were in some kind of gang. Especially in Kowloon walled city which I think has the highest crime rate and you almost couldn't avoid being in a gang
Dave In MD 1 year ago
Yes, because every chinese person named Chan is related.
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#20
TIL that after childbirth, the placenta can leave behind a wound the size of a dinner plate inside the mother’s uterus.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
That wound usually closes itself quickly, as the uterus contracts back into shape, but if it continues bleeding, it threatens the mother's life. I nearly lost à family member that way
S WO 1 year ago
Nearly loss my life that way having my 2nd child...The nurse's face said everything!
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Szzone 1 year ago
Jesus Christ. Women are hardcore. Just think about periods. "Yo, not pregnant, here's your BLOOD WATERFALL". Metal as shît. Then this. Then "Listen up, we created a new human and pushed it out of our genital tube. Good job. Tell the modified sweat glands to start sweating NURTURING THICK BONE-GROWING SWEAT." I'm telling you, we men with our regular male bodies have nothing on the female body, it's a power machine that cannot be stopped.
oldandexhausted79 1 year ago
Yet they're expected to go back to normal right after and take care of a baby with little to no help. We are superheroes.
Silre (she/her) 1 year ago
They don't even teach sex education in sex education.
Load More Replies... Zedrapazia 1 year ago
There are many reasons for me not to want children, but nonetheless, every once in a while, a new one adds to the others. As if that whole ordeal wasn't already enough like the Alien movies, seriously. Tho, at least the Xenomorph leaves asap when it's born, whereas a baby is loud, expensive and very disgusting with all the stuff that comes out of all of its holes.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
well yes. What do you think happened? it like merges with the blood system.
Lou Cam 1 year ago
And it feels like it too! No one seems to talk about the afterpains where the uterus cramps for days after to reduce blood loss. Worsened by oxytocin released during breastfeeding too.
LeighPig 1 year ago
Yes!!! My after pains were horrendous, I felt like I'd pass out from the pain and would often curl my toes and hold my breath while feeding my newborn.
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The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
The placenta is part of the baby. The baby has to create it in order for the "mother's" body to not attack it, as it is a technical foreign body, parasite. I just learned that recently. So the argument about women were created to have babies and there for should be forced to carry when impregnated is incorrect. "Female" bodies are not made to be pregnant. They just contract a parasite that in many cases is life-threatening.
#21
TIL: Giant Tortoises lacked a scientific name for 300 years; as sailors devoured them on return trips.
StPaul9 1 year ago
The meat was described as succulent, and the shell held so much fresh water. 'We'll do it this time, I swear! chomp
robin aldrich 1 year ago
When they "discovered" the Galapagos, didn't they pillage the island of wildlife and consume it?
Kurichfield 1 year ago (edited)
is there a scientific name for potato chips? I can't leave an open bag full for the life of me
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I just bought a book of Australian and English cookery from 1864 and it had a recipe for turtle soup, including how to dismember it etc
#22
TIL a four-year-old m****r case was solved when detectives noticed a gang member's tattoo that depicted the entire crime scene.
Nike Pancakes 1 year ago (edited)
If only they could censor TikTok and celebrity gossip garbage posts.
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DarkGlassSphere 1 year ago
I had to read it five times, before I get it was 'murder' censored. It's getting more than ridiculous.
KittyMommy 1 year ago
I remember this case, the guy's tat had a helicopter firing down at a guy, and the whole scene was a recreation of the murder scene. And the gang member's nickname was Chopper. Took place in Los Angeles in 2011
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TIL Bermuda has no indigenous population, and has only been permanently settled since 1609.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
Am I right in thinking that there are no fresh water sources on Bermuda and the fresh water they have comes from gathered rainwater?
HTakeover 1 year ago
Until the past century, that was true. But excavating revealed some very deep down aquifers that they tap into now.
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Michael None 1 year ago
Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Alecto76 1 year ago
Thanks for putting my least favorite earworm in my head Michael!
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Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago (edited)
Well, considering most areas in the world have had people living there (Homo Sapiens or earlier hominids) for literally tens or hundreds of thousands of years, 425 years is pretty recent. Even the little town I live in that has absolutely nothing of note to mention is 755 years old.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
Bermuda is possibly the most beautiful place I've ever been. But I haven't traveled much. :)
#24
TIL the only state in the U.S. that requires shoes while driving is Alabama -- and that's only for motorcycle riders.
howdylee 1 year ago
Can confirm, I've driven home from the beach in Florida (10 min drive), wearing a bikini and no shoes :) Standards are low, but we all know this! :)
Dumpster Fire 1 year ago
The thing that works the pedals in a car is actually the thing inside the shoe. Removing the shoe does not prevent the use of a pedal.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Yeah, I don't understand how barefoot is considered dangerous enough to make you partly liable if an accident happens (at least I'm told that's the case where I live) even if you did nothing else wrong - while at the same time wearing heels or clogs would be no problem.
Load More Replies... FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
Why should shoes be required for car driving? Understandable for motorcyclists, but I don’t think there’s many people riding those barefooted.
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
False... In WI you will be fined for wearing no shoes while driving unless they've changed it in the last decade because I've seen someone get fined for it
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Wisconsin: State Trooper Jim Larson told the Wisconsin State Journal that not only is it legal to drive barefoot in the state, but also that many do so. He says that it's safer to do this than to wear heels or other shoes that make driving difficult.
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Julie S 1 year ago (edited)
When I used to go clubbing and had been wearing heels I used to drive home barefoot because my feet hurt. And I think it is illegal in the UK
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
When I used to drive (I'm epileptic now) when wearing heels out and about, I used to drive barefoot if I forgot to take flats - the heel would catch on the floor mat and stop me using the clutch properly otherwise so barefoot was safer by far. Bare feet never slipped on the pedals and movement was unrestricted. I also did it if I was wearing big boots which restricted my ankle flexion.
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robin aldrich 1 year ago
They require shoes but not helmets. We know you want your freedom, but we've seen what happens to a human's unprotected head when it collides with a car
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Then you should be demanding helmet laws for car occupants too.
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 1 year ago
A helmet, leathers, and boots should be required everywhere. Or more people are gonna dìe. My son in law didn't wear a helmet. He's been gone 4yrs now. Please protect your head. Roads are not forgiving to brains.
Nicholas Scott 1 year ago
I’m from Louisiana and I remember the shoe-wearing rule from driving school 😭
#25
TIL that in the UK, the number of women (103,575) who applied to study law at the undergraduate level in 2022 was nearly double the number of men (51,865) who did.
laura lee 1 year ago
TIL in the UK you can study law as an undergraduate. US you generally study liberal arts as an undergrad to get a wide range of knowledge and then apply to Law school
David 1 year ago
Because in the UK, like their medical degrees, they are bachelors that you study for full time since starting college. The US method is get a bachelors, and then go to law or medicine for graduate school. It is a way to weed out lesser qualified people, and also make sure those who apply truly want it. At one time the US had a bachelors in law before the BAR made it a JD graduate degree.
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Alecto76 1 year ago
My law school class 05-08, was about half female. I understand the ratio of female attorneys has increased dramatically since then. Female attorneys make up maybe a fourth of every courtroom I'm in. Yet I must correct clients constantly. I'm not a paralegal. Associate attorney means I haven't bought into the partnership, not that I'm an assistant. I definitely might know the current law better than my 80 year old bosses despite my vagina.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
This gives me hope! Hopefully america will see the same excitement in our society.
Lori Beauchamp 1 year ago
Me thinks that the underrepresented have the power to resolve that small issue.
#26
TIL a man bought all the spare B-2 windshields and used them in his daughter’s tree house. The USAF had to buy them back to replace a damaged Spirit windshield.
David 1 year ago
They had been sitting in a warehouse for over 20 years, never used (because of how durable the special glass was) and so it was then automatically sold off as surplus because it had been sitting for 20 years. It was not until even later than that when the first one broke, they realized what happened. The company that made the glass no longer had the moulds and plates for making it, and it was going to be expensive to retool a whole factory for it. So the USAF tracked down who purchased them all, and bought it back. Since then the US changed their procedures for disposal of old parts, by allowing some to be labeled as "Special", meaning they will sit for eternity.
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S WO 1 year ago
That's what I'm saying! Must be one hell of a tree house!🤣
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#27
TIL while most American sports are variations on older ones, volleyball, skateboarding, snowboarding and ultimate frisbee are completely American inventions
Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
Volleyball was invented as a variation of badminton surely? Skateboarding was a variation on surfing and was called street surfing, and the first snowboard was two skis stuck together so is a variation of skiing?
FreeTheUnicorn 1 year ago
Surfing is from Hawaii, it was an independent nation when it was invented but now is a US state. Lacrosse is North American.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
Basketball was invented in the U.S. I find it hard to believe that James Naismith, 1893 inventor of basketball, was at all aware of the game in which Aztecs attempted to keep a 4-pound, solid rubber ball bouncing by bumping it with their hips, but could end the game instantly by passing the ball through a high ring in the air. In fact, early versions of the Aztec game lacked the part about the high ring, and Naismith's game used an actual basket; it never occurred to anyone for YEARS to just hang a hoop with a net.
Crybabyartist 1 year ago
That's been around for ages and predates pouches and cans when there was a time before Cats had subverted hairless apes to do it for them, cats actually pounced and thrashed live "prey" for sustenance. That also may be a made up thing because come on!!
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Tracy Wallick 1 year ago (edited)
Indigenous Americans have been playing lacrosse (albeit not by that name) since the 12th century CE.
Zaphod 1 year ago
And disc golf. I grew up playing the world's 2nd oldest course in Huntington Beach, California.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I know it's a stretch, but you could make a case that disc golf is derived from...golf
Load More Replies... Bobby 1 year ago
I used to love it. Then I had someone trip and fall on my leg after missing a catch and got a tibial plateau fracture. Basically my shin broke up and down instead of across and turned into, as my ortho put it, a "meniscus meat grinder". Now I can't run any faster than my 6 year old
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago
No they aren't. Those are derivatives of primitive games.
#28
TIL that in 2016, Burger King opened a spa in one of its restaurants in Helsinki, Finland. Customers could enjoy a Whopper while sitting in the 15-seater sauna room, and the spa also featured showers, PlayStation, TVs, and beverages and the price was $283/person.
Vanessa Panerosa 1 year ago
There’s a brilliant episode of “Travel Man” featuring Paul Rudd where among many hilarious antics they take a stop here. One of my favorite shows. It’s on Prime and I highly encourage everyone to check it out if you love travel and watching someone do it who clearly does not.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
In America, when we want to spend $283 to eat a burger in stifling heat and frequent showers, we can buy round-trip airline tickets to Florida!
Kevin Beard 1 year ago
They actually use real beef and no imitation smoke flavor like they do here in the US
🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 1 year ago
I'm Finnish and I didn't know this. But I am not surprised about this fact :D
#29
TIL that Bobby Driscoll, the voice of Disney's Peter Pan, lost his film contract due to puberty related acne, turned to drugs, went to prison, hung out with Andy Warhol, and died penniless and alone in an abandoned building in the East Village.
HTakeover 1 year ago (edited)
Not voice acting roles. Film roles. He had already voiced Pan and was set to star in some live action movies. He had severe acne, the kind that permanently scars faces. They wanted a fresh faced kid for the roles.
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
That's sad, but not because it happened to a celebrity. This sort of thing is even more sad when it happens to someone who never had any advantages.
Rob D 1 year ago
Many of you know him ... remember the old Disney movie Treasure Island? It was on all through the 90s on Disney channel's Sunday movie night. Same slot that aired original Herbie, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 20K Leagues, etc. Anyway, Bobby Driscoll was the kid from Treasure Island.
Hippopotamuses 1 year ago (edited)
Reminds you that for all it's magic, Disney is very much a business.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
"Those Disney people are close with a buck." - Bill Murray
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Shay Baranowski 1 year ago
yeah, well go read the story about the author of peter pan....wild!
#30
TIL Korean astronauts eat a version of kimchi that has been radiated to kill all of the microorganisms.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
TIL that there were Korean astronauts. So I looked it up: South Korea boasts the only 100% female astronaut program. Her name is Yi So-Yeun. She flew on a Russian rocket.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Pics at the link, if you're curious. Fascinating to read the stories written before the Korean astronaut was supposed to go on the International Space Station with two Russians in 2008. At the last minute, due to security breaches, he was replaced by a woman(!), Yi So-yeon. She went to space (with her kimchi), came back, and quit in 2014, thus ending the Korean space program. https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2008/02/12/industry/Kimchi-ramyeon-ready-for-trip-into-outer-space-/2886122.html
#31
TIL There is a a parasite that can infect the human brain and alter our behaviour. It can cause road rage, increase chances of dying in a road accident and much more.
Chocolate llama 1 year ago
I guess this is toxoplasma gondii? It is linked to increased reckless behavior and is transmitted by cats. It is also the reason pregnant people should not scoop up kitty litter because the parasite can be harmful to the unborn and the pregnant person.
Hippopotamuses 1 year ago
Thanks for the explanation. Really stupid of the OP to put this fact up, without identifying the parasite!
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Finally, the answer I've been looking for. I'm not crazy. I have a parasite manipulating my behavior. Whew!
DforDory 1 year ago
How does a parasite increase the chances of being killed in a road accident? It takes over the wheel,or what...?🤨
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
The person who's infected gets aggressive and less likely to be careful in dangerous surroundings
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Laura Williams 1 year ago
Wash hands after cleaning litter boxes and pregnant women don't clean litter boxes.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
If this is toxoplasma gondii (as noted below), it should be noted that other parasites can infect the human brain and cause some serious behavioral changes (often before killing you) like Naegleria fowleri.
Lady Gypsy Rain 1 year ago
There is also a microorganism that will devour the human brain and is contracted by using tap water in a nasal rinse and sometimes by using tap water on contact lenses. This little bugger is lethal iirc 100% of the time
#32
TIL that a steel bridge in India is being dangerously eroded by pedestrians spitting on it.
Pat Curran 1 year ago
If you have a bridge to destroy but you're in no hurry to get it done, just make it a pedestrian bridge and put free lemonade stands all the way across.
Vishrut Rao 1 year ago
Bunch of idiots chewing tobacco and spitting around
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#33
TIL that the world's second most expensive building is The Clock Towers complex in Mecca, which had a total construction cost of 15 billion USD. It was built by the Saudi Binladin Group, whose founder is the father of Osama Bin Laden. Construction began in 2002, and opened in 2012.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
A bunch of hotels for what purpose in a part of the world that is considered holy?
Mustafa Kiziroğlu 1 year ago
There is a prayer room *in* that crescent on top, if you are privileged enough to pray on top of the world, as a humble human being, to the lord the almighty.
#34
TIL that Okinoshima Island in Japan strictly forbids women to step ashore due to local traditions. The entire island is a sacred Shinto kami, and over 80,000 artifacts left as offerings have been recovered. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2017.
robin aldrich 1 year ago
Pisses me off that cultures considered menstruating women "unclean" It's actually a natural way of the body cleansing itself, if not pregnant...That's part of life, that's part of what creates life, you want children? well deal with it.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Shinto teachings view blood as impure, hence one possible reason why women weren't allowed there: periods could be viewed as desecration of the island. Not sure how this came about but it is what it is... Also, only 200 men were allowed on the island on one day each year after "purifying" themselves in the sea. Shinto believes in the supernatural (kami) so I guess some of it makes sense.
Norah Reilly 1 year ago
Nah, misogyny NEVER makes sense, no matter the culture.
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UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
I believe in freedom of religion and in the preservations of local traditions as cornerstones of a healthy and free society. I also believe that if your tradition treats women as less worthy of respect or freedom than men, that that tradition can go eat shįt.
Shay Baranowski 1 year ago
every time i hear about a place women can't be because it's "sacred" it turns out men are being bad up in there....ask me about a "sacred" mason's retreat
#35
TIL David Bowie ended the Ziggy Stardust Persona, and practically fired The Spiders from Mars on stage at their final performance in London’s Hammersmith Odeon on July 3rd, 1973. To the fans, and bands disbelief, “Not only is it the last show of the tour, but, it’s the last show we’ll ever do”.
HTakeover 1 year ago
And he ended the Ziggy persona because maintaining it was too exhausting. He'd find himself thinking, doing, and saying things both as himself and as the persona to continue it and he said he started doing it so much that he was basically starting to override his own self. He had to pick one. And what still blows my mind is a lot of people both then and now didn't know the two were different.
#36
TIL that Humanity eats 70 Billion Chickens each year.
Rick 1 year ago
Actually that is only about 10 chickens per person per year. That seems kind of low.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
But the amount of vegans and vegetarians and just people who dint like chicket etc means its a bit more than 10 per yr
Load More Replies... geezeronthehill 1 year ago
I think there are more chickens on the planet than any other bird species. So I guess they won the bargain they made with humans?
Ace 1 year ago
Nearly ten chickens per person - that's quite a number. Seems about right for me though, but given the numbers of people who are vegetarian or just east very little meat there must be a lot of affluent people munching down on chicken every day to make that average.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
It's not the affluent who eat a lot of chicken. Chicken meat is second only to turkey as the cheapest meat you can buy. Affluent people eat a range of meat and fish because they don't need to stick to a strict budget.
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Downunderdude 1 year ago
Sorry, I call bs on this. That would be 8.75 chickens for every man, womand and child on earth.
#37
TIL that a man hijacked a United flight out of Denver, requesting $500,000 and 4 parachutes, and jumping out over Utah - mimicking the infamous D.B. Cooper case and getting caught only because he bragged about being able to do it to an acquaintance just prior.
Jonny Wilson 1 year ago (edited)
They are talking about a copycat of DB Cooper
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TIL that sumo wrestlers, despite eating 10,000+ calories daily, have very little visceral fat thanks to their training which is so intense they can lose over 10 pounds of sweat in a single workout.
Birgit Sommer 1 year ago
They sure look wobbly with those huge welts. If that's not fat, I dunno what it is.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Of course it's fat. Key word in the post is "visceral" - the sort of hard fat you get in a beer belly. It's a soft fat, and it is there to protect their organs from the initial strike impact, calculated to be up to 13 G of force.
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Mark Cusumano 1 year ago
Fat, when burned turns into water and and carbon dioxide which is sweated or urinated and exhaled.
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TIL during WWII, RAF bomber command suffered a casualty rate of 59.1% and a fatality rate of 44.4%.
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
Meanwhile, the casualty rate for the US Eighth Army Air Force flying out of the UK to bomb targets in Continental Europe was at around 10%. That discrepancy is given by the fact Bomber Command had been at war three years longer at the point where the Luftwaffe was far stronger, but also because the US B-17 and B-24 bombers were more survivable and easier to bail out if than the British Lancester, Halifax and Stirling bombers. Finally, by 1944 the US introduced the P-51 which could escort bombers all the way to the target, while Bomber Cimmand, flying at night, continued to fly sorties without fighter escort. They did also fly radar equipoed Mosquito night fighters but these were more designed to intercept the German night fighters close to their bases and if they missed, well, tough luck for the bombers.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
The sound of a Lancaster bomber is the best plane sound ever.
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Ian Webling 1 year ago
The second most lethal branch of any military in WWII was the German U-boat command. It had a fatality rate of almost 75% (~29,000 of ~40,000 members died). The most dangerous was, of course, the kamikaze pilots of Japan with death rates approaching 100%.
#40
TIL Baby Aspirin should not be given to babies as it can cause Reyes Syndrome.
Nike Pancakes 1 year ago
Axes should also never be given to babies as it can cause John Rhys-Davies Syndrome.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
I have not seen it labeled as 'baby aspirin' for many years. The label reads 81 mg low dose now.
MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
Ah yes, the little candies in the medicine cabinet. I ate them all and spent the night in the ER being forced to throw up.
Crybabyartist 1 year ago
Those little orange, melt in your mouth, Bayer baby aspirin tasted great. I'm pretty sure I begged my mother for more than one.
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Bored Birgit 1 year ago
My Dad gets Baby Aspirin to keep his blood thin. He is 91, by the way.
#41
TIL: Eating too many Sour Skittles in one sitting (or any sour candy) can make your tongue shed a layer of skin.
Ashlie Dearest 1 year ago (edited)
When I was a kid, I had so many sour candies, that my tongue started to bleed. Haven't had any since.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
Eating excessive amounts of pineapple does this - it contains an enzyme that breaks down the skin on your tongue. Also, if you vomit a lot your tongue does this and you end up with tongue/mouth sores and bleeding. If you have a binge-purge eating disorder and eat/vomit a lot of salty food it's painful as hell.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I'm not surprised, it certainly feels like it when I eat too many of them
#42
TIL if you watch the first season of 'Happy Days', you'll notice the Fonz wears penny loafers and windbreakers for many scenes. ABC only allowed the character to wear his later trademark leather jacket if he was standing next to his motorcycle.
Dave In MD 1 year ago
They only allowed him to wear it next to the bike because the showrunners told the network it was "Safety Equipment". The network thought a leather jacket made him look like a hood.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
The reality of the 1950's was most young motorcyclists were hoods.
Load More Replies... Lavern Defazio 1 year ago (edited)
I saw an episode of this this morning. Fonz wasnt even in the.opening credits. If it was, i didnt see it.
Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
He was originally planned to be just an occasional character. But he proved so popular that he was made into one of the leads.
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TIL The Academic quarter was established in the early 18th century to accommodate students and professors who didn't own pocket watches. It gave them extra time to arrive after hearing the church's clock strike the hour.
#44
TIL when George Miller was casting Mad Max: Fury Road, his first choice actor to play Max was Eminem who only turned down the role because he didn't want to leave his home state.
Krd 1 year ago
I was originally skeptical of him playing Max, but he nailed it. Fury Road is the best Mad Max since the first one.
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robin aldrich 1 year ago
Trying to imagine him cast in that role. Nope ....can't do it ....nope.
#45
TIL in 2015, Billy Mitchell filed a lawsuit against Cartoon Network, saying in the series Regular Show, a character who cheats at video games infringed on his likeness. Years later, the legitimacy of a number of his records was called into question, leading to them being stripped.
Jacob Ross 1 year ago
The episode in question has a character who looks a LOT like Billy, except he is a giant head with some limbs attached. It is very funny.
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ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
Sounds to me like someone was used to stealing things and got paranoid that someone else was stealing from him.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
His scores are still down, he is still banned from Twin Galaxies and from submitting any scores, and everyone knows that he cheated. However, he still has another couple of defamation court cases to lose, and those are going to go to court.
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TIL the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing took an estimated inflation-adjusted $10 000 to produce.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
There was a time when the instructions for fertilizer bomb making were freely available from the government. They were encouraging the creation of ponds on the prairie flyway for migrating waterfowl by blowing holes in wetlands that farmers had plowed shut.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
It's scary how easy it is to build bombs and IEDs out of common things according to my EOD buddy
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Just unbelievable that one of the largest terrorist attacks in US history was done by an American.
RedMarbles 1 year ago
And domestic terrorists are today considered to be the biggest threat to US security (in particular far-right wing extremists).
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#47
TIL a 17-year-old boy blew up a Starbucks in 2009 to emulate Tyler Durden.
You don't need it 1 year ago
If everyone blew up a Starbucks, there would still be too many Starbucks.
#48
TIL In 1995, Jennifer Fairgate was found dead in a locked Oslo hotel room with a gunshot to the head. Ballistics showed that suicide was not possible. Yet there were fingerprints and strangely her clothing labels were all removed making it impossible to ID her. Theories speculate she was a spy.
Catman (He/Him) 1 year ago
This is badly written, so here is what actually happened - in 1995 a woman checks into Norway's Oslo Plaza Hotel under the name "Jennifer Fairgate". She is later found dead in her room, with no ID, no credit card, all her clothes missing labels and even the gun found at the scene had it's serial filed off. Police ruled it a suicide, despite the fact it would be nigh impossible to shoot yourself at that angle, still keep a hold of the gun (it was found clutched in her hand, backwards, with the thumb in the trigger guard) and not get blood splatters on your hands (her hands were surprisingly clean despite blood being everywhere). Hence why most people think it was a murder and the lack of clothing labels and other identifiers suggests she was most likely a spy. (Not mine, copied from Wingsofwrath)
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Wingsofwrath 1 year ago (edited)
This is badly written, so here is what actually happened - in 1995 a woman checks into Norway's Oslo Plaza Hotel under the name "Jennifer Fairgate". She is later found dead in her room, with no ID, no credit card, all her clothes missing labels and even the gun found at the scene had it's serial filed off. Police ruled it a suicide, despite the fact it would be nigh impossible to shoot yourself at that angle, still keep a hold of the gun (it was found clutched in her hand, backwards, with the thumb in the trigger guard) and not get blood splatters on your hands (her hands were surprisingly clean despite blood being everywhere). Hence why most people think it was a murder and the lack of clothing labels and other identifiers suggests she was most likely a spy.
El Dee 1 year ago
A locked door mystery in a hotel - where the hotel has a spare key, isn't a 'locked door mystery'
#49
TIL In 1979 a rabbit, hissing and baring its teeth, swam up to Jimmy Carter’s boat while he was fishing. He shooed it away with a paddle, but the incident damaged his reputation.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Historians recently found out that it wasn't a paddle but the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch that Carter used to scare the rabbit away
Giulia Fortunati 1 year ago
For death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!
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WonderWoman 1 year ago
Please, the republican party went out of their way to undermine and damage the reputation of Jimmy Carter. It is the tactic they are using today with Biden. The republican party has an agenda to undermine and destroy all that is good with America and morons help them
Michael Largey 1 year ago
This is because they always lose when real issues are discussed.
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Anony Mouse 1 year ago
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes! They got those hoppy legs and twitchy little noses! And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anywaaaaay? Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!!!!!
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Perhaps you weren't around at the time. I was. He was. The man was vilified for saying in a Playboy(!) interview just before he was elected President: "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do -- and I have done it -- and God forgives me for it." You think Frump is divisive? Between Carter's lusting in his heart, the rabbit, the UFO report, and his embarrassing redneck drunk brother, Billy (his image anyway), there are people today who think he was The Worst Pres Ever. Wouldn't it be delightful to have him in charge these days? As Joni Mitchell put it, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
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TIL There was a concentration camp on British soil in Alderney. It is known as "The Island of Silence" as not much is known about the exact atrocities that took place.
JK 1 year ago (edited)
This was during WW2 when the Nazis occupied the Island of Guernsey (a British territory near France), and there were 2 concentration camps built - BY and FOR the Nazis. This comment is worded in such a way that it implies the British built/used it. They did not. And plenty is known about the operation of these camps.
[>.<]/ 1 year ago (edited)
But let's not forget that the British actually invented concentrationcamps in the Boerwar. Lord Baden Powell no less.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 1 year ago
Wow, what a way to twist a narrative and show complete ignorance! If OP had decided to do even the most minimal research, they would have found that there were 9 camps in total on Alderney; 5 military camps, 2 concentration camps, and 2 forced labour camps. They would have also made it clear that the Nazis invaded the island and built the camps. A s**t ton is known about what happened there as they found plenty of documents as well as death certificates.
Eastendbird 1 year ago
Exactly, all of which was pointed out on the original Reddit thread. Come on BP - you can do better than this.
Load More Replies... Julie S 1 year ago
A lot of German POWs were treated so well they stayed in England after the war marrying local women and not returning to Germany.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
They also probably realized that Germany was so devasted that they faced death by starvation if they returned.
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 1 year ago
During the Boer Wars, the British had many concentration camps. They locked up many women and children, with quite a few deaths, to discourage the Boers from fighting. It's a bit more complicated that this but this is the basic info.
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Short Ferret 1 year ago
My ferrets also do things to make you laugh. My favorite example is Wally who loves his dad joke, he waits for you to deliver his food to him and then gently picks up your finger and pretends to walk away with it. Its like his version of "got your nose".
Lady Gypsy Rain 1 year ago
I’m sitting in the ER awaiting admission. I’m laughing out loud and have to remind myself others may not be thrilled to hear my laughter
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Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago
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Short Ferret 1 year ago
My ferrets also do things to make you laugh. My favorite example is Wally who loves his dad joke, he waits for you to deliver his food to him and then gently picks up your finger and pretends to walk away with it. Its like his version of "got your nose".
Lady Gypsy Rain 1 year ago
I’m sitting in the ER awaiting admission. I’m laughing out loud and have to remind myself others may not be thrilled to hear my laughter
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I hate it when I'm reading the longer version of something and board Panda decides that I need to go out and come back in and get the small version and I miss reading the end
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