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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)
Grab your thinking caps, dear Pandas, it’s time to expand our minds! It’s time for another loving rendition of ‘Today I Learned,’ a list of all the cool and interesting (and really surprising!) things that the people of the internet learned about the world recently.
From science to history to everything and anything in between and more, the TIL community over on Reddit has got it all. And with so many curious people in the world, the subreddit keeps on expanding, now closing on a whopping 26 million members. Need some more yummy facts about everything and anything? Check out Bored Panda’s latest lovingly-crafted TIL articles here and here, as well as here. Got some cool trivia tidbits to share with the rest of the class? You can tell us all about them in the comment section.
Learning new things isn’t as easy as we’d like as we grow up. But it’s far from impossible! All it takes a spark of curiosity and the willingness to be open-minded and humble.
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#1
TIL about BACA, a biker gang that will defend kids who were abused or bullied, give them their own vest, take them the school, and will even guard a house 24/7 to make sure the kid can sleep
Camilla Koutsos 4 years ago
I saw a video about this organisation. They stay with abused children through court proceedings, at school, etc. if the abuser isn't remanded to custody. Really Solid work.
Ahimsa Soul 4 years ago
Where are they from? And what does BACA stand for? Can you tell me please?
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Jennie-Lind Normand 4 years ago
Two summers ago there were some nasty incidents in my city involving pride events. BACA showed up to the pride family picnic (and other events) to make sure no one could start trouble there, when they weren't keeping a look out at entrances they coloured with kids, got their faces painted, played hopscotch, blew bubbles and had a blast with everyone!
Commander Rex 4 years ago
They’re absolutely great people! They just kinda hang around, it’s amazing
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Adrienne Nguyen 4 years ago
They just supported my boyfriend's daughter in court when she had to testify against her now ex step-father for abusing her. Lovely guys who made a scared kid feel powerful. THANK YOU BACA!
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#2
TIL a bus driver in Paris kicked all the passengers out when they refused to make space for a wheelchair bound man
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Even though I like the result and good job for the driver, this makes me sad! what the hell is wrong with people?
Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago
Parisians will either fight a literal war for you or watch as you burn to death because your screaming is disturbing their meal
Monica K-D 4 years ago
Never saw people burning whilst dining on terrasse. Or did you mean, burning indoors?
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Wow, so many selfish people. Lucky the bus driver wasn't one of them.
New Prometheus 4 years ago
I bow thee, anonymous bus driver. This is the energy we need more everywhere. Use all your power for justice!!!
Leigh Boatright 4 years ago
Its was pouring down rain. A person in a wheelchair was getting soaked waiting for the bus. People moved out of the wheelchair area to let them on board. Even the drunk annoying guy. All except one a hole. The poor disabled person had to wait for the next bus. We thought the driver should have kicked him off the bus.
Charlotte Yu 4 years ago
We don't know the full story though. Was there enough room for the man in the wheelchair in the first place? If not then it would be kind of unfair. As well some people might have not been paying attention to the situation and it would be unfair to kick those people out. Yet if there was room with a doubt they should have made room.
Harri Ellis 3 years ago
It is ALWAYS the right thing to do. I have severely disabled friends who get treated like second class citizens every day. It disgusts me and infuriates me. I swear some of these people were raised by wolves, but that is an insult to wolves.
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TIL Queen Elizabeth once hid in a bush with her corgis to avoid talking to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife.
Friday 4 years ago
I love that the Corgis were hiding with the Queen, that would have been hilarious to witness!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
You can always ignore someone by saying sorry I'm with my dog/cat now!
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Anita Pickle 4 years ago
I would live to hide in a bush with corgis to avoid pretty much everything
Scagsy 4 years ago (edited)
And that is why HM is an absolute legend! (Amongst other things) Long live the queen! Edited: Thanks Ivy!
Ivy la Sangrienta 4 years ago
Inagree, except she's not an HRH. She's HM.
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Maureen Matthew 4 years ago
As head of state of the UK (and several other countries) she doesn't get a choice about which dictators the government of the day invite over and they always expect a meeting with The Queen. So good for her to find a way out for a little while,
UpupaEpops 4 years ago
Considering the guy wiped his mouth into the table cloth... I can't imagine the amount of self-restraint it must have taken to not to have him thrown into the Tower...
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François Carré 4 years ago
And the corgis agreed to this, and stayed very quiet with her in the bush because they were scared at Elena Ceaucescu.
Here’s the thing about knowledge—if our metaphorical cup is full, if we always want to prove others wrong, and if we get overly defensive whenever a factoid threatens our worldview, then we’ll only ever live in our own private echo chamber.
Sure, it’s comfy and cozy in this homogenous bubble of views, but it doesn’t help us grow and evolve as human beings much. We have to be willing to question everything. And even if we turn out to be right about something… well, there’s a lot to be said for being graceful and diplomatic with our words if we want to teach others, not just create an argument out of thin air.
#4
TIL Gorillas hum happy songs when they eat. “And if it’s their favourite food, they sing louder.”
Siv Øiesvold 4 years ago
me too! and I wiggle with giddy happiness if it is one of my favourites
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Louloubelle 4 years ago
My husband does this, but he looks more like an orangutan. He's a red head. :)
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
My husband makes a weird purring noise when he eats a food he really likes. It's bizarre.
Load More Replies... Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago
I have yet to encounter a singing gorilla, sadly. Imma go but that on my bucket list.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
My sister worries about the quality of her baking if she doesn't hear nummy sounds. :)
#5
TIL Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for just $1, allowing aspiring filmmakers and students to adapt them into movies. This arrangement is known as the Dollar Baby.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Stephen King's (Richard Bachman) stories are so prolific. Kudos Mr King, your respect and inspiration for others is admirable.
StormWolf 4 years ago
He's my hero. And despite snobby elitist literary critics looking down on him for being a writer of 'popular fiction', he is genuinely hugely talented. He created Bachman to test the theory that his books were merely so successful due to having been written by THE Stephen King. And while Thinner sold 28000 copies as Bachman compared to 231000 as King, 28000 is not to be sniffed at for a fairly new and obscure author and Bachman was only growing in popularity when his cover was blown. The man is an amazing talent, by any name 🧡
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Frank Ropen 4 years ago
One of these filmmakers was 20-year-old Frank Darabont and his Dollar Baby adaptation of "The Woman in the Room". He later made The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile
François Carré 4 years ago
His stories are scary, horrific, sometimes depressing, but I think the man himself is a very good and kind person.
Alexis Draskinis 4 years ago
Just finished The Green Mile last week! OMG! Its def an "im not crying, you're crying!" one! So good!!
Jean Nielsen 4 years ago
Bag of Bones is my favorite novel ever. I have reread it numerous times. It speaks to my grief of my husband's death in ways I don't even understand.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Lol I need to start reading to the bottom more often then :D I'm a flake and get easily distracted
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#6
TIL a woman named Frances Perkins was outside the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory during the fire and saw dozens of people jump to their deaths due to unsafe work conditions. She went on to become the first female Secretary of Labor and founded the Factory Investigating Commission to improve work safety
ERIKA H. 4 years ago
It was actually a bunch if women and CHILDREN. One of the upper floors were completely trapped by fire due to no fire escapes (which were required but not enforced), which is why the women and children began jumping out their windows. Even after this happened, the factory owners recieved no repercussions
Tiny Dog 4 years ago
All the exit doors were actually LOCKED to make sure employees didn’t take too many breaks!
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
How awful for all those people and awful for Frances Perkins and anyone else who witnessed the tragedy.
Julie Richardson 4 years ago
Actually it’s Mount Holyoke with the scholarship but you’re close! They’re both women’s colleges in Western Massachusetts.
Load More Replies... Chich 4 years ago
Yet we still have people who see such legislation as "punishing successful men"
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Well, it was mostly women and children who were hurt or died so who cares about them, right? Poor successful men are the real victims here for having to pretend to care a little bit more about safety of their workers and invest now or get lawyers /s
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Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
She was from Indiana, and we have a reservoir named after her (aka Raccoon Lake).
Lenore Skenazy, the president of Let Grow and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement told me during an earlier interview that we should try and learn something from authority figures who are clearly wrong about something, instead of being overly combative.
“The key is to discover things together. If something sounds strange or unlikely, respond with curiosity—ask the person to tell you more, and how they found this information out, and where you should go if you want to delve into it further,” the expert said.
#7
TIL Gillian Lynne did so badly in school teachers thought she had a learning disorder & her mom took her to a doctor. Lynne began dancing to his radio; the doctor said: She’s not disordered, she’s a dancer; put her in dance school. Lynne became a world-renowned dancer & music theater choreographer.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Not everyone learns the way things are taught in schools. Both my kids are very visual learners and learn better when they are actually included/involved in the lesson. Theory work is a real struggle for them. If I could afford it, I would have sent both my kids to a Montessori school.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I have ADHD (not diagnosed until I was 60), and have always found that I learned better if I could "see" things worked out. When I was in school, I would have to take notes, and make doodles of what I perceived as the concept to make sense of it all.
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Nat 4 years ago
I like to think of the doctor saying "shes a dancer darling" in the sassiest of tones
Otter 4 years ago
It is! But the story also made me sad for all the kids who have abilities that aren't taught in schools, and who either never discover their talents or get the training they need to excel at what they're good at.
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Daria B 4 years ago
Test taking is a skill in itself actually. That's why I always tried to avoid it whenever possible. I show my knowledge better in a written form that allows more personal freedom, and with less time constraints.
Load More Replies... Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
This is the same story as Martha Graham... I don't know if it's real for Lynne and other people that have exactly the same story years after. I'm sorry. I love dance. I also know ADHD is common in dancers. But every dancer is amazing and nobody needs to copy a well known story to be aproved.
Pamela Blue 4 years ago
Perhaps Martha Graham's story was the copy? I read the story of Gillian Lynne, and she was the real story.
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Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
I have a 46-year-old friend who experienced the exact same thing, though at a time when teachers should have known better. He STILL believes they were right for calling him ''stupid'' because he's dyslexic. Currently, he's a physiotherapist, helping all those people who are illiterate about their bodies.
Sarah Nunns 4 years ago
School is not the always the right place for some, most of the lessons made no sense to me at the ages I was supposed to be there, except art and music. I was ready and did all my learning by myself by reading every thing I could when I was in my twenties, same for my children. One size fits all schooling is nonsense for many.
#8
TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.
Chris 4 years ago
A "black movie"?? That had literally never occured to me. It's just a great movie... who gives a f what colour the people are.
Sofie 4 years ago
I imagine that it has to do with representation, to see people (or figures) that you can relate to more. I learn more and more about people of colour because I want to be able to see things from their perspective and respect them. I think it's great that there's more representation now, but I as a white person will never truly know what it feels like to be of colour and face society's injustice like they do. I can only slightly relate to discrimination because of not being straight, but I've had it relatively easy because I'm white and live in Sweden. I think it's easy for us white people who are not racist to wonder who gives a f, but actually it matters for lots of people 🙂
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Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago
First black Pixar main protagonist and they make him a cat for most of the movie 🙄
surprised pikachu 4 years ago
I don't think it depends on color or diversity
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Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
I love this movie. He’s such a realistic character that you feel like you really know him.
Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago
it is a long way to go before we human treat each other equal n not base on skin color
#9
TIL that Utah’s Great Salt Lake used to be the home of a single flamingo named Pink Floyd, who escaped from the zoo and would be seen wintering in Utah socializing with seagulls
Iva Kazalova 4 years ago
It’s sad because it probably didn’t have a mate and died alone
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bob shbleh 4 years ago
They did, but she cheated on him and made him go crazy in a hotel room ;)
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Randolph Croft 4 years ago
Flamingos get their pink coloring from the shrimp they eat. Otherwise they'd be ecru.
Fable Weaver 2 years ago
I believe he did get more and more white over time!
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Thora Wease 4 years ago
This just makes me very happy for some reason but I'd like Pink Floyd to have another flamingo buddy.
“Then if the sources they give you seem dubious—well, probably so is whatever they gleaned from them. But if the sources seem legit, read them with an open mind. They may be right after all!” Lenore told Bored Panda earlier.
Even if somebody gets their facts wrong, we shouldn’t get angry at them… well, unless they’ve been deliberately misleading us. “Ever since the Age of Enlightenment, humans have realized that the best way to get closer to the truth is by saying something out loud and seeing if it stands up to scrutiny. If not—hooray. We are one step closer to the truth because we've just jettisoned a misconception.”
#10
TIL Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, but announced it in Latin. One reporter got the scoop and broke the story because she understood Latin. Most other reporters waited for official translations.
Eslamala 4 years ago (edited)
They made him resign for wanting to do something about the systematic covering up of pedophilia, out of guilt like any good catholic, of course. Downvote away, but it's a known fact. Just as known as Sinead O'Connor's claims against the former scumbag pedo pope they even sainted. What a fkcn joke!
BlahBlahBlackSheepah 4 years ago
... ... He didn't want to do jack including answer questions about centuries of abuse
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Annamagelic 4 years ago
It would seem to me understanding Latin should be a prerequisite for covering the Vatican.
Maureen Matthew 4 years ago
What is sad is that various Classics departments in woke universities are removing the requirement that a student in Classics doesn't need to known Latin or Greek, because so many people don't know them. We have truly dumbed down everything in higher education.
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
It's not a shame unless students aren't required to learn any languages or history at all.
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Giovanna 4 years ago
The only reporter... where? Because in Italy studying Latin is quite common in schools (although it's becoming a less and less deep study). Also, I agree that knowing Latin should be required to the journalist who cover the Vatican, as Latin is the official language there.
Miss Cris 4 years ago
Not only in Italy. By the way, I guess any journalist from a romance language, and more if he/her cover the vatican (so listens to Latin often) can understand the message. Maybe not word by word but at least the main meaning.
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Joris Rombouts 4 years ago
This seems very unlikely. Everyone with an understanding of Italian or perhaps Spanish - I assume there are enough Italian journalists covering the Vatican - should at least understand the general context. Church Latin is not that hard to understand in a general context. It is hard in literature for sure.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
When my grandfather passed away (20 years ago), my mom and I went to speak with his (Roman Catholic) priest about the funeral service. The priest was pushing 50yo at the time. I wanted a full High Mass in Latin, because my grandfather would have loved it. The priest said he couldn't do it, because seminaries no longer taught Latin. My jaw dropped.
Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
If you knew about the recent history of the Roman Catholic church you would have understood that there was a very important council, the Second Vatican Council, that convened in the early 1960s and implemented sweeping changes to the Church, including having all Masses presided in the vernacular. By the end of the 1960s there were no mainline Roman Catholic churches holding Mass in Latin, only some churches that parted with the official Church. If that priest was fifty back in 2001, he would've entered the priesthood sometime in the early 1970s, years after Vatican II and at the point when priests didn't have to learn Latin. So you weren't looking for an actual Roman Catholic service for your late grandfather, just something your poorly educated mind thought was "Roman Catholic".
Load More Replies... Steve Barnett 4 years ago
I've researched it, but it does perplex me how Latin became a dead language in such a short time.
Daria B 4 years ago
Is it really dead, though? I'm not here to attack you, I just think you started an interesting topic. I think Latin lives in all the contemporary Romance languages. That makes it as dead as the Neanderthal human species, who eventually didn't all die to extinction, but part of them fused with the homo sapiens. Latin is both dead and alive as a language simultaneously.
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Matilda Eloise Beumer 4 years ago
I studied Latin for two years as my foreign language for high school, and this was a fact I was told by a tutor to prove that Latin is still useful today.
MarioRossi 4 years ago
The reporter was Giovanna Chirri, working for the Italian news agency ANSA.
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
You can use the same word, apparently, or you can use puerorum amans according to glosbe.com.
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TIL that the Quran references Jesus's mother Mary 70 times and holds her in very high regard, identifying her as the greatest of all women
LottieH 4 years ago
The Muslims in my town have a parade and celebrate Jesus' birthday (not Christmas) every year. Sorry if this is done everywhere and it's all Muslims I have only ever seen it in the town I live in now. It's a wonderful day where they give out food and sweets, the colours are amazing, brightens up this otherwise gloomy British town for a few hours.
ElenaK 4 years ago
I was told that Muslims acknowledge Jesus as a prophet, not as the son of God. In any case Jesus existed for Muslims too.
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Katinka Min 4 years ago
Jesus is a saint (prophet? Not sure) within Muslim religion. He's just not the last and not as important as Mohammed. It'll never cease to amaze me how three religions based on thesame God can be such enemies, at times. So stupid..
Freeeda 4 years ago
He's a prophet, no prophet is more important than any other we respect them the same. Blame the people being stupid tbh not the religions
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Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
I once heard a Muslim describe Jesus this way: "He's our vice-captain."
Eithne Griffiths 4 years ago
RIP the London Ontario Muslim Family deliberately killed last Sunday.https://london.ctvnews.ca/case-of-accused-killer-in-london-ont-attack-put-over-1.5464272
François Carré 4 years ago
The Quran also acknowledges Jesus (ʿĪsā) as one of the most important prophets, and a messiah sent by God. But it denies any belief linked to the Crucifixion. Islam, Christianism and Judaism are based on the same book and are way, way closer to each other than most people usually think.
MrsV 4 years ago
Yes, you are right for the most part, but it isn't based on the same book necessarily, they are all the word of God (Allâh swt) and the Quran is the final. He has sent down upon you, [O Muhammad], the Book in truth, confirming what was before it. And He revealed the Torah and the Gospel. Verse 3:3 Quran
Load More Replies... Vicky Z 4 years ago
There is an island that used to belong to Greece and now is part of Turkey where all the names of the villages were changed to Turkish names! The only name that didn't change was the one of the biggest village called Panagia(mother Mary in Greek). Turkish respect her and didn't change the name!
BetterBitterButter 4 years ago
Jesus is a prophet in Islam too (before Mohammad and is referred to as Isa in Quran). Mary is Mariyam.
Shazia Nguyen-Xuan 4 years ago
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.islamicfinder.org/news/women-mentioned-in-the-holy-quran/amp/ plenty of women in the Quran, here's a link :)
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#12
TIL that three german students got sued by their alma mater for 10,000€ because they graduated "too fast". They completed their bachelors and masters degree within 4 instead of 11 semesters by attending different lectures and sharing notes. Then they founded a ghostwriting agency!
rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago
Im surprised the university allowed them to even take that many modules simultaneously. Usually there would have been cap so students are forced to spread out the modules.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
I don't know how much changed since I went to a German uni, 25 years ago, but when I wanted to finish one of my minor a semester early, I had to get written permisssion. And on what base would the uni even sue them?? Sounds lie eBS to me.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
So they admit the primary purpose of their university was not to educate its students but instead make money off of them?
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
He had to pay it because the University wanted the tuition fees he would have had to pay if he had done it in the normal time. The court decided this way because the UNI fulfilled their side of the contract between them by providing him with a degree (2 degrees to be precise). It was a private Uni. That's why the fees are so high, in case anyone wondered.
Phil Vaive 4 years ago
Just more proof that post-secondary is a money making scam, and has nothing to do with educating people
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
No it does not. 1. The fees were only this high because it was a private UNI and 2. the UNI won the case because they fulfilled their side of the contract. He was educated. He did his bachelor and Masters there.
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Pascal Oudot 4 years ago
Here : https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article108314096/Einmal-im-Monat-hauten-wir-uns-die-Birne-weg.html
Eslamala 4 years ago
They should be rewarded for working the system so efficiently! Though it doesn't surprise me at all that they were sued. I went to german school (deutsche schule) until 7th grade (when they finally kicked me out) and I constantly got in trouble for finishing stuff faster than the rest, or doing work in advance. they wanted us to follow orders and be like everybody else, and I hated that.
Monday 4 years ago
That's not a German thing, just a school thing. They don't want one student ahead of the curve because a class is easier to teach when everyone is on the same page. If I had been your teacher I would have fantasized about murdering you since you constantly being ahead would make it much more difficult to do my job efficiently.
Load More Replies...Instead of being confrontational when we learn that an authority figure in our lives has been wrong about something, we should look at the situation as a great learning opportunity.
“If it turns out that you do find some information that contradicts what the other person—your teacher or boss or anyone—has stated as true, again, the best approach is not confrontation. It's assuming that the other person didn't mean to steer you wrong,” Lenore said.
#13
TIL That rats can be trained to detect a chemical compound within explosives, meaning they ignore scrap metal and can search for mines more quickly. Also, an African giant pouched rat named Magawa has been awarded a prestigious gold medal for his work detecting land mines.
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
I believe that this rat recently retired after clearing more than 22 football pitches of land.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
YIL (yesterday I learned) That Magawa recently retired after almost a decade of service. He will help train his replacement and then spend his remaining years in well deserved comfort and care. Yet another reason to love little rattos!
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
My sister has a Gambian Pouched rat named Floki. He's not as clever as Magawa, Floki just steals crisp packets and sleeps in them, humps my hands and bites my sister. He also has diva strops when his cage is cleaned out as we remove his stashed food.
#14
TIL that when you eat pineapple and your tongue begins to hurt it is due to the fact that the pineapple is eating you back thanks to bromelain.
RandomBeing 4 years ago
You: *eats pinapple* Pinapple: *uno reverse card* ur digestive system: *another uno reverse card*
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PandaMonium 4 years ago (edited)
Wow - good to know. I've felt that - I just figured I was allergic to pineapple
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
It's stored in the center core. When you cut a pineapple into triangles, cut the tips off. It helps a lot
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tiari 4 years ago (edited)
I knew this because my mouth hurts for hours after eating pineapple and kiwi, and sometimes my tongue starts to bleed. Goes without saying that I don’t eat them anymore…
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I have that but only with kiwi... and i love kiwi but afterwards my tongue feels weird and really itchy and i was thinking allergy or something
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Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Try it out! Put smooshed fresh pineapple on a piece of tough meat and monitor the results. Within a day the meat will be almost falling apart.
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Mark Howell 4 years ago
A quick I learned years ago, people processing pineapples as a job have their fingerprints eaten away.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Yes and the majority of it is stored in the center core. So when you cut up a pineapple into triangles, cut the tips off.
Monica A. M. 4 years ago
Oral allergy syndrome. Microwaving the pineapple till it's hot then put it in the fridge. Takes the pain away.
Jaekry 4 years ago
Why would you want to desperately rest something your body disagrees with?
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TIL on several late 60's recordings, prominent jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman used his 10-year-old son to play drums, though he could have employed high-profile adult jazz drummers. He prized the child's joyful child musical curiosity over a more technically skilled adult
Sinkvenice 4 years ago
I had the immense privilege and honour of seeing Ornette Coleman live in London, a couple of years before he died. His son was always his touring drummer and is an incredible musician. He helped Ornette walk (well, shuffle really) on stage and helped him sit down on a stool in front of a microphone, he was so frail. Then he whips out his saxophone, blasts the most ridiculous lick I've ever heard and whispers into the microphone "Well thassalright!" It was the most incredible show and I was devastated when he died.
Sinkvenice 4 years ago
He sure did! His son Denardo joined his dad's band at 10 and when he was older he played with people like Pat Metheny. He became his dad's manager in the 80s and continued to play in his band live.
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Shirley Heyn 4 years ago
As did Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball have their son play drums on "I Love Lucy" show.
“So if you bring in information that contradicts the person, don't say, ‘SEE??? YOU WERE WRONG!' Say something more like, ‘I was so interested in what you were talking about that I did some research and now I'm a little confused. Can we look at this together?'"
People tend to get defensive if we throw accusations their way and that’s not good for anybody. “So don't be rude, be engaged. This works in the classroom, in the office, and pretty much everywhere.”
#16
TIL in 2018 a French historical theme park named Puy du Fou trained six Rooks, a member of the crow family, to pick up cigarette butts and trash. When one of them takes a piece of trash to a special box the device dispenses bird food
cory harrison 4 years ago
yep, littering is just a French problem that doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. /s
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BlockDog02 4 years ago
And I'm pretty sure the crows started stealing cigarettes from people smoking them, and the project was kind of abandoned.
nala simba 4 years ago
As a kid, just learned to read, got very confused seeing signs everywhere "Keep Britain Tidy!" Why did this even need pointing out?
#17
TIL That in the late 1780's, an Irishman met an impressive performing bear while travelling France. When the bears owner prodded him with a stick, the bear shouted something in Irish, which led to the discovery that the performing bear was actually another Irishman who had been sown into the suit.
James016 4 years ago
I heard about this recently. IIRC the guy in the bear suit was shipwrecked and rescued by the Frenchman
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
People used to "sew" their children in for the winter: a weird concept when a kids vest and undies were sewn together at the waist like a onsie, I think for warmth? Gross though. I hope the undies had flaps!
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Hotdogking 4 years ago
Athníonn Ciaróg Ciaróg eile (That's an Irish saying. one cockroach recognises another)
surprised pikachu 4 years ago
for a minute i thought they said the bear was Irish and that bears from ireland can talk
#18
TIL that rats left unaided in water will drown in a few minutes because they feel hopeless, but if they know there is hope of being rescued they will last for days.
RandomBeing 4 years ago
R.I.P. The rats who died when we were learning this
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François Carré 4 years ago
Some very cruel and useless experiment again here. It's a well known fact that rats are VERY clever and sociable. No need to prove it anymore. Now leave them alone.
Kashmir 4 years ago
Idiots get grants for this s**t!! One idiot asked for a grant to drown dogs to see if the Heimlich maneuver would work on them. This goes on all the time and it's disgusting and has nothing to do with benefiting man, it's just to satisfy a bunch of and I use the term loosely, scientists!
Load More Replies... RandomBeing 4 years ago
Freaking rats man. I would love to have some as pets. Buuuuut snake is also a contender for future pet and you can probably see the issue there.
Laurie 4 years ago
Sometimes the rat will severely injure/ kill snake. Also, you don't have to feed live rats.
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Full Name 4 years ago
Same way you don't want to know how they figure out what a lethal dose of every chemical you encounter is. They ALL have to have a WHMIS sheet and they get those stats by killing animals.
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LesAnimaux 4 years ago
And this experiment helps with what exactly? Torturing them for sport? F**k off and leave the rats alone dude
rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago
They r definitely a pragmatic lot. If there is no hope why extend the suffering?
#19
TIL an Intern at NASA once stole a safe full of moon rocks, sprinkled them on a hotel bed, and had sex with his girlfriend on top of them. He was sentenced to 8 years
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Yes what he did was wrong but 8 years is excessive, especially when too often dangerous criminals get s**t, pathetic sentences.
Monday 4 years ago
Probably due to the value. He not only stole something worth who knows how much money, but he also destroyed any scientific value they may have held by contaminating them. Assuming the rocks were scientifically valuable the sentence is fair. It just seems unfair since the dangerous criminals don't get fair sentences.
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Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
In other news, a guy in Croatia gets a girl killed while driving like a maniac in his Ferrari, and after a 10 year trial, gets a 2 year sentence. The other guy involved is found not guilty. My home country's judicial system is such a cesspool. Sorry, just venting.
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
It always sucks when the wealthy evade justice when they've committed horrors.
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rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago
No sympathy for him considering he did all that just to get his rocks off
#20
TIL that veterinarians kill themselves at rates 2.5 to 3.5 times the general population, due in part to online trolling and threats from pet owners who blame them for the death of a pet, and easy access to lethal medicines
lara 4 years ago
The problem is not that the vets are to "blame" for the deaths of the pets BUT THE OWNERS. Because the owners do NOT take care of their pets. You would not believe some of the horror stories that the techs at my vet's have told me. Frankly, I am surprised that the vet doesn't have an animal abuse officer in the waiting room to arrest all the monsters. LIke the time they came to work, it was winter and the temp was in the 20's and they found a pregnant dog tied to one of the pillars at the front door. She couldn't even lay down. One puppy was hanging from her uterus and one puppy was frozen to the ground. I finally decided it was a good thing that I didn't work at the vet's because screaming at clients who are stupid is not a good thing.,
Eslamala 4 years ago
They also get harassed by people who rescue animals. For what, you may ask? For not wanting to do stuff for free. A lot of vet friends have had to kick activists off their clinics because of this.
lara 4 years ago
I am no longer allowed, by the local Brittany Rescue group, to "rescue" or foster pups because I take them in and assume ALL MEDICAL TREATMENT COSTS. The problem is, my vet says, is that they cannot photo op those pups to raise money if I am assuming all the costs. And yes, I do still donate to them.
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Plant Lover 4 years ago
As a Veterinary professional, I can confirm that our working conditions are highly challenging. Euthanasia and loss of patients is hard, but dealing with rude, ungrateful and downright abusive clients is what makes this job really difficult. We can't work for free. We have bills to pay and families to feed. In saying that, we do not get paid well. Our overheads are huge. Please be kind to your local Veterinary staff - we are loosing skilled staff at alarming rates and before you know it, there will be less and less clinics available to help you and your pets.
Sarah 4 years ago
I'm so sorry people treat you so thoughtlessly, and even cruelly. You are truly, truly the Good Guys. I'm so grateful for you. You're doing the work I would love to have done, but did not have the science skills or the lack of squeamishness to do. I admire you very much.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And despair, b/c they go into it to save lives, but unlike human doctors, their patients die pretty quickly.... and with less help to give.... is my guess.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
Exactly. These people go into this business because they love animals. And a big part of their job is putting them to sleep. Which, when necessary, is a gift of course, but incredibly painful for all involved. Including the vet and staff!
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Lillukka79 4 years ago
Within occupational subgroups, the following male workers had the highest suicide rates: (1) fishing and hunting workers; (2) machinists; (3) welding, soldering, and brazing workers; (4) chefs and head cooks; (5) construction managers; (6) farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers; and (7) retail salespeople. Among females, the following were at particularly high suicide risk: (1) artists and related workers; (2) personal care aides; (3) retail salespeople; (4) waitresses; and (5) registered nurses.
#21
TIL that barns are red because farmers made their own sealant using linseed oil and rust. The rust protects the wood from algae and fungal growth but also colors the mixture red.
Y T 4 years ago
The red paint actually originated from Sweden. It was a bi product of iron mining and therefore it was cheap. When a lot of Swedes emigrated they took the tradition of painting barns red with them.
Dynein 4 years ago
I learned this when I realized that the ground there has reddish tinge that's very similar to the paint, and wondered if the Swedes really did some version of smearing the local soil onto their walls.
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John C 4 years ago
I read that they were red because that was the cheapest color paint. Curious if linseed oil was cheaper back then - it certainly isn't cheaper than paint today!
Dynein 4 years ago
But the line seed oil is not responsible for the color. The people used the oil to create a variety of wooden paints, and the reason THIS color paint became popular was that the pigment was cheap and abundant in some areas. And keep in mind that the world was not always as industrialized as it is today. Today, line is somewhat "niche" and "organic", but really it's a hardy plant that can't just be used for food and the production of oil, but also for the production of textile fibers. It was likely more commonly cultivated back then.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Iron oxide is a common soil pigment in parts of the US, too. "REd dirt", to be precise. We have a lot.
Lillukka79 4 years ago
Why it's also used in thenordic countries since the prehistoric times. There are "cave" paintings made with it in Finland dating 4200–2000 BC.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
I lived for awhile in the tobacco growing part of Appalachia. The farmers were paid yearly to repaint their barns red by Red Man tobacco. A competitive brand, Mail Pouch, had an artist named Harley Warrick who travelled the area and painted their logo. His work made it into the Smithsonian.
#22
TIL For millennia, Europeans did not know where birds went in Winter time. The mystery was partly solved in 1822, when a German hunter shot down a stork. The stork had a 80cm long Central African spear impaled in its neck. This provided the first evidence that they migrated to Africa.
Lesley Relph 4 years ago
Yup, survived a spear attack only to get shot down by a rifle...
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François Carré 4 years ago
I saw an interesting documentary about this topic not so long ago. Due to the resemblance between goose beaks and some common species of clams, some scientists assumed very seriously that birds sprouted every year from seafood to a flying form which allowed them to spread around.
Jon S. 4 years ago
I don't know if scientists ever claimed it, but 13th century writers from Ireland and wales claimed to have witnessed the barnacle goose sprouting from barnacles (they actually travel to Greenland). They do look weirdly similar, I can see how the rumour started.
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Bora Zrinyi 4 years ago
Storks are kind of sacred animals in Hungary. We have folk songs about save them. Anyone hurt or kill them, he become an " enemy of the nation", all the newspapers and tv channels public the story.
Maggie Dinzler Shaw 4 years ago
Or someone brought back a spear and killed a stork with it here.
#23
TIL that Thomas Edison proposed to his future wife in morse code, she accepted in the same way
Monday 4 years ago
Yes we're fairly certain he did, but that doesn't change that this is a pretty cool proposal story.
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Wouldn't You Like to Know 4 years ago
Edison is a fraud. He stole most of his ideas from others...especially Tesla!
Pamela Blue 4 years ago
Edison was definitely NOT the good guy history tried to portray. He was a dickhead!
#24
Today I learned IKEA is an acronym which stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the founder’s name, farm where he grew up, and hometown.
she/they and definitely gay 4 years ago
y'know whats funny is that I was looking that up yesterday.
labaguette🥖️🥖️ 4 years ago
I love your username. And the coincidence of the comment.
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#25
TIL about the mysterious worldwide epidemic of Encephalitis lethargica. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926, 500,000 dead or incapacitated from it. It disappeared as mysteriously as it came in to the world.
lara 4 years ago
Actually occurred parallel with the "Spanish Flu" and some researchers think that both might have been caused by the same flu variant. The Spanish Flu killed over 50,000,000 people. Whole villages in remote areas were wiped out.
John C 4 years ago
I read it was called the Spanish Flu because because despite being enormously widespread, Spain was the only country to acknowledge it's existence due to war propaganda and no country wanting to admit how much it was effecting their troops.
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The Robin Williams/Robert De Niro film “Awakenings” is based on a true story about a doctor who found a temporary cure for Encephalitis lethargica (which translates essentially to “brain disease that makes one sleepy”). It’s an amazing film that everyone should put on their list of movies to see.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I cried with that movie it's so sad but yes it's great! And both actors were amazing! I appreciate Robin Williams even more in dramatic roles!
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Doggo 4 years ago
Encephalitis lethargica is so much weirder than described here. If you want more information, listen to This Podcast Will Kill You's episode on it!
Aroha 4 years ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I love finding new podcasts :).
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LottieH 4 years ago
But if it wasn't for this "Sleepy sickness" Oliver Sachs would never have learnt the benefits of dopamine for Parkinsons.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I miss Oliver Sacks. I kind of want to reread his "Hallucinations" book too.
Load More Replies... Curry on... 4 years ago
Unfortunately, researchers have discovered some connection between corona virus and Encephalitis too.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Feel calm. Many viruses lead to encephalitic disease. Measles can, for example. Heck, malaria is a parasite and can do it. So... just stay calm, and get your shots, and avoid mosquitoes.
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
I was wondering if they are related in some say since cfs usually also starts with a previous infection
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Doc Thissen 4 years ago
A brilliant book called "Get Well Soon, History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes who Fought Them" had an entire chapter on this. Fascinating.
#26
TIL just before lethal hypothermia, a person will undress themselves because they perceive themselves to be burning up when indeed they're freezing (paradoxical undressing). Consequently people frozen to death are often found naked and misidentified as a victim of a violent crime.
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
That happened to me. I just about remember feeling sooo warm. Don't remember much after that until I woke up in the hospital.
littlesaresare 4 years ago (edited)
Unfortunately I learned this after a weird and horrifying allergic reaction. I felt like I was on fire. So much so that, despite being an extremely self conscious person, I stripped naked in front of everyone in my desperation to cool down. It didn't make any sense so I wondered if, like you feel cold with a fever, you could feel hot with low body temperature. Got a thermometer and indeed my temp had plummeted. I learned later that what I did was paradoxical undressing, and that the burning feeling has something to do with the surface blood vessels trying to conserve heat.
skyfire the nightwing-seawing 4 years ago
When you get hypothermia you are supposed to take of your clothes and get into a sleeping bag
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
I was taught, with other people, and they warm you up with their body heat
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Sandra Llewelyn 4 years ago
I know that feeling from riding a motor bike in the winter, no real benefit of gloves with or without liners, fingers would get very very cold, then burning hot
Mark Kelly 4 years ago
I know. When I swim in cold water I can feel my body getting hot as my body is pulling the blood to my internal organs.
#27
TIL the term "crimes against humanity" was first used to describe the atrocities committed by Leopold the 2nd of Belgium in the Congo Free State, a regime so brutal that the mercenaries hired by Leopold had to show a human hand for every bullet they used to prove the bullet wasnt used for hunting.
Omar Pearson 4 years ago
The bastard is responsible for the deaths of 10 million africans in the Congo.
JLH 4 years ago
Death was the least of it. He'd chop off children's arms and legs with machetes if their parents didn't produce enough value in the slave mines. I'd say don't look it up, but it's one of the atrocities of humanity that should never be forgotten.
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François Carré 4 years ago
A poorly acknowledged fact, maybe due to Belgium being seen as a tiny, pleasant and harmless country otherwise. Not to forget that more powerful European countries had their share of crimes against humanity at the same time, too. Colonialism in itself is a crime against humanity, actually.
PandaMonium 4 years ago
There is an excellent book on these atrocities called "King Leopold's Ghost". A real life horror story of genocide and greed.
Aamna Shah 4 years ago
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll definitely check it out.
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Daphne Williams 4 years ago
Honestly, getting banned from Facebook for a week isn't hard. I got banned for three days for arguing with a bunch of racists.
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H Edwards 4 years ago
I only really learned about Leopold from a random podcast. Absolute horror of a human being.
Aiko Emerson 4 years ago
I am Belgian, and we learned about the atrocities but not in so much detail....f**k him, honestly. I hope they tear down his statues, he doesn't deserve anything. Yeah, he made Belgium rich, but I'd rather be poor than rich thanks to everything that happened in Congo
Lisa-Marie Dhondt 4 years ago
Ok. No. He went to the Congo twice and ‘simply’ collected the money. The sheer brutality came from the ‘ordinary’ Belgians that went there to live and work. It was his colony but the violence was on us, normal Belgians. Sincerely, a normal Belgian.
Maria 4 years ago
Leopold actively deceived his people and the international press about what was happening in the Congo. He set up a fake charity to mask his exploitation and ran smear campaigns against the journalists who tried to report the truth. Some equally awful people collaborated with him, but the general populace of Belgium should not be held accountable.
Load More Replies... Suzy the observer 4 years ago
Monarchy should be abolished everywhere. This bastard's descendants should give back all the money he made to present-day Congo.
Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
All royals are parasites, pampered and living free off taxpayers money.
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TIL that the Venus flytrap naturally grows in very few areas in the Carolinas, so park rangers have to keep most of their grow sites a secret to keep them safe from poachers.
Frank Hassler 4 years ago
This is a pretty common practice for any rare plant, at least here in the US. Here in WI we closely guard the locations of ginseng and orchids.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Yeah, it's illegal to poach ginseng in the mountains of NC as well. Between the ginseng in the mountains and the flytraps on the coast, we're a bit busy!
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fire bug 4 years ago
I live in Wilmington, NC where the flytrap is native. This is true. Every once in a while a garden will get stripped of them. Pretty sad really.
Laura Pantazis 4 years ago
When I was at a state park in Wilmington, I saw that it was illegal to poach fly traps. I was confused at first because I was thinking of the fly traps you find in the store, lol. When I learned there were fly traps that grew there naturally, I went to the carnivorous plant conservatory to see them. They are a lot smaller in person!
Load More Replies... TK 421 4 years ago
I’ve recently learned the joy of growing and propagating carnivorous plants for my garden and home. Haven’t seen a spider, fly, or silverfish in months. Not attached to my little buddies, that is. The pitcher plants are always full of the little airborne pests, and the pingulas are almost always covered in the ground dwellers.
Jake B 4 years ago
there is a very early episode of the podcast Criminal about Venus Flytrap poaching. its a bizarre story!
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
As you can get them in any decent garden center for a few quid/dollars, I'd imagine they are pretty safe wherever they are in the wild!
Janice Blaufox 4 years ago
Back in the 1950s you could buy them in a store as a novelty item. We bought a couple of them.
Fact Perils 4 years ago
Yup, I live there and if you buy them they survive very well in the climate.
#29
TIL In 1980 a dingo ate an Australian couple's baby while camping, causing the mother to sentenced to life in prison for murder. Three years later, the babies clothes were found near a dingo lair.
Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
It was trial by media and a disgrace! The Northern Territory ran a smear campaign so as not to see a loss in tourism. It was disgusting to see what they put poor lindy through
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Yes. It became this big joke, but that woman's child was taken from her, and she was tormented for it. I'm from the US and found this a horror.
Load More Replies... Katinka Min 4 years ago (edited)
Just imagine: Not only do you lose your child - the worst tragedy than can befall a parent - but you are also villified and sent to prison. What a nightmare.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I barely remember another story about a young woman that lost both her parents and was accused about their murder... she was found innocent years later and after being crucified by the media and stayed in prison for many years... I don't remember the exact case to put the reference but i remember i thought the same thing!! Imagine losing both your parents so brutally and being accused for that! You don't even have the time to mourn because you need to defend yourself!!
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
The investigation at the start was appalling. Thankfully now that forensics has advanced and the evidence was re-examined to clear Lindy Chamberlain of any wrong doing. One thing that started the rumour of her being guilty was folded clothing, when in fact a tourist found the clothing, informed a detective. The detective picked up the clothing, without gloves, without taking photos. Then folded the clothes himself THEN took a photo. It was one huge bungle. Thankfully the truth is out now, but there are still a lot of people out there that believe Lindy is guilty so the damage is already done.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
I remember this as a kid myself (even though i grew up during the late eighties/nineties it hung around for a long time) it was awful. The mockery and certainty of her guilt, the old "a dingo ate my baby!" line used as sarcasm :( it was just so sad, so tragic to lose a baby like That, and then have everyone treat you as evil or fodder for entertainment. Agnostic as I am, may god or gods or whatever is out there care for that child forevermore
Load More Replies... Marina Bailey 4 years ago
I'm glad this site doesn't allow gifs. Because every time someone mentions Azaria Chamberlain's death by dingo, some dingbat posts the gif from Seinfeld of Elaine saying, "Maybe the dingo ate your baby." And then they accuse me of not having a sense of humour when I object. THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT FUNNY. A child is dead. Her mother was accused of killing her, and her father accused of being an accessory. She had to give birth to her fourth child while incarcerated. Other children have also been attacked by dingoes. It isn't the least bit funny. And no, I'm not Australian.
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
People who made a joke about this are disgusting. An infant died horribly, an innocent mother went to prison, and a father was accused of being an accessory. And people thought it was hilarious. Humans are an affront to decency.
Saint Thomas 4 years ago
The movie "A cry in the dark" is based on this story. Meryl Streep plays the mother.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
And to this day "a dingo ate my baby" is used as a cheap punchline about Australia, ugh. (The Simpsons used it at least twice, and it was in Tropic Thunder as well).
Laura Carney 4 years ago
In the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the character Oz is in a band with the name Dingo's ate my baby.
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Grant Barke 4 years ago
I don't think the Chamberlains ever got an apology from the Northern Territory Government either.
Andrea Paternioner 4 years ago
there was a movie about it, "evil angels" with meryl streep and sam neill, in 1988
Chaos&Roses 4 years ago
Here in Australia it was released as "Evil Angels" I'm assuming cry in the dark was the American release seeing as most commenting are American. I've never seen it by any other name than evil angels
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I feel like a terrible person right now. I laughed at the saying "A dingo ate your baby" yesterday not knowing this story and now I can't believe I did. Urgh I'm not liking this right now.
#30
TIL in 1998, a married couple was left behind during a diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef. Two days passed before anyone realized what had happened. Despite a 5-day search, the couple was never found. A dive slate was later recovered which read "... rescue us before we die..."
Láďa Durchánek 4 years ago
Our dive guide told this story when explaining why we need to sign off after every dive.
Sunshine Sunshine 4 years ago
Hopefully you sign off on the boat before it leave back to shore
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Bama Belle 4 years ago (edited)
A tourist was accidentally left behind on a dive tour in Australia. The employees noticed his belongings after everyone else had left. Luckily, they went back and found him, alive and well. He complained on social media. They said he was just a spoiled American for complaining, considering they found him unharmed. He pointed out the fact that their apology for leaving him was a coupon for a free dinner at a local restaurant.
OJ 4 years ago
he was totally right to complain, that could have ended in disaster! the company is lucky he didn’t sue
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Mihai Mara 4 years ago
I thought that in such trips you always count the participants when going in and when going out!
Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
Correct! I think the five company were held criminally liable and fined
Load More Replies... Alexis Draskinis 4 years ago
They made a movie based on it. I think it was called Open Water. Not based on the actual events, but more the situation of being left behind on a scuba trip with instructors...
The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
I have a friend this happened to when he and his wife were vacationing with another couple. The 2 husbands were left out at sea. They swam to a close-ish island to await rescue. Thankfully, the wives were waiting back on land for them, so it was noticed quickly that they were missing. The freakiest part for me about the story is when they came to pick up the guys on the island, one of the instructors mentioned that it was a good thing they didn’t walk around the island since it was an island of cannibals 😬
#31
TIL the Adamites were a 2nd century Christian sect that sought to re-create the innocence of the Garden of Eden. To this end they called their church “Paradise”, practiced nudism, rejected marriage and claimed they could do whatever they wanted because they had no knowledge of good/evil.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Did they have to give up eating apples? /s (I know there's no mention of apples in the Bible)
Andi Sugiarta 4 years ago
I don't know. But do they allowed to use iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macs?
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Miss Cris 4 years ago
What would happened if they had become the big religion instead of actual christianism? How would today's western culture?
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
That particular church has been included in Paradox game Crusader Kings III, which allows you to create an Adamite dynasty and display naked characters all along. If you know what I'm talking about, don't pretend you haven't tried it.
#32
TIL despite modern connotations of death as evil, the Greek god Hades was actually more altruistically inclined. Very few individual aspects of his personality were recorded, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.
RandomBeing 4 years ago
Hades is comparatively a pretty well behaved god. Tho pretty much everybody is well behaved compared to Zeus.
PandaMonium 4 years ago (edited)
According to the mythology, Hades kidnapped young Persephone, raped her and forced her to stay with him. Not sure what "altruistically inclined" things you're talking about but personality-wise, rape and kidnapping are a deal breaker for me.
Wolf Gamer 4 years ago
Actually, in the original myth, Persephone was a curious teenager and wandered into the Underworld herself. She was the one who wanted to stay with Hades, even though her mother was against it. That lead to the arrangement that they had for when Persephone stayed in the underworld. (Might have gotten a few things wrong, been a bit since I've dived deep back into the myths.)
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Sandra Schmidt 4 years ago (edited)
My all-time favourite part about this god: His dog's name was Cerberus, presumably derived from the indo-european word "k̑érberos", meaning "spotted". Which means the Greek god of death literally named his three-headed hellhound Spot.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Spot is a good boy. Nobody can escape Hades because they're too busy petting Spot.
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third molar 4 years ago
In Hinduism the God of death is also the God of Justice and is thought to be the most noble and impartial.
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago
Hades is Zeus elder brother. He was lord of the Underworld, which encompassed The Elysean Fields, meant for the souls of good people, and the Averno where evil mortals and inmortals we're eternally punished.
#33
TIL that "Jazz" is statistically the hardest word to guess in hangman. It has to do with it being a short word, having only one vowel, and using "j" and "z"---letters that people rarely guess in hangman.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Done well, they're both art forms. Done badly, they're both gross.
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michael reid 4 years ago
My friend always guesses x, j, q, z, k first. He thinks it's funny and usually loses but doesxnt care
Daria B 4 years ago
The result of the one in the picture must be Sandman. What are your guesses?
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Hangman? (Edit: the 'man' of your 'sandman' is what led me to that, I didn't notice earlier!)
Load More Replies... Mark Kelly 4 years ago
pfft when guessing a missing letter go through the alphabet to see what ones fits.
#34
TIL that "ringworm" is a fungal infection and no actual worms are involved
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Not really. Having a fungus grow *inside* your skin is pretty horrifying imho.
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Al Christensen 4 years ago
When I was six or seven years old an older boy down the street got ringworm., which, of course, we thought had to do with real worms. My friend said the worms dropped out of a certain tree in the neighborhood that overhung the street, so we always made a wide path around that tree.
Mz Phit 4 years ago
My little dog, who is surviving IMHA (a terrible autoimmune anemia) currently has ringworm. A big section of her tail hair fell out in chunks and she's got one paw that is really itchy. Lots of medicated baths and antifungal lotion. Poor baby, she's a tough cookie! We almost lost her last November but she fought to stay alive
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
I had a problem years ago with my cats. The topical treatment was just impossible because it spreads so easily. My vet then put them on an oral medicine, and it cleared up quickly.
Load More Replies... Niffler_13 4 years ago (edited)
Thanks to my livestock diseases class in college I knew this. It can also survive for long periods in the soil, which is why it often reoccurs, especially when new animals are introduced to the area and become infected. It also never fully leaves the body and periods of high stress or other impacts to the immune system can cause it to reappear. It is most contagious when it is red and flaky. In humans you most often see the red ring, hence "ringworm". In many animal species it is characterized by hair loss and irregular scaly gray patches with flaking skin.
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
One of my goats had it once. Seperated her, and luckiky none of the others got it. I spritzed it with a bleach solution. But I don't remember now the % of bleach to water. It worked though. Haven't seen it since.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Grew up knowing that, but on a farm, you learn quick about these things. And, no, rubbing gasoline on it does *not* help. Leaves a scar. (Thanks, Dad.)
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
First saw it in high school when a friend got it. Years later I got it, but it hadn't spread yet. Went to my doctor, he said it wasn't ring worm. Two days later it was forming a ring and I went back to show him. He apologized. I hated when he retired. Best Doc I ever had.
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crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
ugh. currently fighting it. i hate (not serious, I love them to the moon and back) my street mutts. first, they give me an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection and now this!
Dre Mosley 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah. It's the same or in the same family of fungi that causes jock itch or athlete's foot. I had one on my leg once when I was a child.
Marcia Cash 4 years ago
no need for doctor visits or expensive medicines to cure ringworm: Monistat cream for vaginal yeast infections works great.
Sabs 4 years ago
Best way to kill ringworm is Sulphur, most commonly mixed with a binding shampoo and left to dry on the skin.
Jon S. 4 years ago
I remember reading that the old fashioned sulphur medication carriers such a risk of adverse reactions that some clinicians want it banned ("potentially lethal cure for a non-lethal ailment"). Though I can't remember where I read it, so a healthy does of scepticism is advised.
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TIL that the Bermuda triangle isn't statistically more dangerous than almost any other place on the world's oceans per capita, the traffic there is just much higher.
*me* 4 years ago
I love your name man... William Shakespeare in past tense
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
In fact, the US Great Lakes are, for surface area, way more lethal. read up on it, and you never want to go fishing out there again.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago (edited)
Fishing? Whenever massive transport vessels sink without a trace, fishing would be the least of my worries. The Witch of November, y'know?
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Nice try Mr. Bermuda triangle advocate but I know better to steer clear from that cursed place.
CultOfBambi 4 years ago
I remember a film I saw when I was really young, called The Devil's Triangle', about an ill-fated fishing trip in the Bermuda triangle - gave me nightmares for years! I think one of the characters got impaled on a swordfish that had been caught earlier and was stored in the hold. Can still picture it now...
#36
TIL after their characters unsuccessfully flirted in Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern actually dated and got engaged
Mary Veltri 4 years ago
He is so awesome I bet everyone he meets falls in love with him. That voice.....
Holly Stevens 4 years ago
Yeah and then they broke up and that's why she wouldn't return for lost world
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
its said the wikipedia doesnt have any mention of them being together. this is a couple id like to see
#37
TIL In 2019, Pope Francis approved changing the lord's prayer. The phrase “lead us not into temptation” changed to “do not let us fall into temptation”. He said the original was a bad translation because it suggested God caused the temptation.
Full Name 4 years ago
For him that would be literally. F**k that abuser hiding/denying scumbag.
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Norart 4 years ago
If you are a Christian I think this would be a very important part of your doctrine.
Load More Replies... StormWolf 4 years ago
Well if it is believed that Eve's sin is why women suffer during childbirth (The Curse of Eve), doesn't it stand to reason that she was ABLE to sin because God caused her temptation by placing the tree of Forbidden Fruit there in the first place? ( I'm not arguing, genuinely curious)
Seonie 4 years ago (edited)
I think it's because God gave humankind freewill. If humans were forced to obey/follow/love their maker, it wouldn't be genuine. Give people free will and let them do their thing, even if it means failure. If they do come to follow/love God, then it is because they want to, and it was not enforced. You cannot force or scare anyone into loving - it wouldn't be real. (Hope this helps, or answers your question!) (Edited to continue) So, directly or indirectly, did God cause the temptation? I would speculate only in the sense of giving her (and Adam) the free will to make any and all of their own decisions (and Adam could have refused, but nope - he was the first human to ever give into peer pressure :P )
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Marcos Vitor Amaral Silva 4 years ago
In portuguese it was always “do not let us fall into temptation”.
noralin 4 years ago
There were plenty of other delicous fruits in the garden. And the forbidden fruit wasn't an apple.
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Mishimoqua 4 years ago
In Spanish it has always been "do not let us fall into temptation" He's Argentinian.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
In Spanish, the Lord's prayer has always been like that: "No nos dejes caer en la tentación" (do not let us fall into temptation)
Marjana Drobnič 4 years ago
The latin version is "et ne nos inducas in tentationem" - do not lead us into temptation
#38
TIL that Michael Jackson suffered from severe insomnia and did not get any real sleep for 60 days prior to his death. Instead, his personal doctor had been putting him under general anestheisa every night.
Omar Pearson 4 years ago
His doctor, Conrad Murray, received 4 years for involuntary manslaughter for Mike's death.
Otter 4 years ago
He deserved it. I work in an ICU, I deal with the drugs that he gave, his actions were so dangerously incompetent that he's lucky he only got four years.
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Crochet lady 4 years ago
I'm 58 and have had chronic insomnia since I was 13. Last week 4 nights in a row I only got 3 hours of sleep. It's extremely debilitating and makes depression so much worse. I keep building up tolerances to sleep medications and doctors don't want to prescribe many of the old ones that are actually useful anymore. My son introduced me to THC and that helps a lot. I can understand MJ's desperation to try propofol but my understanding is while it knocks you out it doesn't mimic sleep at all and his doc should have explained that to him, it didn't help at all, other than psychologically, he thought he was getting sleep.
V33333P 4 years ago
I'm just 31 but I've had insomnia since I was 13 too, and have the same tolerance build up for sleep meds. It's infuriating. THC isn't subsidized here yet, so if I want some it's $320 a bottle of 25ml and I'm annoyed. And tired. Mostly tired.
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Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago
How do you get into a routine of this kind and think it is going to end well. When you have to be anesthetised to get any sleep, it is time to reach out for help from someone who does not think this is appropriate... not someone willing to do that and line their pockets with your agony...
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago
Having had general anaesthesia multiple times, I can imagine that this was not even remotely helpful. The point of it is that from the second you close your eyes and go under, to the second you are brought round again, whether it's 1 minute, 1 hour, 10 hours, your brain cannot physically process it. So however long you're out, your body maybe resting but your mind isn't. It tricks your brain. So from your perspective, you literally close your eyes, and then one second later open them again. So your perception is that you've had zero rest. You can't dream, your mind cannot rest. So to him.... he would still have felt like he wasn't sleeping. I cannot imagine how much that would mess you up physically and mentally for that amount of time. It's torture.
Sam Kunz 4 years ago
I wonder if Michael was suffering from Fatal Familial Insomnia, a very rare disease in which you gradually lose the ability to sleep. Eventually you dont sleep at all and you die after 30 days of no sleep slowly going insane. It's horrific.
Ted w 4 years ago
Most likely he had some sort of addiction to sleeping pills or opiates of some sort. Opiates are well known to disrupt a sleep cycle..
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Emily Kathleen 4 years ago
My doctor suspects that my body doesn't make any melatonin naturally. It takes a lot of (closely regulated) sleep medication for me to sleep. Even with those meds, once every couple of weeks, I just don't sleep. Thankfully, I don't have Jackson's doctor seeing to my care.
Marina Bailey 4 years ago
Apparently, propofol puts you to sleep but you don't get any REM sleep, so you don't really rest. To quote Robin Williams, "Using propofol for insomnia is like doing chemotherapy because you're tired of shaving your head."
#39
TIL R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe nearly died of scarlet fever in 1962, of hypothermia in 1974, and of a lightning strike in 1986.
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
So that’s explains why he feels fine in It’s the End of the World as we know it”
#40
TIL that Sid Meier (of Sid Meier's Civilization and Sid Meier's Pirates!) began placing his name in the title of his games because of a suggestion made by Robin Williams in the 1980's
KJ 4 years ago
Sid Meier made some awesome games, a good chunk of my childhood pc time was spent on his works.
François Carré 4 years ago
This man is responsible for getting me back to PC video games as I was already a grown up man. Randomly window-shopping at a big bookstore, I came across this : "Civilization III, how cool is that ? " (I was a PhD history student back then). Hundreds of sleepless nights to come.
For those interested in intriguing wedding stories, it's worth noting how unusual dynamics can impact ceremonies. In one instance, financial disagreements between families led to wedding guests being treated unequally based on stamps on their hands. Such instances can serve as a precautionary tale for managing family finances during weddings.
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#41
TIL about "mad honey": it's honey collected from bees that have fed on rhododendron flowers, and it causes hallucinations and intoxication
Amaree Matthews 4 years ago
When it gets really hot while my Rhodys are blooming, the nectar ferments and the bees get drunk! It's comical to watch the bees... They can't hardly fly or even walk straight. I've heard that if the drunk bees make it back to the hive, the sentries won't let them in because they will ruin the entire hive's supply of honey.
Cori 4 years ago
This is good to know. I'm thinking of starting a flower farm and had planned on adding bees because what is a flower farm without bees? Now I know not to plant any rhododendrons, unless I want to be known as the drug dealer who sells hallucinogenic honey at farmers market.
Amaree Matthews 4 years ago
I don't think it's all varieties of rhododendrons...The bees love Rhodys, more than any other plant that I have in my garden
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#42
TIL Camels can be larger than moose, run up to 40mph, live close to 40 years in the wild, and are more intelligent/emotional than horses.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
They also have a very weird gait. They move a whole side at a time. So both left legs, then both right legs, then both left legs, etc. Very usual when compared to other quadruped mammals.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
And from what I understand, they are stubborn and hold grudges. (I may be wrong about this.)
#43
TIL more than half of the oxygen you breathe comes from marine photosynthesizers, like phytoplankton and seaweed.
Robert Hughes 4 years ago
They are trying to get rid pf carbon dioxide in the air by planting a lot of seaweed.
#44
TIL that there's a rare turtle in Australia that was discovered in 1990, when Steve Irwin found it in a crocodile catching trip. It was named after him.
#45
TIL the first doughnut machine was made in 1920 to meet the demand for doughnuts as a breakfast food item following WW 1. Adolph Levitt, a Jewish refugee who came to America fleeing czarist Russia, designed the machine and began selling fried doughnuts from his Harlem bakery in NYC.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Now we can fight antisemetic dumbasses with "Yeah but Jewish people invented donuts".
#46
TIL of Henry de Bohun, a brave knight who thought he could kill Robert the Bruce on the open field because the King of Scots was armed only with an axe. Robert regretted the incident because he broke his favorite axe splitting Henry's head.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
OMG. I literally laughed out loud. So sorry, Henry, RIP. LOL!!!!
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Everyone knows that axes are better than swords! Ask a Viking. (Which may be my new business venture. Hmmmmm.)
#47
TIL An Elephant’s penis is prehensile. It can be used as a tripod for stability when standing on two legs, swat away flies, and scratch itches on their stomach.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I was at an Elephant's enclosure at a Zoo once when a very excited male was walking around. We suddenly heard a little girl's voice call out, "look Daddy! That elephant's got 5 legs!".
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Actually, I can do that, too. And write with it. So nyaaah, elephants. Hurts when I step on it, though.
Ching Chang Dong 4 years ago
I've seen a video that an elephant scratches it's belly with his pee pee. I was like, think of the possibilities,man..
#48
TIL that in 1984, British new wave pop group Thompson Twins released a video game on a vinyl record. Players had to copy the game from the vinyl disc to a cassette tape, which could then be played on a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 computer.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
You didn't need to copy it to a cassette tape. They did make Commodore branded cassette drives, but they weren't necessary. Any mono audio input would do just fine. If you want to regularly load Commodore games today, you can use CD audio, or an MP3 file just as well.
Load More Replies... Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
What?! I was the epitome of the TT fan in the 80s, and I had no idea!!!
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
I don't remember cassette tapes going into computers. Ever. Maybe I just didn't see the right computers, but... Now I've got to go look this up! AHHHHH!!! It was an external drive situation. I knew I never saw anyone shove a tape in a computer!
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
First artist to do it was Tomita on his “Bermuda Triangle” LP in 1978 iirc
#49
TIL Michael Burry's autism (Aspergers) enabled him to see patterns in the 2007 housing market data that helped him predict the coming crash. As the data worsened, Burry found that heavy metal music calmed his nerves, something research has more recently shown is ideal for his "Brain Type S."
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
I am not good at numbers, or at least not any better or worse than others, but I am very creative. I wonder if that's in part because of autism or not. I know creativity itself doesn't stem from there, but maybe in some cases it helps?... That may be a nuture case instead of a nature case, as living as an outcast often produces creative people, and may be purely coincidental. If autism does happen to affect the way or level at which we are creative, that is interesting. I often hear more cases about those with autism being good at numbers, vs. being creative, or witty. (Perhaps people just don't think that's as impressive.)
RandomBeing 4 years ago
The numbers and autism thing is certainly a stereotype. A good few of my friends are autistic but I know only a few who are more math inclined and in fact most are artists of some sort. The truth is autism is a very diverse spectrum and each individual will be different. It certainly is fascinating!
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FatRabbit 4 years ago
I'm autistic and I can't pattern spot to that extent but I can certainly fall asleep to heavy metal. It's very soothing.
Jan Feline 4 years ago (edited)
FWIW, he is now saying another big crash is coming soon. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-18/crypto-meme-stocks-michael-burry-warns-about-mother-of-all-crashes
JessG 4 years ago
Because it sounds aggressive, so people don't understand.
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Azure Adams 4 years ago
He manipulated the market and caused the crash of 08, devastating many people and the economy and has never been held responsible. I say he be tortured with 1970s easy listening music until he fixes s**t!
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
huh. i'm in no way gifted. but heavy metal music does calm me as well.
#50
TIL that the raccoon life expectancy in the wild is only 1.8 to 3.1 years, depending on the local conditions such as traffic volume, hunting, and weather severity. Captive raccoons have been known to live for more than 20 years.
#51
TIL A man was forced to tweet for help when he got locked in a department store after falling asleep on a massage chair. The man awoke to a deserted shop floor after dozing off in an electronics store in Japan.
80 Van 4 years ago
That doesn’t explain why he was forced to Tweet as opposed to calling emergency services or some other service.
#52
TIL Pom-Pom Crabs, small crabs that hold anemones in their small pinchers, will replace lost anemones by splitting the one left in two. This is the first known case of one animal stimulating another animal to reproduce asexually.
#53
TIL that the last surviving Woolly Mammoths lived on an isolated island in the Arctic Ocean until just 2000 BC, not long after the construction of the Giza Pyramids
J. F. 4 years ago
By finding their bones and using C14 isotopes to determine how old those are
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On the island there was so little genetic diversity, that they became inbreed and deformed.
#54
TIL that a hairless cyclops deformed piglet was stillborn in 1642 and it looked so much like a local man, George Spencer, that he was brought before a magistrate on suspicion of unnatural relations. He confessed and recanted, but ultimately Spencer was hanged and the mother pig put to the sword.
JustABoredwing 4 years ago
A piglet looked a like a local man, so the man and the pig’s mother were hanged because they thought he reproduced with the pig
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 4 years ago
He confessed under torture. Then he retracted his confession, but then they needed a witness, so they brought in the mother pig who of course did not deny it.
Hannah M 4 years ago
And now with modern science we know it's simply not possible for a human and a pig to reproduce....
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_George_Spencer
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Richard Portman 4 years ago
I've heard this story before. It might be a folktale, but it definitely illustrates the dangers of ignorance and superstition.
#55
TIL Amazon Web Services offers a service called Snowmobile, where they will bring you a truck with 100 Petabytes worth of hard drives, copy your data, then drive it to its destination, bypassing the internet entirely. Transferring this much data over a 1Gbps line would take 20 years.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
God no! That amount of data would be useless if you didn't know what to look for. CIA claimed in the 80's that the biggest hit they could give to the soviets would be to hand over all their data. It would take decades to go through, and most of it would be useless
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depicus 4 years ago
I'd expect the copy time of 100 Petabytes from drive to drive wouldn't be fast either
M O'Connell 4 years ago
If you're using 17,000 6TB disks in parallel, it wouldn't take very long.
Load More Replies... Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
People with a lot of data at a guess! ;-) Seriously, have you thought about just how much data a hospital has with digital x-rays, or MR and CT scans. Or banks with digital copies of documents. Or all the orders that Amazon takes. Or all the data for Google streetview? Makes my paltry 8TB NAS look tiny!
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
Criminals don't have this much data. If a criminal organization were transferring information, they'd just put an encrypted flash drive in the mail.
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TIL (Memorial day) 61% of U.S troops killed in Vietnam were younger than 21 years old. Many had been drafted
Eslamala 4 years ago
Out of all the stupid and pointless wars the U.S has engaged in the past 70 years, this must be the dumbest. Aside from shameful
Johnnee 4 years ago
Fought during the cold war. Easy to dismiss it as dumb and pointless today but times were different back then. There was a genuine fear of communists taking over the whole of South-East Asia.
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
My grandpa was in the Vietnam war. Luckily he survived, and is still alive today!
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
My great uncle was sent too and lived!
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 4 years ago
only 1/3 of the men who served n Vietnam were drafted, Approximately 70% of those killed in Vietnam were volunteers.
#57
TIL Shrek was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
I liked that movie so much because he seemed to have a Scottish accent, just like my dad.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Fun fact: Mike Meyers originally recorded the role without the accent, but then decided Shrek should have a Scottish accent because growing up he had a lot of friends with Scottish dads and he wanted the character to have the same vibe. So he recorded all his lines again from scratch. Now that's dedication!
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#58
TIL of Flossie Wong-Staal, a pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher who performed nucleotide sequencing on HIV to map its entire genetic makeup and to elucidate its many variations. Such research helped improve the medical outlook for millions of HIV/AIDS patients around the world.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
That research was also instrumental in the rapid development of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines around the world.
#59
TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).
#60
TIL that the Goodyear Tire company was not founded by Charles Goodyear, the inventor of the rubber vulcanizing. Charles had died penniless trying in vain to protect his patents. Brothers Frank and Charles Seiberling started the rubber company in 1898 and named it in honor of Goodyear.
Julie Harden 4 years ago
I worked at Seiberling Elementary school in college. A lot of things in and around Akron are named after Seiberling and Goodyear.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
That's the thing about patents. Often, you're better off inexpensively licensing the use of your patented technology than paying all your money to attorneys trying to defend against patent infringement.
#61
TIL Dmitry Glukhovsky wrote the novel 'Metro 2033' when he was 18. He published the novel on his website available for free. This eventually led to a video game deal with 4A Games & a comic deal with Dark Horse comics.
#62
TIL That the province of Ontario in Canada has 250,000 lakes that contain around one-fifth of the world's fresh water.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I love that about Ontario. We are nicknamed cottage country, because if an area has only a lake or two, it's going to be monopolized by the rich. In a place that has a bazillion, even the little guy can have a get away.
Virginie Michaud 4 years ago (edited)
Pretty sure that % is wrong. It's probably based on outdated estimates. Quebec has 500 000 lakes, and 3% of the Earth's freshwater. A recent study by a McGill researcher was done to estimate the freshwater in lakes around the world with a formula they had to design and test because there was no method before. In French, but Google translate is there if you want. Very interesting for the lakes affiocionados.. 😜 https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/1503d7b0-5bcc-47ed-98b4-788ee5545697__7C___0.html
Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
Province of Quebec in Canada has more lakes and rivers than Ontario. FYI
#63
TIL chimps have a closely related counterpart called bonobos. While chimps are violent and cannibalistic, bonobos are very passive and often appease each other with sex.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Having sex as a way of saying "Hello, good morning" is a bit out-there, but they make it work.
Virginie Michaud 4 years ago
A lot of it is homosexual sex with purpose to relieve tensions in the group. Which is why when they say sex, don't just think of mating, copulative sex. It's most mutual masturbation.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Actually, bonobos can be pretty aggressive too. The studies on how nice they are have been.... not debunked so much as re-evaluated. "More peaceful than chimps" isn't a high bar to jump.
Marcia Cash 4 years ago
Chimps are patriarchal and mostly vegetarians, Bonobos are matriarchal and eat more meat.
#64
TIL Chinese restaurants in California helped punk rock and punk rock bands by allowing the bands to play in the restaurants
#65
TIL Juno Beach was originally going to named Jelly Beach, but Churchill disapproved of the name, finding it to be undignified "for a beach on which so many men might die"
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
*throws grenade into german bunker* *german bunker wobbles so hard it launches all the nazis out*
#66
TIL William Shatner filmed Leonard Nimoy secretly during a convention appearance to include as footage in his film without Nimoy’s permission, prompting Nimoy's refusal to ever speak to him again. Shatner never understood why
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
My husband has met him several times. He's an ordinary and VERY nice person.
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TIL the person who graduates last in his class during the United States Military Academy at West Point graduation ceremony each year is called "the goat" joining an exclusive club which includes Civil War hero General George Custer.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Interesting how it means a good thing now...Custer was an idiot.
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#68
TIL in 1888, an Egyptian farmer discovered a cavern packed with tens of thousands of mummified cats dating to ancient Egyptian times. They were sold to British merchants by the ton, and were mainly used in Liverpool as fertilizer.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 4 years ago
I'll say this: they were great at dealing with the infestation of mummified rodents.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
...Were they covered in lead and arsenic paint before being used as fertilizer?
#69
TIL unlike in the movie Die Hard, the escape hatch on an elevator can't be opened from the inside; by law, it's bolted shut from the outside. It’s there so that emergency personnel can get in, not so passengers can get out. If an elevator is in trouble, the safest place to be is inside the elevator.
KJ 4 years ago
If an elevator is in trouble, the safest place to be is not inside the elevator, it is standing outside the elevator on your floor repeatedly pressing the call button while muttering about the stupid lift/elevator being slow.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I don't think anyone could argue with that! 🤣
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#70
TIL that Dark Energy is calculated to make up 67% of the known universe, while Dark Matter makes up a further 27%, while what we can actually see and measure, conventional matter, makes up less than 5% of our universe. "Dark Energy" is really a placeholder for "we don't know what this is."
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Yes, as they said, "we don't know what this is.".
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
As the universe is infinite it can neither grow nor shrink. The only thing that can be "measured" is what you can see or estimate through observation.
John C 4 years ago
it's boundless, or edgeless (like the surface of the earth) - not infinite. it wraps around to meet itself on scales so enormous that it makes human exploration or even comprehension nearly impossible
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#71
TIL the Eiffel Tower was originally intended to stand from 1889 to 1909, but was saved due to its use as an army radio transmitter. Its concession was extended for the next 70 years, to 1980, lasting beyond as a tourist attraction and receiving regular modifications such as television broadcasting.
Turnip and a Frog 4 years ago
It was the idea and pet project of Julian Ochorowicz, a Polish versatile scientist, inventor and polymath.
#72
TIL Tondrakians were members of an anti-feudal, heretical Christian sect that flourished in Armenia who advocated abolition of the Church, denied the immortality of the soul, afterlife, the church and its feudal rights. They supported property rights for peasants, and equality between men and women.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
of course he wasn't a f*cking christian how do you be part of a religion in which you die in and hasn't been invented yet
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TIL A psychologist adopted a Chimpanzee and raised it alongside their own human baby boy, to see if the Chimp could grow up to behave/think like a human. Eventually the Chimp hit a cognitive wall and no amount of training or nurturing could overcome the fact that he was a Chimpanzee.
Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
IIRC the baby began acting chimp-like and the psychologist quickly abandoned the experiment!
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
The chimp went on to have the most depressing possible life. Don't read up about it unless you want to cry for, like, about a week.
#74
TIL that Jared Hess had a $400,000 budget for 'Napoleon Dynamite, relying on the generosity of the locals of Preston, Idaho, to provide housing and food for crew members. Jon Heder was initially paid $1000 for starring as Napoleon.
#75
TIL that the body of Alexander the Great has been lost over time. It was well-known to be in Alexandria, Egypt for centuries, and was even worshipped for a while, but its exact location has apparently been forgotten.
lara 4 years ago
Julius Caesar supposedly "communed" with Alexander by attending his sarcophagus. Thus, many historians think that Octavian took it back to Rome with him once he defeated both Anthony and Cleopatra at Actinium. There is no proof of that, but the idea was that Alexander should not be buried with "losers." The fact is no one has a clue.
Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago
It’s probably been sold in the black market, so it might be in a billionaire’s collection somewhere.
#76
TIL - Japanese Beer maker Asahi makes elderly friendly beer cans that are smaller, with braille, a larger fingerhole and a pressurized can to have the tab elevated from the top. They're also left at shrines to friends and family that have passed.
Be Potato 4 years ago
I know right? The country also has one of the longest life expectancy :D
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TIL when the Red Cross got suspicious and demanded to see what's happening inside Nazi camps, the Nazis created a 'model' camp. They planted gardens, repainted buildings, and prisoners were forced to play “happy” workers. The two delegates were successfully tricked in their 1944 visit.
Smutná_elfka 4 years ago
It's in my home country. It's very sad, but interesting.
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Smutná_elfka 4 years ago
They made a whole movie about it while they were at it, as part of their propaganda. Disgusting.
Load More Replies... Eslamala 4 years ago (edited)
The nazis are proof that those who are really evil, are actually really smart. For the idiots who can't read: I'm not prasining/justifying/defending the nazis.
Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago (edited)
Idk, you seem to have a dubious comment history here. I wouldn’t call this smart per se, as that inherently includes at least a bit of admiration. Deceitful? Yes. Smart for hiding proof of crimes? No, that’s basic survival when confronted with consequences.
Load More Replies... Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
...And now the Red Cross uses all its money to sue game developers for putting their symbol on medkits.
#78
TIL rust can kill you. Rusting metal consumes oxygen and can lead to death especially in confined spaces like holds of ships. In 2007, three people suffocated one after the other in the anchor locker of a vessel because rust had consume all the oxygen.
Soap 4 years ago
I'll do it! I got my phone right her- oh wait that's what I'm using to type this uhhh someone else call em
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TIL that raccoons have extremely sensitive front paws, and often moisten objects to "see" them better with their paws (largely to determine if they are food).
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
Last night I was watching a raccoon on my back porch and noticed how he seemed to sort the nuts and seeds he was eating. He was staring straight ahead (as if he were blind) while he ran his paws over the food. When he found something he liked, he'd eat it. Not once did he look down at what he was doing. It was amazing to see.
Patsy 4 years ago
That explains that video of the raccoon with the candy floss! It makes sense now!
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
You have just brightened my day immensely! I'd never heard of that video. <3
Load More Replies... Virginie Michaud 4 years ago
This behavior, and the fact that they often do it in streams, i why racoons ar called "raton-laveur" in French. Which means "washer-rat", because they were thought to be washing their food before eating.
#80
TIL that foil seals on over-the-counter medicine only became an industry standard after the Tylenol murders of 1982
Julie Harden 4 years ago (edited)
That was a huge story. It was the start of all over the counter aspirin/pain relievers having a security cap. There was a time when most people didn't think Tylenol would survive. But, they made it through. This was around the same time people were finding razor blades in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and apples while trick-or-treating. Local elementary schools started having Halloween parties so kids didn't have to go door to door to get candy from strangers.
Richard Portman 4 years ago
That was a big cultural change. It was like we woke up to an even more dangerous world. We probably had to do it, but trick or treating was fun.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 4 years ago
No medicines are sold or supplied loose in bottles in the UK (I think in the EU too). Only vitamins and herbal supplements are sold this way. All medicines are supplied in blister packs. This has saved thousands of lives from overdoses.
Kristine Phillips 4 years ago
She was found. She poisoned her husband and also put the poison in the Tylenol to hide her crime, blaming the medicine when she was the guilty party.
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TIL During the May 1968 protests in France, the government came so close to collapsing that Charles de Gaulle fled the country while officials began burning documents, obtaining fake IDs, and planning their escapes. The prime minister was offered a gun with the advice, "You will need it."
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
My mum was in Paris while this was going on. She said it was insane and exciting, all at the same time.
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
My late mother was on a parachuting course with the French army (on exchange from the FANY), and said it did all get a bit hairy at points with confusion as to who was going to be arrested and who was going to be arresting etc . . . !
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TIL That a female signal crayfish will lure her potential mates with her urine. Then, she makes them prove their mettle by beating her in a test of strengh before she allows them to mate with her.
#83
TIL that Thomas Selfridge was the first person to be killed in an airplane crash in 1908. The propeller shattered in mid-flight and the plane nose-dived into the ground. Selfridge hit his head on the framework and died from a skull fracture. The pilot was Orville Wright.
#84
TIL that men wearing wedding rings was not common until World War 2, when soldiers would wear a ring to remind them of their love back home. After WW2, it became mainstream for men to wear a wedding ring.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago (edited)
FYI. Anyone working as a fitter, e.g., Plumber, do not wear any rings, including wedding, as their finger can get severed off by getting caught on something.
KJ 4 years ago
I learned this fact when a subcontracter on our site had a tattoo of a ring on his finger, when I inquired about it he gave this as his reason and also to prevent degloving.
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tiari 4 years ago (edited)
That’s simply wrong. Men wore wedding bands for centuries before WW2. Afaik they were even commonly exchanged between lovers in old Egypt, so make that millennia instead.
Dodo 4 years ago
Maybe in some countries? My grandparents got married in 1938, my grandfather never wore a wedding ring. And I've seen plenty of old photos of married men who aren't wearing rings. So I'd be inclined to believe it.
Load More Replies... kybourbonpearls 4 years ago
My husband doesn't wear one either. He is an engineer on a river boat and constantly has his hands in gears, rotors, etc.
Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago
Unlikely to be true, since the practice was widespread in many countries before that. My grandfather wasn't a trendsetter by any means, and he wore a wedding ring back in the 1930s.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Not so fun fact. Neil Armstrong got his ring caught in a tractor and lost his finger.
#85
TIL in 1995 civil engineers warned the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, S. Korea that structural failure was inevitable and it needed to be evacuated. They didn't close because it was so busy and it collapsed that day with 500+ people inside. One director left without warning his daughter in law.
Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
"One director left without warning his daughter in law." Eh, what?!
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
One director left (the building) without warning his daughter-in-law (of the risk).
Load More Replies... Gay_Forg 4 years ago
Maybe he didn't like her. Wait why am I defending him. Forget what I said.
blugeagua 4 years ago
Yeah don't defend him. What he did was awful. Screw him
Load More Replies... humdrum 4 years ago
And... did you make it to Google, or did the thought end here?
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Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
Caused mostly by putting heavy air condition units on the roof and later moving them by dragging them to another part of the roof
#86
TIL Elle Woods commits a huge ethical violation in "Legally Blonde" and, in real life, would've been barred from practicing law, & maybe subject to fines or prison time after she posed as a lawyer in attempts to get Paulette Bonafonté custody over her dog despite only being a first year law student
Greg Mingus 4 years ago
People do a lot of illegal things irl and never get in trouble.
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TIL Joe Theismann and Alex Smith both suffered gruesome injuries to their right leg. The injuries occurred on the same date 33 years apart, on the same team, in the same city and on nearly identical parts of the field. The final score of both games was 23-21.
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
So 33 years from now there is going to be one nervous quarterback on that team.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Those Smith-Theismann similarities include: Injury Theismann: broken right tibia and fibula Smith: broken right tibia and fibula Date Theismann: Nov. 18, 1985 Smith: Nov. 18, 2018 Team Theismann: Washington Redskins Smith: Washington Redskins Location Theismann: Redskins’ stadium (RFK Stadium), Washington, D.C. Smith: Redskins’ stadium (FedEx Field), Washington, D.C. Yard line Theismann: Near the 40 Smith: Near the 40 Final score Theismann: 23-21 Smith: 23-21 Tackled by Theismann: 3-time Defensive Player of the Year Lawrence Taylor Smith: 3-time Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt Left tackle situation Theismann: Pro Bowl left tackle Joe Jacoby off the field because of injury Smith: Pro Bowl left tackle Trent Williams off the field because of injury
#88
TIL of Owney, a mascot of the USPS. He was considered to be good luck by postal railway clerks, since no train he rode on was ever in a wreck.
PandaMonium 4 years ago
Just looked him up based on this post - Wikipedia has pictures of him. He died in 1897 and was commemorated with his own postage stamp in 2011. Cute pup! 1920px-Ill...459826.jpg 
#89
TIL Chinese Mythology also has a Great Flood Myth. Unlike the Biblical story, humans fought the flood, led by the mythical heroes Prince Gun and his son, Yu the Engineer, who battled evil demons & solicited the aid of gods & dragons to build massive drainage basins & mighty dams to end the flooding.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
Flood myths are part of just about every culture on the planet. It's VERY common.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Most early agricultural societies lived in river valleys because the soil there is incredibly fertile. When you've never been over the mountains that surround your valley, of course you think the whole world is flooding. YOUR whole world IS flooding.
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Kendra Miller 4 years ago
This myth is based on actual facts. https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/chinas-4000-year-old-great-flood-myth-verified-by-science/
les 4 years ago
most of the stories and dates in christianity were stolen from other religions, and used to entice people to join up. many christian holidays were actually pagan festivals originally
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Oh dear, darling. Have you ever read the Bible?
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TIL Australians developed Vegemite because they couldn't wait for Marmite supplies to resume after World War I.
Spring Fisk 4 years ago
i have tried it, only once. It tasted like congealed Soy Sauce.
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Dre Mosley 4 years ago
I work with an Australian who brought me a jar because I was curious. It's interesting. You can get it in the US in some stores.
Victor Botha 4 years ago
Rye bread with butter and Marmite/Vegimite and slices of good quality Gouda cheese makes a delicious sandwich
#91
TIL that Julius Caesar outlawed private vehicle use during the first 10 hours of daytime to combat traffic.
#92
TIL, actor Hugh Laurie was one of the highest-paid actors in television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of televison series House.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Charlie Sheen got $1.25 million an episode for his last 2 series of 2½ men. Sara Jessica Parker who earned $3.2 million per episode on Sex and the City from 2001 to 2004.
Load More Replies... Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
I loved that show and watched it many many times. He is an amazing actor and the writers of that show are amazing too!
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KC Lancaster 4 years ago
He is an AMAZINGLY versatile actor and performer! I first saw him in "Black Adder the Third", then "Jeeves and Wooster" and "A Bit of Fry & Laurie". He's superb with drama, comedy, and music (piano/singing). He also inspired the song "You'll Be Back" in Hamilton after a conversation with writer Lin-Manuel Miranda:)
Emma Byrne 4 years ago
His American accent was so good when he auditioned they refused to believe he was English, they had to check.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
He is number #16. Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show), Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men), Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond), Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Tim Allen (Home Improvement) and the main cast of Game of Thrones were all paid over 1 million USD per episode.
#93
TIL of "floating armories". Private military companies providing security against Somali pirates will station ships full of weapons in international waters. Other ships pick up and drop off weapons in the middle of the ocean, to avoid illegally bringing weapons into anyone's territorial waters.
John C 4 years ago
I'm imagining a new entrepreneur pirate, unfamiliar with the territory and not knowing which ship is what, trying to take over and board the weapons ship.
Giovanni 4 years ago
It wouldn't be the first stupid thing they do. In 2009 a pirate crew mistook a french warship for a oil tanker and tried to board it. Surprisingly half of the pirates managed to escape.
Load More Replies... Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
India captured 6 uk ex soldiers doing work to get rid the Somali and imprisoned them for 4 years unjustly for carrying weapons.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
'Good morning. I'll have three grenade launchers and a bazooka, please.' 'Certainly, sir. Would you like them wrapped?'
DE Ray 4 years ago
Not really - piracy is an act of taking control of a vessel without authorization from either the owner or operator of said vessel while it is underway, akin to hijacking. Preparing to resist piracy is not piracy itself, anymore than a flight attendant tackling a hijacker is committing a hijacking, but does violate several guidelines and norms.
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TIL in the 90s Arnold Schwarzenegger pitched a medieval epic but when the studio wanted budget guarantees the director responded, “guarantees don’t happen and if anyone promises guarantees they’re lying!” So, the studio opted for a "cheaper" action movie...which became expensive and bankrupted them.
#95
TIL 1.9 million Americans work for either Walmart or Amazon.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Remember: It's not slavery is you create a news source to spread propaganda about you not having slaves.
Load More Replies... Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
There are always stupid people making stupid comments about working for these companies but it’s a job and they get a wage which keeps their families healthy.
#96
TIL the earliest known version of the Coca-Cola recipe was developed out of a cocktail of morphine and toxins being used by a wounded former Confederate soldier who had become addicted to painkillers
RandomBeing 4 years ago (edited)
And cola nuts i believe. Hence the name COCA(ine) COLA :D. A lovely little drug cocktail.
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TIL the average human gut naturally produces 3 grams of alcohol a day through fermentation. Over the course of a year this is the equivalent alcohol of about 2 full bottles of whiskey.
Charlotte Bednard 4 years ago
also people can get a condition called brewers gut that can get you drunk.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
It can cause real problems, you eat a sandwich and the bread causes you to feel drunk afterwards, no good if you got things to do and or places to drive.
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#98
TIL Stieg Larsson, author of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' part of the Millennium trilogy, died in 2004 due to a heart attack. The Milennium trilogy was published posthumously & has sold over 80 million copies today.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Why have you put the word series in quotation marks?
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troufaki13 4 years ago
Also, it was supposed to be a 10 part series but he died after finishing only 3, hence the trilogy :/
Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
"not knowing this is just ignorance" ...well yeah, that's what ignorance is. Also, no this isn't common knowledge
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TIL that when Leonid Brezhnev was the head of government of the Soviet Union, he awarded himself the Hero of the Soviet Union for his birthday in 1966, 1976, 1978 and 1981
#100
TIL of the "cargo cult" belief, in which pre-industrial societies mimic western activities, such as the building of mock airstrips, and performing daily rituals such as dressing as parading soldiers, which they believe will cause spiritual agents to deliver highly desired cargo such as in WW2 arenas
Bisexual Backflipping 4 years ago
It's a very sad story. During WW2, soldiers would land on isolated islands. They brought planes, supplies, everything an island isolated from the world wouldn't have. These soldiers were like gods to the tribespeople. But when the war was over, the soldiers went home, leaving these people in a whirling state of confusion. They built 'radio towers' because they thought they could bring the soldiers back. They made headphones, airstrips, satellite dishes and even planes out of wood. They even mimicked the marching and drills of the soldiers, hoping becoming like them would summon them. They never came back. It's just so heartbreaking
Load More Replies... S P A C E S A R E C O O L 4 years ago
The "cargo cults" are religions created by modern people (usually white people from WW2) showing up at a small island in the pacific and giving them food and technology. They usually end up worshipping western culture and their "savior".
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 4 years ago (edited)
Actually, the existence of cargo cults predates WW2 by at least a good century, if not more. They exist primarily on islands in the south Pacific/SE Asian region. And they began when merchant cargo trading ships from Europe would stop off to resupply. The ships sought fresh water and food, and they offered fabulous (to the islanders) items in exchange. The white men in charge of the ships also had magical powers over life and death with their mysterious guns, medicines, alcohols, etc. Things like iron axes, fabric were wonderful treasures to the islanders of the early 1800s. So they began to see these ship captains as divine gods gifting them with fantastic objects. And when the ships left, the mythology was often created about a white skinned god who would one day return bringing more fabulous gifts, etc. So, when the conflict in the Pacific occurred, there was already a precedent, a cultural expectation if you will, among many of the societies through out the Pacific rim region.
Richard Portman 4 years ago
It is a reaction to trauma and destruction of the world. The "Ghost Dance" religion might have been something similar.
#101
TIL: When public health officials first began banning the dumping of feces in the street, they were still working under miasma theory, that bad smells were what caused diseases like cholera. The germ theory of disease wasn’t developed until 1880.
#102
TIL that L Ron Hubbard believed that tomatoes feel pain and that - if it is quiet enough - you can hear them scream when they are sliced
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
He was a nutter. Wrote some good stories before the cheese slipped off the cracker, though.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Hubbard was convinced that plants shared human emotions. Life magazine actually published an article about it.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Some do, but only the ones that wish to "ssstab", really. Giant Sensitive Plants are absolute pricks.
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TIL in the United States, direct manufacturer auto sales are prohibited in almost every state by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by dealers.
Kevin Gerke 4 years ago
I am an American living in Korea, and I didn't realize that when I bought my KIA, I was buying directly from KIA. I was anticipating dealer BS, but it was so much simpler.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Yep. There was a lot of complaining from dealer advocates over Tesla for this reason.
#104
TIL model Jennifer O'Neill was cast to star in the Disneys The Black Hole but was told she needed to cut her hair as it would be easier for scenes set in zero-g. She gave in, drinking wine during the haircut and leaving noticeably impaired. She lost the part after a serious car crash on the way home
#105
TIL the boxer who beat Roy Jones Jr. at the 1988 Olympics in a controversial split decision wishes he had lost. Park Si-Hun was so traumatized by his contentious victory that he retired from boxing after the end of the games.
#106
TIL A fault with the automation system on Australian Qantas Flight 72 (2008) caused the jet to violently pitch down so steeply, several passengers were thrown up from their seats and their heads smashed through ceiling panels. Some sustained long term permanent head, back, bone, and joint injuries.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Qantas is still the only commercial airline to never have a fatality. (Touch wood)
#107
TIL during the Roman era. Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. Her act of selflessness impresses officials and wins her fathers freedom
Wistiti 4 years ago
Granted there were no sandwiches but I think a slab of bread or meat could have been hidden somewhere (anywhere!) in her person.
Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
It's funny how humans have come to be disgusted by the idea of drinking breast milk, but will drink cow's milk with no problem...very strange
#108
TIL that a car decal that was stuck for 10 years to the bottom of a park bench ended up being worth $10,000 as part of a nationwide scavenger hunt
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
I totally understood it. But this took two seconds... https://local12.com/news/offbeat/women-find-chrome-z-under-park-bench-win-10000-in-nationwide-treasure-hunt
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TIL that rats live pretty much everywhere in the world (in habitable land) except in Alberta, Canada.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
They heard there was a vacancy on BoredPanda!
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Jennifer Cooper 4 years ago
If you see a rat Safely take a picture, note the location, and send the information to: Email: 310rats@gov.ab.ca Phone: 310-FARM (3276) Or phone your local bylaw agriculture fieldman office. It is illegal to own pet rats in Alberta.
#110
TIL about Gladys Bentley, a lesbian blues singer who wore men's clothing and added dirty lyrics to songs
#111
TIL the Pizza saver, the little plastic tripod that stops pizza toppings from sticking to the box, was patented in 1974, but the patent wasn't renewed. It was reinvented in 1985 by Carmela Vitale
Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
We don't use these Australia and I've never seen the toppings stick to the lid
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
We don't? Because I live in Canberra, aka the capital city of Australia, and I've never once ordered a pizza that *didn't* arrive with a little pizza table in the box. My sister and I used them as doll furniture when we were kids.
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Unaffected 4 years ago
What's with downvoting perfectly good comments? Someone mentioned that Ikea founder was a Nazi sympathiser and it was downvoted. He was! A person mentioning jizz upvoted over 70 times. BP seriously needs to reconsider why is voting even necessary? Reading others' comments I'm finding that it does upset people
Beans 4 years ago (edited)
I mean whenever I think of Ikea I think that their founder was a trashbean of a human, and not a nice person, and that Ikea tax evades like a mf, but most people don't know that about him/them and the consensus worldwide is that they are a company people like and they wanna get cheap stuff from. So it's hard to face that or wanna badmouth ikea. It's like Apple. They are trendy and their marketing is great so even though they practice exploitative business practices, they seem woke etc and they are popular and people want to like them. It sucks but it is what it is.
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ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
Did you know that Quentin Tarantino is a rapist/pedo supporter?Listen to his interview on Howard Stern about Polanski.Then come back and downvote me
Csaba Horvath 4 years ago
Most of them are fun facts, not any thing that should be learnt in public schools. But they are interesting too :)
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago (edited)
TIL That if you look up all the main 6 individual characters from Friends on the right hand side of the page you come to is a little picture next to the character’s name. Click on it and a. Little animation that goes with the character pops up. My favorites are Ross’s (Pivot!) and Phoebe’s (Smelly Cat). Check them out. 😊👍🏻
Manu 4 years ago
Dude that is amazing!!!! I've just tried and it is true! So funny! I wish I could upvote you 1000 times!
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Unaffected 4 years ago
What's with downvoting perfectly good comments? Someone mentioned that Ikea founder was a Nazi sympathiser and it was downvoted. He was! A person mentioning jizz upvoted over 70 times. BP seriously needs to reconsider why is voting even necessary? Reading others' comments I'm finding that it does upset people
Beans 4 years ago (edited)
I mean whenever I think of Ikea I think that their founder was a trashbean of a human, and not a nice person, and that Ikea tax evades like a mf, but most people don't know that about him/them and the consensus worldwide is that they are a company people like and they wanna get cheap stuff from. So it's hard to face that or wanna badmouth ikea. It's like Apple. They are trendy and their marketing is great so even though they practice exploitative business practices, they seem woke etc and they are popular and people want to like them. It sucks but it is what it is.
Load More Replies... ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
Did you know that Quentin Tarantino is a rapist/pedo supporter?Listen to his interview on Howard Stern about Polanski.Then come back and downvote me
Csaba Horvath 4 years ago
Most of them are fun facts, not any thing that should be learnt in public schools. But they are interesting too :)
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago (edited)
TIL That if you look up all the main 6 individual characters from Friends on the right hand side of the page you come to is a little picture next to the character’s name. Click on it and a. Little animation that goes with the character pops up. My favorites are Ross’s (Pivot!) and Phoebe’s (Smelly Cat). Check them out. 😊👍🏻
Manu 4 years ago
Dude that is amazing!!!! I've just tried and it is true! So funny! I wish I could upvote you 1000 times!
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