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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics)
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but what about pandas? We believe that, regardless of your age, you can always learn something new. Just ask the members of Reddit’s ‘Today I Learned’ community! This group, which has an impressive 31 million members, is a wealth of information that’s constantly changing and updating, so below, we’ve gathered some of our favorite recent posts from TIL.
Keep reading to also find an interview with Alison Winfield-Chislett, founder and director of The Goodlife Centre in the UK, and be sure to share the tidbits of information you find most fascinating with your friends. I’m sure they’d like to learn more about why dishwashers were invented and why there are hundreds of raccoons wreaking havoc in Japan!
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#1
TIL about Don Ritchie, an Australian who intervened and prevented at least 180 suicide attempts at a notable suicide destination called The Gap. He lived nearby and would approach and ask “Can I help you in some way?”
OneSoulHero 2 years ago (edited)
And apparently he didn't specifically stop them. Just started a conversation. And he said it was just enough of an interaction sometimes to make people feel compassion and change their minds. A hero among men.
Jojo Armani 2 years ago
A noble deed indeed. Sometimes that’s all one needs… The rest is up to them
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Ginger Ghost 2 years ago (edited)
I wonder what his success ratio was Edit: ok dayum, Googled it, "A big percentage of them came and talked to me.”
Monday 2 years ago
Probably pretty high, depending on your view of success. Most people would give up on an attempt if they are approached by someone, but a large percentage of those would simply find another time/place to attempt again. I'd imagine that if I was planning on jumping off a bridge and someone came up to me I'd give up on that attempt and find another bridge. No need to traumatize the person who came to chat.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
When I was young in Sydney, The Gap, was an infamous place for jumpers. Now you never hear of anyone jumping from there.
Amy Taylor 2 years ago
This is so weird.. just last night I watched a program about a young girl Renae who (supposedly) jumped from that spot after her so called best friend had been catfishing her pretending to be a boy online. The “boy” broke it off with her and she ended her life :(. Her parents found everything out and tried to get laws passed about catfishing being a crime. It was so sad :( but a part of me thinks the best friend lured her there and pushed her since all of her lies were about to be exposed.
Allen Packard 2 years ago
There is a special spot in Heaven for people like this fine person. Just awesome to read. Thank you!
James Tartaglione 2 years ago
honestly just having someone give a sh!t about is enough to pull you back. ive been there too
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#2
TIL One of the largest charitable donations made by a lottery winner came from a man in Canada. Two years after his wife died from cancer, Tom Crist won the lotto and donated everything to organizations fighting the disease. Canada doesn't tax winnings, so Crist donated $40 million.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I, a Canadian, had no idea! But c’est vrai! https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/topics/about-your-tax-return/tax-return/completing-a-tax-return/personal-income/amounts-that-taxed.html
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Isaac Harvey 2 years ago
The strongest and most generous hearts will always have at least some of the deepest scars.
European Citizen (Mike) 2 years ago
There was found a toxin called mellitin I think from bees that can actually cure some types of brain tumours
Pandasizing World Peace 2 years ago
So with all this money (worldwide) going to research, why the heck have they not yet figured out how to cure cancer?
Prosando Peanut (Prosandcons07) 2 years ago
Have you ever tried curing a disease before?
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Alex Travous 2 years ago
In one of the unclassified CIA documents is a patent for the cure for cancer. Unfortunately big pharma wouldn't make any money off of a curable disease.
Load More Replies...To learn more about why it's important to be a lifelong learner, we reached out to Alison Winfield-Chislett, founder and director of The Goodlife Centre in the UK, and she was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. The Goodlife Centre is an independent learning space in London that offers practical boutique workshops in DIY, Home Maintenance, Decorating, Upholstery, Woodwork & Carpentry, Furniture Upcycling & Restoration and various traditional hand Crafts. It's the perfect place to go to learn something new, which Alison says is important to "help us feel vital and part of life. We can continue to grow until the day we die."
#3
TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. To accomplish this, Carter, alongside other American military personnel, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Jimmy Carter is an amazing man. It will be a shame when he eventually passes away (he entered hospice a few weeks ago).
QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
Jimmy Carter is a national treasure. He is one of the rare few who dedicate their lives to helping others and actually follow through with their promise. God bless you, JC. We love you.
Paul Macdonell 2 years ago
i looked it up. amazingly true although the core had already melted down.
DrGirlfriend 2 years ago
I love the Carter's, humanitarian all the way. He's a beautiful soul and even after having a few close calls building homes for Habit for low income families, he continued. Will forever cherish this couple
D Peterson 2 years ago
He is the type of human being we need as President. He was also too good a human being for the job.
Who cares what I think, but... 2 years ago
He became a super hero because of this! Will never die...
Richard Head 2 years ago
My father was at Chalk River, and was part of the team that removed 3 ft of concrete from the containment building at 15 minute intervals. Carter was just one of the US Lt.s that were there to observe.
#4
TIL of castaway huts (or depots) which are deliberately placed on isolated islands by governments. They contain supplies and tools which can help people who become stranded there. Most were built by the New Zealand government in the 19th and 20th centuries.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
https://www.iflscience.com/castaway-depots-the-story-behind-the-shacks-that-saved-shipwrecked-sailors-lives-67963
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VikingAbroad 2 years ago
Not exactly cast away huts, but several countries have small huts or bothys in the back country for use in critical conditions and severe weather. Sweden, Norway, Scotland comes to mind. Anyone know other countries having these, too?
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
Croatia has mountain shelters maintained by hiker associations and Mountain rescue service. Many of them have solar power cells, water tank, furnace etc.
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
They have a similar thing in remote parts of scotland northern england and wales, called "Bothies"
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
TIL, there are free houses that come with their own islands and supplies!
Thomas E S Thomas 2 years ago
Now, at the southwest corner of every island in the world there's a beacon, or a weather station. Just go unplug it and someone will be along to fix it in a few days. Progress in a fully explored world.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
An undamaged tin can basically can keep food edible for indefinite amounts of time
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When it comes to the benefits of learning something new, Alison says, "As we get older we can challenge any belief system that has held us back. ‘I don’t know how to…’ becomes ‘I’m learning how to…’"
Alison also shared with Bored Panda that there's no end to what she's curious about. "I love all materials and processes. The practical methods of making your world personalised leads on forever. There’s always a way to improve what you make."
#5
TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 m underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
This is awesome! I continue to be amazed at the ancient feats of engineering! And then we learn that some of these feats are still practiced to this very day!
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
Have a look at what the ancient Romans built all over Europe and Asia Minor, it is astonishing and a fair percentage is still in use / preserved today (think Bath in the UK), when you consider that a lot of these structures were built over 1800 years ago it is truly amazing. Also, here in the UK, several of the original, arrow straight, roads that the Romans built (Fosse Way / Watling Street / Ermine Street etc) are still in use today albeit now tarmacked and paved and that's just the tip of the iceberg of what the Romans did for us British - one fun fact is that after the Romans left major towns (where they had sophisticated sewerage / drainage systems with public baths for pretty much everyone and local regimes dedicated to educating the locals how to improve their lives, that the English then went back to living in wattle and daub huts with no sanitation and working the land by hand without draft animals, as a consequence, the average life expectancy dropped by about a third !!
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Oliver Kettle 2 years ago
The only thing disappointing about this is how things built thousands of years ago are still working great while something made today will maybe last 2 years before needing to be replaced.
Sandor M 2 years ago
That's survivorship bias , you are assuming that all things built thousands of years ago is still working great. There will be plenty of things built by us working in the future
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patricia patricia 2 years ago
Shhh! Don't say it too loud, or the government's and multinationals will find a way to tax those local farmers for using the aqueducts!
Queen Boudicca 2 years ago
And some corporation will find a way to take the water to sell it to the farmers...
Load More Replies... WonderWoman 2 years ago
We so underestimate the intelligence of ancient people and it is a crying shame.
Max Fox 2 years ago
There was indoor plumbing in India at least 5,000 years ago, and in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and the only advantage that they possibly had was the use of metal tools. Just because Northern, Western, and Eastern Europeans couldn't figure this out until the 17th Century, doesn't mean that this is something that is all that difficult to figure out. The rest of the world figured this out when they started building cities.
Peeka_Mimi 2 years ago
Aztec descendant here, read about what all the Indigenous built. Incredible feats of engineering.
Michelle C 2 years ago
We also have the ancient Mayans and Romans to thank for quite a lot of what we have today!
#6
TIL about Josephine Cochrane, who invented the dishwasher because she was fed up of China breaking whilst being hand washed.
Blurryface 2 years ago
I too, detest the feeling of Asian nations shattering as I clean my food platters. (Sarcasm, lol)
Monday 2 years ago
Ikr? I've broken China so many times I'm sure they've put me on some sort of list.
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OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago
Shout out to Josephine Cochrane. Without her invention i would be elbow deep in the sink about 50% of my life.
Trish R 2 years ago
This can't be, surely there was a man nearby that took credit for this invention.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Who was hand washing the China so roughly? Or were they just fragile?
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
China is fragile. It chips very easily. Sheesh. Ask me how I know this. I've broken/chipped three pieces so far this year.
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A Jones 2 years ago
Cheers! It also uses less water, so they did two great things for efficient chore time and saving water globally.
Cathy Jo Baker 2 years ago
I WISH I had a dishwasher for both of those reasons!
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The irony is that now fine China has to be hand washed. Lots of delicate dishes require hand washing now due to our technologically advanced dishwashers and harsh detergent.
Alison also noted that we can find inspiration for learning anywhere. "I asked myself ‘Why is it called that?’ A little tool known as a ‘Gent’s saw’ led me to learn about the 19th century craft revolution when ‘gentlemen’ tried using their hands like ‘artisans’."
"When we are using our hands to make something, we connect with a part of ourselves that feels like we are home," she added. "There’s no place like it."
If you'd like to learn a new skill, particular one that involves working with your hands, be sure to check out The Goodlife Centre's website right here.
#7
TIL by passing a law requiring pharmacies to be owned by a licensed pharmacist, North Dakota has essentially done away with corporate chain pharmacies. Corporations that own pharmacies must be majority owned by licensed pharmacists.
Paul Macdonell 2 years ago
same in Ontario but chains "franchise" each location. certainly doesn't save us any money.
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
One of the reasons I never shop at Shopper's Drug Mart for anything, but especially my family's medical needs. We've been using the same small neighbourhood pharmacy for our meds for 30 years now.
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D-m Keilman 2 years ago
I use a local human owned pharmacy. Their prices may not be the lowest (but close enough) but they know everyone's name and med allergies and such. Plus free home delivery. I mean~ who wants sick people *in* the pharmacy?
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
In Greece all of the pharmacies must be owned by a licensed pharmacist, their names are on the board outside
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Well, in every state where the legislature isn't a devoted servant of big corporations.
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David 2 years ago (edited)
On the surface this seems like a dumb law that causes customers to pay more. When I had not health insurance and paid my prescriptions 100% out of pocket I shopped around a lot and corporate pharmacies like Costco were much cheaper. EDIT: to not - they all have licensed pharmacists on staff. By law I think. When you get a new script you have to have a brief consult with the pharmacist before they hand it over to make sure you understand the drug.
pineapple87 2 years ago
In Finland, all pharmacies must be owned by a licensed pharmacist, and one pharmacist can only own up to 5 pharmacies. The one allowed exception is a chain run by the one university that does research and teaches pharmacy.
ShellsBells 2 years ago
Not really, but it would depend if the drug is a generic or a brand name. Pharmacies order their medications from wholesalers at a discounted price. If it's a retail/corporate company, they are going to maximize the amount they charge. They also have deals with insurance companies on what they will charge on these medications. This is why so many insurance companies have contracts with pharmacies. Let's say a pharmacy orders a 100 count bottle of a medication for $2. They might be able to charge $15 for 30. If you have a privately owned pharmacy, they can adjust the price to be more affordable, maybe $5 for 30. Remember, they stil need to make a profit. But this can't be said about brand name medications. Let's say a brand name inhaler costs $400 (no joke, I've seen $700+) to purchase from wholesaler. This is the amount the pharmacy will charge the insurance company, there is no profit to be made from brand only medications. This is also why pharmacies hate GoodRx. There's always a los
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TIL that mature bull elephants play a pivotal role in elephant society. The absence of mature bulls creates juvenile delinquency in younger bulls, who will soon enter musth. When mature bulls were introduced into areas with a high concentration of delinquents, they soon put a stop to this behavior.
Mr. Cinder 2 years ago
Sometimes big brother needs to correct little brothers behaviour. My older brother did when I stepped out of line
Gia SDP 2 years ago
I feel like humans can learn so much from elephants. I love them. Super cool creatures.
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
From nature in general. Other animals and plants too
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Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
Musth: A periodic state of heightened sexual activity and aggression in adult male elephants.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
The "delinquency" in the younger bulls includes sexual harrassment and attacking of females. They will also attack females of other large species and even kill them.
Nikole 2 years ago
I figured it was something like that… We’re all just animals I guess.
Load More Replies... Pandasizing World Peace 2 years ago
Wish more human males would imitate elephants and play a bigger role in stopping the delinquency of so many young men today.
Immortal Jellyfish 2 years ago
It amazes me how similar animal behavior is to humans sometimes
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
Yes, the study was conducted because elephants were actually the culprits of some killed rhino in Eastern Africa. They figured out that because the mature bulls had all been poached, the younger bulls were displaying aggressive behavior without knowing how to channel it. Once they reintroduced mature bulls, it stopped. It's a fascinating study of why we need our elders.
#9
TIL of Movile Cave, which has been completely sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years and evolved dozens of animal species found nowhere else, sustained only by toxic chemicals in the air and water, not photosynthesis.
Bree 2 years ago
Very cool! Here's the wiki article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave
OneSoulHero 2 years ago
All these posts should have sources. Thank you Bree. :)
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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
It’s where we mine for politicians. Growing up on toxic chemicals and scared of light they naturally evolve in power hungry and duplicitous individuals.
Monday 2 years ago
I initially misread it as "movie cave" and expected it to be a super popular cave where all those cave horror movies are made.
2WheelTravlr 2 years ago
Ugh...NOT "toxic chemicals". The life forms use chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis. The atmosphere inside the cave is toxic to humans, but obviously not to its inhabitants.
#10
TIL Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime clasts which allow their structures to survive millennia.
Reuben Burdekin 2 years ago
This is a really good question but the simple answer is that the concrete we use now might not be as long lasting as theirs, but it is a lot stronger. Lime is weak and that decreases the overall resistance of their concrete. The concrete we use might seem to be weaker, needing to be replaced every few years or so, but that concrete is routinely getting driven on by extremely heavy vehicles, compared to the horses and carts that the Roman concrete would deal with.
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Teresa Sacristan 2 years ago
The aqueduct in the picture is in Segovia, and it actually doesn’t have any concrete or plastering material at all. It is beautiful and amazing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueduct_of_Segovia
Teresa Sacristan 2 years ago
The stones are just piled up and arches are sustained due to proper collocation and pressure
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Gin. No tonic 2 years ago
Just very recently scientists figured out the recipe of Roman concrete. https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable
VodkaInMySweetTea 2 years ago
I don't know why you got downvoted. I came here wondering the same thing and hoping someone had explained (too lazy to google). My guess is the molds they used to create the concrete blocks (casts) were made with limestone? But... still too lazy too google.
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Nathan Shipman 2 years ago
The Romans new what they were doing! Heck, most ancient civilizations did!
Nathan Shipman 2 years ago
The aqueducts are still in use aren't they? To keep them from decaying?
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Bill Marsano 2 years ago
Because there are many limiting factors to building stone structures (height is one), and even if there weren't, the environmental damage caused by quarrying would be unbelievable. Google an image of a open-cast or strip mine to get an idea.
#11
TIL in 1993 Mattel's Barbie division accidentally released a Gay Ken doll. Despite being quickly recalled, it remains the best selling Ken doll of all time.
The Problem With Censorship Is ******* 2 years ago
How do you accidentally release a gay Ken doll?
magix (they/them) 2 years ago
he wasn't supposed to be gay, but they asked gay men for what was popular...i do not know why. he had a frickin lavender mesh shirt and a C*CK RING! the way it is placed, he is apparently a bottom ;)
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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
Mattel released a doll to resemble Madonna’s backing dancers after asking young girls what would make Ken a more interesting doll. Once released it was then established that with a sparkly shirt, an earring and a gold ring on a chain that the gay community had taken ‘earring Ken’ to heart. Thus he became ‘Gay Ken’. Accidental? Hmmm. Maybe but equally a stroke of marketing genius if it wasn’t, it refocused doll buyers and sold tons more Kens so that’s a win ain’t it? Incidentally if you’ve got one I’d check its condition, they are worth a tad more than a regular Ken.
Lee F. 2 years ago
Is anyone surprised by "toojenderzz" aka 2 genders shiiite comment? Gross. BRING BACK GAY KEN!
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦 🇬🇧 2 years ago
And for some reason they called it "Earring Magic Ken" 🤣 So yeah...on some level they knew what they were doing. Lol Earring Magic Ken is currently the bouncer in my "strip club" diorama.
magix (they/them) 2 years ago
wait, your what?? i need to see that! that sounds amazing!
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
"How Barbie's Boyfriend Ken Became an Accidental Gay Icon" - https://money.howstuffworks.com/barbie-earring-magic-ken-gay-icon-1993.htm
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
TBH I always thought Ken was meant to be gay until I was told otherwise?
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
How do you accidentally do that? What made it gay, other than holding this flag, if the picture is accurate?
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago (edited)
They thought they were replicating what young guys considered fashionable, not realising they were replicating things that were specifically trendy in the gay community, eg the earring. Apparently the result was very popular among gays who collected Barbie products.
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Marno C. 2 years ago
Ah, yes! Magic Earring Ken! Clothed in a purple mesh t-shirt and vest because little girls loved that colour. I am getting back into Barbies now for my kids and am pleased with how there is more racial diversity, body diversity, and recognition of disability. There are curvy girls, thicker guys, black dolls with natural hair, dolls in wheelchairs, dolls with prosthetic legs, bald dolls, dolls with vitiligo.... It is showing a lot of promise.
#12
TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.
Ace Girl 2 years ago (edited)
and her last name, Nyad, means "water nymph." I read her autobiography, she was an incredible woman.
Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
The TED radio hour on NPR talking about her achievements was really worth listening to!
Load More Replies... Shark Lady 2 years ago
I hate that term, I'm glad nothing happened to her as sharks are already demonised more than enough.
Andy-Pandy-Panda 2 years ago
I fully understand that I may be asking a question out of ignorance but, how does one swim any distance in a shark cage?
Dirk Daring 2 years ago
I got some really bad stings on my hand when I tried to get some honey out of a bee-infested hive.
Jessica Cifelli 2 years ago
Well her last name is Nyad. Even though it's spelled different, naiads are water spirits. They are supposed to take care of bodies of water, in mythology
#13
TIL of Dr. Jochem Hoyer, a German transplantation surgeon who argued in favour of altruistic organ donations. After a colleague criticized him for praising "living donors as long as it is NOT you who has to donate" Hoyer donated a kidney to an unknown stranger to make a quote "very strong statement".
alwaysMispelled 2 years ago
I'm a nurse and have been fortunate enough to care for some altruistic donors. One patient donated a kidney anonymously and then later donated part of the liver anonymously. Blows me away every time. These altruistic donors give the most expensive and personal gift you can give to complete strangers. And they're so humble about it. It's inspiring.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I’m a registered organ donor, but also an alcoholic in recovery and I smoked for 10 years. I wish I’d taken better care of myself so I could be an altruistic donor :)
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Stephanie Finley 2 years ago
I'm a living kidney donor! Donated to my friend 7 years ago this month.
Caroline Nagel 2 years ago
I would never ever donate a kidney. If the one you have left fails you are f***ed. When I die my body can be harvested for anything they can use.
Jcusack 2 years ago
Kinda the point of doing a good deed... You do it to save someone else's life. You're not donating a kidney to preserve your life further. I don't think you have found the right circumstance. Glad you are an organ donor at least.
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Dorothy Reiser 2 years ago
My son's rabbi did the same thing. He was honored by their graduating class.
#14
TIL in 1974 the band Ace had their only hit, How Long (has this been going on). The song is not about a cheating girlfriend - it’s about the band’s bass player, who was moonlighting with another band.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
I immediately started singing this in my head. Definitely not out loud though…nobody wants that!
Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago
... and the lead singer on this was Paul Carrack who also sang lead on Squeeze's "Tempted" and Mike and the Mechanics "The Living Years".
PiclleCayk🫥 2 years ago
I'm confused, I have never heard this band, only Charlie Puth singing it... Can somebody help?
Saracynthiasylviasnout 2 years ago
That's actually a great back story for an assumed "love song". Made me laugh
#15
TIL that Nikola Tesla once worked for Thomas Edison but left due to a disagreement over payment for his work on improving Edison's DC power systems. Tesla went on to develop AC power systems, which became the basis for modern electrical grids.
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
Edison was a massive jerk to just about everyone. Tesla definitely was an underappreciated man during his lifetime.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Edison was the reason the modern machine gun was created - He did send Harim Maxim to London to eliminate a competitor in his company. Maxim got bored and developed the Maxim machine gun in foresight of World War 1
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Didn't Edison steal a lot of Tesla's inventions and ideas, then claim them as his own?
Leekier 2 years ago
He had reputation for that sort of thing; there’s a type of American who can become really upset when you point out that Swan Edison was the only way Edison could get round Joseph Swans earlier patent for the electric lightbulb. There’s also a theory (though unlikely) that he had rival film pioneer Louis Le Prince “disappeared “
Load More Replies... Steve 2 years ago
Edison was a giant d*ck who stole credit for other peoples’ work. He is also a cannibal, as he can go eat a giant bag of d*cks
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Edison, along with Charles Lindbergh, Joseph Kennedy and Henry Ford, was pro-German in the 30s, when Hitler rose to power.
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Paul Brown 2 years ago
Edison was a horrible person. He stole other peoples work including Tesla's.
Michelle C 2 years ago
Tesla was frankly superior to Edison in just about every way and will always be in my mind. He may not have been perfect, but he certainly had integrity, and took pride in his work in a way that Edison did not. I don’t recall Tesla stealing from anybody else and taking the credit for their work, such as Lewis H. Latimer tesla himself experienced. I don’t recall him being abusive to his loved ones are employees, which Edison was known to be. The more I read about Thomas Edison, the less I respect him, to be honest, which is sad.
rodger coghlan 2 years ago
Edison went around the country electrocuting animals to prove that AC was dangerous - he once electrocuted an elephant on stage
#16
TIL A slave couple escaped to the North in 1848 by disguising her, a light-skinned black woman, as his owner, and him, darker-skinned, as her valet. She was illiterate at the time, so they put her arm in a sling against signatures and pretended she was sick. An acquaintance nearly recognized them.
A person with a problem 2 years ago
This slave couple was Ellen and William Craft. They went on to form a school to educate emancipated blacks after starting a family in Boston.
Eris Kallisti 2 years ago
They sound really interesting! I just read that she had to dress as a man to pretend to be his owner, so I guess that's why she had to pretend to be sick, to disguise her voice.
Load More Replies... Marno C. 2 years ago
And let's remember that she was illiterate because it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write and that a slave who betrayed such knowledge could be grievously punished. Illiteracy was a way to reinforce slavery by limiting options and making it harder to escape. (Reading maps, road markers, train schedules, etc.)
aiyshag 2 years ago
and that is exactly how so many slaves have had the items they invented stolen and patented by whites as their own. because they could not read, there was no way they were able to read, understand, and sign patent contracts for ownership for many of the things we still use today.
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Moezzzz 2 years ago
This sounds like a romantic movie (with the exception of racism, hate and assholery everywhere). I'd totally watch this. Love always wins
Nash Nopper 2 years ago
she wrote a book about their story - "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom"
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Shameless Hussy Review 2 years ago
North of the US southern states toward states and Canada where, despite the Fugitive Slave Act and slave ownership in the "Union" states, abolitionists were becoming increasingly active and organized.
Load More Replies... Cyndi Moring 2 years ago (edited)
the 'one drop law' has actually come back to bite a few white people who found out. I can think of my bigotted ex BIL who found out he had African American heritage through a paternity test. btw, his son married a black girl!lol
#17
TIL that scientists created a 60 year long experiment in Siberia, selectively breeding wild foxes who showed friendly traits. 40 generations later they were as friendly as dogs!
David Paterson 2 years ago
The really interesting thing about the experiment is that selecting solely for friendliness resulted in a major change in colouring of the foxes involved. Scientists are still debating whether the change in coat colour is genetically linked to friendliness or not. In dogs it is, domestic dogs are not usually the same colours as wild wolves.
howdylee 2 years ago
I read a similar study about cats. How the cats with white paws/belly were more easily detected by prey so those cats had to venture into human settlements to get more food, and those that stayed tended/ended up being more friendly. And to this day, the cats with white tend to be friendlier than the ones that are all tabby/wild colored.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
If I'm in Siberia and someone gives me food and warm place to lie down out of the freezing cold, it won't take 40 generationsfor me to develop a soft spot for them.
David 2 years ago
It seems like the foxes would have to be captive to control their breeding. Seems like just being captive may have played a role. That' plus interacting with them in general cuz otherwise how do you determine they are 'friendly'. Comparison: some wild animals are friendly or not depending on treatment with no breeding involved. Chipmunks, deer etc in places where people feed them and interact with them vs places where they don't. The deer on my property are sort of in between. I don't feed them but I don't harass them. So they are not "friendly" per se but they more or less ignore me when they are grazing in my front lawn and I'm sitting on the porch.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Two strains of foxes were bred. One was chosen from the friendliest pups and produced these "domesticated" foxes. The other was chosen from the least friendly pups and produced a line of foxes that would defecate and urinate when they saw a person, snarl, snap, and attack the bars of the cages.
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Mam cymraeg 2 years ago
I want a friendly fox and a blood hound and not at all cause I want to remake a childhood film favourite
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
I wonder if we could do this with humans? You're a horrible little cretin - no breeding for you!!
tuzdayschild 2 years ago
Some Adolf guy tried this, but he focused on skin tone.
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TIL Impressed with his energy and ability to do the splits, the owner of the Oakland A's hired an 11-year old named Stanley Burrell as a batboy and personal play-by-play announcer. A's player Reggie Jackson gave the kid a nickname, Hammer, who would later become MC Hammer.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Jackson called him Hammer because he thought the boy resembled Hank ("The Hammer") Aaron.
Steven Meyer 2 years ago
Former baseball legend Reggie Jackson later took credit for part of Stanley’s now-famous nickname. He realized his resemblance to another baseball player, “Hammerin’” Hank Aaron, and stated: “Hell, our chief executive, the guy that ran our team, uh, that communicated [with] Charlie Finley, the top man there, was a 13-year old kid. I nicknamed him “Hammer,” because he looked like Hank Aaron [whose nickname was “The Hammer”]” The “M.C.” part of his stage name came from his reputation as a “Master of Ceremonies” when he would perform at clubs during tours with the Oakland A’s, as well as during his time in the military As a store keeper.
Steve Robert 2 years ago
After declaring bankruptcy, MC Hammer wrote a song titled I Can't Buy This
#19
TIL Sperm whales use babysitters. Sperm whale youths cannot dive as deep as their mothers so when the mother needs to forage in the deep the youth is kept safe by swimming with other adult whales.
Leekier 2 years ago
This is bored panda; they alway use random inaccurate images. They can’t tell the difference between a rat and a beaver so you should be grateful they haven’t used an image of a goldfish
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Shark Lady 2 years ago
They don't exactly go foraging, they dive deep because that's where the giant squids live. (Sorry Zara)
Zoni J. 2 years ago
I would like to applaud BoredPanda for not censoring sperm whales. It seems like something they'd object to.
#20
TIL A repairman wanted to get out of work early and intentionally started a fire, causing $700,000,000 in damages to the USS Miami submarine.
Gabby Ghoul 2 years ago
That's slightly more than 1% of the $696b budget that year (2012).
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Shana Hay 2 years ago
My husband was on that boat when it happened and they thought he had done it. It was wild!!! The guy who did it was Casey James Fury and he ended up being sentenced to 15 years.
Moezzzz 2 years ago
He's saying he's not guilty and wants a new trial. From the stories I've read, it seems like he did NOT like his job working on the submarine (having panic attacks, not sleeping, taking drugs/drinking before work), but his boss wouldn't place him anywhere else. I thought you had to be in the military to work there, but I guess it's kind of like here in Texas, where you HAVE to be a part of the Texas Army National Guard in order to work on a military site (like Camp Mabry in Austin). I don't know why he wouldn't try to find another job, though (that was not discussed in what I found). What was he like (per your husband)? And why would they think he did it? (Your husband)
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Erin Ward 2 years ago
Right after 9/11 happened one of my husband's coworkers called in an anthrax threat so she didn't have to go to work. It was nuts. My husband and everyone else working had to get a detox shower and be quarantined! She went to jail
Shana Hay 2 years ago
Yup, he sure did. He was a painter, no need to be there once the boat was burning.
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TIL Robin Williams improv was so good in FernGully the director tripled his character’s screen time for the final cut.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Didn’t the same thing happen for Aladdin? Gosh, I miss Robin Williams!
M O'Connell 2 years ago
One of my favorite tidbits from Aladdin is the outtake audio of Williams figuring out the genie's character set to storyboard-style animations of how the artists felt his interpretations would look. It was released on the BluRay version, but you can find it on youtube.
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Great movie. How could it not be great with both Robin Williams and Tim Curry?
Veronica Jean 2 years ago
This happened quite a bit. Robin Williams became so known for his excellent improv that animators would dread recording him, as he /always/ said things they wanted to keep in, causing them to redo their work.
#22
TIL that we start forgetting early childhood memories at around age 7.
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
Don't you F*****G dare remind me about that during class.
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JoNo 2 years ago
I wonder what makes us retain a small amount of memories from early years, instead of forgetting them. I remember some things from when I was 3.
Ed Brandon 2 years ago
Yeah definitely remember certain things from before that age.
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)
I saw a 4 generation picture , great grand, nana, dad and me. In the picture I was about 10 months old. The picture was taken in the formal dining room of my nana’s house. I described the room to my mom, but from the standpoint (or crawlpoint) of the floor. I won’t go through the long description I gave. Of course now I can put names to the colors I saw. I remember floor tacks holding it down at the connection with the kitchen floor. I described that too, and where the kitchen sink was and that there was a window at the sink. Mom was shocked because she said I was right about everything.
Frank H 2 years ago
It's called infantile amnesia and is set at around three to four years of age. A neurological reason could be to 'clean up' things we've learned upto then and to make relevant and future memories more stable. In neural networks there has to be a trade off between "plasticity" and "stability". Either you learn a lot fast or you memorize for a long time. So first years of life a high plasticity makes sense, while later you'd want to keep things for the rest of your life.
Lauren S 2 years ago
I was thinking it was a bit earlier than 7. Most people’s earliest memories are around age 3 or 4. I wasn’t aware of the reasoning related to plasticity but that makes sense!
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You don't forget them all. But you forget the vast majority. I remember my little brother being brought home from the hospital when I was 3 1/2. I don't remember anything else about his infancy.
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Robert Trebor 2 years ago
I have two non-reminded early childhood memories. Age 4, sitting on the stoop of my house on Long Island watching the other kids playing, but I was in quarantine for mump (only had one side). Roughly same age, playing Giant Steps with my mom and brother in the hall of our house during the winter. Other memories were restored by conversations with my mom and dad, but these two are original.
rodger coghlan 2 years ago
Really early childhood memories do not exist since memories require speech (or verbal abilities)
Lauren S 2 years ago
Is that really true? I’ve never heard that before and I have a pretty thorough education on child development and psychology. Why would memories require speech? Can’t you have memories of images and feelings, without being able to recount words? I can understand not being able to articulate what you remember until speech develops. But at the same time, speech really blossoms around the age that memories start so I could see how there’d be a connection. But I’d say speech explodes at 2 where most people’s earliest memories tend to be around age 3 or 4. Hmm… any sources on this? I’d love to read up on it.
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TIL Japan has become infested with North American raccoons after an anime based on the book Rascal aired in 1977 and caused thousands of raccoons to be imported as pets only to be released into the wild.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
They didn't invade. They were forcibly brought there in cages.
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Monday 2 years ago
I love trash pandas....though that might be because there are none where I live and thus I don't see the nuisance they can be.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I want one. But the closest we have are what,.... meerkats?
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
This. I love raccoons, but would never keep one as a pet. They're wild animals and belong in the wild, no matter how "cute" they are.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
Stupid humans. It's like when the first Harry Potter film came out and loads of people suddenly wanted a snowy owl.
Alex J 2 years ago
This is a little mean, but one joke a rural wildlife center used to do was give a raccoon a sugar cube. Raccoons will wash their food if there is water nearby, and are VERY expressive with their disappointment after washing a sugar cube.
over it already 2 years ago
You should for a recent video (tik tok? YT shorts?) of a raccoon trying to wash cotton candy. Cute & devastating at the same time.
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
Ironically the series was actually about a Japanese raccoon dog, a similar looking but not related species.
Brazen 2 years ago
I just read an article on those last night. Didn't know they existed until then, and now I can't get their look out of my head. :)
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Payback for those Asian hornets that are going to kick down our doors and murder us all in our sleep.
RagDollLali 2 years ago
Are those still a thing lol? I feel like for all the fear of god they put into us about that, the whole story disappeared pretty quickly from the news.
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D Peterson 2 years ago
Interesting the way human kind always makes it worse when they try to find a quick or easy fix. Visit the south & view Kudzu.
#24
TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.
BigFish Artwire 2 years ago
Nor the zodiac signs and yet people seriously believe in them. Same with religions. I'm not surprised, but in a world where not everyone cares about whether science backs up their believes I don't think knowing this would change I thing
Ace Girl 2 years ago
I think about this sometimes and my unprofessional conclusion is that people want a sense of control in the greater scheme of things and this is one way to get that feeling.
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VodkaInMySweetTea 2 years ago
I think the point isn't to scientifically categorize humans. The point is to think about how you take in information, process it and put it back out in communication. There are many ways people do that, and it's good to understand the differences. It's like saying my husband is an external processor (like many extroverts), he talks through things out loud before making a decision. I’m an internal processor. So, I tend to ponder things for weeks in my head & tell my husband about it only once I've come to a conclusion. This used to cause so much confusion early in our marriage - he would say something off the cuff & I would assume it was already well thought out (and vice versa). Understanding how we process information & communicate is important for relationships. I know people take personality tests too far, but they’re just meant to be a tool for understanding our thought processes better.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Had to Google myers brings. Personality types, if anyone else doesn't know.
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
Complete history and why it's BS: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4221
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
Even when I was younger I knew something was up with the Myers-Briggs personality test as my results would change based on my mood that day, and whether I said yes or no to a specific question depending on how I felt. I've been everything form an INFJ (supposedly the rarest personality type in the world according to our friendly psuedo-scientist at Meyers-Briggs) to a warm and fuzzy ENFP.
Casey McAlister 2 years ago
Same lol. I took a few tests out of curiosity and every time ended up with a different result.
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BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago (edited)
The individual components of the Myers-Briggs personality test (introversion vs. extroversion, intuition vs. sensing, thinking vs. feeling, and judging vs. perceiving) correlate with the Big 5 -- the personality traits psychologists use in scientific analyses (extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.) The issue is that Myers-Briggs personality tests combine these traits into functional stacks, making it difficult to control for variables and parse things out the way the scientific method requires. Myers-Briggs enthusiasts also insist that everyone falls into one of 16 personality types, even if the person only has a weak affinity for any given trait. The truth is most people are average and fall somewhere in the middle. For instance, someone who tests as an INFJ one day and an ESTP the next is probably just in the ~50th percentile on all these traits. While some people do have these 16 personalities to varying degrees; they are far less universal than Myers-Briggs would have you believe. I'd be very interested to read a research paper that examines individuals with strong vs. weak Myers-Briggs trait affinities and if that changes any scientific findings.
Mere Cat 2 years ago
I find that one of the big faults of M-B is putting Thinking and Feeling as opposites, when in fact, they are completely on different scales. Same as putting eye color on one end and liking bananas on the opposite... And with thinking and feeling, not only they are NOT opposites, but in many cases, they go TOGETHER. An intellectual, rational person can be (and often is) extremely emotional and empathetic, and someone more irrational can well be emotionally cold, selfish etc. (Not to mention that they put all "feeling" in the same category, for instance, empathy is largely different from "hot temper".)
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RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
It's the same issue with IQ tests. IQ tests show a potential aptitude, not an actual measurable level of intelligence, and reverb further, can be EXTREMELY biased and unreliable, yet people still try to take some and use their scores as reasons as to why they might know more about something they've never truly studied, than an expert with many years of study in the field.
Michelle C 2 years ago
Yup. Carl Jung stated that the way the mother-daughter duo used his work was the exact opposite of the way he had intended it to be used, as I recall.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Myers-Briggs is, like many IQ tests and similar, based on the biases of old white dudes from certain lofty socioeconomic (pretenses) positions. One of my near ancestors basically "flunked" an IQ test b/c he'd never seen a tennis racket. So how could he pass the test when it had questions about such things? Dude was a peasant from Podunk. Didn't even speak English.
Shane S 2 years ago
Old white dudes? I read it was a mother-daughter team who set out to try to explain why their in-law was an outcast in the family and didn’t fit in. The latter may be exaggerating but I’m pretty sure that two women devised this.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
More *used* in eugenics. They were horrible people, influenced by the worst Old White Dude philosophies of their time, without really understanding any of it, all to justify why they disliked an in-law.
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TIL 70% of people in the world do not use toilet paper.
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
So how does one dry one's butt in a public restroom after using a bidet spray? Stand with your pants down under the hand dryer?
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Steve 2 years ago
In a related study, 70% of people in the world do not eat or shake with their left hand
Corwin 02 2 years ago
There are about 4 billion people who don’t. In some places, it’s because of access. People either don’t have money to spend on TP, or there’s none to be had. In other places it’s cultural and they use mostly water (Bidets).
RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
There are even some makes that don't wipe because their masculinity is so frail, they think touching their butt, even to wipe, is gay. It's gross, but also another reason why some people don't use toilet paper.
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Many Asian countries' bathrooms have a shpritzer (bum gun). works better than tp but then, how do you dry your posterior? also, don't confuse it with a wine spritzer. how-to-use...b9884a.jpg 
#26
TIL that bioluminescence in fireflies is nearly 100 percent efficient, meaning little energy is wasted to produce their light.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I remember the very first time i saw one, we were on holiday on Kefalonia, I thought it was a magic fairy.
Beck 2 years ago
The other day we were fishing on the Tennessee river. I have been out there hundreds of times, camping and hiking and whatever. So i know the sounds. Well, I heard this tiny screaming noise for about 10 minutes coming from the bank. Never heard it before. All I could picture were tiny fairies being slaughtered and screaming.
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boone williams 2 years ago
My two good firefly stories (here in OK, we get them in high numbers occasionally) is the time we went to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the park, and they all popped up at dusk as if on cue. Another time, I was watching a movie with the boys after dark before bedtime, and just one managed to find itself inside the house and was cruising around the living room going, *beep...* *beep...* *beep...*
RagDollLali 2 years ago
I remember when I was living in New York and I was feeling really homesick one time. A friend of mine dragged me to Central Park to get some fresh air, and all of a sudden we were surrounded by beautiful fireflies and for one moment I was just a little less homesick and really happy.
Laura Gillette 2 years ago
Apparently, fireflies are becoming less common (in the US, at least) because they don't have as much of the tall, native grasses and shrubs they need anymore. Sadface.
RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
I LOVE BIOLUMINESCENCE!! I wish I had they opportunity to study it more and compare the process in multiple different species. I am so fascinated by it, but have not had the opportunity to do any in-depth study of it myself. It's so cool.
shawn mckinney 2 years ago
As kids we used to remove their 'lights' from the bodies and wear them on our ears like earrings (I remember they glowed at night). I feel bad about that now.
#27
TIL that the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, was banned from attending official Star Wars events because he leaked too many plot details.
still the same farting bee 2 years ago
I was literally just thinking this XD
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Fenchurch 2 years ago
I'm not surprised. He was pretty upset they wouldn't use his voice so he was basically just a stunt man for the voice actor. Tho Darth with a west country accent would have been fun!
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
The reveal that Luke is Vader's son was never told to him prior to release, because he had a reputation as chatterbox and George Lucas wanted that twist to be a surprise
SarahBee 2 years ago
When they filmed the scene, the script said that Obi-Wan Kenobi had killed Luke's father. James Earl Jones then dubbed in the "I am your father" line. I'm not sure if Mark Hamill knew the truth when they filmed it.
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Nacho Man Sandy Ravage 2 years ago
He also did road safety TV adverts in the UK.....the Green Cross Code man
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
He had Initially been in contention to play Chewbacca, but when he saw the costume he refused, as his face would be hidden. He asked if there was anything else, was told about Darth Vader. He agreed to playing him before he saw the costume!
Sonja 2 years ago
That's the same reason why Mark Ruffalo got false scripts. He tended to leak and spoiler storylines too
GlamourGhoul 2 years ago
But big thanks to Ruffalo for "accidentally" leaking the first 10 or so minutes of Thor Ragnarok from his pocket! I was laughing so hard I knew I was going to watch that movie over and over.
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#28
TIL the crews of Apollo 11, 12, and 14 had to spend 3 weeks in quarantine after returning to Earth because of the possibility that they might spread contagions from the moon.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
The actual surface of the moon was considered safe. But the tacos at some of the Mexican restaurants there had been known to cause problems.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
Yes. Cancelled after Apollo 14 when it was realised that there was no chance of dangerous microbes on the Moon.
Captain Kyra 2 years ago
The quarantine was also imperfect, they didn't even manage to keep the ants out. If they'd come back ill it could have spread anyway.
David 2 years ago
This sort of references a post in another thread about a US law requiring quarantine after contact with 'aliens'. This why they made the law - to be able to legally force the astronauts to quarantine just in case there were any biologicals involved. it was just a precaution - we'd never been to the moon before.
April Pickett 2 years ago
It was that "just in case" scenario. Wasn't much probability of contagion or bringing something back, but who wants to explain oops! we have an invasive whatever here on Earth now.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Also interesting: the Manhattan Project physicists went ahead with the Trinity atomic explosion because they were "pretty sure" that it wouldn't cause a chain reaction that would burn up all of Earth's atmosphere...but it was a concern
Shameless Hussy Review 2 years ago
Does this remind anyone else of disinfecting their groceries back in spring of 2020?
#29
TIL That in case of emergency in a railroad crossing, instead of dialing 911, we should first look out for a blue and white sign that has a phone number that will get you in touch with the railroad dispatcher, who can radio the engineers of nearby trains to immediately stop short of that crossing.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
There is supposed to be such a number at every grade crossing (in the USA), but people still try to get their vehicle loose until it is too late to stop the train.
TheElderNom 2 years ago
What you should do is to drive through the barrier, at least over here they are designed to break easily just to prevent cars being stuck, but if you aren't able to get the car to move get out! And I've seen in action that they do indeed break. A young guy on a moped went straight through and landed right in the middle of the track, sun was in his eyes, no idea what was in his ears cause the sound did work. Thankfully, because of a signal error, I was driving slow enough to stop in time and he didn't seem to have gotten any serious injuries.
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Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
Also, in case anyone's wondering. Train dispatchers are like air traffic control only for trains. NS_NOCdispatcher.jpg 
over it already 2 years ago
Amazing. Why isn't this taught in driver's ed? I have never heard this before. I don't plan on tempting fate @ train crossings, but it would be critical info if I ever did need it.
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Checked to see what country this is in and it's the US, so maybe it's time to pay attention near railroad crossings, found lots of info on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/11nufuo/til_that_in_case_of_emergency_in_a_railroad/), which leads to here: https://dupagerailsafety.org/how-to-stop-a-train-with-your-cell-phone-full/ Merta_3880...722242.jpg 
ADJ 2 years ago
In Poland, and by extension probably in most of Europe if your car is immobile on railroad crossing and the barrier is down just get out of the car and break the barrier by pushing it with your body. Damaged barrier cause the rail signals in immediate area to display warning signal "Osp1" - crossing damaged (two yellow lights horizonatlly) which requires engineer to reduce train speed to 20 km/h, which gives him time to confirm visually if there is really something on the tracks.
Sunny Foxglove 2 years ago
As someone who's car was hit by a train, this sign is so f*****g tiny, and not even the state police knew that it was there. I also learned railroads do not need to out up crossing signs, guard barriers, lights, or bells. Each state determines whether or not crossing warnings are required. I live in a state that doesn't require warnings and the week before my car was hit a petition for signs was presented to the city council and denied stating there wasn't money to pay for it. My car was the 3rd one hit in 6 weeks. Luckily, there haven't been any fatalities at that particular crossing fue to the speed limit being extremely slow because it is in the mountains.
Matt Harrell 2 years ago (edited)
If this was true everywhere, then why do stuck vehicles still git hit even after police arrive?
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
A couple reasons. First, nobody knows this. Two, most people don't realize they're in trouble until the see/hear the oncoming train. Three, even if they call, it takes a while to stop a train.
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112 can help too, it just takes longer. But of course this information might be country specific. But an aside, on the new European signal system ETCS the dispatcher can have all the trains in the immediate area emergency brake.
Heather Pobicki 2 years ago
These signs are there, but not large enough. I've actually saved the number on my phone because my office was next to 2 crossings that had the arms and barriers. It was a train horn free zone. It was always broken with what I called a ghost train. Would tie up traffic in that area something terrible. Emergency vehicles couldn't get through. I would call them to alert them of the problem.
#30
TIL The prototype of the Rolls Royce Ghost was so quiet inside that it made test drivers sick. The engineers had to remove some of the noise-isolating material, and create seats that vibrated at specific frequencies to introduce some noise into the interior.
The Accidental Cat Thief 2 years ago
I get this! European super speed trains are so fast and smooth that I get sick. I need me a little shake and rattle occasionally to remind me I'm on the ground.
Mia Black 2 years ago
Now I wonder what this European super speed trains are...I am European without a cat so I go nearly everywhere by train, short and long distances, but I think I may have never been in that super speed train. Though I have been in a shinkansen in Japan. Never felt sick (feel sick every time I am in a car or bus). Can you please name the train? I am curious tbh 😀
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TheElderNom 2 years ago
The electric cars I've driven have an outside noise when you go below a certain speed, 30 km/h i think, since they are so much more quiet than a regular car that pedestrians might not hear them.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
So one cannot sneak up on folks below 30 km/h, but one can stealthily mow them down going like helll? Interesting
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liam newton-harding 2 years ago (edited)
The same sort of thing happened with BMW. Their car doors closed silently, even when slammed. They found out that owners did not trust that the car door had actually closed properly, and would stand there, slamming it closed over, and over, and over. BMW had to engineer a, "clunk" into the closing of their car doors, to reassure the owners that their car was now secure.
KillersintheNight 2 years ago
They've done studies and there's a certain sound or pitch or whatever that people find reassuring. It's "added" in to most cars, although not equally. Vast difference between my current car and my previous one.
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Some cars today are extremely quiet, but have recorded engine noises that play through the speakers.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 2 years ago
Humans need sensory stimulation or we get disoriented and even go insane, when the lack is severe
boone williams 2 years ago
There was an unintentionally funny episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" where he visited a neighbor who built electric cars back in the 70's and the car was so quiet, the producers had Johnnie Costa whip up an "electric car noise" as it drove around so viewers wouldn't think there was a sound recording error
Alex Olinger 2 years ago
I can’t imagine how a quiet car could make someone sick. What about electric cars? I have a 2017 Chevy Bolt and it’s quiet as can be. I love the quiet, smooth ride.
Sinnsyk Jakte 2 years ago
I very much miss my Jeep 2001 XJ because that was like rollin' around in a pleasant thunderstorm.
#31
TIL about Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a medicine used in the early 1900s to quiet infants and teething children. Popular in the US and UK it took twenty years of doctors' complaints before it was withdrawn from the market for being a "baby killer." The main ingredient was morphine.
Owen 2 years ago
Well it'll definitely soothe you for a bit. And then might destroy your life. But I don't judge people's personal choices.
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Shark Lady 2 years ago
What would happen was children were given this so their mother's could work, opiates can suppress appetites as well as making you lethargic, they wouldn't cry as often to be fed and would die of malnutrition. In large doses opiates can also suppress respiration, it's like your body forgets to breathe.
Doodles1983 2 years ago
Doesn’t have to be high dose. ESP if you have reduced lung capacity
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 2 years ago
Then there was Laudanum, 10% powdered opium in alcohol. Used to give it to teething babies.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
When I was a baby, my mom used paregoric (tincture of morphine) to soothe teething pains...as prescribed by pediatricians everywhere. It was available without a prescription until 1970.
Amanda Leonard 2 years ago
Paregoric is MUCH lower in morphine content; it's about 1/10th as concentrated. It was used until the last 15 years or so for diarrhea.
Load More Replies... Veronica Jean 2 years ago
Another fun fact: A product can have multiple allegations against it, but until the trial is finalized it does not need to be pulled from shelves. Large corporations can have a product that kills people, but until someone can gather the right evidence, prove it, and have enough money to outweigh their sea of lawyers, it will remain open to the public. Kind of makes those who don't trust modern medicine seem a little less crazy.
PrettyJoyBird 2 years ago
Agree Veronica. How many of those meds are alwd on the market currently....we wont know till 2050 the effects. Were those parents called crazy in 1970? How many babies had to die for it to become serious? How did info travel back then, took ages.
Load More Replies... TheElderNom 2 years ago
There was also the lovely home remedy of dipping cloth in alkohol and letting the suck on that if they had problems falling asleep.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Morphine, Amphetamine and Cocaine were all legal and could be bought at pharmacies
#32
TIL as a research student, Lawrence Bragg figured out how to use X-ray to study the atomic structure. His breakthrough discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics at age 25.
Adam Jeff 2 years ago
It's actually not that unusual for Nobel-winning discoveries to happen in early life. The average age for publication of Nobel physicists' major work is 42. What is unusual is that Bragg was recognised so quickly: on average, the Nobel prize is granted 20 years after the discovery. https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/the-age-at-which-noble-prize-research-is-conducted
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
he bragged to the jury... (and i'm not even a dad :D)
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago
Yes. X-ray diffraction is now the best way to study minerals and crystals. It is also widely used in determining protein shapes for determining the shapes of active sites of enzymes.
Steve Robert 2 years ago
He then went on to develop those x-ray glasses sold on the back cover of every comic book produced in the 1950s and 60s.
#33
TIL the Japanese turned the third of their superbattleships (after Yamato and Musashi) into the largest aircraft carrier ever built at the time. After four years of construction and enormous cost, she left the shipyard and was immediately sunk by a submarine.
Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
Shinano was handed over to the Japanese Navy on the 19th November and torpedoed by U.S. submarine Archerfish on 28th November. Shinano had put to sea with inadequate support from other vessels, she was underpowered as her boilers weren’t up to full power (some weren’t even working) and she made an easy target for Archerfish. At a shade under 70,000 tons she remains the largest vessel sunk by a submarine. Of a crew of 2,400 only 1,080 survived, they were then kept isolated on an island in order to stop the news of such a devastating loss from being broadcast through Japan.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Super carrier send out without screening ships (aka Destroyers) along side it... what could possibly go wrong?
Load More Replies... Adam Jeff 2 years ago
Reminds me of the 'Dreadnought' class battleships of the early 20th century, which were the largest and most powerful of their time and a key part of the arms race between Britain and Germany. However, very early on in the first world war, it became apparent that regardless of their size, they could still be sunk by a single sea mine or a u-boat, and since such a loss would be catastrophic, the Navy would not risk sending them into battle in most circumstances. They played no major role in the war and there was only one occasion when the dreadnoughts faced off against each other (the battle of Jutland).
M O'Connell 2 years ago
It's also the same reason no navy fields a large battleship now. They are simply too juicy of a target for the enemy. Most functions of a battleship could be carried out by missiles or the air wing of an aircraft carrier anyway.
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Isaac Harvey 2 years ago (edited)
I believe it was sunk by the USS Archerfish, commanded by Joseph F. Enright. Four hits out of 6 torpedoes fired.
Bill Marsano 2 years ago
Literally within hours. Her name was Shinano; she was converted after Japan lost 4 carriers in the Battle of Midway, first turning point of WWII. US naval brass refused to believe she was as big as claimed (unheard-of 62k tons, by far the world's largest) by the submarine capt who sank her. He was credited only w/sinking a smaller carried. The error was corrected after WWII ended when Japanese records became available and proved she was also the world's largest submarine victim.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Ironic that the Japanese, who inaugurated the age of the aircraft carrier at Pearl Harbor, still believed that the decisive battle of the war would be fought by battleships, so they kept the biggest battleships ever built in harbor until the outcome was basically settled, and then the battleships were sunk almost without defending themselves
#34
TIL Charles Dickens had a talking pet raven named Grip, who terrorized his dog, buried valuables in the yard, and died eating "a pound or two" of lead paint. As a character in one of his novels, Grip is believed to have inspired Poe's famous poem, and is on display in a Philadelphia public library.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
So Edgar Allen Poe was inspired by Charles Dicken's pet! I always wondered what was behind it.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
Edgar *Allan Poe. Kim Newman wrote a story in which Edgar Allan Poe is chased into madness by an imposter, Edgar Allen Poe, who claims credit for all his work...
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I_Imperfect_I 2 years ago
Ravens can mimic humans better then parrots can. Crows can do the same i would recommend searching up ravens talking on youtube
Load More Replies... Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Big Poe fan, never heard this story before, outstanding! Two fun links, first the short and sweet version: https://www.ushistory.org/oddities/grip.htm, then the longer one with lots of other links to explore: https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/charles-dickens-edgar-allan-poe-met.html
Nathan Shipman 2 years ago
That novel, is it "Cricket On The Hearth"? It has a talking raven in it! Very very odd animated picture though.
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
This is a confusing post. Whose bird was it? Dickens lived in Britain. Poe in America.
Not-a-Clue-What-to-Call-Myself 2 years ago
Dickens' raven. You don't have to live in the same country to hear about something & be inspired by it.
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Missi Boness 2 years ago
Where do you get plagiarism? Being inspired by someone's pet is not the same thing as stealing a story.
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TIL that South Korea's CIA recruited a suicide squad to kill North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The squad mutinied, killed their commanders, hijacked a bus to Seoul, and were blown up by their own military. The survivors were then executed.
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
No, no, no. They were the People's Front of Judea, not those neo-anarchist poseurs.
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Deborah B 2 years ago
Because "being recruited" is not the same as volunteering. If they followed orders, death was their best-case scenario, worse case being capture, and torture, before execution. Mutiny, and your worst case scenario is execution.
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Kelly Deich 2 years ago
“Escalated”? It *started* at suicide assignation.
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Stephen White 2 years ago
Looks like they didn't really want the job and were volunteered by others who thought it was a good idea.
#36
TIL that the Fahrenheit scale was standardized 18 years before Celsius. The world switch due to the British Empire. The United States is actually using the earlier standard.
Donkey boi 2 years ago (edited)
It had nothing to do with the British Empire. The UK didn't adopt Celsius until the 1960's (and even then not fully), and some British over seas territories still use Fahrenheit. The change was made because Celsius was proven to be easier and better to work with. Bear in mind that the concept of Fahrenheit is based on frozen Brine and body temperature, 2 things that have a lot of variables.
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Yep 0ºB - is temperature a banana freezes, 100ºB when a totally dry banana catches fire
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LK 2 years ago
Feet and inches was standardised before the metric system too. It doesn't mean it is a better system. The same applies to Fahrenheit. I wish the world would ditch Imperial Units and commit to metric. It would make so many areas a great deal easier.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
The vast majority of the world has ditched Imperial, and those of us who haven't, don't realize that almost everything we use is held together by metric fasteners
Load More Replies... Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
Left behind by science moving forward eh? Time to go Kelvin I’d say!
Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago
Regarding imperial versus metric in general. An inch is the length of a joint of the human thumb. A feet is the length of the human foot. A furlong is the distance oxen can plough with resting. An acre is the area that can be sloughed by one man using 8 oxen in one day. The metric system is born from the French revolution 1789-99, which was a rebellion against old traditions and archaic systems. Instead measurements would be based on nature, the eternal laws of nature, not the whims of human rulers. Some of the ideas were too different to get accepted, such as 10 hours instead of 12, or the new calendar and month names. french-rev...784e77.jpg 
Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago
*without resting, *ploughed. Sorry for the misspellings. I don't think you can edit when there's an image attached.
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KAREN 2 years ago
The American accent is actually the original English accent, the English changed it to be different.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I expect almost no one sounds exactly like people did 400 years ago, and then there's the question of which American accent. The are at least dozens. Likewise with British accents
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TIL Japan has used history textbook that contained references to the Nanjing Massacre, anti-Japanese resistance movements in Korea, forced suicide in Okinawa, comfort women, and Unit 731 since the mid 1990s.
Maya Baggins 2 years ago
The only way to not repeat history is learn from past mistakes, so they don't hide theirs
David Paterson 2 years ago
Our military hides it's past mistakes. A lot of WWII history was shredded after the war. :-(
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Olive Harper 2 years ago
"History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase or destroy. It belongs to all of us." (I'm not sure who said this, but they were spot on.)
Steve Robert 2 years ago
The exact opposite of what the Republican party is trying to do by omitting the history of this country's sins.
Robin Roper 2 years ago
And in the US, states are stripping the true history of slavery and it's impact from books, academic courses, and lectures - it's so disheartening.
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
It‘s sad that this isn‘t the norm everywhere. In Germany it is a central part of the curriculum to learn everything about both world wars and our role in it, so especially the atrocities in WWII do not repeat themselves.
#38
TIL beneath the Puerto Rico Trench is a mass so dense it has a gravitational pull on the surface of the ocean, causing it to dip somewhat. The Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.
David Paterson 2 years ago
The acceleration due to gravity varies quite a lot from place to place on the Earth's surface. The famous 9.81 m/s^2 is only an approximation. Since Britain has a high acceleration due to gravity and Australia has a low acceleration due to gravity, you can actually lose weight by travelling from Britain to Australia.
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
That is counteracted by the snacks you can get on the way over.
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boone williams 2 years ago
Our honors physics teacher in high school (back in '90 or so) had a fancy rig to measure the pull of gravity using a vacuum bell jar, a falling black and white measuring stick and a computer-connected light Gate. We determined there was a small black hole somewhere beneath the floor in the back of the classroom.
Steve Nelson 2 years ago
Geophysicists measure variations in gravity all the time with land and space based instruments.
Load More Replies... QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
Either that, or a very large, very powerful magnet was cleverly buried there.
Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
The force of gravity is always greater over someone's bed in the morning.
Richard Nichols 2 years ago
Whoever wrote this seems confused. If there were a dense mass in the earth, I think the water above it would bulge, not dip. And it definitely wouldn't cause a "negative gravity anomaly" (which *would* cause the ocean to dip), it would cause the opposite.
#39
TIL Crypto.com mistakenly sent a customer $10.5 million instead of an $100 refund by typing the account number as the refund amount. It took Crypto.com 7 months to notice the mistake, they are now suing the customer.
LK 2 years ago
With traditional banks, if you receive money by mistake it can be reclaimed. My feeling is the person receiving the money should be entitled to retain any interest gained whilst the money is in their possession.
Monday 2 years ago
Agreed. Sure give back the original amount since it's not rightfully yours, but any interest you've gotten in that time should be yours to keep.
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B-b-bird 2 years ago (edited)
wow, really want to know more :) if i'd be that judge, i'd say guy did nothing wrong :))) edit: found on https://blockworks.co/news/crypto-com-sues-user-after-refunding-10m-instead-of-100 "But by the time Crypto.com realized what happened, the cash had already gone towards a multi-million dollar mansion in the Melbourne suburb of Craigieburn, complete with a home cinema and gym. The women are not getting away easily. A judge has now reportedly ordered their property be sold and for the exchange’s money to be paid back. Crypto.com will likely win in court as it’s a well-established company"
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
And using that money, the customer changed their name and moved to Brazil! J/k
Isaac Harvey 2 years ago
"What's the charge, again?" "The plaintiff paid the defendant more than it intended to, your honor. They request that the money be returned to compensate for their own mistake."
#40
TIL that King Alfonso XIII of Spain,was known as "the Playboy king"and considered the pioneer of pornographic cinema in Spain.He commissioned pornographic films considered immoral and degenerate, including sexual relationships involving Catholic priests, and his passion "women with enormous breasts".
Travis Nelson 2 years ago (edited)
Definitely a creeper. Look at that stache! See “Do the Creep” by Lonely Island
Jaaawn 2 years ago
Why do drag queens have to perform for kids in the first place?
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RU Mymudder 2 years ago (edited)
Can’t tell from the front view if his chin sticks out enough but it’s very possible!
Load More Replies... Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 2 years ago
I believe my most people can get behind the enormous breast thing
QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
Oh yeah? You try lugging them around for a day or two. The pain in your back will change your tune.
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Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
Runs in the family. His grandson is notorious for his affairs until a VERY old age.
#41
TIL there is an official IRS guide for: What to Do When the Taxpayer Threatens Suicide.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
'Tell them not to be so concerned, explain to them that all their problems will go away once they pay their money. Appeal to their family nature by suggesting that their spouse would likely inherit their debt and their children would be homeless with only one parent.' - Probably...
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Step 1. Ask them to will their body parts to the IRS for organ sale to recoup tax losses. /jk sorry dark humour.
Queen Shay 2 years ago
I worked for the unemployment office during the pandemic and we had guidelines on how to handle people threatening suicide. Some would just use it as a tactic to move their application along but all it really did is get police to show up for a well being check. We had people who had filed in Dec 2020 still waiting for benefits in April 2022 for Maryland unemployment
Michael Largey 2 years ago
As an auditor, I never heard of this guide. Probably something for my colleagues in Collections.
#42
TIL In his book The Descent Of Man, Charles Darwin wondered whether human language abilities had started with singing. By studying fossils of hyoid bone in the throat, humans would have had the ability to sing over 530,000 years ago.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Humans have had a remarkable ability to mimic the calls of animals and songs of birds for an exceedingly long time. It's been very useful in hunting.
M O'Connell 2 years ago
Additionally, there are multiple languages which have a "whistled" variant specifically developed to allow long-distance communication in rugged terrain. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030444
Load More Replies... Amanda Rose 2 years ago
Oliver Sacks has a wonderful book about just such a thing. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Highly recommend! All of his books are great.
Adam Zad 2 years ago
In her book "The Decent of Woman," Elaine Morgan makes a very convincing case for the "naked ape" going into the water before evolving into modern humans. The ones who didn't come back onto land evolved into dolphins.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago (edited)
The so-called "aquatic ape" hypothesis. Evidence includes our lack of body hair, for streamlined swimming, and the fact that infants can reflexively swim up to six months of age.
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
🎵"A lion - is gnawing - my leg off!🎵🎵 Somebody call a cop! 🎵" (all credits to Mel Brooks)
#43
TIL Feral cats on Guadalupe Island have been observed stealing milk from Elephant seals. The cats sneak up on a nursing pup and and bat at them until the pup retreats, atwhich point the cat licks up the milk from the mother's teat. Some cats have been chased off by elephant seals.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Elephant seals creep me out. Especially the males. They look like they want to murder everyone.
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
Those cats have balls of similar proportions to the animals they take the milk from.
#44
TIL In 1953, Swanson had 260 tons of frozen turkey leftover after Thanksgiving, so they packaged them into trays with peas and potatoes, and the TV Dinner was born.
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
I'm reminded of the Golden Girls episode where Dorothy wanted to buy her parents a television set. Sophia claims that television is just a fad. Dorothy then quips "Ma, TV is not a fad otherwise Swanson would have called those radio dinners!"
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago (edited)
i see a Golden girls reference, i upvote :D
Load More Replies... ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
related: A special Fox News personality is a heir of the Swanson fortune, but pretends to fight for the common man.
Alicia M 2 years ago
I know I'm just one person, but I never buy Swanson products for this reason. It's a personal boycott because Tucker Carlson is not only the biggest liar on TV, but also the biggest instigator, and king of fake news. I think he's responsible for a lot of the political divide in the USA. To prove my point that he's a liar, he was sued for defamation and the judge actually threw out the case because he said everyone knows not to take Tucker seriously. Also, the Dominion lawsuit has been exposing top Fox News brass for exactly what they are. Money hungry liars who willingly air lies for profit and ratings.
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Josh Schrank 2 years ago (edited)
This isn't true. TV dinners were around for several years before Swanson. Most notably the Bernstein Brothers had sold over two million frozen dinners by 1950.
#45
TIL that shining lasers at aircraft is a criminal offense and can impose civil penalties of up to $11,000 per violation.
I'm.Just.A.Girl 2 years ago
We had issues in Seattle a little while back with a couple of offenders repeating this action over and over. The investigation into finding them was extensive, as I recall.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
Obviousl. Can you not think that it is obvious that blinding a guy who is flying a half-billion dollar chunk of metal weighing a 85 tonnes, travelling mach-1, with 200 lives onboard, is a cool clever idea???!?!?!? I'd give more than $11000 fine for this, I'd give 200 cases of attempted murder and malicious damage to property, at least life sentence, at least, and I'd grant each passenger a right to sue, and I'd pass a class-action from the passengers, plus a suit from the airlines. In my court you'd be in jail forever and lose everything you own for this stupidity.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
It's been a problem in the UK with people shining them at police helicopters, a few people have been prosecuted.
GrimFrosty 2 years ago
i feel like getting caught would be more rare than it actually affecting the pilot
#46
TIL the ending of "The Bourne Supremacy" was reshot just two weeks before its release. Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon came up with a new idea that would cost $200,000 and involve pulling Damon from the set of Ocean's 12. The movie tested 10 points higher with the new ending and made $176m.
#47
TIL the famous Hollywood sign was in a state of disrepair and ultimately torn down for three months in 1978. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner helped rebuild it via a $250K fundraising campaign. He then donated $900K to save it again in 2010.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
It originally said HOLLYWOODLAND but the last four letters fell down and were never replaced.
Jro308 2 years ago
I was always told that the reason they removed Land was because an actress committed suicide by jumping from the D at the end and they considered it bad luck because it was the 13th letter so they removed Land from the sign. I learned later that while the suicide part was true it was after land had already been removed and she jumped from the H, her name was Peg Entwistle.
Load More Replies... Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago
.... the original "HOLLYWOODLAND" was built in 1923 to advertise a housing development.
digitalin 2 years ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted-- you are right.
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Jo Jones 2 years ago
-the letters are made of corrugated metal, which helps protect from rain and winds. --elastomeric coating paint -the letters are attached to steel girders "that extend 13 feet underground and are bolted to concrete." The whole thing weighs 225 tons. -In just the last five years, the Sign Trust "has spent several hundred thousand dollars on security," which includes cameras with night vision and infrared displays - also it’s over 100 m long and one of the most recognisable , therefore precious signs in the world
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Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
First it said "KEVIN'S HOLLYWOODLAND," but no one seems to remember that. PSHAW!
pebs 2 years ago
1.15 million dollars seems like a lot to me to repair such an artifact. Is it made of gold?!
Michael Largey 2 years ago
It's constructed with such stuff as dreams are made of.
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#48
TIL that when Buddy Holly died 6 months after being married, his widow inherited everything but signed 50% over to his family.
Peppermallow 2 years ago
In Terry Pratchetts Soul music, there is a character named Flowery Mistletoe. This is a direct parody of the name Buddy Holly
Jeremy James 2 years ago
I see Terry Pratchett, I upvote. By the way, a "lost" collection of his pre-Discworld short stories is due to be published later this year!
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I just find it sad that after he died, she had a miscarriage and lost their child.
Corwin 02 2 years ago
So she wasn't a total self entitled greedy a*****e like most people are these days.
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#49
TIL the word dumpster wasn't added to the Scrabble dictionary until 2022 due to it being a trademark before.
#50
TIL President Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon named Rebecca. He got it as a gift in place of a turkey for Thanksgiving and Coolidge had no interest in eating it so he kept Rebecca as a pet and had a “White House Raccoon” tag made for her.
#51
TIL a priceless Roman marble bust was sold at a Texas Goodwill for $35.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Well, it was priceless until they put the $35 tag on it.
Load More Replies... Amy Taylor 2 years ago
Right.. as a lifelong thrifter, I’m appalled at how pricey the chain thrift stores are now. It didn’t help that people started doing TikTok’s showing how much they are reselling the items they found for nothing. I have a local one by me fishers you’d get the stink eye for doing that. It’s truly a thrift shop… privately owned and massive!
Load More Replies... Ed Brandon 2 years ago
You'd have to be pretty thick to price something like that so low, wouldn't you.
#52
TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. That is, a male will simply climb onto a female, stab her in the side of her body with his hypodermic penis, and release his sperm into her body cavity.
Henry Russell 2 years ago
stab stab stab stab are you pregnant now no ok back to stabbing stab stab stab
#53
TIL that Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has bred nearly 8,000 chicks annually (around 20 a day) as part of a Chicken Hatchery exhibit since 1956. The chicks are kept on exhibit for Museum Visitors to view for a week. After that, most are fed to animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
Ed Brandon 2 years ago
And people coo over them and how cute they are then head off for a chicken nugget.
LittleWombat 2 years ago
My whole life of going there and watching the hatching chicks, I never ever ever considered they went down the street to become food. This kinda ruins a great childhood memory.
Tom Susala 2 years ago
Chicks that escape from the museum are shot by residents of the neighborhood directly west of the museum
Alecto76 2 years ago (edited)
I volunteered at the Museum of Science and Industry when I was in my twenties in the genetics exhibit. My understanding was that the chick hatchery wasn't a part of the exhibit but was located there because it was too difficult to move. While my stated job was to run genetics lessons for kids, most of the time I was the go to person to get help when a guest saw a chick with his foot caught in the grates. I didn't think about or know what happened when they grew up. That's so sad. All my little clumsy buddies.
#54
TIL that a man blew a hole in his colon by attempting to treat severe constipation with a toilet plunger.
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
article B668, sub section 15, incident number 300. since records began. 20 years ago.
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ROSESARERED 2 years ago (edited)
I can understand the desperation....constipation is s**t, and painful.
#55
TIL just like in the Tarantino film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, Sharon Tate really did have a habit of going barefoot in Los Angeles. When she went to restaurants with a "No Shoes, No Service" rule, she would frequently put rubber bands around her ankles to pretend that she was wearing sandals.
Amy Taylor 2 years ago
Her sister Debra told a story in her book about how they would make fake sandals out of leather necklace strings popular at the time :)
#56
TIL Napolean, who was famous for being short, was actually 5 foot 6 (1.686 meters).
LK 2 years ago
" French inch (pouce) of the time was 2.7 cm, while the Imperial inch was shorter, at 2.54 cm. Three French sources—his valet Constant, General Gourgaud, and his personal physician Francesco Antommarchi—said that Napoleon's height was just over ‘5 pieds 2 pouces’ (5’2”). Applying the French measurements of the time, that equals around 1.69 meters, or just over 5’5”. So at 5’5” he was just an inch or so below the period’s average adult male height." (https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short) ...... Whilst he was a little bit shorter than the average French man, he was significantly shorter than members of the aristocracy and other military officers. The Duke of Wellington was thought by Thomas Carlyle to be 'shortish' at 5'8" (1.73m).
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
He also had the nickname of "The Little Corporal" but it wasn't because of his height.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Napoleon looked shorter than he was because he was usually surrounded by members of his Imperial Guard. The Guard had a minimum height requirement of six feet.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
So I'm taller than Napoleon was? (1.69 m, or 5 foot 5 and a half).
#57
TIL Coca-Cola's Simply Orange Juice is made by an algorithm known as the Black Book. Oranges are divided by source, type, sweetness, acidity, etc. flash pasteurised and then combined with flavour packages according to the black book algorithm to have a consistent taste countrywide and year round.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
Simply Orange has also been found to contain high levels of PFAS, and there is a class-action lawsuit going about it.
Kate Jones 2 years ago
This makes me sad because it's one of the few oj's that actually tastes close to pure squeezed oranges. We have a store nearby that makes real orange juice that is legitimately just oranges squeezed into bottles. You can watch them make it. It sometimes has seeds. It's such an amazing taste that, if you've never had it, shows what a drastic flavor difference brands like Tropicana have. Tropicana et al have this thick, nasty, almost candy taste. And you don't realize it until you have the real thing. I would make it myself but it's such a long process and it takes like an entire bag or oranges to make one glass full. I wish I could afford an electric juicer. It's worth the cost to just buy it from the store. But I can't always get there so I get Simply Orange because it's fairly close to fresh. So to find out they have serious issues is annoying.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
This is true of many products by many companies. From tea and coffee to pasteurised milk.
#58
TIL An estimated 50.000 Irish were made into indentured servants by Cromwell after he took Ireland in 1653.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Yeah, we Irish do not talk about that complete ruthless bastard that is Cromwell.
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
Not just indentured servitude - troublemakers were sold into literal slavery and traded through the West Indies slave economy.
Ginger Ghost 2 years ago
it was at this moment that people realise that slavery wasn't only to blacks in America
toojenderzz 2 years ago
It’s been going on forever and still going on today
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
no, indentured servant isn't quite the same as slave.
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#59
TIL of the 1991 Downing Street mortar attack, in which IRA members launched three mortars at No. 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting, attempting to kill John Major. One hit the lawn 30 yards away, and it is believed that if this mortar had hit the building the entire cabinet would have died.
Steve 2 years ago
They also would have died if they saw the movie version of the musical “Cats”
ОльхаКинг(AlderKing) 2 years ago
that came clear out of left field but i agree
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Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
And it would have improved the country no end - just a shame the IRA never got the vile Thatcherbitch despite many many attempts. The UK has never recovered from her, and her idiotic Tory friends and cronies attempts at driving the 'common' people back into servitude to the entitled arsewipes. Time for a revolution I reckon.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Here in the US, the "common" people attempt revolutions to keep their oppressors in power.
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TIL Mikio Okuda , a farmer in Japan, carefully grows a type of strawberry, Bijin-Hime, and sells just one for $500.
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
I believe I watched a tv programme that Paul Hollywood hosted, and even the stalk was nice tasting.
#61
TIL in 1990 Marge Simpson wrote a letter to First Lady Barbara Bush after Barbara said The Simpsons was ‘the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen’.
Ed Brandon 2 years ago
How can that be true? Surely George W. had been born by the time The Simpsons aired? 🤔
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
She may also not have been aware of a certain trump .....
Load More Replies... Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Any excuse to highlight the awesome site, Letters Of Note, where you'll find Marge's letter and Barbara's reply. Best part of Marge's letter: "I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common. Each of us living our lives to serve an exceptional man." And, ya gotta love this snide comment from Bush's letter: "I’m glad you spoke your mind; I foolishly didn’t know you had one." Both worth reading here: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-always-believed-in-my-heart-that
Rizzo 2 years ago
"America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons." George H. W. Bush
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Dumbest thing she had ever seen? Strange. Mothers usually have at least an acquaintanceship with their sons.
#62
TIL that First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, disliked the Kennedys. Mamie did not inform Jacqueline of a wheelchair available for her during a White House tour. Kennedy remained composed during the tour but collapsed once home. When questioned, Eisenhower's reply was simply, "Because she never asked."
Downunderdude 2 years ago
Off topic - I know. And wrong President - I know. But I'm still chuckling about Theodore Roosevelt about his daughter, Alice, who was apparently a bit of a wild one: 'I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. I cannot possibly do both'.
debor ahn 2 years ago
and why would Jacqueline be in need of a wheelchair, she wasn't disabled
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Gee, I'm so glad we're past the days of bitter and hostile out-going first families.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
I looked at this picture and knew that whole story without even reading it. Her whole being just told that story without words.
#63
TIL in 2001, Disneyland tried to re-theme their aging "Submarine Voyage" attraction around Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but the movie flopped. They tried again with Treasure Planet, but that was a flop too. They finally succeeded with Finding Nemo in 2005.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I'm still angry that they deliberately sent Treasure Planet out to die because they wanted to ditch 2D animation. That pathetic excuse for a marketing campaign was 100% deliberate. (I even remember seeing the lame trailer back in the day and going "ew, not watching THAT piece of c**p").
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TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Both movies are gems, damn I wish they would make a character like Kida again.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
ironically those are the only two disney movies (the disney-princess type) that I can remotely tolerate. The others are so vomitorially nauseatingly clichéd that I can't bring myself to watch them more than once, and that is just to remind mysefl why I can't stand disney prior to these two. Thank darwin they bought out pixar and lucasfilm, now at least they can ruin things that have a higher starting quality.
#64
TIL if you're unmarried when you turn 25 in Denmark, it is customary for your friends and family to cover you in cinnamon.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
If you are married, it's probably whipped cream applied by your spouse.
Nadine Debard 2 years ago (edited)
In France, unmarried women get a hideous hat on St Catherine's day
toojenderzz 2 years ago
It doesn’t mention sex or gender. Let people have their fun
Load More Replies... QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
I bet if they used $100 bills instead of cinnamon, the "unmarried problem" would quickly sort itself out.
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
Thankfully my great grandparents didn't bring this tradition with them when they immigrated!
OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago
They probably immigrated to get away from this tradition😉
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Cecilie Hammershøy 2 years ago
And the same is done with pepper if you are unweeded by the age of 30.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Then I sincerely hope none of us are ever unweeded.
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TIL it is dangerous to blow air into a pregnant women's vagina. The increased air pressure can pass beneath the fetal membranes and into the circulation causing a venous air embolism that can kill within minutes.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
You’ve never had anyone try to turn you into a balloon, eh? J/k
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
It's dangerous whether a woman is pregnant or not! Don't ever do it.
Ed Brandon 2 years ago
File under: had literally never occurred to me to do this. If feel BP is quite rich in such things.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
I feel that the word 'pregnant' is redundant. it is dangerous to blow air into a women's vagina.
toojenderzz 2 years ago
“Woman” is also redundant, because as we all know, only Women have vaginas
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Mr. Cinder 2 years ago
So this is something I now know. I'm not sure how to share this information
Sarah Turney 2 years ago (edited)
Damn I just fancied some air up the old muffin, but alas I am preggo
#66
TIL actor James Marsters took the role of Zamasu in the Dragon Ball Super anime for zero pay, as he felt he had to redeem himself to fans after appearing as Piccolo in the infamous critical disaster Dragonball Evolution (2009).
#67
TIL that in WW2, a Marine Corps Corsair pilot used his propeller to chew off the tail of an enemy aircraft after his guns jammed, while under fire from the enemy plane's tailgunner. The enemy plane crashed but the Corsair pilot made it back to base, receiving the Navy Cross for his actions.
#68
TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of "tobacco angina" exacerbated by nicotine . He was known to smoke up to twenty cigars a day.
Rinso the Red 2 years ago
Let's not forget his campaign for the use of cocaine
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#69
TIL the Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes each year, surpassing sales of Oreos, not to mention sales of all Chips Ahoy and Milano cookies combined.
Shana Hay 2 years ago
And only about $0.15 from each box goes to the troop that sold the cookies.
Minnie Not Mouse 2 years ago
Ok Ex-Girl Scout here. Truth behind the cookies: We had to buy the cookies from Girl Scouts, for about 6 dollars a box. Your troop didńt buy, you couldnt sell. Then we had to sell them for 6 dollars, and give all the money back to girlscouts. I never got anything out of them, except maybe a badge.
Donnie Mc00 2 years ago
why do they sell boxes? wouldn't it be better to sell something else. Like cookies for example?
Michael Largey 2 years ago
For some of us, when it came to those chocolate mints, it was 100% about the cookies.
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TIL "Cute aggression" or the urge to squeeze cute animals or babies is the brain’s coping mechanism to temper the onslaught of positive feelings. Because if you find yourself incapacitated by how cute a baby is—so much so that you simply can't take care of it—that baby is going to starve.
#71
TIL that Roman gladiators were overweight (NOT muscle-bound) and ate mostly vegetarian diets.
Jenn C 2 years ago
Gladiators also werent killed ar the end of a match. They were pro athletes of the day, some had 'action figures,' and their sweat was sold as an aphrodesiac.
Alecto76 2 years ago
Its nice to hear that someone (or something) survived at the end of the match. Seriously, why did they (and some people now) see the death of people/animals as entertainment. Its just awful.
Load More Replies... Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
Harder to hit someone's internal organs if they are padded, I suppose.
#72
TIL that the only sound recordings in existence of someone born in the 18th century speaking, are of Helmuth Von Moltke the German field commander.
M O'Connell 2 years ago
This is sort of a technicality. The recording was made in 1889, and Helmuth was born in 1800. Slightly more remarkable would be the oldest known sound recording (by recording date) made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860, which was first played back by scientists in 2008.
#73
TIL that in medieval Japan, monks attempting to gain Nirvana would put themselves through 3000 days of eating nothing but tree byproducts, followed by drinking a tea that contains poison ivy, and eventually being buried while posing in a meditative state.
Lyone Fein 2 years ago (edited)
It is not about hating life. Perhaps after you learn more about Buddhism, your sense of judgment may change?
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#74
TIL Douglas MacArthur wanted to use atomic bombs to contain China and ultimately win the Korean War.
M O'Connell 2 years ago
The long-term consequences of nuclear weapons were not fully realized in the early 1950s. Plenty of military brass expected them to be a regular part of warfare moving forward, and devised tactics for how they might be used. Thankfully (and also painfully) testing and careful study of their effects stopped any from being used in this way. For some reason development of artillery-based nuclear weapon delivery systems continued all the way until the end of the Cold War.
R. H. 2 years ago
The reason is it's one thing to have something and quite another to use it.
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TIL that several people have been caught cheating on game shows throughout history. One of the most notable cases involved Charles Ingram, who cheated his way to winning the jackpot on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" by having an accomplice cough to indicate the correct answer.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
"Quiz Show" (great movie) covers the scandal surrounding the 1950s quiz program "Twenty One" where the whole thing was rigged by the people running the quiz itself i.e. contestants fed the questions and answers in advance
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I saw the documentary about it, and when you play the audio you can't even hear any coughing. Charles denied it - and the TV company (?) had to mess with the volume controls to make the coughing loud enough to hear over the other noise. But SURE, he cheated.
#76
TIL in 2004, Linda Ronstadt was booted and banned from the Aladdin hotel for dedicating a song to Michael Moore in support of his documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Along with this, bedlam began and Ronstadt was immediately booted, not allowed to return to her suite.
Corwin 02 2 years ago
She was booted from the show she was giving at the hotel there since after the dedication HALF the audience walked out. The hotel stated that "“Ms. Ronstadt was hired to entertain the guests of the Aladdin, not to espouse her political views." to which I cannot really disagree
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
If she had instead dedicated her song to then president George Bush and his tax cuts for the rich, do we think she would have been booted for espousing those political views?
Load More Replies... Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Ironically and sadly, due to her health (progressive supranuclear palsy), she performed her last live concert only 5 years later. Seems odd to us now as every single performer seems to push their own political views on a daily basis, but this was only three years after 9/11, so feelings were still very raw. Of course, pretty much everything Moore presented in that doc turned out to be spot-on, we just weren't ready for it yet.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I've watched most of Moore's documentaries. I think the most egregious thing he ever did was juxtapose a shot of the NRA going, "From my cold, dead hands" after Columbine, when in fact it didn't happen that way. But most people would agree with him these days.
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TIL John Wilkes Booth father, Junius Brutus Booth, wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness to President Andrew Jackson threatening assassination.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
I recently found out that JWB’s brother saved Robert Todd Lincoln from dying when he fell on a railroad platform.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I learned this recently as well. Maybe you're also subscribed to VLH?
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
No really is that his dad's name? Sic semper tyrannus? wow talk about names determining fate. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic_semper_tyrannis
#78
TIL on 1991, when he surrended, Pablo Escobar was allowed to build his own prison. Called "La Catedral", it was built like a fortress, had a football pitch, giant doll house, bar, jacuzzi and waterfall. The guards were chosen by Escobar.
Kate Jones 2 years ago
If you ever want to read something that proves how people with money are treated differently when it comes to punishment, there ya go. I was reading about how Donald Trump might get indicted and they were going to arrest him and there was all this talk about whether they were going to put cuffs on him or perp walk him out. Political views completely aside-- I find it hilarious that rich people get the option of knowing when they'll be arrested and the option of getting handcuffs when the regular public would never get the choice for either. Pablo Escobar laughed at the idea of going to prison- he just bought the prison. He bought the guards. Marth Stewart called it 'going to Yale' as if it was she was 'slumming' it for a while but it was a breeze to do because she was treated like a celebrity. She was given a separate cell. She got special treatment. And it's because they have so much money that prison becomes just a minor inconvenience. It's infuriating.
v 2 years ago
The celebrity criminal proceedings that get under my skin is Michael Vick. He had a federal conviction for dog fighting and after he served his time he was signed back to an NFL team. Basically picked back up right where he left off to serve his time. Any normal person wouldn't be able to pick their life back up like that because they'd be forever blackballed because of the conviction.
Load More Replies... Corwin 02 2 years ago
That is what happens if you have the government and the judicial branch in your pocket and pay them with your narco dollars
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Amanda Jecmen 2 years ago
I think every rich person should have thr accounts frozen if they are being sent to prison and treated the same as everyone else otherwise they don't learn the lesson for the crime they commit.
HoRace 2 years ago
I took a tour of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. The cells are small and bare, but when Al Capone did time there, his cell had a nice bed, a desk, books, a lamp, a rug, etc. His cell was the first one on the cell block, so it was cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, as opposed to the other way around for cells at the end of the block.
#79
TIL the 'Puckle Gun', considered to be one of the first machine guns (1718), had a specialized square shaped bullet to be used against Turks as a means to "convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilization".
Kate Jones 2 years ago
Yes, let me beat religion into you with a bullet. ::shakes head:: Why do so many religious zealots think that forced faith is going to somehow make people believe in something? Faith is something that is incredibly personal and it needs to come to you naturally, if at all. I will always be a atheist and that's not going to change by you trying to force it on me. In fact, the more you try to force it the more I feel confident in my choice and that, if there truly is a god, he's going to none too pleased with a lot of the atrocities committed in his name.
Luke Wensley 2 years ago
Though I'm sad that you have shut yourself off from religion, I agree that forcing someone into it is not morally right, because choice and the freedom to choose are some of the most valuable things to have (I mean this in the context of beliefs, vaccines work and should usually be taken). I also agree that christians have certainly committed atrocities, weather they were in the name of God or not. I do however believe that having rational arguments and debates on religion is constructive, and I wish it could be discussed without dividing people and causing unnecessary hate. (Wow that went longer than I thought it would)
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
What, that genocide is faster with jesus? OR that you need to shoot people to convince them jesus is better? or... what?
M O'Connell 2 years ago
Not exactly... It wasn't a "machine gun" in any relation to the modern term. From a technical perspective, it was a manually advanced flintlock revolver.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
The gun only had one customer who wanted to go on a naval expedition and the british navy refused to buy them. It was meant as close distance weapon against more agile boats. Good mechanical concept though. Forgotten Weapons on YT has a video about it
#80
TIL Studies show that the risk of dying from an injury is far less in the city than in the country.
Corwin 02 2 years ago
Duh! cause you know that hospital or pharmacy at 2 blocks away or 50 miles away certainly has nothing to do with it. Study of kiss my tush.
Kate Jones 2 years ago
And also people who live rurally are usually farming or factory working, therefore doing work that statistically would be more dangerous. I mean this is pretty common sense. I don't know why we needed a funded study (studies? Did we need more than one??) to show that.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 2 years ago
You mean... hurting yourself in an isolated area without easy access to a hospital can have more consequences than hurting yourself somewhere where you're never more than 15-30 mins away from a hospital??? Well I never(!)
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
More people around to help, faster access to medical treatment... What a shocker that such things could make a difference!
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Add to all that's been said the fact that farm workers and other rural residents are less likely to have adequate health insurance.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
The countryside contains things like nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7jZXt9luKQ
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Shana Hay 2 years ago
He actually set a few small fires and kept pulling the fire alarm and it always happened on my husband's duty days (every 3rd day he was on the boat for 24 hrs). They had some cameras that looked like a guy in uniform could be doing it but they did not get a face. We had an upside down mortgage and 2 toddlers in CT, so when the boat when to do the overhaul in Portsmouth, it was only 18 months, the kids and I stayed in CT. Nobody was happy about that, so hubs was 'the angry guy' in the division. We had the house and a car so 'tons' of debt, enough that he might have sold out to 'enemies'. It was crazy. In reality, we had less than $235,000 in debt all in the car and house. They had him and one other guy in being questioned every single day. The other guy left the Navy after that because of all the stress.
Shana Hay 2 years ago
He actually set a few small fires and kept pulling the fire alarm and it always happened on my husband's duty days (every 3rd day he was on the boat for 24 hrs). They had some cameras that looked like a guy in uniform could be doing it but they did not get a face. We had an upside down mortgage and 2 toddlers in CT, so when the boat when to do the overhaul in Portsmouth, it was only 18 months, the kids and I stayed in CT. Nobody was happy about that, so hubs was 'the angry guy' in the division. We had the house and a car so 'tons' of debt, enough that he might have sold out to 'enemies'. It was crazy. In reality, we had less than $235,000 in debt all in the car and house. They had him and one other guy in being questioned every single day. The other guy left the Navy after that because of all the stress.
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