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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New
They say that knowledge brings more knowledge — the more you know, the easier it is to learn new things. Luckily, we have an endless source of information right there at our fingertips, so discovering something novel is as easy as tapping on a few links on our screens. Still, if you’re looking for a reminder to sharpen your mind and expand your mental horizons, the Today I Learned subreddit is here to save the day.
With a mind-boggling 27.2M members and counting, this Reddit powerhouse is on a mission to share "interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out." People there collect precious tidbits of wisdom and continue to share quick and exciting facts every single day.
So let’s celebrate their efforts by taking out our notebooks, grabbing our pens, and allowing ourselves to learn something different, new, and potentially useful. Bored Panda has collected some of the best facts from this online community for you to enjoy, so continue scrolling and upvote the ones you enjoyed most! And when you’re done, be sure to check out our previous posts with more interesting trivia here, here, and here.
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#1
TIL the wolves/dogs used to film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) had to have CGI butts/tails because they were too happy to appear menacing.
AdelaideRose111 3 years ago
"Alright Billy you need to be menacing okay?" "BUTTHEREISHUMANSANDILOVETHEHUMANSOOHLOOKABUTTERFLY"
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
Darn it Fido, stay in character! You are menacing! Menac- awww ok belly wubs, belly wubs...
Lady Z Azrael 3 years ago
I gonna pet the doggo! Come here! Who's a happy doggo? Youz a happy doggo! That's right youz are! Good boi!
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#2
TIL that figure skater Mabel Fairbanks, who was was banned from rinks as a child due to her African American and Native American ancestry, went on to coach skating greats like Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Debi Thomas, and was the first African American in the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
Do you sometimes wonder where we as a species could be if we hadn't shut out the majority of our fellow humans for stupid reasons like skin color or genitals?
Kimberly Lorton 3 years ago
Yep, I do. I also wonder at the amazing hubris and unworried racism that the people in that time period had! I worry even more, how that white pride will still be aired publicly. And that there are still people that hate African Americans Today! They are so out there and they aren't kicked out and banished from being human.
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third molar 3 years ago
The sad part is she had to be exceptionally outstanding to reach it. She cannot afford to be just good enough. Thats the problem with racism :/
Kimberly Lorton 3 years ago
That is probably why they banned her. Some jealous white chick told her daddy or someone that she was rude, nasty whatever it took, to get her banned. And i just bet she felt so satisfied that she was able to do that and bragged about it. All because she did t have the talent Mabel did, and she was jealous.
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Marilyn Ransberry 3 years ago
If she was banned from rinks how did she become a skating couch to these stars? Coaches have to know how to skate well if not to do everything they coach.
PeachPossum 3 years ago (edited)
She earned her reputation and income overseas, then returned to the US, settled in Los Angeles and opened her own school of figure skating. She allowed any student of any color of any income background to study at her school. She wanted to share and pass on her love of figure skating. Though her dreams of Olympic fame were dashed, she was determined to help open doors for young people. She was phenomenal, even by today's standards. Couple of very nice documentaries on youtube about her.
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I want my profile removed! 3 years ago
And then there was the first black Zamboni driver. Amazing what they can do!
Kimberly Lorton 3 years ago
What the F does color have to do with anything? It has nothing to do with whatever racists worry about, they should be more worried about why they themselves don't seem to measure up and feel jealous!
Load More Replies...To find out more about how learning keeps our minds healthy, we reached out to Nate Kornell, Ph.D., a professor of cognitive psychology at Williams College. When asked why so many people find factual knowledge interesting, he told Bored Panda that “it’s crazy to think about some of the things that are true.”
Like how much water there is in the ocean. Or why are there no trees in Iceland. It’s simply fascinating for us to better understand our world and notice how it changes. After all, learning is a constant process that’s necessary to keep our minds sharp and active.
So if you would like to be seen as the most innovative and creative person in the room, just start spending a little time every day learning something new. And don’t listen to the people who say that learning fun facts is a waste of time. The professor completely disagrees with them: “Fun is fun, and if you have fun learning some facts, all the better. But we all need to know more facts than just the fun ones.”
#3
TIL that two buttons in WWII RAF uniform can be put together to make a mini compass which indicates towards north.
Remy 3 years ago
Really? Why do you need more WW2 era compass buttons in your life?
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Caro Caro 3 years ago
Just found this. https://ehive.com/collections/3983/objects/142071/compass-button
Vexorg2 3 years ago
So cool! Many more types too not just RAF https://www.paratrooper.be/articles/escape-compasses/
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Caro Caro 3 years ago
https://ehive.com/collections/3983/objects/142071/compass-button
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Virginie Michaud 3 years ago
Is it me, or is having to rip off your buttons just a little inconvenient?
Laura Mende (Human) 3 years ago
It's the last ressource... You have a compass ith you but if you lose it and the enemy is coming or something similar?
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I was amazed by the silk maps sewn into board games, and real money mixed in to monopoly money that made it into POW camps, but this is even more clever.
#4
TIL in the Red Sea, giant moray eels have been observed hunting cooperatively with coral groupers. The grouper approaches an eel's hiding place and shakes its head rapidly to indicate that it wants to hunt. The eel recognizes the signal and accompanies it on the hunt where they work in tandem.
Munchkin 3 years ago
so... if i shake my head like a maniac than i can form alliances??? why is this not a viral life hack on tiktok
marianne eliza 3 years ago
At spots frequented by dive boats, the morays are very aware of the treats in store. When I dove off the southern tip of The Big Island, Hawaii, as soon as we hit the water, all kinds of critters came out to meet us. The dive boat operators provided various types of foodstuffs to feed the different kinds of fish, including morays. It was magical the way some species would cluster around us waiting for their particular favorite, and eat right out of our hands.
#5
TIL that some urban birds like finches and sparrows use cigarette butts as a form of pest control for their nests. The nicotine in the cigarettes helps keep parasites away.
Susie Elle 3 years ago
No, it's a use for cigarette butts. At best it's a use for the waste that smoking produces.
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Sam 3 years ago
Its not that surprising since the plants produce nicotine as a pesticide in the first place.
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
Actually, cigarette butts poison baby birds. No plants naturally produce nicotine in the concentrated levels found in cigarette butts. This would be like spraying your child's pillow with insecticide..
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Doesn't mean you should just throw away the butts, they are very toxic.
Matt Ang 3 years ago (edited)
pros and cons of smoking Pros: Saves the birds Cons: The after-smell on your clothes, furniture, car, house, etc.-- The smell of smoke in your hair and on your skin. Overflowing ashtrays, ashes, and dust everywhere. Burnt holes in car upholstery and on clothes. Tar build-up on windows and furniture. Late-evening/middle-of-the-night trips to purchase cigarettes. Going out in bad weather to smoke alone. Spending money on cigarettes. Not being able to breathe properly. A constant nagging cough. Phlegm, throat-clearing, losing your voice mid-sentence. Painful heartburn. Feeling winded after mild activity. Severe throbbing headaches, occasional migraines. Lingering colds and bronchitis. Racing heartbeat, sweating. Increased rate of hypertension. Dizziness after smoking too fast or having too many cigarettes. Nausea from smoking too much. Trembling hands and fingertips. Dry mouth and constant feelings of thirst. Stinging feel.
Samuel Pelatan 3 years ago
Don't forget addiciton and the stigma you actively propagate, thanks
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I want my profile removed! 3 years ago
They will grab a poo shaped like a twig. They also will use bubblegum. They really don't know and you didn't learn anything today!
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago (edited)
Actually, cigarette butts poison baby birds.
Load More Replies...Absorbing tidbits of information that feed our curiosity is rewarding, motivating, and generally makes life more exciting. “Factual knowledge is the foundation,” Kornell added. “We build progress and creativity on top of it.”
Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., a professor and author of Learn Like a Pro, agrees with this line of thinking. In a previous interview, she said that “your new knowledge serves as a sort of mental trellis that allows new neurons to survive, thrive, and grow. If you’re not engaged in learning, your new neurons, instead of nestling into your neural lattice, will wither and die. And you can find yourself becoming less flexible in your thinking as you increasingly rely on older neurons.”
#6
TIL that by 400 BC, Persians had developed Yakhchal, Ancient Refrigerators capable of storing solid ice in the summer in the desert.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
The ice was brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts, and stored in a Yakhchal, or ice-pit. These ancient refrigerators were used primarily to store ice for use in the summer, as well as for food storage, in the hot, dry desert climate of Iran. The ice was also used to chill treats for royalty during hot summer days and to make faloodeh, the traditional Persian frozen dessert. https://eartharchitecture.org/?p=570
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
We need to be building houses like this. I live in Florida, where the heat and humidity make life difficult in the summer. Having a home that could stay naturally cool would be a huge benefit to the environment.
Vicky Zar 3 years ago
Passive houses exist. There are lots of them in Germany. But our houses are build with bricks, not wood. We insulate and our heating system is vastly different from yours.
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AMaureen Dance 3 years ago
I live in Toronto, and I'm sure I've seen structures like this in the city. Never knew what they were for, though.
Customer1234 Doe098765 3 years ago
And I thought this was video game jibberish guess I was wrong won't be the first or last time
#7
TIL that Michigan police once rounded up a group of local drug dealers by inviting them to the fake wedding of two of the dealers' regular customers, who were really undercover police officers. The arrests got underway after the band (also undercover police officers) played "I Fought the Law".
Mazer 3 years ago (edited)
New York City police officers were getting bogged down by the sheer number of warrants they were trying to serve. Knowing human nature for what it is, they invited a couple hundred bad guys to an event to get a free television set. The police department even had a disclaimer on the cards so they could not be accused of entrapment. Every single one of the bad guys showed up and were served…no tv, sorry.
Melanie Rose 3 years ago
Police have also gotten people with warrants by sending letters saying they won money and when they showed up, they arrested them.
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LangiStudios 3 years ago
I remember watching a show about this. One of the band members had a shirt with "SPOC" on it and someone pointed out that it was "cops" spelled backwards. The response? It was an abbreviation for "Someone Protect Our Crops". 🤣
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I saw something similar on a show about police in action. They invited people with outstanding warrants to an event where they were promised a chance to win a Hawaiian vacation.
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Time2Roll86🇺🇦 3 years ago
Some of the drug dealers requested the song Breaking The law By Judas Priest
Laura Jackson 3 years ago
As long as there was no retaliation ceremony with the undercover cops being cut down after a moving rendition of "I Shot the Sheriff".
#8
TIL that during his time as the narrator for the US version of the first four seasons of the children's TV show Thomas the Tank Engine, George Carlin spoke his lines to a teddy bear in the booth because he was nervous about performing without an audience.
𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢 ℜ𝔞𝔢𝔑 3 years ago
You took the words right out of my mouth- AND head, Ember! ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) Lol! ❤️️
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Me too. Saw one of his last shows before he passed
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Sheila Harper 3 years ago (edited)
Back in the 70's i was looking for a place to study on the campus of the U of Miami, opened a classroom door and inside was George Carlin practicing his act in a room of random students
RadiatorAnkleSpider 3 years ago
I could see George Carlin doing that. He was a great narrator on TTTE.
Virtually any kind of new learning helps keep our brains fresh — whether it’s bringing back our old rusty skills, studying a new language, or taking up a new hobby or sport. And since we have the internet at arm’s reach, picking up new facts is a great way to increase our intelligence. It “gives us incredible opportunities to learn from some of the best teachers in the world,” Oakley added.
#9
TIL the mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman who was kidnapped at age 9 & assimilated into the tribe. She later married a chieftain & bore him 3 children before she was found at age 33 & returned to her bio-family. She never accepted white society & committed suicide by starvation.
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
"White society" kidnapped her at age 33 and apparently wouldn't let her return to her husband and children.
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
But she was originally kidnapped from white people by native Americans at 9 years old. So she didn’t have much of a choice but to marry and have children with whomever they chose
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Rhiannon Edge 3 years ago
historically european women would join native tribes...because with the natives they would experience equality for the first time. with their fellow europeans they were property and so were their children. with the natives they were human beings and thier children as well....natives respected childhood...europeans had kids working in factorys to "pay their keep" for over 100 years. why do you think that changed? who influenced that? a lot of history is slanted to make europeans the civilized leaders of humanity. which is not true.
Kimberly Lorton 3 years ago
Tell it honey! I am standing right beside you there!
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
They took her away from her actual family and what seemed to be a happy life causing her to commit suicide....that's horrible.
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
I’ve a 2 volume bound genealogy of my paternal grandmother’s line and it includes some stories. One of my female ancestors was kidnapped by Indians during the Indian wars, taken to Canada, and adopted by the tribe. Her husband tracked her down, recaptured her, and brought her back to New York. She stuck around for a year or so, then escaped & went back to Canada and rejoined the tribe. Her story fascinated me as a child. She’s still my hero.
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
There's a similar story here in Canada too--Hudson. Kidnapped woman returned to her white family, and she escaped back to, I think, the Mohawks (I think). Many indigenous communities were matrilineal. Women had much more freedom and respect than in European communities.
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Eppe 3 years ago
Imagine this scenario. A 9 year old girl was kidnapped by white men and kept in captivity for 24 years. She married one of the men and had 3 children by him. When she was finally rescued and returned to her family she was so used to living in captivity that she wanted to return to her captors and ultimately commited suicide. Anyone in their right mind would agree the white men are the bad guys here. But because she was kidnapped by natives it's somehow more noble?
John Edgar Werner Philips 3 years ago
All abductors suck! But as a 33 year old she should have had the right to choose. They separated her from her children, that's got to be devastating. She starved herself to death in protest. Can you imagine starving yourself to death? Do you know how long that takes? That's not a spur-of-the-moment jump-off-a-bridge situation.
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Justin Kerr 3 years ago
They had been looking for her since she disappeared at age 9...
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TIL that the Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
I'm sure they could find some other fishing related content for Jeremy to do. I found him to be very respectful and insightful. Although one episode got me riled up a bit. He was in Australia doing a doco called Dark Waters. In the episode he caught a carp and then released it. They are a HUGE problem to our ecosystem and are in fact illegal to throw back. So I don't know how he didn't get into trouble or fined for it.
Monday 3 years ago
The show probably did get fined but they likely preferred paying the release fine rather than having a flood of angry fans calling and berating them for killing a fish.
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RadiatorAnkleSpider 3 years ago
How about Ocean Monsters, or Lake Monster… how about just plain old Monster?
Orange Is Aging 3 years ago
essentially every KNOWN exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
He needs to start sea fishing. I think he may have done a season of that but then Covid happened. Don't quote me though.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
He did. Jeremy Wade is a catch and release fisherman.
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TIL the crawfish farming industry in Louisiana grew after rice farmers began breeding them in their rice fields. They realized that they could farm crawfish throughout the year without it affecting their rice. It also served as an extra source of income for them.
Carol Emory 3 years ago (edited)
Indonesian countries do a similar thing. Fish are put in the rice paddies to protect the water from parasites like mosquito larvae. They also fertilize the rice and help with higher yields. At harvest time, the farmers also get the added benefit of fish to be served with the rice.
IDK_Something 3 years ago
Yes! "It also serves as a filter to remove sediment and ammonia from the water, leaving the water cleaner. Simultaneously, crawfish simultaneously, crawfish eat insects in the paddy, leading to less use of pesticides and crawfish feces act as fertilizers to stimulate paddy growth." Direct excerpt from - https://www.longdom.org/open-access/breeding-crayfish-in-paddy-fields-a-big-economic-boost-for-farmers.pdf
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Memere 3 years ago
Very cool! And I'm heading down to New Orleans this week - really hoping to get in on a crawfish boil while I'm there!
Michael Sanders 3 years ago (edited)
Oh Oh I forgot. Download the Crawfish App. Yes it’s a thing. You can look up by your location where are the best places to get them near you. It also will tell you what they are charging per pound and how big they are. Down in the quarter they charge a nut for them because of the tourists. Damn I’m getting crawfish today.
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Allen Lavine 3 years ago
As someone born and raised in Louisiana do not ever say that again not crawdads not mudbugs and dame sure not miniature lobsters
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Still, even if the internet is a good tool that can quickly assist us in our journey, some information there is false and should be taken with a pinch of salt, Kornell argued. “Always be skeptical,” he said. “Try to see if it’s a reputable source.”
“Fact-checking is important because anyone can say anything on the internet and you want to know that the information you consume is grounded in reality,” Daniel Markuson, a cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, previously told Bored Panda. “A general rule of thumb is to make sure that your news comes from established, well-known sources. These outlets get their information straight from primary sources and must uphold their reputation,” the expert added.
#12
TIL that during a murder trial in 1994 an English jury got drunk and consulted an Ouija board to determine the killer. This led to a retrial.
AW 3 years ago
The "original" suspect was found guilty for double murder again, after the retrial
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StarmanWaitingInTheSky 3 years ago
This is what happens when inexperienced, random people are forced to do jury duty. Why give us the delicate responsibility to take it seriously when all anyone wants to do is get it done and go home.
RedMarbles 3 years ago
Unfortunately it's probably an essential part of a successful democracy with the alternatives being worse.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Apparently the 90s was a rocking time for the English court system.
Mazer 3 years ago
The report quoted the youngest member of the jury, 24-year-old Adrian, who said four jurors had tried to consult the spirits of the dead while locked overnight in Brighton's Old Ship Hotel. As the other jurors slept, the small group sat on the floor around a crude Ouija board they had made from a piece of paper and a hotel room wine glass.
#13
TIL that smokers whose insula got damaged after a stroke were able to quit smoking easily one day after the stroke, with no relapse and urges, suggesting that this brain region might play a role in nicotine addiction.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
My Gran started smoking when she was about 9. At around 80 she suddenly just stopped for no particular reason, just stopped with zero side effects. Thus now makes me wonder if something like this happened to get and somehow went unnoticed. I mean, she went from being a really heavy smoker to nothing overnight - she was already very frail and basically bed bound - but I always thought it was odd (in a good way of course)that she stopped so suddenly without any cravings/withdrawals etc
Kindlovinghumble 3 years ago
My grandma smoked since she was super young too. She now has Alzheimer's (she's in her 80's) and we had to make her quit smoking so we could move her into a safe, 24/7 care home. We worried how she would feel but it took her about 1 day and she never remembered she smoked. No side effects either. I then read an article stating pathology studied from passed away AD sufferers showed the insular was heavily damaged and this is most likely why she wasn't affected by quitting.
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Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
7 years ago mu dad had stroke and stopped smoking. Like he literally forgot he smoked for 50 years before that. He smoked a pack and a half a day. He was smoke free for 4 years before complications from MS took his life. He's been gone 3 years now and I miss him every day
Rachknits 3 years ago (edited)
The insular is important for regulating emotions so this makes sense as people can use drugs to help regulate their mood. I wonder how stroke survivors with damaged insulars were emotionally.
Sarah Luna 3 years ago
I had a stroke in 2015 because of a brain aneurysm and the ONLY thing I could think about while I was in the hospital was when I could have a cigarette again. I guess that's one part of my brain that wasn't damaged.
Marilyn Ransberry 3 years ago
My mother in law never smacked again after suffering a brain bleed . I always wondered why she never even asked for a cigarette
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I smoked for three years, from age 18 to 21, then just stopped and never smoked again. I’m 61 now, and have zero interest in cigarettes. I’ve also discovered I do not have an addictive personality. I’ve tried stuff other people easily become addicted to (not drugs or anything destructive—-I’m not an adrenaline junkie, plus I’m interested in totally f*****g my life up and dying young). Not that I don’t have things I like to do, it’s just that they aren’t addictive, or particularly dangerous. And I have never thought of being pretty much immune to addiction as a bad thing. It has kept me out of trouble.
Erica Ventura 3 years ago
I quit using chantix, which blocks nicotine receptors in the brain. Those same receptors could be affected by a stroke.
#14
TIL that In 2015, that a three-story tall lamp post became so corroded by urine that it snapped and fell over, crushing a nearby car.
Hseed 3 years ago
The owner of that car was pissed. Ok, goodbye, have a nice day, I'll close the door from the outside.
AJ 3 years ago
Same happened near where I live. Literally every dog left their message on the same light post for years.
Ben Steinberg 3 years ago
If I had to guess, since this took place in the San Francisco, it probably wasn't dog urine...
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I'd be pissed if piss cause this,but how much piss was piss for this to make this list
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I honestly didn't think I would ever read this sentence, but now we're here.
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 3 years ago
Did rain not play an opposite effect? Apparently not. Damn.
So, remember that you can easily look into the author and make sure that what they’re saying is, in fact, true. And once you do, don’t be shy and dive deep into the world of knowledge. “Most people reach a point where they think they’re good enough, so they stop learning and improving,” Kornell added. “Don’t stop if you want to get to the top!”
#15
TIL Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young stole a pickup truck in order to get to Woodstock to play their sets.
Kindlovinghumble 3 years ago
Backstory as told by Neil: As it turns out, the charter plane I was on with Jimi Hendrix flew into the wrong airport. We were supposed to be picked by a helicopter. The roads were jammed and there was nobody at the airport, so we had no way to get to the concert.” He then added: “So we’re standing at the airport with Melvin Belli [an attorney] trying to figure out what to do. And Melvin Belli steals this pickup truck parked at the airport. So it’s the three of us in this stolen pickup truck trying to get to the Woodstock concert to play—Jimi, Melvin and me. That’s what I really remember about Woodstock.”
IDK_Something 3 years ago
That's pretty funny, crime aside. I can only imagine being the owner of the truck and finding out who/what/where/why it was stolen 🤣
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Donna Crowe 3 years ago
I had a friend go. He didn't last a day due to all the mud. Woodstock was 35 miles from my home at the time. I refused to go. One NYE at Times Square cured me of EVER setting foot near a crowd of more than 10 people. NOPE AND H___ NOPE.
Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
TBH I wouldn't even be mad to know my car was stolen by Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
When my Auntie Eileen died, her four sons, my lovely cousins, all turned up in different ways. David came on his own steam, Christian came handcuffed between two coppers and Mark and Matt came in a stolen car, as their motor broke down. What can I say? They loved their mum.
#16
TIL that dingoes were brought to Australia by humans around 4,000 years ago, and are actually an ancient breed of domestic dog.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
The origins have been traced back to South East Asia and are believed to be an ancient breed of domestic dog. Now they are considered native to Australia and are important to our wildlife as they kind of replace our extinct thylacine as the big apex predator. After that it's the Tasmanian devil.
Paul C. 3 years ago
Foxxy! Come on, everything in Australia, is an apex predator! :-)
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Shifting Shadows 3 years ago
Did you know dingoes swivel their heads about 180 degrees and have dingoes have rotating front paws.
Thee8thsense 3 years ago
Had the chance to play with one that was a pet of someone I knew. It was very hyper and wanted to play, play, play. I threw a piece of chopped off 2 x 4 thinking it would chase it and bring it back, but it proceeded to chew the thing to smithereens. It was a very beautiful, affectionate animal though.
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
They have a mean streak though we had one and she was rude as all get out. But a beautiful and fun doggo.
#17
TIL about Operation Meetinghouse - the single deadliest bombing raid in human history, even more destructive than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. On 10 March 1945 United States bombers dropped incendiaries on Tokyo. It killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed 267,171 buildings.
BorPand8 3 years ago
The US and its allies dropped over 7.5 millions tons of explosives on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Vietnam war -- about 3.5 times the amount the Allies dropped in total during WW2 (including the nukes).
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Marilyn Ransberry 3 years ago
The radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki went on to kill many many thousands more over the years from radiation burns and cancer.
Ophelia Butz 3 years ago (edited)
Why was I never taught this in school? I didn't live in the most open-minded neighborhood, but this is really important!
Andy Hinds 3 years ago
It may not have been on the school history curriculum but it is common knowledge if you have the interest to read up on stuff.
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Tony Berna 3 years ago
Admiral Yamamoto who was told he had to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor was fearful that in attacking the US, it would awaken a sleeping giant with terrible resolve.
marianne eliza 3 years ago
But it still didn't convince Japan to surrender. They were going to fight to the last man/woman/child.
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
This bombing, and that Japanese reaction to it, were instrumental in the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima And the first one still wasn't enough to convince Japan to surrender. That didn't happen until the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Then-Japan was very different from now-Japan. And you cannot forget the unlawful imprisoned Japanese Americans in WWII either. A very complicated and fuxxed up time.
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Ross Anderson 3 years ago
My Father was a Naval pilot during WWII in the Pacific. Even he stated on several occasions that using atomic bombs on Japan was simply a test run for the validity of nuclear warfare. Japan was cut off from every supply needed to wage war. In fact, Truman was afraid that Japan would surrender before the bombs were ready.
#18
TIL Oreo has to call the white center "creme" instead of "cream" because the FDA does not allow manufacturers to use the word "cream" to describe a food that contains no cream at all.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
They are also vegan friendly. EDIT- they are vegan friendly for those that aren't too strict and will eat things that "may contain traces of milk, eggs etc" or the fact they use bone char in the manufacturing process. I do know a few vegans that still eat them though.
Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
I notice that McDonalds are now calling their butter "Liquid Vegetable & Dairy Fat Blend". I'm surprised they've got away with it this long (UK).
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
Aaaalllsoooo, Oreos used to be the generic brand to the generic brand we all know hydrox (hydroxy?) but Oreos were an instant hit and tasted much better so they ended up being the "name brand" and Hydrox was / is now the "generic" brand.
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
And they shouldn't. If there's no real cream, using "cream" would be false advertising.
#19
TIL in 2015 an Australian woman put a bet on a horse at 100-1 and won $825, she then took a selfie with the winning bet slip, posted it to Facebook, somebody saw it and put the barcode into an automated betting machine and stole her winnings.
Brendan Roberts 3 years ago
Well, she supported an event that allows people to whip horses until they bleed, and also puts horses at risk of injury that leads to euthanasia. So I couldn't give two shits about her lost winnings.
kasei10 3 years ago
Don't think you get an award for just being an idiot, maybe president of the US if you're lucky...
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Collect your winnings BEFORE taking a selfie. And for the love of all that's holy, COVER UP sensitive information!
#20
TIL that two dim stars from the Big Dipper served as an ancient eye test. If you had lived in the time of the early Romans and could see them, you would have been eligible to be an archer in the Roman army.
Matt Ang 3 years ago
What-- that must have been easier than reading font size 4 letters 10 ft away!
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Ikr! I always struggle with those charts. I remember the first one I did the first letter was E and I somehow got to Z. That's when my mom realized how badly I need glasses.
Load More Replies... Lady Z Azrael 3 years ago
I would have massively failed. Can't even see the big E on an eye chart
Louise Stange-Wahl 3 years ago
LOL Lady Z--in 2017, I was diagnosed with hereditary AMD. All of a sudden the letters on traffic signs looked like the letters were bleeding...really! I was diagnosed in 2017. I have to get shots in my eyes to keep it under control and protect what vision I have. I would have to say "What target?" to the Roman archery recruiter!
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Kevin Bates 3 years ago
Also there is a binary star in Orion that was used by the Middle Eastern peoples in ancient times
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
I think that this might have been the Mizar binary in the middle of the tail- the first star is easily visible, the second is quite faint
#21
TIL: Robin Williams autopsy revealed he had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout his entire brain and brainstem from Lewy body disease (LBD).
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago (edited)
Just leaving this here for those who were curious like me: “Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a disease associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. These deposits, called Lewy bodies, affect chemicals in the brain whose changes, in turn, can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behaviour and mood.” There is no cure :( RIP Robin
Load More Replies... Laura Henderson 3 years ago
That poor, wonderful man. No wonder he suffered with severe depression.
Thee8thsense 3 years ago
I live near to where Robin did, and on the freeway that passes through the county, there is a tunnel which had been called the "rainbow" tunnel. Following his passing, it was renamed the "Robin Williams" tunnel, and I think of him with a mix of gratefulness and sadness whenever I drive through it.
Catherine Brady 3 years ago
Unfortunately, many people with Lewis body dementia are misdiagnosed as Alzheimers. The successful use of the proper medications can add 4-5 years of pleasurable life. They aren't a cure, but prolong quality of life. Those misdiagnosed are deprived of this opportunity.
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Caro Caro 3 years ago
It's terrible. Like dementia, ALS and Parkinson together. It's so cruel you have no idea.
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#22
TIL Wild Rodents Will Run on Mouse Wheels if You Leave Them in the Woods.
Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago
Omg!!! Now im buying a load of hamster wheels and putting them in my garden for the field mice to play on 😂 🐭
BukkitBrownie 3 years ago
Thats a cute idea!! Just make sure they are big enough of wheels!!
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J. F. 3 years ago (edited)
Rodents that live in the wild use running wheels for pet rodents if they find one in the forest
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Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
One of my fave memories as a teen was waiting for the bus after work around 1am in surfers paradise, the metal bins had these honeycomb patterns around them and the adorable mice would come out and play, racing around, weaving in and out of each circle, up and down the bin, it was sweet.
Mazer 3 years ago
I witnessed a skunk playing with a family of gray foxes, blew my mind. Glad I had someone with me. Also gray foxes will stash stinky carcass remains in trees to protect the tasty foul smelling tidbits from other predators….that awful smell on the trail was not your hiking partner.
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Pet mice and hamsters are often given exercise wheels on which to run. Someone has discovered that they will also run on them in the wild. This indicates that there is a “fun” factor involved in their running, since in the wild they can choose to do whatever they like.
Load More Replies... I want my profile removed! 3 years ago
Don't leave your mice in the woods if you don't want this to happen.
Christina B 3 years ago
Have to admit I'd run in a hamster wheel if I saw one in the woods too...
#23
TIL that In 2010, a black Nigerian couple living in London gave birth to a white, blond haired & blue eyed baby that they called 'The Miracle Baby'.
Mimi La Souris 3 years ago
what amazes me the most is the amount of hair this adorable baby has! blond babies often look bald
StarmanWaitingInTheSky 3 years ago
Some babies are born with hair. I had a friend who had a baby she described as having hair like a chia pet.
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Mazer 3 years ago
There is a woman currently living who birthed twins, one is light skinned with reddish colored hair (actually looks to be from the Emerald Isles) her twin is dark skinned with an afro. On top of this, many of the far right racist crowd involved in the parades and protests of the last few years had to drop out of their racist activities after getting results back from DNA testing and learning they were of mixed race
Patti Vance 3 years ago
i can't remember her name but a child of a white couple who lived in south africa during apartheid had a baby girl that was appeared to be black. because of her parentage, she was allowed to attend the white schools but was harassed constantly. her dad eventually went to court to have her legally established as white but in her later years she rejected it because of the problems it caused her. apparently, both her parents had black ancestors in which the genes showed up in her (found by geneology as dna was not used back then). makes you realize that people are just people regardless of skin and it's other people that make an issue of it.
Brendan Roberts 3 years ago
The expression on the Dad's face! "Umm...you notice something unusual about our baby?"
StarmanWaitingInTheSky 3 years ago
Anybody thinking she cheated, if that were the case the baby wouldn't be this white. She would have a visible mix of in between. Genetics can be weird.
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
Genetics can be really weird! Doesn’t mean she cheated, genes work in some pretty crazy ways and two black people having a white-skinned baby is entirely possible :) just the magic of biology
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Gaby Almodovar 3 years ago
My very first thought, because the baby clearly has african antropology markers.
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#24
TIL that a "Silent Man" in the UK repeatedly gets arrested for standing on a certain road to block traffic. He never speaks a word, not even to the court or his own lawyer. Everytime he is released, he repeats the crime and remains completely silent.
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
I don't understand why this man keeps winding up in court and not a hospital. Sentencing someone who doesn't communicate hardly seems like justice.
Matt Ang 3 years ago
He's mentally insane. I'm not kidding, please put him in a hospital or something!
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
They can't commit him without his consent because he doesn't appear to be a danger to himself or others. And he refused to communicate with the psychiatrist either.
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#25
TIL that the snow used in the Wizard of Oz was actually asbestos fibre.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Judy Garland never stood a chance of a long and healthy life. The amount of crap she had to go through is insane.
The Scout 3 years ago
Seeing she was regularly drugged, sleep-deprived and generally exploited, asbestos snow may not have been the biggest of her problems. The movie industrie back then were not exactly concerned with their cast's health... Original tin man Buddy Ebsen was seriously poisoned by the aluminum paint for his role, his successor Jack Haley developed eye problems because of it. Margaret Hamilton, playing the Wicked Witch, was seriously burned on set. Her copper makeup was not much less toxic than Ebsens, but she recovered eventually.
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NuClea Bomb 3 years ago
I'm getting LUNG CANCER! LUNG CANCEEEERRRR! Oh what a world, what a world!
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
And Buddy Ebsen had to back out of the role of Tin Man because he couldn't handle the toxicity of the paint.
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
And the silver aluminum powder used for the original Tin Man, Buddy Ebsen (aka Jed Clampett) poisoned him so severely that he was hospitalized and the role was recast.
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
You may have noticed that there are new people born every day. Just like you, they have to learn every fact for the first time. I’ve been around for more than seven decades, and I learn a dozen new things every day. That’s the upside of the Internet; you don’t have to be ignorant unless you want to be.
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TIL the samurai Yanagizawa Yoshisato helped his samurai clan pay off their debts by selling goldfish. He took his best goldfish breeders over to the town of Koriyama so they could use its plentiful waters for this. His clan made goldfish more available to the general public and not just the rich.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I'm laughing because I'm just imagining these terrifying men in samurai outfits selling goldfish to small children.
Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
And now people use them as wedding table decorations and put them into tiny fish bowls without any air pumps which causes them all to die by the end of the party.... and this is legal and it happens all of the time... that was something I just learned a few months ago. People literally do this. It's disgusting.
Mokayokok 3 years ago
Ummm hello Sherman Avon Gee, are you unaware of how shitty the human race is across the board ??? Now you've TIL 2 things today!
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Richard Liu 3 years ago
This is just fiction. Goldfish was imported from China to Japan by Osaka traders since 16th century, and it was plain impossible to breed them by mid-class people until 19th century, because Tokugawa Shogunate had finally lifted ban on glass import during late 18th century. Yanagizawa Yoshisato died in 1714, 80 years before gold fish become "available to the general public". Further more, Yanagizawa Yoshisato and his family were retinues of Tokugawa clan for his whole life time. They had never need to pay off any debt.
#27
TIL of J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree, who after his wife passed and seemingly with nothing left to live for decided to commit his first bank robbery at the age of 86. Red blamed banks for making him bankrupt and by the time he passed away in 2004 he had robbed 2 more banks.
Mariah Noel 3 years ago
Theres actually a really funny movie based off of this with Morgan Freeman and Michael Cane in it.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
YES! I was quite amused with the movie. But it is so sad that people feel they have to resort to this because government and/or employers screw you.
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DE Ray 3 years ago
I mean, he wasn't incorrect. Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank; give a man a bank, he can rob the world.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
The bigwigs making all of the money aren't impacted at all. The low paid, poorly treated and terrified cashiers/tellers will think about it virtually every time they go to work after a robbery.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I do love the underdog, and I rather respect him for getting some of his own back from institutions the f****d him over his whole life. That’s something so many people are just waking up to now, and I love it.
ThePanInPanda 3 years ago
I can't tell who he looks like, but he definitely looks like someone.
Vanta Black 3 years ago
And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids!
#28
TIL the record for the longest name ever used was held by a German-American man. The name is so long it can't fit in this title but was abbreviated as Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr. The name has its origins in his Great-Grandfather's sarcastic response to a law mandating German Jews take a second name.
LuckyL 3 years ago
Wolfeschlegelsteinhausen bergerdorff welche vor altern waren gewissenhaft schaferswessen schafe waren wohl gepflege und sorgfaltigkeit beschutzen vorangreifen durch ihr raubgierig feinde welche vor altern zwolfhunderttausendjahres voran die erscheinen von der erste erdemensch der raumschiff genachtmittung stein und sieben iridium elektrisch motorsgebrauch licht als sein ursprung von kraft gestarts einlange fahrt hin zwischen sternartig raum auf der suchen nachbarschaft der stern welche gehabt bewohnbar planeten kreise drehen sich und wohin der neue rasse von verstandig menschlichkeit konnte fortpflanzen und sicher freuen an lebenslanglich freude und ruhe mit nicht ein furcht vorangreifen vor anderer intelligent geschopfs von hin zwischen sternartig raum Sr
Cowws 3 years ago
Wolfeschlengelsteinhausen mountain town who used to be conscientious shepherds whose sheep were well looked after and carefully protectected against attacks by their theft-greedy enemies, who since 120000 years onwards appeared from the first men on earth - the space ship's night remedy stone and seven iridium electric motoruse light as his origin from energy started a long time ago goes between starry space on the search for the star which has habitable planets orbiting and to which the new race of sensible humanity could reproduce and surely look foreward to lifelong joy and peace with not a fear of attack from other intelligent creatures going between starry space seniour....
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Scout Finch 3 years ago
Wouldn't it be interesting if he lived in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? Can you imagine his mail? Two envelopes to send a letter.
Baby Fratelli 3 years ago
Took me a second to realise he has a name for every letter of the alphabet in order
Alienking06 3 years ago
Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
Oh is that the one married to Sarah Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
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Sadia Adnan 3 years ago
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Notice how it's alphabetical
Queen Metapha 3 years ago
Da haben sich möglicherweise im Laufe der Zeit ein paar Schreib- oder Übersetzungsfehler eingeschlichen und den Sinn der Worte etwas verfälscht....
Mimi 3 years ago
Dachte ich auch, klingt ein bisschen nach Google translate, muss ja aber wohl früher gewesen sein.
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ThePanInPanda 3 years ago
The 'senior' implies there's an Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Fredrick (etc.) Junior.
#29
TIL That a journalist accidentally discovered his wife was the world's best Tetris player.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
My 6th grade computer lit teacher told us one of his students broke the Tetris world record in his class. They recorded it and everything.
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Tetris taught me how to efficiently load a dishwasher, a shopping cart and how to load a 5 piece band (sans band members) into a Dodge Neon! LOL!
Sawdust 3 years ago
Curious about the details... Like he stumbled across her secret Tetris-based Twitch channel ? Or she casually picked up a Game Boy one day and set the world record?
rumade 3 years ago
I read the article a couple of weeks ago. He was talking to someone and mentioned that his wife often gets to level 500. The person he was talking to pointed out that the world record at the time was something like 380. So she went to a special arcade and set a new record for real.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Makes me think of my friend Jonas, who was a Tetris World Champion, but I knew him best as a pal we roleplayed with :( Rest In peace, Jonas.
#30
TIL that in the 1990s, actor Marlon Brando would often spend time in AOL chatrooms getting into political arguments with unsuspecting strangers. His account was frequently suspended for ending arguments by telling others to “F*ck Off”.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
And these days you're still more likely to get banned for telling someone to f**k off than being bigited, inciting violence, harassing people...
Andy Hinds 3 years ago
Imagine him being on Facebook now as a troll. He wouldn't do anything because he's dead.
#31
TIL the 1972 Attica prison uprising in Upstate New York, in which the prisoners demanded better living conditions, ended on the 5th day when law enforcement stormed in and killed 29 prisoners and 10 hostages. Prisoners were then stripped naked and forced to crawl through the latrine and beaten.
BoredPip 3 years ago
Some prisons are absolutely horrible, not only in the US. What can end up happening is that someone going to prison for failing to pay a fine can get horrible living conditions, lack of privacy, and generally a traumatic experience while someone who commited murder can be in a nice prison, with stuff to pass the time, clean area, and, apart from the time period obviously, have a much more enjoyable stay
Milan 3 years ago (edited)
In which country you go to the jail for failing to pay a fine? Definitely not in my. But yeah, i was on a court in US, because police officer did not want to accept my european driver’s licence (wtf moment in my life). We get a ticket for things like this in my country, which you pay on the spot. Of course ended up as his lack of knowledge and fault. I was so pissed. So i assume you are talking about America…
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Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
Ah, the US prison system: over-crowded, under funded and fairly horrific.
Winter 3 years ago
They're owned and run by private companies, so they get rich by keeping people incarcerated. There is absolutely no incentive for rehabilitation. It is a downright nightmare. Neo slavery.
Load More Replies... Kimberly Lorton 3 years ago
They aren't police. They are security trained by a private firm. Correction officers. And some are trained very well. But still aren't the police, and have no authority as such.
Load More Replies... Patti Vance 3 years ago
if possible, check out the documentary 'attica' as it includes the former journalists, politician, inmates, & surviving family members of the killed officers/hostages. the latter were killed because storming officers were hell bent on punishing the inmates. the naked/crawling instance is but one thing they did to them. it will also show how nixon (yes, i was surprised, too!) was involved in the fact that little to nothing was done to end peacefully. the one officer that was injured then died at the beginning was not a planned killing by the inmates but it was held up as a reason to use the brutal tactics when prison was taken back. prison should never be an easy comfortable place but it shouldn't be a place where a prisoner has to fear being killed/abused by the guards daily. nor should they have to try to live w/poor food, 1 roll of tp a month, 1 bar of soap, 1 monthly linens/clothes cleaned, and little to no medical care. if society puts them in there then they take the responsibilit
Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
Yo. Watch the documentaries on HBO and showtime about this.... I always "knew" about the uprising but I never actually knew just how horrible the police and government reacted to it... I couldn't believe what I saw. The survivors recounting the horror is one of the single most heartbreaking testimonies I have ever witnessed. Sad thing is that not much has changed in the prison system since this happened.
#32
TIL about Frieda Caplan, a pioneer in the world of produce who built a successful business in the 1960s by promoting items that, at the time, were relatively unheard of in the U.S. such as mangoes, shallots, and a New Zealand fruit originally called "Chinese gooseberry," which she dubbed the kiwi.
Norm Gilmore 3 years ago
New Zealand growers developed the Kiwifruit from the original chinese native. Freda marketed the Kiwi fruit under that name which was given to it by the original breeders in the late 50s.
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Not all markets would have been happy with the Chinese connection. And they look like kiwis
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I love kiwis. They are decorative, juicy, a nice alternative to the usual fruits.
I want my profile removed! 3 years ago
And nachos. Relatively unknown for an American traditional dinner fare.
#33
TIL Miranda Gibson lived on a small platform 60 metres above the ground in a 400-year-old Eucalyptus tree to protect the surrounding forest. A bush fire forced her to evacuate after 449 days but Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area was officially extended by 170,000 hectares a few months later.
Dariusz M. D. 3 years ago
Julia 'Butterfly' Hill lived in a tree for over 700 days. She wrote a book about.. well living in a tree. Quite interesting, I must say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butterfly_Hill
#34
TIL that actor Gary Busey once refused to perform a scene set in heaven because he said the set design looked nothing like the real heaven he visited during a near-death experience while in a coma.
80 Van 3 years ago
That’s good to know that he’s so committed to realism in his movies. Like the time he starred in Sharknado 3.
ThePanInPanda 3 years ago
"Sir, I can't do this shoot, the sharks would clearly be spinning in a counterclockwise direction, and you have them going clockwise."
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Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
You forgot the part where him and a producer (or it might have been a writer, I'm not sure but it was someone else working on the film) who also had a near death experience had gotten into a huge argument because they both claimed to know what heaven looked like and their ideas of heaven were completely different which then prolonged the dispute and filming. Lol.
Pete Häkkinen 3 years ago
I think that's unfair to Busey. Kinski was a massive piece of s**t.
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Bi-Polar Express 3 years ago
He's also really, really brain damaged. So maybe a grain of salt, here.
#35
TIL that, on average, half of all service dogs fail their training. Due to this poor rate, South Korea experimented with cloning service dogs that had already passed their training. The resulting clones passed at rates much higher than average.
thEBOrdeSTpaNDA 3 years ago
My friends and I love dogs, and always adopt rejected service dogs, as well as dogs rejected from police training for 'being too friendly'
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Lol I have one that was too friendly to be a police dog. He's the best dog I've ever had. Big old german shepherd that loves nothing more than toddlers climbing all over him. 💖
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Mazer 3 years ago
I live near Guide Dogs for the Blind, they were having serious issues with Labradors suffering from seizures. It became such a huge problem that they began mixing breeds to get stronger bloodlines resulting in the Goldador, Labradoodle designer dogs which became an instant success, resulting in massive breeding resulting in those breeds now having congenital defects.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Husbandry needs to be taken more seriously in all forms of dog breeding. This whole inbreed to breed true thing is completely messing up entire breeds. I'm glad German shepherds have finally gotten back to proper husbandry getting rid of those dang hunchbacks. I have an all white GSD stud (work line bred for farm work) and can't stress the difference in quality of life for dogs born from responsible breeding practices vs designer dog standards.
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 3 years ago
That's a super interesting fact, especially in conversations about nuture v nature.
buttonpusher 3 years ago (edited)
Something I was told recently about labs is most have a genetic problem that gives them an insatiable appetite and they'll just keep eating. My parents have a lab and she is obsessed with food. Makes me wonder about how that works since they're a popular breed for service dogs.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My sister had a big dog she rescued from a roadside. She really didn't want to keep him, so she thought she'd take him to test for sniffer dog duty. He flunked out in the parking lot of the testing facility and she had to keep him for the rest of his life. RIP happy boi.
Sheepdude 3 years ago (edited)
oh apparently we can clones things reliably now. And were just perfectly fine with this, no big news, just "hey we can clone dogs now" and EVERYONE WENT ON WITH THERE LIVES. REALLY?! WE CAN FRACKING CLONES THINGS. CLONED, LIKE THE EXACT SAME THING TWICE. BULL-S**T.
#36
TIL: Sum41 named their album "Chuck" after the UN Peacekeeper who got them out of their hotel in the Congo near a warzone.
#37
TIL Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of Portugal. Following the conquest of Portugal by Napoleon, the Portuguese royal family fled to Brazil (1808-1821). They then established the capital of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
It's quite large too and clearly visible from an airplane when you fly over. And I mean large commercial airliner like a Boeing 757
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TIL 45 years ago, ahi (tuna) were caught for fun and ground into pet food. In Japan, tuna was called neko-matagi, meaning “fish that even a cat would disdain”.
Sam 3 years ago
Lobster and oysters used to be the food of poor people too and in New England they were often ground into fertilizer.
Dave P 3 years ago
Not true, only the secondary cuts were made into petfood, the prime cuts were eaten. The Yellowfin Tuna has been a delicacy in many parts of the world for centuries, and was so in Japan at least as fat back as the Meiji Restoration. These Tuna's are hard to catch, you dont just do it for fun. It was just the scraps and secondary cuts that were made into pet good.
Queen Shay 3 years ago
To make some things more desirable place a higher price tag on it and tell people they can’t have it.
Microwaved Robot 3 years ago
I disdained to eat a lovely Tuna Salad atop some very nice Iceberg Lettuce Leaves, just Yesterday. Yummy!
Sterling Hill 3 years ago
This is absolutely not true. When I went to Tokyo in 1970 I visited their huge fish market, opened every morning, early! And there were a lot of tuna being bought by restaurants. I keenly remember them as I had not known before then how big tuna are.
#39
TIL that during a college football game in US, many people gathered upon the roof of a glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof collapsed, spilling fans onto a furnace. Twenty-three people were killed but the game continued. The event is known as The Thanksgiving Day Disaster.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago (edited)
"Twenty-three people were killed but the game continued." What 😨😰
AW 3 years ago
the site of the accident was not part of the stadium where the game was held, totally plausible the players/crowd didn't notice much til later
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Sander 3 years ago
So boredpanda censors words but straight up shows dead bodies. Excellent policy
TyrantrumGogoat 3 years ago
Oh my god these people are dead?! I thought they were showing them in the roof!!
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Leesquee 3 years ago (edited)
I thought 'The Thanksgiving Day Disaster' was that time WKRP in Cinicinnatti threw live turkeys out of a helicopter?
SilentBob 3 years ago
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly " Hahahaha!
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Allison B 3 years ago
Yes! That Easter egg hunt factory incident. I love that book.
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Panda Kicki 3 years ago (edited)
No word if any workers was killed by the Darwin Awards falling down despite being told not to climb up there?
#40
TIL that Iceland was once covered in trees until the Vikings came and cut them down to make room for sheep.
BoredPip 3 years ago
They could have over the long period of time they were there. Honestly, similar things happened all over the world, so why not there?
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Mtownmick 3 years ago
We were told this happened in Scotland too (not the Viking part, just the deforestation.) It was more for housing and fire than just making grazing land.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
The Shetland Isles have no trees, but they've always been that way.
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Agron54 3 years ago
They cut down a quarter of the trees, they didn’t deforest the whole island
StarmanWaitingInTheSky 3 years ago
This is so many places. Canada may have the largest boreal forest. But imagine how huge the forested areas were before colonization.
Ian Webling 3 years ago
I'm not sure this is correct. High, constants winds kept much of the island clear of trees. Even in modern-day Iceland one tends to find tree only in sheltered spots, such as ravines.
Laugh or not 3 years ago
Grown trees protect saplings from the wind, allowing them to grow. Once all the trees are cut, nothing protects new ones making it a lot harder to grow back forests. There is also the fact that without trees the soils erode at a faster rate, which also makes it harder for trees to grow. Destruction is easy, recovery is not.
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Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen 3 years ago
There is a well known joke here in Iceland that goes like this: What should you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest? -just stand up and look around.
#41
TIL Women have been legally allowed to go topless in public in New York City since 1992.
Mimi La Souris 3 years ago (edited)
and French women can legally wear pants since 2013 (but still without pocket)
Dave P 3 years ago
The Courts rules that law violated NY's discrimination clause, as the law allowed men but not women to be topless. There still is a movement to make all topless banned in NYC. There are also restrictions, most beaches in NYC it is still illegal (there is only one which I know of that it is legal), and additionally can not topless is a way designed to be lewd (being sexually suggestive in any way), or to directly cause offense (like going through a devoutly regious muslim neighborhood or Jewish, or Catholic one) or in front of a house of worship, etc. And private businesses can ban, and can have you removed from in front of their businesses if you are,
Walking On Sunshine 3 years ago
Some people in America can't even stand women breast-feeding. Immaturity.
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
It stinks.... seriously... we are so close minded...
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
You should exercise your rights more... probably be less muggings and wars...
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
So sad that even though it's legal it would cause such a fuss. Perhaps if they put up signs stating the legality people would be able to without as much harassment
L.a. Williams 3 years ago
Please don't unless you're nursing only good reason to be top less. Even then viruses, bacteria and general dirt wouldn't be healthy for baby.
#42
TIL the King of Norway's firstborn, Princess Märtha Louise, is a self-described 'clairvoyant'. She has started a school for communicating with angels and dead souls, and is currently dating a self-described shaman.
May 3 years ago
Though she is the eldest, the law that says that the eldest male child inherits the throne, was changed too late for her to be heir to the throne. If it hadn't, I think we'd become a republic.. Her brother seems much more sensible.
Nilsen 3 years ago
When she was born she didn't have claim to the throne at all, since only males could inherit the Norwegian throne until 1990. The constitution now states that the first born, regardless of gender, will inherit the throne but that for royal children born before 1990 boys will inherit before girls.
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Vic 3 years ago
There is some interesting documentary about that "shaman"-guy, made by DW i think? He claims to help humanity with his "gift", but charges 1000$/h, also he starts every day with 2 minutes of screaming. Yes, just scraming.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
And to add fuel to the fire, they both live in California! What a surprise! LOL!
#43
TIL Freshwater snails are one of the world's most deadly animals because they transmit the organism that causes schistosomiasis (aka bilharzia), which is, in and of itself, one of the most deadly parasites on the planet! Nearly 230m people were infected in 2014 and there are~200,000 deaths annually.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago (edited)
WE JUST HAD HUGE SNAIL PROBLEMS AT MY HOUSE AND NOW I GET TO READ THIS!!!?? I am scared for my life now, I don't think I'm going to make it. Farewell fellow Pandas, the ghost of DUN dies again ☠
XenoMurph 3 years ago
"The snails are coming! Stroll, stroll for your lives!"
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Caro Caro 3 years ago
Eeeew I remember a sign warning us not to go into the water in South Afrika. Infection occurs when your skin comes in contact with contaminated freshwater in which certain types of snails that carry schistosomes are living. Freshwater becomes contaminated by Schistosoma eggs when infected people urinate or defecate in the water. The eggs hatch, and if certain types of freshwater snails are present in the water, the parasites develop and multiply inside the snails. The parasite leaves the snail and enters the water where it can survive for about 48 hours. Schistosoma parasites can penetrate the skin of persons who are wading, swimming, bathing, or washing in contaminated water. Within several weeks, the parasites mature into adult worms and live in the blood vessels of the body where the females produce eggs. Some of the eggs travel to the bladder or intestine and are passed into the urine or stool.
Kimberly Lorton 3 years ago
There is a medication for it called a schistosomicide. So if you get it it is dangerous if untreated. A group of parasites known as liver flukes. But it mainly found in Africa, Brazil, Cambodia, the Caribbean, China, Corsica, Indonesia, Laos, the Middle East, the Philippines, Suriname, and Venezuela.[28] There had been no cases in Europe since 1965, until an outbreak occurred on Corsica. Per Wikipedia.
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Paddling Panda 3 years ago
Yet another reason I prefer swimming in salt water versus fresh water. Brrrrrrr....
My Melody 3 years ago
I think it’s fine if it comes from a pet store or snail breeder, unless if you found it in the wild and decided to keep it.
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#44
TIL: For The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Bruce Campbell auditioned by grabbing himself by the collar, then performing a forward-flip, a trick he and Raimi had taught themselves back in high school.
marianne eliza 3 years ago
Loved this show! So intelligent, steampunk and fantasy and comedy. Was devastated when it was cancelled.
Lady Z Azrael 3 years ago
I heart Bruce Campbell ♥️! I just watched Black Friday that he was in and it was so funny. Lots of callbacks to other horror movies
Marie Fleuris 3 years ago
TIL that a show I have vague childhood memories of actually starred Bruce Campbell.. xD
#45
TIL the modern gas container, the jerry can, was invented in 1937 Germany. In the start of WWII, the UK used leaky, flimsy tin containers called "flimsies" but soon captured jerry cans and the Allies started copying the German design.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
LOL Well I'll be !!!! I never knew Jerry can was German but the penny just dropped. WOW.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
The "Jerry" can (named after British slang for Germans) is an incredibly well thought out design. It's no wonder everyone started copying it.
Elizabeth Elliot 3 years ago
It also floats when full, which is ingenious!
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Andrew Read 3 years ago
The Jerry can was important in the desert war and without it, the allies would not have won.
Suzy the observer 3 years ago
Jerry was the word used by US soldiers for the german soldiers. It translates in French as "jerrican".
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
I love how creative they were with those names! “Flimsiest “ also I’ve never heard of jerry can !
Victor Botha 3 years ago
It's pretty much a worldwide name in all English speaking countries.
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TIL spaces between words in documents first appeared in Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles in the seventh century. Paleographers today identify the extinction of 'scriptio continua' as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era.
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Many of the early documents that make up the Bible were written without breaks between words and without puncuation.
Rachknits 3 years ago
Also one of the reasons it's very difficult to accurately translate the bible from the original languages
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Every translation is an interpretation. It's very important to keep that in mind if you're going to take the Bible seriously.
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Elliot Fowler 3 years ago
Was it bacuse paper was difficult to manufacture. So having no spaces mean more words can be put on a single piece of paper.
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
It was expensive. They used vellum, which is animal skin. They'd basically have to slaughter an entire flock of animals just to make a book or scroll.
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𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢 ℜ𝔞𝔢𝔑 3 years ago (edited)
I have a sister who used to write like this (w/ NO spaces) when she was learning how to put sentences together. Needless to "say," she doesn't anymore!
#47
TIL that a proposed 1896 Pennsylvania law required motorists who encountered livestock to: stop their vehicle, disassemble it, and conceal the parts until the livestock were sufficiently pacified.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Pennsylvania Governor Daniel Hastings also had a very direct impact on America’s nascent automotive industry–defending it from the most oppressive and bonkers regulation ever concocted. The "Red Flag Laws" The laws were so-named because famous examples of them required someone to be walking, waving a red flag or lantern in front of any motor vehicle. As you can imagine, this was not exactly what most early motorists wanted—the whole point of the automobile was to avoid being stuck behind some large, hairy, farting mammal. https://jalopnik.com/this-governor-vetoed-americas-most-insane-automotive-la-1837183057
martin734 3 years ago (edited)
I'm sure that not everyone carrying the flag or lantern was large and hairy.
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Carol Emory 3 years ago
In Washington State, driver's were required to get out of their cars at intersections, honk a loud horn and set off a firework to let anyone in the area that they were about to cross.
Richard Lewis 3 years ago
PA has a plethora of backwards laws it’s mostly farmland and it shows
Mtownmick 3 years ago
Those motorized buggies will never catch on, just like electric cars today. Too impractical. BTW teaching history is a waste of time.
#48
TIL in Minnesota in 2017, a 20 year old woman shot her 22 year old boyfriend through an encyclopedia from about a foot (30 cm) away for a Youtube video and he died. She was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Who came up with that stupid idea in the first place? Idiots.
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
He did. She said she didn’t want to do it, but he talked her into it and swore it was completely safe. Their toddler child was present for the whole thing, if I recall.
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Wintermute 3 years ago
So here's what I remember. They were shooting prank videos. They thought it'd be funny to pretend he got shot, but that the bullet would actually stop in the book. They tried it once, and the bullet did indeed stop. Then they did it for the camera and the bullet didn't stop. He convinced her to do it, and it was his idea, so it was involuntary manslaughter. Their biggest mistake, they chose a .50 Desert Eagle as the gun. For those who don't know, that's a huuuuge handgun.
Wintermute 3 years ago
Also, to qualify, I was too lazy to google it to confirm my memory, but you get the gist.
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Ausrine Ciapaite 3 years ago
Wait wait, only 6 months? Is there something I missed in the story?
K Sarfo 3 years ago
It was his idea, they had witnesses to this, and the fact that they had done test shots first so she had some reason to think it would work. So stupid and tragic
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
...or maybe not enough of these stunts? Maybe if we encouraged such stunts more he would have died before he reproduced.
Load More Replies... Mimi La Souris 3 years ago
i'm ok with the curiosity part, a bullet through a big book, but why stand behind? and especially without trying before?
#49
TIL Eurypterids, an order of arthropods completely wiped out by the world's biggest mass extinction, were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length.
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
Sweet baby jesus this is what my nightmares are made of. I was always kind of sad that the dinos got wiped out but if THIS is what would be wandering around, no I'm good.
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
It's interesting to me how large so many ancient creatures were. Knowing that the closest living relative to many exist dinosaurs are modern birds make me keep imaging ancient, 20ft chickens. XD
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
I can't imagine how you would store a dozen of those eggs.
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TIL that in 1429, King Charles VII of France exempted the town of Domrémy from paying taxes "forever", after a promise to Joan of Arc. Taxes were imposed again during the French Revolution.
s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago
Huge clothes, sleeves may even be stuffed with padding, as per fashion. You know, shoulder pads.
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BarBeeGirl 3 years ago
And we all know that in Canada income tax was imposed as a “temporary “ measure to pay off the first world war debt
Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
I guess that was when proverb was invented. "After revolution thing will be different, not better, just different".
#51
TIL Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) first started painting when he was in his late twenties. It was only at the age of 27 in 1880 that he began attending art school. Most of his paintings date to just the last two years of his life.
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Van Gogh is a good example of what study and practice can do. His early drawings aren't noteworthy. He became a great artist through dedication and hard work.
StarmanWaitingInTheSky 3 years ago
He was harshly scrutinized during his art school years. I don't think he passed. His art teacher compared his style of painting to a little kid's. He never gave up because he loved working with vibrant colours. He wanted to show everyone what he saw in the world, how colours worked together in natural and man made settings. He definitely had his style.
Load More Replies... Laura Henderson 3 years ago
And he only sold one painting in his own lifetime ("The Red Vineyard", 7 months before his death). He died thinking himself a failure.
Puppeteer Saint 3 years ago
Actually.. He only sold one of his own paintings in his lifetime. He sold many more when he worked in his Uncles Art Dealership.
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TuesdayDangerGirl 3 years ago
And Starry Night (plus others) was painted while he was in an asylum
#52
TIL the Scottish town of Stenhousemuir once boasted a unique example of an intact Roman temple. However, it was destroyed in 1743 because the local landowner needed stone to build a dam with.
Andrew Good 3 years ago
I want him to come back to life so i can stab him 37 times with a gladius
User# 6 3 years ago
Really? And there's me thinking the Romans didn't go north of Hadrian's wall.
Jyri Hakola 3 years ago
Yes they did, and thet even build the Antonine wall between Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde
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TIL that a tiger went on an 800-mile journey to find a mate, crossed 11 villages and there was a solitary incident with a human, only when the villager came to take a selfie.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
Sad commentary on the scarcity of tigers. Poaching and habitat loss. 🙁
#54
TIL Tetrachromats (mostly women) can distinguish up to 100 million colours since they posses a 4th type of cone cell, apart from having the regular RBG cone cells.
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
Which is why, when my husband says "that's a nice green curtain", I give him a look and say "actually honey, that's *chartreuse*". 🙂
May 3 years ago
When books use words like chartreuse, they should come with a picture. The dictionary translates chartreuse into a yellow or green colour in my language. That's a lot of colours. When I google it I get a range of colours from orange to olive. Seems nobody knows what chartreuse is
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Nele Carlier 3 years ago
this is chartreuse. it is a drink. this is the colour. it has more than 120 spices in it. the name is something else still. it means religious stronghold, cloister. when we say chartreuse, we do not automatically referr to the colour. chartreuse...0907e8.jpg 
Allen Lavine 3 years ago
The reason (historians think) for this is because women were the one to collect berries and a little different in Colors can mean life or death
roses are red 3 years ago
And yellow is the least favoured colour ... I read that somewhere else...made sense, I find yellow an uncomfortable colour...if that's the correct way of saying it...🙃
#55
TIL Mozart was actually in the top 5% of wage earners for his time. He squandered most of his money by the time of his death, and was buried in a pauper's grave.
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
"Squandered most of his money by the time of his death." I mean, he couldn't take it with him. His wife remarried after his death. Only two of his children survived. It makes sense that leaving a large pile of money behind wasn't high on his priority list.
The Scout 3 years ago
Mozart was very well-paid, but he also had some serious gambling and drinking problems. Once he was said to have lost more money in a single game of snooker (which was surprisingly popular back than) than most people of his era earned in a year. He also maintained a nearly aristocratic lifestyle, living beyond his means.
Morganne Pérez 3 years ago
Actually, this isn't true. He was buried in a grave that included other people because that was law at the time. It wasn't a paupers' grave. This law was lifted some time after his death, though.
Ally MacMann 3 years ago
What some people call squandered, others call a good time. People don't get much enjoyment from being buried under an expensive gravestone.
Seabeast 3 years ago
Up to a point. He was married and had children, so he owed them something.
Load More Replies... StarmanWaitingInTheSky 3 years ago
Well you can't take your wealth with you. Might as well enjoy it while you're alive.
#56
TIL That the transition of the Ming to Qing dynasty in China took 65 years and cost approximately 25 million lives.
Laura Henderson 3 years ago
That is a literally mind-boggling statistic. In the UK, we're taught how wasteful our civil wars of succession (Steven and Matilda; Wars of the Roses; Civil War of Charles I) were, but this is another scale we can't even imagine.
Kira Okah 3 years ago (edited)
Those are civil wars, this was absolutely not a civil war. The Qing army were a combined army of Manchu, Monglians, and Han who had grievances against the Ming. The leaders were Manchurian - they weren't Chinese and their land was not considered China. It was a foreign invasion, just as the Yuan was (which had similar time length and death rates to this).
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Kira Okah 3 years ago
Yuan was 74 years, three rulers, and untold millions of deaths too. I'm not sure of the size of the armies of the Song or Jurchen Jin, and the losses are listed just as "very heavy", so not sure of the death toll, definitely over several million though. Chinese history is brutally bloody.
#57
TIL that the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing was held in 1916 - because President Woodrow Wilson nominated a Jew for the seat.
#58
TIL That Sheep fighting is an illegal sport in Algeria where two sheep fight. There is no gambling on the fights, but the loser is sentenced to slaughter while the winner has its value increased. The sheep are given names that inspire fear, like Hitler, Ebola or Lawyer.
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago (edited)
I would name my sheep “Extra Bill Payment Comes Out Of My Bank Account This Month”
Load More Replies... Mazer 3 years ago
I wish men would stick to fighting each other instead of exploiting animals for entertainment
Jacob Nunez 3 years ago
That really wouldn’t make a difference now would it?
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TIL Professional wrestler Scott Hall was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, years after killing a man in self defense. Hall wrestled away the drunken man’s gun, and shot him in the head, outside of Hall’s place of work.
martin734 3 years ago
But is it still self defence when you have disarmed the other person? At what point does self defence become aggression?
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Robin Pickering 3 years ago
Once you have the other man's gun in your hand, shooting him is no longer self defence.
SilentBob731 3 years ago
And if he's trying to take it back? You don't think in a situation like that, you react or you die.
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TIL MLB player Oscar Gamble, known for his afro, was not allowed to keep his afro when he was traded to the Yankees because of their strict appearance policy. Gamble had a commercial deal for Afro Sheen and lost the deal when he cut his afro. He was reimbursed $5k by the club owner for the lost deal.
#61
TIL the Death Camas plant is so toxic that there is only one known pollinator. The plant is visited by a specialist mining bee, which can tolerate its toxins - others are fatally poisoned. One plant species name is Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum ≈ toxic bulb poisonous poisonous.
Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago
You just know some people would take a name like that not as a warning but as a challege ...
#62
TIL Michael Berryman, known for his iconic roles in horror movies (The Hill Have Eyes), has a very unique physical appearance due to hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, a rare condition characterized by the absence of sweat glands, hair, and fingernails.
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
You know, he'd be super cool as an elf in movies, but he also has this grandfatherly look to him. In case he ever gets tired of horror I'd love to see more roles. :) Maybe also a pirate!
#63
TIL during WW1, Canadians exploited the trust of Germans who had become accustomed to fraternizing with allied units. They threw tins of corned beef into a neighboring German trench. When the Germans shouted “More! Give us more!” the Canadians tossed a bunch of grenades over.
#64
TIL that when ascending to the throne, royals may pick their regnal name from any of their Christian or middle names. Charles Philip Arthur George could also be King Philip, King Arthur, or King George if he wanted to.
User# 6 3 years ago
He has already indicated it's not going to be King Charles III, given the history of the previous Kings Charlies.
The Scout 3 years ago
There is a real possibility that he will not have to chose a throne name. He is 74, after all, and Eilzabeth is still alive and kicking.
Nic Cooper 3 years ago
Not so much of the kicking these days. She’s apparently using a wheelchair behind the scenes and cancelled public engagements as she’s become so frail
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Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
There is no such rule, but there is a little bit of precedence. There have been three times when UK monarchs have chosen not to assume their first name as their regnal name (Victoria - Alexandria Victoria, Edward VII - Albert Edward, and George VI - Albert Frederick Arthur George).
Victor Botha 3 years ago
Queen Victoria was Alexandrina Victoria not Alexandria
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
After they decided to change it from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1917 because of it's German origin and the first world war.
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JuniorCJ82 3 years ago
Won't be Philip b/c of his dad, won't be Arthur, most likely won't be George b/c of his grandson. My money's on sticking with Charles.
Monday 3 years ago
Well there was a lot of inbreeding going on in the royal family back in the day...
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TIL about Johnny Clem, who joined the Union Army as a drummer boy at age 10. Clem became a legend when he shot and killed a Confederate Colonel at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.
Mazer 3 years ago
My relative, John L. Graham was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. He and his brothers felt so strongly against slavery that the brothers and in laws all packed up moved out of New York to Kansas to increase the anti-slavery vote of that State. His brother survived the war snd went on to become a judge. Graham County Kansas is named in their honor. I just donated some of the family relics to the Chattanooga - Chickamauga National Military Park.
Stalin's Moustache 3 years ago
is he where the song johnny comes marching home again comes from?
#66
TIL The 2005 film ‘Hostel’ damaged Slovakia’s representation and tourism economy so badly that director Eli Roth was invited to an all expenses paid trip to clear false allegations the film made about the country, such as it being a ‘crime riddled, corrupt, lawless, poor and dangerous’ place.
BreGerEu 3 years ago
You definitely have. I have been there twice. Vysoké Tatrý and Slovensky Raj. 🙂 Though once I got czech pivo when I ordered slovak pivo.
Load More Replies... StarmanWaitingInTheSky 3 years ago
I've never seen that movie. Don't want to. But just the previews I was inundated with forever got me associating hostels as horrible, torturous, dangerous places.
Scarlett 3 years ago
Yeah, my friend decided to shove it under my nose when one of the more…um… shall disturbing scenes was playing. Didn’t know you can cut off toes with a wire cutter. Never wanted to visit a hostile after that.
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#67
TIL 12 of the 20 drunkest cities in the US are in Wisconsin.
#68
TIL: The U.S. Airforce assigns aircraft to be "Wild Weasels". These aircraft act as bait to draw anti-aircraft fire, allowing the squad to locate and destroy the anti-aircraft batteries. Their motto is "YGBSM" or "You Gotta Be Sh*ttin' Me".
Layne Rodgers 3 years ago
When proposed to the pilots that their job would be to fly and make the enemy SA-2 surface to air missile system fire at them so they can find, fix, and track the system, they simply responded with, "Yo gotta be shittin me. Im a proud weasel currently.
#69
TIL a Canadian transit fare box repair man stole 37 tons of coins worth $2.4 million from fare boxes using a magnet attached to a car radio antenna and telling bank employees that the coins came from a vending machine business.
Kevin Hickey 3 years ago
Canadian coins are. That's how vending machines reject them.
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TIL Chinese checkers was invented in Germany in 1892 and called 'Chinese' as part of a marketing scheme.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Now i will simply call anything i own “chinese” and wait for the money to roll in
Pearl 3 years ago (edited)
probably no one will buy it because of the stereotype 'OMG its made in CHINA it sucks it won't last low quality' PS. China is one of the countries that manufactures Nokia products
Load More Replies... Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
I grow Welsh Onions, which are from China. Welsh, in this sense is old English for foreign.
#71
TIL that prior to the 1920s, up to 70% of children in parts of the United States had goiters due to iodine deficiency.
#72
TIL that early in Edgar Allen Poe's writing career, he published an essay exposing a fake chess-playing automaton that was actually operated by a chess master hidden inside. The essay employs a method of deduction called 'ratiocination' which is used by C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
That chess board is either set up wrong or the picture has been flipped. The white square (where the rook is) should be at bottom right, not left.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
BP editors probably just grabbed the first rights-free/free-use image they found for “chess board”. XD
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TIL that the US Navy had the largest naval fleet in history with 6768 ships at the end of World War II.
Mazer 3 years ago
Many built in one month at a cost of just over 1.5 million. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area where many of the ships were built. There are still street signs denoting the era, like Liberty Ship Way etc. in fact there is still housing originally built for warship workers and The Rosie the Riveter Museum is just across the bay, it honors the contribution of women during the war
#74
TIL that the night before his inauguration as Vice President, Andrew Johnson attended a party in his honor at which he drank heavily. The following morning, a hungover Johnson delivered a rambling, incoherent address in the Senate Chamber as Abraham Lincoln, the Congress, and dignitaries looked on.
User# 6 3 years ago
For the past few years, rambling, incoherent addresses are the norm rather than the exception in the Senate.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago (edited)
"I LOVE BEER!!!" as heard in a SCOTUS interview televised for the world to see.
Load More Replies... Matt Ang 3 years ago
Hangovers suck. I've never drank (i'm a minor) but i've seen enough movies that made it look terrible
Allison B 3 years ago
They're not usually nearly as bad as the movies unless you go completely crazy. However it also depends on the person. I usually only wake up with a really dry mouth and a bit of a headache.
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Brodie Bruce 3 years ago
Today I learned that you can walk on stage, slap another person in the face, go back to your seat, win an award and then go to a party and dance to your own music.
Brodie Bruce 3 years ago
Today I learned that you can walk on stage, slap another person in the face, go back to your seat, win an award and then go to a party and dance to your own music.
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