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“Today I Learned”: 50 Times People Learned Interesting Facts Online And Couldn’t Wait To Share With Others (New Posts)
Today is an excellent day to discover something new. After all, few things are as enjoyable as learning and expanding your intelligence. And thanks to the internet — the endless stream of information that is literally at our fingertips — it has never been easier. You can constantly keep your brain busy with new things to think about and pump up that trivia muscle by adding new interesting facts to your arsenal of knowledge.
Whether it’s to improve your water-cooler talk skills or challenge your perspectives about the world, the 'Today I Learned' (TIL) subreddit is the perfect place to start. For years, the adventurous 28.4 million members of this community have been sparking our curiosity by sharing nuggets of wisdom they recently found themselves. So let’s take a look at what they have to teach, shall we?
Below, we wrapped up the newest batch of intriguing tidbits to get something useful out of our feeds. So grab your notebooks, put your thinking caps on, and enjoy scrolling through this list. Keep reading to also find our in-depth interview about the benefits of learning with international educational consultant Marilee Sprenger. Then upvote the facts you may not have known about, and be sure to pass on even more knowledge to us in the comments.
Psst! If you feel the urge to broaden your mental horizons even further, check out some more TIL goodness in our earlier pieces here, here, and right here.
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#1
TIL Andromachi Papanicolaou, the wife of the man who invented the Pap smear volunteered to have her cervix sampled every day for 21 years to help with his research. Their findings went on to save the lives of millions of women by preventing the development of cervical cancer through early detection
Ciara Jane Eynon 3 years ago
She is the true hero in this story, a smear every few years is horrendous! I dunno tho, who am I to kink shame...
Aradia Sayner 3 years ago
Gives a new meaning to taking one for the team. I hate pap smears and only have to have one every five years. Everyday for 21 years this woman is incredible.
Lesley Relph 3 years ago
Ouch, I hate having my regular five yearly test. Daily would not be fun
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#2
TIL Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press conferences where only female journalists were allowed. This ensured they kept their jobs during Depression-era layoffs, earning a steady income & professional status
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
Eleanor Roosevelt was banned from giving a speech at Montana State College because Bozeman Montana was so conservative that it deemed her to be too much of a of a radical to be allowed to speak there. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Source: https://www.montana.edu/marketing/about-msu/history/1950.html (bot. 2nd paragraph)
Madzdad the Bard 3 years ago
I don't know that Montana is all that different today.
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Katy McMouse 3 years ago
That woman was every bit as intelligent as the men around her, if not more, including her husband. She also had diplomacy coming out the wazoo - she probably would have made a great president, as well.
DCB 3 years ago
DEN VER: My opinion: BP needs to change the policy regarding downvotes and being suspended. It seems that people use the downvote for a comment they DON'T AGREE with...(like every other site with comments works, for what it's worth.) It is seemingly NOT being used by commenters to "report" comments/commenters that are being vile, abusive, SPAM (make 10k at home!). There should be a separate button for "Report commenter" or "Report comment" - or something along those lines....in my humble opinion!
Beans 3 years ago
Yeah they just need a report spam button or something. It's not that hard.
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Trisha Howson 3 years ago
What a great women to a great president. I think she is still one of the best leading ladies expecially for her time
Whodathunkit 3 years ago
I just finished a historical fiction book "American Princess" about Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice. These women really pushed the limits of their day. It was a great read!
Shannon Hawks 3 years ago
Very intelligent lady. could have easily been 1st woman president. Did a ton of work for FDR during his presidency
We're well aware of the power of learning and how important it is for us to celebrate curiosity, intelligence, and the desire to know more about our planet. Just a few decades ago, people had to read stacks of books and spend evenings at the local libraries just to learn something new. But in today’s modern world, we don’t need to lift a finger for it — except to type out a few Google searches and make some quick clicks on hyperlinks. In mere minutes, we find the fact or research we’ve been looking for.
We were curious to learn more about the benefits of soaking up the knowledge around us, so we reached out to Marilee Sprenger, an international educational consultant in the fields of social-emotional learning, literacy, vocabulary, and brain research. Being the renowned author of Social-Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive, she explained that one of the most fascinating aspects of our brain is that it can change, and it does so every day.
"Neuroscientists want us to understand that the brain is plastic," Sprenger told Bored Panda. "Every time you learn something new, your brain grows new connections. As we practice this new learning, the connections between brain cells get stronger and more resilient. If it is useful information, it stays with us, possibly forever."
#3
TIL that Billie Joe Armstrong once dropkicked a guy in the middle of a Green Day concert after he saw him roughing up a young girl. He stopped the show and challenged him to a fight before jumping into the crowd
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
Billie Joe might be cool, but Frank Wright III is Tré Cool.
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Verbalocity 3 years ago (edited)
Same thing happened to me when I was harrasssed at an Elvis Costello concert. He abruptly stopped the song, broke a beer bottle on the mike stand, stared at the guy and said quietly, "C'mere." Fortunately for the jerk, Security descended at that moment. Costello said, "Two, three, four," and they slammed back into the song.
Karri Berkowitz 3 years ago
He probably got sued for assault cuz the law doesn't seem to care why something was done
Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
Sometimes you have to just accept the consequences, when you know you are right. And possibly the good samaritan law would apply
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Ariel Strong 3 years ago
He honestly does seem like a cool dude. He brought up a couple of fans to the stage during Green Day's section of the Hella Mega Tour.
Tara Dawn 3 years ago
I’ve seen Green Day a handful of times, and he brought a young (10-12 yrs) man on stage to play Good Riddance with the Band. I bet that kid is still riding that high!
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Marty Balin, who founded Jefferson Airplane, jumped off stage during their set at the notorious 1969 concert at Altamont to try to stop the Hells Angels from killing a young black guy. He got knocked out for his trouble and the guy was stabbed to death. Later, he went to Sonny Barger, the gang's leader to complain and was knocked out again.
Y D 3 years ago
Liam Gallagher, frontman of Oasis, did similar. Stopped show dead, called for house lights and told some idiot in the pit that if he knocked into one more girl dancing like a spazz he was going to beat him bloody. Noel pointed at dude and gave him the finger. I'm guessing dude may have glanced some headlines previously as he STFU and quit flailing like a moron.
#4
TIL landlords in Glasgow, Scotland tried to increase rent by 25% on women whose husbands were fighting in World War 1. The women organised a rent strike and stopped bailiffs entering their buildings by throwing flour bombs at them and pulling down their trousers
RedCorvette 3 years ago
There really are cruel people in this world. What part of ‘oh their husbands are fighting in the war? Let’s increase their rents’ justify this plan?
Never Stop Learning 3 years ago
That is one of the lowest class things I heard of landlords ever doing!
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
"The Rent Restriction Act, 1915, was implemented after a protest held in Glasgow, by workers and tenants in support of five women who were taken to court for refusing to pay their rent". -wikipedia per Chich's URL above at time of this post. Rents were frozen at pre-war levels.
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Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Fcking landlords - why do we still kowtow to these bastards ; surely a firm stance and a threat of swift violence to them and their agents would stop that sort of nonsense !!!
Shannon Hawks 3 years ago
sounds like a good way to fight wars. flour bombs and pantsing people. no one dies.
From learning new languages to increasing our vocabulary by memorizing new words every day, all kinds of learning grow the brain, the expert explained. But if we don’t put them to good use, our skills won’t really grow or keep these new brain cell connections.
"Trying a new recipe, if you like to cook, will also benefit your brain. If you don’t like the recipe, you will have learned not to make it again! Does that sound silly? Remember, Thomas Edison found 10,000 ways not to invent the lightbulb before he figured out how to do it! His brain had to change with each failure, and he learned from those," Sprenger added.
#5
TIL that New Zealand author Janet Frame was falsely diagnosed as schizophrenic and was scheduled to be lobotomised. Several days before the operation, she won New Zealand's most prestigious literary prize, convincing doctors to cancel the procedure
Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
Not Unusual for a woman to be given a lobotomy for stating her opinion, or arguing with her husband, or for having bad menstrual cramps... or so many other horrible reasons. Those were very dark times for women. And we had better be careful, Some want to return to those days.
Rabbit-Of-ill-Portent️ 3 years ago
And it scares the ever living f*ck outta me. What world is my daughter going to enter into as an adult?! Gilead?!
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Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
I am anti-lobotomy for mental patients. I'm also pro-castration for rapists.
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
I wouldn't stop at the "balls". Not sorry.
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Deanna Crichley 3 years ago
I'm a big fan of Janet Frame's books. So glad she was able to keep writing them.
Yoru Toru Slightly Broken 3 years ago
Sometimes I want to get a lobotomy but I also want to eat rocks so maybe that’s not normal?
DC 3 years ago
... that is incredibly lucky, given that the absolute maximum of best results to ever have been achieved by a lobotomy is that the mental disability it caused was not a severe one... Sadly, not that many people who had been scheduled have been able to avoid having their brains cut into pieces, even cases of performing this stunt without any narcotics haven't been untold of. Messed up procedere, messed up reasons, messed up times - and no peer-reviewed research that indicated any success by that operation.
#6
TIL Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise (Harriet) didn't die until recently at an estimated age of 175 years
It's Izzy 🇺🇦 (They/Them) 3 years ago
Yeah. If I remember correctly, there was a funeral (I couldn't go). Have lots of photos with her as a little one (used to go to the zoo all the time, it was an easy day out for mum)
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glowworm2 3 years ago
Knowing how much Darwin loved to eat animals as much as he did discovering them, I am relieved that he didn’t try to eat Harriet.
robin aldrich 3 years ago
My thoughts exactly ! didn't he travel to the Galapagos and say oh what unusual animals let's eat all of them!
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#7
TIL about Janet Stephens, a hair stylist turned hairstyle archeologist. She visited a museum in 2001 and realized historians were wrong about hairstyles on Greek and Roman statues being wigs. She recreated the styles and published her findings in The Journal of Roman Archaeology
Jill Rhodry 3 years ago
Male historian's uses of some artifacts have been proven incorrect - simply by asking women what they could be used for.
Cobalt.spike 3 years ago
Can you provide a source for that assertion, please? The hair effect was apparently made by sewing it all together - absolutely fascinating. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-woman-is-a-hair-style-archaeologist-82478448/
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According to the professional learning consultant, keeping your brain active is vital. There’s an abundance of evidence proving that learning something new is an incredible way to stretch our critical thinking, keep our minds sharp, and become better at problem-solving. What’s more, one study had found that it could also prevent memory loss and dementia — more years of education may be associated with this decline.
But as Sprenger noted, because the brain has plasticity and can re-wire itself, we can also lose the information we learned. "Keeping your brain and your body active can make a big difference in your ability to concentrate, focus, and remember. The more you know, the easier it is to take new learning and new experiences and connect them to information already stored in your brain."
#8
TIL The Python programming language was named after Monty Python, not a snake
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
The examples in the documentation of a bit of a hint: ['this', 'is', 'a', 'dead', 'parrot']
That other Panda 3 years ago
You’ve STUNNED him, just as ‘e was wakin’ up!
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phil blanque 3 years ago
And...the word "spam" came from a Monty Python skit about a restaurant that served nothing but the "meat" product.
CelticElff 3 years ago (edited)
I've never met a computer programmer who couldn't quote Monty Python. In tech school we could just LOOK at a person and know if they were computer operators, or computer programmers. We're definitely a "type"...!
oddly_informed_raven 3 years ago
I can probably recite most of the Holy Grail
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Frank Ropen 3 years ago
My first Python programming book had a naked man playing the piano on its cover
#9
TIL John Steinbeck spent two months rewriting 'Of Mice and Men' after his dog ate the only copy of the original manuscript
Sharkbait1313 3 years ago
I remember in like 3rd grade my pug had had a litter of puppies and one night I had a homework assignment on the kitchen table that got knocked to the ground somehow and the puppies got ahold of it and chewed it up. My mom had to write me a note saying the the dogs ate my homework and I just remember my teacher cracking up about it. I was so embarrassed.
glowworm2 3 years ago
Holy c**p! That gag from Histeria! Was actually accurate! Basically, John Steinbeck finds his dog (played by Fetch) gleefully eating his manuscript. It then cuts to him admitting to the teacher that his dog ate his homework. Later he muzzles the dog only to find that the Big Fat Baby has made paper dolls out of it.
#10
TIL Salivating before vomiting is a way for your body to protect your teeth from the incoming stomach acid
Julie Robertson 3 years ago
We always called it the "mouth sweats" which was a sign you'd better find a place to spew - FAST.
Stephanee Ansell 3 years ago
omgosh, can I please borrow this saying from you?! this needs to be shared with the WORLD, it's fantastic!!!!! 🤣🤣
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Cobalt.spike 3 years ago
Sadly, dental damage is one of the side effects of bulimia nervosa that don't get much attention, even in cases where weight loss isn't severe.
CT 3 years ago
It's also a side effect of taking bupenorphrine--the drug recovering opioid users take to get off of opiods. It's just as addictive, though...
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cat? 3 years ago
yes, but i think they were referring to the mouth, because stomach acid is coming into the mouth- albeit just to pass through
Load More Replies... Meghna Mohan 3 years ago
I know that from the numerous times I threw up when expecting my kids. Absolute worst feeling 🥺
LuckyL 3 years ago
I heard that spitting saliva out is a way to prevent vomiting. Which would make sense with this information.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Doesn't work, at least not for me. When you gotta spew, ya gotta spew.🤢 (I've always wanted to use that emoji)!
Load More Replies... Mary Leverett 3 years ago
Thought I was "weird", that it only happened to me, as NO ONE else EVER mentioned it 🙄
Sharkbait1313 3 years ago
I always keep a couple of water bottles in my bathroom for this reason. I started doing it when I was pregnant so I could rinse my mouth as much as possible between each heave until I was done and could rinse and brush my teeth. I felt like I could feel the enamel on my teeth deteriorating and it freaked me out lol.
Beans 3 years ago (edited)
Don't brush your teeth directly after vomiting, your teeth are vulnerable because the acid will have damaged the enamel. If you brush, you will brush the enamel clean away and damage your teeth. It's the same principle as not brushing after eating acidic foods. You need to rinse your mouth with an alkaline like bicarb to neutralize the acid from vomiting, (1tsp of bicarb in a glass of water) then wait about 30 minutes before brushing. Source: I have vommed A LOT (sensitive stomach) in my life and learned this the hard way. Yes your enamel is literally deteriorating because stomach acid is freakishly strong. Bicarb/baking soda rinses are the best way to neutralize it.
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Every single one of us has at least a few topics we can talk about for hours — our job, school, or a favorite hobby — subjects we always want to dive deeper in. While it’s beneficial to explore the things that matter most to us, it is just as important to gain a broader understanding of the world.
Sprenger agreed with this line of thinking. "Whether you learn something new or pursue the study of an individual topic (like I do with the brain), you are keeping your brain active. If you focus on only one thing and not pursue other avenues, you could lose connections in other parts of your brain. So, diversification is good," she detailed. "Frankly, I am a nerd. I would rather read a new book on the brain than go out with friends. But I force myself to go. I know those social connections will help me on many levels. Socializing activates the brain," the expert explained that relationships are one of the most powerful tools to grow our brains.
#11
TIL upon request, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his copy of the "I have a dream" speech he had just delivered to the then security guard George Raveling. Raveling has been offered as much as $3 million for the original copy but he has refused all offers
Andrew Wildman 3 years ago
Good on Mr. Raveling... I hope that either his family feels the same way or it is willed to a museum.
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
Yeah I hope it goes to a museum. It needs to be protected and preserved!
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Furious George 3 years ago
I agree with other comments. This really should be in a museum for preservation.
Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
Hope it winds up with the Smithsonian, I'm sure they'd be delighted to have it.
Mary Clark 3 years ago
Many great, charismatic men in history have had mistresses, affairs, courtesans, etc. Why bring down this post with your negative comment? Tell us something you've learned, not the obvious.
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#12
TIL the BBC initially refused to publish Richard Dimbleby's eye witness account of Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they didn't believe it was as terrible as he described. It's estimated 70,000 people died at Belsen. The BBC only agreed to broadcast after Dimbleby threatened to resign
Autistic apricot 3 years ago
I hate most humans all the time, this is awful
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Kallen Kneeland 3 years ago
When confronted by unthinkable horror it is so much easier to simply not believe. No excuse, but a very human response.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
This is why it's important to preserve and teach history fully, in all its contexts. Especially in the age of misinformation and "alternative facts."
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Alex Boyd 3 years ago
Part of the context here is that in WWI, the press uncritically reported a lot of rumors about German soldiers committing atrocities against civilians in occupied Belgium--stuff like cannibalism, bayonetting babies, etc.--that turned out to be false (or exaggerated, in the case of some of the less lurid stuff). As a result, the press was given part of the blame for Britain rushing headlong into a war that, by the end of it, almost everyone considered to be a pointless slaughter. So in the next war, they *massively* over-corrected, and treated reports of German atrocities with excessive skepticism. (That, and of course antisemitism also played a big part.)
Colin Matthews 3 years ago
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-11th-armoured-division-great-britain I may be wrong, but as I recall-the division in question were approached by several senior German officers under white flag, who then led a column through the retreating Germans to the camp. The Germans couldn't understand the reaction from the British, whose officers had to restrain their men from shooting the Guards out of hand.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago (edited)
They couldn't believe it. And forgot that that is why you send reporters. Luckily Dimbleby had clout
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Amanda Hunter 3 years ago
The BBC love to foster its squeaky clean image, but it's far from the truth.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
It also had to do with the fact that the Brits didn't want to end their Mandate in Palestine by handing over a substantial amount to the Jewish authorities - they (falsely) saw the Palestinian Arabs as being more easily controlled. They felt that broadcasting about the horrors of the death camps would increase sympathy for Jews and mess up their plans.
#13
TIL that the 'inner-voice' of most life-long & completely deaf people is seeing/feeling themselves acting out sign language
Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
I guess according to the op ... blind/ deaf/ paralyzed... it is all the same. SMH
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ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
I'm hearing person who started learning s ign language in 9th grade. I went on to study deaf education. Sometimes I dream in sign
Deborah B 3 years ago
I have wondered about this. It's usually called the "inner monologue" and some people don't have one, but instead have non-verbalised abstract thoughts.
Julie Robertson 3 years ago
I get both, depending on what I'm doing. Creative endeavors usually manifest as visual, tactile, or auditory impressions, whereas concrete tasks such as driving a car, doing math, or reading a book elicit a more "wordy" response. Once in a while, I get both at the same time. Then I need to shut my brain down, turn it back on, and wait for it to reboot.
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K Sarfo 3 years ago
So by this analogy, this person will feel the sensation of the metal bar and the concret as they walk up the stairs?
Julie Robertson 3 years ago
Using OP's analogy, the blind person would "hear" the cane hitting the bar, and hear themselves stepping on the steps. I think?
Load More Replies... Satya Bain 3 years ago
I was once so deep in the deaf community in my city that I dreamed in sign language. I still do sometimes but have forgotten more sign than most people learn so I often have no idea what the conversation is.
Herman goetter 3 years ago
A nice elderly lady lives across the hall from wife and I who is mute and deaf but her other senses are very acute , vibrations frightened her until we helped her identify them.
If you encounter troubles with keeping up with your learning process, having a goal can be wise since it will help you focus on what’s important to you. Sprenger pointed out that our brains have these structures that filter incoming information. "If you tried to process everything that comes at you in a day, you would be overwhelmed and probably unable to do anything. So in that regard, your brain is looking out for you. What does the brain focus on? Anything novel. Its main function is your survival, so it must check out anything out of the ordinary."
#14
TIL that in 2017 an 8 year old learned how to drive on YouTube and successfully drove to McDonalds while following traffic laws
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
This must be in the States where every car is an automatic. In our country (SA), almost none are (well, fancy sedans but that's about it). Driving a manual and an automatic is a very different thing. You can watch videos till the cows come home, but you won't successfully drive a manual unless you've practiced for months.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
It depends. My mum is shorter than some 8 year olds and she can drive (not sure she should though, but that's another story)
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Cat Momma 3 years ago
Just goes on to show kids grow up "mentally" faster now then say 50 something ywars ago... We underestimate them too much.
Justme 3 years ago
Let’s elect him for president, he couldn’t make anything worse.
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#15
TIL Julius Chambers of the New-York Tribune had himself committed to an asylum in 1872, and his account led to the release of 12 patients who were not mentally ill, a reorganization of the staff, and a change in the lunacy laws
Sasha 3 years ago
A tiny bit vague. He had himself committed specifically for the scoop, essentially undercover. He talked about how once your declared insane, you basically cant convince anyone youre sane again. Which is a great system if you want to constantly abuse your patients, which was happening.
DramaDoc 3 years ago
Nellie Bly did the same thing at the Women's Lunatic Asylum in New York in 1887 that exposed how marginalized women were being treated in these institutions.
Brenda Greene 3 years ago
There's a movie based on her named 10 day in a Mad House
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Harvey Vostrejs 3 years ago
A woman reporter, Nellie Bly, did a similar thing! Highly recommend looking her up, she's awesome!
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
In 1893 Nellie Bly repeated the act: Bly left the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1887 for New York City. She faced rejection after rejection as news editors would not consider hiring a woman.Penniless after four months, she talked her way into the offices of Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper the New York World and took an undercover assignment for which she agreed to feign insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's (now Roosevelt) Island. It was not an easy task for Bly to be admitted to the Asylum: she first decided to check herself into a boarding house called Temporary Homes for Females. She stayed up all night to give herself the wide-eyed look of a disturbed woman and began making accusations that the other boarders were insane. Bly told the assistant matron: "There are so many crazy people about, and one can never tell what they will do." She refused to go to bed and eventually scared so many of the other boarders
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
that the police were called to take her to the nearby courthouse. Once examined by a police officer, a judge, and a doctor, Bly was taken to Blackwell's Island.
Committed to the asylum, Bly experienced the deplorable conditions firsthand. After ten days, the asylum released Bly at The World's behest. Her report, later published in book form as Ten Days in a Mad-House, caused a sensation, prompted the asylum to implement reforms, and brought her lasting fame. She had a significant impact on American culture and shed light on the experiences of marginalized women beyond the bounds of the asylum as she ushered in the era of stunt girl journalism. Madhousecv...656a8c.jpg 
Frank Ropen 3 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment "The second part of his study involved a hospital administration challenging Rosenhan to send pseudopatients to its facility, whose staff asserted that they would be able to detect the pseudopatients. Rosenhan agreed, and in the following weeks 41 out of 193 new patients were identified as potential pseudopatients, with 19 of these receiving suspicion from at least one psychiatrist and one other staff member. Rosenhan sent no pseudopatients to the hospital."
Cobalt.spike 3 years ago (edited)
A proto version of the 1978 study by Rosenhan "being sane in insane places", eh? Bump.
#16
TIL Ostrich farms routinely have difficulties getting male ostriches to breed, because they often find their human caretakers more attractive than female ostriches
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
I wonder if there's a video where the ostrich comes to fix the plumbing, but instead meets the home owner and...
K Sarfo 3 years ago
I saw an inteiew with one (male) caretaker who had to stand next to the female and wear a mating hat that the male would bite and nible at while he did his deed. It takes all types 😄
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Cheryl Carter 3 years ago
And how do we know that they find us more attractive? Did we ask said male ostriches?
Along with writing and presenting brain research information all over the country, Sprenger also loves teaching memory classes in the community. As she told us, many people, both young and older, often express worries about becoming forgetful. Well, their concerns seem justified, as a 2019 national poll from the University of Michigan revealed that over half (59%) of adults aged 50-64 felt their memory was slightly getting worse with age, and 7% reported it was much worse. Moreover, nearly half (48%) of respondents felt they were likely to develop dementia as they age and nearly as many worried about this prospect.
But fear not! Sprenger was kind enough to share a few things that will really help us remember. "We have five different memory systems in our brains," she said. "Two very important ones start with the letter E (that’s a little memory cue to help you remember them!) The first is emotional memory. When something happens that stirs an emotion, our brains tend to remember it."
#17
TIL There was so much [poop] in the streets of 14th century Paris that multiple roads had names which originated from the french word for [poop], "merde": rue Merdeux, rue Merdelet, rue Merdusson, rue des Merdons, and rue Merdiere. There was also a rue de Pipi, or "Urine Street"
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
This reminds me of the first couple pages of the novel, 'Perfume', where the everyday rancid smells of Paris are described in detail. It's a good antidote for students who think reading is boring (although the book may not be age appropriate).
Andrew Vince 3 years ago
Apparently people would poop and urinate in the corners of the Palace of Versailles.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
so.... not much has changed. The parisians still refuse to clean up their dogs' c**p.
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
I remember a campaign in Paris with a dog that says "Je fait ou on me dit de faire" = "I poop where you want me to", but it doesn't seem to have much helped.
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Maya Bielik 3 years ago
Theres a reason it was called "Pudding Lane" (the street that the great fire of london started on)
#18
TIL in 2013 a surgeon in the UK was struck off and convicted of assault after branding his initials into two patients livers. It was only discovered when 1.6-inch (4cm) initials were discovered by another doctor on an organ that he had transplanted failed
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Nobody in the operating room noticed this? I bet it was more than two.
CaptainDinosaur 3 years ago
Something like this happened in the states! The Doc was putting the initials of his alma mater, the University of Kentucky.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
During surgery, the doctor will use a small hot instrument to burn off (cauterize) bleeding blood vessels. This doctor used that instrument to burn his initials onto people's livers. Basically, he branded them like a cowboy does a cow's backside.
Load More Replies... Ciara Jane Eynon 3 years ago
I saw a tiktok about the ethical implications of this, was very interesting
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Doctors have some of the most over-inflated egos among all people. There were a number of cases of doctors running fertility clinics who replaced the donor's sperm with their own. On the other hand, some surgeons do "sign" their work with non-toxic non-permanent ink, so that the patient and hospital personnel will know that the surgery was performed by the expert, not a resident.
#19
TIL in 1977 Indian painter, PK Mahanandia, sold his belongings and cycled 4,000 miles from India to Sweden to visit his love, Charlotte von Schedvin because he couldn't afford a plane ticket. They got married in 1979
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
Now that is devotion wow dang. They should of made a movie about it.
The other system beginning with the letter E is episodic memory. "This system remembers where you are, which is a great trigger for memory. For instance, do you remember where you were when those planes flew into the twin towers on 9/11? Or where you were when you had your first kiss? Your first alcoholic beverage? Every time we learn something we are somewhere!"
"The night my high school boyfriend broke up with me, we were at a teen dance club. Just mentioning the place or driving by it brings back memories of that hurtful night. That went into many of my memory systems as it was both episodic and emotional," she continued. "So, the trick is to connect with your emotions and your locations to help you remember. You will automatically remember some events because your brain will store them without you trying. But take this information and use it to your advantage!"
#20
TIL The Parthenon in Athens was largely intact for over 2000 years. The heavily damaged ruins we see today are not due to natural forces or the passage of time but rather a massive explosion in 1687
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
There is an entirely enclosed full-scale replica of the Parthenon in Tennessee (built in 1897). It really makes people think about the grandeur of the original building in Greece when it was built thousands of years age.
JelliTate 3 years ago
Don’t remind me, there’s an Athena in there that terrifies me!
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#21
TIL about a woman named Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose) an American woman who used her position to undermine Japanese propaganda during WW2. She was named a traitor to the USA , and arrested for treason,it took her 30 years to prove her innocence
🌵 Drazil 3 years ago
Brave! Is an understatement!!!!! She deserves much more distinction than she's received! How about a Freedom Medal for this extraordinary woman?!!! President Biden, this would be constructive and have a lot of positive attention!!!!!
David H 3 years ago
She was a Republican who voted for Wilkie in 1940 and was Pardoned by President Ford, she went to work on Reagans Campaign. In 2003 she was honored by GW Bush and died in 2006. Not so sure Biden was this woman's type of politician
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Cashme Outside 3 years ago
Yeah, the story is wild. During the trial they even had numerous service members come out and say that she obviously wasnt trying to make them feel bad and that, in fact, they loved her broadcasts and it was obvious she wasn’t a traitor.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
This is so sad this is another example of what this country had done to people. While maybe someone in her family is fighting in our war cause they came over her to get away and they treat the whole family bad because of the way they look. Awful.
Cashme Outside 3 years ago
She was only in Japan because she went to go to help an ailing family member, an aunt I believe. She wasnt there for very long and didn’t even speak Japanese. When she realized what was going on with Pearl Harbor she tried to leave and wasn’t able to get out of the country before Japan locked itself down for the war. She struggled to have any sort of income and ended up working with a British aviator who’d been captured to create radio broadcasts under the guise of propaganda. Instead, they used the language barrier to make subtle jokes the Americans would understand and tried to help the Allied however she could. When she came back the gov’t labeled her as “Tokyo Rose”, even though no such person was known to actually exist, and was sort of a blanket name for the Japanese radio broadcasters. Numerous service members spoke out on her behalf, but the gov’t was adamant about going after her. Absolute shame what happened, and sadly, there was a lot of that going around at the time.
Load More Replies... So Grateful 3 years ago (edited)
I met her several times in the 80s and 90s. Her family ran a lovely Japanese gift shop in Chicago called J Toguri Traders, I believe. She was such a sweet and unassuming lady, always with a warm gracious smile and manner. I only learned who she was years later, and remain amazed at her kindness, humility, strength and dignity. God bless and rest her sweet soul.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago (edited)
She was one of several women who broadcast as Tokyo Rose but the only one who voluntarily turned herself in to US authorities. They decided it would be easier to charge just one person so they never arrested anyone else.
#22
TIL that dogs and cats have special taste buds geared specifically for water
Down With Agent Hedgehog! 3 years ago (edited)
Sooo… water tastes specifically different for them?
Monday 3 years ago
I wonder if they think warm wander is round and cold water is pointy too?
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Jeff Jefferson 3 years ago
Now that IS interesting! My dog barely touches the water in his stainless steel bowl, fresh from the tap - no matter how hot it is outside. He always wants to drink from the old, shabby bowl in the garden containing rain water. Never understood why ...
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
Steel bowls smell strange even for humans. Try ceramic or porcelain bowls.
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LittleWombat 3 years ago (edited)
This explains SO MUCH! And K Sarfo, your comment is perfect! One of our cats in particular is sooo picky and wants only water from a certain bowl and begs to have it freshened throughout the day. She gets so excited and its adorable so of course we do so! But to know why she gets like that is so cool. Knowledge is awesome!!!!!!
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
Our cats like ceramic bowls most, they don't smell like steel or plastic ones.
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This is why they rather drink water outside than from porly rinsed out waterbowl with stale water. It tastes like "high potensial for pollutions, better try the next creek". So frest water thrice a day in a freshly swiwled or cleaned bowl made metall or appropriate material, not plastic.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
Lol we had to stop using toilet blocks in our downstairs loo as one of ours thought it was his personal water bowl
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Diana Jonkman 3 years ago
I saw a video of a girl giving her cat water from different bottles(brands), and the cat had preferred Evian.
Mattewis88 3 years ago
Like how the water tastes different by suburb/town? Because it does. But yeah, my cat refuses to drink from anything other than a coffee mug or glass.
Amber Hartsfield 3 years ago
My dog doesn’t like popcorn but loves water. Thought it was weird. Now i understand lol
Another tactic that makes information stick is the retrieval practice. It is most often used when you want to remember information you are learning, whether it’s a language or a computer system. "This is testing yourself to see if you can pull the information out of your brain," Sprenger said. "As a teacher, I learned that many students, both middle and high school (and even college), could store information, yet they had trouble retrieving it for tests or essays."
"Once you begin to learn something, stop and see if you can retrieve it without any help or cues. I call it a blank page review. Take a plain sheet of paper and write down what you’ve learned so far. Do that as you continue the learning. Pay attention to what you couldn’t retrieve. We learn from mistakes. You’ll be amazed at how that simple practice will increase your knowledge."
#23
TIL that The British Pound is the oldest currency in the world, it has been used for over 1,200 years and dated back to Anglo-Saxon era. Back then it equivalent to 1 pound of silver. One pound back then could buy you 15 cows
Autistic apricot 3 years ago
Where do you live? It won’t even get me a packet of haribos from the Co-op now :(
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
To add to this, the reason the pound sign (not "hash") is a curly L-shape, is because it is an L. From latin, Libra = scales. Hence Lb for the weight "pounds".
Oreo Tookie 3 years ago
If you mean coinage in use, you are correct. However coinage goes way further back.
#24
TIL that Nike created a pair of shoes that were so advanced, they were banned from the Olympics because they were considered as technological doping.The Alphaflys, or “the shoe that broke running”, as sports scientist Dr Ross Tuckercalled them, contain tech designed to deliver greater energy return
Nathaniel 3 years ago
The Nike shoes were made from Flubber. There is a couple of documentaries you can find on this substance.
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
I think I saw that documentary. Professor Brainard seemed like an Absent-Minded Professor.
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Greg Williams 3 years ago
This post is misleading, the Alphaflys were banned from the Olympics because of their technology. But it wasn't from their technology being "breaking running" it was given to exclusively one man to break the 2 hour marathon. It was allowed competitively once it was released for public purchase.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago (edited)
Uh…there are pictures of the alpha fly or zoomX all over. And you chose that shoe? What about just showing the Enos exhibition marathon run that Kipchoge did in just under 2 hours in those shoes. And you pick these boring shoes!
MonteLukast 3 years ago
Puma made a shoe that was banned from the 1972 Olympics. The Puma Brush Shoe.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
The Speedo LZR suits encountered the same charges when they were introduced.
#25
TIL that the religious group known as the Shakers are completely celibate and cannot have children, so they can only gain new members by converting outsiders. As a result, there were only two people in the last existing Shaker community as of 2020, although they gained a single new member in 2021
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
They can have children. Just not by sexual reproduction. However adoptions and fostering are always acceptable.
Monday 3 years ago
Technically that's still converting an outsider too, since you bring in the child from outside the religion.
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Mickipickie 3 years ago
Because of a state of religious ecstasy they experienced as a group.
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Stimpy 3 years ago
There has since been a great shism, and now the community is divided into the "salt" and "pepper" shakers
Historyharlot93 3 years ago
I have to add that the Shakers were a cult, albeit a “nice” one. New members had to sign over all their money and earthly goods, and worked a strict time table dawn to dusk. They welcomed visitors but had strict laws about communicating with outsiders. It was almost impossible to leave. They made great furniture though.
Zelda Fitzgerald 3 years ago
If I remember correctly this cult is where Graham crackers came from- Stephen Graham created them because the believed bland food would repress sexual urges
Yet, if you set a goal to remember something happening right now, the expert suggested to "look for the emotional component (it may be that you’re having fun!), be aware of where you are, and practice retrieving the information. When you meet a new person who is going to be important in your life, be sure to repeat their name. That’s a rehearsal and will help you retrieve the name later. Practice makes perfect…and permanent!"
#26
TIL that In 2018, Pope Francis married two flight attendants in an impromptu mid-air wedding on a plane during a trip to Chile. The couple had gotten married in a civil ceremony in 2010 but weren't able to follow it up with a church service because of the earthquake in Chile that year
Robert T 3 years ago
I have to admit that I was somewhat confused by the phrasing of that. My first thought was "the dirty old git". Then I realised that he was performing the ceremony for the two flight attendants to marry one another! LOL
Rabbit-Of-ill-Portent️ 3 years ago (edited)
I'm not a Christian but I respect the history of the papal position, that would have been amazing to witness EDIT: I do not condone the sexual abuse that has gone on in the church for far too long
Kurt Ramsey 3 years ago
The Pope officiated a marriage...at first I thought the author was stating the Pope took two.brides.
Shannon Hawks 3 years ago
lol. read that to fast. I thought the pope got married to two flight attendants
Jeffrey Diehl 3 years ago
For Roman Catholic cleric, this pope is pretty cool. For a Catholic.
Ricardo Ferreira 3 years ago
I need a vacation. I swear I had understood that the Pope married tow flight attendants, like, he was the groom and they were the fiancees. o_O
#27
TIL - According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement. By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress
Jennifer Norton 3 years ago
The bigger issue here is the lack of education in the USA about finances! The reason these athletes go broke is because as soon as they start making tons of money they start spending tons of money as if it's going to be coming in forever. I feel bad for the ones that had no money management education and that are surrounded by people that take advantage of them.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Another reason they go broke so quickly is they get scooped up by predatory financial advisors who don't help them manage their money wisely.
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Wintermute 3 years ago
Yeah, if you gave me a gazillion dollars right out of high school I'd probably be broke too. To my credit tho, I've managed to be broke even without ever having a gazillion dollars. So in a way I beat the system. Yay me!
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago (edited)
I never played, but I always wondered if it took a certain kind of intelligence. Strategy. Spacial reasoning. Quick thinking. That sort of thing. (edit: The ability to read your opponents.)
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Cashme Outside 3 years ago
They spend tons of money trying to teach it, the players don’t listen or believe it wont happen to them so they spend the money like it will never end.
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#28
TIL Mount Thor in Canada has the world's longest vertical drop. If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything
Samantha 3 years ago
I bet base jumpers love it. It must be amazing to jump from the top in one of those flying squirrel suits!
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
Yeah if u actually had the courage to do it lol
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ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
And if I drop the pound of feathers and a pound of bricks which one would hit the ground first
Lastly, Sprenger stressed the importance of social-emotional learning and creating meaningful relationships. "We are all students as we go out into the world and learn. Getting to know people, the people you work with, live with, ride the bus with…all of our encounters include people who can help us learn. People need connection. We all want to belong. Belonging is not 'fitting in.' Fitting in is a way of changing to become like others. Belonging is being seen and heard for who you are. Make those connections, build those relationships, and learning will follow," she concluded.
#29
TIL in 2006, a mother and son were convicted of trying to extort money from Cracker Barrel by claiming they found a dead mouse in her soup. Charges were filed after a necropsy showed the mouse had no soup in its lungs and had not been cooked, signs that it was dropped into the soup after its death
Historyharlot93 3 years ago
“Waiter, what’s a mouse doing in my soup?” “Conspiring to commit fraud, sir.”
DC 3 years ago
That's so damned disgusting ... if you wanna screw over some big corp, ok, let's just assume that that in itself is fine, just for a brief moment here to get to the thinking I'm aiming at ... at least, do it in a way that doesn't expose your idiotism right away. A mouse used for this purpose would need to be cooked in soup, alive at the beginning, to make sure the situation leaving behind the corpse resembles the one claimed to have happened as close as possible. And that, by no means, is in any way acceptable, as cooking a life mouse just for some dirty money ripped off of someone, is just cruel and sickening. So ... need a mouse who already, by accident, has been cooked in canned soup so you don't have to be cruel to a consciousness that's true, and then, after all this is worked out, the question of the ethical implications of ripoffery in general and/or in that case is justifiable, is to be answered. And that, I think, depends. There are companies that are plain evil, ... .......
Satya Bain 3 years ago
Way too prevalent in today's society. There are companies begging for workers. Please, get a job and be honorable. Making any wage is preferable to making none. To the haters: I've been there and so over it. I had no marketable skills but made my way to VERY marketable skills. It takes a long time and I did it while a single mom with 3 kids, at times living out of my very small car. I much prefer working and am now actually looking forward to retirement rather than continuing to live off handouts. I am now completely free of debt and did it on my own.
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
I'm trying to picture a little mouse autopsy, but all it does is make me think about the smell of formaldehyde from my middle school lab. Personally, we dissected frogs.
#30
TIL when a pilot ejects from their plane, the ejection seat manufacturer gives them a tie. The Ejection Tie Club is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat. There are over 6,000 members
Amber Hartsfield 3 years ago
Why a tie, why not something else, like a cupcake or a bowl of ice cream, those are much more helpful if you have to eject your seat from an airplane. Ice cream makes everything better
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Not when you are at an aviation event .... bragging rights x I have a tie that indicates that I pulled my ripcord at under 250ft having fallen 2000ft - the landing was uncomfortable ; I survived, still limp, but when I'm at an aviation bash, wow, the amount of people who come up and say ' WHAT !! You're still alive !!!' Fun times - last time I jumped out of an aircraft though ....
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Stephen Cohoon 3 years ago
A few years ago Martin-Baker created a broach for female pilots who ejected. A few have been awarded. One is on display at the RAF museum near London.
Alison Lewis 3 years ago
In WWII, anyone who used a parachute to save their lives (I.e. jumping out of a plane during an aerial fight) became members of the Caterpillar Club. My dad jumped out of a Spit Fire 3 times and received a small gold caterpillar broach with ruby eyes.
CaptainDinosaur 3 years ago
I was interested enough to look this up! So, USN Lt. Linda Maloney was the first woman to eject from a plan during a combat mission in 1991. Afterward, the company contacted her and asked if she wanted a tie, or something else. She let them decide and was awarded a pewter pin, commemorating her as the first female pilot to eject.
Load More Replies... Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
"Why did you ruin the American people's 6 million dollar aircraft?" Reply:"I really wanted that tie."
Stephen Cohoon 3 years ago
Some years ago Martin-Baker created a broach for female pilots who ejected. One is on display at the RAF museum near London.
steven mayes 3 years ago
I used to work at MB in Denham UK, the machine shop where they made the seat components had a wall chart that shows "Lives saved that year" & "Lives saved to date"
#31
TIL: The World's Littlest Skyscraper in Wichita Falls was built in 1919. Remote investors were swindled by intentionally not indicating the units on the planned blueprints were in inches, not feet
Nathaniel 3 years ago
You have been spoilt girl. I have what I have, you'll just have to make do. Wait... are you talking about the building?
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
pretty sure there are lots of buildings like this. I can think of a few in my own country.
DC 3 years ago
... haha, a factor 12 rip off is something you really gotta have the balls to ... but, how did they justify the building having THAT huge windows? It couldn't have been a memorial site in honour of Bill Gates at that time, and otherwise, having windows about 12 times as large as the usual ones that you'd like expect there, ... uh, and those giant doors, and doorstep, and handle and knobs and stuff, ...
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
Oh, I just read about this a few weeks ago! I was thinking about taking a road trip and looked up interesting things to see in different cities.
Cashme Outside 3 years ago
So thats how the story goes, but there are no verifiable sources to indicate thats what actually occured.
#32
TIL: In the 25 years since Ron Goldman’s family won a $33,500,000 civil judgement against OJ Simpson for wrongful death, he has only paid the family about $133,000
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
On a side note, this made me feel older than I already feel cuz this happened when I was in high school.
B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 3 years ago
On another side note, if you really wanna feel old, I am 30 years old and the trial happened before I was old enough to even remember it 🙃
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Monday 3 years ago
At the height of his fame back in 1994 his net worth was "only" $11 million, so how anyone expected he'd actually pay $33 million is beyond me.
Sue User 3 years ago
Future earnings. Its bot how much you are worth now, its to make sure you dont do an Alex Jones, declare bankruptcy and then two years later live a lavish lifestyle.
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Heather Fortnam 3 years ago
That's what they don't tell you... You can't make them pay. My ex owes my mom $1000 (for about $8000 of stolen jewelry), she will never see a penny.
Andrew Wildman 3 years ago
The rest went to his lawyers for his Vegas trial, plus it's hard to make money behind bars.
#33
TIL that humans have the highest daytime visual acuity of any mammal, and among the highest of any animal (some birds of prey have much better). However, we have relatively poor night vision
Dynein 3 years ago (edited)
Here's how it's thought that difference came to be: There were already mammals during the later parts of the dinosaur era, but they were shrew-like, and were likely nocturnal and lived underground. You don't need good eyesight for that, and in fact mammals lost the ability to distinguish green and red which their reptilian ancestors almost certainly were able to see (birds and a lot of reptilians and fish never lost that ability). However, mammals evolved a better sense of hearing (those tiny bones by the ear drum) as well as an excellent sense of smell. After/during the dinosaur extinction, they likely had an easier time to adapt to the changed environment due to their natural life style. Most mammals never regained their ability to distinguish red and green - with one exception: primates. Our color vision is still evolving, though, and not near the capability of color distinction that birds have!
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I envy the birds for that. And oh yeah, there's that whole flying thing.
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third molar 3 years ago
I can confirm that my nighttime visual activity is very high as well. Esp when a new series drops on Netflix!
Autistic apricot 3 years ago
Unrelated but that photo is so cool, those eyes got me mesmerised
#34
TIL in 2009 an American tourist was almost left behind by his transcontinental Australian train. He clung to the outside for two hours and 124 miles in only a t-shirt and jeans while the temperature dropped below freezing
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
I'm American and black. If you ever visit me, all I can say is bring your ear plugs.
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pink_panda 3 years ago
WAIT CHAD??? Holy c**p, this guy is a friend of mine from high school!! I had no idea this happened to him!
Chris Hooley 3 years ago
Indian Pacific, running east/west between Sydney and Perth. Possibility of snow over the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, but not often.
Q B F T 3 years ago
Yes. Are you confused? It's not an intercontinental train...
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#35
TIL that a trio of drunken boys decided to sail out to sea looking for a girl they saw at a sports competition event. They ended up sailing for more than seven weeks and drifted 1300 km off course before being rescued by a tuna boat. They all survived by drinking beer, eating coconuts and a bird
B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 3 years ago (edited)
You should see the stupid things my drunk horny female friends get up to, they’ve convinced me it’s not a gender thing, it’s a “horny makes brain dumb dumb” thing lmao
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Monday 3 years ago
They set off from Tokelau Atafu Island, it technically belongs to New Zealand I think.
Load More Replies... 🌵 Drazil 3 years ago
Where was Gilligan???!......or the Skipper??!! And, what about Marianne!!!?!
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
Right?!?! Ginger, Howells, Professor???!!! Maybe they joined the cowboys Paula Cole asked about, idk.
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Ellie 3 years ago
How did they cook the bird? At least I really hope they cooked it
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#36
TIL that in 2017 a sailor was stranded and alone on a cargo ship near the Suez Canal for almost 4 years. Since the owner was having financial difficulties and the captain had gone ashore, the local court declared the sailor the legal guardian
B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 3 years ago
In this exact case, this sailor deserves his squatters rights!
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Andrew Wildman 3 years ago
if memory serves, he'd receive food and supplies from supporters and aid groups, because if he left the boat, it'd be considered salvage or something.
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#37
TIL the average Mexican is genetically 50% indigenous with evidence of native ancestry being significantly higher on the X chromosome
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
Mexicans are more likely to have female native ancestors than male.
Ace Girl 3 years ago
I bet more than a few of those pregnancies were due to r*pe by the colonizers.
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MontanaMariner 3 years ago
Weird, it's almost like Spanish men came over and raped the native women.
Stimpy 3 years ago (edited)
I guess this is probably a nice way of saying "a lot of the indigenous males were killed and a lot of the indigenous women were raped by early colonizers"
Reinaldo Fuentes 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah... Between 1492 (Columbus) and 1620 (the Mayflower), there are 128 years - a century and a quarter - of Europeans in the Americas that basically NO ONE wants to be responsible or accountable for.
Load More Replies... Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
What people seem to be ignorant of is that the Aztecs themselves were fairly recent conquerors of Mexico. They actually only arrived in the 13th century, some 250 years before they were invaded in turn by the Spaniards. Another interesting fact is that every conquest of Mexico city has followed the exact same geographical path. The Aztecs used it, the Spaniards used it, and finally the US Military used it.
BasedWang12.2 3 years ago
Ohhh I'd love to show this fact to certain conservatives followed by "So REAL Americans amiright?"
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
Yeah my son is half Mexican 20% Spanish, 20% Indigenous American and 23% Scottish-according to his DNA on AncestryDNA.
#38
TIL that after the Portuguese dictator Salazar went into coma, he was dismissed as Prime Minister. When he emerged from it and recovered lucidity, no one wanted to tell him he had been removed from power, instead he was allowed to "rule" in privacy until his death 2 years later
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
If you're surrounded by yesmen and sycophants, it's impossible to tell what is true and what isn't.
Load More Replies... Lolly 3 years ago
My dad died during the last World Cup. He had been so excited for it and believed England would do well. Me and my brothers were caring for him and by the time england got knocked out he was only awake for about half an hour a day. We lied to him and told him England won because we didn't want him to be disappointed. Sorry dad but we did have the best intentions. Love you xxx
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
That should have been done at the place in Florida the FBI just made a warranted search of. Just buy an old set from the West Wing, set it up there, and tell him he's still in the White House.
#39
TIL only 5% of residential homes in the UK are thought to have air conditioning and many buildings are designed in a way to keep heat in
Crouching hippo hidden panda 3 years ago
Well yeah, because growing up there it was rarely above 25 degrees in the summer. Global warming is happening scarily fast
iseefractals 3 years ago
No....it's not. It has been happening for 200 years, science first became aware of the impact of Co2 in 1854 when experiments showed that higher concentrations of Co2 in the air caused it to heat up faster, to higher temperatures and retain that heat for longer, and this fact quickly made common knowledge across the scientific community but was widely ignored outside of it in pursuit of "progress" Exxon's own environmental studies in the mid 70's predicted EVERYTHING that is currently happening, and they responded with disinformation campaigns despite credible independent scientists calling b******t, consistently and loudly for nearly 50 years. Nothing about this has been "quick" it's been a slow, depressing descent that was completely avoidable if the general population weren't equal parts idiotic, apathetic and selfish. What's happening now is catastrophic failure as earth systems collapse but getting to this point was drawn out, slow and avoidable.
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funkybluegirl 3 years ago
Oof. That's worse than I thought. This has been a rough summer for so many.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago (edited)
Basically our houses are built to contain heat. We have insulation in our attics and walls. We have double glazing in our windows too. The British weather is famous for wind and rain, we as a people are not acclimatised to high temperatures, so we can't cope in the heat. It's not that we're all a bunch of wimps you can literally fry an egg on the pavements here it's that hot
Cecily Holland 3 years ago (edited)
They better get onto that’s from all the complaining on the Daily Mirror comments
#40
TIL Microsoft held a mock funeral for iPhone because they thought the windows phone 7 was going to smash apple in sales
Deepesh Soni 3 years ago (edited)
Never lambast your competitors, but always learn from them. Competition is essential for success.
Will Cancel 3 years ago
It was 100% better, their downfall was not using Google's playstore. App developers didn't want to have to create a 3rd version (apple, Google AND Windows). If they had gotten the app support from the start. It would have really changed the market.
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
I still use an app that imitates Windows phone start screen, now on my Android (it's called SquareHome).
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Olivier VD 3 years ago
Windows phone was awesome. Everyone saying different is a snide moron who doesn't know anything about tech.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
Even they didn't believe it. If they did it wouldn't have been Mock
#41
TIL coding RollerCoaster Tycoon in the late 1990s required significant optimization of PC power and memory constraints at the time. Per designer Chris Sawyer, letting guests drown was simply easier than programming the alternative of allowing them to swim to shore
#42
TIL that official temperatures used in weather apps are taken in shade, not under sunlight
Jennifer Norton 3 years ago
Well that's crazy.... Now I know why it always feels hotter here in Texas than the app says it is. Mystery solved!
ShellsBells 3 years ago
That would be the humidity that makes it feel hotter than the actual temperature. The heat index is a combination of the temperature and humidity, so it could be 100 degrees, but it feels like 115. That's why Houston feels more hot than El Paso.
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I guess they also just learned that the "F" stands for "Farenheit", and the little circle stands for "degree".
Yogi's mom 3 years ago
Which makes sense, but I wish they could also provide ground temps for those of us not hovering 6 ft in the air...
#43
TIL in the movie Arachnophobia, the largest spider was a bird-eating spider they named Big Bob, after Robert Zemekis. Big Bob was adopted by a crew member named Jamie Hyneman, who went on to host Mythbusters. The little ones were controlled using a hairdryer and lemon pledge spray
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Yes, the Mythbuster hosts are both Movie special effects people. That is why they are so familiar with how different audio-visual illusions are created. Adam Savage is a really nice dude, BTW (my wife has interacted with him on a couple of occasions, and my daughter got a selfie with him).
I’ve Seen Things 3 years ago
I lasted most of the way through the opening credits before noping myself to something less like an Australian documentary.
Minath 3 years ago
I watched it when I was 10, it scared me sh1tless and was the cause of me checking the rim of the toilet before sitting for about two years afterwards. The strange thing is that I love spiders now and the only reason I don't have a pet one is because all my friends are terrified of then.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
There were two. Another one named Morticia. They were Venezuelan Bird Spiders who were given special permits to be allowed into the US and were supposed to be destroyed but were not.
RJ 3 years ago
Anyone else have an urge to find a can of lemon pledge spray and read the label very closely?
Jeffrey Diehl 3 years ago
Jamie majored in Comparative Russian Literature at Indiana University. Perfect for his post-graduate life in the real world.
#44
TIL Gloria Williams, who pleaded guilty to posing as a hospital employee and abducting Kamiyah Mobley from her mother's arms in the maternity ward, was sentenced to 18 years, which was the length of time Mobley was separated from her birth family
Monday 3 years ago
The extra sad part is for Kamiyah, Gloria is her real mom since she's the woman who loved and raised her for those 18 years. She even made a plea to get Gloria's sentence reduced saying "I need my mother home". Her biological parents, the victims of Gloria's crime, are the villains in Kamiyah's story :(
Rabbit-Of-ill-Portent️ 3 years ago
I remember reading this. I agree with your sentiments about Kamiyah. Gloria was the only mother she knew. But that doesn't negate the fact that Gloria did something horrific to an innocent mother. She is still very much is the villain in this story
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#45
TIL that a single engineer in the control room of NASA prevented the astronauts of Apollo 12 from aborting the mission seconds after launch. "Set SCE to AUX", said John Aaron which saved the entire mission
Stephanie Barr 3 years ago
The Saturn V was struck by lightning after launch. The CM's instruments momentarily went off-line and Mission Control lost the telemetry feeds from the spacecraft for several seconds. When ground control regained telemetry lock with the spacecraft, the feeds were garbled and reported incomplete and possibly inaccurate information. A ground controller believed the signal Conditioning Equipment would have automatically gone off-line in response to the kind of disruption to the spacecraft's electrical systems that a lightning strike would cause and malfunctioned. Fortunately, the crewmember, Alan Bean, also remembered the scenario from training and knew how to implement the relatively obscure command.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
No, switching to the auxiliary backup signal conditioning equipment.
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TIL that in 1988 the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) did a psychological profile of Jack the Ripper in time for the 100 years anniversary of the White Chapel murders. The FBI profiled Jack as male, 28-36 years old, most likely a butcher, mortician, or medical orderly
Andrew Wildman 3 years ago
FBI profile of a serial killer is a white middle-aged male... that's helpful.
Strings 3 years ago
According to FBI profiles, ALL serial killers are white males, between 28-36
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Harvey Vostrejs 3 years ago
There's also a theory that he could have been a she, specifically a midwife due to the knowledge of women's reproductive systems.
BobTDG 3 years ago
Except Scotland yard reckon he did it for sexual pleasure.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 3 years ago
That sounds exactly like the profile for the DC sniper. You know...before they caught him.
No Clue 3 years ago
It may have been at the time due to shorter life expectancy back then.
Load More Replies... Yogi's mom 3 years ago
Actually there was much more to the profile - I found it at vault.fbi.gov
Tinley's Aunt 3 years ago
I would think that the FBI would have enough to do without investigating a British cold case.
Angie Falzarano 1 year ago
It's now believed that Jack the ripper was non other than hh Holmes. As during the time of the ripper hh Holmes was not in America. And they have compared hh Holmes writing to that of the ripper and have found it matched. Plus he had the medical knowledge that would explain the way the ripper cut up his victims. Hh Holmes is considered to be the first serial killer. It was because of him that the term serial killer came about.
Susie Kamper 3 years ago
If FBI or anyone else really want to know about White Chapel murders, first they need to accept there was no Jack the Ripper. He was invented by the news media. The women who were killed were not prostitutes. They were homeless. There is no evidence or even clues that they were murdered by the same man.
Gozer LeGozerian 3 years ago
M.o. highly suggests they were killed by the same man. How many surgically skilled killers is it possible was out there at the same time in the same area. And your statement isn't correct, they weren't homeless
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#47
TIL that a robot fish invented to mimic the natural predator of the 'mosquitofish' was so effective that it altered their behaviour, physiology and fertility, effectively "scaring them to death"
Adam Belaire 3 years ago
I want to see a drone that patrols over the water and smacks the flying carp down when it sees it.
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#48
TIL the reason why Wine Coolers dropped in popularity in the USA after the 80s was because in 1991, the US excise tax on wine was raised from $0.17 per gallon to a $1.07, making it uneconomical for Wine Cooler makers to produce at a palatable price for buyers
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
That's the only wine I ever enjoyed drinking, all the rest taste like vinegar to me
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Because it was basically low alcohol sugar water .......
Load More Replies... Madzdad the Bard 3 years ago
"Thank you for your support", If you remember this advert, you are officially old!
Andreas H 3 years ago (edited)
The german government did the same 15 years ago. New high tax for the cheap "alkopops", which teenagers had drunk too much. It worked, they disappeared from the market. https://www.imago-im...078187033/s.jpg
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Taxing alco-pops hasn't had the effect expected in Australia, despite alco-pops still being sold, teens just moved on to drinking cider, which is cheaper.
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Lisa Samuelson 3 years ago
I remember Sun Country wine coolers and they were the best wine cooler ever, especially the peach!! Now all 'wine coolers' are just malt beverages. Not the same!!
#49
TIL male goats urinate on their heads to smell more attractive to females
$cagsy 3 years ago
I know that goats are agile but there must be some next-level gymnastics at play here.
Minath 3 years ago
They can clean their genitals so it can't be too difficult for them to pee on their heads. Or they just put their head between the front legs.
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Sue User 3 years ago
I would prefer for humen men to urinate IN the head, not ON it, thanks.
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Cecily Holland 3 years ago
And it PONGS. Had goats growing up. Knew it was spring by the stench
#50
TIL that production on "No Country For Old Men" was shut down for a day due to a large black cloud of smoke drifting into view. The smoke was coming from a pyrotechnics test on the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood", which was simultaneously filming in the same town of Marfa, TX
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I found There Will Be Blood depressing and disturbing to the point that I wish I hadn't seen it. I liked No Country though.
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ATM 3 years ago
i remember these two movies coming out at the same time and thinking the titles were interchangeable
#51
TIL of Tonda Dickerson, a waitress who was tipped a lottery ticket that won. The jackpot was $10M. She was sued by her co-workers who demanded a share and the person who tipped her, who demanded a truck, and was pursued by the IRS, who demanded a gift tax
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The more I hear about winning the lottery, the more undesirable it sounds.
Will Cancel 3 years ago
Never personal claim a lotto winnings. Consult a tax lawyer, and create a trust, that unnamed trust to the public, claims the winnings. There by no one will no who, and more importantly. No one can sue that trust.
Honu 3 years ago (edited)
Yes. I'm also wondering how the valuation works with the law. Maybe someone who is an expert at these things can clarify, because I am not. I thought the gift would be the value of the item at the time it was given. In this case, I would think it would be the price of the ticket, which would be negligible. Certainly not enough to trigger gift tax. Was it because the increase in value of the ticket happened so quickly? Today it was worth $1 and the next day it was worth $10M? Also, if the IRS is going to classify a tip as a gift, how do they get away with taxing tips as income? They even assume a server takes a minimum of 8% of their till as tip income and will tax them on that even if they don't.
Load More Replies... ethan kraner 3 years ago
1: coworkers have no claim to that tip, it was her tip, depending on the workplace tip rules 2: that guy who tipped it to her has ABSOLUTELY NO claim for it 3: IRS taxes not avoidable, but gift tax is stupid
Gilmore Girls 3 years ago
If the tipper demanded a truck, that implies they thought the ticket would never win, which means they were cruel to tip with an item they deemed useless.
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TIL that Christian Bale had dental work done to make his teeth more perfect for American Psycho (2000) to match the superficial appearance of his character Patrick Bateman
Shelby Jackson 3 years ago
Just read the book recently and he definitely went the extra mile to become Bateman. Guess that's why they call him a method actor.
Electra Complex 3 years ago
Y'all should read about his full preparation for that movie, it's actually insane
#53
TIL Onions have sucrose, a natural sugar, trapped in their cells. The longer you cook an onion the more sucrose is released and the heat converts the sucrose into glucose and fructose which are sweeter sugars. This process is called caramelization and it creates very sweet tasting onions
Wolfe 3 years ago
I know how to caramelize an onion, but I didn't know the science behind it
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DC 3 years ago
Onions, I love. All kinds of related foods ... Lauchgewächse in german - Knoblauch (garlic), of course, being my favourite. Porree, the larger leech (or leach?) like ones, cooked, in soup, are among my favourite solid in any soup they're in - and about the only onion-related thing that doesn't taste any good if being eaten raw... You know, there's so much to know about onions, their different variaties and cooking, frying, steaming options, that can be applied to all kinds of meals, that the treatment and choice of onionoids for a given meal deserves to have books written about it. Compared to normal cooking books, this could be translated into a book about sheet metal processing in the industry, that then, of course, also applies to making car bodies, trashcans, train cars or mailboxes, but the entirety of sheet metal processing in itself deserves having books written about, and has books written about...
Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
And that sucrose causes IBS like symptoms. First thing on FODMAP diet is to eliminate onions and garlic from food chain.
#54
TIL of Sonya Thomas, a competitive eater. In 2005, she held 22 world titles at a bodyweight of 99 lbs. and defeated elite male and female competitors twice her size or more
Featherytoad 3 years ago
I tried watching that once. It's so disgusting. Any type of food eating contest is.
Na Schi 3 years ago
I remember that once I've picked up the fact, that it is indeed of an advantage to be of slender/skinny stature if you want to succeed in competitive eating: It it normally the fat layer around the stomach, that hinders the stomach to expand enough to take up the large amount of food. So this makes slim people (or probably very obese people who have expanded their body physiology to daily intakes of several large portions) having an advantage.
pink_panda 3 years ago
This baffles me completely. Especially how tiny some of these champions are. Is it not painful to shove so much mass into your body at once?
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