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‘Today I Learned’: 30 Intriguing Things People Didn’t Learn At School, But Found On The Net (New Pics)
Life’s a never-ending lesson in the best way imaginable. If you’re even slightly curious about the world and have an open mind, you can quite literally learn something new every single day. And I don’t know about you, dear Pandas, but I’m on a roll and I don’t plan to stop my worldly education any time soon.
Probably the best place to learn something new is the ‘Today I Learned’ subreddit that boasts 25.1 million members and has been enlightening netizens with interesting tidbits of trivia ever since it was founded in the ancient year of 2008. We’re huge fans of the TIL community and we’ve written about them in so much depth, you could stack our articles up to the Moon and back… probably. You’ll find Bored Panda's most recent articles about them right here, over here, as well as here.
Lenore Skenazy, the president of Let Grow and the founder of the Free-Range-Kids movement, went in-depth with Bored Panda in an interview about staying curious, continuing to learn independently, and engaging with the world as we grow, despite the hardships. "I’ve been wondering this myself: How to stay curious when hit by 'the blahs?' Next to Covid (and in great part thanks to Covid) the blahs are the most catching virus around. You get tired and bored by being tired and bored, talking about being tired and bored, and succumbing to them. Unfortunately, the whole thing is self-reinforcing: A feeling of listlessness leads you to scroll through your social media of choice, which makes you feel more blah, leading you to scroll some more, etc."
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#1
TIL of Adolfo Kaminsky, a 18 year-old French forger who faked IDs for Jews during WWII. He once worked for 3 days straight to make papers for 300 children until he passed out. He kept his work a secret - his own daughter only learned the details while writing a book about him.
Rod Egret 4 years ago
He was born in Argentina but he's a French national. Parents were Russian. He's still alive.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
And never said a word about it. I even doubt that if he was an 18 year old today he’d be stupid enough to even think of uploading a selfie of him making those IDs to Tik-Tok, or Pinterest. That’s the difference between altruism and humble bragging.
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#2
TIL: Researchers taught African grey parrots to buy food using tokens. They were then paired up, one parrot given ten tokens and the other none. Without any incentive for sharing, parrots with tokens started to give some to their broke partners so that everyone could eat.
the redqueen 4 years ago
Wow. There goes my all warm and fuzzy moment.( I think the ripped-fetus-snack was the one that sent me over the edge...)
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Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Sounds like Parrots are more compassionate than every politician in the World ....
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Being a birdie mom I can attest to this. Parrots are so smart. They are caring and kind. My Love bird had a horrible injury and my big ass macaw kept checking on her and making sure she was ok. If it got too loud in the bird room by a couple of my younger babies, my macaw would tell them "Knock it off" so they would be quiet so the lovie could rest.
Peko 4 years ago
Turn out empathy isn't that unusual in animal. Also when you do the same thing with gibbons the females prostitutes themselves
Jerry Conaway 4 years ago
Grey's are extremely smart birds. I had one when I was child and he was very clever. Introduce him to any sound and he would quickly pick it up and mimic it, and would talk your ear off sun-up to sun-down.
#3
TIL: Late wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow once saved three children from a burning house and 40% of his skin was left with second degree burns forcing him to retire and hospitalized for two months. Bam Bam said he had "no regrets" of his act of courage, as long as all three kids were safe.
Samtheperson 4 years ago
This guy is a superhuman. Giving up wrestling fame and money for the welfare of children is impressive
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Take note people. He ran into the house and saved the children, instead of standing around taking video of it on his phone then either trying to sell it to the news, or uploading it to whatever website was popular that day.
Lenore was very upfront about what we have to do to get our lives in order and bring a bit of fire back into our lives: "So before you can become curious again, you have to do the hard part: Get off the couch! Force yourself out the door. Why? Because beyond your four walls, things are never exactly the same. Weather, animals, people, sounds, smells, clouds—they’re all swirling about."
She continued: "Ask yourself to start noticing new things. I did that this morning with a friend. We took a walk around our neighborhood and started looking for interesting details in the homes and buildings we passed. It went from a walk down streets we’d seen a million times to a sort of treasure hunt. And the big thing we were really hunting for? Curiosity! When you’re curious you’re alive again—noticing, thinking, making connections. You can’t do that if there’s no new information coming in. So your first step is to force yourself out of a rut by leaving the house (harder during the pandemic, but not impossible)."
#4
TIL that Shakuntala Devi from India, also known as the human computer, gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
Couldnt_Find_A_Good_Name 4 years ago
Bonus: She was also given another really large equation, and she solved it correctly. But the computer said her answer was wrong and she was embarrassed in front of a large crowd. Later, the computer was proved wrong and she regained her fame. (Sorry, I don't know the details.)
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
I don't even understand what the description is saying she did, let alone be able to do this with a computer
K. 4 years ago
I’m just going to eat pizza and feel slightly better after reading about geniuses.
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Remy 4 years ago
Love that this math genius that beat a computer is a smart woman again proving that humans can equally be smart and gender has nothing to do with it! Shocking to those who see women as the "weaker" sex
Downunderdude 4 years ago
BP - why did you hide the comment below? It was not at all offensive. If you're going to hide inoffensive comments, I'm going to call you out on them.
#5
TIL that in Moscow, packs of stray dogs will sometimes send out a smaller, cuter member to beg for food, apparently realising it will be more successful than its bigger, less attractive counterparts.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
Case in point, it's "than I am." I hate grammar police but I couldn't pass up this opportunity. Sorry. Yes, I'm Canadian.
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MauKini 4 years ago
also, in Moskow they take trains to get around. From their sleeping place to the best places to get food and back.
Haley Brock 4 years ago
i used togo on the subway in russia and just put out bowls of dog and cat food im in usa now so i cant but yeah...
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Good for you. Thank you so much for doing that. You are such a beautiful person.
Load More Replies... WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
Lol. Reminds me of my dog. She knows not to wake us up in the morning so she'll go bother the cat. Cat makes a lot of noise, problem solved.
#6
TIL in the months before his sudden death, former Mythbuster Grant Imahara built a fully animatronic Baby Yoda. Having spent 3 months of his personal time designing, programming, and 3D printing the project, he intended to bring it to hospitals to cheer up sick children.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Ouch, welcome to the club. Adam Savage has a few episodes on Tested where he talks about Grant, often on questions from viewers.
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Aiming for new goals and sparking a desire to learn new things also requires leaving our entrenched routines behind and trying something new. Lenore pointed out that we all have the power to learn new skills and pick up new hobbies during the endless lockdowns. "Think of something you’d like to be able to say you’ve been working on, especially once life returns to normal: 'Well, I wasted a lot of that free time I had, but at least I started...' Or, 'At least I learned…' For my sister, she’s taking ballet online. For my husband, he’s learning film editing. For me it’s… oh God! I better come up with something fast! Um…let’s say I will learn how to create a Clubhouse program. Ok? (You can check in with me in a few weeks.)"
So start off by going outside "if only to get your blood flowing," then "think of someone whose skill at something you envy," and "take the first small step toward that skill." According to Lenore, even a tiny step is enough because you break the ice of the inertia. "Do not worry if you are taking that first step as simply something you’re doing thanks to social pressure, or for someone other than yourself. Change is change—the motivation doesn’t matter."
#7
TIL that for 18 months, a village in Wales was mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed at 7am every morning, until engineers "picked up a large burst of electrical interference" springing from one dude turning on his very old TV.
Aaron Kara 4 years ago
An entre village? That must of been a very awkward call for the customer service agent at Virgin Media. - "Yes we're all up at seven and would like to browse the web!"
#8
TIL in 1992, a California middle school ordered teachers to cover up all "obscene" words in Fahrenheit 451 with black marker before issuing copies to students. The school stopped this practice after local newspapers commented on the irony of defacing a book that condemns censorship.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
And now, some school are censoring ancient classics, some philosophers from hundreds of years ago and such because of "racism", or because of the author's personal life, or whatever phobia they've invented on a whim. It's one thing to be aware of things we do that are wrong today. It's a very idiotic thing to apply today's parameters to books written centuries ago. Same thing goes to movies, paintings and such.
julia 4 years ago
it’s never to be racist, homophobic, etc, but they shouldn’t cancel de seuss books for being racist, since they were so long ago. nit looking to argue, i just think that it’s outdated, and people shouldn’t take offense for something that was written when racism was normal (though it never should’ve been). if it offends you, don’t read it. it’s not like wearing a mask where you actually endanger the lives of people. most normal people will read the book and think of literature, not violence.
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Ivy Ruonakoski 4 years ago
Why bother assigning the book at all if they can't read it properly?
Johnny Rodriguez 4 years ago
Fahrenheit 451 is 232.8° Celsius and that's the temperature when paper starts to burn..
Dave P 4 years ago
except till the day he died Bradbury insisted his book was not about censorship but about the dangers of TV's and relying on screens for information. He said people misunderstood his book, including his publisher who forced him to write in the forward to later editions, something about censorship
Amaranthim Talon 4 years ago
And here we are in 2021- and digital book "burning" is a thing. Amazon reaches into your Kindle to destroy books YOU PAID FOR- but now some "they" somewhere decided was unacceptable. Sad times we are living in. 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual...
#9
TIL Winchester Cathedral was built on marsh and was on the verge of collapse as it sunk into the earth. A diver named William Walker worked alone in pitch-black water for five years, eventually putting down 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks to save its foundation.
Alex Little 4 years ago
I did learn this at school! but then I did go to school in Winchester...
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
I went to Winchester Uni, what are the odds? I saw this fact on a tour of the cathedral.
Load More Replies... Alex Little 4 years ago
For those interested, this happened during 1906-1911 - see: https://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/our-heritage/famous-people/william-walker-the-diver-who-saved-the-cathedral/
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
He was an astonishing man - especially when you consider that the Cathedral was also heavily shelled / mortared by the Roundheads during the English civil War which further destabilised the foundations ; all of the stained glass windows that were blown to pieces were put back randomly so that all of the medieval glasswork depicting saints etc is now mostly a giant kaleidoscope effect !! Oh, and there's an area above the town called Oliver's Battery from where Cromwell's troops fired the cannons (a Battery being a group of artillery)
Alex Little 4 years ago
Thanks! I never knew that was the origin of the name of Oliver's Battery, and lived near there for over 10 years
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Brenda Pereira 4 years ago
He needs a plaque to commemorate him. Without him, there would be no cathedral!
Aaron Kara 4 years ago
"I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp."
Peter Buckley 3 years ago
Walker worked with a team, he was the only one at the workface under water. He did not do the job alone.
However, the internet is a double-edged sword and it can sometimes be easy to get lost between what's fact and what's fiction. You have to be very wary of fake news as you surf the net. Lenore shared some of her insights about this, too.
"When you’re reading an article that seems to be so shocking that you’re amazed this is the first time you’re hearing about it, take a short phrase from the piece and Google it. I did this yesterday—I was reading about a girl not allowed to take her anti-epilepsy drug at school because it contained CBD, even though she had a prescription! Turns out the article, dated March 2021, was actually a story re-published in its entirety from three years ago. That’s why no one else was talking about it—it was literally not news. So if something strikes you as fishy, go fishing," she said.
#10
TIL about pack horse librarians that serviced the Appalachian communities (e.g., rural Kentucky) in the mid 1930s to early 1940s who were mostly women who rode on horses or mules to deliver library books to remote communities during the Great Depression.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Look at them. All so gorgeous, such a majestic beauty. I love horses.
Zella Haesche 4 years ago
There is a wonderful novel written by Jojo Moyes, titled The Giver of Stars that references this! The book tell a great story!
Green Eyed Raven 3 years ago
Also The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim M Richardson and its sequel
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#11
TIL John Krasinski wore a wig in season 3 of The Office so he could film Leatherheads. Krasinski pitched the idea to the producer who rejected it because it would be too obvious. John, who was wearing the wig during the meeting, told him it wouldn't be, took off the wig, and was granted approval.
Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago
The funny thing is that it’s known as his season with the questionable hair, so in retrospect, now we know the reason!
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
Heard an NPR interview with him on the program FRESH AIR. He's wonderful. He takes nothing for granted and is grateful for success, his wonderful wife, and can't believe THIS IS HIS LIFE.
#12
TIL Billy Joel got into an argument with a younger man about what the worst era to be young in was. The younger man told Joel that at least he got to grow up in the 50s when "nothing happened." Flabbergasted, Joel began listing the events of the 50s, which later became "We Didn't Start the Fire".
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Ok, the fact that this song is all "you kids today have it so easy" just made it my favourite song.
J. F. 4 years ago
If they would update the song it wouldn't look much different
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Malwin Wellham 4 years ago
The Events mentioned in We didn't start the fire are from 1948 to 1989. It spans a little more than four decades.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Selling their own memories back to baby boomers is always successful.
Cip IESAN 4 years ago
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock" Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter… We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai etc.
Mari Bryant 4 years ago (edited)
I remember when the song came out, and they said the song was in chronological order.
"As for whether or not your fishing will lead you to disinformation rather than the truth, try not to fish blindly. If you’re curious about crime stats, for instance, look these up on a government website, not some random blog," Lenore explained, adding that if you find something very hard to believe, look up the story on Snopes that tracks down whether or not popular, shocking stories are true or made up.
"The nonprofit I run, Let Grow, has its own myth-busting page, investigating fears and rumors about children’s safety," Lenore pointed out. "So that’s a source you can trust, too! Stay curious. Stay skeptical without being cynical. And if something sounds too good—or too terrible—to be true, check it out!"
#13
TIL a doctor reviewed the injuries sustained by Marv and Harry in Home Alone 1 & 2, and concluded that 23 of the injuries would have resulted in death.
Rissie 4 years ago
They were cartoonesk. Pretty sure Wile E Coyote wouldn't survive most of his adventures. What's more interesting is that they actually got hurt at some of the scenes.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Absolutely what I thought, "Now review Roadrunner if you obviously have nothing to do".
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 4 years ago
TIL that some people needed a doctor to tell them that some of that stuff would kill you.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
For real lmao. No wonder we have warning stickers on every single products.
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Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
After Home Alone 2 came out, I read about kids trying to use the same tactics on their siblings.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
In other words, those bungling burglars have more lives than an urban legend - apiece!
#14
TIL that the stick -- a small tree branch -- was inducted into the (U.S.) National Toy Hall of Fame in 2008. Organizers called it one of the world's oldest toys and said sticks "promote free play -- the freedom to invent and discover."
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
My parents told me about that. I am now greatful
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Aaron Kara 4 years ago
I was obsessed with sticks when I was younger (not that young) - I used to spend ages in the woods (not really woods, I live in London, more like 12 dying trees) collecting stick swords that had different "elemental powers". This neighbourhood children would laugh.
Martin Kaine 4 years ago
When will the museum enter the next greatest non-toy? The large cardboard box?
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Makes sense to me, a lot of fun can be had with a simple stick. Many schools now encourage nature play and allow the use of sticks if done safely.
Avery S Alberico 4 years ago
Depending on the size, it could be used as a broom or a wand in my childhood
#15
TIL that the F.B.I. and C.I.A. recruit heavily from the Mormon population because they are usually cheaper to do a security clearance on, they often speak another language from their mission trips and they usually have a low risk lifestyle.
Adam Francis 4 years ago
And they're used to wearing dark suits and knocking on people's doors
DaVo 4 years ago
And they have no problem believing whatever they are told.
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kjorn 4 years ago (edited)
american often speak only english. i wish we could be more like europe where lot and lot of them speak more than 2 or 3 language
Nick 4 years ago
The rate of bilingualism in the EU is only around 25% vs 20% in the US. Not a dramatic difference. Don't pin your shortcomings on an entire nation.
Load More Replies... Aaron Kara 4 years ago
"Turn it off, like a light switch, just go flip, it's a nifty little Mormon trick"
JenMiddleChildSmith 4 years ago
Rumor has it that casinos in Las Vegas do the same, especially for security positions because of similar reasons as well as the fact that the Mormon church is against it's members gambling
Judi Stull 4 years ago
So does the Secret Service and the National Security Agency, for the same reasons.
#16
TIL that during the sinking of the RMS Titanic, many passengers refused to evacuate, insisting they were safer on the ship than in the tiny lifeboats. Chief baker Charles Joughin eventually took it upon himself to forcibly drag reluctant passengers onto the deck and hurl them into the lifeboats.
Aaron Kara 4 years ago
Sometimes, you need to hurl people into lifeboats. That's just one of the fundamentals of life.
Robert Bailey 4 years ago
There's a lot of condemnation you can throw Titanic. But the thing is, Titanic hadn't happened yet. So the lesson wasn't learned.
BananaJo 4 years ago
I still think the way they did the things on the Titanic were unfair. They just left most people there to die. I think it's so sad, that some people might just say that their children should go to sleep, and they would die. And if these kind of people refused to get on the lifeboats, they could have left them their and put other people on them. Sorry this is kinda long. It's just my opinion.
#17
TIL about Kiyoshi Shimizu, a Japanese journalist that helped solved a series of child kidnaping cases and released an innocent man from further prosecution. He also helped solved the murder of Shiori Ino which led to the changes to legal treatment of stalking in Japan
Avery S Alberico 4 years ago
I heard there is a group of hackers that track down missing children for fun
Meg Curry 4 years ago
You still understood what it said though. So maybe find more important things to get huffy about.
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TIL Alexander Fleming’s mold could not produce penicillin fast enough for mass production; itwasn’t until 15 years later that lab worker ‘Mouldy’ Mary Hunt tested a moldy cantaloupe in a grocery store and discovered the strain that is used to produce all penicillin today
Jacob Allen 4 years ago
Such a shame that her discovery isn't nearly as celebrated as Fleming's, I've never heard of her.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
It is a shame. Sadly women are barely ever remembered :(
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Conrad Strucker 4 years ago
brilliant but imagine your legacy being the name "mouldy mary hunt" i mean come on
Cheri Smallbeck 4 years ago
Mouldy Hunt - poor legacy for a woman who has helped to save countless lives!
However, embarrassment has its positive quirks. So the next time you’re blushing because you found out you weren’t aware of some fact about the world, you can remember this and feel better. “One thing that’s interesting about embarrassment is that, for as much as we might experience it as painful in the moment, it’s actually very socially adaptive. Being embarrassed signals to other people that you care about what they think. And that actually draws people in to you,” Vanessa, from Cornell University, said.
“So blushing, burying your head in your hands, laughing, acknowledging how embarrassing something was, are all totally healthy ways to react,” Bohns said that we should embrace embarrassment instead of shying away like a lot of us instinctively want to do.
However, there’s a flip side to this. There’s an unhealthy way to react to embarrassment, too. “The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect that embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in.”
#19
TIL that there are more than 1,300 stone rings across the British Islands and Stonehenge is only the most famous of them.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Yep, we’re infested with them, some are really impressive, like Castlerigg in Cumbria. Some are little more than a rock on its side.
Lucas 4 years ago
Isn't Avebury meant to contain the largest megalithic stone circle in the world?
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DDmaybeandor 4 years ago
In some distant future a million giant yellow "M"s will be uncovered and that civilization will want to know what God was being worshiped. I'd vote it was an ancient representation of a double humped camel, but they'll more likely vote breasts. The letter idea will be right out because several thousand years after the collapse of the internet our script will be so non existent that scholars will debate if written language even existed way back when.
Edgar Rops 4 years ago
They are all over Europe, actually. There are somewhat similar structures elsewhere too. Probably, there was something in ancient cultures about either worship of celestial phenomenon (many are aligned to something happening in the sky), or building big (sacrifice of time and effort to higher power instead of stuff)
Veronica McSamphire 4 years ago
Yeah, I grew up in Aberdeenshire and a local farmer has one in a field and just ploughs round it, no big deal.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Scotland once past Sterling has one on virtually every corner, well maybe every 10 miles.
CharliAnn Olney 4 years ago
Saw docu on them. The oldest are underwater off the coast of Scotland.
#20
TIL Research shows that viewing online Cat media (i.e. pictures and videos) is related to positive emotions. It may even work as a form of digital therapy or stress relief for some users. Some feelings of guilt from postponing tasks can also be reduced by viewing Cat content.
elfin 4 years ago
Except in person. I have ten of the critters and they're more likely to drive me into therapy. As if someone with 10 cats doesn't already need therapy.
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Tinykame 4 years ago
If that procrastination it contains cat pics, obvi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dynein 4 years ago
I'm pretty sure that this applies to ANY type of cute/funny/pretty pictures and videos, the same way that the positive effects assigned to Mozart apply to pretty much any music. I have no doubt of the positive effects, though. So, I guess, go ahead and choose whatever cute/funny/pretty internet content you prefer and you get to claim that you are using a scientifically verified method of stress relief :)
Pepper Pots 4 years ago
I love my cats, they bring out a more positive , playful, fun side of me.
#21
TIL the man who Mount Everest is named after, George Everest, didn't want the honor of having the world's tallest mountain bear his name. He pointed out his name was difficult to write or pronounce in Hindi and all previous Himalayan peaks were officially given indigenous names.
Pixie 4 years ago (edited)
Never thought about this before, but did the mountain have no indigenous name before? _______________________________________________ Edit: I asked Wikipedia: "Waugh argued that because there were many local names, it would be difficult to favour one name over all others; he decided that Peak XV should be named after British surveyor Sir George Everest, his predecessor as Surveyor General of India." _____ "The Nepali name for Everest is Sagarmāthā (सगरमाथा) which means "the Head in the Great Blue Sky", The Tibetan name for Everest is Qomolangma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, lit. "Holy Mother")."
Pixie 4 years ago
On a side note, can someone tell me how to make paragraphs in my posts? I really would like to make readable texts....
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Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Also, his name is wrongly pronounced - not a hard, 'ever' before the est, but a double 'e' as in eerie, . His name was pronounced Eeverest .....
bouncy house 3 years ago
Why shouldn't they? Most languages have different names for the same places.
Load More Replies... Siah avis 4 years ago
I hate to say this but sounds like typical white washing all over again. People have been around and climbing that mountain for centuries, some white explorer discovers it and they need to name it that. I appreciate George Everest for his respect to the local people. Note: the British and French also changed most names of cities in India so they could pronounce it better. WTF
Meanwhile, Lenore told Bored Panda during an earlier interview that school is actually a fairly new development and things were done very differently for much of our history as a species.
“In the United States, for instance, school only became compulsory a little over 100 years ago. Previously—for hundreds of thousands of years of human history—kids learned simply by watching, copying, helping, and playing,” Lenore explained to Bored Panda.
“In other words, they’d hang around the adults, see how they made things like baskets and arrowheads, they’d ask questions, noodle around, and try to copy what their elders were doing. They’d also help out as soon as they could—fetching things, tracking animals, whatever—and in between they’d be playing with a group of mixed-age kids. All these activities were fueled by curiosity,” Lenore said.
#22
TIL After crashing, a driver in German was fined for using Tesla touchscreen wiper controls, under the same rules as using a phone while driving. The German court decided touchscreen car controls should be treated as a distracting electronic device.
Johnny 4 years ago
But the real failure is not the driver using the wiper controls, but the regulators that allowed a car to be sold in Germany where the windshield wipers can't legally be turned on while driving.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Let's make cars safer with seatbelts, airbags, energy absorption zones and ABS. And let's also install a pc so drivers pay more attention to that screen than to the road.
another one 4 years ago
100% agree. Stupidest idea ever to have controls that require you to remove your eyes from the road!
#23
TIL Frank Sinatra was hired by Life Magazine as a ringside photographer for the Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier Heavyweight Boxing match, "The Fight of the Century", that took place 50 years a go today, March 8, 1971. One of his photos was good enough to be the cover of the magazine.
Mita Ghosh 4 years ago
When a punch is enough to get all the sweat dislocate from body to floating liquid, you better believe its got good strength.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
What a fight that was, look at that punch Ali is taking, no wonder he got Parkinson's, this is stuff we are only really finding out now.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Frazier landed so many brutal left hooks in that fight. And Ali took them all, until the 15th round when Joe finally knocked him down.
the redqueen 4 years ago
Ok, boo and hiss me, lol, but I gotta ask; who won? Ps....thanks in advance. :)
Ralph Watkins 3 years ago
I remember this fight. My dad never caught on to Ali's Muslim name. When I woke him to tell him that Frazier just beat Ali, he didn't know who I was talking about. Frazier beat Cassius Clay. Then he understood who it was.
#24
TIL many Chinese medical tourists who go to South Korea for inexpensive and high quality plastic surgery have difficulty re-entering China due to their passports photos not matching their new face post op.
Little Ms. Quirky 4 years ago
it's sad to know that some people don't appreciate their natural facial appearances...
trix 4 years ago
I don't think it's about appreciating yourself. Eastern beauty standards are even harsher than Western's on women. The society does not allow women to appreciate themselves, otherwise, how can they sell so many skincare/makeup products and plastic surgery? It's an industry that feeds off women's self criticism.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Ever thought about that. Could they go to the Chinese Embassy (is there one?) and get a copy with a new picture? How could they prove their identity? Would they need someone to come along and vouch for them? Or a notarized statement from the plastic surgeon, which includes before and after photos? DNA tests before and after?
Caroline Driver 4 years ago (edited)
You can see their point. But then, that is the point of the surgery. Maybe have some kind of official letter? Before and after in the hospital?
“You were motivated to learn what the bigger kids in your group knew, too, because they were so cool. Your entire day consisted of observing and practicing the stuff you needed to know— skills and games. If you weren’t curious, you weren’t going to enjoy life, or succeed at it.”
Modern schooling, however, focuses on compliance rather than curiosity. “One reason kids might seem less curious today is because most of their education, inside and outside of school, doesn’t require self-motivation, it requires compliance. The drive is extrinsic, not intrinsic. Kids fill out worksheets because they have to, not because these seem interesting, or have any immediate connection to the ‘real’ world,” Lenore told Bored Panda.
#25
TIL Basque (a language spoken near the Spain/France border) is a language isolate; not only is it NOT a Romance language, it's not even an Indo-European language. It is the only surviving Pre-Indo-European language in Western Europe.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
And the sad thing is it will eventually disappear like many isolated languages do.
Gosiaatje 4 years ago
I wouldn't be so pessimistic. The Basques seem to have a strong sense of national identity ❤
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Premislaus de Colo 4 years ago
Well, Basque may not be a language of Roman family, but do not strip it of Romance.
Sem Papas Na Língua 4 years ago
Once I read that it's so difficult to learn, that God punhish the Devil to learn it!
Jojo Dancer 4 years ago
Anthony Bourdain did an episode there. Looks beautiful, and the food incredible!
Manuel Delgado 4 years ago
They do, and it's alive and kickin' . Kids learn it in the school. And it's wide spoken in Euskal Herria, a thriving and sophisticated group of provinces within Spain and France.
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Stephanie Choong 3 years ago
My boyfriend is Basque. They are very proud of their identity and culture and strong efforts are still being made to keep the language alive particularly after anything Basque (Or non-Spanish in general) was suppressed during the dictatorship. It's a difficult language to learn (I am trying) grammatically.
#26
TIL before synthetic plastics were invented, a substance called Hemacite was widely used to make everything from roller skate wheels to doorknobs. Its ingredients are blood and sawdust.
Hooked 4 years ago
Then lets get back to using that material for all those thingies that do not necessarily need to be made of plastic.
RiverStyxJix 4 years ago
Now I know I can make my roller skate's wheels out of the BLOOD OF MY E N E M I E S! /j Also this is mildly disturbing.
Dynein 4 years ago
Huh. Very very interesting! I wonder which constituents of blood were responsible for the plastic-like properties...? I'd guess the coagulation factors played the biggest part. These days it's possible to produce proteins large-scale by genetically engineering bacteria to produce them, so in theory it should be possible to produce the necessary blood components large-scale and with high purity, and improve them, too. Adapting old-time materials like this with the biological knowledge and biotechnological capabilities we have today might be a great alternative to plastics.
DC 4 years ago
THAT is the way! But ... every single little property being a miniscule better than one of the non-animal products is enough to get the meat industry and their claqueurs on board - you don't need to be better overall, you only need ONE of many properties being better than that of ONE common alternative - and still, this lacks the justification of supporting breeding and killing, the largest single influence we have on greenhouse gasses and the waste of more food than what would get every human on earth not only out of hunger, but also into obesity. But, yeah, there is some plastic from oil that is worse in one or two properties, so this is sooooo much better! - no. Nothing trying to improve regarding ethics can ever go back to using more animals - unless they're considered fellow sentient beings, I don't even have words for how bad any ethical judgement has already failed itself before it even started comparing stuff. If they'd use human blood that expired, otoh, ... a non issue!
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
100% biodegradable unlike our green contract violation called plastic that will around the next time the dinosaurs tromp around
Liu Fuxi 4 years ago
DC you're aren't addressing what they're saying and the harm to animals and nature several other industries produce (oil fracking, unregulated battery disposal, industry pollution) is far worse than the food industry alone. Both are bad but trying to sell plastic usage instead of a sustainable, ethical, regulated meat consumption is just saving animals with one hand and shooting them with another.
#27
TIL the first country to recognize Greek independence was not any of the western powers, but Haiti, who alledgedly sent 25ton of Coffee beans to finance their rebellion.
Ralph Watkins 3 years ago
Only 25 tons of coffee beans? That would last an army battalion about 2 weeks only.
Gina Lenna 4 years ago
Yes and we have not forgotten in 200 years. I was taught this at school back in the 80s.
Couldnt_Find_A_Good_Name 4 years ago
I replied to this comment so that others could reply to mine to reply to @Javiera Gotelli and share their thoughts.
Load More Replies...The very same mentality of focusing on compliance and doing as we’re told can be seen in extra-curricular activities, too, which can snuff out our inner motivation. “Learning soccer means doing the drills the coach assigns, as opposed to tagging along with the older kids and working hard to get good enough so that they’d start letting you play. The key to curiosity, then, is giving kids enough free, unstructured time for them to find something they love to do for its own sake—not for a grade, or coach,” the expert said.
#28
TIL: Vodka doesn't have to come from potatoes, it can be made from anything which will ferment. Even grass, or salmon and old newspapers. Vodka just needs to be a clear spirit distilled to 190 proof.
Sum Guy 4 years ago
They also make so many different types of milk from different plants and animals, but we all know which tastes the best
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
Nor was vodka first produced in Russia either. It's first origins lie in both Poland and Denmark.
#29
TIL despite being depicted on California's flag, the California grizzly bear has been extinct since 1924.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
You mean being on flags doesn't protect you from extinction? So even with Bhutan's flag dragons might go extinct? Wow you don't lurn this stuff in school, so helpful.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
No they are safe because they also have Welsh flag :)
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
and shame on everyone involved on that one. at least we have wolves coming back finally
Rob Chapman 4 years ago
The "bear" flag has been in use in some form since 1846. The current design was commissioned in 1911, depicting "Monarch" the last California Grizzly in captivity. The bear was taxidermied after he died and is currently on display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Americans killing of their wildlife, the parrots have all gone, the Californian bears have gone, what is next?
#30
TIL that staying awake for more than 24 hours brings deficiencies in performance equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of more than 0.10. Most western developed countries consider 0.05 BAC as the threshold for intoxication.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Now imagine all the tired people hopping in their cars after a 12 hour shift.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
You're spot on. I read a survey somewhere (can't for the life of me remember where) that claimed that over 60% of car crashed were cause by people being tired while driving.
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Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
Hmm... and what about those of use who get 30 minutes of sleep in 48 hours, then sleep a great 9 hours on the 3rd night? This is my pattern and I'm super curious as to how it's effecting me physically and mentally. My performance at work is great, and I'm not more bitchy than usual, so...
person (i think) 4 years ago
Oof, sorry you have to deal with that :(. Thank you for sharing.
Load More Replies... Iso 4 years ago
so if i stay awake for long enough, it's the equivalent of getting wasted? please someone explain. i'm so confused rn
Wendillon 4 years ago
Staying awake long enough will make you clumsier and dumber than being drunk, without giving you the nice alcohol buzz.
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Now don't be amazed when you have hallucinations after staying up for a couple of days.
Paula Carr 4 years ago
There's an excellent book called "Why We Sleep," that explains this. Fascinating subject.
The series 'Not longer Life' leverages art to delve into environmental issues, particularly how modern consumer behaviors affect our environment through excessive plastic usage. This notion can further be explored by examining how traditional practices were shaped by curiosity and learning without environmental harm.
To learn more about these thought-provoking art reinterpretations, explore the artistic commentary on consumer society.
#31
TIL in the 2008 Olympics 200m race, Shawn Crawford finished 4th, but after 2 sprinters were disqualified for running outside their lanes, he received the silver medal. After the Olympics, he gave the medal to the 2nd-placed athlete, with a note saying "You ran a silver medal race and deserve this"
#32
TIL about Wrong Way Corrigan. In 1938 he was denied permission to make a solo transatlantic flight because his plane was unsafe, but given the okay to fly to California. He took off, made a U-turn, and disappeared into the clouds. 28 hours later he landed in Ireland, claiming his compass had broken.
#33
TIL in 1963 Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper, presented it to Ford Motor Co. and was hired. Ford fired him and took his technology. He sued Ford for patent infringement and after 12 yrs. of litigation, at times without a lawyer, the court awarded Kearns 10.3 M dollars.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
And shame on Ford Motor Co. To think I currently own a Ford--
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Just goes to show how big companies always have a policy to screw their employees. Wonder how much of the 10.3 M dollars Kearns had to pay to his lawyers.
Lorraine R 4 years ago
When the only corporate goal is to make as much money as possible, ethics go out the window because the lives of mere human beings don't matter at all.
#34
TIL that Prince opened for The Rolling Stones in 1981. Rolling Stones fans were not pleased with Prince that they not only threw objects on stage but shouted homophobic and racial slurs. Prince was so upset that he off stage and cried backstage.
kristy sickles 4 years ago
I bet most of those people eventually became fans of his after seeing just how wrong they were. Prince was a true artist and rocked mostly any instrument there is.
Amanita Virosa 4 years ago
God rest him, he was a musical genius. The Mozart of his time.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That's awful, if I was the rolling stones I would have refused to play for the crowd after that.
DC 4 years ago
I agree ... but still doubt that would have been a smart idea - 40000 people, half of them drunk, waiting for you to play, having paid a lot ... will rip you apart if you decide not to.
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DC 4 years ago
That's so effing rude! Prince was among the greatest musicians I ever got to know about. The Stones obviously appreciated him, as they never let anyone open for them unless they're ok with it. Their fans, sometimes appear a lot more conservative and effed up than they themselves ... also common among Elvis' fans - he was pretty far on the left. Many of his fans ... well....
Sasy 4 years ago
I hope that the Stones did something about it, I would have cancelled the concert as the headliner if anyone supporting me was treated in such a manner. I know it is highly unlikely to happen, but I really do hope they addressed it and called people out for being horrible people.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Prince is a better musician than all of the Rolling Stones put together, I like them both but come on, let's be honest.
birdie asf 4 years ago
savage? those fans who shouted racist and homophobic slurs are flat out disgusting and rude.
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TIL With 5 million vending machines nationwide (that's 1 vending machine for every 23 people) and natural disasters commonplace, Japan has specialized vending machines that have a backup battery and dispense free drinks and food in the event of a major emergency.
#36
TIL in 1950, four Scottish students stole back the Stone of Scone (the stone in which Scottish monarchs were crowned) from England and brought it all the way back to Scotland.
Marylu Horkowitz 4 years ago
The movie is called "Stone of Destiny". It came out in 2008. Very interesting
Marylu Horkowitz 4 years ago
A movie was made about this. I believe that monarchs were crowned ON the stone.
Connie Martin 4 years ago
I don't understand "the stone in which Scottish monarchs were crowned." How is one crowned in a stone?
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
Probably some kind of ritual? Idk, but definitely not placed on top of their head lol
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TIL that certain plants can warn other nearby plants of danger. When these plants are damaged, they release airborne chemicals that tell other plants to start producing compunds that can hurt and repel herbivores. They can also produce smells that attract insects which attack herbivores.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Oh yeah! I read that the smell of fresh cut grass is the grass "screaming" a warning to the other grass.
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#38
TIL that Ring was on Shark Tank and walked away without a deal. Ring later sold to Amazon for $1 billion.
Peko 4 years ago
I'll never understand why anyone would want a doorbell with a camera that connects to the internet. Maybe I'm old.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I remember this and literally told my mom, "I would buy this." And in fact, I have one now.
#39
TIL when recording a guest spot on The Simpsons, Justin Timberlake took issue with a line in which he said "Word!" saying it felt inauthentic. As a prank, the staff then edited his dialogue in production so every line ended with him saying "Word!"
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
IMHO that show has gone for too long. The old episodes are good, but the quality has degraded.
#40
TIL: The Black Death was responsible for the beginning of the end of European Feudalism/Manoralism. As there were fewer workers, their lords were forced to pay higher wages. With higher wages, there were fewer restrictions on travel. Eventually, this would lead to a trade class/middle class.
Radek Suski 4 years ago
Yup. There was a lesson learned about you know; essential workers. Sadly we apparently forgot this lesson.
lara 4 years ago
OK, REALLY simplistic explanation. First it led to more people becoming educated aka learning to read and write, because, up until then, only the lords and ladies and monks and priests could read. So when so many monks died, there was no one to write letters and/or read them to the lower classes when they rec'd a letter or wanted to write one. Second it led to the rise of "national languages" because of the deaths of so many monks and upper class who spoke primarily Latin. Third, people gravitated to cities because once you reached a city you were free, hence "City air makes you free" slogan. There is an excellent book that denotes all the changes that occurred at this time because of the plague. Lords NEVER paid wages. the "workers" were serfs, they were attachments to the land. They worked the land and were allowed to keep a small portion of what they produced. Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" is fabulous.
DDmaybeandor 4 years ago
I have a hard time believing this isn't taught in school. I feel like I learned about it more than once. In History and in English class (US public school).
#41
TIL about Lover’s Eye art. Jewelry popular in the late 1700s and early 1800s when stylish aristocratic Englishmen and women often wore the miniature portraits depicting their spouse or lover. Because the tiny watercolors revealed only the eye, the subject’s identity was kept secret.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I would have hated to see that. I have a love hate relationship with eyes. Bit ironic seeing as it was my hubby's eyes that first attracted me to him but I also get creeped out by some eyes.
Wendillon 4 years ago
Yeah...eyes on a face are lovely. Eyes by themselves are eerie.
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TIL of the Sausage Duel. Otto Von Bismarck challenged his political nemesis (and pioneer of social medicine) Rudolf Virchow to a duel, allowing him to choose weapons. Rudolf decided upon sausages. One sauage would be safe, the other infected with parasitic larvae. Otto recinded the challenge.
Heike 4 years ago
Unfortunately the story of the sausages is made up, as it only becomes widely reported some 30 years after it allegedly occurred. Earlier accounts of the duel do not mention the sausages at all, and Bismarck’s correspondence tells a different story.
J. Zingler 4 years ago
German sources tell different: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25803555?seq=1
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Little known fact: The kid to the left is Baby Moe who later achieved fame as one of 3 Stooges.
LesAnimaux 4 years ago
I was kinda picturing sausage sword-fighting. I'm a little disappointed, tbh.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
BP - why did you hide the comment below? It was not at all offensive. If you're going to hide inoffensive comments, I'm going to call you out on them.
#43
TIL that Lenny Kravitz was named for his uncle Leonard Kravitz, who died saving the lives of other Korean War soldiers in 1951. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2012 after Congress reviewed Jewish (and Hispanic) recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross who were denied the higher honor.
ispeak catanese 4 years ago
Imagine being a hero who didn't get the medal because you were Hispanic or Jewish.
#44
TIL honeybees used in almond groves often die of pesticides, lack of biodiversity, arousal from dormancy early. To mitigate, growers split hives, put mail-order queens in new hives, feed bees fake pollen. The "Bee Better" program puts diverse flora in almond groves as natural pest control/bee food.
Stephen Hutchison 4 years ago
Given that almond trees aren't native to the Americas, and were brought here in the 1700s by Franciscans, and that bees are their only pollinator, and that the European Honeybee is also not native to the Americas, and that the area in California where almonds are grown is almost a desert, yes, "only in America."
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TIL that American economist Richard Thaler, upon finding out he won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on irrational decision-making, said he would spend the prize money as "irrationally as possible."
LesAnimaux 4 years ago
But what did he do with it?? Did he buy as many ping pong balls as possible? Did he buy books about subjects that bored him? Did he buy non-refundable plane tickets for 2020?
Kay Phillips 3 years ago
"you just won a million dollars! What will you do?", "I'll spend half on booze and hookers,", "and the other half?", "Dunno, I'll probably blow it on some dumb b******t"
#46
TIL That mount Everest became so popular that in 2019 there was a 12 hours long line of around 200 people at the very peak, with a few people dying because of it
LesAnimaux 4 years ago
Not to mention that when someone dies on Mount Everest, they stay on Mount Everest. Frozen in place exactly where they died. (Google "Green Boots", or "Hannelore Schmatz" if you're interested) Many bodies are used as landmarks for the route. A dead body can easily double in weight and is incredibly hard to take with you, especially at extreme high altitudes.
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
Idiot endeavor. Waste of money, time and lives to do that tour, just for vanity's sake. A brief "I DID IT" - "Yeah, great, next one" with people dying in the queue. Not to mention littering the whole mountain with all kinds of waste - conditions are so harsh there's actual corpses serving as landmarks because getting them down is just too dangerous/too much trouble. Sorry - rant over.
Kay Phillips 3 years ago
DID YOU KNOW that some people might have different priorities than yours? And being buried in a cemetery might not be one of them?
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Haunting Spirit 4 years ago
Mostly because the window to the top sometimes is two or three days. The top isn't reachable the whole year but only for something like four weeks in total. The rest of the year it is to cold and the wind is blowing to hard.
Colin Matthews 4 years ago (edited)
1 in 6 typically die. Usually on the way down. Try john krakuer book " into thin air"
Kay Phillips 3 years ago
It's 10% overall historically, and now down to about 4%. You are hugely wrong.
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TIL in 882 Louis III of France mounted his horse in pursuit of a girl who was running to seek refuge in her father's house. He then rode through a low door, hit his head on the lintel and fractured his skull. He died childless. He is one of two French kings to die from hitting a door lintel.
Who - me? 4 years ago
Charles VIII of France, another French king who died after hitting his head on a lintel
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago (edited)
One of them died when his horse spooked at a pig and he was bunged off his horse and died. His brother became king, married Eleanor of Aquitaine. When they divorced, she married doin-to-be king Henry 2 and took a huge amount or real estate into the marriage . Her son later list it all. Bam: 100 years war. Damn pig.
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
And one in a phenomenal line of idiots to die from stupidity - or at least thoughtlessness. Is there any such thing as a historical Darwin award?
Nolan Saylor 3 years ago
If I had a nickel for every French king that died by hitting a door lintel I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?
#48
TIL When the British raised taxes on beer in the 17th century, they inadvertently made gin the cheapest alcoholic beverage in the country. The ensuing widespread consumption of gin led to substantial alcoholism problems in Britain, with the death rate overtaking the birth rate during this period
troufaki13 4 years ago
When I was in England I saw someone wearing a T-shirt that read "Our drinking team has a rugby problem" :')
Jennie Jingles 4 years ago
Yup, my Morris team and I have long been drinkers with a dance problem
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
William Hogarth created the etching "Gin Lane" to condemn gin culture. As a foil he etched "Beer Street" to celebrate good English beer.
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TIL that the Hershey Ice Cream Company is a completely separate entity from the Hershey Chocolate Company, despite both being founded in Lancaster County in the same year by unrelated men named Hershey.
Stephen Hutchison 4 years ago
Completely separate entity BECAUSE both being founded in Lancaster County in the same year by UNRELATED men named Hershey.
#50
TIL Czechoslovakia split up against the wishes of its people: "only 37% of Slovaks and 36% of Czechs favoured dissolution"
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Born there in 1989 and yea, no person older than me ever expressed that it was a good idea or that they liked it
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I had a friend in primary school from Czechoslovakia, Wonder where she is considered from now. I know it would depend on what side she was born on, which I don't know.
Eliška Hůlková 4 years ago
I am from former Czechoslovakia and I didn't know that! I thought it was because the nations never really wanted to be one country, it was mostly an alliance formed out of necessity.
Indra Servo 4 years ago
yeah but 100% of their dear leader favor dissolution......so that's that
#51
TIL in 1991 it was discovered that the heart has its "little brain" or "intrinsic cardiac nervous system." This "heart brain" is composed of approximately 40,000 neurons that are alike neurons in the brain, meaning that the heart has its own nervous system.
J. F. 4 years ago
It's only on the 3rd place though, as the our intestines have more neurons than the heart
kasa alex 4 years ago
Yes! Our guys have as many brain cells as a cat brain apparently...
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TIL a Danish ex-Jagercorps operative drove a post-apocalyptic 1979 Camaro through the war-torn streets of Sarajevo to deliver food to starving children during the Yugoslavia War.
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
Yea, it was originally black, not orange, and that guy is seriously badass
#53
TIL The Code of Hammurabi, bestowed total jurisdiction over brewing and beer to women, indicated by the word “she” used to describe every tavern owner. Sumerian women didn’t have many opportunities to earn a living, but they were responsible for brewing beer and allowed to open their own taverns.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
pretty good actually ...... look up the recipe and make some !!
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TIL Tim Curry, a lifelong Scooby-Doo fan, was offered the villain role in the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie, but turned it down after learning the film would include Scrappy-Doo, a character he disliked.
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
In that movie he was. In the cartoons he was intelligent and way too excited about fighting bad guys.
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Why y'all hating on Scrappy-Doo. For me I enjoyed episodes with Scrappy more. PUPPPPPPPPY POWER!
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
What's with this Scrappy hate? I didn't like that movie because they made Scrappy the bad guy. Scrappy would never do that. Also the gang would never just dump him on the side of the road. Scrappy just loved to fight the bad guys and he loved his uncle. Was he annoying? Yes. Was he necessary? No. But he wasn't a bad guy. He was a puppy who probably half Chihuahua.
#55
TIL that newlywed couples who watched and discussed five movies about relationships over the period of a month reduced their three-year divorce or separation rate from 24% to 11%. That makes it as effective in reducing divorce rates as a 20-hour therapist-led early marriage counselling program.
Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
Correlation does not prove causality. Probable couples that like to watch relationship movies together are by default, more likely to stay together..
Dynein 4 years ago
Depends on how the study was designed. If they took a cohort of newly-weds, randomly assigned them to different "treatment" groups - watching+discussing relationship movies, preventive couples therapy, control - then compared the results and found this, that conclusion is justified. If they only took a survey that would be different, yes, but I'm pretty sure that it was in fact a randomized control trial which is specifically _designed_ to enable such a conclusion.
Load More Replies... 1LittleGranny64 2 months ago
We haven’t even turned on the TV in over five years…and we’ve been married over forty years.
#56
TIL that Argentina has the most pets per capita, with 80% of the population having a pet. Argentineans have the most dogs (66% of pet-owners), Russians have the most cats (57% of pet-owners), Turks have the most birds (20% of the population), and Chinese have the most fish (17% of the population).
Downunderdude 4 years ago
BP - why did you hide the comment below? It was not at all offensive. If you're going to hide inoffensive comments, I'm going to call you out on them.
#57
TIL Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas, but he was forced to use Keaton because the other actor was already using his name. As a result, he often inadvertently plays tricks on people expecting Michael Douglas - only to get Michael Keaton.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago (edited)
I met Michael Keaton once, I was in London for a gig and we saw him in a pub and we had a beer with him, such a nice guy but I think he was sick of me drunkenly quoting Beetlejuice at him by the end.
#58
TIL some luxury buildings in New York City will only let you buy an appartment there after board approval. Mariah Carey was once rejected after showing up to the interview in a 'bare midriff' and answering "he be dead" when asked if Biggie would be visiting the building.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
Having money does not mean having class or education. Plus, snobs will always be snobs.
#59
TIL that late in his reign as Emperor of China, Wu of Jin had over 5000 wives and concubines. Given this gluttony of choice, he let his goats decide whom he should spend the night with. He would ride on a cart drawn by the goats, and wherever the goats would stop, that's who he would have.
Wendillon 4 years ago
I dunno...the more wives and concubines he had the less each of them actually had to see him. So if I was his wife I'd keep recruiting more just so he'd spend less time with me.
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Katherine Boag 4 years ago
Imagine being a concubine tho, such a low chance of having to actually put out, live a life of luxury...
#60
TIL that the Avedis Zildjian Company, which manufactures cymbals, was founded in 1623 in Constantinople, which was at the time part of the Ottoman Empire. The name Zildjian literally means "cymbal smith".
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
If you've a date in Constantinople, shel'll be waiting in Istambul.
#61
TIL that Elizabeth Coleman White, whose family owned a cranberry farm, teamed up with botanist Frederick Coville to develop and cultivate the first blueberry crop. White paid people for each bush they found with blueberries that measured at least 5/8 of an inch. Coville uprooted and grafted them.
#62
TIL hummingbird nests are the smallest in the world. Most species of hummingbirds weave spider silk into the nest for structural support and to make it more elastic to accommodate the offspring as they grow. Often lichen will be attached to the outside of the nest for camouflage.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I happened upon a hummingbird nest. Got a bad picture because I didn't want to get too close but you can just about make out 2 chicks. IMG_161607...660d1c.jpg 
LesAnimaux 4 years ago
Okay but how impressive is it to build the smallest nest in the world when you're literally the smallest bird in the world? Show me an ostrich that builds a miniature nest and I'll be impressed.
#63
TIL in the 1960's an American doctor tested if his patients could develop immunity to cancer by injecting them with cancer cells without their consent. He went on to be president of the American Association for Cancer Research.
kristy sickles 4 years ago
It will never cease to amaze me how many things use to happen (and still do) without consent. So sad.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Wow, that's actually appalling. He was essentially rewarded for injecting people unknowingly.
kasa alex 4 years ago
Um. So did they become immune or ... did they just die of cancer regardless??
Wendillon 4 years ago
It's hard to find a clear answer to that since the folks he injected were usually sick people, prisoners or other compromised folks but it seems that they developed small tumors at the site of the injection and then their immune systems fought it off. The cancer didn't seem to spread, but it didn't make them immune to cancer either.
Load More Replies... Amaranthim Talon 4 years ago
I have no idea if one can "catch" cancer. But since some virus cause cancer- such as the Human papillomavirus - https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/infectious-agents/hpv-and-cancer "Long-lasting infections with high-risk HPVs can cause cancer in parts of the body where HPV infects cells, such as in the cervix, oropharynx (the part of the throat at the back of the mouth, behind the oral cavity that also includes the back third of the tongue, the soft palate, the side and back walls of the throat, and the tonsils), a**s, penis, vagina, and vulva."
Downunderdude 4 years ago
BP - why did you hide the comment below? It was not at all offensive. If you're going to hide inoffensive comments, I'm going to call you out on them.
#64
TIL that during the American Civil War, several divisions of the confederate army had a large snowball fight. It started when a couple of hundred men from Texas plotted a friendly fight with men from Arkansas, which spiralled into a brawl involving 9,000 soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia.
#65
TIL that in the USA, only 53% of Generation Z-ers (people born from 1997 onwards) identify as sports fans, compared to 63% of all adults and 69% of millennials. Generation Z-ers are half as likely as millennials to watch live sports regularly, and twice as likely to never watch
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
Most sports have been ruined by the money that's involved. What you often get to see is heavily overpaid people who never perform as they are paid. Some of them are even too lazy to put one foot in front of the other.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
So millennial who were born between 1980-1997 do no count as adults as they would be respectively 24-41 years old now. Ouch, will we every be considered adults?
#66
TIL when filming "The Lost Patrol" in Arizona, the cast only worked in early morning and late afternoon, to avoid the intense day heat. The producer wanted longer filming hours, and to prove his point, walked around in the open at midday. He soon collapsed from the heat, requiring hospital treatment
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
Just good enough for the crew to say, "Well, we told ya!"
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TIL that B92, a dissident radio station in Serbia, played Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' on repeat when they were banned from broadcasting news. The song became an anti-Milošević anthem in 1991.
#68
TIL comic Andy Kaufman's 4-F deferment for the draft concluded that Kaufman lived in a fantasy world, disconnected from reality, and if put in the military would "lose his mind". He loved the letter and proudly displayed it as he had purposely treated his psych eval as a high-stakes joke.
#69
TIL Hugh Laurie gave Lin-Manuel Miranda the idea for the song "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton after guest starring on House in 2009. Miranda mentioned to Laurie he was trying to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies and "without blinking, he improv'd at me, 'Awwww, you'll be back'."
#70
TIL the Thirteen Colonies were used as a penal colony for English criminals between the 1600s to 1776. Historians estimate between 50,000 to 120,000 criminals were transfered. After America's indepedence the Brits tried to substitute America with Ghana and Senegal, ultimately deciding on Australia.
EQXL 4 years ago
O lowdy, you think it's confined to one city? 🤣 Either way, obviously Australia turned out better.
Load More Replies... Radek Suski 4 years ago
How many criminals do UK "produces" if they needed two huge continents to send their criminals to? 🤣
Ivy Ruonakoski 4 years ago
They'd send people off for petty offences like stealing food because they were hungry, to cleanse the nation or some other bs.
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#71
TIL that Graham Hill did not pass his driving test till the age of 24 and joined professional racing just a year later. He is the only driver to achieve the Triple Crown of Motorsport, an achievement defined as winning the Indianapolis 500, the the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Monaco Grand Prix.
ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE 4 years ago
Oh goody! There's still hope for my brother! He's 20 and still doesn't know how to drive.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
I have been a driving instructor and had some of those "boy racers" in my car. None of them knew how to properly handle a car or how to drive safely and paying attention to other traffic. Worst example was one who didn't use the clutch to shift gears because " you'll lose speed when you use the clutch." I had to explain to him that you lose a lot of money when your gearbox has to be repaired.
#72
TIL NPR radio host Ira Glass, who has done the show "This American Life" since 1996, received a raise from $170,000 to $278,000 in 2013. Glass said this raise was "unseemly" and asked it to be lowered to $146,000.
#73
TIL about Mariano Martinez. A man who in 1971 modified an ice cream machine to create the first frozen margarita machine. He did this to meet demand for a popular margarita recipe he was serving at the time. You can find his invention on display at the Smithsonian Museum for American history.
Katrina B. 4 years ago
It may or may not be on display. Items in the museum (and all Smithsonians) are rotated. I was there in 2009 and it wasn't on display.
#74
TIL that after being told a jet powered car can run on anything that burns, the President of Mexico rode it running on tequila.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
There was a marketing scheme to popularize the model T car. It was a race around the world in model Ts to prove how hardy they were. Many of the places they visited, had never seen a car let alone have the stuff needed to fix and run one. For example gas... The model Ts could run on just about anything that burned, so the racers made their own fuel.
#75
![Til That Crowd Noises For The Movie 'Spartacus' [1960] Were Recorded At Spartan Stadium Of Msu. Prior To A Football Game Between Msu And Notre Dame, 76,000 Spectators Were Instructed By Actor John Gavin [caesar] To Roar, 'Spartacus! Spartacus!', 'Hail Crassus' And Of Course, 'I'm Spartacus!'](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/til-draft-6050bd45c70c7__700.jpg "Til That Crowd Noises For The Movie 'Spartacus' [1960] Were Recorded At Spartan Stadium Of Msu. Prior To A Football Game Between Msu And Notre Dame, 76,000 Spectators Were Instructed By Actor John Gavin [caesar] To Roar, 'Spartacus! Spartacus!', 'Hail Crassus' And Of Course, 'I'm Spartacus!'")
TIL that crowd noises for the movie 'Spartacus' [1960] were recorded at Spartan Stadium of MSU. Prior to a football game between MSU and Notre Dame, 76,000 spectators were instructed by actor John Gavin [Caesar] to roar, 'Spartacus! Spartacus!', 'Hail Crassus' and of course, 'I'm Spartacus!'
#76
TIL of Africanized honey bees, or "killer bees". They were crossbred between African and European honey bees to produce bees that are less aggressive and produce more honey. They inadvertently made this species of bees produce less honey, are very aggressive, and kill a horse
Indra Servo 4 years ago
and the reason they're in the wild is because they somehow able to escape the lab
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I heard this story, they were trying to use our lovely docile honey bee and slowly breed out the aggressive part of the African bee's personality. I probably would have worked except a well meaning worker noticed these little screens that the queens couldn't get out through (which was the point) and he removed all the screens from all the hives. And of course they were all gone by the end of the day. And that folks is how we got the killer bee
#77
TIL that a cat named Orlando once beat financial experts in an investing competition by randomly throwing a toy mouse on a grid of numbers that each correspond to different companies
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
"Financial experts". Yeah right. And as clueless as a cat about where to invest. If they actually knew what they were doing they'd be living in mansions on their own islands, not slaving 60 hours a week at a brokerage firm. Do your own homework, make your own decisions, never take financial advice from anyone - especially one of these people
#78
TIL that at an Allied checkpoint during the Battle of the Bulge, US General Omar Bradley was detained as a possible spy when he correctly identified Springfield as the capital of Illinois. The American military police officer who questioned him mistakenly believed the capital was Chicago
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
When my mom was in Jr. High in Utah, I think, the teacher asked what the capital of Washington State was. Some boy answered Seattle and the teacher agreed. My mom, being from Washington (grandpa was in the army) had to correct them. "Seattle is just the largest city, Olympia is the capital. I'm from there. And it says right here in the book." She got sent to the principal's office.
ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago
THEN WHY DIDN'T THEY MAKE OLYMPIA THE LARGEST CITY?
Load More Replies... Sheanna Caban 4 years ago
People still think that the capital of Illinois is Chicago to this day. It makes a lot of us Springfieldians pissy.
#79
TIL Gotye didn't monetize his music on YouTube, missing out in millions of dollars in revenue from just his "Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)" video on YouTube.
Acrab MacNutt 4 years ago
And then the Canadian band walk off the earth used his song as a cover and made millions.... on you tube
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Really? I'd never heard that. That's pretty awful.
Load More Replies... #80
TIL Isaac Newton studied the occult and predicted the end of the world as we know it to happen around the year 2060. He believed humanity would then progress into an era of divinely inspired peace.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
If Trump ever gets back into the political arena, no one will !!
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The way things are going he might very well be right, all be it that humanity will have progressed in the opposite direction.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
That is what happens when you have severe mercury poisoning and you no longer are situated in reality.
#81
TIL that by the age of 18, Elagabalus had been a high priest, consul, married four times, Roman Emperor for four years, and the victim of an assassination devised by his grandmother.
ComfyPanda 4 years ago
Damn. How absolutely vile does someone have to be in order for their GRANDMA to put out a hit on them?!
ispeak catanese 4 years ago
Not necessarily vile, Granny may have wanted a different sibling to be emperor.
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MikeyWaveOven He/Him 4 years ago
*She. Elagabalus was a transgender woman, and might be the first known person to ever publicly seek sex reassignment surgery. Very common belief the reason her grandmother had her assasinated was because she was public about wanting to be referred to as a woman, by the name Elagabalus, and with she/her pronouns! What a -literal- queen.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
Back when people died at 30-40, 18 was not as young as we see today.
Wendillon 4 years ago
People commonly dying at 30-40 is a myth. The average life expectancy was dragged down by an extremely high infant mortality rate.
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TIL That the drought of 1976-77 aligned harmoniously with the rise of skateboarding. In effort to conserve water, pools were being emptied all throughout Southern California. With that, emerging skaters like Tony Alva, Steve Olson, and the late Jay Adams were jumping fences and skating empty pools.
#83
TIL that at birth babies eyes aren't developed enough to perceive colour or depth, it usually takes about 6 months for their vision to reach adult levels.
Patrick Wells 4 years ago
Also, your eyes don't grow. They are the same size from birth 'til death.
#84
TIL the Death Star was actually designed before we could see the massive crater on Mimas, one of Saturn's moons, meaning its resemblance is purely coincidental.
#85
TIL that Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was smoking so much pot that he installed a fireman's pole in his home so he can get to his studio faster so he doesn't forget ideas for songs/lyrics he's creating.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Pearl jam, brings back so many awesome '90's memories! I had a tape with ten on one side and vs on the other.
#86
TIL: The Apollo Guidance computer was programmed in metric, but showed imperial values in the displays. Using metric meant fewer calculations thus optimizing the use of the limited processing power and the astronauts were used to imperial so that's what they saw on the display.
#87
TIL that Star Trek: The Next Generation was to include dolphins and whales as crewmembers but the idea proved too expensive to film and was stopped except for mentions of Cetacean Operations.
Patrick McKemie 4 years ago
Captain, I have located Margaret Howe Lovatt! Warp Factor number 9 Mr. Chirp Chirp!
#88
TIL of Motts Tonelli, a Notre Dame fullback who ran in the winning TD against USC in 1937. 5 years later in 1942 he had his class ring confiscated during the Bataan Death March. A Japanese officer returned his ring, telling Tonelli that he was US-educated and recognized him from his time at USC.
Nicole Trabucco 4 years ago
Wait~ I thought it said Motts was at Notre Dame.. but at the end it says he was recognized from his time at USC.
#89
TIL that more than 380,000 African American soldiers served in the Army during WWI. THE U.S. Army wasn’t comfortable with the idea of training black men for combat, so they were assigned to train under/fight along side the French
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
the french society (and army) were much less racist as the US at the time....
Wilf 4 years ago
Hardly. the French army used hundreds of thousands of black soldiers from their colonies, and treated most of them pretty dreadfully too.
Load More Replies... Laugh or not 4 years ago
The American command told the French command to not trust those black soldiers. The French didn't care because there were already black men in the troops from the colony. The Harlem hellfighters played the first jazz concert in Europe, spent more time on the front line than any other US soldiers and were given that name by the Germans due ti their courage in combat. They are also the first US soldiers ti receive the French Croix de Guerre and many received individual decorations as well. They went back to the US highly trained and with honour. And with the idea that Europe had no racial segregation (we had/have racism, no worry /s), which sparked discussion about the civil rights of Black people in the US. Which the US Military was trying to avoid.
#90
TIL that a Christian sect called "Millerites" believed that Christ would return by Oct. 22, 1844. When that didn't happen, the "Great Disappointment" caused them to fall into confusion and disband, with some former Millerites reinterpreting their doctrine and forming the Seventh Day Adventists.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
That's what you get when you have imaginary friends and you're not a child anymore...
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
There will always be delusional people out there - religious ones mostly ....
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
I believe QAnon is experiencing their own modern day "Great Disappointment" as we speak. I wonder what new cult they'll morph into now that their Fat Jesus Resurrection was denied?
#91
TIL In 2010, scientists grew slime mold in a dish, placing the mold in a central position representing Tokyo. They placed oats (major cities), and used light (which slime molds avoid) for mountains. The slime mold grew, nearly identically recreating the Tokyo Rail system.
#92
TIL Bowie lured unknown Stevie Ray Vaughn to play on his '83 album "Let's Dance" by dangling an opening act on tour. However, after recording, Vaughn was relegated to backup musician and wouldn't be allowed to talk about his music. So, he quit, released "Texas Flood", and became a superstar instead.
#93
TIL a babirusa's tusks grow upwards through the skin, curve back, and can get so long they penetrate the babirusa's own skull, killing it.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Squirrel teeth never stop growing. That is why it is good to give them shelled nuts if you give them anything at all. Their tooth can grow and curve into their nose or eyes, and then they can't eat and die a horrible, hungry death. When they open hard nuts it helps them file their teeth down.
#94
TIL in 2014, the Indian government employed 40 people to impersonate monkeys, to scare off real monkeys causing havoc around the parliament in Delhi. The men made screeching noises similar to those of black-faced langur monkeys, imitating their whoops and barks, to frighten red-faced macaque monkeys
#95
TIL: There was a book about a famous train leaving King’s Cross Station on a magical adventure, written in 1937 by Doris Crockford (the same name as a witch Harry Potter meets in the first book)
Declan Herendeen 4 years ago
the train, “the flying scotsman” actually is in a video game called forza horizon 4, my personal favorite game, and it continuously drives around the map. it’s really quite neat
#96
TIL that Alexander Graham Bell was a eugenicist and feared the creation of a "deaf race", advocating for the elimination of sign language and deaf schools in order to prevent deaf people from reproducing
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Maybe he was against deaf people because they wouldn't be buying a phone.
Spring Fisk 4 years ago
Eugenics is a horrible "science." Hitler used eugenics as an excuse to kill around 6 million Jews as well as Gypsies, homosexuals, blacks, the physically and mentally disabled, and Slavic peoples. Eugenics was also embraced in the US for a time and this lead to the forced sterilizations.
Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
And that horrible organization Autism $peaks advocates for eugenics, too, in a way to "find a cure" for autism.
Load More Replies... Uisgea Beatha 4 years ago
He had some weird hearing issues of his own. He'd get violent headaches whenever anybody played music.
Patrick Wells 4 years ago
So he didn't actually invent the telephone and was an ignoramus as well?
#97
TIL on the day he was assassinated by revolutionary nihilists, Alexander II of Russia had signed a ukaz establishing elected positions for commoners in the Tsardom. This edict was immediately dissolved by his son, who went on to consolidate and expand the Tsar's power in Russia.
#98
TIL the old man who died in the Mt St Helens eruption was once sunk by a U-boat, smuggled booze, threw his ex-wife into a lake during arguments, got park rangers drunk, impersonated game wardens, assaulted taxmen, hated hippies, chased off a Supreme Court Justice and died with his cats on a volcano
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
If it's any consolation, they almost certainly died quickly of heat shock, so quickly that they didn't suffer any.
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Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago
His name was Harry Truman. I recommend the book: Truman of St. Helen's, if you'd like to know more.
Amanita Virosa 4 years ago
I googled him, his name was Harry Randall Truman. https://www.oddee.com/item_98859.aspx
#99
TIL Paul McCartney wrote the song, “She’s Leaving Home”, after reading a story on the front page of the Daily Mail about girl who ran away from her parents. The girl, Melanie Coe, coincidentally met McCartney when he chose her as the prize winner in a dancing contest three years earlier
#100
TIL that the lyrics in Le Freak by CHIC originally contained the words “fuck off” rather then “freak out”. They got the idea after being denied entry to a club and the bouncer told them to “fuck off”. The lyrics were changed since they couldn’t say fuck on the radio.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It's funny because all the American recordings where words get "beeped" are sold and played in Europe without the annoying censorship and no one bats an eye.
Kay Phillips 3 years ago
Those small cultural differences are interesting. In USA they would never allow for some words to be broadcast, while in Europe we never allow kids to be shot in schools
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TIL pollen-deprived bumble bees tend to bite plant leaves more often than when pollen is plentiful; the bumble bee bites stimulate early flowering. Scientists compared bumble bee-bitten plants and unbitten plants. Bitten plants bloomed in 17 days; the un-bitten took an average of 33 days to bloom.
#102
TIL Berkshire Hathaway was a failing textile business. The chairman at the time offered to buy Warren Buffet's stake, but changed his offer last minute. Angered, Buffet bought more, taking control of the company and firing the chairman. Berkshire Hathaway is now the 8th largest company in the world.
#103
TIL that the first character on screen in Super Mario 64 is Lakitu, Mario's camera operator. Because the 1996 game was the first in the series to have 3D gameplay, the developers needed to teach players that they were controlling both Mario AND the camera.
Iðunn Ýr The Icelandic Panda 4 years ago
The ones playing the game were controlling both the camera, and Mario. In order for them to understand that they were controlling the camera (the angle they were watching Mario from), the developers showed them Mario's cameraman as a charachter. [Sorry if there is a spelling error].
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TIL in 1913, John D. Rockefeller was worth $900 million, or 3% of the entire GDP of the United States that year. His fortune was worth a modern equivalent of $418 billion.
#105
TIL That hockey legend Wayne Gretzky had a cameo on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. As a huge soap opera fan in 1981, Gretzky made a cameo on the daytime show as a mafia boss. His one line was, “I’m Wayne from the Edmonton operation.”
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Snoop Dogg wanted to have a cameo in our British soap 'Coronation St' but the producers said no.
#106
TIL that FBI's nationwide manhunt to capture depression-era gangster John Dillinger after he broke out of jail cost them about 2 million dollars at the time. The total amount of money his gang looted was around 500,000 dollars.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
It is like the war on drugs. Billions have been spent to keep people off drugs, but has it really done any good? There is an old woody harrelson documentary on it.
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
At the same time the mob/mafia got all cozy and comfortable undermining the law, for some reason not being considered a danger to the public.
#107
TIL about zombie taxa. A zombie taxon is a fossil specimen that somehow gets washed out and re-deposited into much younger rock, making it seem like the animal was walking around long after it had gone extinct.
#108
TIL About Debbie Mathers, Eminem's mom who not only tried to sue him for 10 million dollars in a "slander" suit, but also released a set of diss tracks with two unknown rappers to get back at Eminem for the things he said about her. She lost the suit and then released even more songs about her abuse.
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ispeak catanese 4 years ago
Gotta go look up a bunch of these! Irrational decisions, basque language, Elagabalus and his sweet granny, Andy Kaufman, Freak Out...
Don't Look 4 years ago
The brains response to being awake for 24 hours (or more) is taught at school. It's part of the medical courses (EMS, EMT, Paramedic...)
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Carrot dude 4 years ago
But there is? Their display is optional? It says this comment is hidden?
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ispeak catanese 4 years ago
Gotta go look up a bunch of these! Irrational decisions, basque language, Elagabalus and his sweet granny, Andy Kaufman, Freak Out...
Don't Look 4 years ago
The brains response to being awake for 24 hours (or more) is taught at school. It's part of the medical courses (EMS, EMT, Paramedic...)
Load More Replies... Carrot dude 4 years ago
But there is? Their display is optional? It says this comment is hidden?
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