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Learning is a lifelong process. And it can bring so much joy. But schools, workplaces, and all the compliance drills that come with them can make us associate it with arbitrary pass/fail cut-offs and other sinister consequences.
Luckily, you can still acquire new information just for the sake of it.
There's a subreddit called r/TodayILearned. This online community has 24.9 million members, constantly sharing the most interesting random facts they have stumbled upon, and it has become such a vast catalog of trivia, it's easily one of the best "encyclopedias" online.
So dust off your brain cells and keep scrolling—below are some of the posts that recently went viral on the subreddit. And if you're like Tai Lopez and can't get enough of knowledge, check out Bored Panda's earliest articles on r/TodayILearned here, here, and here.
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#1
After the 2011 Japanese nuclear plant in Fukushima was disabled by an earthquake tsunami double whammy, elderly Japanese people volunteered to do repairs to save young people from radiation exposure.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Indeed, this was very much in the news. What next, "today I learned 33 chilean miners got trapped"?
Load More Replies... Todd Hunter 4 years ago
And the Japanese government has to this day hidden the effects of and the amount of radiation in the area.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Yea, I once saw a show on netflix and he visited the exclusion zone of the Fukushima disaster, and the radiation counter was going off the charts and everyone on the bus was worried but the guides insisted it was fine.. wtf. I think in the end they did end up turning back and leaving the area (thank god) but still, just.. what the actual f**k
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Elli Rahim 4 years ago
This is so astounding about the Japanese culture. Another selfless Fukushima resident is the farmer who went back to care for the animals left behind in the disaster. https://www.boredpanda.com/fukushima-radioactive-disaster-abandoned-animal-guardian-naoto-matsumura/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
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#2
After Universidad del Mar was closed by Chilean government due to major financial irregularities, artist Papas Fritas managed to enter its vault and burn tuition contracts amounting to $500 million, making difficult to prove students owed the university this money
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
He called himself fried potatoes? Kudos for originality and for humanitarian act.
Lizz Lor 4 years ago
French fries...they call them papas fritas in Spanish
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#3
Some elephants eat off a specific tree to induce labor - the same tree which kenyan women brew a tea of for the same purpose
hey, not my problem 4 years ago
or maybe the plant has a certain property that induces it?
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Bama Belle 4 years ago
I once saw on an educational program that showed monkeys had learned charcoal could rid them of toxins.
Fieke Engelen 4 years ago
And maybe the women got the idea from the elephants in the first place?
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago
for a minute I thought they meant like, physical labor -like work-, and I was SO confused
#4
The Curie family is the family with the most Nobel Prizes. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. Her husband Pierre Curie won a Nobel in physics. Their daughter Irène Joliot-Curie won a Nobel prize in chemistry.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Imagine being Ève Curie, the second daughter... "Where's your Nobel-price? Why couldn't you be like your sister?"
StIJN 4 years ago
The 2nd daughter wrote her mothers biography and married a nobelprize winner.
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Eliza 4 years ago
It's Maria SKŁODOWSKA Curie. She was not french and why people still forgetting her full name?
StIJN 4 years ago
because marie curie sounds like a dish i would order so i can remember that. makes me think of a lamb curry
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King Joffrey 4 years ago
Amazing lady! She was not only the first woman to win the Nobel prize but also the only person to have won the award in two different fields.
#5
An 11 year old girl could not afford running shoes, so she wrapped her feet in tape and drew a Nike logo on it. She won several gold medals in local competitions.
Daniel Kofler 4 years ago
Actually, it's anatomically better for childrens feet not to grow up in shoes. As mankind lived in the 100.000 years before shoes were invented.
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Todd Hunter 4 years ago
And yet kids her age often work in the factories that make Nike product.
#6
Penguins can drink saltwater because of glands near their eyes that remove salt from their bloodstream and then they can sneeze out the extra salt.
Saint Thomas 4 years ago
And now I'm picturing myself having a penguin in my kitchen instead of a salt mill.
Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
"Pass the penguin, please." *Penguin upside down being shook over food* "This is the worst job ever!"
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Attila Ángyán 4 years ago
So they are sneezing out salt? I now imagine penguine salt on the supermarket shelves just right next to himalayan salt...
ChIcKeN bReNt 4 years ago
I read a lot sooo... Yeah I learned a BUNCH more stuff from other recourses other than school.
#7
Elinor Powell was a black nurse who served during WWII. She was assigned to work at a POW camp, like most African-American nurses at the time, and fell in love with a German POW there. They married and had children despite it being illegal in both the U.S and Germany during this time period.
William Faulk 4 years ago
Exactly, now the real question is, is why was that illegal?
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Tiny Dancer 4 years ago
Love is awesome! Elinor Powell and Frederick Albert got married in 1947, but had a hard time finding a place to live without prejudice. From here (https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/a-black-nurse-a-german-soldier-and-an-unlikely-wwii-romance/): "In 1959, Mr. and Ms. Albert settled in Village Creek, an interracial neighborhood in Norwalk, Conn., where Elinor became an avid gardener and Frederick became a vice president at Pepperidge Farm." They had two sons, Steven and Chris, and Chris became a trumpeter with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Married for more than 50 years, they were finally separated by death in 2001 (Frederick, 75) and 2005 (Elinor, 85). Now that's a life/love story that deserves a movie, wow!
Stephanie de Blaauw 4 years ago
Not in school (but then I am Dutch and we are already taught a lot of history from other countries as well.. can't learn everything) but I've seen this in a documentary on tv
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
A distant relative, a Native -American woman married a Nazi POW that had been assigned to work on her father’s farm during WWII in OK.They spent the rest of their life on that farm & “Uncle Louie” was an unrepentant Nazi for the rest of his life. Not my favorite people. They had oil leases & were quite wealthy & enjoyed flaunting it. I would snidely tell him how lucky he was to be captured by a benevolent army.
alwaysMispelled 4 years ago
(Before anybody gets picky, the Wehrmacht were complicit with the Nazis and were more than minimally involved with all the war crimes and genocide, which basically removes their separation from the nazis)
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In 1936 Orson Welles produced and directed a version of Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast.
Aayse 4 years ago
in 1939 ? that is great. yet it took some people so long to learn how to live in a world without discriminating anyone anything
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
"Orson Welles adapted and directed the production, moved the play's setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island, recruited an entirely Black cast, and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian vodou that fulfilled the role of Scottish witchcraft. A box office sensation, the production is regarded as a landmark theatrical event." -Wikipedia
BeenElle 4 years ago
What does that have to do with this post? Othello isn't in Macbeth and “black” in this context is not the same as any Shakespearean reference.
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Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
Probably to show that they can play title roles vs just minstrel exaggerations & servant roles. Wasnt much else they were considered for. And even if they were, they were still treated differently. Take the Hattie McDaniels from Gone with the Wind as an example. While she still played a servant, it was a meatier role than usual. She was praised for her performance, even won an Oscar for it BUT couldnt sit with her cast to receive it & couldnt attend the premiere b/c of segregation.
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Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son in law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons in law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations
Mark Schilling 4 years ago
Which is the best way to describe Genghis Khan.
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NMN 4 years ago
Or throw ass (reference to shuai jiao, wrestling martial art from Mongolia)
Load More Replies... varwenea 4 years ago
He used marriage of his children to secure empires long before European monarchies did the same later.
Dave P 4 years ago
Um, you know societies all over the world have been doing that since at least 3000BCE and european monarchs (post Roman period) as far back as 400CE
Load More Replies... Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Remind me (too lazy to google), but didn't one of his daughters rule large parts of Siberia? Like, if one only measuref wealth by land, she would have been the richest in the family?
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
Historians think Genghis Khan must have had hundreds of children as his DNA is spread widely throughout the world.
#10
Whoopi Goldberg is the only person in the world to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award
Lizz Lor 4 years ago
Maybe not for long....Lin-Manuel Miranda has an EGOT and was just nominated for a Kids Choice
Tiny Dancer 4 years ago
I love the guy, but LMM hasn't won an Oscar yet (the O in EGOT). He was nominated in 2016 for "How Far I'll Go" from "Moana", but lost to "City of Stars" from "La La Land". He's in his own special category anyway. Unless Whoopi also has a Pulitzer Prize that I'm not aware of ;-)
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Rob Seymour 4 years ago
She also got her nickname from a whoopie cushion because she was gassy as a kid. Serioulsy.
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago
She also asked for a role in Star trek because she wanted one. The casting director thought someone was having a joke when they were first asked - but then jumped on it, and had the writers create a role just for her.
BonnieBlueButler 4 years ago
What the hell difference does it make that she doesn't have eyebrows?
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Aboriginal Australians often traveled to Indonesia for trade, and when British explorers first visited inland Australia they met an Aboriginal man who had already learned English from his visit to Singapore.
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
People learned languages much more quickly without textbooks and test papers.
Daniel Kofler 4 years ago
No, people learn languages more quickly when they are in an environment where the language is spoken, or if they are often with people which speak this language. What do you do if you don't have this? Right, you have to rely on textbooks.
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Jamie Sullivan 4 years ago
I doubt this is true. Aborigines were very coastal and didn't travel far. There is no oral history of Australian aborigines traveling to Indonesia let alone going as far as Singapore. And so he was from a coastal mob but was then found in the middle of Australia? That's thousands of kilometers and into lands of different tribes with different Aboriginal language and customs. When was he found? Australia was settled by the British in 1788 and there was rapid expansion. If this guy was "discovered" maybe 30 years later that would be 1818. But the British didn't establish themselves in Singapore until 1819. This story has bulldust all over it
varwenea 4 years ago
Aboriginals and natives of various lands are regularly regarded as savages. They are in truth just as intelligent and capable of learning as any other race or ethnicity.
Valley Girl 4 years ago
I'd be pretty savage too, if you came and took my land!
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Uisgea Beatha 4 years ago
The first Native American the Puritans met when they arrived in the New World--a fellow named Samoset--already spoke fluent English. He had crossed the Atlantic numerous times and had lived in England. His first words to the Puritans: "Do you have any beer?"
kathoco 4 years ago
Not true - Samoset learned English from interacting with English-speaking fisherman in Maine before encountering the Puritans.
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 4 years ago
Rubbish. Australian Aboriginals weren't and aren't sea fairing people. They would never get to Indonesia in the first place, let alone enough times to learn a new language. That's not who they are.
#12
A species of Australian Nocturnal Ground Parrots thought to be extinct for 100 years were found by one man after 15 years of searching. His search began when he found one feather of this bird on a truck and traced it back to the farm of an Old Indigenous Gentleman.
Vanta Black 4 years ago
As long as it's not up there with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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Chewie Baron 4 years ago
That's the species in New Zealand. The Australian species will be different because of how long ago Australia and New Zealand separated.
Load More Replies... Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
That's one busy truck driver if it took him 15 years to backtrack his movements
Rukkia 4 years ago
Because finding an extinct animal is a huge deal. It means they are not extinct, but needs protection. If we can work to keep one species from going extinct, it is a HUGE deal!!
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Researchers found that a blood test called PanSeer detected cancer in 95% of patients up to 4 years before they got a conventional cancer diagnosis. The test determines if the DNA in blood plasma was shed by tumours based on precence of particular methyl groups.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Has this become a diagnostic tool or has it been left foundering as an interesting sidenote?
Ksenia M 4 years ago
as far as I can see all the articles about it are from 2020 so even if it works as advertised it's at least a couple of years away from becoming available in major hospitals, at least where I'm from
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Stephanie Hatton 4 years ago
Unfortunately in America, preventative medicine is not often sought after by patients or paid for by insurance companies. We would greatly benefit from switching our medical mindset to "prevention" instead of "cure".
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Financial and humanitarian concern has left the US medical system long ago. Pointless to consider.
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Parmeisan 4 years ago
Oh that's cool! So do you know, does this mean they didn't inform the patients that they might have cancer? Or if they did tell, how did they determine how long it might have taken for a conventional diagnosis?
Load More Replies... BonnieBlueButler 4 years ago
I've long suspected that most cancers can easily be detected and cures. But why would Big Pharma want that good news out? It would cost them many fortunes.
Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
The test show a cancer. At least you know to start looking. Many cancers you do not know you have it until it is in stage 4 or untreatable.
#14
The search to recover debris from the Challenger disaster in 1986 also resulted in the discovery of 13 shipwrecks, two lost airplanes and 25 kilos of cocaine
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Here is another NASA fact. NASA was fined $400 by the Esperence council for littering after parts of Skylab were discovered after breaking up. It was all in jest but a radio host raised the money and paid it.
Wendillon 4 years ago
"Captain we found 50 kilos of cocaine over here!" "35 kilos of cocaine you say?" "Yes sir, 25 kilos of cocaine!"
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The cocaine was used as a new rocket motor to get the astronauts higher ;o)
#15
In 2015, a plane made an emergency landing after the crew received an indication of smoke in the cargo hold. It turns out to be caused by the 2,186 sheep farting onboard.
varwenea 4 years ago
Folks generally forget planes are used to transport everything. I worked in Boeing before, and the engineering team in support services group are contacted by airlines asking for repair instructions for the belly or storage area where animal urine has corroded the metal. Gross.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Reminds me to the ending of the horror/comedy "Black Sheep" where all the sheep are ignited in a big ball of fire because their farts were lit on fire. It's a weird as hell movie but honestly it's so stupid it's funny.
#16
Apple's policy of refusing to repair phones that have undergone "unauthorized" repairs is illegal in Australia due to their right to repair law
Kari Panda 4 years ago
Not just the US. This should be a given everywhere, for any normal product :/
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Meeple13 4 years ago
The picture's wrong, Apple phones don't come with a charger now it seems :|
Bunny Wood 4 years ago
Competition and Consumer Act means it is illegal to force a client to use a single supplier of goods or services. So long as the item in question has been seen by a qualified service agent, no supplier can dictste which agent that must be.
Parmeisan 4 years ago
Thank you. I was wondering if that meant the customer could try to fix it, but through lack of expertise make the problem worse, and the company would still be on the hook. This law seems completely fair, though.
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New Zealand is not part of of any of the world's seven recognized continents, and is in fact situated upon the submerged continent of Zealandia.
Sum Guy 4 years ago
I keep telling people that New Zealand is a fantasy land that doesn't exist
Bunny Wood 4 years ago
Well population wise, we are below the margin of error in the world population so maybe we don't
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NMN 4 years ago
They got it all mixed up. Continents and continental plates are different things. The first is decided by humans relations and there are different systems, the two most common are the 6 and the 7 continent systems. The latter is factual tectonic plates, there are way more than just 6 or 7 (India has its own plate as an example). This post is wrong mixing it up
Candia Lee 4 years ago
You are a little confused, too, as post only says NZ isn't part of any continent, doesn't mention continental plates, which Zealandia is not any way. Post's failure is implying that all other islands are part of a continent. Part of Zealandia's significance is that it's either the largest microcontinent or the eighth and smallest continent.
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Shelp 4 years ago
It is. The post mixes up continents (which are a political thing with little to no regard to geography) and continental plates.
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ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago (edited)
Sum Guy 2 weeks ago: "I keep telling people that New Zealand is a fantasy land that doesn't exist"
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#18
Agatha Christie is the third most widely published author of all time, outsold only by Shakespeare and the bible. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and a billion more in 100 different languages.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
She also went missing for 11 days and (allegedly) had no memory of what happened.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
"God". He's so popular and unique he has a single name, like "Prince" and "Bjork".
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
This kinda shows "Top 3" or "Top X" gives for very uneven quality and style.
Wyn Williams 4 years ago
Second most published author.. Multiple people wrote the bible and nobody even knows who they where
Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 4 years ago
My favourite book is And Then There Were None! Shes such a great author
#19
The West Indie's top cricketer Kraigg Brathwaite was scrawny as a kid, and got bullied by his Combermere School (Barbados) bus mates. A girl, 4 years his senior, protected him. She beat up the bullies & took Kraigg on her lap. Her name: Robyn Fenty, a.k.a. Rihanna.
William Faulk 4 years ago
whoa, just imagining that is crazy! but I always think, all these people that met others before they were Pre-Famous would be kind of cool.
wiesenleger 4 years ago
To be honest. It is not always cool. Some people did let their fame go to their head, leading to thing I was never expected out of person XY and kind of me not liking him that much anymore.
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Bama Belle 4 years ago
I once comforted a crying girl on my school bus. We were stuck in icy weather & she was scared. To this day, 30 years later, when she sees me out she smiles & waves.
#20
Paul McCartney let a stranger claiming to be Jesus Christ sit in on a Beatles recording session in 1967. McCartney figured, "Well, it probably isn’t. But if he is, I’m not going to be the one to turn him away"
Dill 4 years ago
In an interview with The Independent newspaper in 2012 they asked him whether religion matters to him or not and Paul replied “Not really. I have a kind of personal faith in something good, but it doesn’t really go much further than that. It’s certainly not subscribing to any organised religion.”
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#21
Whenever we sleep in unfamiliar surroundings, only half your brain is getting a good night's rest while the other half stands guard.
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
I've lived in my current home for almost 20 years, and I swear it still does that!
Dhukath 4 years ago
Why I can't sleep in any other bed than my own, unless I'm inebriated. Plus I miss my cat, she sleeps with her paw on my hand!
Orichinals 4 years ago
I sleep well everywhere, because I feel me at home everywhere. If there's something to guard for, i'm awake all night, till the others be awake in the morning, then I can sleep. The others can have a goodnight sleep, I will do it in the morning. Safety first with love.
Dhukath 4 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/21/struggle-to-sleep-in-a-strange-bed-scientists-have-uncovered-why
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#22
Babies can acquire sign language just like they would acquire any language and follows the same patterns as vocal language acquisition, where deaf infants (if exposed to sign language early) start to "babble" 1-2 sign sentences around the time their hearing counterparts start to "babble" words.
H Edwards 4 years ago
Some parents of hearing kids now do baby signing, as they can make meaningful gestures before they can form words. I don't know much about it, but it sounds interesting.
Kisses4Katie 4 years ago
I've seen babies as young as 5 mos ask for a bottle or food- as long as they're not too fussy and tired, they can sign for basic things like 'ball' 'bottle' 'mommy'. I love working with that age group.
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Abbyboudreaux 4 years ago
My son has a significant speech/language delay, so his speech therapist started teaching him sign language when he was about 1.5 years old. By 3 he knew and appropriately used about 200 signs (mostly nouns but he could also express when he needed something or was hurting, etc). He said his first word at 3 and it took a few months before he could say another word, but as he started being able to say more and more, the ability to sign seemed to just disappear despite us still using it with him. Now at 11 he has almost no recognition of any signs other than the alphabet.
bookshellf 4 years ago
Random but I'm reminded animals know sign language too, I couldn't understand why kitten was guided by her sense of smell to the foodbowl, unsure where to go. I pointed at it and her eyes followed where it was. If that's not sign language.. idk what is :/
Donna Leske 4 years ago
My little wogger knows a couple of silent gestures through repetition. However my previous dogs knew a dozen or so, some a bit complex. I just claim that Scamper, see photo, is too smart to bother. 6-19-20-60...45291a.jpg 
Jonahs Mrs 4 years ago
I came up with very basic signs to use with my first child. Just simple ones for things like drink, hungry, play etc. It was amazing how quickly they caught on and was a great way to communicate with them before they had developed their speech x
Lorelai Purvis 4 years ago
we were taught sign language as babies but i don't remember much except for the alphabet
M Kate McCulloch 4 years ago
would be cool to learn both - then we could communicate quietly when needed.
#23
Mexico was the only country to protest against the German annexation of Austria
Louise B 4 years ago
This is the second thing that I learned recently about Mexico being on the right side of history. The other was their refusal to return slaves who had managed to escape.
Guido Pisano 4 years ago
To tell the truth also italy sent troops on the border but then mussolini thought that was more convenient be allied of hitler and the rest is history... https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss#L'Italia_liberale_e_la_sicurezza_del_confine_nord-orientale
#24
There is a clear ceramic made out of Aluminum that is stronger than bulletproof glass, and has a higher melting point than stainless steel. It is called ALON, and is used for armored windows
Teucer T 4 years ago
It's not exactly stronger than bulletproof glass, it's jist that since it is a metal rather than a crystal it doesn't crack. Instead of cracking from impact, it just disintegrates at the point of impact. And referencing "stainless steel" in this context is inaccurate as stainless steel is not one alloy, but thousands of different alloys that mix iron with carbon, nitrogen, aluminum, silicon, sulfur, titanium, nickel, copper, selenium, niobium, and molybdenum. There are so many different recipes that they are sorted into categories (families) and subcategories (series), all of which vary widely in such things as tensile strength and melting point.
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
Al2O3 aluminum oxide is sapphire, the 3rd hardest gemstone. Its cool they were able to create this.
#25
The USS New York is a ship in the US Navy forged partially from steel that was salvaged from the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in 9/11. The ship's motto is "Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."
Donkey boi 4 years ago
The recycling aspect is good and the sentiment is there, but is 'sacrifice' really the right word? To me that seems to imply that they chose to let those people die.
lara 4 years ago
No, it means that liberty is fought for by people willing to make the sacrifice.
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Dhukath 4 years ago
That's what the enemy tend to want to do to warships! I can see the paidiotic notion being the idea, but should parts of something so sacrosanct really be used in a symbol of war!
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#26
Oxford University is so old that they don’t even know when exactly it was founded and that the earliest evidence of teaching there goes back to 1096.
Jon S. 4 years ago
Pfft! Oxford was just a muddy river crossing when they started teaching at Durham. (For backstory I'm slightly bitter that when I say I went to Durham, people frequently comment 'oh, so you couldn't get into Oxford then?')
Shalini Pabreja 4 years ago (edited)
Takshashila University in India was established around 2700 years ago was home to over 10500 students where the students from all across the world used to come to attain specialization in over 64 different fields of study like vedas, grammar, philosophy, ayurveda, agriculture, surgery, politics, archery, warfare, astronomy, commerce, futurology, music, dance, etc.They were studying atomic science, rocket science, cosmetic surgery, advanced mathematics and a number of other subjects that far back.
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RandomPandaGuyHamiltonLafayette 4 years ago
Not as old as my school (1336 years old, yah oldest in the world)
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago
The Aztecs were still around when Oxford University was getting established. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oxford-university-is-older-than-the-aztecs-1529607/
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 4 years ago
To put that into perspective, that is about 500 years before the mayan empire ended.
#27
Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice had a pet snake named Emily Spinach. She liked to carry it around the White House in her purse and take it out at unexpected moments.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
I will name my next pet "Emily Spinach" regardless of species or sex.
bookshellf 4 years ago
i'm afraid of snakes but if one is called Emily Spinach.. I could crochet a lady's hat and scarf for it <3
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Joe Reaves 4 years ago
Alice was a lot of fun. The President was asked to stop her smoking on the roof of the White House. He said he could run the country or control Alice, but not both.
JenMiddleChildSmith 4 years ago
Somebody needs to make this into a children's book series. A snake named Emily Spinach!? I mean c'mon how is this not already a thing? ¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯
Elizabeth Piccolo 4 years ago
The whole backstory of his family is a great read. Very eclectic pets!
cj be like 1 year ago
The Roosevelts were probably the most quirky presidential family out of any
#28
Eight years after JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy avoided the public unveiling of their White House portraits, but the Nixons graciously agreed to a secret, private tour for her and her kids. It was her only return visit
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
Back in the days when Presidents respected their predecessors. Actually, though, as young congressmen, Kennedy and Nixon we're good friends.
Dave P 4 years ago
JFK and Barry Goldwater were close friends as well, and used to meet all the time when JFK was president despite disagreeing on almost every policy
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Chewie Baron 4 years ago
The Eisenhowers weren't exactly pleasant to the Kennedys when they came for a tour of the White House after JFK won in 1960. When Mamie Eisenhower gave Jackie a tour round, not once did she offer a heavily pregnant Jackie a seat.
Fieke Engelen 4 years ago
No! I looked and thought, maybe some premonition? He looks thoughtful
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Aquariums aren't allowed to pay to get animals from other aquariums as it encourages poaching. So there is a barter system in place where they swap animals. A New England aquarium traded a dozen penguins for 800 mackerel and their basic unit of trade is the jellyfish
Luna 4 years ago
“I’ll give you a seal for an eel!” “But that’s an unfair trade.” “I don’t care it rhymes”
Katrina B. 4 years ago
This is... not quite exactly why aquariums trad animals. 99% it's part of the Species survival plan to help diversify genetics of breeding populations.
Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
Makes me wonder if its Mystic Aquarium in CT. Its a small aquarium but we have a cool, and decent sized penguin exhibit & tons of jellyfish. Wondering if we traded some penguins for the updated jelly exhibit...
I’m A Black Cat 4 years ago
It's more like: ok so your penguin is worth 50 jellyfish but our walrus costs 200. so you need to throw in some turtles and a sea otter family to even the cost
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I once traded a sea bird for a sausage... I took a tern for the wurst... (OK, I'll leave now...)
Louise B 4 years ago (edited)
Awesome! 😄👌 (The joke, I mean. Not you leaving)
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Ruby DosSantos 4 years ago
My mum works for an aquarium,and half of the sea otters came from an aquarium in California
#30
Payless once opened a fake luxury store called "Palessi" and invited influencers to see how much people would pay for $20 shoes. Top offer: $640. A markup of 1800%.
Uisgea Beatha 4 years ago
As my father used to say, "A thing is worth whatever you can persuade some sucker to pay for it."
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
Influencers are so stupid they're even worth making fun of. It's just too easy.
BabaBizzle 4 years ago
“Influencers” - who is being influenced by them? A bunch of sheep who will do or say whatever the masses tell them. There’s a sucker born every minute and they all go on Instagram to find the latest trends to be part of. Zero originality. Pathetic.
Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago
Bet you're happy you're not a sheep, huh? You're just too special and smart and not like everyone else.
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KombatBunni 4 years ago
I should do this with stuff from charity shops, and then donate the money..
Jamie Baird 4 years ago
strange math. 20 x 32 equals 640 so it is 3200% not 1800%. i wish people would just stop using %%%%% when no one really knows what it means.
#31
Ed Sheeran granted a dying fans wish, which was to hear him sing, by singing to her minutes before she died
Charlie Star 4 years ago
Seriously why would someone downvote this comment?
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#32
Poncke Princen, a Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who was later sent to Indonesia to suppress an anticolonial rebellion. Princen, after witnessing Dutch war crimes, defected to fight with the guerrillas in 1948. He later helped expose the anticommunist massacres of Indonesian dictator Suharto.
Usernames 4 years ago
I never heard anything about him. It is interesting... Let me do my research...
Usernames 4 years ago
I just realized... The reason why "they" never mentions him in history book, is because he always stand with democracy.
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Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
Why do we not know about this person? Oh, because he does not follow the politically correct doctrine.
The Cute Cat 4 years ago
Haji Johannes Cornelis (H.J.C.) Princen is a famous Indonesian activist. Famous for his anti Soeharto stand. He survive the fall of Soeharto, so he must be proud of it.
#33
Surya Bonaly, a French figure skater, landed a backflip on one blade in the 1998 Nagano Olympics. This was banned in 1976 and Bonaly did it despite knowing that it would negatively affect her score. It has not been repeated in the Olympics since.
Saint Thomas 4 years ago
Who could've guessed that figure skating had forbidden techniques, like some martial arts in movies !
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
It's because skaters kept cracking their skulls open on the ice trying to land backflips.
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Jo Falkinder 4 years ago
I feel like there should be some backstory for this - Bonaly was pretty much the only black figure Skater there was and despite enormous talent - was consistently scoring lower than her white, upper class counterparts. The back flip is an incredibly difficult and dangerous move... So Bonaly did this to show them just how good she was, knowing she would not win anyway. It was also a pretty impressive middle finger to the judges/ skating World as a whole.
Thindy 4 years ago
She was awesome, one of best skaters I have ever seen.
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IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I remember watching her performance and seeing this. It was brilliant.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
I have 3 questions: Why, why and why?, With "why" being the one I'm most interested in.
Marie 4 years ago
She had a thing for crazy figures, it was her last competition and she had already messed up her program from the start... I guess she just wanted to have fun and entertain the spectators.
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Tiny Dancer 4 years ago
My Mum and I were really into figure skating back then and Surya was such an awesome bada$$ with talent to match. I cheered her every illegal move and wildly colourful outfit! She was such a treat to watch.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
She is so special, she outclassed all the rest. Judges were so racist and sexist with their ideals for skaters.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Judges in many "international" competitions are often bias, could just be because they prefer their neighbours to win. Just because sometimes black people do not win at something it does not necessarily mean racism, although would be some for of 'ism'
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Stephanie Barr 4 years ago
She's the reason I stopped watching figure skating. She was so good and never got the scores she deserved at the Olympics.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
There is on this video about banned figure skating moves . here is the link.:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKI1rixJwI4&ab_channel=Yuzutea
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Duct tape was invented by Vesta Stoudt, a factor worker during WWII and the mother of 2 sons in the Navy. When her supervisors at the factory dismissed her idea for a stronger cloth-based tape, she wrote a letter to President FDR, who then ordered Johnson&Johnson to manufacture her idea.
bookshellf 4 years ago
thanks to your good eyes for noticing! Might as well add I looked up who first invented tape. It was in 1845. 'Tape, as we know it today, was invented in 1845 by a surgeon. Doctor Horace Day's invention was a rudimentary adhesive bandage for his patients.'
Load More Replies... Attila Ángyán 4 years ago
Duct tape is the silver one I think... why is there a clear sellotape on the picture?
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 4 years ago
Funny fact - in Australia "Duct tape" is a vinyl tape, not cloth. Cloth tape is known as "gaffer" tape. It can get quite confusing when you are trying to craft. :(
Candia Lee 4 years ago
In USA, duct tape has changed. Used to buy cloth based duct tape, but haven't seen that in years. Gaffers tape is black, not shiny silver, and it's not intended to stick.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And is it duct tape duct tape, or the duct tape used in HVAC duct work duct tape? They're differnet, believe it or not... And who decided to use packing tape in the picture? I am a Duct Tape Diva. Do not mess with my duct tape!
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
One of the few things the original duct tape did NOT work on was ducts. They get too hot.
Load More Replies... bill marsano 4 years ago
Not duct tape in the photo. And 'duct' tape is no good for heating/AC ducts--the adhesive dries and fails. During WWII GI's supposedly called it DUCK tape because it shed water.
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
Duct tape turned out to be not good for wrapping ducts, but... so many other uses!
#35
The original drummer of The Offspring became a gynecologist, and during the initial stages of a malpractice trial, he performed CPR and used a defibrillator to save the life of a potential juror. The judge had to declare a mistrial because the rest of the jury would likely be biased in his favor
InvincibleRodent 4 years ago
this one is like seven consecutive slaps to the face. each word brings a new adventure.
William Faulk 4 years ago
oh wow! I always wondered where they were in their lives! that's interesting.
deathrose 4 years ago
They produced music up until 2012 I think I don't know if they have any plans to produce more but their last album, Days Go By, is definitely one of my favorites.
Load More Replies... M Kate McCulloch 4 years ago
Brian May, Guitarist for Queen, is a practicing Astro-Physicist. Maynard of Tool is an oenologist (studied winemaker), James Franco is a Harvard professor, Ashley Judd has either a Masters from Harvard in Public Administration with a focus on gender equality and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. People always have more to them than we see... don't judge.
Vanta Black 4 years ago
The original drummer of Sum 41 is now a real estate agent. Not as interesting, but there you go.
#36
After denied rights to use "Another One Bites the Dust" for Rocky III, Sylvester Stallone hired Survivor to write an original song instead, which turned out to be "Eye Of The Tiger"
Bama Belle 4 years ago
This is my favorite song origin story ever...Some filmmakers had requested a song from a songwriter to include on the soundtrack of their upcoming movie, so he & his writing partner wrote and recorded one. He asked his wife to mail it to the producers but she accidentally mailed the wrong recording. The producers told him they loved the song, but the lyrics were very strange and would need to be changed. In case you don't already know, the songwriter was Michael Sembello, the film was Flashdance and the song was Maniac. The original Maniac was inspired by a horror film of the same name.
Load More Replies... Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Sorry, but I have never though Stallone could act, he just talks dumn all the time
Kathy Smith 4 years ago
The story is right, but I’m pretty sure it’s got the song wrong. I read that they wanted to use “We Are the Champions.”
Thenatural 4 years ago
I doubt this...especially seeing as Apollo's motivation talks constantly referenced 'eye of the tiger'
Sue User 4 years ago
Or perhaps the script was edited to match the song ?
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The skeletons of medieval English archers were deformed from years of archery. The high poundage of war bows, coupled with years of training in their use from a young age, led to skeletons having over-developed shoulder and arm bones to compensate for the growth of muscle around those areas.
KombatBunni 4 years ago
What’s really painful is when you get what’s called string slap..it’s what happens if your upper arm gets whacked by the bowstring as you let an arrow fly and straighten your arm too much. It stings like hell, you drop your bow and have a wicked bruise for a couple of weeks! Wonder how often those lads had that happen?
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Dhukath 4 years ago
Wasn't there a rule of law in the England that all male peasantry (common folk) had to practice with a bow after church ever Sunday?
Donkey boi 4 years ago
More or less. In some parts of the country introduced a by-law (which are still technically in place today). They had to do 2 hours of weapon training a week and since very few could afford a sword... Also the 2 finger thing, is an urban legend I'm afraid, the oldest record of the gesture describes it as the 'the actioning of the dual fingered "go forth and multiply",' (Multiply = F**k, Go forth= Off) It's believed that the gesture originally started with the fingers together and then spread apart like a woman's legs.
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Robert T 4 years ago
Less dramatic, but I have developed permanent indentations either side of my nose from where my glasses sit and further indentations behind the ears were the arms of my glasses rest. So this doesn't surprise me in the least!
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I used to have dents when I had glass lenses. Dents behind your ears might mean change temple shape so they don't do that.
Load More Replies... Kari Panda 4 years ago
A similar fact: In the Middle Ages (and of course in some places still today), cooking pits were at ground level. Since cooking was such a time-consuming task, people would kneel or squat for prolonged periods of time, leading to deformation of the tibia.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
Not the same thing but it reminds me of something my BIL's doctor told him when he was a teenager. My BIL played high school football, and he'd had so many breaks & sprains his doctor told him he'd feel like an old man by the time he was 30. He said the doctor was right.
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
This is why it isnt recommended for people under the age of 15 to do strength training
Mary Blackford 4 years ago
“Compensation” is a little inaccurate. As muscles strengthen, their origin and insertion points (on bone) must thicken in order to match the muscle’s demand. You can see the bone thickening in anyone who has done heavy physical labor.
#38
An ancient Roman oracle once prophesied that "Caligula had no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae". After becoming emperor, Caligula ordered ships to construct the largest pontoon bridge in history, and rode his horse across the Bay of Baiae
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
They have a lot in common. Before the 2016 election, many experts said Trump has no chance of winning and he did. Both of them became some kind of clowns and their reigns lasted for four years only.
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JenMiddleChildSmith 4 years ago
Lol I wonder how much time he spent planning this...and thinking/daydreaming about exactly how it would all happen and picturing people's reactions. "In your face ancient prophesies"ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
#39
Neil Armstrong's heart rate spiked to 150+ when NASA turned the control over to him for the moon landing.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 4 years ago
He was also seconds away from being forced to abort the landing. The original spot for the landing was deamed unsuitable. He manually flew and landed the lander in a new unknown spot.
Bored Birgit 4 years ago
It was 1969, and my father woke me up in the middle of the night (I was 9yo then) to witness the landing and later the first walk on the moon by Neil Armstrong. I will never forget.
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
When Perseverance landed on Mars this week, the final stages of entering the atmosphere and slowing down enough to deposit the rover was called the "seven minutes of terror", because NASA's engineers didn't know if it would land where it was supposed to.
Mili Del Rio 4 years ago
They undergo a huge amount of training. Visit The Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Space Center on the space coast in central Florida's space coast
#40
Before proposing to Emma Wedgwood, Charles Darwin made a list of marriage pros and cons. Pros- better than a dog, charms of music & female chit-chat. Cons - Anxiety & responsibility, less money for books.
Laura Mende 4 years ago (edited)
Less money for books??? Better than a dog??? Charlie, you are a true nerd! 1800's Sheldon Cooper...
JenMiddleChildSmith 4 years ago
My thoughts exactly...😂🦞"and my ankles are NOT chubby!"
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
I'm not sure I want to know what qualifications he was looking for when saying she was better at it than a dog...
#41
Koi carps bred outside of Japan live on average 15 years, while the average age of Japanese koi is 40 years and the oldest recorded lifespan is 226 years (the Koi named Hanako lived from 1751 to 1977).
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Given that Japan was closed to foreigners until the Meiji Restauration (1868 or thereabouts), even if we'd have bought a baby koi then it'd only be 150y old or so! Bit unbalanced comparison of a mature situation vs fashion. Also we call any carp in a pond "koi" while in Japan those tracked by age are in a very different price bracket.
#42
Charlie no-face is an urban legend of a monster who takes walks during the nights of Pennsylvania, in reality the man (named Raymond Robinson) had a severely disfigured face because of a childhood accident that he couldn't go in public without causing a panic, so he took night walks.
Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
I think ive heard of this before. If I remember correctly, he was worried about scaring children so he chose to go out at night.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
He was actually a very friendly guy, willing to talk with anyone who could get past his looks. He was probably quite lonely.
Among Us 4 years ago
Exactly. I was spooked but then read the story and it's pretty depressing.
Load More Replies... Xan Maranya 4 years ago
Before the days of plastic surgery. How many lives have been restored since then,
Timmy Pillinger 4 years ago
Much of modern reconstructive surgery was pioneered on badly burned WWII fighter pilots. They called themselves the Guinea pig club.
Load More Replies... RoseTheMad 4 years ago
God, I feel so sorry for the poor guy, I mean.. I can imagine it would be startling, but I'm sure some people could look past the disfiguration, surely? :(
#43
South Park co-creator Trey Parker begged his show's executive producer not to air one South Park episode because he was afraid it would ruin South Park. That episode was "Make Love, Not Warcraft" which received critical acclaim and earned a Primetime Emmy Award
Kisses4Katie 4 years ago
Trey Parker is an EGOT holder as well. Not as impressive as Whoopie and her Nick Award, but pretty damn cool.
Erdot 4 years ago
No he's not. He'd been nominated, but Phil Collins won for Tarzan.
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#44
The Python programming language is named after the BBC show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and has nothing to do with reptiles.
Robert T 4 years ago
The marker at the start of a Java class files is CAFEBABE in hexadecimal.
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#45
When Ratatouille was being animated, one of the Pixar employees jumped into a pool in a cook's uniform and apron so that the team could see how the clothing looked when wet.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
And they kept a cage of live rats in the studio so they could study how they move and behave! It shows.
#46
There's a spy themed restaurant called the SafeHouse. It was founded in 1966 and it has a hidden location with a secret entrance. A password is needed to enter and if it's not given, patrons will have to do silly tasks that are broadcasted to people inside the restaurant in order to enter.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Chicago (shown above) and Milwaukee. I prefer the Milwaukee bar because it's dark and has a bunch if old-fashioned spy kitsch. And a magician doing card tricks on the weekends.
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Ann Turner-Drevalas 4 years ago
It's in Milwaukee, we didn't know the password & had to sing and perform "I'm a Little Teapot" to get in.
Cindy Crowell 4 years ago
One of my favorite places in my hometown! They have secret passageways, a chunk of the Berlin wall, and lots of vintage Cold War memorabilia.
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
Also, a Soviet spy used the maze at the Milwaukee location to escape an FBI tail!
#47
The former CEO of Coca-Cola, Roberto Goizueta, was the first person to become a billionaire by being an employee and not a company founder (or heir).
Tony Barron 4 years ago
Getting rich by causing rotten teeth and diabetes. Capitalism at its finest!
Load More Replies... Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago
Riiiiight keep telling yourself that. He got lucky.
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The movie Independence Day still holds the record for most miniature models to appear in one film. Approximately 95% of the movie's special effects were shot using miniatures and due to the advances in digital technology this record may stand forever.
William Faulk 4 years ago
yes, but wasnt that meant to be placed in the one about ALON?
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When Don Cheadle was first offered the role of War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he was told he only had an hour to decide on the 12-year commitment. When Cheadle responded that he was at his kid's birthday party, the Marvel rep said, "Oh! Oh, take two hours"
Bama Belle 4 years ago
12 years worth of work & pay...acting in a huge movie franchise? I wouldn't have had to think.
Loretta 4 years ago
Being committed to one project which could be in the way of other projects you would be more interested in, being a side character in the shadows of much more popular characters and actors... I don't know, doesn't sound such a good deal to me...
Load More Replies... Wendillon 4 years ago
To be fair they had a deadline to meet so if he was out they needed to know as quickly as possible so they could contact other actors. If they let someone take too long to decide and they say no, then their second choice may have already agreed to do a different movie franchise as well.
Mshauri Mazuri 4 years ago
He could ask his kid, if he wants his daddy to become ironman's bestfriend, that will only take a second to decide. 😂
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 4 years ago
Was he the first one or the second one? 2 different people played that part.
Nic Dudley 4 years ago
Second, Terrance Howard was in the first Iron Man.
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Wei Zhong Lim 4 years ago
Why would anyone decline a role like that? he wanted to be black panther?
#50
To clean out the sewer pipes that tended to block, the mayor of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe instituted a synchronized flush. Residents who did not comply were fined.
Guido Pisano 4 years ago
just curious to know how could could get the evidence that someone has not flushed at the same time with others...
Chez 4 years ago
When Cape Town was on the brink of having no water a couple of years ago, they were talking about us doing this. It became a suggestion because so many households stopped flushing their toilets as often, and rather letting things mellow until absolutely necessary. And also because so much normal household water waste was being redirected to gardens or for flushing, etc.
Bert van Aalsburg 4 years ago
I've heard about this. Something to do with a weak water flow, in the sewer pipes, that couldn't carry everything to the treatment plant.
#51
See-through wood is treated to become as clear as glass and is a potential alternative to regular windows. It is 5 times as insulative and 3 times as durable while also being lighter, making it perfect for cold weather structures.
Lyone Fein 4 years ago
Wow. If we could make windows out of this, it would be so much cheaper to heat and cool buildings. That would save a ton on energy costs.
Charlie Star 4 years ago
Most forest based industries like paper making are pretty sustainable...maybe only where I'm from ... they plant more trees to cut and cycle the land very well.
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Ethiopia adopted Christianity in 330 AD, just 17 years after the Roman empire. Despite the rise of Islam, fall of the Byzantine Orthodox Church, and being cut off from all other Christians for centuries Ethiopia remained Christian. They remain the only majority Orthodox Christian African nation.
Dhukath 4 years ago
they claim to have the ark of the covenant, but it's locked in a church that only one priest can entre, until he does and a successor takes over!
King Joffrey 4 years ago
Every one knows the ark is hidden away in that huge warehouse shown at the end of Indiana Jones.
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Rye and oats were originally weeds which grew in wheat fields, over time their seeds evolved to mimic wheat kernels so closely, they inadvertently became a crop themselves.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Was there any hybridization with the wheat? Seems an odd evolutionary path otherwise.
#54
Just 29 days after the Titanic sank, a silent film was released chronicling the event. It starred Dorothy Gibson, an actress who had survived the sinking. To add to the film's authenticity, she wore the same clothes that she had worn on the night of the disaster.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
It did have Celine Dions song though. It was actually her big breakthrough
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Louise B 4 years ago
That poor woman! That must have been so traumatic, having to re enact the worst day of your life so soon afterwards. The fact she was wearing the same clothes is just the cherry on top of this PTSD inducing sundae.
#55
Tu Youyou, a Chinese Nobel Laureate, discovered a treatment for malaria by reading an ancient Daoist text from 340 CE describing an herbal remedy for "intermittent fevers"
KimTx 4 years ago (edited)
French 'tu' = you. So... Happy birthday to you youyou! "Legend has it that she so favored her mother at birth, father Youyou, upon seeing his daughter - joyfully exclaimed to his wife with tears streaming down his face... 'She's you! Let's call her something exotic and French... Tu!"
María Hermida 4 years ago
If she read about a remedy in an ancient text she didn't actually discover it. She found, copied, and perhaps adapted or updated the procedure, but she didn't discover it.
lara 4 years ago
Many years ago, about fifty, or so, Time magazine did an article on malaria. The article said that malaria can be posthumously diagnosed from bones of those who died. The article further said that malaria was the worst epidemic ever and that over 50% of all the people who had died, died from malaria.
#56
Yoshie Shiratori escaped Japanese prison 4 times. The first time he picked some simple locks, the next time he climbed up a wall and broke a skylight, the next time he dislocated his joints to escape through a small hole, and lastly he dug a hole with a bowl. Every time was different.
Joanne Hudson 4 years ago
He failed at several businesses and started to gamble. Went into debt but could not pay. Accused of murder (never proven).
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#57
J.R.R. Tolkien considered a sequel to the LOTR trilogy called The New Shadow. Set 100 years later during the Age of Man, he quickly abandoned the idea because “it proved both sinister and depressing.”
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Still he worked it into the canon. He said it happened, it had something to do with Morgoth, but Aragorns son was still the greatest ruler of Gondor ever.
#58
The Worlds oldest mummies are not from Egypt. They are from the Chincorro people of the Atacama Desert, present day Chile, dating back to 5000 BC, nearly 2000 years before the Egyptians
Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago
That's the world's oldest man-made mummies. The oldest natural mummy ever found was in Nevada if I remember correctly. Scientists and the Native Tribes got into a massive fight over him because the Tribe claimed him as theirs and per laws in place if it's Native remains found the tribe gets to re-bury them. This actually went to court because the scientists believed it was older than indigenous peoples. They did a test on a tooth and compared it to the Tribes DNA and learned two things, yes he was a ancestor of their and that the ancient man had no markers showing he or his people crossed the land bridge. There is no markers showing any ancestors of his coming from across the pacific ocean. They told the tribe this and they still refused to let them do anything to the mummy. He, and a child that was found with him, were re-burried according to tribes customs. The scientists were even there for the funeral.
lara 4 years ago
I remember my professor in my archaeology class saying that there was a chance that man had been in American long before the influx from Asia. Now, we will never get a chance to understand that particular piece of evidence.
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Jeopardy! Contestants stand on adjustable platforms so that they all appear to be the same height on camera.
#60
The oldest known written complaint in the world - around 1750 BC a man in Babylon named Ea-nasir sold substandard copper ingots to a man named Nanni and treated Nanni's servant rudely. The tablet is one of several found in the same building, all of which are complaints about Ea-nasir.
Louise B 4 years ago
Imagine how angry he must have been? It's one thing to leave a bad review on Trip advisor, but this is a different league! He had to sit and carve those out.
Dynein 4 years ago
Nah, the Babylonians used clay and sticks for writing. No special efforts needed to make some imprints into soft clay.
Load More Replies... Elli Rahim 4 years ago
A well-written complaint passes the test time. One question remains, did Ea-nasir ever improve his service? Irving Finkel, we're counting on you to tell us the answer.
#61
98% of all Japanese adoptions are employers adopting the adult men on their staff, not children. By doing this, they are able to choose the person they wish to run their company when they no longer.
François Carré 4 years ago
Company life gradually supplanting family life in Japanese culture.
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athornedrose 4 years ago
This also used to be done by homosexual couples as a way of asset sharing and legally binding them together so the government had to let them pass on inheritance.
Jennifer Crompton 4 years ago
I didn't know that an adult could be legally adopted. How strange
#62
In 408BC an actor named Hegelochus mispronounced a word and, instead of saying "after the storm I see again a calm sea," accidentally said "after the storm I see again a weasel." This mistake was so mocked by other Ancient Greeks that over two millennia later we still know his name.
Just a Marine Veteran 4 years ago
Well, that makes me feel less confident that no one remembers my third grade drama club failure
#63
In 1921 a Danish geologist discovered a tiny island on the northern coast of Greenland and named it "Kaffeklubben Island" after an informal academic club held at the Copenhagen Mineralogical Museum. He didn't know that he had just named the northernmost point of land on Earth after a coffee club
NMN 4 years ago
he did know his own language (Danish). He did not know at the time it was the northmost land area on Earth
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#64
F1 teams don’t own their tires, and at the end of each race teams have to return the tires to Pirelli. Even used tires must be returned to prevent industrial espionage.
William Faulk 4 years ago (edited)
Dang, so does that mean, if the tire got destroyed in a crash, are they paying a huge fine or something?
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
I guess they have to return what's left, including the semi-melted globs.
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There's a beach in Finistère polluted since 1983 by Garfield telephones coming out of a sunk container
Louise B 4 years ago
This reminds me of the shipment of thousands of rubber ducks that were lost at sea. IIRC there was a bit of a silver lining, in that scientists were able to get valuable information about currents etc by tracking their movement. I only remember this because someone wrote a book about it and called it 'Moby Duck' which I think is really funny.
DC 4 years ago
What happens to them? I think, due to their age they wouldn't work today, and the ... uh, treatment of the devices may play a role in their non-function as well ... but, as the enclosures in cat shape might still be intact, one could collect them and actually make them work again, instead of polluting. Is anything done about them?
Robert T 4 years ago
I shouldn't think they will work terribly well after washing about in salt water for nearly 40 years.
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A town in Colorado offers an open air funeral pyre as an option instead of cremation or regular burial
#67
In 1964, three physicists who just got their PhDs were tasked with developing a working design for a nuclear weapon using only unclassified information. The goal is to see if a country can develop a nuclear weapon without aid. They accomplished it within 2 and a half years
#68
Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to make a film adaptation of Dune that would star Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, and Salvador Dali with a score by Pink Floyd, concept art by Moebius and H.R. Giger, and a run time of 10 to 14 hours. Dubbed "the greatest movie never made", it failed to secure funding.
lara 4 years ago
Well, at that time they thought that it would take 300 million in funding. That was a lot of money, then.
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Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Jodorowsky made some incredible films - along with some garbage. Certainly an ambitious and unconventional filmmaker.
François Carré 4 years ago
Take a look at this excellent documentary if you want to know more : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune ... Technicians and set designers who worked on that failed project actually learned and imagined a lot of things, which they reinvested a few years after in Star wars movies. Famous artist Moebius realized a 1000 page sketchbook full of alien creatures, spaceships, landscapes and cities which Jodorowsky still owns nowadays and is a unique piece of art.
#69
The owner of a brand name can lose their legal protection for it if people started using it as the common or generic name for a type of product or service. This is what happened to Cellophane, Escalator, Flip Phone, Frisbee, Hovercraft, Kerosene, Sellotape, Trampoline, and Videotape.
Radek Suski 4 years ago
That's why Google opposed the inclusion of the term "to google" in the German dictionary
Abbyboudreaux 4 years ago (edited)
Velcro even had an ad campaign with a silly jingle asking people to call it by the product name (hook and loop tape) rather than the brand name!
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Michelle Geiger 4 years ago
Johnson & Johnson can afford really good lawyers.
Load More Replies... Candia Lee 4 years ago
Hoover is still trademarked in USA; Brits just like to verbalize it. Unilever currently owns Vaseline.
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The excess skin/fat on a cats belly is called the 'primordial pouch' and apparently it's is to protect a cats organs in a fight
Kisses4Katie 4 years ago
Sychronocity for me.. My husband told me this last week and I'd never heard it before. The universe must be telling me to get another cat ☺️
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Much more noticeable on my female cat than male. I don't know if that's a general thing or specific to my two.
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
It's usually very prominent on neutered males, too. My boys have swinging bellies when they run!
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#71
That in Canada coins are only considered legal tender up to a certain amount. For instance, if you attempt to pay for a $50 purchase with a wheelbarrow full of nickels, the local authority can refuse to accept the payment.
Michelle Geiger 4 years ago
But not in America. You can refuse to where a mask and it’s your right to pay for whatever you want in pennies. When will we learn!
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
But the effort of counting the coins would be too time consuming and time is also money. In most countries there's a limit to the amount of coins you can use to make a payment.
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Kevin Budden, a 20 y.o. amateur herpatologist died in 1950 when he was bitten by the taipan snake he captured for antivenom research. News of Budden's death inspired others to capture additional snake species, resulting in the development of five new antivenoms within 12 years of Budden's death.
#73
NYC once had a "Divorce Coercion Gang" made up of Ultra Orthodox Jews who would kidnap and torture Jewish men who were refusing to divorce their wives
Nomadus Aureus 4 years ago
In order to secure a divorce, an (Orthodox) Jewish woman needs her husband's consent. Many men are unwilling to give it, making it impossible for a woman to move on.
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Torakusa Yamaha founded Yamaha in 1887 due to his obsession with western technology and science. After successfully fixing a school’s reed organ, he realized the business opportunity of instrument brand, since at the time there were no Japanese makers of Western instruments
#75
Kraft Foods introduced its boxed macaroni and cheese in 1937 when America was in the throes of the Great Depression with the promise that buyers could feed a family of four for 19 cents. Kraft sold 8 million boxes of its quick-and-easy macaroni and cheese the first year
Michelle Geiger 4 years ago
People give these boxes to food banks and think that they are helping but the recipe requires milk and butter.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago (edited)
In college I ate a lot of this, no milk or butter, just a bit of the cooking water retained. It is better than no contribution. P.S. It was 20¢ a box.
Load More Replies... H Edwards 4 years ago
How is this the national food of Canada? I never heard that before.
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Dave In MD 4 years ago
I guess his country is claiming cheese or pasta as their own.
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John II of France, who was captured by the English, in the Hundred Years War, and held hostage in London. An exchange of hostages occurred, with his son, Louis, taking his place. When John II was informed that Louis had escaped from captivity, he voluntarily returned to England as a hostage.
#77
A week after Jim Croce died at 30 in a plane crash, his widow received a letter from him promising to stop performing, get a master's degree, and write short stories and movie scripts. It ended "it's the first sixty years that count and I've got 30 left."
#78
In the 1930s, bridge construction projects expected one fatality for every $1 million in cost. So, the Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge enacted the most stringent safety measures in history. He even formulated diets to help fight dizziness and sauerkraut juice “cures” for hangovers.
Grace Avalanche 4 years ago
Well, just from a quick Google search, the golden gate bridge cost $35 million, with only 11 fatalities, which is 24 less than apparently expected.
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Disney composer Alan Menken came from a family of dentists and trained at medical school. He was a poor student, "wild hippie" and barely finished NYU. 8 Oscars, 10 Grammys, 7 Golden Globes later, Menken is now a star at NYU with a doctorate and scholarship in his name
BabaBizzle 4 years ago
He has way more to smile about 🦷 😃 than the ‘mere’ dentists in his family (yes this is a joke)
#80
Author and radio host Amy Krouse Rosenthal publicly announced that she had ovarian cancer by writing a modern love essay for the NY Times that was a dating profile for her soon to be widower husband. She died 10 days after publication.
#81
In 2014, New York City had $16 Million in unpaid parking tickets from foreign diplomats. The largest offender was Egypt, with about $1.9 Million. Diplomatic immunity is the main reason that those tickets remained outstanding.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Diplomatic immunity is also the main reason that diplomats get away with a lot of other crimes. And if you get involved in a car accident with a diplomat's car, it isn't very likely you'll ever get compensated for your damages.
Kay blue 4 years ago
In the UK Harry Dunn was killed by a diplomat/spy's wife who claimed diplomatic immunity and fled back to the US. Harry's parents will never get justice for their son.
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#82
The Great bison belt is a tract of grassland that ran from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico around 9000 BCE, which allowed the bison to outlive other Ice Age animals and let the animal become the staple food of the Plains Paleo-Indians
Louise B 4 years ago
Apparently they shot them from moving trains for sport. Horrific.
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Giovanni Cassini measured the size of France accurately for the first time during the reign of King Louis XIV. The true size turned out to be much smaller than Louis had expected, and Louis quipped that Cassini had taken more of his kingdom from him than he had won in all his wars.
#84
97% of women traveling 1st class on the Titanic survived, compared to 32% total survival rate of the passengers.
Wendillon 4 years ago
Yeah makes total sense. Women and children got lifeboat access first and first class had the highest priority.
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Sharon Collier 4 years ago
There was a 1st class woman in one of the lifeboats which only had 14 people in it. She refused to allow the sailor rowing the boat to pick up anyone who was not a first class passenger. When this story got around New York, where she was from, she was ostracized from society.
#85
"World’s leading source of high-grade uranium" was accidentally found in 1966 by a bunch of oil dudes who took a Geiger counter on a plane so they could write off their fishing trips as business expenses.
#86
The USSR considered Darwinian evolution a lie created by "bourgeois capitalism", and instead opted for Lamarckian evolution for political reasons. The failure of Soviet biologists to acknowledge natural selection resulted in a series of crop failures and food shortages.
lara 4 years ago
Stalin demanded that they find a way to grow grain crops above the arctic line. They planted grain crops higher and higher, harvested the seeds and used those to plant more crops. They failed and Stalin had them arrested and either shot or sent to the gulag for treason and attempting to destroy the communist party. They were called "obstructionists".
Scyth 4 years ago
Reminds of how some soviet physicists tried to prove how the universe didn't start and will not end, because that theories like the big bang also weren't compatible with politics and atheism at that time.
Jon S. 4 years ago
How is the big bang not compatible with atheism? Or social evolution? I'm just curious what the logic was. But Steady State was an accepted theory in the west until the 1960s. Even Einstein believed it.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Russian revolution caused many religious families and groups to emigrate to the US. They settled in the plains, and started prolifically growing wheat. Russia then had these crop failures, and ended up buying that wheat!!
#87
In 1905, 19 people died playing football. Ten of those killed were aged 17 or younger. People, including President Teddy Roosevelt, called for rules changes. They sought to remove slapping, nosepulling, and biting, but critics thought it would make the players soft.
Clatgineer 4 years ago
American football shouldn't be called football. You mostly use your hands and you kick the ball, what, twice?
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Lori Spins 4 years ago
Came for this comment, knew there would be someone calling the players soft. Wonder if you ever played? Doubtful.
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Ranch dressing was invented by a plumber working in Alaska in the 1950s. He and his wife opened a Dude ranch called Hidden Valley Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California in 1954. 40% of Americans say ranch style dressing is their favorite; it has been the best selling salad dressing since 1992
Kisses4Katie 4 years ago
They weren't able to have fresh herbs all year in Alaska at the time, so he experimented with dried herbs to try to make them more palatable.
NMN 4 years ago
But the ranch was in California. This post doesn't make sense. Or do you think a plumber opened a ranch in California then traveled to Alaska, invented the thing and came back?
Load More Replies... Cynthia Bonville 4 years ago
*Southeast Alaska (temperate rainforest, largest in US) as camp cooks for loggers, they wanted them to eat the bloody vegetables so they came up with the dressing to get them to eat the produce flown out to camp.
#89
George H.W. Bush disliked broccoli so much that he banned it from Air Force One. Afterwards broccoli growers sent the First Lady 10 tonnes of broccoli, most of it was donated away.
#90
Fans of Mass Effect trolled Bioware by sending them 400 cupcakes with the message "The cakes are vanilla, and so is all the icing... No matter what choice you make, it'll al have the same generic flavor."
#91
Project GUNMAN - the discovery of primitive keylogging technology installed by the KGB into the IBM Selectric typewriters used in the US Embassy in Moscow, enabling the Soviets to steal US secrets for eight years.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
Russia has been outsmarting the U.S for decades and the only ones who don't seem to comprehend it are americans...
#92
A man sued PepsiCo, alleging he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can. PepsiCo's defense won by proving that a mouse would dissolve inside the soda in the days after being put in the can.
#93
When Diana Ross performed the Super Bowl halftime show in the middle of her last number, a helicopter landed in the middle of the field, she boarded it, and continued singing "take me higher, I will survive" as she flew out of the stadium.
#94
Tamales were once as popular across America as hamburgers and hotdogs. And the height of their popularity was known as The Tamale Wars, as vendors at times were so competitive that it caused murders, riots, and shoot outs.
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
Yesterday I saw the video from The History Guy, and these Tamale Wars are really interesting historical stuff, not that long ago but almost forgotten.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
A filling, usually spicy meat, wrapped in masa, a dough made from ground corn, wrapped in a corn husk and steamed. Fillings can be corn, chicken, beef, pork (my fav), or whatever the cook wants.
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The smelliest substance on earth, Tioacetone (CH3)2CS, smells so bad that it can effect areas up to a half-mile in radius. "When it was accidentally made it was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory"
Jeroen Laenen 4 years ago
Sorry for the attention of detail, it is spelled thioacetone, indicating the sulfur atom in the molecular structure.
#96
Indian intelligence first confirmed Pakistani covert nuclear weapons program by collecting hair samples from the floors of local barber shops in Kahuta.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It's always infuriating that countries with millions of people living in the most abhorrent conditions have no problem with spending billions of dollars on some nuclear fallus symbol. In the meantime Unesco is begging me to donate my money to help all the poor people in Pakistan living in abhorrent conditions....
Jon S. 4 years ago (edited)
The nuclear chain is hard one to break. Once the US and USSR had nukes, china needed them. Once china had nukes, India needed them (they had recently been at war). Once India had them, Pakistan needed them (they are always on the cusp of war). Once a Muslim country had them, Israel needed them. And so on. Convincing a politician or people in general to not have a deterrent against invasion is very hard and of the countries who gave up nuclear ambitions at least three have since been invaded (Libya, Iraq and Ukraine), while North Korea, the very epitome of nations who spend more on defence than food, stands strong.
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Scientists have been able to use a unique gene therapy to cure the herpes simplex virus in mice with plans to move into human clinical trials in the next three years.
Ashheart of Skyclan 4 years ago
Yeah, they are. But they get the point across I guess
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Laugh or not 4 years ago
Gene therapy is the only therapy for a number of diseases.
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#98
Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" was not intended to be released as a single. They were later convinced to do so by Michael Jackson who had attended a Queen concert in Los Angeles and suggested it to Freddie Mercury backstage
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Yet it's generally played with its "partner", We Are The Champions....
#99
ParkWest is an Detroit-based gallery that only sells art in international waters during cruises. They purport to sell original artworks at steep discounts but in reality get bidders drunk to buy reproductions for thousands more than they’re worth. Plus, cruise lines are in on the scam.
#100
After the Salem Witch Trials, the town realised that they had made a mistake and compensated the families of the people they had convicted. More than 200 people had been accused of witchcraft, and 20 of them had been executed
#101
Joyce Vincent, the woman who died in her apartment and lay undiscovered in front of her TV which kept running for three years, was actually very popular in real life but somehow, no one noticed when she died.
Anton Kider 4 years ago
They found Christmas presents wrapped up for relatives and friends in her apartment also. It's surprising that not one if these ever worried about her in three years.
Louise B 4 years ago
In fairness, they did hire a private detective, but they couldn't find her. It appears that she had been in a relationship that involved domestic violence, this might have been why she was hiding.
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Candia Lee 4 years ago
My mother was found the morning after she died because the neighbor heard the tv she'd left on - it was playing soap opera, which she never ever watched.
LittleMissPanda 4 years ago
Apparently she was a domestic abuse victim and cut off ties with her family (speculations are that she was ashamed/didn't want her abuser to find her through family). Half her rent was automatically paid and the apartment complex was noisy, so noone suspected the running TV. They thought the smell of decomposition came from the trash... source: wiki
Louise B 4 years ago
This is such a desperately sad story. There's an excellent documentary about it called 'Dreams of a Life' It has interviews with many people who knew her. There's obviously a lot more to her story that no one will ever know. She appeared to have everything going for her, but she was obviously very troubled. She isolated herself, for unknown reasons and the result was her awful lonely death. It's heart breaking.
#102
Despite selling 30 million albums and having 9 top ten hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival were only together for four years
#103
YouTube was created because co-creator Jawed Karim couldn’t easily find a place to view a clip of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime breast incident online
Kisses4Katie 4 years ago
So many of these billionaire websites are started by guys being creeps 🙄
Scyth 4 years ago
A large number of billionaires are psychopaths, so this isn't really surprising.
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Brandy Grote 4 years ago
To be fair, Timberlake WAS singing "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song". I still think it was staged.
Just a Marine Veteran 4 years ago
And now they demonetize creators for using "bad" language or things that may offend
BabaBizzle 4 years ago
Her t*t was barely seen it was so quick but he was they desperate to see it that he built a million dollar company? Cheers to that mate!
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The "half-breast with a touch of nipple incident" which got all the Americans bigots in a frenzy and skyrocketed the sales of Kleenex in the US.
Rob Seymour 4 years ago
It started as a dating site or something like that but they changed it after the superbowl.
#104
Crypto AG was a Swiss company that produced encryption devices and sold them to 120 countries for 50 years. In 2020, their products were revealed to have contained backdoors that allowed them to be compromised by Crypto AG's real secret owners - BND and CIA.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
The weird thing is, I remember this news breaking, but has since forgotten about it. Just shows how 2020 treated us
#105
As Spock became popular on Star Trek, William Shatner became jealous and would hide the bicycle Nimoy rode to get around at work. Shatner also felt, as Captain, his intellect should be greater than anyone on the show, even a Vulcan with superior knowledge. So, he began stealing Nimoy’s lines.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
I know Shatner is popular and has quite a diverse background, but I have just never liked him. Well, as Denny Crane, he was interesting.
BabaBizzle 4 years ago
Ask George Takei about him, he hates him to this day. He loved Nimoy but Shatner is the bane of his existence.
Kisses4Katie 4 years ago
I had a friend who was a barista in Hollywood. He said out of every one he dealt with there, William Shatner was the WORSE.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago (edited)
Shatner just being Shatner... Maybe his original last name was Shitner...
Marina Bailey 4 years ago
The way this is written about in one of the earliest Star Trek books - by Joan Winston, I think - makes the bicycle incident more a prank on Leonard and not some kind of mean revenge on Shatner's part. I still have the books from the early days of Star Trek; I should look for that one.
Troy Parr 4 years ago
Captain Kirk has evolved into some king of legendary figure in the Star Trek franchise. Yet having watched the original series I think Kirk was vastly over-rated. William Shatner seemed over-rated as Kirk too.
Wendillon 4 years ago
Kirk is a legendary figure because he was the first captain. It was pretty much inevitable.
Load More Replies... Michelle Geiger 4 years ago
I found it ‘fascinating’ and interesting that Leonard Nimoy went on to direct the movie 3 Men and a Little Lady.
Marcia Cash 4 years ago
Flash mob scene: shout out "Shatner" and everyone keeps doing what they were doing, but overacting vigorously.
#106
Out of 30,000 known edible crops, only 170 crops are grown on a commercially significant scale today and just 3 staple crops (rice, wheat & maize) provide 40 % of our daily calories intake.
Lyone Fein 4 years ago
This is awful. We need more diversity in our diets, and the planet needs more diversity in the biome. More biological diversity means less susceptibility to diseases and natural disasters.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago
and that's what causes stunts in population's individual growth, and undernourishment. There are probably thousands of better foods to grow, with better nutrition and more diversity.
#107
The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago
I can see people in pretty low light, I have pretty good "night vision". People can see me in pitch black bc I'm so f*****g white that it reflects everything :')
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago
y'all stop downvoting Lyone, they were trying to be satire lmao
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
I can't see you in pitch black though, I can see you in daylight.
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Turkish counterfeiters were once busted for faking popsicle sticks. They allegedly exchanged the sticks for free ice cream, then sold the ice cream at half-price. They were active for 3 years, but were caught when a local ice cream firm noticed they were receiving more sticks than they produced.
Tolga ÜSTÜN 4 years ago
Hey, Turkish man here! No it is just a reward system. When you finish your stick ice cream. There can be a sign for another ice-cream. You can give the stick to the local seller and get another one for free...
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#109
The only word in English that ends in -mt is "dreamt", and its extensions like daydreamt and redreamt.
#110
After most of Manchester United's starting line-up died in a plane crash in 1958, Real Madrid offered to loan out Alfredo Di Stéfano, the world's best player, to Manchester United. All the parties agreed, but England's FA blocked the loan, because "it would halt the progress of a British player"
#111
The concept for having a “credit score” to judge if you could receive a loan didn’t exist until 1989
Troy Parr 4 years ago
Yep. Someone can use loads of credit, get a higher score, live on credit, be on the very brink of collapse and still get rated higher. It's not based on what people can afford, more about how people could be exploited.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It's just another scam to prevent people with lower wages from getting loans and mortgages.
#112
Denmark and Sweden holds the world record for most wars fought between two countries, with around 30 wars fought since the 15th century.
Jon S. 4 years ago
Come on France, we've got a reputation to uphold! Don't those channel isles look pretty inviting to you right now? Signed, an English man.
François Carré 4 years ago
It's a shame we consider that 116 year awful mess between us as one single war.
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Prince's death helped save 2 lives. Grammy-winning singer Chaka Khan and her sister were both addicted to fentanyl. Khan told the Associated Press they entered an intensive rehab program because "the tragic death of Prince" made them realize it was "time to take action to save our lives."
sav 4 years ago
Well of course not! Would you be affected by a total stranger dying, or someone you knew personally?
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Chickens used to be fitted with tiny glasses to prevent eye-pecking and cannibalism. Rose-colored glasses were especially popular as they were thought to prevent chickens from seeing blood and becoming enraged.
Lori Zubia 4 years ago
Try describing that job on a first date "Well, I put glasses on chickens."
#115
Marlon Brando was paid $3.7 million and an amazing 11.75% backend to play Jor-El, for 13 days work and less than 20 minutes onscreen. In comparison, Christopher Reeves earned $250,000 in the title role, dominating most of the 143-minute running time.
NMN 4 years ago
The person that downvoted you should learn about that movie where he did an a**l rape on a movie (both him and the director had the idea, literal rape, onscreen, in a movie). He's a scumbag that should be forgotten
Load More Replies... Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Brando contributed nothing to the movie. It's ridiculous that old white male actors get such massive paychecks for doing little or nothing.
Ploploplop 4 years ago
While I agree with your latter statement, Brando was able to secure such a large paycheck and unheard of backend due to the fact that the studio felt Reeves did not have the star power to drive ticket sales. They felt that by just having Brando's name on the bill would bring in audiences, and that more than justified the expenditure.
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Ronald McDonald isn’t allowed to tell children where the hamburgers really come from, “if they asked where the food came from [we were told to say] that the hamburgers grow in a patch with the French fries next to them”
DC 4 years ago
This is just wrong. If you need to lie to your children about things, well, maybe not doing those could be worth considering.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Because if he told them the truth a lot of children would never set foot again in a McDonald's.
Wendillon 4 years ago
I think it's more the idea of little kids not knowing that you have to kill animals to get meat. We all click onto that knowledge at some point but telling the kiddo too early could result in nightmares.
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David Zhou 4 years ago
there acutually (DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE THRUTH) in slaughter houses as pigs turn into pattys and meat and stuff
Wendillon 4 years ago
So you can uproot an innocent plant and end it's life just so you can feel superior about not eating a once breathing animal? Eating meat is perfectly natural and a very large portion of the animal kingdom does it on a daily basis.
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Beverly Hills, originally a Spanish lima bean ranch, was founded by a group of investors who failed to find oil and, upon finding water instead, founded the town. Black and Jewish people were forbidden from owning property.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
And to this day 82% of the Beverly Hills population is white. Only 2% is black or African American.
Shelp 4 years ago
So what? Looks like it didn't change that much since back then.
Load More Replies... Cynthia Bonville 4 years ago
While it was a bad exchange, I am glad the lima bean ranch fricking failed. Hate them lima beans.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago
I'm sorry but lima bean ranch... "Suzy darlin', did ya feed the lima beans? You know they've got to get stronger if ya wanta enter em inta the rodeo. Paw can help you train them up..."
#118
Breakdancing has become an Olympic sport. “Breaking” officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games
Katrina B. 4 years ago
Tango (as part of standard ballroom (as opposed to Latin)) was an Olympic exhibition sport in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
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Grace Avalanche 4 years ago
I love these endless fun fact posts, they're really interesting and cover anything and everything
Znaya 4 years ago
This just shows that education is random true facts that can be obtained outside a classroom that are more interesting and you can remember, have any of you ever used any algebra that you ever learned in school? 😀
GFSTaylor 4 years ago
Algebra is useful in many ways - you may not even realise that what you are doing is algebra. If you're trying to work out the cost of just one thing, when you know the price of a set of twelve things, then that's elementary algebra. "So if a box of a dozen doughnuts is ten dollars, and a single doughnut is 90c, then is it cheaper to buy a box or 12 singles ?" That may not be the best example, but that's the kind of thing basic algebra is used for.
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Therése Berggren 4 years ago
Was this post originally 118 facts instead of 50? I am looking for a fact thats no longer on the list. Does anyone know where I can find it?
John Forman 4 years ago (edited)
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Load More Replies... Grace Avalanche 4 years ago
I love these endless fun fact posts, they're really interesting and cover anything and everything
Znaya 4 years ago
This just shows that education is random true facts that can be obtained outside a classroom that are more interesting and you can remember, have any of you ever used any algebra that you ever learned in school? 😀
GFSTaylor 4 years ago
Algebra is useful in many ways - you may not even realise that what you are doing is algebra. If you're trying to work out the cost of just one thing, when you know the price of a set of twelve things, then that's elementary algebra. "So if a box of a dozen doughnuts is ten dollars, and a single doughnut is 90c, then is it cheaper to buy a box or 12 singles ?" That may not be the best example, but that's the kind of thing basic algebra is used for.
Load More Replies... Therése Berggren 4 years ago
Was this post originally 118 facts instead of 50? I am looking for a fact thats no longer on the list. Does anyone know where I can find it?
John Forman 4 years ago (edited)
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