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"Today I Learned", often shortened as TIL, is an online expression typically used in the title of a post or thread when introducing an interesting fact or trivia that had been previously unknown to the poster, in a similar way to the phrase "did you know?".
Bored Panda already introduced you to the concept when we covered the "Today I Learned" subreddit with nearly 24 million members. But TIL posts are all over the Internet not just Reddit, so why stop there? This time, we put together a list of some of the best "Today I Learned" trivia gems we could find online, so get your notebooks out and enjoy.
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#1
TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town.
Purr·maid 5 years ago
Women, together, can get things accomplished. Women are stronger than we are given credit for. There's going to come a day when it will be women who are the dominant sex. Women rule, men go back to school (& drool).
Julius Martin 5 years ago
aaand this is exactly why we dont want some women in power, such as yourself
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#2
TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
We should recognize everyone who fought on the side of the Allies during the war, not just those buried in orderly military cemeteries. The 11,000 British, Ethiopians and Belgians who died in east Africa to expel the Italian military. Or the 85,000 Indians who lost their lives in WWII, all of whom were volunteers (India raised the largest all-volunteer army in history). Or the Philippine Scouts, the first US Army units to enter action in the Pacific theater. Or the 16-million Russians, or 20-million Chinese estimated to have been killed by military action during the war. If you haven't heard of some of the above groups of people, consider reading about them. Don't let them be forgotten.
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Šimon Špaček 5 years ago
8300 soldiers. Veterans usually didn't die during the war, unless they were veterans from WWI. But this is amazing, I wish my country would be so thankful and proud too.
Mary Mages 5 years ago
I have been to the American Cemetery at Margraten, Netherlands, for the 70th Anniversary of the Americans coming in to free the Dutch from the German occupation. The Dutch are amazing. We met the family who adopted the grave of our friend’s father. I can not say enough about how wonderful they are.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
"The Red Army was "the main engine of Nazism's destruction," writes British historian and journalist Max Hastings in "Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945." The Soviet Union paid the harshest price: though the numbers are not exact, an estimated 26 million Soviet citizens died during World War II..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-saved-the-world-from-hitler/
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
When the so-called Cold War began, school curriculums in the US omitted the part played by the USSR (the Soviet Union) and its very heavy losses both of soldiers and civilians.
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Dorrie Kimkaran 5 years ago
When watering my herbs one morning I gave a huge, adorable bumble bee a surprise shower! He was sleeping inside one of the flowers. He flew off after shaking brilliant beads of water off his coat. Magical!
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
My mother's red dahlias always had bees, and sometimes also bumblebees, sleeping in them. Teenage memories.
Radek Suski 5 years ago (edited)
Yeap. Even honey bees do not always returns back to the hive and might sleep over in a flower
Sue Knerl 5 years ago
I learned that gorillas live in a state of constant flatulence. 40 pounds of greens a day may have something to do with it.
Purr·maid 5 years ago
Everyone was talking about sleeping inside flowers then she came along and woke everyone up with some gorilla gas (which has me lols). Another one I did not know.
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TIL that in during WW2, an American bomber -*ye olde pub*- was nearly shot down. A German fighter gave chase and once in range, he noticed the dead and injured crew and the terror in the pilots face. He didn’t attack and escorted the plane. Both pilots survived the war and finally met in 1990
Anton Kider 5 years ago
Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown. They became good friends and passed away months apart in 2008.
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Goes to show you that those you consider your enemies are human too. Some of them are also humane.
Leopoldo Pisanello 5 years ago
I've read this story and as far as I remember both pilots not only met but also became quite good friends until their demise.
kjorn 5 years ago
they are decent military people... people must remember that. remember too the christmas in the trench in WW1 between the german, french and british.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
There are decent people among the military, and there are also sociopaths, sadists, bullies, and all other kinds.
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Kim Bush 5 years ago
Unfortunately there is a lot of history that is no longer taught in schools.
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#5
TIL Prairie dog language is complex. They don’t just have a call for “danger”: their calls differentiate human, hawk, domesticated dog, coyote etc. and specify size & color. One study found that they can communicate “Here comes the short human in the yellow” (vs the tall human in blue) to each other
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Nice example of how humans are always inventing new ways of communicating. This three-letter abbreviation communicates both emotion and religious beliefs. CR! (communication rocks)
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Mishte Tine 5 years ago
I fully believe that someday we will learn how complex all animal “language” and behavior truly is - and we will be astonished at how we treated our fellow denizens of the world. I’m amazed by the rich emotional depth my little dog has - I’ve never been so close to any of my beloved dogs before - and I love them fiercely still. My little man has taught me so much - I have no doubt that he is just like all dogs - they are all so smart and full. And like my puppy, sometimes scarred. Sound is SO important. I knew that, but i didn’t know how much. Body/ear, tail, face language, too. If we really knew how complex many/most/all animals were we would be a better friend to them.
Bobert Robertson 5 years ago
How do humans know this? Is there a prairie dog that can communicate with no humans that told us their language?
Katrina B. 5 years ago
Studies in zoos! (and the wild too but mostly zoos) The sounds were recorded with variables noted (like a human walking past several times in blue) and along with video, researchers figured out that they specify color in their calls.
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#6
TIL that Bill Murray once drove a taxi cab so that the cab driver could spend time playing saxophone in the backseat. The cab driver mentioned that he never had time to play his sax since he had to work 14 hours a day. Murray took the driver’s seat so that he could finally play some tunes.
Claire Armstrong 5 years ago
I love hearing stories about celebrities like this! I think one of the best I've heard is about Steve Buscemi going back to his old fire dept after 9/11 to help them out! (I'm sure I'm remembering that right, but if not, please correct me 🙂)
Kim Bush 5 years ago
Yes, I think he put on a uniform and helped search for survivors for 3 days
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Useless Panda 5 years ago (edited)
Aren't there regulations or something against this? The passenger driving the cab.
Purr·maid 5 years ago
I realize he might be retired but it would be nice to see him in some new films.
Donna Beach 5 years ago
Umm, still rather active https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/filmotype/actor?ref_=m_nmfm_1
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#7
TIL of Ken Allen, a Borneo orangutan in the San Diego Zoo who escaped his enclosure three times. He never acted aggressively towards anyone during his escapes, and generally wandered around the zoo looking at other animals.
Joonscrab 5 years ago
It hurts my heart to see so many animals just confined to a small patch of land for the entirety of their lives. Zoos deserve to be banned.
David K 5 years ago
I disagree with your statement that zoos should be banned. Modern zoos embraced a totally different approach to nature conservation that the ones stuck in a 50 years old methodology. Pros of modern zoos are that they can provide a place for the humane treatment of rare animals (read something on Przewalski horse breed). They provide a protected environment for endangered species and their preservation efforts can stop extinction events (succesfull breeding of tamarins or arabian onyx just to name a few or the efforts to save the white northern rhinos. Also zoos are working with universities to develop in depth degree programs and it is a great working and educational environment for the future nature scientists, biologists etc. Yes, there are still zoos in the world that keep animals in questionable conditions, but the modern approach is completely different and I believe that the natural economic selection will tell which zoos will profit on that and which not.
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Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
They should be protected in the wild. Recovered, if injured and then released.
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
Do not buy products made with palm oil--palm oil acquisition is causing the destruction of their habitats.
#8
Olof T 5 years ago
Maybe squirrels are forgetful as survival strategy. They forget enough nuts to plant more trees which gives them... more nuts. If they where to efficient at gathering nuts they might wipe out the trees and thus themselves.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
That is exactly correct. Well about the forgetting where they buried them. They will also pretend to bury a nut if another squirrel is watching them. They will dig a hole, cover it up, and run away quickly with the nut in its mouth, hopefully succeeding in tricking the other squirrel.
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#9
TIL the founder of Hyundai was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.
Frenchie 5 years ago
It is sad. But its also beautiful, that for even a moment, they knew how much their fellow countrymen LOVED them, specifically them.
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Bunny Wood 5 years ago (edited)
Samsung's turnover is approx equal to 30% of the entire GDP of North Korea. If you let people flourish...
Claire Armstrong 5 years ago
This is beautiful and hurts my heart at the same time! I watched a few videos on YouTube about North Korea, some were about this man who escaped, his story was very illuminating! They also indoctrinate the people into hating America by telling them that during the Korean War the US troops killed people and drank their blood. And that they killed this woman and cut strips of flesh off her body, put salt on them and ate them! I've never heard anything so barbaric and brutal and false in my life! But the majority of the people will believe this! They have museums showing this stuff! No wonder they hate America! And then you have so-called "president" Trump saluting North Korean generals!?!? Madness!
James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
The human race today are blessed with people that are philanthropist inmany countries
PaulV 5 years ago
Using the interest calculator at calculator.net, I calculated that a 1 cow gain on a 1000 cow investment over 60 years would be an annual rate of 0.00166% compounded monthly. That's 1.66 THOUSANDTHS of ONE PERCENT. If the APR was 0.5%, then total GAIN of cows would be 350, and at 1% it would be 822. Really good deal, Chairman Chung Ju Yung.
Sharon Hyatt 5 years ago
Lu; The 90' were along time ago, so to speak, the regime referred to was later than that.... get's worse with each generation . . . . .
#10
TIL That Aki Ra, a former Khmer Rouge child soldier has personally found and/or destroyed over 50,000 land mines. He now trains bomb experts, curates a mine museum, and advocates for demining and the victims of mines.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
The Trump Administration's decision to cancel a policy to eliminate all antipersonnel landmines reverses years of steady steps toward alignment with the 1997 treaty banning the weapons, Human Rights Watch said today.Jan 31, 2020
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Talk about taking something awful from childhood and totally turning it around to do good!
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines was in fact awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1997/icbl/facts/
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Lisa Bo Bisa 5 years ago
Thank you, Sir! Just yesterday I was reading about Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge. Unbelievable that things like this happen is relatively modern times.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
We humans are at our absolute destructive worst whenever someone amasses enough power to try to force their vision, be that political or religious, for "the perfect world order" onto society.
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#11
TIL in the 1790s, an Oxford student introduced using guano (bird poop) as fertiliser. He spread guano across the university lawn, using it to spell G U A N O. The lawn was soon scrubbed, but when spring came, the word GUANO was clearly visible, growing higher and thicker than the rest of the grass
M O'Connell 5 years ago
The same technique was used by early marketers of synthetic Nitrogen fertilizers in the US during the 1920s.
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James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
The Persians were practicing this for many centuries. They would errect 40 foot roofless silos of mud ,carving out notches in the walls for birds to nest in.They then could collect the guano at the bottom of the silo to fertilise their crops..
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Guano more typically refers to bat feces, which is mined from caves that have been home to numerous bats for centuries.
#12
wandile dludlu 5 years ago
I thought it was always weird to have a paper airplane for sent since those things never end up where you throw them
K. 5 years ago
Especially with my aim. It usually comes back towards my face or hair.
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Rachel Arteiro 5 years ago
The person who came up with this works in the Ministry of Magic with Harry Potter.
#13
TIL that elephants are tremendous distance swimmers. They can swim for up to six hours and 25 miles (48km). They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink. They can also use their trunk as a snorkel and dive.
bryguy 5 years ago
And if not BP will make a "Magical wonderful elephants as Disney Princesses" article
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Donald Drake 5 years ago
Manatees are also pachyderms. They have a common ancestor with elephants.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Sri Lankan navy saves two elephants washed out to sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSXhdc2f0uM
Tim Farmer 5 years ago
I'll be an elephant pedant, but 25 miles is 40.2335km. Just want to make sure you don't get caught speeding in the wrong jurisdiction x
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
Elephants are just such amazing beings--loving, compassionate, so intelligent we cannot judge how intelligent they are. We abuse them at our own peril. They are more human than humans.
#14
TIL in 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe, and were convicted.
Charlotte Sandoval 5 years ago
Probably about the same, because the rest who would take bribes likely have snitches to warn them. That 25% were the really dumb ones
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bryguy 5 years ago
It depends how they set it up. If they just offered it and the official accepted than no it is not entrapment and they can be charged. If they set it up in a way that persuaded the official to accept it when they normally wouldn't if not persuaded than that is entrapment and that case holds no merit.
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Colin L 5 years ago
Sounds like it's time to un-gerrymander districts and approve ranked choice voting.
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Henry Cheves 4 years ago
There was also a magazine that interviewed Congressmen about the situation in Freedonia. Some said we should send troops, others said we should remove our troops, some said we should bomb them. Freedonia was the fictional country in the Marx brothers comedy Duck Soup. Not a single congressman said, "I'm sorry, I don't believe I've heard of Freedonia. Can you tell me about it?" They all lied because they didn't want to look like fools, therefore making themselves look like fools.
#15
TIL scientists used 2,000 year old seeds to regrow an extinct species of date tree. The tree long disappeared from the Judean desert but archeologists found seeds on digs. Surprisingly, the seeds worked and grew a male and female of the species. They hope to use them to produce biblical era dates.
Laughinmydreams 5 years ago
Seeds are very long lasting, I used to freeze my seeds and use some and they are still viable.
Bama Belle 5 years ago
Scientists have also grown a plant from a species that went extinct 32,000 years ago.
#16
TIL that in the Falklands, an abandoned minefield has accidentally become a penguin sanctuary. The mines were set in the Falklands conflict and have remained there since, keeping humans away. The local Magellanic penguins are too small to set them off and have thrived in the area.
Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
The only time landmines have contributed something positive to the world.
Šimon Špaček 5 years ago
It brings some ideas, right? How about minefield forrest where only animals smaller than a boar can live? Can be land mines the best invention to preserve nature? Sure, bears and deers would not agree, but small animals and birds might be interested.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
During the Falklands/las Malvinas war, I was introduced at a party in Mexico as 'the representative of the queen'. Mexicans, with the colonial past of Mexico, were of course not thrilled with the UK involved in a war defending its territory way south in South America. The change in atmosphere was palpable but the joke was on them as I am not British! Worse than the 'ownership' of the Falklands is what the UK has done to Chagos Islands. The islanders on Diego Garcia were forcibly removed and the island was leased to the US military. https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-diego-garcia-air-base-indian-ocean-2019-8
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
No longer! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/10/falklands-cleared-landmines-uk-argentina-war
#17
TIL The holes in honeycombs don't actually start out as hexagons. Bees create circular tubes staggered with one another. The heat formed by the activity of the bees softens the wax, which connects the gaps between the holes. Then the wax hardens into the the most energy efficient shape, the hexagon.
#18
TIL that when Eli Wallach, who played "The Ugly" in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," arrived in Madrid to shoot the movie, all hotels were full. He ended up having to sleep in the same bed as Clint Eastwood and later often bragged that he was the only man who ever slept with Clint Eastwood.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Characters having to share a bed is an incredibly popular fanfiction trope to get them to smooch. ;)
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François Carré 5 years ago
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those who sleep in the bed and those who sleep on the carpet. You sleep on the carpet".
Yafa Crane Luria 5 years ago
Not from what I heard... I am of a generation where LA gays pointed out which celebs were gay all the time. I don't know if CE is gay but apparently he slept with more men than just Eli Wallach...
F. H. 5 years ago
Or they just gossiped for publicity. No way to find out.
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#19
TIL Not only do bats make high-pitched sounds for echolocation, many bat species also sing. A team of scientists that analyzed one species’ song translated it as a sequence that opens with a hello, then a gender identification, then some geographic information, & then a "let's talk" section.
Colin L 5 years ago
Also, bats can see. They have small eyes (and datk adapted eyes), but bats are not blind.
Iðunn Ýr The Icelandic Panda 5 years ago
Ohh my! I do! I am even still in connection with some from the icelandic site. Although, in icelandic, it was ASK 😆 which means the same + what it means in english 😄
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No Username 5 years ago
That's amazing! So basically it's like bats singing, "Hi! I'm a dude, and I live over there. Let's talk later" Wow! lol boredpanda is the only place I get to be a nerd :)
#20
TIL that the founder of Old Bay seafood seasoning founded his own company after being fired by McCormick after two days on the job after they found out he was Jewish
Wes Nishi 5 years ago
McCormick had to pay $11-14 million to buy Old Bay in 1990, so even though they own it, they had to pay for it. Had they not fired him, Old Bay spice mixes could have been McCormick's to begin with https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1990-11-01-1990305022-story,amp.html
Megan Shannon 5 years ago
Did they buy his company from him then? ‘Cause that container literally says ‘packed by McCormick’
Rob Turner 5 years ago
AND, McCormick now packages Old Bay spice for em, it seems .. Read the bottom of the label!! ... Definitely a "gotcha last"!
#21
IlovemydogShilo 5 years ago
There are a lot of things in Sponge Bob Square pants like this because Stephen Hillenburg creator of Sponge Bod was a Marine Biologist.
Animal lover❤ 5 years ago
Ooooohhhh. I just thought he didn't have money for real food, I was so sad!😂
Annie Fullmer 5 years ago
Now that's interesting (that he's a marine biologist). I'm way too old for Spongebob.
Amarédesse Gemtree, SLYTHERIN 5 years ago
Repeat it with me: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. AS. TOO. OLD. Now, SING it with me! Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
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#22
TIL that Alan Alda met his wife of over 60 years at a dinner party when they were the only two guests who ate the rum cake after it fell on the kitchen floor.
Dave P 5 years ago
Always nice to hear about celebs in long term happy marriages, in fact good to hear about anyone who can be married that long happily.
Caroline Nagel 5 years ago
I just told my BF the same thing. It's heart warming.
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Louloubelle 5 years ago
Well, it was rum, so it had alcohol in it, and alcohol kills germs, so I think it's okay.
James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
And it;s a good thing that she was there or he would have married the dog that was eating the cake from off the floor at the time
#23
TIL Harry Houdini wanted to prevent people from copying his "Chinese water torture cell" trick, but didn't want to patent it, as that would require explaining how it works. So he gave a performance of the trick as a one-act play before an audience of one, and then filed for a copyright on the play
blugeagua 5 years ago
He was also a know misogynist who treated his wife like absolute crap.....
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Lou Herout 5 years ago
This is bizarre because i literally learned this fact today, just a few hours ago!!!!! It's a conspiracy!
Patty Leaton 5 years ago
shows you before anything get a copyright or some idiot will steel your ideas
#24
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Hahaha, omg so true. That is all I will see now when I see this wolverine.
glowworm2 5 years ago
It's basically an optical illusion. If you look at the two black sides of his mask , it makes it look like there are two Batmans kissing one another.
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#25
TIL The formal clothing of the Roman Citizen was the Toga. During Roman elections, those running for political office would rub their Toga with a dazzling white chalk to stand out. Called Toga Candida (pure-white) this clothing was the origin of the word "candidate".
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
I just imagined Trump wearing toga. It wouldn't be strange to see that clown dressed like that in public, isn't it
Fixin'Ta 5 years ago
Because it's white. "Candida" is Latin for "white" and "albicans" (the type of yeast you're talking about) means "becoming" so that particular yeast is "becoming white". I just Googled it.
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Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago
Oh, in my minds eye, I can see our Candidates dressed in Togas. Most of them might run the other direction if they had to dress in one.
Exotic Panda 5 years ago
i think this white chalk was poisonous led and the white chalk led to many deaths, again i think this is true im not really sure.
#26
TIL Chris Evans turned down the Captain America role multiple times because of Anxiety, fear of a 10-movie commitment and the public spotlight. He went to therapy before taking the role
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Why would someone down vote your comment?
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I don’t recall if it’s him or another actor, but some famous actor has a weird phobia of seeing himself on screen so he doesn’t watch any of his movies.
Elizabeth Graham 5 years ago
So glad the therapist got him over his anxiety - he really was "Captain America"!
D. Pitbull 5 years ago
Firstly - Chris Evans is/was a perfect casting choice. It's like the cosmos started reading comic books a few decades ago and went 'Hmm... okay, let's make this person to play this role... by the time he hits his late twenties... should be juuust about right" - in short. He's great, and I'm sure much of the world is happy that he accepted. HOWEVER, I have to admit being horrifically jealous... while some of us are basically taking any role given, or turned down for things for no (good or given) reason... and here's someone just being handed a "here you go, set for life...and your children's lives... etc." - and just TURNING IT DOWN??? - btw, yes, I have anxiety and depression and I actually am giving myself a mild attack of what would happen to me if I even THOUGHT of turning down any legit gig for ANY reason.
Haley Sterne 5 years ago
It is fantastic that celebrities can be vivid models of why therapy can make a difference. I love that they are also showing the okay not to be okay, and you can over come it aspects.
Banjo Peppers 5 years ago
Anxiety capitalized makes it look like it was a different movie he was starring in.
#27
TIL: 44% of adults have held on to their childhood teddies and dolls, and as many as 34% of adults still sleep with a soft toy every night
Eriu 5 years ago
Same here, I sleep with We Bare Bears plushies :) 29 yo haha
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Bama Belle 5 years ago
Saw a couple on Oprah once. The husband was irritated that his wife slept with her old teddy bear, claimed she should be cuddling HIM and that it interfered with their sexy time. Surprisingly, Oprah and Dr. Phil agreed with the husband that it was weird and she should stop. I thought it was weird her husband was jealous of a toy.
Claudia Stieble 5 years ago
yep, my elephant is now 53 years old and does not look too bad for his age.
Patricia Rix 5 years ago
I always feel so bad for the teddy bears I see in Thrift stores, many of them like new, meaning they were never barfed on, cried on, washed, dried, in other words, never loved. And then abandoned.
Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
I gave my now 42 yo Bruno Bear to my niece and it makes me irrationally happy to know that she cuddles him every day.
rgr8 5 years ago
I was planning on saving mine the rest of my life, when it disappeared on a trip. I was devastated.
Marija Barcan 5 years ago
I used to until I lost her two years ago. She travelled all over the world with me and never got lost and I had her for 35 years. I miss my bunny every day. She just vanished:(
#28
TIL wild orangutans use medicinal plants to sooth joint and muscle inflammation. The apes chew leaves of the Dracaena cantleyi plant to create a white lather, which they then rub onto their bodies. Local indigenous people also use the plant for the same purpose.
Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
Please don't use anything containing palm oil, plantations are the main reason for the extinction of these amazing creatures.
Vera 5 years ago
Companies protecting the Bornean rainforest actually recommend people buy palm oil from companies that vowed to stop expending their plantations. Boycotting palm oil will ultimately lead to more deforestation because farmers will need to plant something else that will sell.
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James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
I have also used jungle plants to sooth my aches and pains,but mostly I smoke mine
Tobias the Tiger 5 years ago
That was one of my favorite shows when I was about 10.
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Marsha Peters 5 years ago
Isn't Dracaena "dumb cane" known to be poisonous to us cousins of orangutans?
#29
TIL the red stuff dropped from airplanes to put out forest fires also acts as a fertilizer.
LeilaOdinis 5 years ago (edited)
A guy on a fire crew left his truck up on the bush during the fight during fire season in British Columbia (early 90's when I heard since my Father was on one of the crews) Buddy was new and didn't know about the retardant and what was in it or cared. The others on the crew told him to move his truck before the bomber came by with a sweep in the areathey were in. He ignored them and continued on his way. The other firefighters shrugged and went back to the line. The bomber flew over right where he left his truck. It dropped its cargo. The guys truck and interior was a fresh new red color that couldn't come out of the original white upholstery.
Brandy Grote 5 years ago
In some areas, they are testing mixing it with native seeds to encourage quicker growth, since the season after fire in California is floods.
#30
TIL of Miguel Wattson, an electric eel from Tennessee with its own Twitter account. Whenever he discharges a large enough jolt, a tweet will be automatically send out to his account EelectricMiguel. Apart from sending tweets, he also helps power up Christmas trees at the aquarium.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2019/12/05/an-electric-eel-controls-christmas-lights-at-the-tennessee-aquarium/
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lazy panda 5 years ago
Sure, Rudolph is great, but I'd love a story about a festive little eel who saves Christmas.
Tobias the Tiger 5 years ago
I've seen this eel on my trip to Tennessee a few years back. The rest of the aquarium is definitely worth visiting as well, if you have the chance.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/05/miguel-wattson-electric-eel-tennessee-christmas-lights-twitter/
#31
Tim Fischer 5 years ago
they still do, but using obsolescence is more economic :/
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Lauren Innello 5 years ago
@giles McArdell The light bulb company did in fact create this. Once they realized they made a product that will make the light bulb company obsecelate they decided to change it back. Not so profitable to have a product no one ever needs to buy again....
F. H. 5 years ago
The truth is, that it's not only not profitable, it's financial suicide. You can only sell your product until everyone has one. Then you can close your factory, it's over. You'd need a completely new product. Just an improved one won't do, because few peole would switch if their old one is still working. There is a real life example for that: Unbreakable drinking glasses. They were invented in East Germany in the 1980s and marketed under the name "Superfest" ("superstrong"). They were made of regular glass, but by clever design of the tension lines, you could drop them on a stone floor and they wouldn't break. By the end of the GDR, the state-owned company produced just for their own storage. Everyone had their glasses, nobody needed them. Production just went on to give people jobs, as it was socialist doctrine. After the fall of the Wall, the company had to close down. That was over thrity years ago. There were so many glasses on storage that they are now just about to be sold out.
Load More Replies... CatWoman312 5 years ago
I learned of this from mysteries of the museum on the travel channel. The story behind it is actually maddening. Basically we have the technology to make these lightbulbs today, but because of greed they made them last so many hours compared to years.
78thStitch 5 years ago
They certainly did: none of this washing machine exploding two days after end of warranty malarky back then
Cooper Schultz 5 years ago
I have been there! It is in a fire station in Maryland, where I live.
Alexandra 5 years ago
It is not in Maryland, it is at a fire station in Livermore, CA, up the road from my home.
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Margot Piasecka 5 years ago
Hahahaha, I learned about the link where you can watch the bulb. So I told a friend or two, we opened the link and watched the bulb full of solemn respect for one whole hour. I think that was the only time in my life we watched a bulb. Of course nothing really happened, apart from the bulb doing what she has been doing for over 100 years. Still an unforgettable moment 😍.
#32
TIL in 1506, a 1000+ year old statue was unearthed. The main figure, Laocoön, was missing an arm. The pope commissioned a contest to find who would recreate the missing arm best. Michelangelo's version lost. In 1906 the original arm was found and in nearly the exact pose Michelangelo had sculpted.
Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
It has been suggested that Michelangelo earned a living as an art forger before he became famous (Laocoön was found in the back yard of the art dealer who declared it an authentic antique). This would indeed explain how M. knew exactly where to position the arm.
gargling_gargoyle 5 years ago
I loved studying this in college as part of my art history degree and love it even more when I saw it in person.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures enable me to say that I have a truly statuesque penis.
#33
Joonscrab 5 years ago
What a way to convert a horrible view into something that draws people into the cafe instead of just putting a solid wall to hide it! It's not stupid if it works!
Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
You can do that looking into any old McDonald's kitchen *insert poorly executed drum roll here*
Claire Armstrong 4 years ago
Oh please, please, please tell me that they use the giant versions of WALL-E to process it! Or even the wee WALL-E! Any will do lol! Is it just normal 'landfill' trash being processed, or is it recycling trash? Does anyone know? I think it would be much better if it was recycling stuff! Not only would it be interesting and fascinating to watch, but it would also be educational and could maybe encourage people to recycle more!
#34
TIL in 2007, 33-year-old Steve Way weighed over 100kg, smoked 20 cigarettes a day & ate junk food regularly. In order to overcome lifestyle-related health issues, he started taking running seriously. In 2008, he ran the London Marathon in under 3 hours and, in 2014, he set the British 100 km record
AnimalMetalHeadUK 5 years ago (edited)
A good thing, not the best thing, it only really helps him, people who dedicate their lives to helping sick children or animals, that's the best thing.
Load More Replies... Jim Ellington 5 years ago
While running is certainly healthier than smoking, dedicated runners tend to die off early just like smokers do.
gargling_gargoyle 5 years ago
So inspiring! Love to see stories like this to remember that we can experience so many different iterations of ourselves throughout our lives.
#35
Joyce Melton 5 years ago
Some sharks bear live young. And in some of those species, the sharklets battle each other for survival, loser gets eaten--before they're even born!
MyrkurDragon 5 years ago (edited)
The middle one is the egg from rays to be specific, and those guys do fall under the category shark!
Lisbeth Guz 5 years ago
Today I learnt about shark eggs, I thought they reproduced exclusively as mammals
PurpleUnicorn 5 years ago
These are the egg cases, known as mermaid's purses. Sharks, rays and dogfish all produce them.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
They are pretty soft when the sharks lay the eggs.
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Arcticflower170 5 years ago
I live on the beach, and the ones in the middle are EVERYWHERE. Usually filled with sand by the time they get to shore. There's also really cool conch shell sacks filled with hundreds of baby conch shells. Google conch shell sacks lol, you won't regret it! Kind of rare though, I've only ever seen a few.
Blue of the yams (They/He) 5 years ago
Oh yeah, I used to find these on the beach sometimes when I was a kid, and was always sad to not find a baby shark inside. XD
#36
Dynein 5 years ago
It doesn't, though I found that skid marks are much more likely. Anyway, as a German I mostly know these as "old-fashioned" toilets... never seen one like that that wasn't installed several decades ago. They are still around in older buildings because there is no point in throwing out something that works, but I'm not aware of them being installed these days - certainly not in any significant quantity.
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Latarian Milton III 5 years ago
It's also so a person can examine their feces before flushing.
Steve Haigh 5 years ago
yup - same reason for the shape of Japanese trough toilets
Load More Replies... Hans 5 years ago
This is called a Flachspüler. It is not very common these days and found only in older homes. One perk is that it is very easy to get stool samples. The stench is hard to endure though.
Agnes Mendel 5 years ago
Sorry, Hans, that's not completely correct. ;) Yes, this is called a "Flachsplüler" - literally something like "flat flusher" - contrary to the much more common "Tiefspüler" = "deep flusher". And yes, they are not very common: You will hardly ever find these at public restrooms. But: You can find Flachspüler not only in older homes, but also in modern homes (like mine, built 2020). Main advantage: Avoid Poseidon's kiss - main reason for me! Minor advantage: The thing about stool samples (which is nothing you need often). Disadvantages: Skid marks are more obvious after happening. ;) But thanks to modern surfaces (lotos effect etc.) this is not a real problem, and those happen with a Tiefspüler, too. Also the thing with the stench... Yeah, there's more surface with air contact than when half of it is under water. But if you don't tend to have endless sessions it's not significantly worse that it is anyway - in my opinion.
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Shelp 5 years ago
I read a lot of comments pointing out that it's convenient for stool samples... Excuse me but how often do you people have to collect stool samples?!
Šimon Špaček 5 years ago
I heard, and it might not be true, that those were installed for simple reason. Checking for worms. Worms were real problem in Europe and this kind of toilet helped a lot to get rid of it.
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wandile dludlu 5 years ago
You know how doctors keep saying you should look at your poop? I think this is for that
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
That’s common here, too, in NL. Who wants to splash their butts when pooping? You just flush it when you’re done, it doesn’t smell any more than drowning it immediatly. Also good for checking if everything is ok. Skid marks only happen when your poop is unhealthy (sticky or not solid), and that’s why toiletbrushes exist.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
I agree, basically. But puking into one of these is the absolute worst.
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Natalie Bohrteller 5 years ago
I've heard someone call it "inspection deck". And that's kind of true I'd say. We know how to take care of our bodies 😆
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Yes, that's what the Dutch do. A GP friend had an illustrated chart of poo colours & consistencies and what disorder it points to.
Load More Replies... Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
We don't have those anymore, except sometimes in hospitals because it makes it easier to examine the poop.
#37
TIL - A man suffering from gastrointestinal distress in a Kansas Home Depot mens room provided a friendly warning to other bathroom goers by saying: “You need to get out of here because I’m fixin’ to blow it up.” Police were called on suspicion of a bomb threat. No charges were laid.
Haley Sterne 5 years ago
I would love to see the police transcript on this! I bet it is hilarious, and if not my version of it is.
Load More Replies... Tobias the Tiger 5 years ago
I think it was Walmart, actually, but still.
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James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
From an old poem about the outhouse in a Texas Tornado "And the wind blew,and the s**t flew,and we had hell for a week or two".
meow point1 4 years ago
I hope that guy's intestines got better. Must've been embarrassing when the police came!
#38
TIL The Tollund Man, who lived during the 4th Century BC, was so well preserved on discovery that that he was mistaken for a recent murder victim. His internal organs were intact; it was concluded that his last meal was porridge consisting of 40 kinds of seeds, eaten 12 to 24 hours before his death.
Joyce Melton 5 years ago
I've always heard that porridge was a meal that would stick to your ribs.
Blinding_Darkness 5 years ago
Oh we learnt about this in history about two weeks ago, it was so fun
Alan Green 5 years ago
I recognized the picture from school too. . . .that was 35 years ago though.
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Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
Oh mummies! There's a common hypothesis after they accumulated several bog people that they were actually sacrifices. Not all of them, but a lot of them. Most have been found with stab wounds, ropes around their necks, etc. Some they think went willingly while others didn't based off this wounds they found. Once again not all of them, just several. Some were just big burials. There's actually a grouping of Mummies down in South America whose culture was the 1st to start intentionally mummifying their dead. They think it started because of the children who died, but it's absolutely fascinating. They're black or red. Bog mummies are unintentional mummies, but there are so many other cultures besides Egypt that made intentional mummies, including China. South America is freaking awesome for mummies though. Check out the Cloud People!
Brandy Grote 5 years ago
Bog people are fascinating! I was able to see this amazing "mummy" at an exhibit - another bucket list item!
#39
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Fifteen states have a population of less than two million, of these there are seven states with less than one million people. The smallest is Wyoming with about 580,000 residents. Each state is represented by two senators in the Senate. This means that one senator from Wyoming represents 290.000 people and that one senator from California represents almost 19 million people. Do you see anything wrong with this picture? If the scales were tilted the other way around, (19.000.000X1,53%=290.700) this would give us 290.000X1.53%=4.437 which is about the population of the small town of Portola Valley in California.
Peter Weir 5 years ago
yes and even though its bigger, Canada is still the greatest place to live in the world, we limit our population the the finest the rest go to california :)
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Tiny Wyoming with 580.000 inhabitants sends two senators to the US senate. So does California. Seven states have a population of less than one million.
Brandy Grote 5 years ago (edited)
The county of L.A. alone is TWICE as populous as all of Scotland at almost 11 million. It only feels that crowded on the 405 freeway...
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 5 years ago
There is a county in California (San Bernardino) that is larger than most of New England
#40
TIL that when future US President Lyndon B. Johnson was Senate majority leader, he instructed his staff to make his scotch and soda significantly weaker than his guest’s, so that he could keep a clearer head
Sasy 5 years ago
Also the reason for Bonds martini to be shaken not stirred, more shaking causes ice to melt watering down the drink.
Lara Harris 5 years ago
Flip me... A drink is only weaker with less alcohol in it. It doesn't matter if the ice melts or not, you're still consuming the same measurement of alcohol. It's not like watering down of vodka where you REMOVE some of the vodka and top up with water. To make a martini, you measure the alcahol, shake or stir it and pour the full amount into the glass. Even if it was shook over ice, it only chills it, it doesn't reduce the alcahol content...
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Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
Wasn't LBJ the one with the aquatic car who used to take people for a drive and then head straight for a lake before he started screaming he had no breaks? Then the car would float and he'd start driving around in the lake laughing his butt off. I'm pretty sure that was LBJ.
Reading about unique and narrow homes can truly spark a curiosity about some of the world's most interesting properties.
If you're fascinated by innovative home designs, you might want to take a look at the thinnest house in London. Its ingenious utilization of space is nothing short of remarkable, inviting you to explore the creativity within residential architecture and how it challenges conventional norms.
#41
TIL a British nurse named Edith Cavell helped treat soldiers regardless of their nationalities in WWI. She also helped them escape from German occupied Belgium. When caught, she refused to lie about her actions and was executed by firing squad.
Victor Botha 5 years ago
In the suburb of Hillbrow if I remember correctly.
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#42
bryguy 5 years ago
When I was snorkeling one time I was told that touching a sea turtles shell will leave oil prints on it and other turtles see that and disown the turtle and it is left to fend for itself. Not sure if true or not but it definitely made me not touch any
Niffler_13 5 years ago
Sea turtles are solitary animals. They don't rely on one another for survival (mating is the exception)
Load More Replies... Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
They absolutely can feel their shells. My sister has a tortoise and she rubs a special lotion/conditioner into his shell with a soft brush. He closes his eyes and pushes back into the brush just like a dog does when you scratch their back. He looooves it and comes running when he sees her take out the brush.
Kiyomi Loor-Iwasaki 4 years ago
Well he must take forever if she doesn't come to at the same time.
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TIL three 13 year old girls submitted a script for "Tiny Toon Adventures". Producer Steven Spielberg was so impressed that he invited the girls to Hollywood to work on the episode and paid them $3,000. This later inspired a Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa write an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon.
Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
Wonderful to see that he respected their skills first, and paid them accordingly. Too many adults would've dismissed them based on their age, and claimed their work as "inspiration" rather than pay them. Bravo!!
Luther von Wolfen 5 years ago
My 11-year-old daughter is working on a script for an animated series with friends. They plan on making it themselves using claymation, doing the voices themselves (with some help - I've got a voice part.) No matter what happens with it, I'm glad they have access to technology that makes it possible to create on that scale.
S. 5 years ago
I wish them all the best for it! It sounds like a really fantastic project. Say, do they plan on uploading it to YouTube? If so, I'd definitely love to watch their works
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Linda van der Pal 5 years ago
I think it depends on the type of owl, as I saw one of the silent ones during a bird show (where they had audience members lie on the ground with their eyes closed and the owl flying over them, they were supposed to indicate if they heard anything)
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Okay - that might be a point. the non-nocturnal owls might not have a need for stealth.
Load More Replies... Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
Which gives them their reputation as ''spooky''. Imagine finding yourself face to face with a barn owl with nothing to signal its approach. A very memorable experience.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Why? They're very, very silent fliers. I can certainly believe that the phonographs aren't fine enough to pick the noise up. Which, to be specific, doesn't mean there is NO sound. But if nobody hears it... who can say? (also, bats have very fine ears. They get eaten regularly by owls)
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#45
TIL Windsocks are calibrated to visually show wind speed as well as wind direction. They are designed such that each inflated red/white stripe indicates a 3 knot increase in wind speed to a maximum of 15 knots.
Joyce Melton 5 years ago
If the wind is blowing more than 15 knots, you probably have no business trying to land at that airfield.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
It depends on how steady the wind is, and how skilled the pilot is (and how many times they have had to divert because of wind...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPn3MBNt7Rc
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TIL about Richard Rowland Kirkland, a Confederate soldier who risked his life to tend to wounded soldiers from both sides of the Civil War in the middle of battle at Fredericksburg. Both sides held their fire as they watched him help every wounded soldier regardless of allegiance.
Luther von Wolfen 5 years ago
The Civil War has countless stories of valor, compassion, bravery and plain ridiculous actions on both sides. It's a shame so many Americans know so little about this four-year period that defined our country.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Nice of them to cease fire and watch. Real pals, those soldiers.
Sophia Graubart 5 years ago
Whatever anyone on any side may say, this statue shouldn't be knocked down
Xenia Granados 5 years ago
People just assume that everyone on the confederate side was bad. Not at all!
#47
TIL at G.E. in the 1920s, as a joke, newly hired engineers would be told to develop an inside frosted lightbulb, which was believed to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment, and astonished his peers by succeeding.
David K 5 years ago
And that, dear kids, is how the greatest inventions come to the daily light. Someone says it´s impossible to achieve this and this and someone else does their best to prove them wrong.
Šimon Špaček 5 years ago
"Never say that something is impossible, because some moron, who doesn't know it, will go and do it." Still I love the idea. "Where is the new guy" "I told him to make light bulb with inside frosting" "You are cruel one" "Don't worry, he will realize soon" New guy "ta daa".
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Wouldn't you just treat the interior of the glass with hydrofluoric acid? Though the last frosted incandescent bulb I broke seemed to have a white powdery coating on the inside...
#48
TIL that since 2014, Paul Rudd and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been co-owners of Samuel's Sweet Shop, a candy store in the town of Rhinebeck, New York. They saved it from being closed after the previous owner, a friend of theirs, died suddenly.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 5 years ago
Paul Rudd: plays the Marvel character Scott Lang, who works alongside Sam Wilson. Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Plays recurring Supernatural character John Winchester, who has a son named Sam Winchester. Coincidence? Yeah, probably.
#49
TIL the prevailing theory behind why humans like music is that we learn patterns and regularities within music, and we unconsciously predict what will come next. When we are right, our brain gives us a dopamine rush. Thus the constant dance between expectation and outcome is pleasurable to us
Norma 5 years ago
Absolutely. Even when you've heard it a million times, you get a rush when you think, "Here comes the good part!"
Dynein 5 years ago
Except it doesn't work if it's TOO predictable - otherwise people's enjoyment of music would entirely depend on how predictable the melody is, which is not the case.
Among Us 5 years ago
So probably the reason why listening to a song 1000 times makes it dull and makes you feel like never wanting to listen to the song again?
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
This varies. The "Woohoo!" rush can, after exposure, become a rush of "ah, safe, familiar, soothing". Which is why my husband relaxes to heavy metal.
A.M. Pierre 5 years ago
I don't know, it seems like there's a pretty big hole in this. Otherwise, why would we like to listening to our favorite songs repeatedly? We already know them by heart, so we're not going "I bet this will come next... Woohoo, I'm right!" even subconsciously.
Steve R 5 years ago
That's not a hole, that's the whole point of the theory. We can predict what's coming next BECAUSE we know them by heart. I don't think you understand how the subconscious works.
Load More Replies... Lorraine R 5 years ago
That's for music we like. What does our brain do when that song (or commercial) we hate comes on?
#50
TIL the only U.S. Secret Service officer killed protecting a president is Leslie Coffelt. Shot three times in the abdomen, he fired one round and hit Truman's attempted assassin in the back of the head from 31 feet away with his revolver.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Today the bodyguards would yell "Donald duck!" and he wouldn't, because no one tells Donald what to do.
Markus Holstein 5 years ago
Interestingly, Sevret Service officers are not officially required to sacrifice themselves to catch a bullet for the president
Thomas Turnbull 5 years ago
I would just move out the way and give the guy a clear shot at the duck.
#51
TIL instead of “They lived happily ever after”, German fairytales end with “if they haven’t died, then they are still living today.”
troufaki13 5 years ago
In Greece, we end fairytales with "They lived good and we lived better"
JiminKimLip7 5 years ago (edited)
I'm also from Greece, and honestly prefer ending it that way
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Oliver Pumera 5 years ago
In the Czech Republic, they end "And they lived happily until their death"
Florencia Onix 5 years ago
In Spanish: "And they were happy and they ate partridges" (it does rhyme in Spanish!)
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
In my country our stories never end. The ancient way of story telling is always to add another story after it,to signify how things never end just change. The travelling bards always left the story in the "middle" so u can make ur own and continue it . U can stop at any point in story happy or sad,but it continues beyond ur support or even acknowledgement. I like the concept. Ur not imp,only what u take from it is.
Ray Heap 5 years ago
Wilhelm Bush, Der Daumenlutscher, or The story of little suck-a-thumb.
Load More Replies... Blue 5 years ago
Um.. anyone know what fairytale this picture is? 'Cause I'm kinda concerned...
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
It's not a fairy-tale per se. It's from a book called "Scruffy Peter", a collection of rhymes that were made to emphasize what children shouldn't do. Like playing with matches, or being rude to black kids (there's actualyl a story like this in there. It's still a bit racist, but eh, they tried I guess) or walking around with the eyes always on the clouds. It's scary as f uc k, because whenever a child in the tale would do the wrong thing, something terrible happend. The head-in-the-clouds kid fell into the river and drowned, the matches-kid burned alive, and the pic is from the story about not chewing nails. Kid chewed nails - evil barber came and snipped them off. Terrible book. But it sticks to the memory, I'll give it that.
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#52
TIL Japan's reputation for longevity among its citizens is a point of controversy: In 2010, one man, believed to be 111, was found to have died some 30 years before; his body was discovered mummified in his bed. Investigators found at least 234,354 other Japanese centenarians were "missing."
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
It's sad how nobody, no relatives, no friends, no institutions... looks for those old people in a part of modern world
Xenia Granados 5 years ago
My grandmother was one of the lucky ones as she lives with 2 generation of her descendents. But before Covid-19 our church was full of elderly that the parish would have events for.
Load More Replies... Šimon Špaček 5 years ago
"We need to get picture of that 150 years old man" "Um, boss... I'm affraid he died." "When it happened?" "Before you were born. He was 90 you know..."
#53
TIL Pumpkins evolved to be eaten by wooly mammoths and giant sloths. Pumpkins would likely be extinct today if ancient humans hadn't conserved them.
#54
TIL that basketball Hall of Famer George Raveling volunteered as security during MLK's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Immediately after the speech he asked MLK for the original typewritten manuscript, which he gave him. He still has it and has refused offers of more than $3,000,000 for it.
Lorraine R 5 years ago
Hope it ends up in the National Archives or the National Museum of African American History and Culture, both in D.C., so when people come to visit the Lincoln Memorial to see the site of the speech, they can then go to whichever museum and see MLK's text.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Well when he does it’ll just be auctioned off anyway unless he has a stipulation in his will. It belongs in a museum
#55
TIL there is a species of sheep that survives completely on seaweed. on the island of north ronaldsay in scotland, a wall was built around the island to protect crops from sheep grazing, limiting them to the shoreline where they have adapted to survive.
Olivia Agave 5 years ago
Thing is, the wall is now protecting the sheep - they have become so adapted to eating the seaweed that eating the grass and crops could make them very sick and could possibly kill them. At least this was on a documentary I saw.
les 5 years ago
i'm from north ron and the sheep do graze on grass. they get taken inside the wall when its breeding season to give them a healthier diet
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
"The woman who will help keep seaweed-eating sheep on an Orkney beach". : https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-50794479 . . . . https://www.theorkneysheepfoundation.org.uk/the-sheep/
#56
TIL To promote the Smurfs (2011) movie, Sony temporarily painted the traditional "pueblo blanco" town of Juzcar, Spain to a bright blue. The residents were so happy with the increase in tourism afterwards that they elected to keep the change permanently.
#57
TIL that Japanese pro wrestler Rikidōzan often went to the bar immediately after his matches, without treating his wounds first. When patrons asked him why his face was bloodied, he'd reply "I had a tough day at work."
#58
TIL that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson received large amounts of hate mail from children after declassifying Pluto as a planet.
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
Pluto is better as a dwarf planet. As a planet, it was the last, the smallest, the odd one out. Now as a dwarf planet, it is the first and the king.
Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
But he does have an open mind, so I'll run this one by his: eons ago, a rogue planet passed between Mars and Jupiter, which it does every 23,000 years, and dragged away two of Jupiter's moons on its way back out of the solar system. Since this planet's orbit is highly elliptic and cuts through he ecliptic obliquely, its only ''footprint'' is the Pluto-Chiron pair, waaaaay out there at the edge of our solar system.
#59
TIL the secret formula for WD-40 is stored in a bank vault and has only left it twice; once was on its 50th birthday when the CEO of WD-40 rode through Times Square on a horse with a suit of armor on and the formula in hand
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
Wrong. https://www.wd40.com/myths-legends-fun-facts/#:~:text=Myth%3A%20Our%20secret%20formula%20isn,%E2%80%9Csecret%20sauce%E2%80%9D%20is%20inaccurate.
Risky 5 years ago
I think that you can look you the safety data sheet on any product in the EU - it is law because it may or is classed as hazardous waste. It will have to clearly state all of the ingredients. Safety data sheet according to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, Annex II
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
Ingredients are the parts, a recipe is how to put the parts together.
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#60
TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Take a moment to look up the actions of the Free Polish Navy during WWII, they were an impressively fearless bunch. That's the sort of thing that happens when you have little left to lose.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Also the Poles who traveled to France to fight on foot, were sold out by the French, were sent to work camps by the Russians and awlked to get somewhere they could fight the Germans... Read up, folks! It's stunning what they accomplished, to regain what the Germans took, only to see it handed over to Stalin... *sigh*
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TIL leaving cookies and milk for Santa started to become popular in the U.S during the Great Depression. Parents wanted to teach their kids it was better to give and to be grateful for presents they received during times of economic hardship.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
My parents would leave crackers for the reindeer as well. If memory serves, one year my father left a bottle of Labatt's.
Marika Miettinen 5 years ago
I'm Finland we don't leave anything for Santa because he comes into the house during the day and the kids get to meet him. Parents pay the Santa for his services though. Sometimes the Santa might even come with his wife or an elf as a helper.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
At my house, we put a sandwich and beer in the fridge and left a note telling him where to find his treats. Sometimes we would leave out some mixed nuts with our note.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
Another wrong one. So many pages have different reasons, and none of them have this. https://yessantaisreal.com/why-do-people-leave-out-cookies-and-milk-for-santa/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/22/459382720/how-did-santa-get-hooked-on-cookies-and-milk
Caroline Nagel 5 years ago
The fat bastard is based on Saint Nicholas, a 3rd-4th century saint, not exactly magical.
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TIL some Buddhist monks attempt to mummify themselves alive—and at least two dozen have succeeded. The process involves eating only pine needles, resins & seeds to eliminate all body fat, and then slowly reducing liquid intake to zero, thus dehydrating the body and shrinking all organs, until death.
Olof T 5 years ago
Some people go to Uni and gets a career, some people mummify themselves. Humans are strange creatures.
Mommyofboth 5 years ago
Does anyone know why they do this? I'm just curious to know what makes someone think "Today I will become a mummy".
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Why would they do that to themselves, and on purpose? That would be like torture.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
And then they say that religion doesn't cause harm. This is organized and slow ritual suicide. Nothing else. Sick and sickening.
Shaista Katirena Bolatbek 5 years ago
respect their religion. what they're doing doesn't effect or harm you in any way. im sure its their own choice so they should be able to do what they want with their own bodies. His body his choice.
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#63
I was today years old when i realized that Little Caesars' toga has an L and C for Little Caesars
#64
TIL that the voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, Paul Winchell was one of the original inventors of an artificial heart, an automobile that runs on battery power, a method for breeding tilapia, and many other inventions that are still around today.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago (edited)
Loved watching his TV show. Great ventriloquist.Shown above with Jerry Mahoney.
#65
TIL that Ronald Reagan won 49 states and 525 electoral votes in the 1984 presidential election which is the most in history.
Downunderdude 5 years ago
Donny would be so jealous. Actually, I'm surprised he hasn't claimed that he won more than Reagan ("I won more votes and electoral votes than any President in history but the dems stole them all")
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Interesting note: FYI: Reagan in private was a racist SOB who probably would love QAnon today. If you want to know how America got Trump? Read up on Reagan.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
While numerically true, FRD's victory over Alf Landon was a 'larger' victory in that he won 523 electoral votes out of a total possible of 531 (98.4%). Reagan won 525 of a possible 538 (97.5%).
Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
History's had some great republican presidents, but this guy gets overrated a lot
#66
TIL Bogs are Ireland’s original refrigerators. And they are pretty good—even 3,000-year-old bog butter is edible. We know this because archeologists tended to eat it. The secret is the anaerobic nature of the bog. Without oxygen, neither the butter nor its wooden container decomposes.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Bog is slang for toilet in Australia, so you can do imagine what went through my mind. It wasn’t pretty.
Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
They also ate ancient honey and grains, some rite of passage amongst field archeologists I assume.
Laugh or not 5 years ago
And recently, someone made bread with the 5000 year old yeast they found in an Egyptian ceramic. I would eat the bread with the butter and honey.
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TIL clue used to be spelled "clew". This was due to clew meaning "a ball of twine" which was symbolic of following the string through a maze and helping find "the way" or "an answer".
Anna Snorrepot 5 years ago
How interesting! in Dutch we have "kluwen" which means tangle (of thread). Same pronunciation as "clew"
Oda Mamen 5 years ago
In Norwegian it is "ledetråd", literally meaning "leading thread" :p fun!
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
clue (n.) "anything that guides or directs in an intricate case," 1590s, a special use of a revised spelling of clew "a ball of thread or yarn" (q.v.). The word, which is native Germanic, in Middle English was clewe, also cleue; some words borrowed from Old French in -ue, -eu also were spelled -ew in Middle English, such as blew, imbew, but these later were reformed to -ue, and this process was extended to native words (hue, true, clue) which had ended in a vowel and -w. The spelling clue is first attested mid-15c. The sense shift is originally in reference to the clew of thread given by Ariadne to Theseus to use as a guide out of the Labyrinth in Greek mythology. The purely figurative sense of "that which points the way," without regard to labyrinths, is from 1620s. As something which a bewildered person does not have, by 1948. https://www.etymonline.com/word/clue
#68
TIL Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of World War II, suffered from battle fatigue for the rest of his life. He endured chronic insomnia and recurring nightmares, and kept a loaded pistol under his pillow. He eventually took to sleeping alone in his garage with the lights on.
BorPand8 5 years ago
We call it PTSD today. Look up George Carlin's rant on euphemisms if you haven't already heard it -- it's great.
Dave P 5 years ago
They used those terms back then because these things weren't well understood by the public. So how do you explain how a brave soldier suffering after combat? they created terms like "Battle Fatigue". How do you explain ones who went into shock and had to be put in an institution, you say "Shell Shocked", and how do you explain a combat veteran suddely lose his nerves and flee combat, you say he had "Soldiers heart". The medical community knew more than we realized, but there terms were for the public to put things into terms people could understand at the time
Load More Replies... Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
Tragically, when people talk about the ravages of war, they count the dead. Many of the ''survivors'' I've met are physically still alive, but that's about the extent of it. When are we going to acknowlege that a human spirit can be broken?
Mimi777 5 years ago
My parents lived through a war for a couple years. They suffered from PTSD. My mom still gets nightmares and suffers from insomnia really bad.
BusLady 5 years ago
Must be some kind of stock image. Definitely not Murphy. I was confused.
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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
More actors should refuse to do these insane workout/diet/dehydration routines, it's harmful to the actor's body.
Mommyofboth 5 years ago
What Christian Bale has done for roles is beyond extraordinary and very dangerous. He lost so much weight for The Machinist.
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Paizleypie 5 years ago
I read a long time ago that he wasn't very enthusiastic about doing another Spiderman movie.
wandile dludlu 5 years ago
No wonder he got less roles after that. no one wants to work with someone who doesn't want to put in the work
#70
TIL that in the late 90s with millions in the bank, David Lee Roth became a state-licensed EMT who went on hundreds of calls
David K 5 years ago
Me too. As a non native speaker it always puzzles me how much English loves abbreviations.
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TIL research shows that mirrors in public places like retails stores will improve customer behavior by increasing self awareness. You won't act like a jerk if you had to watch yourself doing so.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
I work in a call center. I wish customers had to hear themselves talk sometimes. Maybe they wouldn’t be so rude and demanding if they had to hear themselves
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
They also increase visibility, so that otherwise hidden areas can be seen in the mirror.
Downunderdude 5 years ago
I've also read that the reason they have mirrors in lifts is that you won't notice how long it's taking if you're admiring your favourite subject. Apocryphal, maybe.
#72
TIL in 1900, a sealed cave was discovered in China's Gansu province containing 1,100 scrolls and 15,000 Buddhist texts. Believed to have been sealed around 1002, the last recorded date, the cave contained lost texts and the earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra printed in 868.
#73
TIL The first Native American who met the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony walked into their encampment and greeted them in English. Which he had begun to learn from fishermen frequenting the waters of Maine. Supposedly, he greeted them then asked if they had beer.
Joyce Melton 5 years ago
They didn't have beer. It was on the other boat, the Supply, which didn't get lost in Massachsetts, but went on down to Jamestown, VA, where my ancestor got off and started a farm.
Dave P 5 years ago
When the Dutch came to Manhattan, the nearby Weehawken tribe (New Jersey) had a large number of French speakers who had dealt with French traders, and the negotiations with the Manhattan and the Dutch used the Weehawken's as middlemen speaking French. Given the two versions of what happened from the Natives and the Dutch, the Weehawkens may have lied to both sides playing their own game
#74
TIL Mel Gibson could not get any studio to fund 'Passion of the Christ'. Instead of scrapping the film, he chose to finance it all by himself, an action which analysts labelled as "idiotic". He spent $45M on the project and went on to make over $475M because he didn't have to split the profits.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
There was a reason why no one wanted to fund the film. It is racist and anti-Semitic.
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
It's great movie spectacle, regardless ideological and religious interpretations. But, I also remember Pope John Paul II approved it, saying “It is as it was”
#75
TIL almost all shells open on the right-hand side, with the exception of a few snail species whose shells open on the left. If you find a shell that opens on the left (as long as it's from a normally right-hand species), you have a rare shell sometimes highly sought by collectors.
B 5 years ago
Also, make sure the shell isn't occupied before collecting it. Thank you. - Snail
Kristina N 5 years ago
Or better yet, leave it where it is so that species like the hermit crab have somewhere to live.
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Kendra Miller 5 years ago
There's a reason it's so rare to have left "handed" snails. They mate by sort of jousting, and when they stab each other on a right hand pass, but if there is a left hand snail and it jousts with a right hand snail. The right hand snail will stab the left hand snail in it's flesh instead of it's reproductive organs.
Kendra Miller 5 years ago
If you want to learn more: https://thisislovepodcast.com/one-in-a-million
Load More Replies... Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
The genetic traits of snails curled the other way is not passed on because they can't get their reproductive organs to line up with another snail unless its spiral direction is identical to their own.
#76
TIL when the Union abandoned a fort in Florida, they left behind a single soldier as caretaker. When the Confederacy marched on the fort, the lone soldier refused to surrender without a receipt for the fort. He received one, and the fort was taken without a shot fired.
Awkward Manatee 5 years ago
wow, i wonder what it would be like to be a lone soldier, all alone in a massive fort
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I love that he made them give him a receipt. Keeping his red tape straight.
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#77
TIL On a visit to Constantinople Samuel Colt gave a custom gold inlaid revolver to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and informed him that the Russians were buying his pistols. The Turkish ordered 5,000 pistols. Colt neglected to tell the Sultan that he had used the same tactic with the Russians.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
So you tricked them into killing each other all for the name of greed. This is gross
#78
TIL on Disneyland's opening day in 1955, an invitation-only crowd of 15,000 was expected, but thanks to counterfeit tickets, 28,154 entered the gates. A few more even scaled a fence, using a ladder erected by an entrepreneur who charged $5 a head. On the Santa Ana Freeway, there was a 7-mile backup
Joyce Melton 5 years ago
Until 2001, there was a little known service gate at the back of the park which was seldom locked and almost never guarded. Locals in the know simply walked in, made their way through the backstage area, and emerged in Fantasyland.
#79
TIL octopuses have 2/3 of their neurons in their arms. When in captivity they regularly occupy their time with covert raids on other tanks, squirting water at people they don't like, shorting out bothersome lights, and escaping.
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Awesome but the picture is a cuttlefish. While also a cephalopod it's definitely not an octopus.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 5 years ago
They also short-sheet beds, hide car keys, and set alarm clocks to go off at three in the morning.
Wonderful 5 years ago
And don’t forget they break the snooze button and steal your left shoe.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
There's a comma missing behind "captivity". Yeah yeah - nitpicking. But the sentence is a bit strange as it is.
#80
TIL Jackie Chan sang "I'll Make a Man Out of You" for the Mandarin AND Cantonese versions of Mulan (1998)
#81
TIL there is a Star Wars fan edit that exists- The Phantom Edit, which was intended to improve on Episode I- The Phantom Menace. Changes included the removal of "Jar Jar Antics," trimming politics scenes, removing dialogue related to midi-chlorians, and removing "yippee," from Anakin's dialogue.
Tequila4Two 5 years ago
With all those changes the runtime would probably not longer than eight minutes.
Peter Weir 5 years ago
would have been better without the jar jar thing and the useless child. this ruined an already shitting movie series
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
upvote just for all the edits that must make that movie more watchable. George Lucas clearly needed someone to edit his choices
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
After seeing this dog's breakfast (my apologies to dogs) of a movie, I had a dream in which George Lucas was chased by angry characters from the Star Wars films. Then characters from other SF movies and shows joined the fun.
OrangeChicken 5 years ago
Oh my god the DIOGLOUGE in that movie was HORRENDUS. I still don't know the plot of the movie...
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Perhaps they just don't like it when the creators lean hard into racist stereotypes. JarJar is a Jamaican/ minstrel stereotype and Watto was horribly antisemitic
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TIL that the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas changes the gender signs on bathrooms based on the gender makeup of a crowd. This allows them to provide more female or male bathrooms depending on the event. It also prevents long lines for bathrooms.
howdylee 5 years ago
Talking about a stadium in Texas while showing a bunch of (New Orleans) Saints fans??
BusLady 5 years ago
Poor choice of a stock image. Not the only one in this post.
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TIL about "Homegrown National Park," an effort to encourage Americans to plant as many native plants as possible everywhere on their property to help bring back the continent's biodiversity
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I participate in this. In some cases, "invasives" are so well established that we give them a pass, as "nativized", but please, think about the native plants when looking at your flowerbeds, etc. :-)
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I love trees. Especially in fall and winter. I call winter trees cemetery trees, because I love all things creepy.
#84
TIL that on the night that MTV launched, the opening sequence for the network featured footage of the Apollo 11 launch, simply because it was public domain and free to use. It was that opening sequence that connected MTVs image with astronauts, including the Video Music Award “moon man” trophy.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
I've watched MTV for a long time. Never even realized there is an astronaut-theme.
Wonderful 5 years ago
There is now a mtv classic channel that shows music videos from early 200’s and back. It’s nice
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OffKeySinger 5 years ago
I remember when it launched and when they only played music videos. It was AWESOME!
Kiyomi Loor-Iwasaki 4 years ago
THey still only play music videos and once a year they put on MTV music awads.
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#85
TIL Clara Blandick, known for her role as Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz, committed suicide in 1962 following a period of poor health. Before dying, she arranged her room with photos, memorabilia and press clippings from her career, and dressed in a royal blue dressing gown with her hair styled.
#86
Awkward Manatee 5 years ago
this has the same energy as the realization that gru's first name is felonius and he is canonically fourteen feet tall
#87
TIL the 7-minute long shot in the Charlie Work episode of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" was entirely filmed by camera operator Adam Sklena, without dolly tracks or a rig. "This is a man holding a camera who had to walk backwards—and we got it without screwing up on take 1," said Charlie Day.
Koalamonster 5 years ago
We just watched this episode and that's impressive. I mean, you could tell it was a single shot- but holy wow for it all being done without any real stability structure for the camera. Wow.
#88
TIL President Andrew Jackson was gifted a 1,400-pound block of cheese by a New York dairy farmer. The cheese remained on display at the White House for over a year but was entirely eaten by a large crowd during Jackson's final party as President.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
The same farmer also sent 750lb wheels of cheese to Vise President Van Buren and New York Governor William L. Marcy.
#89
#90
TIL that the speed of light was first estimated in 1676 by a Danish Astronomer who was timing the eclipses of Io caused by Jupiter. He noticed the period between eclipses increased with Earth's distance from Jupiter and guessed it was because light had to travel a longer distance.
#91
TIL in 1817 a woman posed as the fictional Princess Caraboo of Javasu. She fooled a small British town for months into believing she was a princess who had been captured by pirates, jumped overboard in the British Channel and swam ashore. She was later recognised as a cobbler's daughter from Devon.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago (edited)
In 2016 a man posed as a problem solving president. He fooled half of the biggest country in the world into believing he would be good for them. He was later recognised as a failed reality tv show host.
Joanne Kostka 5 years ago
The movie version 'Princess Caraboo" tells the story starring Kevin Kline and Phones Cates.
#92
TIL when Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon, guest starred in The Simpsons, writers were concerned he would be offended by his line, "second comes after first," and offered an alternative- "first to take a soil sample." However, Aldrin preferred the original line, and it remained in the script.
Ray Martin 5 years ago
I imagine he preferred it because "first to take a soil sample" is completely wrong. Neil Armstrong collected a planned 'contingency sample' before Aldrin had even left the LM cabin.
#93
TIL: The Diderot Effect is obtaining a new possession which often creates a spiral of consumption which leads you to acquire more new things. As a result, we end up buying things that our previous selves never needed to feel happy or fulfilled
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Thus happened to me. I got a goldfish as a prize at a fair, and he just keeps growing. He's now in his fourth aquarium and I'm designing his next home - a 500 gallon pond in the backyard.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
But this is not for you, it's for the fish! So that's totally okay.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
There's not one thing you can buy that will make you happy and fulfilled. All you do is collect clutter.
Kendra Miller 5 years ago
Buying stuff does give pleasure and happiness, generally speaking it only last for a short time. Life experiences and connections with other people, is generally where we get our long term happiness. Some of our things spark joy and make our lives better. I have a bluetooth headset I bought years ago after tons of hours of research. The brand no longer exists, but they made a good product. My battery lasts for 4 work days, they can easily connect to my phone even if I'm down a 30' hall working one something else. Their biggest problem is that they are old, the plastic is brittle, so one they develop a bad crack, I swing by the tool crib and borrow some epoxy. I love mending my poor headphones, they have served me well and have saved my sanity.
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#94
TIL that the filmmakers for ‘The Blair Witch Project’ saved money by returning the video camera to Circuit City after they were done filming
JessG 5 years ago
Lol! This was one of the cheapest film made, scared the crap out of me when it was in theaters, I was one of the gullible that thought it was real
Terd Fergison 5 years ago
I saw this movie with my aunt when I was 16years old. After watching the end, I asked her if it was real. Thankfully, she told me no. This is good example that we all need healthy doses of skepticism. Skepticism is such an invaluable tool in this life. Every single person (including myself) needs to apply even more skepticism. Every human being can be easily tricked. The more you apply rigorous skepticism the less susceptible you are to being tricked. But, even then it can still happen.
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Lady Snowfall 5 years ago
We just had this kind of thing happen at my work...movie crew bought 8 chairs, partially built them for one scene, then returned them to our little store for a full refund (later realized parts were missing, too 🙄)
#95
TIL that llamas that spend too much time around humans are prone to BERSERK LLAMA SYNDROME. Such llamas believe that humans are fellow llamas, and sneak up behind them to attack.
Ceredwyn Ealanta 5 years ago
It's almost only male llamas. Since they see themselves as human, they attempt to drive off the 'other male llamas' in order to secure breeding rights, as they would naturally. Another male llama could defend itself, but berserk llamas are capable of inflicting severe damage to a human.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 5 years ago
In an odd form of symmetry, humans who spend too much time around llamas begin to believe that the creatures are fellow humans, and may react the same way.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Roe deer, a European species of deer, do that, too. Since they have very pointy antlers, that can lead to the human dying or getting severely injured. Roe deer don't do well in captivity.
Cynthia Bonville 5 years ago
I hope Caesar the No Drama Llama never ever does that, he's too freaking awesome.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
This makes me think if fainting goats for some reason. Those videos are funny.
Doc Thissen 5 years ago
I'm suddenly reminded of the "llama" bit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
#96
M O'Connell 5 years ago
I doubt she wants to be known as "Matthey McConaughey's Prom Date" What's her name?
#98
TIL that it took 32 years to officially clear the parents in the famous “dingo took my baby case”. The mother spent three years in jail until evidence supporting their defense was found by chance. They ultimately received $1.3M for wrongful imprisonment, less than 1/3 of their legal fees.
Anouk 5 years ago
it's staggering to think that in cases of wrongful arrest, any compensation paid isn't ON TOP of repaying any legal fees. How the hell can someone end up out of pocket AND having lost years of their lives in prison, for wrongful arrest?
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Easy, once you're trapped by the incompetent authorities.
Load More Replies... michelle neugebauer 5 years ago
and her next new-born was taken from her at birth because of this! Just a horrible travesty of justice and the family was never the same when she was finally acquitted!
Downunderdude 5 years ago
And Australia still hasn't recovered from Meryl Streep's Australian accent.
#99
Giles McArdell 5 years ago
$20 $20 in the light on the wall, took a bit of squinting before I spotted that.
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Candace Fitzpatrick 5 years ago
Not as cool as the secret security features in the Canadian passport. If you have one, look at each page under a black light. It’s beautiful.
#100
#101
TIL in 2006 VH1 ran a fundraiser for Hurricane Katerina where viewers who made donations were able to choose which music videos the station would play. One viewer donated $35,000 and requested continuous play of "99 Luftballons" and "99 Red Ballons" for an hour.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Which was a jerk move, because he knew that people would switch channels after the third time of 99 red balloons.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
I guess no one got help them since the hurricanes name was Katrina not Katerina
#102
TIL during the US prohibition era, medicinal liquor was fraudulently exploited in many scams, one doctor cited for writing 475 prescriptions for whiskey in one day. Charles R. Walgreen, the founder of Walgreen's pharmacies expanded from 20 stores to a staggering 525 during the 1920s.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Unsurprisingly criminals made millions out of dealing in alcohol and the US lost millions on enforcing the prohibition. When the government finally legalized the selling of alcohol that stopped. Seems that there's some lesson to be learned...
Kendra Miller 5 years ago
The governemnt/companies, knowingly and on purpose put additives into cleaning solutions that contained alcohol that were extremely toxic. They figured that yes some people would die, but it would keep most people away from it. They sorely miscalculated.
Kendra Miller 5 years ago
https://allthatsinteresting.com/prohibition-government-poisoning
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ispeak catanese 5 years ago
It certainly seems as though all 525 Walgreens are in my home town.
#103
#104
TIL director/producer Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl) worked at Burger King to collect funny stories during a writer's strike. He was given 1 of 12 known special Burger King Crown Cards that give people like Robert Downey Jr, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Hudson. and Jay Leno unlimited free food for life.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
It’s gross how many just get free crap for existing meanwhile us peasants have to work ourselves rugged to buy what they got for free
Load More Replies... John Baker 5 years ago
Why is it that people who don't need free s**t are always getting free s**t?
#105
TIL Charlie Day was offered a part on the network show "Life on a Stick." At the same time, his friends began filming their own show with no money. Day turned down “Life on a Stick,” which lasted one season, while "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" became one of the longest running comedies ever.
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
That can easily happen when you don't have material interest as first and you just follow your heart
#106
TIL that Coca-Cola makes most of its money from selling syrup to companies that manufacture and distribute their drinks and, as a result, it has a group dedicated to sending resources and experts to help any that are in financial trouble. This helps avoid image and logistical problems for the brand.
#107
Anna roberts 5 years ago
Is there anything you would place a positive comment on, or are you just that miserable?
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#108
TIL the Simpsons episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land," was written in response to new, stringent censorship laws that were being put in place at the time. Fox had tried to prevent the inclusion of Itchy and Scratchy cartoons in the show, prompting the writers to make the episode as violent as possible.
Francis 5 years ago
nope. it was in the mentioned simpsons episode, where bart is upset, that there are only "bort" name plates in the souvenire shop at itchy and scratchy land. "who's named bort anyway?" and another kid asked his mum if he gets one and the mum refuses with "no, come on now, bort". in an later episode you get a referene to this again and also there is a reference in futurama to this very old episode.
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#109
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
In what store do you have those hooks on the cart?... Oh, and I wash my reusable bags. So far, I've got five that have lasted about fifteen years.
Artoonist Corine 5 years ago
We are no longer allowed to bring in our own bags to any stores due to the recent COVID Pandemic.
#110
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
It's true. Here in Louisiana the bayou tours lure out the gators and get them to dance and snap for marshmallows.
kate h 5 years ago (edited)
I've seen this in person. Tour boat operators in Louisiana (and likely other places) "trained" the alligators to come with marshmallows so they'd surface. Once surfaced, they dangle raw chicken parts and the gators jump out of the water to get them. Tourists love watching this.
#111
Dave P 5 years ago
This is false. It was never seriously considered, and this myth was pushed by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1930's. Further by that time Japan was one of the biggest imperialistic powers in Asia, Japan only made public any of this as a means to prepare places like Indonesia to accept an eventual Japanese conquest
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
Yikes! That would have been bad. I like japanese culture, wouldn't want it to mix with the archaic laws of Islam and their nonsense mentality. I read how a man raped a women ,in response as a punishment they married that man's 10 year old daughter to to that women's 45yr old brother and the raped sis to be the 2nd wife of the man cause clearly she is damaged goods. god they r a horrible country. The general mentality is repulsive
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Dynein 5 years ago
I'm still fascinated by the life story of Hark Olufs, who was born in Amrum (small German island in the North Sea). As a teen he was abducted on a voyage and sold as a slave in Algeria, where he made a MASSIVE career, constantly gaining in responsibilities, which culminated in taking part in a military conquest (in a leadership role). As a reward for his efforts (and success) he was released - and chose to go back to Amrum, where he married a local woman and remained for the rest of his life... with everyone else there being highly suspicious of him. I feel incredibly sorry for that guy. He managed to turn around misfortune into success, and after his release he likely could have had a successful life in a more cosmopolitan city like Hamburg... but all he wanted was to live a "normal" life back home, when his adventurous life made it pretty much impossible to be truly accepted and trusted by the people there.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago (edited)
Today you learned: Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. The "horn" of the Narwhal isn't a horn at all, it's actually a weird, twisted tooth. You're welcome.
Patty Leaton 5 years ago
in the old days that's what they use to do for movie soundtrack ,household items
Dynein 5 years ago
I'm still fascinated by the life story of Hark Olufs, who was born in Amrum (small German island in the North Sea). As a teen he was abducted on a voyage and sold as a slave in Algeria, where he made a MASSIVE career, constantly gaining in responsibilities, which culminated in taking part in a military conquest (in a leadership role). As a reward for his efforts (and success) he was released - and chose to go back to Amrum, where he married a local woman and remained for the rest of his life... with everyone else there being highly suspicious of him. I feel incredibly sorry for that guy. He managed to turn around misfortune into success, and after his release he likely could have had a successful life in a more cosmopolitan city like Hamburg... but all he wanted was to live a "normal" life back home, when his adventurous life made it pretty much impossible to be truly accepted and trusted by the people there.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago (edited)
Today you learned: Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. The "horn" of the Narwhal isn't a horn at all, it's actually a weird, twisted tooth. You're welcome.
Patty Leaton 5 years ago
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