‘Today I Learned’: 50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School (New Pics)

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Slaveholders in the US knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that all enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.

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‘Today I Learned’: 50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School (New Pics)

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Til Elizabeth Blackwell Became The First Woman To Be Accepted At A Medical School In The Us, Because The Students Thought Her Application Was A Prank From A Rival School And Voted To Let Her Attend

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Til That Us President Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge Used To Buzz For His Secret Service And Then Would Hide Under His Desk While They Frantically Searched For Him

Til That Iceland Has Largest Banana Plantation In Europe. They Use Geothermal Energy To Heat Greenhouses, Allowing For The Production Of Tropical Fruits Like Bananas

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

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Til The People Of Africa Have More Genetic Diversity Than The Rest Of The World Combined

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Til That In 1989, The Buffalo Sabres Goalie Had His Neck Sliced By Another Players Skate, Severing His Carotid Artery, Resulting In So Much Blood Loss That It Caused Eleven Fans To Faint, Two More To Have Heart Attacks, And Three Players To Vomit On The Ice. His Life Was Saved By The Team Trainer

Til: The Discoverer Of Neutron (James Chadwick) Was A Student Of Discoverer Of Proton (E. Rutherford) Which In Turn Was A Student Of Discoverer Of Electron (J.J. Thomson)

Til That After Landing On The Moon During Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin Accidentally Damaged The Circuit Breaker That Would Arm The Ascent Engine That Would Get Them Off The Moon. The Astronauts Activated The Engine By Triggering The Circuit With A Felt-Tipped Pen

Til Nearly 8% Of The Human Genome Is Virus Dna. Meaning Some Of Our Ancestors Survived A Virus But Still Carry The Dna It Inserted

Til Eminem Broke The "Fastest Rap In A #1 Single" World Record Three Times In A Row - After Having Set The Record With 6.46 Words Per Second In "Rap God", He Then Broke It In "Majesty" At 6.5 Wps And Later Broke It Once Again By Rapping At 7.5 Wps In "Godzilla"

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Til The Danish Police Resisted Nazi Command So Fiercely That 1,960 Of Its 10,000 Police Members Were Arrested And Sent To Concentration Camps. Faced With Nazi Demands, The Danish Police Administration Was Inclined To Accepted Them, But The Police Organizations Refused, Leading To The Deportations

Til That "Shaun Of The Dead" Was Considering The Title "From Dusk Till Shaun." And That "Into The Spider-Verse" Has A "From Dusk Till Shaun" Movie Poster In The Background- Suggesting It Exists In A Parallel Universe

Til That Despite Increases In Computer Power, Each Shrek Film Has Taken About Twice As Many Hours To Render As The One Before It. Dreamworks Calls This "Shrek's Law"

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Til Robert Frost Couldn't Read The Poem He Wrote For John F. Kennedy's Inauguration Due To The Glare On The Snow Being Too Strong. So He Instead Recited One He Knew From Memory

Til That A Woman Experienced A Brazil Nut Allergy After The Allergen Was Passed To Her From Her Partner's Semen During Intercourse. The Researchers Believe This To Be The First Case Of A Sexually Transmitted Allergic Reaction

Til When The # And * Keys Were First Put On Phones They Had No Purpose Whatsoever And Were Only Included Because Touch Tone Phones Could Create Up To Twelve Tones

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Til In 2018 Nabisco Freed Its Animal Cracker Mascots From Their Cages, Changing A Box Design That Was Used Since 1902

Til There Is A 1,700 Year Old Ethiopian Counterpart Of The Rosetta Stone Called The Ezana Stone. The Inscription Commemorates Ethiopian Military Victories And Their Conversion To Christianity In Their Native Language Ge’ez, As Well As Ancient Greek And South Arabian Sabaen

Til Danny Devito Asks For A Trampoline In His Dressing Room And Uses It As Part Of His Warm-Up Routine

Til The Communal Chatter Of Snapping Shrimp Colonies On The Ocean Floor Created Enough White Noise That The U.S. Navy Successfully Hid Submarines Near Them During Wwii, Avoiding Detection By Underwater Japanese Hydrophones

Til The Beatles Were All Still In Their 20s When They Broke Up. George Harrison Was 26, Paul Mccartney Was 27, John Lennon Was 28, And Ringo Starr Was 29

Til Babylonians Were Using A Rudimentary Form Of Calculus To Calculate Jupiter’s Displacement Each Day Along The Ecliptic, The Path That The Sun Appears To Trace Through The Stars. Historians Had Thought Such Techniques Did Not Emerge Until More Than 1400 Years Later, In 14th Century Europe

Til When France Increased The Price Of Cigarettes By 66% Over An Eight-Year Period, The Smoking Rate Among French Executives And Professionals Declined. However, The Smoking Rate Among Manual Laborers Remained About The Same And Among The Unemployed, It Increased

Til In 1978, Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards Was Convicted Of Heroin Possession In Canada Where He Was Ordered By The Judge To Play A Benefit Concert At The Canadian National Institute For The Blind

Til A Man In Atlanta Confounded Doctors And Specialists For Over A Year With A Condition Which Did Not Respond To Any Therapies. After He Mentioned That He Played Clarinet In A Dixieland Jazz Band, Researchers Examined His Instrument And Discovered Exophiala Fungus Inside His Mouthpiece

Til In 2018 An Oregon Man Stole A Car In Front Of Deputies And LED Them On A 40-Mile Chase. When He Got Arrested, He Explained That He Had Taken Lsd And Thought He Was Living A Real-Life Version Of Grand Theft Auto

Til That The Medici Family Build A Elevated Walkway In Florence In 1565 Just To Avoid Contact With The Common People. They Even Connected It To Their Private Lodge At The Felicica Church And Moved The Ponte Vecchio Meat Market To Avoid The Smells

Til That Tolkien's Dislike Of Snow White LED Him To Prohibit The Disney Studio From Ever Producing His Works

Til That There's A Grocery Chain In The UK Called Iceland Foods That Once Pursued Legal Action Against Icelandic Companies That Use The Name Iceland In Their Names. Iceland Foods Was Founded In 1970, While The Country Iceland Was Established In 874

Til Of The CSI Effect. Due To Popular TV Shows Exaggerating The Capabilities And Techniques Of Forensic Science In Criminal Investigations, Many Jurors Have Begun To Demand A Greater Amount Of Evidence From The Prosecution During Trials, Raising The Standard Of Proof Needed For A Conviction

Til Mike Birbiglia Is A Diagnosed Sleepwalker Who Jumped Through A Second Story Window While Dreaming That A Missile Was About To Hit His Hotel. Birbiglia Restrains Himself By Sleeping In A Sleeping Bag And Wearing Mittens At Night

Til In 2001 A Chinese Steel Firm Purchased An Entire Shuttered Steel Mill From Germany For Its Scrap Price, Disassembled It, Shipped It Back To China, And Reassembled It. Production Was Resumed In Less Than Two Years

Til That The First Polish Encyclopaedia Included Such Definitions As "Horse: Everyone Knows What A Horse Is", And "Dragon: Dragon Is Hard To Overcome, Yet One Shall Try"

Til There Is A Diving Beetle Named After Stephen Colbert Because, According To The Naming Scientist, "Stephen Shamelessly Asked The Science Community To Name Something Cooler Than A Spider To Honor Him"

Til About The Craze Of Pet Rocks In 1975. For About 6 Months, They Sold Over One Million Pet Rocks For $4 Each. It Was Just A Rock In A Box With Some Straw And A Care Manual For Tricks To Teach. The Creator Had The Idea In A Bar As His Friends Complained About Their Pets

Til That There Is A Ancient Monument In Ireland Called Newgrange And Every Winter Solstice Its Chamber Is Illuminated For 17 Minutes By A Beam Of Light Which Reveals The Mysterious Carvings Within

Til After A Bite From The Inland Taipan, Your Muscles Start To Dissolve Into Your Blood. A Typical Cause Of Death Is Then Kidney Failure Because They Can Not Handle Processing All The Dissolved Muscle Tissue

Til Judge Judy Earns $47 Million A Year For Taping 'Judge Judy.' In An Interview She Said That Every 3 Years She Would Present Her Salary Request To The Cbs TV Distribution President. Once, When He Gave Her A Counter Offer In An Envelope, She Refused To Open It Saying "This Isn't A Negotiation"

Til After The Uss William D Porter Accidentally Fired A Torpedo At The Battleship Carrying President Roosevelt To The Tehran Conference During Wwii, Other Ships Began Greeting The Porter By Signaling "Don't Shoot, We're Republicans"

Til Of Georgi Dimitrov, An Influential Bulgarian Antifascists Communist. In 1933 He Was Arrested By Nazis Following The Reichstag Fire. He Refused Juridical Counsel, And His Defense And Conduct Became So Famous A Popular Saying Spread: "There Is Only One Brave Man In Germany, And He Is A Bulgarian"

Til Pole Dancing Became More Common During The Great Depression Since Traveling Performers Would Dance In Tents At This Time. Eventually, These Performers Began To Incorporate The Tent Pole Into Their Striptease Routines

Til That During The 1930's, Brothers Homer And Langley Collyer Filled Their House With Over 140 Tons Of Debris (Including Guns, Human Organs In Jars, And Fourteen Pianos) Which They Made Into A Booby-Trapped Maze. Langley Was Killed By One Of The Traps In 1947, And Homer, Unable To Escape, Starved

Til That Women Also Competed As Gladiators In Ancient Rome And There Is A Marble Relief Dating To Around The 2nd Century A.d. Depicting A Bout Between Two Women Dubbed “Amazon” And “Achillia,” Whom The Inscription Says Fought To An Honorable Draw

Til Wolverine Dads Often Visit Their Young Until They Reach 10 Weeks Of Age. Sometimes When The Young Reach 6 Months Of Age, They May Reconnect With Their Fathers And Travel Together For A Time

Til Sushruta, The First Known Plastic Surgeon Specialized In Rhinoplasty I.e. Nose Reconstruction. This Was Important In Ancient India As Convicted Criminals And Women Accused Of Adultry Had Their Noses Amputated As A Mark Of Untrustworthiness. Rhinoplasty Offered Them A Chance To Escape The Stigma