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30 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)
If you've been visiting Reddit for a while, you know a single click in the wrong direction can lead you to a terrible place. But communities like braincels aside, the site has been offering awesome content too.
Take the subreddit Today I Learned (TIL) for example. It's a place where users submit surprising yet totally legit facts to broaden each other's knowledge of the world.
Whether it's the everyday life of former presidents or the recreational use of x-rays in the 1890s, these guys constantly unearth something interesting.
If you're done scrolling and the list leaves you thirsty for more trivia, check out Bored Panda's earlier pieces on Today I Learned here, here, and here.
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#1
TIL in the anatomy building at Dalian Medical University, where medical student can practice on cadavers, there's a sign with a quote from a donor that reads "I’d rather let students try something 20 times on me than see them make one mistake on a future patient.”
N G 4 years ago
I'm leaving my body to science - why not, it's no good to me since I'll be dead, burial is a waste of land and cremation is polluting. Take out the bits that can prolong someone else's life and do what you like with the rest - I've finished with it!
Jill 4 years ago
Same here...I figured if Ive been teaching all my life, I might as well be teaching after my death!
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You'renotthebossame 4 years ago
My son received a kidney from a selfless donor who left this world. We are forever grateful for the gift that saved his life.
WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
That actually makes a lot of sense; if you practice on something that can’t die, you’re less likely to screw up on a living person; cause you will know what to do
Lisa Chambers 4 years ago
At some point in the near future, this will all be unnecessary. We are getting MEDBEDS!! Woot!
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#2
TIL that Muhammad Ali went to Iraq in 1990 against the then president George H.W. Bush's wishes and secured the release of 15 american citizen hostages held in Iraqi prisons, and brought them home.
Dave In MD 4 years ago
This just shows that Iraq saw an opportunity to embarrass a US president and went for it.
Anne 4 years ago
If that means 15 humans were released to their homeland.. I don't mind.
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Leesquee 4 years ago
Ali or Bush? Ali? Hell NO, he's a LEGEND. HWBush? Well, YEAH, he's a tool.
Load More Replies... Lisa Chambers 4 years ago
GHW Bush was never going to do the right thing. He wanted war, war makes his friends very VERY wealthy.
Nadine 4 years ago
All these presidents have brought nothing but doom and destruction for our region. The day human wins is the day when we separate monkey making killing machineries and industries from politics.
Coffeecat 4 years ago
Actually, Abraham Lincoln was in the republic party
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#3
TIL 30 years ago a tank crushed a small red car in Osijek, Croatia, as a show of force. In 2011 a monument was built: a tiny red car, crushing a tank.
#4
TIL Graça Machel was married to the President of Mozambique until he died in a plane crash, she later married Nelson Mandela while he was President of South Africa. She is the only person in modern history to be First Lady of two different countries.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
You can literally say " today i learned that TIL means today i learned"🙂
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#5
TIL that some hikers and researchers have spotted wild birds swearing. It is belived that birds that escaped from captivity teach other wild birds how to speak and swear in English.
WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
LOL imagine a bird just flying by and just going “càssetoi” and moving on 😂
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#6
TIL a defibrillator doesn't restart a stopped heart. In fact quite the opposite, it actually stops a heart in the middle of a cardiac event, allowing the heart’s natural back-up system to take over and return it to normal sinus rhythm.
N G 4 years ago
The clue (if you're into medical terminology) is in the name. When the heart goes into ventricular fibrillation (the fib part of defib) it's wobbling like a jelly and not able to beat or contract properly to pump the blood. A defib interrupts the wobble signal. (Yes, I've mixed medical terminology with the layman's version - ventricular wobbles! - but sometimes it helps)
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
This needs spreading more, I already knew this and films CONSTANTLY get it completely wrong!
SykesDaMan 4 years ago
I think it's the movies and TV shows that created this myth. Coincidentally, yesterday I watched a show where it was said something in the lines of "her heart is fibrillating, let's do so and so.." and I was impressed . The Show is Invincible, episode 5 I think... Yeah, a cartoon, but still.
alwaysMispelled 4 years ago
There are only two shockable rhythms, vfib and pulseless vtach. That's why chest compressions are so important 1) to continue to circulate blood/oxygen to vital organs, and 2) to get a not-beating heart to start beating. Once you get the heart beating again you'll hopefully be able to shock it into normal rhythm.
Akos Fabian 4 years ago
Although the points about chest compressions are valid, neither of the shockable rhythms produce a pulse or heartbeat. Therefore you don't get the heart beating and then shock it into normal rhythm, you shock the heart to get it into a rhythm that will then produce contractions.
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Woets 4 years ago
It will only give a shock when the heart fibrillates, you can not randomly shock people. Using it inappropriately is therefore quite impossible. Is there a heartbeat? No shock. Is there a flat line? Dead, so also no shock.
Load More Replies... Amina Hays 4 years ago
Oh man, thank you! I hate it when medical things are done incorrectly in films and television. Another one that annoys me is when actors use an inhaler completely wrong.
Larry Davis 3 years ago
And that's why defibrillating a heart that's already at a complete standstill (asystole) won't restore a heartbeat. Thankfully, the AEDs so common today knows the difference and won't fire.
Robert Robi Z 4 years ago
Defibrilator stops the heart fibrilating (trembling). Then they try to make it work properly by heart massage.
abby smink 4 years ago (edited)
I did learn that in school, actually. Lol. It basically resets a heart that's in a wonky rythm.
SoulMan80 4 years ago
Last time I checked, the heart was on the left side. Isn't the woman in the picture compressing the other side?!
abby smink 4 years ago
It's actually right in the middle, kinda tilted (not really sure that's the word I'm looking for.) The person is actually using the heel of the hands, as your supposed to, just looks like they're over the right because that's where the fingers are.
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TIL Goku from DBZ in Japan is voiced by an 84 year old woman, who holds world records for her long-running voice acting career
Kira Okah 4 years ago
She is 84 now.Still VAing. Last time she VAd Goku was last year in a Shonen Jump video game, stll going strong!
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Is quite a common practicing in voice acting (in many parts of the world) to have women voice the per-adolescent boys. Edward and Alphonse from the popular anime, Fullmetal Alchemist were also voiced by women. The infamous part Simpson is also voiced by a woman.
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Kira Okah 4 years ago
This was taken when she got her record at a guess, back in 2016.
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cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
In France too it's a woman who make the voices of a lot of young kids, she's now 72 and recently made the voice of Gon in HunterHunter and Leo in One Piece. She made A LOT!Goldorak, Ulysse31, Tom Sawyer, Remi nobody's boy, The mysterious cities of Gold, Ken the survivor and of course Dragon ball and many young boys in tv series and films like Brand New life or Arnold and Willie (Arnold), or Jason Bateman in Little house on the prairie... She's a true childhood hero, her name is Jackie Berger, and she's also adorable. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Berger#S%C3%A9ries_d'animation
JP Doyle 4 years ago
Krillin is also voiced by a woman, the same actress that voiced him as a child in the original Dragonball. It was so funny watching the Japanese versions of DBZ when it was finally made available in the US, because adult Goku and Kirillin both still sounded like little boys.
#8
TIL a legend goes that during the Thirty Years' War, a Catholic army wanted to destroy Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Germany for resisting the Count of Tilly. Tilly declared that if anyone could drink a 3.25 L drink of wine in one go, he would spare the town. The local mayor saved the town that day.
Nubis Knight 4 years ago
The City is in Bavaria so I bet on the beer-story.
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Darth Balos 4 years ago
Not really relevant but I'm just wondering if this photo looks similar to a Counterstrike map
Renate Stargardt 4 years ago
It's a funny, but made up story. Although the city hosts a wine festival every year, to celebrate this (non-existent) event. According to the motto: There is always a reason to celebrate ... you just have to find one.
#9
TIL in 2018, an electrical engineer on board the Bellingshausen Research station in Antartica stabbed a fellow coworker in the chest multiple times because the colleague had been giving away the endings of books available in the research station’s library.
Ick Villiams 4 years ago
Lmao, what was wrong with that guy? Never mind. Problem solved. Heh heh.
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Neil Bidle 4 years ago
You imagine being locked away from all humanity for months or even years at a time, with only your books to read, not even Bored Panda!!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I have a spoiler for you and it ain't good....*stabs repeatedly*
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Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago
I would have done it after the second time, the first might be a genuine mistake but two is a definitely intentional and deserved what they got
#10
TIL when the UN's Nordic Battalion was sent to Bosnia in 1993 it disobeyed orders, broke rules of engagement, faked loss of communication to HQ, and became known as one the most trigger-happy peacekeeper units. This enabled them to achieve their mission objective: to protect civilians at all cost.
Nisse Danielsson 4 years ago
It was a Swedish battalion, lead by Senior Colonel Henriksson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Henricsson
Jill 4 years ago
I like the fact that the battalion also worked with a Danish tank company and a Norwegian field hospital as well. Something tells me that if it had been any other countries, he wouldnt have been able to do all this.
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Dave P 4 years ago
During Rwanda the head of the Peacekeepers there, a Canadian General, begged the UN to allow his troops to intervene, instead they were ordered to watch and observe and only interfere under certain circumstances. The soldiers watched massacred and rapes and were not allowed to do anything. The UN is borderline useless.
Jace 4 years ago
Probably has something to do with “sovereignty” politics.
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Serial pacifist 4 years ago
I am from Bosnia. Thank you guys ❤. It was great that they decided to do their job instead of serving as manequins of impotent politicians who just sent them to appease the public and look like they were doing something.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Good for them - doing right instead of following the idiotic politicians.
Ick Villiams 4 years ago
A TIL was never more deserving as this one of a more detailed explanation got-damn-eet
#11
TIL that FDR's White House served notoriously terrible meals. First Lady Eleanor wanted to set an example for the country during the Depression by serving economical meals made from scraps
Eslamala 4 years ago
Back when politicians and their families actually served their countries, unlike now, where the whole country serves them.
Dave P 4 years ago
It was just the first lady, the more and more we learn about FDR the worse he becomes. On the other hand the more and more we learn about Elinor, the greater the woman she is
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The Dave 4 years ago
That wouldn't happen now. The government is no longer "by the people, for the people."
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Some Depression cooking can be quite good. Check out the YT channel "Great Depression Cooking" with the lovely Clara.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
But economical meals don't have to taste horrid. A pinch of salt, some garlic or herbs... unless she was boiling everything together with the laundry, it's pretty hard to eff up a cheap meal.
Lynn Morello 4 years ago
Can't beat Trumpy with his spread of McDonalds luncheon for his first mass dinner.
#12
TIL the first Soviet citizen to visit the White House was a female WWII sniper with 309 confirmed kills, one of which was a sniper she dueled for 3 days.
Shelp 4 years ago
IIRC more than 1 million women fought in the Red Army during WW2, making it the most feminized army at that time.
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
They had a whole female bomber regiment, the 588th night bomber regiment. Every member of that regiment was a woman, from logistics over pilots to the officers. They got called "Night Witches" due to the tactic of gliding in silently before starting the engine of their PO-2s again after the attack
Load More Replies... AdamKingXV 4 years ago
Maybe of she got more kills we'd remember her name. Oh look, 10 seconds of Googling found it: it's Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
Thank you. It's fool how we all know the names of male humans while in other case always we read "a women" or even "a female". We can change it, all together, please.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Lyudmila Pavlichenko met with the Eisenhowers in 1942. She was serving in the war, and was sent to gain US support for Lenin's battles on "the Eastern front". She and first lady Mamie Eisenhower became good friends during her time in the US. The press would ask the girl about makeup and hair, but she was a staunch soldier, and replied wittily to their frivolous questions. "Who has time to powder their nose when there is a battle?" She was a women's rights advocate merely by being herself.
Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
well.. what can i say.. Slavic woman :) ... I learned about many stories from medieval history of my region, for a lot of times women was left at home alone with elders and children, and they have been able to fight off bandits on their own... There is a story about woman in 18th. century, than killed a bear by herself by an axe... go girls!
Russell Bowman 4 years ago
"Bitva za Sevastopol" (Battle for Sevastopol) 2015 ... depressingly good movie
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The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
If only th rest of the Red Army could have been this great. Instead they chose to rape and pillage their way through a country that had already been ravaged by the Nazis, giving little regard to circumstance or even age of their victims. 😡
J. F. 4 years ago
Also the devasting command structure didn't help them. The Wehrmacht often gets blamed for the high number of fatalities - the major part played Stalin by executing a majority of the experienced officers in fear of a conspiracy among them and replacing them with loyal but inexperienced ones. Best example for the failure of "Ideology before skill"
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Sunshine Sunshine 4 years ago
What a human! https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko
PandaMonium 4 years ago
That's one of my favorite Drunk History episodes! Here's a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqi396loWt4
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#13
TIL British banknotes increase in size as they increase in value to help blind people tell them apart
David Royal 4 years ago
Shouldn't this read: TIL American banknotes are one of few currencies that dont increase in size as they increase in value.
Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
the czech crouns also have this.. we also have a little bumb in the paper by the value to help them
Victor Botha 4 years ago
In South Africa, the sizes change the higher the denomination and so do the colours
Dream SMP & Cosplaying 4 years ago
In Australia, each note ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100) is larger than the one before and has Braille. They are also made of a sustainable (I think) plastic and are all different colours
Jennifer .S 4 years ago
The brits changed our money system to be like this a few years ago. We now also have plastic notes with braille on them now
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Radek Suski 4 years ago
There are lot of others currencies doing it for the same reason. Even coins do haver different size and shape of the rim. Also markings on bills that can be recognised by touch
#14
TIL as a prank, a man once climbed Mount Hood in the middle of the night and surreptitiously left a morning newspaper and a quart of milk for his friends, who were spending the night on the summit
Troux 4 years ago
There was an even better story from 1974 where a guy climbed a dormant volcano in Sitka, Alaska several times over four years to throw old tires in there, then lit them up on April Fool's Day so the whole town panicked as the volcano started smoking.
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Martin König 4 years ago
Please explain the "middle of the night" and "morning newspaper" in one sentence, if the hike takes 4-7 hours, thanks!
#15
TIL that energy consumption in the UK is around the same as the 1970s, due to more efficient appliances and domestic solar technology
James016 4 years ago
I saw a huge difference when I replaced my 11 year old TV with a new one a couple of years ago. We have an old smart meter which can't report back but still works. Very noticeable difference on the usage graph.
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
Used my smart meter to determine that my NAS was not hibernating properly. Whilst 30W might not sound like much, when it is on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, that amounts to almost 263 kWh! This is why they made such a big thing about not leaving old TVs on standby, as they didn't de-energise the tube. Later ones would do this automatically after a set period of time.
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Peter Hughes 4 years ago
Since 2004, our population has risen by over 10% but our CO2 emissions have cut by over 30%
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
Not in the UK, but the first time I replaced my HVAC (Seer 4 rating) with a modern (at the time) one with a Seer 14 rating, it paid for itself in lower power bills in about 2 years.
Lisa Chambers 4 years ago
Wasn't it the 70's though when everyone started getting on that energy saving thing? I remember the speed limits were set at 55 to help with more efficient fuel consumption and the President even told everyone to keep their AC on 78.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
Not sure why solar is mentioned here. Solar is just another energy source. It helps reduce use of fossil fuels, but it doesn't contribute to reducing TOTAL energy consumption.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
It seems to be true: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-24823641
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#16
TIL that in 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by throwing it in the river. Since the wooden statue floated, they declared it guilty and burned it.
Adam Belaire 4 years ago
I recall reading somewhere that the wheat was mouldy or something to the point where everyone was basically high all the time and saw crazy stuff all around them.
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thatmagicgaychick 4 years ago
They must have found a newt near the statue
Load More Replies... Shelp 4 years ago
And then, some time later, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden and Russia all attacked the country at once. Maybe burning that statue wasn't a good idea after all.
Rolands Majors 4 years ago
I agree that burning the statue wasn't good idea, but the rest of the information is not correct. :)
Load More Replies... Michigan Guy 4 years ago
were they drinking, trying to save their town from the Count of Tilly?
#17
TIL Denmark received a week's notice to get a team ready for Euro Cup in 1992, to replace Yugoslavia as it was disqualified due to the Yugoslav Wars. Less than a month later, the underdogs were champions.
Scagsy 4 years ago (edited)
Peter Schmeichel once called me a 'f*****g w@nker' when I was a ballboy for Sheffield Wednesday in the 90s. At this point I feel duty-bound to point out that I am a Leeds Utd fan and we 'enjoy' a fierce rivalry with Schmeichel's Man Utd. So the ball goes out and I retrieve it. Schmeichel walks over with his hand out and I offer him the ball. Just as he reaches out to take it, I drop it on the floor. Classic a$$hole move. He was livid. And sweary! lol
Carsten Petersen 4 years ago
Later the danes even made a movie about it :-D https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2378830/
#18
TIL in 1948, Milwaukee burger chain George Webb’s said they would give free hamburgers if the local baseball team won 12 games in a row. Since then it’s only happened twice: in 1987, and 2018. They honored the promise and gave out hundreds of thousands of free burgers.
#19
TIL that in 1929, determined to prove his hypothesis, Werner Frossman tricked a nurse, inserted a catheter through his own arm, and walked with the inserted tube to an x-ray lab to photograph his discovery, thereby inventing cardiac catheterization and winning a Nobel Prize for it later.
Alexi M 4 years ago
He was supposed to do the experiment on her arm (which was the agreement they had in exchange for her help) but he just pretended to do the operation on her while actually doing it on himself.
Load More Replies... alwaysMispelled 4 years ago
Holy shitballs!! Cardiac caths are so crucial and common nowadays!! (I'm a cardiac nurse)
N G 4 years ago
It's unethical to perform medical trials on other people, but absolutely fine to do it on yourself. The man who discovered ulcers arent caused by stress did exactly the same thing (not sure about the Nobel bit)
Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren, two Australian researchers who discovered the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and deciphered its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005. They reported their discovery in1982 but it was not readily accepted. Marshall infected himself with the bacteria in 1985 to help prove that that the disease was an infection and could be treated with antibiotics.
Load More Replies... Tami 4 years ago (edited)
I had a catheter ablation to fix an electrical problem in my heart. Really cool procedure that's done while you're fully conscious, so you can see the probes moving around in an image of your heart. Improved the quality of my life immensely. Thank you Werner Frossman!
#20
TIL The Brothers Grimm, being from a lower class, were excluded from university admission & tuition aid due to being poor. But upon publishing their 1st volume of 86 folk tales, they received honorary doctorate degrees from universities in Berlin, Marburg, & Wrocław.
Suzy the observer 4 years ago
The F... did I just read??? Is help not for the poor?
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Well, their surname fits - they look pretty grim to me! (Standing still for as long as it took for those old timey cameras to do their thing will do that to a person).
Amina Hays 4 years ago
I never understood the point of an honorary degree, can someone explain?
Potato 4 years ago
IIRC, it means you've learned the subject through experience and performance rather than from a classroom. Sort of "here's proof that I taught myself."
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Marieta Nancheva 4 years ago
That is not completely true. They have written the first dictionary of German language
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
I don't think I would have accepted their honorary degrees. They could keep them!
#21
TIL It is quite common for older homes to have piles of razor blades in their walls.
MauKini 4 years ago (edited)
They used to habe a slot in the bathroom walls where you could dispose of used razor blades. Fun fact: they just built up in the wall. Since they were so small and the space between the walls huge and hollow, they just didn't bother.
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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago (edited)
It is quite common in the US due to urbanization post WW2. Performing electrical work on bathrooms in urban area homes. Hundreds and hundreds of them.
JessG 4 years ago
Not sure which "Why" to answer, so here ya go: --Because they disposed of them through a slot in the medicine cabinet (rather than the garbage fir safety reasons) then never took them out of the wall. --Because razor blades get dull and you frequently need to replace them --Because people used them (some still do) to shave with
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Potato 4 years ago
There are many comments already posted above that explain, and have been there for over a day.
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TIL about Acclimatisation Societies. Groups of people from the 19th century that would purposely introduce exotic species to new places. They are responsible for massive ecological disasters.
Eslamala 4 years ago
The worse part is some scientists still do this to this day. A notable one were some american scientists who inserted beavers in the chilean patagonia a while ago... The beavers messed up the ecosystem, and it's still ruined to this day, with no consequences for the bright minds who thought that would be a good idea.
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Or the bright spark who shipped cane toads to Australia to solve the cane beetles... didn't eat a single beetle, but ruining ecologies wherever they go and still spreading with no idea how to stop them
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cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
And not only animals, this was a human disaster too. Exotic species of HUMANS were also on display. In the Parisian Jardin d 'acclimatation, more than 35 human displays between 1877 and 1937, and they were common in a lot of acclimatisation zoos all across Europe. Kanaks, Africans, Indians...they were presented as exotic wild species. Inhabitants of the Land of Fire (south Chile and Argentina) on display in 1889. aclimatati...6f0168.jpg 
Tiny Dog 4 years ago
A group of 100 starlings was released in New York in 1890. They now number almost 200 million and are the most abundant bird in the country. They complete with native species and destroy crops. I just wish the folks that thought it was such a great idea back then could see what they’ve done.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
And 2 centuries later, people are still talking about terraforming Mars by introducing Earth microbes and plants.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I'd like to personally thank (with a club) whoever introduced Chinese bittersweet to New England. The only way to get rid of it is to cut the vine, then dab the cut end with a serious herbicide like Roundup. (Other than this, I don't use herbicides at all on my property. But the bittersweet would take over, winding its insidious vines around native trees and plants and killing them.)
Anke Dieken 4 years ago
Uuugh that's so horrible. We've got Canadian goose in Germany which are obviously not native. They hav no natural enemies here and reproduce a lot. They are aggressive when they have young ones and pollute parks literally with their sh*t. Worse than dog poo in some places and that is bad enough.
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
A lot of people just can't leave well enough alone. They think they know best.
#23
TIL Disney's Fireworks use pneumatic launch technology, developed for Disneyland as required by CA's South Coast AQMD. This uses compressed air instead of gunpowder to launch shells into the air. This eliminates the trail of the igniting firework and permits tight control over height and timing.
Sara G 4 years ago
When did they start doing that? I went to Disney world in Florida in 2005, and watched the fireworks kill ducks on the lake. It was awful.
Jane W. 4 years ago
Disney only considers Disney. All else that gets in the way is crushed.
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#24
TIL capybaras, the largest extant rodent, have adapted well to urbanization in South America, and they can be found in many urban parks and lakes. Capybaras are quite docile and often allow humans to pet them though it is discouraged as the mammals' ticks can carry the Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
J. F. 4 years ago
A lot of animals adapt to urban areas - there are a lot of foxes running around in cities here in Germany. Cute little beggars ^^
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
OoO I think everybody knows by now that I am obsessed with foxes, so please bRiNg Me To ThE fOxEs!!!
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Jill 4 years ago (edited)
It's not all that uncommon for schools in Japan (who teach about animals) to have one. I actually got to touch and interact with one while I lived there for a year or so.
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Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
But RMSF is transmitted by tick bites (or contact with tick saliva), so how would petting them be a problem??
Anne 4 years ago
Ticks may think they like the petting human more than the capybara and then you could get bitten.
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Lisa Chambers 4 years ago
We call them nutrias in New Orleans. They are swamp animals and can go under water for long periods of time.
Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
While living on Seattle WA I saw cayotes and raccoons in the city. Plenty of food and places to hide out. The coons loved to chow down on cat food that people put out on their porches.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago (edited)
We're doing wildlife surveys in L.A. Someone submitted a photo of what does appear to be a capybara strutting thru a local park!
#25
TIL nearly all French wine grapes are grown on vines grafted to root stock from Missouri. in the 1860s, phylloxera bugs threatened to destroy the vineyards, but roots from the US were resistant. Hundreds of thousands were shipped in and used to save the French vines.
Jace 4 years ago
The only effort they put out on this site is censoring “bad” words... doing so inconsistently, and censoring words that aren’t profane.
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Seabeast 4 years ago
What this doesn't mention is that the pest came from North America to begin with.
Dave P 4 years ago
via the French in the 1700's who brought it from their American Colonies. Grapes native to North America were resistant to the bug, so they grafted to save the french vines
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Seán Baron 4 years ago
Actually no. The vines that were in the US all came from Europe anyway. They just made sure they brought back like for like.
Load More Replies... bill marsano 4 years ago
That is true for all of Europe. Phylloxera was native to the US and was traveled to Europe on imported American rootstock by (it was eventually learned) a single vineyardist in southern France. American native vines were resistant and had to ber imported to save the European wine sector. Phylloxera was the reason Thomas Jefferson failed in his many attempts to grow European wine grapes in Virginia.
bill marsano 4 years ago
Actually, they saved almost ALL of Europe's vineyards. The phylloxera got to Europe in the first place on rootstock imported from the U.S.--it was native to this country and is the reason Thomas Jefferson's failed in his attempts to grow French grapes in Virginia.
Marvin HoG 4 years ago
Those would be root beer floats, a popular summer treat. The ones pictured are way more fancy than the A&W with generic vanilla ice cream we had as kids.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
California vines were also sent. The Spanish missions had vinyards, and after a few hundred years, the vines were resistant to the disease. Gold miners enjoyed the wine. When the disease, caused by aphids, hit France, vignerons went to California and grafted their vines, thus saving several types of "French wine".
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
That's very common in many farming fields, even for Oyster for example. 90% of our Oysters actually have Japanese roots, in the 70's the french ones were dying. Japanese Oyster farmers sended us Oysters tinybabies. So when they were hit with the Tsunami we send them what they call the "France O-kaeshi" :The gift in return (money and materials). That's quite common in agricultural fields, the solidarity is very strong.
SJM 4 years ago
A good wine has nothing to do with the strain of grapes (since its the same few, used all over the world). Its the soil, weather and mixing of strains.
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TIL about the Tarantula Hawk, which has a sting that causes "...immediate, excruciating, unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except scream."
Louise B 4 years ago (edited)
Coincidentally, ten minutes of me attempting small talk at a party has the same effect on people 🤔
lunanoire 4 years ago
I tried to hit one to save a tarantula( they lay eggs in the live tarantula they paralyze with their venom) and was stung instead. I couldn't move my arm for about 20-25 minutes. It's a searing pain but goes away in about that time. Never will try that again but it did give me bragging rights for stupidity or bravery depending on one's view. Lol.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Stupidity and bravery usually have a bit of each other in them. How bad was the pain, on a 1-10 scale? (1=mosquito bite, 10 = wanting to blow you head off to escape the pain.)
Load More Replies... J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
The sting has the highest rating on the pain scale for insect stings. Fallout New Vegas trained me well in avoiding those if I ever see one ^^
CultOfBambi 4 years ago
Cazador venom is great to collect and sell to build up cash - 75 caps a pop. Just wait til you level up a bit, get decent armour and upgrade your hunting rifle, take Ed-E along as your companion and Bob's your uncle! I had wondered what insect they were based on.
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Black Karen 4 years ago
Celine Dion is sitting on a mountain of millions in her many mansions and dgaf what you think lol.
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Jonathan 4 years ago
Luckily we just midges here in Scotland (like small mosquitos onky more annoying)
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Ugh, good ol' midge season. They always end up my nose or flying in my mouth while trekking or camping. At least they don't sting...
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TIL that in 1923, a man petitioned to change his surname from Kabotchnik to Cabot. Several members of the Cabot family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Boston society, sued to stop him, but the judge ruled against them because there was “nothing in the law to prevent it.”
Kevin Harford 4 years ago
There is a Cabot family in Fallout 4 which takes place in Boston. I now know where they came up with the idea for that family.
Kallen Kneeland 4 years ago
Old saying about the high society families from my long ago youth: Boston - where the Cabots speak only to Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to God.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
There's an old saying in Boston: The Lowells talk only to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to god.
#28
TIL of "Janet" Airlines, a secret, full-service airline that carries military and contractor employees to sites such as Area 51.
Emily Ashley 4 years ago
The fleet's "Janet" call sign is said to stand for "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal", "Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation", or a combination of two acronyms JAN (Joint Army Navy) & ET (Extra Terrestrial).
Robert T 4 years ago
Any of those could be true. Any old IT people in the UK will remember JANET as the Joint Academic NETwork, which was a precursor to the Internet, along with ARPANET and others.
Load More Replies... Dave P 4 years ago
1) The CIA owns at least 1 cargo charter airline we know of (well they sold it when the story broke), and are beleived to own 2 charter cargo and 1 charter commercial airline, they both make money for the CIA which goes into the black budget, but also gives them the ability to transport people and things in secret. 2) Area 51 is a decommissioned airforce testing facility, they even have a private rent-a-cop security company doing most of the security there. It is where they tested the SR71 and the F117, among other planes
Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
Successor to the secret CIA airlines Air America and Southern Air Transport used in the secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia in the 1970's.
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
Piss...you know they're ferrying the E.T.s between Area 51 and all the best vacation spots around the world.
#29
TIL that when a plane was hijacked over Switzerland in 2014, the neighboring countries of Italy and France had to send their own fighter jets to the scene because the incident happened outside of the Swiss Air Force's business hours, and even hijackings weren't important enough to pay for overtime.
hobbitly 4 years ago
Really you love this? Imagine being in a hijacked plane and then the country you are flying above is like 'nah, were good, let someone else fix it'.
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Business hours?! Was it even a Swiss plane that was hijacked? Guess not if it was flying after business hours? I think I need more explanation.
Iris Engler 4 years ago
More then enough but unfortunately it doesn't change the office times of those idiots
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TIL many whiskeys in the saloons of the Old West contained added Strychnine, a lethal poison. Diluted Strychnine was thought to have curative effects, a belief reinforced by the fact that in many towns the poisoned whiskey was still safer to drink than the local available water.
Sabs 4 years ago
They used to serve a drink called rattle snake shot, which had strychnine in it, it would cause the drinker to go into a stupor and become catatonic (rigid body like a mannequin) and topple over. If you survived you were considered a tough cowboy.
María Hermida 4 years ago
This is the ultimate proof that human beings have always been idiotic.
Load More Replies... Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago
Added soap (which had lye and other nasty inedible products) to whiskey was sold to Native American Indians for a time, because the consumers thought that if the whiskey did not make them sick, it was no good.
#31
TIL of "Psychogenic death" - when a person gives up on life mentally and dies usually within days. The phenomenon occurs when someone experiences a trauma they feel they cannot escape, and the person views death as their only option.
Dippin Dot 4 years ago
I’m pretty sure this is what happened to my grandma. Grandpa died 4/1/18, and she found out her cancer was back on 4/6. She wanted to go to hospice and die but only after his funeral on 4/7. She died 4/8.
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
The mind is a powerful thing, it can save people from wounds that should kill them, or it can kill seemingly healthy people!
Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
Immigrants from Haiti, living far from their native land, have been found with no apparent cause. These have been called "voodoo death", a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear. Cannon was a physiologist who studied stress responses and hormones.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
If my wife goes before me this will happen to me, luckily the odds are on me going first, which is good because she will be just fine, me on the other hand, no thank you.
#32
TIL that in the 1890s, X-Rays were used extensively as entertainment. People could even buy or build their own X-ray apparatus for use at home. Many who popularized the technology developed cancer, suffered amputations, or died.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Well, with or without they would all have died --- they were adults 130y ago.
LuckyL 4 years ago
I can see the fun in it. Just like a photo booth, just with skeletons in funny poses
Load More Replies... Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
I was born n 1943. Many shoe stores back then had x-ray fluoroscopes that you stood on and looked down to see how your feet looked in the shoes you tried on. The x-ray beam was coming right up at your groin area! If you did this often enough I would worry about fertility problems. During WWII women that put radium paint of the luminous dials of aircraft instruments got cancer later because they "tipped" the points of the little paint brushes with their tongues. Radium is absorbed into the bones, puts out gamma rays and has a half life of 1600 years. Very dangerous. The isotopic decay product Radon is a radioactive gas. Also very dangerous. While living in Montana (1980's) you could still visit old uranium mines and sit inside to breathe in Radon as some sort of quack therapy.
#33
TIL that American surgeon William Beaumont, the "Father of Gastric Physiology", researched human digestion by putting pieces of food on a string and poking them through an old gunshot wound in his handyman's stomach. He pulled it out on regular intervals to check on how well it had been digested.
Kim kim 4 years ago
The handyman's name was Alexis St. Martin. For over 10 years, he had an estimated total of 200 experiments done to him. He was shot when he was 22 years old and lived until the age of 86 without having his stomach closed.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 4 years ago
He died at 78 and how did he live that long w/out any Infection or anything 🤔
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Crystal Hudgeons 4 years ago
Reminds me of this practice... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow
#34
TIL that home teams in basketball wear white uniforms because the home team had access to laundry facilities. By wearing grey or another dark color the visiting team was better able to conceal the stains that had accumulated on their uniforms over the course of the series.
magnadar 4 years ago
Where is the "sportsgeist" in this? No access to laundry for the guest team? :(
Dave P 4 years ago
Probably something from a long time ago that has now stuck around
Load More Replies... Seán Baron 4 years ago
Basketball Fun Fact: after its invention, at games there would be a man with a ladder who's job it was to retrieve the ball from the basket. It wasn't until 30 years later did someone think about cutting a hole at the bottom of the basket.
Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
That's correct. The original basket was in fact a tapered wooden peach basket.
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Kevin Harford 4 years ago
Because football teams play one game a week. They go home and take care of their uniforms.
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TIL that Alexender Graham Bell tried to eliminate American sign language and deaf schools in the U.S because he was afraid of a deaf race emerging from it.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
He had a deaf wife and mother I believe, it wasn't done with the evil intention that is sort of presented here.
Eslamala 4 years ago
As awful as it is for us now, back then, society in general didn't care about people with disabilities, and it was rather normal to abandon or send away kids with any kind of disability... For the morons who can't read: I'm not saying it's ok. It's just that societies evolve and usually learn from the mistakes previous generations made, mainly because of ignorance.
VidaLife 4 years ago
I feel like morons was a little unwarranted but whatever gets your point across I guess
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
He also examined sheep nipples to encourage breeding of multiple lambs. He bought every ewe with more than 2 teats, and started breeding. Although many breeds with 2 regular teats are able to have as many as 6 lambs, and twins are quite common. And even a single lamv could require intervention if the ewe doesn't want it!
GirlFriday 4 years ago
He wanted the deaf eliminated. He was afraid if deaf people met at school and had children there would be a race of deaf people.
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TIL in 1947 a woman with hives went to Johns Hopkins to cure her hives. She received an experimental drug Compund 1694 and not only her hives cleared up she reported that her trolly rides were free from nausea. Doctors immediately test the drug for motion sickness and Compund 1694 became Dramamine.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
Okay, TROLLY, a vehicle. I was reading that as "troll-y" regarding a troll and could not figure out what a trolly ride was.
#37
TIL Kurt Russell was a civilian pilot who reported a formation of lights over Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, and yet didn't learn until years later that he had in fact witnessed one of the most famous UFO sightings in history, known as the Phoenix Lights
Mars Lander 4 years ago
Ummm... this is inaccurate. The Phoenix Lights were spotted North over Squaw Peak/Piestewa Mountain headed towards Sky Harbor but they were never near the airport.
#38
TIL that forest fires in Germany can detonate unexploded bombs left from WWII, putting firefighters at risk
JuJu 4 years ago
We have so much of those bombs lying around in forests and cities. I got evacuated around Christmas 2019 2 times because of the same building site (and it won't have been the last time)
Sebastian Richter 4 years ago
They found one here in Ansbach just yesterday. Luckily my appartement was out of the evacuation zone. Also 2nd time in about 1y.
Load More Replies... J. F. 4 years ago
We also have a forrest near the french border with sub-terrain depots of chemical weapons which is still a lethal hazard
Laugh or not 4 years ago
And even more dangerous ones in the sea near our coasts, where the army dumped tons of bombs because they didn't know what to do with them and now they are leaking.
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#39
TIL about the hunter-gatherer practice of "Insulting the Meat." To keep the best hunters from thinking themselves above the rest of the tribe, Ju/’hoan people insult the quality of the meat and lightheartedly mock the hunter who brought the animal down. The bigger the kill, the greater the insults.
Shelp 4 years ago
Peer pressure exists in all societies. It's the Inuit, if I remember correctly, who had a tradition of forcing the best hunters and fishers to sing children songs in a counterfeit childish voice, also to keep them from thinking themselves above the rest of the tribe. I think Max Weber wrote about that.
#40
TIL Before elevators, the 2nd floor of buildings were the most sought after because you didn't have to walk up a lot of stairs and you were above the street level, avoiding all the noises and smells. It's why a lot of older buildings have larger/nicer rooms on the second floor.
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#41
TIL that when a male fruit fly is sexually rejected by a female fruit fly, it will seek out more alcohol than those that have successfully mated.
Pumpkin Spice 4 years ago
No, some male humans will make the woman seek alcohol until they can mate.
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#42
TIL In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These 'Mammoth Bone Huts' dating back some 15,000 years were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built by humans
#43
TIL As a teenager Patrick Stewart worked as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer. However after a year his employer gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism. Stewart had been attending rehearsals during work time and then inventing the stories he reported.
#44
TIL Bears in Yellowstone can eat up to 40,000 moths a day
Tonya Wallace 4 years ago
Have you tried camphor tablets? Or cedar chips. They smell better than mothballs.
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Catlady6000 4 years ago
Did they mean all the bears or each individual bear. Post needs clarification
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#45
TIL when Stephen Colbert was younger he wanted to be a marine biologist, but surgery left him deaf in one ear and without a right eardrum. The removal of his eardrum meant he could no longer scuba dive without complications, thus ending pursuit of his dream and allowing his career in comedy instead.
Lotus Flower 4 years ago
We’re both deaf in the right ear. My left ear is ridiculously sensitive. A perk though is being able to tune out all sound when lying on my left. It’s a superpower
#46
TIL that cicada's wings have an anti-bacterial surface that kills bacteria not by chemicals, but by using a nanopattern made of nano pillars that shreds the bacterial membrane.
#47
TIL the reason the rainbow has indigo/violet and not just purple is because Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the number 7 for occult reasons, he had to have 7 colors
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
He was indeed a strange, difficult, obsessive, sometimes outright obnoxious and bullying individual and yet . . . . . . perhaps our greatest ever scientist? I think there's a strong case for that.
Mars Lander 4 years ago
The line between madness and genius is oft times blurred...
Load More Replies... Dave P 4 years ago
he also wrote a dozen books on Alchemy and thought his legacy would be his Alchemy and not physics, which he considered his lesser research. He also was a devout christian who went to church regularly, refused to work with Atheists, read the bible daily, and more.
noralin 4 years ago
If he was involved with the occult then he wasn't a real christian, because it is very strictly forbidden in the bible, also in the new testament.
Load More Replies... Catlady6000 4 years ago
I always wondered where the indigo was. I could see the blue and violet. I thought I was somehow rainbow-indigo-blind :/
Pumpkin Spice 4 years ago
Fun fact: A rainbow is actually a cone with the point at your eye, so the treasure at the end of the rainbow......was inside you all along.
Miss Cris 4 years ago
You have literally all colours in it, as you say from infra red to ultraviolet. Someone can say they are red, yellow, green and blue; and another person can name twenty different colours or more... imagine a pantone worker!
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TIL the Pyramid of Giza was the world’s tallest building for over 3,800 years.
#49
TIL: Outside the ring, Muhammad Ali attained success as a spoken word artist, where he received two Grammy nominations. He also featured as an actor and writer, releasing two autobiographies. Ali retired from boxing in 1981 and focused on religion, philanthropy and activism.
#50
TIL That Japan has so many "ghost houses" that they are commonly given away at low/no-cost
ProductofNZ 4 years ago
Not sure about this? Definitely not given away in my town. My wife and I have looked at some abandoned properties and they certainly weren't free or low cost for what they are. -_-
Jessica Cifelli 4 years ago
In my area we call them abandominiums or abandos. They mostly just give junkies a place to get high.
#51
TIL Marco Polo became Kublai Khan's diplomat at 21 years old. One of his journeys included 2-year voyage from China to the Persian Gulf where of 600 men, only 18 survived. Altogether, throughout his life he traveled almost 15,000 miles or 24,000 km.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
What else would he be famous for?! This 'not in school' factoid puzzles me.
#52
TIL the US Navy conducted mock air attacks by aircraft carrier on Pearl Harbor in 1932 and 1938. In both exercises the attacks were successful, demonstrating the importance of air power over battleships. Both exercises were ignored by the US Navy but were studied carefully by the IJN.
#53
TIL the animatronic gopher in the 1980 film Caddyshack cost around $500,000 and was built and filmed after the movie had been completed. The first cut was a cocaine fueled mess and it was suggested in post-production that the gopher should be part of an expanded storyline to tie everything together.
#54
TIL Star Wars’ Porkins (William Hootkins) studied Astrophysics at Princeton, was fluent in Mandarin, was questioned by the FBI about JFK’s assassination, and went on to act in 50 films including Raiders of the Lost Arc, Flash Gordon, Batman, and Curse of the Pink Panther.
Seabeast 4 years ago
As he was born in 1948, he'd have been only 15 at the time of the assassination. How the heck would a teenager have known anything about it?
PandaMonium 4 years ago
You're correct about his age. He was a student. "Hootkins was interviewed by the FBI about Ruth Paine, a woman accused of harboring the wife of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Hootkins, who was interested in languages, was taking Russian lessons from Paine," according to the book Star Wars FAQ Everything Left to Know About the Trilogy That Changed the Movies By Mark Clark, 2015.
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#55
TIL in 2010 a Woman Was Evicted From Her £3,000,000 Castle in Scotland After Refusing to Pay a £230 Bill For a Bridal-wear Rental.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Nope. But she said she didn't owe the debt, court fees stacked up, she filed bankruptcy, and still the court was after her until she "owed" over half a mil. The castle is now a B&B...
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago (edited)
In another case, a castle was owned by the FATHER, and yes, he owed several thousands in unpaid debt, including taxes. The daughter had just married Kit Harrington. They had tried to sell the castle, and then used it as a £600 a night B&B. It was very popular. This was in 2010, I believe.
Miss Cris 4 years ago
£600/night and very popular? Few people can afford it.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago (edited)
She claimed someone else owed the debt, and refused to pay. Fees and fines raised the amount "owed" to over 6 figures. She tried to pay less, but the court refused. She sold the castle, but the sale was not approved becaused of, I guess a lien? She had an estate controller appointed illegally who bullied her and her family over the debt. And then she lost her home of 35 years. A really effed up situation. Oh, she was Belgian, and claims discrimination because she isn't British.
N G 4 years ago
In all likelihood the £230 debt escalated to include late fees, then lawyers fees. Ultimately, just because she lived in a £3m property, it's not a liquid asset, so she would likely have had to default on any loan payments (further debt), foreclosed and been evicted. All for the want of a horseshoe nail..
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TIL that during the final months of World War II, Japan planned to use the Black Plague as a biological weapon against San Diego, California. It was scheduled for September 22, 1945, but Japan surrendered just five weeks before it could happen.
lara 4 years ago
No it is true. One of the big debates was how to deliver the plague. Submarine? Balloons, planes, ships, there were a lot of suggestions.
Load More Replies... PandaMonium 4 years ago
I just looked for more info on this wondering if it is true. Like Brandy Grote says in the comments here, it was called Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night. Among other sources, Pearl Harbor's official website has a short entry on it - https://pearlharbor.org/the-secret-japanese-plan-for-biological-warfare/
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night. Japan's infamous Unit 731 developed some horrendous biological weapons, including bombing China with flease carrying plague. Thry planned to do this to San Diego as it had a major naval base.
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Considering what they did in Korea and China (Rape Of Nanking) doesn't seem far fetched.
#57
TIL almost all of the fruit, vegetables, and animals we eat are domesticated and ARE NOT found in nature. A few foods like some berries, nuts, and mushrooms are consumed in the same form they grow in the wild. Humans are "selectively breeding" species for more then 12,000 years.
qwerty 4 years ago
It is to all the anti-GMO people. If it even occurs to them that these are GMOs, that is.
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TIL Jerry's apartment in 'Seinfeld' is a physically impossible structure. If someone attempted to build it in real life, the hallway would run directly through the kitchen.
AdamKingXV 4 years ago
This is actually a subliminal admission that Seinfeld helped fake the moon landing.
#59
TIL that self-proclaimed earthquake expert Ibn Browning predicted a massive earthquake would strike New Madrid, Missouri on December 3rd, 1990. Schools in multiple states closed, and media organizations flooded the town. Browning had no seismology background, and nothing happened.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
To be fair, the New Madrid quake in the 19th century was HUGE, causing the Mississippi River to flow "backwards" for days!
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
I remember that they did the National news on location. It was like they hoped it would happen and they would be there.
#60
TIL: Claiming his first belt at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old, Mike Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title.
#61
TIL that Bakersfield and Fresno were built on top of a former lake, Lake Tulare, that was the largest freshwater lake west of the Missisipi. It was drained for Agriculture after the Civil War, and was completely gone by WW1.
Dave P 4 years ago
It was drained long before the Civil War, byt the time of the Civil War it was a Tiny lake, in fact it was pretty small by the time Europeans got there. It went down over time between native agriculture, and weather changes in the 1400-1600's
Eucritta 4 years ago
The tributaries that fed the remaining wetlands were also dammed and diverted in the 19th and 20th C. It still 'resurrects' now and then in flood years.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
It was originally 75 miles long! This was a "dry" lake bed by 1899. It was on its way out by 1878 due to municipal and farming needs. Its feeding rivers had been dammed up. Enough water remained so the Alameda Naval Air Station used Tulare Lake as an outlying seaplane base during World War II and the early years of the Cold War. Flying boats could land on Tulare Lake when landing conditions were unsafe on San Francisco Bay. It did flood twice in the 20th century - and 2 more dams were built. When there are heavy rains, it does still "puddle up", but yeah, for now, it's gone.
#62
TIL the Crusaders planned to finance the Fourth Crusade by stopping first in Constantinople, to assist in a coup. When they were not fairly compensated by the new Byzantine Emporer, they seized control of the city and surrounding territory. Establishing the short-lived Latin Empire (1204-1261).
Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
The First Crusade was exceptionally brutal. On the way through Europe to the Holy Land they killed many Jews. When they got to Jerusalem they herded all the Jews into the Synagogues and set them afire. They then went to the Holy Sepulcher and massacred all non-believers (Jews and Muslims). Turkish reinforcements arrived and drove them out. For the next crusade the Christians got better military leaders but were again driven out. The fights over Jerusalem continue to today.
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