‘Today I Learned’: 40 Rarely Heard Facts That May Leave Your Inner Brainiac Entertained (New Facts)

If I remember correctly , they were from the Gullah community that lives in Georgia and South Carolina. They are a fascinating community that have retained a lot of their Sub-Saharan African heritage. I also believe they have their own creole language that emerged from the languages their enslaved ancestors natively spoke and English.

:0 THAT'S INCREDIBLE! The only thing I got from my mother was depression

Connection to the ancestors

Something similar which I heard from the Oklahoma First Americans Museum: a family lullaby was passed down and it originated on the Trail of Tears. The man who talked about it coming from his great grandmother, who was on the Trail, discovered that it was a lullaby in their language set to the melody of one of the trumpet songs that soldiers would play at night. The mothers would use the melody to sing their children to sleep when they were huddled down at night with cannons aimed at them so they wouldn't escape. He even found which song it was exactly.

Despite the fascists (desantis) efforts to obliterate the history of America's long suffering African descent citizens they endure in the most remarkable ways. Political Death to American Fascists. It's a crusade all decent folks can join in.

Like I've said before, I hate these events, like "Breakfast with Dad" or "Show & tell with Mum". Not everyone has both parents in their lives. Not everyone has a traditional family. These things can make kids feel isolated or abnormal.

From someone who never had a father figure in life, this would make my day. You get to have breakfast with someone who actually wanted to be there for you.

Not all men are selfish a**holes. Don't get me wrong ... there are way too many of them. But some of us are quite OK. ;)

These are the Americans I know.

In order to volunteer at a school, at least where I live, you have to have to go through online training and pass a background check. I’m sure they didn’t go pick out 50 randoms off the street

Hero! Worth mentioning one of the great heroes of WWII led a secret operation to successfully smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, saving them from almost certain death — Irena Sendler. This Polish nurse and social worker defied the Nazis at great personal risk, and nearly paid the ultimate price for her courageous actions. Also counterfeited medical documents saving adults from ghetto

Budisavljević's list would not have done as well in the theaters. But I am glad to hear of her, and will read her up. So many unsung heroes, of whom the world is not worthy. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

Two italian doctors made up a mock contagious illness that they called K Syndrome. They said it was very contagious and dangerous, and invented horrible symptoms. They were so able to admit many jews in their hospital keeping away german soldiers who were afraid to catch the syndrome

She looks like Keira Knightely

Schinder was a prominent businessman. He was just better known. There were probably many more we'll never know about.

People don't realize that every year, all year long, scientists are trying to identify and contain pandemics. We were lucky, until COVID hit. We really managed to dodge that bullet for many years, all due to scientists, and I believe he is not the only scientist that lost his/her life in the process.

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Unfortunately he succumbed to it.

But then where will I hang my clothes?

Is it like a library? You can just sign the equipment back out after two weeks or is it a max of two weeks per equipment type?

Our local libraries have fishing poles and tools and board games and telescopes!

Some libraries in the states also lend out supplies other than books. Like tools, toys, cooking supplies, etc. Check your local branch

I'm in Denmark and I need the Swedes to export that stuff over Øresund. Right now!

no matter how many times i see this my brain decides to turn off brain mode

Look up other sets of twins raised separately. So many of them lived the same sort of lives as these Jims. Really interesting to study.

Its amazing they never vacationed at the same time!! We used to run into people we know 1,000’s of miles away from home! One Florida trip i ran into 2 people i went to high school with!!!

Wow!! What are the odds??

Both were heavy chain smokers and suffered from migraines.