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50 Facts From An Online Group Where People Post The Most Interesting Things They Learn And That Has 23 Million Members
Whenever I learn something cool, I get this itching desire to tell someone about it. But as it turns out, I don't have to rush downstairs to interrupt whatever my flatmates are doing and bombard them with interesting yet random facts. I can do it on the Internet, too.
Today I Learned is the 11th most popular subreddit, with nearly 24 million members. All of them are ready to not only share interesting and specific things about something that they just found out but go through other people's discoveries as well. From the reason why cops like donuts to Stephen Hawking pranking an interview crew, the subreddit has amassed loads of incredible trivia since its creation on Dec 28, 2008. Here are some of the most popular ones within the community.
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#1
TIL of Syndrome K: a fake disease that Italian doctors made up to save Jews who had fled to their hospital seeking protection from the Nazis. Syndrome K "patients" were quarantined and the Nazis were told that it was a deadly, disfiguring, and highly contagious illness. They saved at least 20 lives
Hans 5 years ago
I cannot find the source right now, but I read there where doctors also in Germany doing similar things: telling the Gestapo they had "diagnosed" jews with contagious deseases and asking them to stay away for their own safety. Bad times always seem to have a few good people, too!
Hans 5 years ago
Found an article, although it is in German: https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/vorgetaeuschtes-fleckfieber-die-aerzte-die-eine-epidemie-erfanden-a-3bf9279a-09d1-4504-8fa4-62f2a1000b77 It were polish doctors actually, and they faked typhus infections, a feared desease around WW2.
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Astrophysicist Mario Livio thinks that our willingness to learn is, in fact, what makes us human. "Other animals are curious, but only humans are worried and curious about reasons and causes for things. Only humans really ask the question, 'Why?'"
Livio says we're even born with it. "There are many studies that have shown that there is a strong genetic component to curiosity," he explained. "It is also the case that some people are more curious than others, in the same way, that some people have a talent for music and others don't or some people are smarter than others ... But all people are curious, with the possible exception of people who are very deeply depressed or have certain kinds of brain damage."
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#2
TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of people including her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs before the North Tower collapsed on 9/11. She only stopped to give kisses to a woman who was having a panic attack.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
SUCH a good girl. And maybe she was afraid too, in such a crazy situation but she just did her thing. Love.
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Louloubelle 5 years ago
I wanted to add that she was a beautiful yellow lab, and lived to the ripe old age of 14. Not bad for a big dog, and a working dog.
White Wolf 5 years ago
Bless those heroes, remember them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_and_Roselle
But testing out a new idea can lead to disaster, too."Curiosity probably led to the vast majority of human populations going extinct," Agustín Fuentes, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University, told Live Science.
For example, the Inuit of the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, and the Sámi people of Europe's northern reaches have "created incredible modes to deal with the challenges" of living in northern climates, but "what we forget about are the probably tens of thousands of populations that tried and failed to make it" in those challenging landscapes," he said.
But even though not all curious humans lived to pass their penchant for exploration on to their descendants, many did. We can't help but think, "Huh, I wonder what would happen if ..." and the popularity of the subreddit Today I Learned proves it.
#3
TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year.
Caroline 5 years ago
Now that's what science should be used for, rather than all the useless or morally dubious researches some ppl do. Well done Dr Hopkins.
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
Andrew Wakefield can go kiss a Victorian Wallpaper.
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Jeff Bryant 5 years ago
His partner in Guinea worm eradication was Jimmy Carter
Load More Replies... Louloubelle 5 years ago
I hope he's the one working on covid. Sounds like he knows what he's doing.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
He has helped save millions, if not billions of lives. Thank you 😊
Jessica 5 years ago
also simple water filters helped reduce guinea worm and the countless doctors who gave their time treating patience. I will look him up and learn more i had no idea he had such an impact <3 amazing
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
It's because it's spread from copepods with the larva in them, when copepod-contaminated water is drank by humans, the eggs hatch and a giant worm sticks out of your leg a few months later. It's painful, and the only way to soothe the pain is to stick the leg in water, where it spreads eggs into the water, that then hatch, and the cycle repeats.
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TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
Banjo Peppers 5 years ago
As horrible a situation as that is, it’s also pretty cool that whoever was in charge of his case was like “well, that’s true, guess we can’t hang you” instead of just telling him to stfu and hanging him anyway.
Named No Name 5 years ago
The only situation where slavery actually helped th enslaved person.
#5
TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
Bradford Johnson 5 years ago
how could his name not be in the facts! smh....
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Louloubelle 5 years ago
At the age of 60, I still can't wrap my head around this. What on earth did they think was going to happen? Racists, I just can't grasp it.
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Me neither. I mean it is skin, just skin! How can the colour remotely matter? And a 9 year old boy? What harm was he going to do?
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CaptainFluffy 5 years ago
Ronald McNair! Definitely seems like his name should be mentioned in the story. The fact that it’s on his shirt in the photo isn’t an excuse as it is almost impossible to see on a mobile phone.
Calypso poet 5 years ago
I'm on my iPad and zoomed in it's difficult to see! And I was in jr high when this happened and thought I knew all about the astronauts. TIL about Robert McNair.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
If only all these amazingly intelligent people who send crafts and people into space would quit doing that and concentrate on how to create a viable equilibrium on planet Earth instead! Then Ron McNair could have been one of Greta's heroes - and still with us.
#6
TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks
Ian Koch 5 years ago
yeah, if you don't smoke, you get to go on vacation more
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Dippin Dot 5 years ago
My company just charges smokers more for their health insurance. The 6 extra vacation days are more valuable to me (I only get 10 a year + sick days)
Louloubelle 5 years ago
Positive reinforcement, rather than negative usually is more effective.
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Brilliant. But I didn't know smokers got extra breaks that had to be compensated for!
Faith Hurst-Bilinski 5 years ago (edited)
I have never worked anywhere where people got extra breaks to smoke. Do they really do that? Most of the younger years were retail and UPS. And, of course, I've spent 25 years (about half of my life, WOW) working at elementary schools. Just not my jobs, I guess.
#7
TIL hundreds of love letters between two gay World War II soldiers were found and are being made into a book. In one, one of them wrote, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are."
Hubertus Touché 5 years ago
Nice one! Pity they didn't live to see their wish come true. Or did they?
Sandhya Boyd 5 years ago
Sadly no. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-38932955
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Did they survive the war? Because I’m now insanely Emotionally invested
White Wolf 5 years ago
They did survive! But their ways separated, in a most beautiful way. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38932955
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Agnieszka Stachow 5 years ago (edited)
OMG, this has given me goosebumps! The bit about "more enlightened times" feels somehow heartbreaking to me...
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I can’t begin to imagine how hard life and love was during those times.
#8
TIL that the firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees on 9/11. The CEO, who was taking his child to school that day, later distributed $180 million to the families and offered jobs to all children of the victims. 57 of those children were employed by Cantor Fitzgerald as of 2016.
Raine Soo 5 years ago (edited)
Much respect to the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald. He appreciated his employees (unlike a certain richest man in the world, who shall remain nameless), and made sure that their families were taken care of.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Maybe in the US. This is the first time I hear about this.
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TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army
Bill 5 years ago
Add women to the draft and make politicians' kids serve in a front line infantry division.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Absolutely. Every congressperson’s kid is automatically enlisted in the Marines
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William Shirriffs 5 years ago
Not strictly true. While this was suggested as early as 1914, the proposed Amendment (The Ludlow Amendment) was not actually introduced to Congress until 1935. Even then, there was no mention of forcing voters who voted in favour of war to register as a volunteer in any armed service (as ultimately this would be impossible without requiring every single voter to declare which way they voted)...
M O'Connell 5 years ago (edited)
Even if it were enacted, it would have made little difference overall. The US has not issued a formal declaration of war since 1942 (against Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary as part of WWII). All military actions undertaken since then have been outside the formalities of declared wars. It also would have crippled the states ability to react quickly.
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Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to Keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” shall hereby be changed to, “The desire of the People for the country to take up Arms, in their Patriotism and wish to defend Liberty and the Freedoms of their great country, shall be put to a Vote of the People, being it understood that should the vote pass, with a Majority of the Population, those, whom in their Zeal for their Country, did vote that the United States should enter into a Declaration of War, and into conflict with another Nation, shall be pressed into service in the Armed Forces of the United States, and shall serve for the full time of the Period for which the War shall take, and, upon Conclusion of the conflict and a Declaration of Peace, return.”
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Diana Dodd 5 years ago
I don’t think you should be allowed the hold a public office if you haven’t served in some form of military or active service. Those with physical disabilities would be allowed to serve In other capacities. I’ll bet they could even find a job for someone with bone spurs!
Vytas Navickas 5 years ago
compulsory enrollment in the armed forces is mandatory for males of a certain age in a LOT of countries
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
why is this?? not a thing?? OH YEAH, because everyone yearning and screaming for war are huge f*****g selfish cowards that wouldn't risk their lives for millions. ESPECIALLY the politicians.
#10
TIL that a 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets
Katie DeNoma 5 years ago
Just a reminder, this is the city where George Floyd Died. Not all cops are bad.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
No, not all cops are bad, and not all bureaucrats either: "...a dozen different city departments came together to help the teen get a permit and start a business."
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Bet he's gonna make a chain of hotdog carts and be appreciated in theme parks everywhere.
Blue of the yams (They/He) 5 years ago
White cops doing good things for black citizens. That's what we need to see more of.
#11
TIL of Bob Fletcher, a man who took care of the farms of three Japanese American families while they were interned during World War 2. By keeping their farms running and paying their taxes and mortgages, he ensured the families didn't lose everything. He was even shot at for supporting them.
DC 5 years ago
THIS is one of the people to refer to when stating to be a proud American! It's not those crawling up their governments behind that qualify for such a position, it is those who refuse to take the easy way, but prefer doing something that is right over what serves themselves best.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
The internment law forbid Americans of Japanese ancestry from owning property of any kind within 100 miles of the coast (which included some of the most fertile farmland in North America) gave these Americans 90 days to sell it. The vultures who wanted this property were largely neighbors who resented the fact that these Americans, by using traditional techniques and hiring Filipino laborers were producing much higher yields at a lower cost. (couldn't be that they were smarter or more hard working, must be that they had better land). These greedy bastards knew about the 90 day limit and waited 75-80 days before making an offer so these desperate Americans would accept an average of 10 cents on the dollar. After the war, when it became obvious that these Americans had never been a threat to National security and unjustly thrown in concentration camps, the Federal government refused to do anything to help them recover any of the property they had lost.
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
When the Japanese were intered during WW2 Hollywood cameraman Mike Doyle bought their farms for $1 each. After the war when they were released he sold their farms back to them for $1 each.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
jevais 5 years ago
All Japanese people were put in camps during the WW2, during the Japanese Pacific war. Most lost their homes and businesses. It's was a very awful period during this war. After the war the American federal government went hunting for Communist. Charlie Chaplin had to leave the States with his whole family to escape prison. He was labeled a communist, which he was not. Also some were even put to death on the electric chair. THANK God USA IS HOME OF THE FREE!
#12
TIL Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and gave them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription read, “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I know how he feels. I had to have my cat euthanized this week. It really sucked. I stayed with her the whole time and couldn't stop crying.
K. 5 years ago
We’re very sorry for your loss. You are so brave and loving for going through something so painful with her to the very end. It’s never easy to make such decisions, we can only be as sensitive and humane as we can.
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Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
We're not so different from the people who lived a couple millennia ago...
William Heidt 5 years ago
Ah yes, finally! The tomb of Praetor Fluffius Kissus, the almighty holy emporer of Rome!
DogMatic 5 years ago
Enjoy every minute! Congratulations on your new best friend.
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#13
TIL that everyone in Singapore above the age of 21 is automatically registered as an organ donor. Opting out from this Act will result in you being put at the very bottom of the organ priority list, should you need an organ transplantation.
Arenite 5 years ago
No, not fair. That blatantly punishes people who can’t donate blood or organs due to cancer/chemo or other chronic/genetic/autoimmune diseases. Do you want to be the one who tells parents that their diabetic 8 year old who was in a car accident can’t have the heart/kidney/liver transplant they need?
Load More Replies... Laugh or not 5 years ago
In France (and many other countries), the laws were also changed to make everyone an organ donor by default. But I had never heard of penalties if you opt out. Makes sense.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
But what about people who have genetic disorders etc. I have been told I am not allowed to donate my blood or organs because of a genetic disease that runs in my family. There is no evidence that it is transmissible that way but because it is a rare disease and a prions disease similar to Mad Cows it is a big NO-NO. I would love to donate blood and my organs but I’m not allowed.
Pamela24 5 years ago
I would guess that then you would be kept in your standard place in the list (if you'd need it), of course. It is not a choice in your case so it's very different.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
I think there could be another addition to the donor registry: if you volunteer to donate a kidney in life, you automatically move to the top of the waiting list if you need a new kidney later on.
Parmeisan 5 years ago
You'd need to be careful with this one. I've had issues with my kidneys in the past, so my odds of developing chronic issues later in life are probably increased. So if I want to be at the top of the list, I should donate a kidney -- but they shouldn't allow me to, it's not a good kidney. Does that mean I'm stuck at the bottom because I never had the opportunity to donate? You can't assume I would have, as most people who need a kidney will have had issues in the past with at least one of them. It's a good idea, but there are a lot of tricky questions with it.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
My opinion is, if I’m not using them (you know, dead), and someone else can put them to use, they’re welcome to to take what they need. I like thinking a part of me will still be alive and making a big difference in someone else’s life.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
I'll sign anything they want. After I'm dead, pluck me clean like a chicken. Fire sale, everything must go.
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Pacifico Fernandez 5 years ago
thats amazing. In my country too everyone is automatically an organ donor
M.C. 5 years ago (edited)
This is well-intentioned, but I don't think its necessarily the best way to go about it. For example, I am planning on doing a live liver donation, because it really won't affect me too drastically and it could save someone's life. But I am not a registered organ donor and do not want to be. I have an issue with the idea of being buried incomplete. All my pieces need to end up in the same place. That's why I have also explicitly specified that my ashes are not to be scattered or split in any way. If I could have the organs cremated and given back to my grave, then I'd do it, but that's not an option. Is it fair to say that someone deserves to be saved less just because they have a reservation like mine or an extenuating circumstance? Automatically registering people to be donors is fine, but I can't get behind penalizing people for opting out. It's their body, and they should be able to decide without being punished.
Fish Boden 5 years ago
You get to make the decision based on all the same information as everyone else. I can't see why your personal beliefs should be incorporated into the rules. Why should you be afforded privilege because of your desire to be buried whole?
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Henry Tuttle 5 years ago
Good idea. I'm not an organ donor because I fear that it would influence life/death decisions about me and I agree 1000% percent that I should be on the bottom of the list.
#14
TIL Dogs get sprayed by Skunks so often because Skunks lift their tails as a warning, Dogs see this as "Come smell my butt" which is the EXACT OPPOSITE MESSAGE from what the Skunk is trying to send.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
That’s why the skunks do it! They know exactly what they’re doing. In the skunk bars, they’re telling stories about how they sprayed this idiot canine three days in a row.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
Don't give in to the temptation to wash your dog (or other pet) with water, it will just set in the smell. Here is how to deskunk your pet: https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/de-skunking-your-dog
Louloubelle 5 years ago
I have a dog that LOVES to go after skunks. She actually did it two days in a row. We used the de-skunking solution recommended by the humane society. It's not bad. But as I have, unfortunately, had a lot of experience with skunked dogs, I find that most solutions really don't work. The tomato juice - completely worthless. I find that if I get them into the tub really fast, I can usually wash the majority off and mitigate the odor.
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Mary Ballard-Johansson 5 years ago
My idiot (wonderful sweetheart) dog got sprayed TWICE, even after his "sister" got it!
Mare Freed 5 years ago
Now that I think of it, none of my family's cats ever got skunked. Dogs, however....
#15
TIL that there was a rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A Malicious rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I’m a Christian and I admire Stephen Hawking. Absolutely brilliant man.
Googleman1234 5 years ago
trump would hate him. Or make fun of him. Id love to see hawking run over his toes
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#16
TIL a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after the takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.
Ian Koch 5 years ago
I know this is a super serious issue but that's kind of funny
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Googleman1234 5 years ago
Ive heard of this before. Even though it is a VERY serious issue I just cant get it out of my head that he gave a wile-e-coyote look before falling.
Douglas Campbell 5 years ago
He was already killed by the bomb when his body was sucked out of the plane.
#17
TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"
#18
TIL Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom so her guests can hold it and make acceptance speeches in the mirror without feeling self conscious
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Haha, I can imagine many people would take that opportunity and even take pics.
Mohammad Ammar 5 years ago
Eww, I hope she cleans it regularly. I laugh if people touch it before washing their hands.
Banjo Peppers 5 years ago
Also a few years ago when people were complaining about wage inequality in Hollywood, she was the only person who was like “we already make so much money, though” .
#19
TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him
Iris Wolfie (づ ◕‿◕ )づ 5 years ago
AH YAS I LOVE THIS GUY AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'M HEARING BOUT HIM!!
Sanne H. 5 years ago
I was actually flattered by being called a girl in my twenties. Being called a woman made me feel old.... (but I’m used to it now, don’t worry 😉)
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TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
A 'colleague' who did not really want the best for me had apparently decided to try to demoralize me by going off on a "Have you heard the latest BS the company is up to"-rant every time we happened to meet. About a month in, I decided to counter it head-on and so I preemptively greeted him with a very cheery "Hi, so-and-so, isn't everything perfectly awful!" It took me only about a week to get to checkmate.
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
TEAM EDWARD!!! Alsooo, Harry Potter is better but Twilight is Waaaayyyy underrated!
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Jessica 5 years ago
I love crazed fan stories lol Bam Margeria had the crazies funniest one iv ever heard
Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
Is it the one where some chick ate his vomit 🤢 or the naked chick that broke into his house and kissed him in his sleep 😳?
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TIL when Lawrence Anthony, known as "The Elephant Whisperer", passed away. A herd of elephants arrived at his house in South Africa to mourn him. Although the elephants were not alerted to the event, they travelled to his house and stood around for two days, and then dispersed.
#22
TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers."
Lisa 5 years ago (edited)
Robert Gould Shaw was a pretty interesting guy with such a short life. He was born into an prominent abolitionist Boston family, he attended Harvard and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club but he withdrew before graduation. He also led the NE first all black regiment, his family was good people also. Unlike the Confederate soldier who tried to insult his family by burying him with his fellow soldiers.
Stimpy 5 years ago
Ok, now I have to ask: what is the "hasty pudding club"? It sounds awesome!
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Lis Daglish 5 years ago
‘Glory’ is an astonishing film commemorating him. Has me in floods every time.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
Yeah, with Mathew Broderick as Col. Shaw
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TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-mapped-the-universe-and-still-couldnt-get-any-respect-9287444/
#24
TIL: Some farmers in Bangladesh have switched to raising ducks instead of chickens, because during catastrophic floods, ducks float.
Hubertus Touché 5 years ago
Rumour has it they've now started to swap their pigs with hippos...
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Because during catastrophic floods, both pigs and hippos sink, but hippos can swim
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I decided to google and it turns out chickens can float BUT only for a short amount of time because once their feathers get waterlogged, the chickens start to sink but that is if it hasn’t died of hypothermia first.
François Carré 5 years ago
I misread "raising ducks instead of children" which made the information even more interesting (sorry for the dark humor here, I know massive flooding is a real threat for Bangladesh now).
Cathy Gaines 5 years ago
"What also floats in water?" " Bread!" "Apples!" "Very small rocks!" "Uhhh, gravy!" "Cherries!" "Mud!" "Churches -- churches!" " Lead -- lead!" "A duck." "Oooh." "Exactly! So, logically..." "If... she... weighs the same as a duck.. she's made of wood." "And therefore?" "A witch!" ..... "Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?"
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I loved that scene lol, it perfectly sums up the mood of the movie imo
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Ducks not only float, they swim. https://www.ducks.org/conservation/waterfowl-research-science/the-curious-lives-of-sea-ducks
#25
TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator yanked a cable causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. Worried they had killed him, everyone rushed over to find Hawking giggling at his own joke. The alarm was from an office computer losing power.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
I've heard before he had a great sense of humour, this made me grin
Gareth Graham 5 years ago
Stephen Hawking - "I had a heart attack earlier this year, the ambulance took me to PC World for repair"
Katinka Min 5 years ago
You can tell from his Big Bang Theory cameos that he has a quite a cheeky sense of humor.
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
LOL I would have loved to have met him. he did so much in his life despite ALS.
Googleman1234 5 years ago
stephen hawking was an amazing man. He was brilliant and took his horrible condition well.
Chris Jones 5 years ago
That is not how his ex wife views it based on her own words. There was a review that made that claim but she disagreed.
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TIL many doctors have stopped calling cancer treatment a "fight" or "battle". They argue these terms misrepresent how treatment works and if treatments fail, the patient is left with guilt and a false belief they didn't "fight" hard enough
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Well, I prefer calling it 'dry cleaning' instead of 'chemotherapy'. Besides, the first time I was sitting for hours with the needle in my arm, I decided that another way of looking at it could be that since I was sitting safe and relatively sound in that hospital chair, I was not being run over by a truck in the street. Words do matter.
JLaw 4 years ago
I completely agree. I didn't get stage 4 cancer at 39 because I didn't fight hard enough the previous 3 years when it was stage 2. I'm not in a battle, I'm not brave, I don't wear fatigues. I am fatigued. I'm just a mom trying to raise two kids who at some point in the near future are going to lose her. It breaks my heart. Don't dare say I'm not fighting hard enough. It's some evil cells who've decided I'm a good place to shack up. It's cancer. No one wins.
Diana Dodd 5 years ago
I agree ... I lost my husband to cancer and it still angers me when surviving cancer victims are referred to as heroes. They are survivors and are what I call damned lucky! The doctors and nurses are the true heroes. By the way ... survivors don’t normally refer to themselves are heroes.
Mark Howell 5 years ago
my sister died this year as a result of the miscreance of breast cancer spreading oto her brain. She died happy daft as her brain shut down>
K. 5 years ago
We’re very sorry for your loss. I hope you are surrounded with supportive, loving people to help each other through this painful time.
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Carrie Roettger 5 years ago
Its done with type 1 diabetes too and I hate it. "Diabadass" is the term people like to use. I'm extremely brittle and have been since diagnosis. I developed my first complication in 3 years. Using words like fighting or warrior or battle to describe catastrophic illnesses cam make people feel so bad about themselves if they aren't a "perfect" example of living, functioning and (hopefilly) coming out the other side.
#27
TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
Hubertus Touché 5 years ago
One of the coolest guys I 'know'. Mister Bezos might consider doing something similar. It wouldn't make the world a worse place...
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Mr Bezos ought to consider changing his first name to Ebenezer. It fits. Ebenezer Bezos sounds so much better than Jeffrey Preston Scrooge.
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Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I wonder if Mr. Pacino also agreed to less than his usual asking price.
Katie Lutesinger 5 years ago
He also gave away a big chunk of his payout from The Matrix to the special effects and costume people, because he felt they didn't get enough credit for all their hard work. He's such an awesome guy.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
I guess I'm wondering why the hell actors demand such ridiculous salaries in the first place? I mean seriously - how much money do you really need?
#28
TIL when Robert Ballard (professor of oceanography) announced a mission to find the Titanic, it was a cover story for a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. They finished before they were due back, so the team spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and actually found it.
Louloubelle 5 years ago
I know this sounds stupid, but I actually never knew it was "lost". I just always assumed no one had the technology to investigate it.
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
From wiki: He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002
Mary Hiers 5 years ago
In 1987, Ballard was the keynote speaker at a convention I went to in Baltimore, and naturally, it was about the Titanic. He had slides in an analogue carousel and they were spectacular.
Henry Saravia-Melara 4 years ago
if they brought the titanic back from the bottom of the sea,it would also bring out a virus from the bottom of the sea.even a small piece from it could end us.
#29
TIL an actor in Nazi Germany lost his job for being Jewish. He went to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed all his hair by bathing in diluted hydrogen. He returned to the stage claiming to be a self-taught peasant actor and was praised by the Nazis as "proof of the superiority of Aryan blood."
Brendan Hills 5 years ago (edited)
Diluted hydrogen? For it to be a liquid that he could bathe in, that would have been a very cold bath!
Corey Smith 5 years ago (edited)
I think they forgot to add "peroxide" to it.
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Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
I like to read stories relating the stupidity of "Nazi". Not Germans just Nazi's
Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
Leon Reuss https://www.interesly.com/jewish-actor-tricked-nazis/
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Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
Here's the story https://www.interesly.com/jewish-actor-tricked-nazis/
#30
TIL that Willie, a parrot, alerted its owner, Megan Howard, when the toddler she was babysitting began to choke. Megan was in the bathroom, the parrot began screaming "mama, baby" while flapping its wings as the child turned blue. Megan rushed over and performed the Heimlich, saving the girls life
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
Polly deserves a medal and a place in the hall of fame.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Wow, this makes me question whether parrots really do just mimic or actually know and understand situations more than we think they do.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Well when they say “Polly wanna cracker”, they get a cracker, don’t they?
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AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
My bird did something similar. One of our birds attacked one of our smaller ones (which was weird to begin with) and my macaw started yelling "No! Stop it, Help!" but by the time I got into the room my little birdie was already gone. But after grieving and burying our feather baby (parakeet) we gave a treat to our macaw for trying to help and get our attention.
Thomas Turnbull 5 years ago
amazing. I always think parrots know what they say and can construct sentences.
#31
TIL : IN 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon hired a hitman to kill his 51-year-old wife. His wife ended up killing the hitman with her bare hands. When Susan Kuhnhausen had her hands on his neck she asked him, "TELL ME WHO SENT YOU HERE AND I WILL CALL YOU A FUCKING AMBULANCE!"
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
She also said this after her ex-husband and would-be wife murderer passed away in prison: "I don’t mourn his passing. Instead I mourn the life he could have had, if only he could have opened his heart for those of us who cared about him.” A wise lady.
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
Why did she know he was sent by someone? Is she a spy? Does she have lots of enemies? If someone was trying to kill me, I wouldn't automatically assume they were sent by someone.
#32
TIL Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost everything is already discovered". Planck said he didn't want to discover anything, just learn the fundamentals. He went on to originate quantum theory and win a Nobel Prize.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
It has profoundly shocked me, and I do not understand it at all. I believe that makes me a normal human being.
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Madison Feehan 5 years ago
I am studying Planck and Einstein's contributions to Quantum Mechanics today, it is both shocking and revolutionary!
Valerie G. 5 years ago
In the early 1900s they wanted to close the Patent Office, saying "everything that is going to be invented, already has".
#33
TIL - In 1836, a sewer worker accidentally discovered an old drain which ran directly into the Bank of England's gold vault. He wrote letters to the directors of the bank and requested a meeting inside the vault at an hour of their choosing - and popped out of the floor to greet them
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Rare look at the Bank of England's gold vault (UK) - BBC London News - 9th February 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmLBF2PzlYA
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Stupid. I would have arranged some transportation and have myself a wonderful Christmas.
#34
TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
Hubertus Touché 5 years ago
In hindsight... that would have been very funny. "Well, hi diddly ho folks... I'll be back, y'all hear now!"
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Yes, he sounds like a country bum from somewhere up on the highest mountain in Austria.
D. Pitbull 5 years ago
BWAHAHHAHA oh no!!! That's kind of terribly funny to think that Mr. Sch's accent is their equivalent of dueling banjos...
Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
Just proves there are prejudiced people everywhere and about everything!!
David Gripon 5 years ago
Learn this about him too. He is not 6'2" He is not even 5'8" He walked right past me once and I am 6' and stood much taller. If you find a very old body building magazine, it lists his true height.
#35
TIL Dr. Phil lost his license to practise psychology in 2006. Therefore, all guests on his TV show must sign a contract stating they are only there to receive "advice" from an individual, not a psychologist.
Elsker 5 years ago
make me wonder why he lost that license in the first place. Also, shouldn't they have changed the name to Phil Show, instead of still referring to him as a Dr. ? (maybe they did, i'm not sure. or baybe he had another doctorate..)
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
The doctorate is from the education, not the license. Also, he's a jerk.
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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Aunt Messy is incorrect. A doctor of philosophy degree (PhD) is a terminal degree, meaning it is "higher" than any professional degree, and therefore PhDs are the only experts qualified to teach every level of higher education. The word "doctor" is from the Latin word "docere" or "to teach". Physicians are called Dr as a professional courtesy. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/re-who-entitled-be-called-doctor#:~:text=entitles%20a%20person%20to%20use,work%20past%20the%20bachelor's%20degree.
Gareth Graham 5 years ago
Officially, he just never renewed it. It was valid in Texas, but he never filled out the paperwork to have it transfered to California. As to why? There are several different theories, but none confirmed
Lynda Marshall 5 years ago
He did not lose his licence. He relinquished it in order to avoid possible repercussions when he became a TV personality. He is still legally a "Dr" just not a practising one.
Azure Adams 5 years ago
I'm more qualified than he is with just a double masters but I have my license. Ha Ha!!!!!!
Kori K. Warriner 5 years ago
He didn't "lose" his license. He just allowed it to expire in Texas.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Why did he lose his licence? Is it because he can't have one and do the tv show so he gave it up, or is it something else? I'm quite surprised.
#36
TIL that Eminem watched his daughter, Hailie, get crowned homecoming queen from an empty classroom in the school because he didn't want to take the attention away from her.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Yeah, I agree. If you like rap music but not the topics I’d highly recommend NF :)
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#37
TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.
Elsker 5 years ago
knew this already, but it's still amazing. how on earth did he go thinking: hey, how about i attach a rod to my piano and stick it in my mouth?!
M O'Connell 5 years ago
It could have come from holding a tuning fork in his teeth while tuning said piano years before.
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TIL when Mr Rogers heard his limo driver was going to be waiting outside while Rogers was in a meeting, he asked the driver to come in. On the way back they passed the driver's home and Rogers asked if they could stop and meet his family. Rogers kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life
Alien_cos 5 years ago
Mr. Rogers is absolutely one of the kindest souls on earth. RIP Mr. Rogers May you not be angry over the craptacular place we call earth.
Jaybird3939 5 years ago
I have a picture of him and his saying "look for the helpers" on my fridge, to remind me of his goodness.
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
He was one of the few men who practiced what they preached, for that he deserves respect if nothing else.
#39
TIL The ashes of Stephen Hawking were buried between the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, in a section of Westminster Abbey known as the "Scientists Corner." As a final tribute, during the burial, the European Space Agency beamed recordings of Hawking's voice to the nearest black hole
Deena Salzman 5 years ago
I would assume his computer voice, which was unique and definitely a trademark.
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#40
TIL Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was having an affair so she followed him to a dimly lit basement and burst into the room only to find him and his friends hunched over hand drawn maps. Gary would go on to invent the role playing game "Dungeons and Dragons"
Norma 5 years ago
and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. At the time of his death in 2008, he was only worth $5 million. Think how much happiness he's brought people.
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
And after his wife discovered what he was really doing she replied, "I wish it had it been a blonde"... /s
SHSL Hope Bagel 5 years ago
SO THATS WHO INVENTED D&D I LOVE THAT SO MUCH WHO ELSE HERE PLAYS IT IM SORRY MY KEYBOARD IS MALFUNCTIONING ITS STUCK IN CAPS IM SORRY
Sasha Titus 5 years ago
Thank you for not having an affair Mr Gygax, your maps & dice & monsters are getting my through the pandemic
#41
TIL that Billy Joel never sells front row seats in order to see the real fans right in front of him. He gives them away to random people in the cheap seats so that front row isn't always just wealthy people
Carissa Unger 5 years ago
This happened to me!! I worked in the stadium where the concert took place and so I was in the standing room, way back. Nearly fainted when they pulled me aside and gave me tickets to 2nd row center. Billy tossed his harmonica to the person in front of me after Piano Man.
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
Well, they're not really CHEAP seats, just average seats
Der Kommissar 5 years ago
Some friends of mine saw him at Long Beach Arena in 1987. They were way up in the nosebleed section when an employee of Joel walked up and gave them and their friends 2nd row seats.
Tara Brooks 5 years ago
I don’t even think it’s solely about wealth. I think the people in the nosebleeds are often die hard fans. Filling your front row with them is smart
#42
TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%
Katinka Min 5 years ago
One of the achievements of breaking gender norms: Better connections between fathers and their children!
Edgar Rops 5 years ago
I got so many suspicious looks as recently as 9 years ago when I was walking with the pram...
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
I'm guessing this is a specific country's or possibly region's statistics, though.... I doubt it's international... yet.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
Great Britain. https://www.futurity.org/diaper-duty-is-last-step-in-dad-evolution
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WhatEvenIsLife 5 years ago
And yet, most men's restrooms (here in the U.S.) still don't have baby changing stations. And people still tend to give my husband the side-eye when he tells them he's a stay-at-home dad. But he's fantastic at it. Our kids are super happy, largely in thanks to him.
Todd Hunter 5 years ago
Good, the parents of my generation dropped the ball big time. I had TV dads as my fathers.
Marnie 5 years ago
That's great. We're finally getting back to more the traditional roles for men. Traditionally, men have been very involved with their children. One of the main concerns of most societies is rearing and eduction of children, and of course most people who ever lived didn't go to school, their families and neighbors taught them, including their fathers.
#43
TIL a man falsely imprisoned for 10 years spent most of his time at the library to study law and prove his innocence, and then became a lawyer to help free other people who have been falsely convicted.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Wow, what a way to make something out of a shitty situation. Hearing about Archie Williams story recently on AGT made me bawl my eyes out. I know it is probably complicated and I certainly don’t have an answer but there needs to be some way to stop innocent people from going to prison and losing part of their lives.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Countries also need to stop giving death sentences. There must be a scary amount of people who were executed for crimes they never committed.
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This is probably about Jarrett Adams. I would really like it if BP would tell us the names of people. I do have this suspicion that more often than not it is a person of colour when no name is given. Too bad! https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jarrett-adams-unlikely-path-prison-lawyer-msna700351
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Please support The Innocence Project. https://www.innocenceproject.org/
Sherry Hart 5 years ago
There’s a new TV series called “For Life”, maybe the inspiration is from this. It’s a family drama about an imprisoned man, Aaron Wallace, who becomes a lawyer. He litigates cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. It just got renewed for season 2.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Unfortunately this does seem to happen more in America than any other "civilised" country
#44
TIL Canadian researchers watched 40 episodes of 'The Dr. Oz Show' and found that nearly 40% of the medical advice is not evidence-based, and 15% goes directly against evidence.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Yeah I stopped watching him when he was contradicting so much genuine advice and he also promoted various brands of supplements, vitamins etc.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago (edited)
I had never watched it until today when I happened upon Alyssa Milano talking about her experience suffering from Covid-19. She mentioned the terror she felt about possibly having already spread it to her children. She also showed images of the dramatic hair loss she went through. (someone should show Donny & Boris those pics and they might actually take this seriously)
Load More Replies... Diana Dodd 5 years ago
Never watched any of these shows. That’s a real problem in the US. People watch these ridiculous shows and believe they are factually correct. Daytime television especially. Can’t even trust the educational channels anymore because they are littered with crap. Scary🤯
Mike Schneider 5 years ago
Stopped watching and listening to him years ago, he is just a Hollywood showman.
#45
TIL Six Georgia inmates out on work detail saved a Deputy Sheriff who collapsed unconscious. They could have taken his gun & fled with the work van but used the Deputy's phone to call 911. The Sheriff's Office gave the men a pizza party with homemade dessert & recommended reduced sentences.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Yeah there is. There is another one as well where a cop has a heart attack and the inmates awaiting trial or just in overnight (Not too sure), well they escaped the cells and helped save his life.
Load More Replies... Louloubelle 5 years ago
This is what we need to think about when we assume everyone that goes to jail is just a bad person. Sometimes they just make bad decisions.
#46
TIL in 1995, France found a man guilty of killing a teen girl, but he was able to avoid sentencing by hiding out in Germany. In 2009, the victim's father hired a team to kidnap the killer out of Germany and dump him in front of a French courthouse. It worked, and he is now serving 15 years.
Marie 5 years ago
It happened in France! The sentences are generally far lower than what you would find in the US (and the criminality rate is much lower too). I think it tops at 30 years for an unplanned murder. A life sentence is reserved for a planned murder. Also, the sentences don't add, you have to execute the longest one only. And of course, there are automatic sentence reduction if you act somewhat correctly while in jail.
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Katinka Min 5 years ago
? weird. We have INterpol in Europe. There was a couple who killed their toddler. They were found an Hungary two days later and returend and prosecuted. I can't ee how this could actually happen.
Ryukei Panda 5 years ago (edited)
In France, the legal system and sanctions are completely different than in the US for instance. There is no death penalty. There is no "real" life sentence - but 2 options for it: 1/ Life sentence can actually be reviewed after 30 years for 3 very specific crimes: * murder with either rape or torture on a minor less than 15 yo. * murder by one or an organized group of a person representing the authority (police, juge, etc) * terrorist acts 2/ Every other crime including murder, rape, etc that gets a "life sentence" can be reveiewed after get 22 years in prison. This means that after this amount of years, the sanction can be reduced or even stopped.
Iwan Pretorius 5 years ago
The Victim's Father was also arrested and sentenced for kidnapping.
hobbitly 5 years ago (edited)
He was given a one-year suspended jail sentence.
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He killed the man's daughter. He was married to the ex-wife and was the daughter's stepfather. Nasty all around, and he was a doctor. The father finally had to get justice any way he could.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
I wonder whether killers and molesters of children are treated by other imates the same in French prisons as they are in US ones. If so, 15 years might have been a life sentence.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Why was he not deported by Germany? If it had been the other way round and France holding a murderer there would have been absolute hell.
#47
TIL: Nirvana played a concert in Beunos Aires where the crowd threw mud and trash at the all-girl opening act. Kurt Cobain was so upset that he sabotaged the show by playing mostly lesser known songs and teasing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' without ever playing it.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
The opening act was "Calamity Jane" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane_(1990s_band)
Gonzalo Terán 5 years ago
I was there. Worst show I´ve ever been to. When Foo Fighters was ´bout to perform for the first time in Argentina, Dave Grohl, former Nirvana drummer at that time, apologise himself for that show to the argentine media. I was at that first FF show. One of the best ever I attended.
Theodore Theodora 5 years ago
Or he could have... directly addressed it the moment it started? I mean, good that he was upset by it, but "let me give you a less than ideal concert" is hardly fit punishment for this horrendous misogyny.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
http://www.ethicalbrands.com/en/what-to-do-when-you-are-offended-by-a-crowds-behavior/
#48
TIL that in the 1950's, donut shops were some of the first food businesses commonly open late at night. They became hot spots for police working the night shift since it gave them a place to grab a snack, fill out paper work, or even just take a break. This is why donuts became associated with cops.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
We don’t really have many donut shops where I live so we see more coppers at Maccas than anywhere else. We also see a lot of coppers jaywalking to get to the maccas. ALL the bloody time.
Stephanie Did It 5 years ago
It's also because donuts can sit in a car for hours and not go bad, so officers on stakeouts or other situations can have them on hand.
Diana Dodd 5 years ago
They usually go to donut shops because they can use the facilities as well. Also, the donut shops like having the cops around. How many donut shops do you know that get robbed?
Martin Roy 5 years ago
In Winnipeg Canada, a local neighbourhood Police office is in a strip mall, right next to a donut shop.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Oh I thought it was because they spend more time eating donuts than actually doing their jobs
Ripley 5 years ago
I imagine it would also be a boost to security for the shop, if it's known as a cop hangout.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Are you sure it isn't because 80% of the US cops are overweight? It's a huge problem according to a FBI report on the matter.
#49
TIL BBC journalists requested an interview with Facebook because they weren't removing child abuse photos. Facebook asked to be sent the photos as proof. When journalists sent the photos, Facebook reported the them to the police because distributing child abuse imagery is illegal
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
Its facebook. This crap doesn't surprise me anymore. Autocorrect even wants me to change it to Facebook... Please consider deleting your account if you still use it. Or at least consider using firefox's facebook containers and privacy badger addon.
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Azure Adams 5 years ago
Facebook started it. That is what the journalists can say and show the request for the pictures which makes facebook culpable as well.
#50
TIL a waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her colleagues for their share. Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket. Then she was kidnapped by her ex husband, and shot him in the chest. Then she went to court against the IRS
Elsker 5 years ago
wowwww!! the poor woman... so first you're to cheap to give her a real tip, and then you go and sue her for winning?? how about just give them fair wages and skip the whole tipping-process...
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
She’s called Tonda Dickerson. She lost a court case and had to share the money, then got that overturned, then won a bunch of other lawsuits and then gave most of what was left to friends and family to set up businesses etc. After all the lawsuits she apparently wasn’t left with much and she now works as a poker dealer in Mississippi.
Load More Replies... Katinka Min 5 years ago
F*****g hell.... I mean, ok, if the deal really is that tips are all shared, I get the first court case, but the second? If you give away your ticket, you gave away your ticket. That'S it.
Banjo Peppers 5 years ago
Why did she go to court against the irs? Why would you not just pocket the ticket and not tell anyone about it?
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago (edited)
The IRS would know, regardless. And you failed to claim the winnings on your taxes, that's tax evasion, punishable by heavy fines and prison time.
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TIL the crew of 'Return of the Jedi' mocked the character design of Admiral Ackbar, deeming it too ugly. Director Richard Marquand refused to alter it, saying, "I think it's good to tell kids that good people aren't necessarily good looking people and that bad people aren't necessarily ugly people."
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Usually evil people are good looking. Lucifer was allegedly the best looking angel before God damned him
François Carré 5 years ago
I guess his appearance even made him one of the most memorable characters of Star Wars. Watch any random scene of the movies : if you spot Admiral Ackbar somewhere in the crowd, then you know these are the good guys.
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
Anakin DEFINITELY wasn't ugly but- wait was he good or bad? I guess I'd say he was a good person, he just was tempted in bad ways though.
#52
TIL a Georgia teacher who bought a $400 travel insurance policy was rewarded $10,000 because she read the fine print of the contract. After reading to page 7, she saw a “Pays to Read” bit that said the first to email and mention the fine print contest would win 10K.
#53
TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
I've seen so many employers lose good employees because of one toxic person, and none of the toxic people I knew were even very good at their jobs.
Load More Replies... Katinka Min 5 years ago
It is incredibly how much damage some people can do. Emotionally and economically.
D. Pitbull 5 years ago
As someone who has simply been 'in the working world' (ie: out of school) ... I learned this within 5 years... at first.. it was just "oh, well, bad luck of the draw..." then ... "are all workplaces like this???" Now... we can even mention "you know how EVERY workplace as THAT PERSON...or even a bunch of them." and yet... they still hire them... and promote them... and then blame the decent ones for the 'lack of profit'...
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
It's similar to advertising; a few bad customer reviews can ruin your $1 million PR campaign. But a lot of businesses still think that any publicity is good, even bad publicity.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
I mean if you consider the country a business our president, “CEO” confirms this
Petra Christovová 5 years ago
And imagine workplace which has more of such toxic workers .... ugh. Tenth circle of hell.
#54
TIL there was an early 1900s act named "Sober Sue", who's draw was she never smiled. A theater offered $1000 to any one who could make her laugh, attracting big comedians. Crowds came out to watch them try, and fail, giving them a free show. Later it came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis.
Azure Adams 5 years ago
She got the last laugh on them and used that supposed "handicap" to make money
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Saw this on mysteries of the museum on travel channel. They were very unhappy when they found out the truth. Everyone was duped
#55
TIL there's a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu.
Saico Hipe 5 years ago
OH MY DEAR GOD SHUT UP AND TAKE ALL MY MONEY AND ALSO ANY INTERNAL ORGANS ADDITIONALLY REQUIRED FOR PAYMENT GARRRRGFJFJGJFNFKFI
#56
TIL planned obsolescence is illegal in France; it is a crime to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. In early 2018, French authorities used this law to investigate reports that Apple deliberately slowed down older iPhones via software updates
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago (edited)
Obsolescence is so common nowadays. Most new appliances never last, whereas you see things from say 1950s etc that are still working after so many decades. I have a tellus vacuum cleaner, already old when I got it from it's previous life as a shop vac(as in a metal and woodworking shop vac!). Outperforms and outlasts any other vacuum my friends and family have had. It still has the power to lift fitted carpet, it's brilliant :)
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Part of the problem is that consumers don't view appliances as an investment in convenience, as many of them have never lived without such appliances before. And because those items are "necessary" they choose to pay as little as possible for them. The quality manufacturers still exist, but the clientele willing to pay for those items is small.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Part of the problem is that people think different today. Why would I spent $500 on an item when I can have something that does the same for $100? And even if it breaks after 1 year, I still have $400 saved so I can buy a new one for $100.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
Just buy a shop vac with wheels & then buy whatever level of filter for it. That's the best vacuum I've ever used & it cost about $25.
#57
TIL the Japanese bullet train system is equipped with a network of sensitive seismometers. On March 11, 2011, one of the seismometers detected an 8.9 magnitude earthquake 12 seconds before it hit and sent a stop signal to 33 trains. As a result, only one bullet train derailed that day.
Azure Adams 5 years ago
The bullet train is one of the world's most impressive inventions. Yet only Japan is smart enough to use it
#58
TIL a fan drove three hours to deliver rapper, Boozie Badazz, a much needed dosage of insulin. She refused to accept payment and instead asked for just a photo. On her way home she stopped at a store, bought a scratch off ticket, and won $10,000.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
LOL What kind of a stupid stage name is “boozie badazz“? Sounds like a 12 year old came up with that.
#59
TIL that Persian King Agha Mohammad Khan ordered the execution of two servants for being too loud. Since it was a holy day, he postponed their execution by a day and made the servants return to their duties. They murdered the king in his sleep that night
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
I bet they were still executed... just in a more gruesome way than planned before.
#60
TIL an 86-year-old wrote an upbeat review for her local paper about a new Olive Garden. She was mercilessly mocked by the Internet. Anthony Bourdain thought she had a valuable POV on small town dining. So he published a book of her reviews.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
People on the internet can be so cruel. The messed up part is they would never say the things they say on the internet to the persons face making them nothing more than keyboard cowards
Just JoLynn 5 years ago
Being mocked by the internet doesn't mean anything. Her writing style and honest point of view lead her down a path to review many high end restaurants.
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
That is so mean of the media. I have this thing where I am like, super nice to old people. Like, they're just so nice and sweet and kind of innocent in their own way. Never be mean to the elderly.
#61
TIL a woman was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning her child to death with antifreeze. She gave birth to a second child while in prison, who was given to foster care. But he became sick with the same symptoms, indicating a genetic metabolic disorder, not poisoning. She was later released.
DC 5 years ago
Oh my ... these cases are really tragic and may cause a lot of bitterness. There isn't always something revealing that the most unlikely thing, happening once in a million, actually did happen - most times, you're kinda screwed then. I read about a guy having a disorder that, basically, made his inners a little brewery, so he was constantly drunk without drinking a single drop ... he was fired, sued the company, ... he eventually got his job back, but before, he was even sent into a mental institution because, after they checked his blood alcohol level when he had said he didn't drink, and it wasn't zero, making them see a liar in him. I wonder how many cases of this kind go unnoticed forever...
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
I've heard of that with kids who have the disease where their bones break easily.
Ava Lasley 4 years ago
Osteogenesis Imperfecta, where you have brittle bones. Many parents are arrested on suspicions of child abuse.
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#62
TIL the FBI has struggled to hire hackers because of the FBI hiring rule that the applicant must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years.
grace koncsicsv 5 years ago
yeah for sure. you certainly want the people helping keep the entire country out of nuclear war high :P why not? i would love to have a pot head keeping us safe.
Load More Replies... Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I’ve never used drugs, never will. Don’t see the appeal in using an illegal substance for a temporary high, and losing partial control of my facilities. Same thing goes for alcohol, I’d much rather be in full command of my body. I should apply.
Kori K. Warriner 5 years ago
Aside from hair testing, how is it even possible to prove that someone hasn't used marijuana in the past three years?
CatWoman312 5 years ago
I had a friend who wanted to work for the fbi and he used me as a reference. I had to meet in person and they asked me all sorts of questions about him. The thing is he wasn’t even a close friend more or less an acquaintance so it was weird he used me as a reference. Apparently they recommend using not close friends so they can get a more honest answer
Katinka Min 5 years ago
If they are unable to bend that rule, well...someone else will hire them.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
But they're probably fine if they drink like fish.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
The funny thing is, the people I know that smoke weed are some of the hardest working people I know.
Katy McMouse 5 years ago
You're damn right! And the most honest, in my experience.
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#63
TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive.
Saico Hipe 5 years ago
I WONDERED why Archive.org was getting such a crazy influx of old VHS tapes. WOW YES ♥️
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
Oh dang... If only she had started a decade earlier, she might have saved the missing Dr Who episodes.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
It's wonderful that she made the investment to do that! I wish there were someone in Chicago who did the same, we might finally be able to see all the lost episodes of Bozo.
Keryl Cryer 5 years ago
There is a documentary about this called “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project.”
#64
TIL a local folk remedy in Boho, Ireland was to place soil from the local church under a pillow while you slept to cure infections. In 2018 a microbiologist found the churchyard's soil contains a previously unknown strain of streptomyces which can be used to create antibiotics
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
And that, Ladies & Gentlemen, is why you should ask the local wisemen and wisewomen. They may not know why it works, but they do know that it works!
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
And now they're finding that there are about 500 billion tons of magnetite around Bermuda, which could affect compasses in ships and planes.
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TIL when the Nazis burned Sigmund Freud's books he said, "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
Freud set psychotherapy back decades. "It was your mother here take some cocaine"
Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
I would tend to agree. I once had the misfortune of being referred to a therapist who was an ardent follower of Freud. Imagine a young teenaged girl, sitting in front of a 70+ y/o creep spending 50 minutes trying to convince her that she's depressed because she secretly wants to sleep with her dad. 🤦🏻♀️
Load More Replies... Deena Salzman 5 years ago
Right! The Nazis totally would have burned him too.
Load More Replies... Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
If you don't get this, this is a Sam O'Nella reference. I will almost always comment this when there's a post about Freud.
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TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.
aussie snowdropper 5 years ago (edited)
tell me he gave her the $2.50 then kept the $315.3 million for himself lol
#67
TIL 29-yr-old Marine veteran Taylor Winston stole a truck to drive victims of the Las Vegas shooting to the hospital. He and his girlfriend made 2 trips having to pick only the most critically injured 10 - 15 people each time after helping boost others over a fence away from the shooter.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
This is a rare circumstance where 'commandeered' would be more appropriate.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
I would have been okay with my vehicle being stolen if it was for something like this
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
this is amazing. We were there that weekend on vacation and weirder still we were supposed to go to that concert but at the last minute we decided to do something else because we didn't want to spend the money and didn't feel like being in a huge crowd. Meanwhile, my boss was there too (I did not know this until the following week) he and his wife helped get people out and deliver water bottles to victims. The last day we were there (my hubby and I, not my boss and I) we were walking down the strip (the part not blocked off) and decided to leave and head home. As soon as we got in the car a bunch of calls and texts came through because family had just heard breaking news that a shooter had just shot off a bus and injured a couple people. We had just left the spot it happened. Needless to say it was a very weird weekend. My heart still goes out to everyone involved.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Thank you for your service, both in the Marines and in Las Vegas. This is an occasion where the end justifies the means
#68
TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.
Laugh or not 5 years ago
Union works to better your job conditions and salaries. That's how all the labor laws came to be: paid leave, sick leave, decent salary, limited work-hours.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Still don’t understand why entertainers get paid as much as they do and teachers get paid so little but here we are.
Jessica 5 years ago
there was just an article saying the show was almost cancelled because the network couldn't afford their high demanded salaries.
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
Where can I find Friends? It's not on Netflix and I don't have Hulu...
#69
TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
And Michael Jordan has always been a jerk.
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Vytas Navickas 5 years ago
he also was called out for trying to welsh on his golfing lost bets
Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
Pippin was even worse than Jordan. I heard he was known as "No Tippin Pippin" around Chicagoland
#70
TIL Dennis Ritchie who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of effectively every software system we use on a daily basis died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored
The Cute Cat 5 years ago
This is sad.. Master Richie is a mountain when compared to Steve Job..
Katinka Min 5 years ago
But Jobs was better at publicity. Same with Eddison and Tesla. Let's hope, history catches up on this discrepancy, too, eventually.
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#71
TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.
#72
TIL that Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfather books who’d also adapted them to film, had no idea what he was doing as he’d never written a screenplay before. After winning two Oscars, he decided to buy a book on screenwriting to learn how. In the first chapter, it said “Study Godfather I”.
#73
TIL Eminem's song "Lose Yourself" was the first rap song to win an Oscar for Best Original Song, but Eminem did not even watch the awards because he did not think he stood a chance at winning. Instead, he fell asleep watching cartoons with his daughter.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Marshal Mathers is actually a stand-up guy, despite his problematic alter ego.
#74
TIL Carrie Fisher told her fans: "No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
Kathrine Rux 5 years ago
i told my mom and sister if i die just assume my last words were "ill be back" or "ill never die in a way that counts"
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
Unless you die in a way so silly you end up in an episode of Horrible Histories at the segment "Stupid Deaths", ooohoo...
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Cynthia Souza 5 years ago
Her response to George Lucas deciding she should not wear a bra under her Princess Leia costume. He said it would float up and strangle her in the weightlessness of space.
#75
TIL that in ancient Rome, commoners would evacuate entire cities in acts of revolt called "Secessions of the Plebeians", leaving the elite in the cities to fend for themselves
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Just curious about the word plebian? Does anyone know it's definition/meaning? (Just coz 'pleb' is a slang insult that I've never understood where it came from, wondering if this could be an origin)
Laugh or not 5 years ago
It is one of the class of free men, as opposed to patricians. Patricians were descendents of Romulus' companions and part of multiple-branch families called gens. Plebeians were free men with no patronym. The two classes were opposed several times due to power imbalance.
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#76
TIL A man created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor and asked around for good reviews. Eventually, the fake restaurant was the #1 restaurant in London, and was being called up 100s of times daily for bookings. For a day, the man set up a “cafe” in his backyard and served frozen food to rave reviews.
#77
TIL After Martin Luther King was killed in 1968, his funeral was held at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and a small group of current students were chosen to be ushers for his funeral. One of those ushers was Samuel L. Jackson.
lara 5 years ago
One of the saddest days in my life and in America. I still mourn his death but celebrate the man.
Blue of the yams (They/He) 5 years ago
Me, too. He was a hero to us all. Not perfect, no, but a hero nonetheless.
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#78
TIL that Pink Floyd's The Wall is implied to be an endless loop. The final song, Outside the Wall, ends with the words "Isn't this where...", and the album begins with the words "... we came in?" with a continuation of the melody of the last song, hinting at the cyclical nature of Water's theme
Corey Smith 5 years ago
I have The Wall on vinyl that my dad gave me years ago. The last song is "Hey You," which is apparently fairly rare.
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
Was my favorite album at 17. Still is 30 years later. And I still love new music 💕
M O'Connell 5 years ago
I don't know this for a fact, but that almost implies the album was mixed specifically for 8-track tape, as it would run through all 4 album-sides, and then repeat at the beginning unless playback was stopped.
#79
TIL that in “Forrest Gump,” when his microphone is cut off at the rally, what you don’t hear him say is “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
There goes America and the Soviet Union, making another country fight itself!
#80
TIL that the Mythbusters once tested a combination of common materials that made an extremely powerful explosive. They deleted the tapes and swore to never release the information, then contacted DARPA and warned them about the possibility of misuse from the combination.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
This happened to a woman in Miami after people were shooting in the air. The bullet came through her roof & killed her. There are always a few accidental shootings in Miami at New Year's. My friend used to hide under her bed at midnight.
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TIL Garden Veggie Straws, which shows fresh vegetables on the bag, and are promoted as a healthy alternative to chips, are actually made of salt, starch, and tomato paste. They have less nutrition than actual potato chips and the manufacturer, which has a history of false claims, is now being sued
Lsai Aeon 5 years ago
Do people not read ingredients on their foods, like on a regular basis? "Oh it saz FUD, imma just shove it in my face hole"
#82
TIL that in 1998 Sony had the chance to buy the rights to almost every Marvel character for 25 million. They opted to only buy the rights to Spider-Man for just 7 million, stating, "Nobody gives a shit about the other Marvel characters."
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
That it was for the best! Coz sony would have destroyed them all, and we wouldn't actually have gotten the most famous franchise till now, the MCU. Point is even if they did acquire it there would have been no MCU
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#83
TIL Seth Putnam, lead singer of the grindcore band Anal Cunt, wrote a song making fun of comatose people called ‘You’re in a Coma’. Putnam himself was in a coma years later, and after waking remarked that “being in a coma was just as fuckin’ stupid as I wrote it was”.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
It really is weird. I thought I was skiing, invented several movie scripts and a video game, was part of several drink driving commercials, and so so much more (tunnels, special rooms of damaged ornaments...) It was only a few weeks I was in the deep coma, but I lived for several months. Got a new flat. Spent time with my friend who had died suddenly several months before my coma. Just before I came out of it she was going on a cruise (according to my coma) but I knew she was gna die and begged her to stay, or let me come with her. She said I couldn't, but she would be ok. It was weird
#84
TIL that a depressed Manchester teen used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, and after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history to be charged with inciting their own murder
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
I m more interested in the fact of how he did it? What did he had to say to convince a person who liked him to kill him. How do u even convince someone for a murder without having any tiff or motive .it's murder for godssake. He also had to sound different in his personas, as to not arouse suspicion. How influenced his frnd was to take murder advice from strangers and likely talk about murder for hours. Maybe he knew and wanted to help him.
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#85
TIL that an outlaw isn't any mere criminal, but rather a criminal who has been sentenced to be "outside of the protection of the law". He has no right to trial, and can be killed or persecuted by anybody.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
When did we last use this term? I only remember it during the Wild West times
Just JoLynn 5 years ago
In the 20s and 30s with gangsters/mob and bank robbers.
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Ludwig Michiel 5 years ago
This penalty is what's called "civil death": you can be killed by anyone, without it being considered murder, because legally you're already dead.
#86
TIL that a Polish environmental charity put a SIM card in a GPS tracker to follow the migratory pattern of a white stork. They lost track of the stork and later received a phone bill for $2,700; someone in Sudan had taken the SIM from the tracker and made over 20 hours of calls.
#87
TIL Martin Short, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks have regular ‘colonoscopy parties’ where they prep together overnight and share one car on the ride to get their colonoscopies the next day
Panda Kicki 5 years ago
How often do they need to do colonoscopy? Glad they can do something positive from it.
#88
TIL the creators of "Parks and Recreation" did research for the show by interviewing actual government officials. One said, "Well, I’m a libertarian, so I don’t really believe in the mission of my job. Yes, I’m aware of the irony." The character of Ron Swanson was born.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
None of the government officials really believe in the mission of their job, as we have witnessed in the last year.
#89
TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
"Scooby-Doo can doo-doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter!" ~Homer J Simpson
#90
TIL Costco's hot dog has remained $1.50 since it was first introduced in 1984. After the company president complained they were losing money on it, CEO Jim Sinegal put his foot down. "If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you," Sinegal said.
#91
TIL “Military Grade” is just a marketing ploy. In the actual military, “military grade” means “meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least.”
Bill 5 years ago (edited)
Unless it is electronics then it has a 1% tolerance. The components on most electronics are 20-30% tolerance
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Not in a damn-long-time, Bill. I work in the electronics manufacturing industry. 20% tolerance is standard for electrolytic caps, but everything else is far better, all SMD resistors are better than 5% tolerance, with most being 1%. Try doing a parametric search at an electronics supplier, out of 32,000 capacitor listings, only 58 were listed with 30% tolerance. And in the modern era of digital electronics, there aren't very many passives anyway! And, speaking as someone who has worked on the design of hardware for military use, MIL-HDBK-199 only specifies that resistors for military use must have a documented component failure rate, not any special tolerance.
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TIL United Airlines had assured a blind woman that they would help her off the plane but only after the other passengers had gotten off, before forgetting about her and locking the plane up with her in it after everybody else had left
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
What?? That is seriously f****d. I can’t believe NO one noticed, that is disgusting.
Amanita Virosa 5 years ago
I looked this up; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/blind-woman-abandoned-on-airplane-1.886350. United gave her a $250 dollar voucher for her inconvenience.
Ava Lasley 4 years ago
only 250???? she is a BLIND woman, who was assured by the COMPANY that she would be ESCORTED OFF OF THE PLANE!!! I say around 1-2,000 or discounted flights for life, if she ever was going to go back to a place that treated her that way. Also why after all the other passengers? Maybe if they were going to bring her out first they wouldn't have forgotten her!!!
Load More Replies... abby smink 5 years ago
Not that it makes it ok, because it doesn't, but was she also deaf and mute? Couldn't she tell that everyone else was leaving, or had left, and then call out for help from the flight crew? I'm so confused.
Chris Jones 5 years ago
At what point would she be aware that the last person was leaving? She wouldn't have been able to tell. Contrary to popular belief you don't get super hearing, you might be more reliant on it but that's all.
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#93
TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
It's like the song version of keeping a cord for years, finally chucking it then finding the thing it went to not long after *facepalm*
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I’m gonna fight them all. A seven nation army couldn’t hold me back. They’re gonna rip it off, taking their time right behind my back. And I’m talking to myself at night because I can’t forget. Back and forth through my mind behind a cigarette. And the message coming from my eyes says “Leave it alone” *incredible guitar riff*
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TIL: This year, the official Yu Gi Oh tournament hosted by Konami instituted a hygiene clause to rulebook. This allows judges to penalize players with dirty clothing or terrible odor by giving them a loss. Super Smash Bros tournament have also started implementing similar rules.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Some gamers are literally addicted and as such they can't be bothered with trivialities as personal hygiene or changing of clothes.
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Monty Is Fiennes 5 years ago
Wow...... poor kids are NOT by definition dirty OR smelly.....If you had ever been poor you would know that....ohhhh you're probably just a dirty, smelly troll....
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TIL That while filming Tokyo Drift, they couldn't get a permit to film a scene. They filmed it anyway, and the studio hired a fall guy to claim to be the director and spend a night in jail.
Combine Elite Soldier 5 years ago
Hopefully, this 'fall guy' was okay with it and wasn't forced.
#96
TIL only three people in the nation were qualified to hand-pack the parachutes for Apollo 15. Their expertise was so vital, they were not allowed to ride in the same car together for fear that a single auto accident could cripple the space program.
Zoe's Mom 5 years ago
This is done with CEO's of major companies. None of them fly together for the same fear.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
No one wants another "day the music died" type of loss I guess :( sensible
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TIL: Teddy Roosevelt was chosen as Vice President due to his support of anti-trust reform, and conservatives knew the VP had little power. Six months into the term, President McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became President, ushering in an unprecedented era of anti-trust and labor reforms.
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
And this is why in 2016 I didn't vote for president-elect, I voted for who I thought would make the better president after the president-elect would be assassinated. I'm shocked and amazed there hasn't been a hit on him yet (and I was equally convinced had Hillary won there would be a hit out on her too).
BG 5 years ago
This time around, we're all just voting for a party platform and holding our noses.
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#98
TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a CIA operative noticed soccer fields on a Cuban Military Base. “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer”
#99
TIL in Lord of War starring Nicholas Cage, they bought 3000 real guns for the filming because it was cheaper to buy real guns and resell later than buying props. They also rented 50 tanks which were only available for a short period because the source had to sell them to Libya later
#100
TIL Jim Carrey was the first actor to have three films go straight to number one in the same year. The year was 1994, and the films were The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Dumb and Dumber.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
That doesn't say much for the public. Nice guy, but those movies were awful.
#101
TIL apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes.
Katrina B. 5 years ago (edited)
I can attest having worked with chimps who know how to sign, this isn't true. Tatu would ask for colors, masks, and play dress up. The chimps I worked with did ask these questions but because it wasn't being "studied" it wasn't published.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Ask for stuff, sure. But did Tatu ever ask for information? Like the name if something, or where you go when you leave?
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Chimps can “lie“, which requires you to know someone doesn't know something you do. So this is definitely not true. Chimps have been observed deceiving other chimps many times.
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
I think the key word here is 'ask' in any form. They certainly learn by imitation, but I suppose they don't have curiosity for curiosity's sake.
Guada Narbaitz 5 years ago
They dont have imagination, basically. They cant "imagine" anything beyond the things they know.
#102
TIL Washington Redskins' owner Dan Snyder once cut down trees along the Potomac River so that he could see it from his house. The trees were located in a national park, and a ranger who raised concern about the issue was raided by US Marshals
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manon M 5 years ago
long live the translators !! see, you did very well ;p
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Miss Kitty 5 years ago
All the information we have read here is from a reddit thread named "Today I learned", which was stated at the beginning of this article. And we get it. So, was it REALLY necessary to put "TIL" at the beginning of every damn sentence? It was SO frustrating! Otherwise it was an interesting article.
Pansexual (In theory) 5 years ago
The most interesting (and perhaps disturbing) thing I've learned? Male echidnas have four-headed penises.
Among Us 5 years ago
It would have cost you nothing to say that and yet you did...
Load More Replies... manon M 5 years ago
long live the translators !! see, you did very well ;p
Load More Replies... Miss Kitty 5 years ago
All the information we have read here is from a reddit thread named "Today I learned", which was stated at the beginning of this article. And we get it. So, was it REALLY necessary to put "TIL" at the beginning of every damn sentence? It was SO frustrating! Otherwise it was an interesting article.
Pansexual (In theory) 5 years ago
The most interesting (and perhaps disturbing) thing I've learned? Male echidnas have four-headed penises.
Among Us 5 years ago
It would have cost you nothing to say that and yet you did...
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