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‘Today I Learned’: 35 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School (New Pics)
Life's a never-ending rollercoaster of education, fun facts, and interesting trivia. And the ride's free if you're willing to stay curious all your life. One of the best places to expand your mind on a daily basis is the ‘Today I Learned' subreddit, boasting over 25.2 million members, over 12 years of service on Reddit, and a community that values curiosity and learning above all else.
We've collected some of the most interesting recent things that the TIL community shared for you to expand your minds with, dear Pandas, so go on and have a look below. And when you're done and if you're thirsting for more knowledge like a true Ravenclaw, you'll find our earlier posts about the TIL subreddit right over here, and here, as well as here.
Separating fact from fiction, however, isn't as easy as it might seem when scrolling through the TIL subreddit. Especially when different authority figures whom we trust say different things. I spoke about learning to separate the truth from falsehoods and how to diplomatically challenge people who might be wrong with Lenore Skenazy, the president of Let Grow and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. Read on for her full and in-depth interview with Bored Panda.
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#1
In World War 1, Nobel prize winning physicist Marie Curie developed mobile X-Ray stations to travel to the frontlines and assist army surgeons and preventing amputations when limbs were still intact. It's estimated that over a million wounded soldiers were x-rayed with her units.
Lady Vader 4 years ago
Is she? We all know Marie Curie was a motherforkin' badash bench!!!
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
She was ahead of her time in so many ways. What more could she have discovered if she had lived another twenty years.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Wow, that's awesome. Such a shame that her discovery is likely what caused her death. She has helped save billions of lives and will continue to do so for generations to come.
Marie-Eve Poulin 4 years ago
She drove one of those mobile X-Ray truck herself to the near front. And that's only one of her unknown unbelievable achievement. Such an awesome woman.. all my restesp and admiration for everything she have done in her admirable life!
Mihran Hovnanian 4 years ago
In spite of the fact This post is #1 and i knew this already... it's still underrated!!
abby smink 4 years ago
I already knew this. Mostly because I did a Google search trying to find out how old portable x-ray machines actually are, because frequently when I turn up with mine, patients will act like it's some brand new technology 🤣🤣 lol
Eliza 4 years ago
What THE HELL? Again- HER.NAME.WAS. Maria SKŁODOWSKA Curie. She was polish, than she married french guy.
KitKatss 4 years ago
Yeah, it is true but I guess people prefer to say Curie because it's shorter and easier to say, my surname is Polish and so many people have a hard time saying it or spelling it, I've memorised it's letters because of how many times I've had to spell it out 😂😂
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Dave Thomas (the founder of Wendy's) was a high-school dropout. He was afraid his success would convince teens to drop out of school, so at age 60, he went back and got his GED.
The Chosen One 4 years ago
I can't tell who's in your profile pic but it looks like Phillipa Sue
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Felicor Bongolan 4 years ago
It's good to hear that some people are aware of their influence on others and try to be better.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I agree to some degree. Some people just don't cope and really struggle with learning in a school setting, so expecting them to finish school isn't always helpful. Some people learn better being hands on, so they would likely benefit more from an apprenticeship/traineeship or a course more suitable to their needs. There is no way I could have finished high school, i didn't even finish year 10 but I still have options. I could do a bridging course to help get to a year 12 level. So leaving high school is not the end of the world.
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AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Once upon a time, a man named Harland Sanders started a franchise with someone due to his ever so popular fried chicken recipe, after inventing a contraption to cook it and infuse all the seasonings (pressure cooker) That franchise went so well he went to another location where a very young line cook worked. He took Dave Thomas under his wing (pun intended) and taught him how to properly cook. Dave ran the franchise for a while until he decided he wanted to venture on his own.... (so KFC essentially started Wendy's)
Cleo the dachshund 4 years ago
that's a win win he became the founder of Wendy's and got GED at 60 now that's cool
Nyneva Kyte 4 years ago
Not sure how getting your GED proves to kids you shouldn't drop out of school. It's literally the thing you do when you've dropped out of school.
Vorknkx 4 years ago
People who say "(some famous person) dropped out of college and succeeded" need to be constantly reminded that there are 7 billion people on the planet, but only ONE (famous person). So chances are, you won't be the next one to become famous and successful, no matter howm any times you drop out of college.
#3
Icelandic horses are not allowed to leave the country. If they do, they are banned from returning. This is because Iceland is an island so they have limited diseases, and this is another measure to prevent it.
Virgil Sanders 4 years ago
The horse in the picture looks so fluffy! I want to pet it
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Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago
Iceland was quarantaining before it was cool. Also, lovely pony!
Em Wal 4 years ago
I think they mean if someone were to buy and/or transport a horse to another country, then the horse could not be brought back.
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Took me a couple of seconds to figure out how they could leave the country and come back.
Trond Hermansen 4 years ago
. Icelandic horses can have up to two more gaits than regular horses, but these gaits are not unique to the Icelandic horse, other horse races can have them too, but Icelandic horses are bred specifically for these gaits. Tölt and running pace. Icelandic horses are the breeding result of the different types of horses that were brought to Iceland by the Viking settlers during the 7th and 8th century. In 930 it was made into law that you couldn't bring more horses to Iceland. This was to prevent diseases. This law has been in effect ever since. When riders compete outside Iceland they ofte sell their horses before returning home. No horses can be brought back to Iceland once they have left. Viking chieftains opted to convert to Christianity around the year 1000. Else the Norwegian king would invade Iceland. They were allowed to continue to eat horse meat – otherwise they would have had a hard time sustaining themselves in the harsh climate.
Mz Phit 4 years ago
Yes! It's a completely different ride, from what I understand. They traditionally use a technique similar to saddle seat. And OMG can they MOVE FAST in their gaits! (I watch way too many horse instagrams...lol)
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Margrét Hauks 4 years ago
Not really true.. no other breed can come to Iceland, but its true that also icelandic horses cant return if theyve been abroad. But they can and do export them.
Learning something new and figuring out what's fact, what's fiction, and what's opinion is difficult to do with the flood of information that's easily available to us. However, that same vast store of information that we have access to can be our greatest boon if we learn to swim, dive, and sail through it all.
Finding out that something's actually (not) true even though the beloved authority figures in our lives have been stating differently can fire us up and make us want to confront them. However, if we're not diplomatic and merely want to rub it in their faces that they were wrong, we can end up losing an even greater learning opportunity.
#4
Danny DeVito did the dub for his role as the titular character in The Lorax (2012) in Russian, German, Italian, Catalan, and Castilian Spanish, despite not speaking any of those languages
Ki Li 4 years ago
I've never heard anything bad about him. A lot of celebrities have some sort of scandal or negative impression on fans.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
He must have had an incredible vocal coach just to nail the pronunciation.
Martz Migraña 4 years ago (edited)
In the Spanish dub (the one I watched) he's often mispronounced words, but because of the nature of his character, and the projection of his voice you don't really notice nor care about it, it just sounds like intentionally mispronounced and works perfectly 😁
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Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
That was HIM? I understood him! In German he has a freaky accent, something like a mix of Spanish and Polish... Very Interesting...
#5
Dogs and cats circle around before bedding down as a throwback to their wild ancestors. Their survival instincts provoked them to position themselves in the direction of the wind to pick up predator scents and choose the best angle for keeping an eye on the environment.
sylvantic 4 years ago
idk tho i'm pretty sure my dog does it to get his blankets just right. he stole a sleeping bag and won't give it back.
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Nathan Jones 4 years ago
They do. Who ever wrote this pulled it out of their ass.
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Donkey boi 4 years ago
I saw a documentary that said that the strongest evidence for doing that, and circling before they poop, is actually due to the earth's magnetic field, which a lot of animals (Dogs, pigeons and cows included) are really sensitive to, it's why free-roaming cows around the world are often facing the same direction at the same time. I can't remember what it was call or who hosted it but it was really interesting.
J. Ryan 4 years ago
I have a dog that spins so many circles before he poops that I get dizzy. It's pretty funny to watch, tho I don't know how he doesn't fall over when he finally squats.
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Nathan Jones 4 years ago
That's the truth, this bs is made up. Flattering snow/grass/etc is why it's done.
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I thought it was to kick away anything pokey or pat down the area they were sleeping in
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Actually there are may reasons why they do it, not just one. Direction of the wind yes but to choose how to lay depending of the weather (cold or warm, no they would not face the wind to "smell predators" in a freezing blizzard but they will use it as a AC in warmer temperatures) , to chase anything under them, to put their pheromones on the surface (many glands under the paws), out of comfort as a ritual...
Half-Jewish-Doggo 4 years ago
sometimes my dog will spin around in circles like 10 times before finally lying down
Nathan Jones 4 years ago
This isn't true. Anyone who watches National Geographic knows it isn't. It is a nod to their ancestors, but it's done to flatten out the surface they're laying on. Animals have an insane sense of smell, they wouldn't need to face the wind to pick up a scent. They are preparing their bed just like their ancestors did by circling to pat down snow, tall grass, etc.
#6
A Japanese ice cream company created a commercial to publicly apologize about needing to raise the price of their ice cream bars for the first time in 25 years from 60 yen to 70 yen.
John Carson Shearouse 4 years ago
WHY ARE THE JAPANESE SO NICE! 60 Yen= 55 Cents USD to 70 Yen= 64 cents USD In the U.S getting Ice cream from a ice cream shop for 2 bucks Is a steal.
CORLEONE 4 years ago
They are the country with the most powerful passport and the highest discipline. Bravo!
zite 4 years ago
And the most depressed students and thousands of people who refuse to leave home for YEARS. They start school at 7 or 8 am and go home at 9pm because of all additional classes and they still need to do their HW afterwards. That country is broken from inside. There are plenty of documentaries about what's happening in there.
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Mithrandir 4 years ago
Why are they sorry? It is not they fault. They must live from something just like everybody else.
Lenore, the president of Let Grow, suggested that instead of being combative and turning opinionated authority figures away from you, people should try to learn something together with them.
“The key is to discover things together. If something sounds strange or unlikely, respond with curiosity—ask the person to tell you more, and how they found this information out, and where you should go if you want to delve into it further,” the expert, who greatly supports childhood independence, suggested.
“Then if the sources they give you seem dubious—well, probably so is whatever they gleaned from them. But if the sources seem legit, read them with an open mind. They may be right after all!” Lenore explained.
#7
Habsburg Emperor Joseph II tried to reform Austria into "ideal Enlightened state". He abolished serfdom, removed restrictions against Jews, gave religious freedom to Protestants and Orthodox and tried to weaken power of Catholic church. But as soon he died all his reforms were abolished
Obi Wang Kenobi 4 years ago
Also what a shame that we haven't learned more about him at school!
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Interpersonal side story: Apparently he loved his wife very much and was devastated when she died young. She was very much in love, too, only her object of affection was his sister. That, apparently, was mutual.
Shauna Voigt 4 years ago
He was also a very hands on father, which was unheard of in those days. When his daughter died at 7 they say he was never able to get over the pain of her death and kept her dresses and shoes as a shrine to her until his death.
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Jerry Mathers 4 years ago
This sounds like the US every time they switch to Republican president. Reagan, redistribution of wealth upward, deregulation leads to S&L scandals, Bush can't clean up mess & its booted after 4 years, Clinton era fixes economy and actually balances the budget to where a surplus is generated. In comes W Bush, who screws up just about everything, Great Recession follows. Obama, fixes everything despite opposition from all Pubs and some Dems. Followed by Orange Nightmare that somehow exceeds W's screwups. Prediction: 8 years of Biden gets us on track, next Pub Pres comes in, deregulates everything, and we are back to being screwed. Thanks conservatives, for your stupid, simplistic minds.
Eliška Hůlková 4 years ago
That's not true. Some of his reforms were abolished, but serfdom was never re-established and religious freedom also remained.
Debbie Lavender 4 years ago
Off topic but what incredible painter skills. Just the gold brocade, even...
Myrtle Yoma 4 years ago
I wonder if his reforms had stuck, would Hitler have been who he was? It’s fascinating that one act can change the entire course of history
A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
Seems like Austria ended up OK, so some of his thinking must’ve stuck.
#8
Walt Disney accidentally "kidnapped" Richard Nixon by dispatching his monorail train before the Secret Service could get on. The agents ran after the train and attempted to jump onboard but the doors had already closed. Monorail pilot Bob Gurr was terrified; Nixon got a kick out of it.
Jozie 4 years ago
LOL! Now that is something funny! I could imagine the laugh they got out of it! :). The agents were probably scared! Haha! 😂😂😂.
Franz Katz 4 years ago
The title of this page said "Walt Disney kidnapped PRESIDENT Nixon". So I conclude that Walt Disney was a sort of vampire, as he died in 1966, two years before Richard Nixon's 1968 first election as Potus :)
Christopher Walkies 4 years ago
Barack and Michelle Obama visited Ireland in 2011. As they were leaving the American Embassy in Dublin, the security rising ramp popped up under the car, keeping it pinned to the spot. It took a while to sort out. But they remained totally cool and calm.
#9
Not all people have an internal monologue and people with them typically have stronger mental visuals to accompany their verbal thoughts.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
I often have trouble recalling whether I read the book or saw the movie, because I have visuals for both.
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Manon Snowdrop 4 years ago
This is very interesting. My inner monolog is on all the forking time. I wonder what it would be like if it wasn't
soni w 4 years ago
I try to imagine that too. I'm learning how to shut mine out so I can enjoy everything happening around me. Sometimes I'm so distracted by my inside voice I don't see half the stuff around me. I would image people who don't have it really enjoy the sounds of stuff around them and enjoy the visuals without the internal explanation of it.
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Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
90% of the time I wish my internal monologue would shut the f**k up.
A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
So do I, but then I tell myself that I wouldn’t really be happy like that.
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H Edwards 4 years ago
Every time this comes up, I wonder if I have an internal monologue. I still can't figure out if I do or not.
juice 4 years ago
same here. how am i supposed to describe/identify my way of thinking when it's the only way i've experienced?
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
Interesting fact is also that people with no inner monologue can sleep in one minute! As soon as they touch the pillow! I'm soooo jealous!!!
ravn 4 years ago
I share that tendency; it often gets me in trouble..."I told you that. No, you did not. Well, I though it when you were in the room..."
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TTorrest Author 4 years ago (edited)
I didn't realize this until I posted something on FB one time, something like: "Reading is amazing! It can make you see a purple elephant eating pizza. Do you see it? IT CAN BE LOUD, LIKE THIS." Etc. One of my girlfriends commented, "I don't get it." I was stunned to find that she doesn't see visuals or register context as she reads! And she loves novels! What's the point???
TTorrest Author 4 years ago
I found it! Shel Silverstein. Brilliant. AF08D7A3-9...c0-png.jpg 
Kristoffer Rahbek-Jensen 4 years ago
I often have difficulty shutting my internat monologue up...
It's a fact of life that nobody is right all the time. And Lenore believes that because of this, it isn't "cruel or crazy" to think that someone else “may have their facts wrong.” However, you shouldn't be getting angry at someone who got something wrong, unless they were deliberately lying to you.
“Ever since the Age of Enlightenment, humans have realized that the best way to get closer to the truth is by saying something out loud and seeing if it stands up to scrutiny. If not—hooray. We are one step closer to the truth because we've just jettisoned a misconception,” Lenore told Bored Panda.
#10
Bill Nye (of Science Guy fame) invented a hydraulic component used on the 747 airliners, and holds three patents for other inventions.
Pilot Chick 4 years ago
Why the past tense? I’m pretty sure he’s still the science guy.
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Dave P 4 years ago
Co-invented. He was one of 20 people on the patent and was part of a large team. He has no single patents. Give the rest of the team he worked on credit, because he was the only one Boeing got rid of, the others stayed around.
Ki Li 4 years ago
Boeing didn't get rid of him. He left to work on a different career path.
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StaleNuts-ZooKeeper 4 years ago
Dont you think its ironic Bill Nye helped invent something that helps pollutes our planet. He is an environmental activist. I think he is a great guy and i learned a great deal growing up with him on TV.
Frank Ropen 4 years ago
Fun fact: Bill Nye has a BS in mechanical engineering, but Dolph Lundgren has a master degree in chemical engineering.
#11
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and hundreds more, started smoking at the age of 9, changed his last name from Blank to Blanc, survived a car accident resulting in a two week coma, recorded The Flintstones in a full body cast, and died only a year after recording Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
infinite upvote 4 years ago
There's an amazing story about his son helping to wake him up from his coma by addressing him by the names of Looney Tunes characters. Before he was even fully conscious, he started responding in Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig's voices. Wild stuff
Doc Thissen 4 years ago
And his epitaph reads: "That's all folks!" https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100/mel-blanc#view-photo=80109
Tuncer Coşar 4 years ago
He made the doctor laughed after saying "what's up doc" in Bugs Bunny voice in hospital. True story
#12
There is a street that is split down the middle by the USA-Canadian border, aptly named Canusa street. People who live in houses on the south side of the street are in the USA, and the north side, in Canada. Crossing the street requires having to report to the border crossing office.
Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
There are ton of that in Europe. Borders are arbitrary (and rarely follow cultural areas)
Spinaap 4 years ago
Indeed, the best ones are between the Netherlands and Belgium, crazy things like a store have two entrence doors, one in Belgium and one in the Netherlands ... into the same store ...
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Haunting Spirit 4 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA. We have a lot of those in Europe and you can cross without having to inform anyone.
denzoren 4 years ago
Imagine you're playing soccer in the yard and the ball goes across the street.
J. F. 4 years ago
This ball is now property of Canada, please report this accident to the US embassy - we are also sorry for the inconvenience
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Rissie 4 years ago
Imagine having to swerve out of the way to prevent an accident. "Hold on Greg, they have to check our passports first". Also, on one side they speak with an American accent where the other just asks "Eh?".
QuokkaVibes 4 years ago
That's so weird. What about being in the car and realizing you left your wallet at home? NO UH SIR NO UTURNS, PLEASE CIRCLE THHE BLOCK FOR 10 MINUTES THANK YOU
Mieke Sorée 4 years ago
There is a store here that has the Belgian-Dutch border going straight through it. During covid lockdown, this was challenging because Dutch and Belgian lockdown weren't at the same time. So there was a period of time when half of the actual store was open and the other half was off limits.
“If it turns out that you do find some information that contradicts what the other person—your teacher or boss or anyone—has stated as true, again, the best approach is not confrontation. It's assuming that the other person didn't mean to steer you wrong,” she pointed out that instead of being aggressive, we should be approaching the situation in a way that provides the biggest learning opportunity.
#13
Elephants can hear through both their ears and feet. Through special fat pads called digital cushions, they can hear sounds other elephants vocalize below the range of human hearing from many miles away. This helps warn them of far off danger, incoming floods, and rival elephants.
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
in 1962 they did a test with 2 african elephants. one they cut of the ear. That elephant was still able to hear dangers and run away. The other elephant they cut of the ears+feet and it didn't run away from danger any more. This clearly is proof elephants can hear also from their feet
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Logic and Reason 4 years ago (edited)
Digital as in ‘related to fingers’, not the more common tech definition I suppose
grotesqueer 4 years ago
Do they really hear through their feet though, or do they just sense the vibrations with them? That is, do the vibrations actually travel to the ear?
#14
Hall of Fame pitcher Lee Smith didn’t play baseball until he was a junior in high school, only tried out to win a $10 bet, and only started pitching after his team’s star pitcher was killed in a hunting accident. His first start was a no hitter.
The Chosen One 4 years ago
SWEET! MY PARENTS SAID I WAS TOO OLD TO START PLAYING BASEBALL! THEY WERE WRONG! HA!
Adler Meredith 4 years ago
I play Baseball but im just gonna tell you from google so i dont leave anything out. The current Major League Baseball definition, since 1991, of a no-hitter is "a game in which a pitcher, or pitchers, gives up no hits while pitching at least nine innings.
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#15
Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, sold the series as a pure entertainment vehicle due to censorship he experienced with previous projects that would delve into controversial social/political issues. The Twilight Zone tackled the same issues but veiled in science fiction and fantasy
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
My absolute fave episode that still creeps me out is the one where everyone is gradually getting hotter because of the sun getting closer, and people start dying and fires get started, and at the end, the main character passes out. She wakes up and it's all been a dream and she's relieved to see everyone who had died in her dream. She tells them the dream. They calm her down. They leave her room so she can "rest" and talk amongst themselves of how they're going to tell her that the earth is moving away from the sun and everyone will freeze to death soon. Makes you think which is worse?
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Mine is where the couple wakes up in a strange bed. No one in the neighborhood at all, then realize the trees and everything is fake. They hear A great girl giggle. They finally get on a train to get out and it only makes a circle back. Turns out they are like beetlejuice in his little fake town. The creepy laugh was the little girl who used them as dolls.
Load More Replies... Sarah 4 years ago
And it got them canceled after three seasons. The network was tired of wrangling with them.
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Ivana 4 years ago
Horror is often used to illustrate the social anxieties and fears of the time. Dracula is an antisemitic book about Eastern Jews buying land in Britain, Black Mirror is the anxiety about modern technology, The Twilight Zone had a ton of atomic fears in it. Best horror is always the horror you can relate to and it speaks a lot to how people felt during those times.
sylvantic 4 years ago
i loved that show when i was a kid. i actually got yelled at for quoting Talking Tina when my dad didn't know that i was quoting Talking Tina.
Sarah 4 years ago
"...Talky Tina, who did talk and did commit murder—in the misty region of the Twilight Zone."
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V Martinez 4 years ago
"To Serve Man" was another good one. Twilight Zone is one of the best tv classics ever.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Similar to Gene Roddenberry (who was a TZ writer) and Star Trek, the first show to present a mixed race kiss.
Tigressa101 4 years ago
Basically, everyone told him he couldn't handle more serious issues so he reinvented it to go through the looking glass of sci-fi and helped pioneer the fantasy elements we have today. Sometimes you have to fail to succeed and he did exactly that.
“So if you bring in information that contradicts the person, don't say, ‘SEE??? YOU WERE WRONG!' Say something more like, ‘I was so interested in what you were talking about that I did some research and now I'm a little confused. Can we look at this together?'" Lenore advocated going for the diplomatic route rather than seeking out a fight and wanting to prove your own correctness all the time.
#16
ADHD doesn't always mean 'short attention span'. 'Hyperfocusing' on a task for hours on end is also a known symptom of ADHD, where the inability to stop is considered to be the problem.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Attention-deficit and hyperactivity are the symptoms most noticeable to other people.
Bill Cipher 4 years ago
yea i have that and its annoying its like im constantly going faster than people are
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Jenn C 4 years ago
And your brain Will Not Shut Up when you are trying to sleep. Going 100 miles an hour, but often about random stuff. I used to stumble over my words sometimes because my brain was going faster than my mouth.
Marika Miettinen 4 years ago
!! I always tell people that I stutter because my head is going faster than my mouth!
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Hyperfocusing is as huge a problem as short attention span for those of us with ADHD. This is why I can spend an entire day playing a video game and forget to eat.
Marika Miettinen 4 years ago
I'm in the process of trying to get diagnosed. 8,5 years ago I had a moment of clarity where puzzle pieces in my head went together when I read an article about ADHD in women. Had always wondered wtf is wrong with me. Got tests done 2 years ago, and somehow my score was lower that it should be when I look at the questionnaire, but I still got enough to get diagnosed, but the old psychiatrist was super against it and the new one actually said that hyperfocusing isn't a thing in ADHD when I saw her last time. Like, I've been learning about ADHD for 8,5 years now, I know so much about it and I see myself in all of that, and in the 2 ADHD support groups I'm in the others see themselves when I tell about my life and I see myself when they tell about their struggles. But ye, I said that I had completely accidentally played this new game I got for 10 hours and forgot to eat and do all the other things I was supposed to, and the psychiatrist said that that's not ADHD.
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JCRocks 4 years ago
I wrote a novel in 11 days. It was published by the first publisher I sent it to. My second, much longer book (400 pgs and also published) took 17 days. The few people I've told were like, "HOW???" ADD my friend. ADD.
Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago
Ahdh-ers unite!! Hope we don’t lose any of y’all at the meetings lol
Cori 4 years ago
And some people don't have symptoms of hyperactivity at all. I happen to be one of those people. As a result, mine went undiagnosed for a long time. My teachers and parents just thought I was lazy. 😕
BonnyDK 4 years ago
I had a student like that in my art classes. He would go into a special zone and put his walls up when he hyper focused. Would have been great at doing where's Waldo pictures. I just let him be until the whole class had moved on to another project and suggested he finish at home so he wouldn't get too far behind. I provided a desk behind a panel for kids that wanted to work alone without the distractions of the class. It was not a punishment and was available to whoever wanted to use it.
Mz Phit 4 years ago
That's great that he has you in his corner! Yay Art teachers! I also find it helps to work with earplugs (but not music).
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Maciej Zajaczkowski 4 years ago
Not to dismiss any suffering caused, hyperfocus can also be a superpower if applied in the correct way.
#17
Disney uses a paint colour called "GO AWAY GREEN" to camouflage and hide objects and doors in their theme parks.
Jozie 4 years ago
Hmmmmm..... I think he might want us to go away? But i'm not sure... 🤨🤔🧐. What do you guys think?
Addison Morris 4 years ago
No, no, "Go Away Green" is just the shade of green they paint on things they dont want you to notice so the magic isn't broken. Disney uses this for "stage" doors (behind the scenes places), some fences and light fixtures, speakers, walls that close off parts of the park that are under construction, trash cans, and more. And it works!
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People keep finding meticulously crafted hollow dodecahedrons throughout Europe dating back to the Roman Empire but historians have no idea what they're supposed to be used for as there's no historical record of them anywhere. Theories range from dice to knitting.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Good luck, the found ones number in the dozens not thousands!
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Joyce Melton 4 years ago
Obviously, they are cord organizers to keep electric cords from getting tangled. You should see what Romans used to keep the remote from getting lost!
Jellie Snijders 4 years ago
Here is a link to a youtube video! https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0
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Jon S. 4 years ago
You might not be far off, a very similar item was used as a kind of fortune telling dice.
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Haunting Spirit 4 years ago
You can build big tents with different shapes with those as the poles go in the holes.
Anni 4 years ago
Definitly not knitting because knitting wasn't "invented" until after the end of the Roman empire! Back then, there was something called "nålebinding" - performed with just 1 needle, using several short threads and taking muuuch longer than knitting. The result looks somewhat similar to knitted/crocheted fabric (unless you are kind of familiar with those), but it's simply technically not at all the same. And apart from that I don't have the slightest idea of what help such a shape would be for either knitting or nålebinding... (Reference: I'm pretty good at knitting.)
“Being accusatory only makes people defensive. So don't be rude, be engaged. This works in the classroom, in the office, and pretty much everywhere,” Lenore, the president of Let Grow, offered us some great advice on what to do if we overhear somebody potentially sharing misinformation.
#19
Every fall, Alaska’s Katmai National Park hosts “Fat Bear Week” and crowns the park’s fattest brown bear. The aim is to highlight the park and wildlife conservation.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
Right up to the moment when he decapitates you with one claw.
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Jojo Dancer 4 years ago
The pictures are always hysterical. They get some super chonkers there!
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
okay, if I am there then I will NOT be wearing a brown fur coat. One, because fur coats are mean, and 2. I don't want to be the fattest bear.
Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
For a second I thought it said they drowned the bear. Really glad it’s crowned, not drowned.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
I love it when Fat Bear Week arrives and they give them chunky names.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Yes!!! And ppl know the bears names, some are just known by numbers, and there was a bear named Otis who is 22 or so. Hope he made it through the winter! Also boars and sows compete equally in fat bear competition!
#20
Neanderthals, which were traditionally thought of as extremely primitive humans, are now believed to have been extremely intelligent, even comparable to the intelligence of modern humans. They used tools, had social structures, thrived in hostile environments, and lived long lives.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I believe early humans were smarter than us in many ways. I reckon most humans would not be able to survive the way they did coz we just rely too much on technology and are forgetting the basics on how to survive. We would be screwed if modern technology just disappeared.
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
Our bodies have also evolved a great deal from those times, so it's more different for us to survive some environments. For example, we have WAY less body hair now, so we don't deal well with the cold.
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John L 4 years ago
Neanderthals also had a larger brain capacity than modern humans. As a physical anthropologist, I was at first stupified to learn that. But its true. They had bigger brains, on average. Not much, but still slightly larger. Neanderthals are still one of the most misunderstood 'homo sapiens'.
Eunice Probert 4 years ago
They had language as well. And, it looks like they didn't really die out, but some of them are in all of us.
Debbie Burton 4 years ago
Probably smarter than modern humans.... we just haven't yet discovered their inventions
H Edwards 4 years ago
They had larger brains than Homo sapiens sapiens as well, if I recall correctly.
AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 4 years ago
Brain size doesn't make anyone smarter or dumber.
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#21
During solar eclipses, tree leaves act as pinhole cameras, resulting in trees casting crescent-shaped shadows on the ground. This effect puzzled Aristotle in the 4th Century BC.
Joyce Melton 4 years ago
It is insanely cool to see this effect, or the annular version where you see circles of light.
Christian Bradshaw 4 years ago
It really is. I got to see a solar eclipse a few years ago, and it was awesome
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Phil Vaive 4 years ago
I saw this during the last solar eclipse in North America a few years ago! I live in Calgary, so we didn't get the full eclipse, but we got a very decent partial and it was so cool to see the crescents all over the ground in the tree shadows!
Doc Thissen 4 years ago
During the solar eclipse of 2017, I used a colander to "view" the event. Really cool.
Which of the facts in this list caught your attention the most, dear Pandas? Do you have any interesting bits of trivia that you learned recently to share with us? What, in your opinion, is the best way to separate facts from fake news? Let us know what you think in the comment section. We always love hearing from you!
#22
The plans for Winston Churchill's state funeral had to be revised several times because Churchill outlived several intended pallbearers.
Tessa Merkley 4 years ago
this man reminds me of the half spider guy from Monsters Inc. (the boss) idk why
TheReader19 4 years ago (edited)
Prince Philip has just died; so we (UK) are not talking about that at the moment 😞
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Ramnath Nayak 4 years ago
Monsters don't die easily. To Indians he's no less than the devil himself for the atrocities committed by him.
#23
Teeth are only able to experience one sensation, that being pain. When you eat or drink something too hot or too cold, or a dentist operates on your teeth, you will only experience pain because that is the only thing the nerves around your teeth respond to.
Jozie 4 years ago
I mean what else r they supposed to feel itchy? idk the other sense lolz but i was still kind of surprised,
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
The first time I got a cavity filled, the dentist tried to do it without the novocaine. He told me to raise my hand if it hurt. As soon as he started drilling, I raised my hand so fast and hard that I punched him in the nose and sent his glasses flying across the room.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Teeth only understand pain!! sounds like something a tooth-hating bigot would say.
Giles McArdell 4 years ago
Not sure this is true, tap a tooth with a fingernail. Did you feel it? Yes. Did it hurt? No.
juice 4 years ago
hmm. maybe that's just extremely mild pain? i agree though, we need some more info
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MacaroniPenguin 4 years ago
Teeth can feel more than pain. Your teeth can feel the food you are eating. An argument can be made that this sensation is due to the periodontal ligament and pressure on the soft tissue and bone that surround the tooth. However, teeth will have less of this sensation when the nerve of the tooth has been removed (like a root canal treated tooth, even if the tooth does not have a prosthetic crown placed after the root canal).
A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
That’s a really good point. When I bite my teeth together, I feel it in my teeth.
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#24
The parents of “Simpsons” creator, Matt Groenig, were named Homer & Marge. He also had sisters named Lisa, Maggie, & Patty.
*me* 4 years ago
I think he’s fine with it. He made one rule of homer is to be the characters name:homer can never, ever hurt marge. Ever
Load More Replies... Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
I thought it was well known. He IS Bart, and Bart is the hero of the show.
#25
Serotonin, the neurotransmitter responsible for happiness, can be toxic. When injected into skin it causes extreme pain and is a main ingredient of wasp venom
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Most chemicals have multiple functions. Calcium builds bones as well as transmit signals in your nerves. In other news, you need water to survive as well as to drown.
J. F. 4 years ago
Same with salt - A small line between necessary and harmful or even lethal
Load More Replies... Sofiia Melnikova 4 years ago
Are you saying wasps are filled with Serotonin? Thats a phrase I never knew I would write
sylvantic 4 years ago
wasps are so happy, they just want you to be happy too!
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You learn this the hard way if you overdo your meds. Serotonin sickness is seriously not fun.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Puts a new spin on the whole pleasure/pain thing, like why scratching feels nice when you have an itch, but not when you do it by accident.
Ray Martin 4 years ago
All of which only supports my hypothesis that wasps suck all the joy out of the world and give back only pain and unhappiness.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Serotonin promotes inflammation in the periphery (arms, legs, etc). Which is why my girlfriend (who takes an SSRI for anxiety) was swole and sore for two weeks after getting stung by a wasp.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Excuse me, I have twice been stung by a wasp and believe me, it did not make me happy!
#26
When your immune system fights an infection, it cranks up the mutation rate during antibody production by a factor of 1,000,000, and then has them compete with each other. This natural selection process creates highly specific antibodies for the virus.
Dahamada Jamawas 4 years ago
I'm quite happy to know, that the mutation rate of my immune system is not at an incredible level without any reason.
UncleRussian 4 years ago
Good to know that everytime I get an infection I start an internal game of hunger games
Mz Phit 4 years ago
No, that's not it at all. How old are you? Do you need an explanation?
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#27
the Driftless Area is a rugged area of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and a minor part of Illinois that was completely missed by glaciers. It is roughly the size of West Virginia, and is home to huge bluffs, deep canyons, and rare species of plants found no where else.
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
The farmers use square milk cans, because if round ones fall over they keep rolling for miles.
UncleRussian 4 years ago
Really? Is that really a thing? 😂 I want to see the first person to discover this xD Just imagine a farmer seeing his bottle rolling away and running after it while shouting "STOP RIGHT YOU SON OF A B*TCH!!" xP
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Shaurya Joshi 4 years ago
I live in Minneapolis, minnesota, and I never knew about this lol But fr this is interesting
Sarah Levine 4 years ago
In SE Minnesota, there are wonderful bike paths in the area. It's a great weekend getaway!
Bonniebluebutler 4 years ago
And I never want to go there. The twelve people who live there are gun-toting repugs.
#28
In the 1950's the US airforce tried to design a cockpit to fit the average pilot's body. After measuring 4000 pilots they discovered that none of them came close to having an average body. This lead to introduction of adjustable seats.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Roald Dahl (very tall) mentions the problems he had as WW2 fighter pilot.
The Chosen One 4 years ago
RONALD DAHL WAS A WW2 FIGHTER PIOLET!? I THOUGHT HE AS JUST AN AUTHOR!
Load More Replies... grotesqueer 4 years ago
Shouldn't that have been obvious? If you know what "average" is, you'd know it doesn't represent the individuals it's calculated from.
Jennifer Hargett 4 years ago
Any US Air Force pilot will proudly tell you that they are far above average. They didn't need to commission a study on this.
#29
During WW2, Ernest Hemingway used his fishing boat named after his ex-wife (Pilar) to hunt German U-boats in the Caribbean armed only with Thomson machine guns and hand grenades. He was given unlimited gasoline by the US government.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
No, but he had a lot of good photo ops, so he could pretend to be "manly" and sell more books.
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Hemingway's wives were named Hadley, Pauline, Martha, and Mary. Don't know who Pilar was.
Erla Zwingle 4 years ago
Hemingway's wives were named Hadley, Pauline, Martha, and Mary. No idea who Pilar was.
#30
That Japan burns a portion of its garbage and uses the resulting ash in land reclamation. As of 2012 Japan has created over 250 square kilometers (96 square miles) of new land using this method.
Bumblebee 4 years ago
More about this. If you search on YouTube for: Exploring a Japanese Olympics and paralympics host town (channel name: Life where I am from) and go to time stamp 4.00, you can see how it works and hear it explained (FYI: if you just want to watch that part, it ends at 7.06)
Bumblebee 4 years ago
Just in case: people who might complain about sharing a video of a certain YouTube channel. This is not an ad for the YouTube channel, neither is it mine. But I recently watched it and remember they talked about this and showed footage, which I found interesting. So I went back to the video to search for the exact title and time stamps.
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Karin Jansen 4 years ago
Unfortunately, we don't. We've reclaimed land from the sea but we've stopped and we've never used burned trash for it. We should though!
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
If we could filter the particles and co2 of the fumes burning inorganic garbage would be the best strategy to destroy it since it produces energy.
M M 4 years ago
If you heat the fire up to 1200 degrees C, all toxic fumes desintegrate into co2 and water. The technology for it exists already.
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#31
Grasshoppers are older than grass, having evolved roughly 250 million years ago
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
It makes you wonder how barn owls managed before humans built barns
Jo Morris 4 years ago
Guess they weren't called Grasshoppers back then either, just Hoppers ;)
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
That's early Triassic, so I think they were just called 'snacks' by the first amphibians?
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Candia Lee 4 years ago
Pic is a false katydid. True katydid has a hump back. But thanks for noticing; I'm an amateur entomologist but missed this until your comment.
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#32
Tchaikovsky hated to conduct by his own admission. He became obsessed with the fear that his head was going to fall off while he conducted. In 1868, when Tchaikovsky conducted his own Dances of the Hay Maidens, he held his head in place with his left hand while he conducted with his right.
Gabby M 4 years ago
It sounds like he had some kind of mental issue going in. Not really something to laugh about.
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lowercase 4 years ago
He also donated his skull to a theater, which use it for Yorick's skull in Hamlet.
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Holy Banana! So much too unjustified fears ... And they said I was mad... 😂😂😂
#33
The sauna is such a deeply igrained part of the Finnish culture, that finns will even build them in war. Custom dictates no titles or hierarchies are allowed in the sauna, including military ranks in saunas built and used by soldiers.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
I'm curious to hear first-hand accounts of the benefits of saunas.
Arctic's Gate 4 years ago
I was a polar researcher for several years and the sauna on our base made a huge difference for our morale and mental health. It was the only place where we could truly get the cold out of our bones and the relaxed atmosphere allowed for us to let our guard down for a while which can be difficult to when you live/work on the edge.
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Pille P 4 years ago
Estonian here. It used to be one of the only sterile places so babies were born in sauna (while not hot of course). The physical and mental relaxation and cleansing is also a bit spiritual experience. It is the heat that does the main wonders, but also the gentle massage that is done when one pats himself with a hand full of dried birch tree branches with leaves (viht) - aromatherapy and massage in one. I have not often gone to a sauna as my family did not have our own. At first I was scared when I was told it is over 100C hot in there, but it was not like being boiled alive, it was rather like sitting in front of a hot fire place and using a steam inhalator at the same time. Even modern medicine uses steam inhalers to fight colds so this is just a big version of that :D
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
No titles or hierarchies are USED in the sauna. I was wondering why people with titles weren't allowed in the sauna. LOL!!! Saunas, even in the military, are strictly egalitarian places.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
My favorite workers rights story of all time is from Finland where saunas are considered an essential and generally are paid time-off from a job. (They have been shown to add to a worker's productivity) Years ago, workers threatened to go on strike over whether they should be paid for the time going to and from saunas during the work day. Their demand was considered reasonable and granted without any work stoppage.
DC 4 years ago
While Sauna isn't to my liking (nothing I'd force upon any, I just don't like it...), I love the idea of having spaces where ranks and names are poiintless and everyone is the same. You cannot do this everywhere and anywhere, but you can always have SOME part of equality that gets through to everyone, aside from the obvious (you're human rights are not affected by being a private, a school drop out or a general - well, but do you really FEEL that? In wartimes?).
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I think they mean that rank is irrelevant in a military sauna, as in no commands to lesser rank, no saluting.
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I found it so weird when Finnish tourists were telling me that they have saunas also in their houses! Wow
Eevi 4 years ago
I have one outdoors (which you warm up with wood) and one indoors (electric). ♡
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#34
Saffron, the world's costliest spice by weight, has been cultivated by humans for at least 3500 years and there are no known Saffron plants in the wild. Scientists still disagree about which part of the world the plant orginated. It takes 150,000 flowers to make 1 kg of Saffron spice.
Amanda 4 years ago
I've seen it at Walmart, but I don't know how real or authentic it is
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Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago (edited)
Saffron, wasabi, and olive oil are very commonly faked (but sold as real) in the US. You can tell if you olive oil is real by putting it in the fridge. If it turns cloudy then it's most likely real.
Max L. 4 years ago
There are sites which sells you real wasabi and original tool to make it a paste.
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Areion Stefanidis 4 years ago
well i have seen many times saffron in the wild, not so true fact thus
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
I used some once in a rice dish and didn't notice any taste difference. It made a vivid yellow color but that's it. And yes it was the real thing.
J. Zingler 4 years ago
They sell it in tiny glas jars in germany. You get like 12 fibres for around 20 €.
#35
There was an ape named Oliver who preferred walking upright. He was bald, freckled, showed sexual attraction towards humans and even liked to pour himself a cup of brandy every night while wearing a smoking jacket. Due to his human-like features and mannerisms he was once believed to be a "Humanzee".
Susan Green 4 years ago (edited)
I feel sorry for this primate. I wonder if he was the result of some messed up experiment.
Ozacoter 4 years ago (edited)
Yes. He was raised by scientists so he was never properly socialised by chimpanzees. A lot of primates that grow up only with humans are attracted to them. But he was a chimpanzee not a hybrid.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I'm sorry I don't believe that this was his "choice". These are probably learnt behaviours he observed or was taught from his captors. IMHO he was nothing more than a smart, objectified chimpanzee.
Mari Ng 4 years ago
He was later sold to a lab which did cosmetic testing. For nine years he was kept in a cage so small he couldn't move and his muscles atrophied. In his later years he lived in a sanctuary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(chimpanzee)
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Well done, [COSMETICS COMPANY], well done. *misery*
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Lance d'Boyle 4 years ago
Same guys who did this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU
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Susan Trevaskis-Owen 4 years ago
I saw him at Enchanted Village when I was a kid. I'd almost forgotten, but as soon as I saw the photo I remembered. It was rather sad, seeing him paraded out onto the stage for folks to ogle & stare.
J Rob 4 years ago
Wikipedia- Oliver (c. 1957 – 2 June 2012[1]) was a former "performing" ape once promoted as a missing link or "humanzee" due to his somewhat human-like appearance and a tendency to walk upright. Despite his somewhat unusual appearance and behavior, scientists found that Oliver was not a human-chimpanzee hybrid.[2]
Dahamada Jamawas 4 years ago
Well I know a human that refuses to shave, barely walks and never wears a smoking jacket. How do we call him?
#36
French astronomer and mathematician Urbain le Verrier used observational data from Uranus to deduce the position of an unknown planet, which German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle used to find Neptune, within one hour of searching and within one degree of Verrier's prediction
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
I've always found this fascinating. He noticed something funny going on with the orbit of Uranus, attributed it to gravitational disturbances, and concluded there has to be another planet out there. Then math was used to located its position - and Neptune was discovered, right where it was supposed to be. I give you: The Scientific Method
#37
Laminated safety glass was invented by chemist Édouard Bénédictus after a lab accident in 1903. A glass flask coated with the plastic cellulose nitrate was dropped, shattering but not breaking into pieces. In 1909 he filed a patent, after hearing of a car accident causing injury by glass debris.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Well dropping that flask turned out to be a happy accident.
Joyce Melton 4 years ago
Another interesting note is that cellulose nitrate in powder form is smokeless gunpowder.
#38
Frank “Cannonball” Richards, a carnival entertainer is most famous for his act involved getting hit by a 104 lbs cannonball from close range; he performed the act twice a day because “more than that was too painful.”
Dahamada Jamawas 4 years ago
I actually perform that zero times per day, because more would be too painful.
Petro Roos 4 years ago
HOW did he figure out he could even do this? Was he accidentally hit by a cannonball, felt ok after the hit and was like "Oh, that's a neat trick." ?
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Started with a ping pong ball, and worked his way up. Took a while before he started earning, though.
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Friday 4 years ago
I had no idea so many Simpson’s episodes were based on actual people & events!
juice 4 years ago
and sometimes, the events are based on the Simpsons! (all those times they "predicted the future")
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
and I think the guy was told at some point he couldn't do the cannonball thing again or he would die, just like what happened with Homer in the Simpsons.
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
The cannonball was propelled at very low velocity. His ample torso absorbed much of the energy before the mass started to push him backward.
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#39
Contrary to the publicized image of the upbeat patient joking with surgeons, Ronald Reagan lost half his blood and came within seconds of dying in 1981 when he was gunned down. His true condition was concealed from the public for nearly 30 years.
Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago
Just like another medical condition they hid from the public while he was in office.
#40
During his lifetime, George Washington owned almost every group of dog currently recognized by the American Kennel Club. Many of his dogs had interesting names too, such as: Madame Moose, Truelove, Tipsy, Mopesy, and Ragman.
Dave P 4 years ago
You know he freed every single one of his slaves in his lifetime? and freed most during the Revolutionary War, he freed the last when he was President. His wife owned slaved which her kids (Washingtons step kids) inherited. He was asked why he didn't free his wifes slaves, which under the law at the time he had legal authority to do, and he stood up for his wifes rights as a woman to own property and make her own choices. While it still kept people in slavery, his attitude towards women and slavery were very progressive for the time. BTW when he was president he had a three female political advisers, one black, one white, and one native American.
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#41
Between 1978 and 1980, Michel Lotito ate an entire Cessna 150 airplane piece by piece. He is estimated to have eaten nine tons of metal over his lifetime, for which he was awarded a brass plaque by the Guinness Book of World Records. (He also ate the award.)
Scagsy 4 years ago
A restaurant kept him waiting for his food once, so he ate the knife and fork because he was so hungry and liked the taste. Metal tastes like chicken apparently.
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Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Nowadays Guinness avoids giving records for obviously dangerous things like this, to not encourage attempts... E.g. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/record-policies
Eriu 4 years ago
And how does it get digested?? Or he poops all of it? Omg so many questions
Load More Replies... H Edwards 4 years ago
He died at 57, from 'natural causes'. But It can't be a coincidence that he died so young.
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Pam Kennedy 4 years ago
He most likely had pica, a disorder where people have an urge to ingest items that are not nutritious and sometimes toxic.
#42
Catherine De Medici maintained 80 ladies-in-waiting, whom she allegedly used as tools to seduce courtiers for political ends. They were known as her "flying squadron". She also used them as a court attraction. In 1577, she threw a banquet at which the food was served by topless women.
Dave P 4 years ago
Very few historians actuall consider this claim credible as it is only in the writings of her political enemies. Back then they would try to besmirch the reputation of powerful women sexual allegations. They did it to many women, like Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, and others.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
So she was the madam and the ladies in waiting were her escorts.
Franc Esca 4 years ago
Those "topless women" were basically slaves and had no choice in the matter. More like victims.
#43
Courtroom sketches became popular in the earlier 20th century due to a general prohibition of cameras in the courtroom. Artists are able to sketch scenes in just minutes, often from memory. Despite most courtrooms now allowing cameras, sketch art is still in demand today.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I think this is in most countries no? I don't remember seeing footage from inside a court.
Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
There are lots of cases, at least in the US, where cameras are not allowed. In an attempt (often not successful) to keep away from sensationalism and to protect victim's privacy.
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
It's allowed in many US courts, because, you know... it sells TV advertising
#44
A Roman day was always 12 hours long, regardless of the season. The time between sunrise and sunset was divided by 12 hours, same as with the time between sunset and sunrise. The hours where shorter in the winter and longer in the summer.
Dave P 4 years ago
Further the Romans did not invent this. The Ancient Egyptians used this, the Ancient Jews used this, the Ancient Assyrians did, etc, etc. All before Rome. 12 equal divisions of day light and 12 equal divisions of night. The ancient Jewish one from digs in Israel we know was 12 hours divided into 100 parts, each 100 part has a smaller 100 part they were divided into as well.
Jon S. 4 years ago
Not only did the Romans not invent it, but it was used long after the fall of Rome as well. The reason we suffix our hours with "O'clock" is because in the 1300s town clocks were becoming popular in England and for the first time we had evenly spaced hours competing with variable hours, so you had to specify if the time you quoted was "of the clock" or "of the sun"
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#45
Yuri Kondratyuk, Soviet pioneer of astronautics, while working in Siberia, built an enormous wooden grain elevator with a capacity of 13 000 tons without using any nails. Due to using such an unusual construction, he was arrested in suspicion of sabotage. The elevator stood till the 90s.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Traditional joinery techniques work pretty well, so long as they are applied properly. It was quite common practice until the early 19th Century due to the expense of manufacturing and transporting nails in quantity.
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Brandy Dor 4 years ago
Big deal!! I built a desk from ikea in a week with out nails!!!! And it's only missing 3 screws! It's been standing for a year and a half.....beat that Yuri!
RatherLoopy 4 years ago
Saying the elevator stood until the 90's might be more significant if we knew when it was built, and which "90's" we're talking about.
Jon S. 4 years ago
To be 'soviet' it would have to be between 1920s and 1980s, so there is really only one '90s' it could be. He was arrested in the 1930s, so the grain elevator was probably built shortly prior
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In State v. Linkhaw, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation."
Susan Green 4 years ago
How rude can you get? He was initially convicted? This is why I never sing in public.
Ray Martin 4 years ago
Alternately, you can do as I do - sing whenever you want and never go to church.
Load More Replies... Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago
Bless her heart, but my mom also has a truly bad singing voice and she used to sing super loudly in church. My sister and I thought it was the funniest thing ever lol
#47
Footage is called footage because film used to be measured in feet.
J. F. 4 years ago
Interesting fact for people that don't speak english as first language though
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
"Tape" is another one. People still say "view the tape", "taped broadcast", etc. even though it's all digital now
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It's interesting that editing consoles still use a jog-wheel for controlling playback speed, even though you aren't physically manipulating the speed of the film transport mechanism.
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Before he was caught, Charles Ponzi the namesake of the Ponzi scheme successfully sued a newspaper for libel and won $500,000 in damages after it suggested there was no way Ponzi could legally deliver such high returns in a short period of time.
#49
“Overmorrow” is the English word for “the day after tomorrow”. The common theory is that it sounded too ancient, even for 16th-century Middle English, and fell out of use.
Elin Noller 4 years ago
Not in swedish. "Övermorgon" is the only way we say day after tomorrow.
PandaMonium 4 years ago
These comments are what I love about the internet - people from all over the world adding new angles, richness and depth to the original line!
Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
Holy s**t, I didn’t know this wasn’t in use! I still use it all the time!
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
I shall defenestrate this quire of callipygian statuettes overmorrow.
#50
The most mass a planet can have is ~10-13x the mass of Jupiter. After this point, it's own sheer gravity begins to cause nuclear fusion and the body is classified as a brown dwarf (also called a failed star).
Joyce Melton 4 years ago
Jupiter itself radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, just from gravitational compression. Its radiation is in infrared and longer waves so it isn't visible to the eye.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
To clarify: brown dwarves are not capable of hydrogen fusion (which drives regular stars) though they are theorized to be able to fuse deuterium and lithium.
#51
Growing almonds in California takes more than half of the commercial honeybees in the US, meaning they have to be temporarily shipped in from almost every other state.
Joyce Melton 4 years ago
I grew up in a California town where the chief industry was processing honey and shipping beehives as far away as Florida.
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Sue Hazlewood 4 years ago
Most of your honey comes from commercial honey bees
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
Almond trees do not need a lot of water compared to other crops. They grow well in very dry areas like the Mediterranean.
Load More Replies... Candia Lee 4 years ago
Bees are only needed for the few days it takes to pollinate - when the flowers are ready. Different crops flower at different times throughout the year and around the country. Portable hives ensures bees eat & produce more, hence healthier bees.
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#52
10.4% of the world’s population is either in a marriage/relationship with their second cousin or closer relative or is the result of such a union.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Technically having kids with your second cousin isn’t really a problem, it is far away enough. The problem is when several generations do it in a row and exacerbate the inbreeding.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
However it's still illegal in some countries... i know it is in my country you need to be third cousins at least
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Some Cool Guy 4 years ago
A good chuckle from me even if i do like motor racing
Load More Replies... Joyce Melton 4 years ago
My cousins had to go to Tennessee to get married because it is illegal in Arkansas.
Franc Esca 4 years ago
In restrictive societies where women are not allowed to go anywhere and do anything, hell yeah the only option remains your cousin
MarcAngelina Alcober 4 years ago
such as queen Elizabeth and prince Phillip before he passed... 1st cousins
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria. That makes Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth third cousins.
Load More Replies... Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago
That’s why you have to date other races! Diversify for your children’s genetic sake lol
Kelzbelz79 4 years ago
My partners daughter is in a relationship with her 2nd cousin,they have a 7 month old daughter, personally I'm not for it but you can't tell people how to live life.
#53
In the 1930s, the US spent $300.000 ($5,5 million adjusted for inflation) to built massive car with the goal to cross Antarctica. Only to discover upon arrival that the tyres didn't work in the snow, and the whole thing was abandoned after 140 km (driven in reverse).
Paul Davis 4 years ago
they tested it on sand and didn't account for the density difference, also didn't understand the traction differences between Antarctic ice and snow and the type you encountered around Chicago.
Load More Replies... Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
It looks amazing, but it sucked at its one job. It couldn't even drive on a normal road without veering into a creek.
#54
The soundtrack for the 2019 miniseries Chernobyl (which concerns the 1986 nuclear disaster) was composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir, who incorporated field recordings from a real power plant in Lithuania, capturing the sounds of pumps, reactors and turbines.
#55
In 2016, the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Hollywood paid $4.8 million for Marilyn Monroe's “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress that Monroe wore at JFK's 45th birthday celebration. The purchase cements it as one of the most expensive pieces of pop-culture memorabilia of all time.
#56
The last B-52's are projected to continue service until some time in the 2050's, meaning the plane will have been in service for almost 100 years.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
In the mid 1980s they reached the limit of how much electronic warfare equipment could be stuffed into them and at that time thought it was done as a weapons platform, and new bomber platforms started being developed. But semiconductor development kept shrinking the size of electronics, meaning its electronic warfare capacity could continue to increase and keeping it a viable system.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
They'll still be flying when the Detroit Lions win the Super Bowl.
H Edwards 4 years ago
They get regular upgrades and servicing, they wouldn't be allowed to fly if they were unsafe.
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A man was arrested in Japan for selling hacked Pokémon. The suspect had his computer seized by authorities and police believe the man made up to the equivalent of $10,000 selling illegal Pokémon.
Nomadus Aureus 4 years ago
Since you can transfer Pokemon to friends, I assume he asked money for it.
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Mr Pickles 4 years ago
Surprisingly, you can still see dumbfucks commenting about people's live and not minding their own business.
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The American Smarties candy received their namesake “Smarties” because the creator wanted to encourage people to pursue an education.
Debbie Convery 4 years ago
Smarties in the UK are discs of chocolate covered in a coloured sugar coating.
Hiruya Sasariiel 4 years ago
Same in Germany. Got me puzzled here a moment
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Justin Pinho 1 year ago
Because Nestle already had a candy called smarties (the chocolate ones) in Canada these are called rockets!
Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
Smarties in the UK, where I live, are small chocolate disk-thingys covered in coloured sugar coating. They’re delicious!
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Smarties in the pic aren't sour. Maybe not sweet like Necco but not sour.
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#59
In 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard hit 2 golf balls on the moon - he hit the first one into a crater, and claimed to have smashed the second one "miles and miles and miles". However, recent research has shown that the first ball travelled 24 yards (22 m), and the second ball only 40 yards (37 m)
Raynell 4 years ago
Any golfers out there know how this compares to the typical distance a golf ball goes when hit?
Jean Smit 4 years ago
The average tee off shot travels about 200 yards (180 meters)
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Dan West 4 years ago
If you think he was serious about the distance of the golf shot, then you’ve never hung around the post-game bar to hear golfers expound on their skills. Same phenomenon as fisherman telling fish tales of catching the “big one”. The ball may very well have gone "miles and miles" in one-sixth of earth’s gravity and no atmospheric drag had Astronaut Shepard been using a real 6-iron standing in a grassy tee box wearing soft-spiked golf shoes, but he had the head of a 6-iron attached to the end of a retractable shaft made for soil sampling, while encased in a spacesuit that gave him a very short back swing and no follow-through. The fact that he made contact at all is amazing. Under those conditions, that extrapolates to "miles and miles" IMHO. The man was standing on the moon holding a golf club, so when will that ever happen again...or why?
Dan West 4 years ago
Now before anyone gets apoplectic in this post over the money spent and being spent on the world’s space programs, you are a hypocrite if you reply and complain because to do so you must use technology that came directly from space research (basically the same as military research and funded in like manner, so digest that with your biscuits and gravy). And, sadly, I doubt that will ever change. No space program, no Tik-Tok, at least not likely in 2021. Some of us Boomers did try to make things better for those to come, including for my grandchildren, but...well, we’re tired, so go for it. I guess your definition of “better” depends on where you started.
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Linda Roy 4 years ago
That's what I was wondering...did someone go back and measure, lol
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In 2018, the US hit a record high of never-married adults. 35% of Americans ages 25 to 50 had never been married, compared to 9% in 1970.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
It would be interesting to see the % of single people, people in short relations and non married people in committed relations.
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
Non married people in committed relations would most likely go down after the legalization of gay marriage.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Never-married doesn't mean never have been in a relationship. A lot of people only marry for legal reasons, not because they need to be married to stay together for the rest of their lives.
Franc Esca 4 years ago
Good. I hate it when people say "you're 40 and never been married? You're not divorced?" Divorce is not a good thing...
#61
A 2017 study by statistician Nathan Yau found the career divorce rates. Bartenders, flight attendants , massage therapists, and nurses had the highest at around 45-50%. Meanwhile, actuaries had the lowest at 17%, followed by software developers, engineers, scientists, and eye doctors.
juice 4 years ago
sorry, a bit confused. is it 45-50% of married bartenders (and other careers) get divorced, or 45-50% of divorcees were bartenders?
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
45-50% of married bartenders get divorced.
Load More Replies... F. H. 4 years ago (edited)
That sounds about right. People that have close contact to other people -especially physical contact, like massage therapists- and a lot of chances to casually chat with people are more likely to find new partners. Those are also jobs more likely done by extrovert people.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Actuaries know how to choose right, software developers marry late if ever, same w engineers and scientists (waiting makes for better choosing).
F. H. 4 years ago
They do math for insurance agencies. It's probably not a job for very outgoing personalities.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
All professions can be male or female. Your sexism is uncalled for.
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#62
The Brooklyn Dodgers name stems from a nickname given in the 1890s to people who, in a matter of life and death, had to evade railcars speeding down the streets. They were known as trolley dodgers.
Joyce Melton 4 years ago
Not mentioned is that Ebbett's Field where the Dodgers played was on the other side of the trolley yard from Manhattan, so Manhattanites walking to see a game literally had to dodge trolleys or go about 10 blocks to get around the tracks.
Joyce Melton 4 years ago
Dodgers was originally a nickname and before it became official, they had other names such as the Nationals, Superbas, Bridegrooms, Atlantics and Robins.
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Phosphorus was discovered when alchemist Hennig Brand who was experimenting with urine attempted to create the fabled philosopher's stone through the distillation of some salts by evaporating urine, and in the process produced a white material that glowed in the dark and burned brilliantly.
F. H. 4 years ago
A lot of early chemistry was discovered like that. We might laugh about alchemists today, but archeaological discoveries of the last decades have shown that they were often employed around mines. They most likely were there to experiment with new ways of extraction and develop new alloys and had to try making gold in their spare time. So they weren't all useless wizards. After all, the western recepie for porcelain was developed by an alchemist. He was in jail at time for claiming to know how to make gold.
#64
Whales spouting water out of blowholes is a common error propagated in children's books and movies (the whale would be drowning if it did so). A 2016 scientific survey of children's books featuring whales and cetaceans revealed 74/116 had factual errors, including almost half of the non-fiction.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
What, i don't believe this one. Whales do blow out of their blow holes when they surface to breathe. The blowhole is similar to our noses. There are plenty of video evidence that shows whales spouting water droplets from their blowholes. Now if they didn't surface to breathe then yes they would die.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Read again, "whales spouting water out of their blowholes" is the error, and as you say yourself no not water but air/breath. Indeed the warm (mammal body temp) air quickly condenses in the (colder, polar or not) air to a 'cloud'. And more importantly, saving time to breathe in & dive again, they start exhaling below the surface so blow some seawater into the air. But you see stereotypical kids book whale clearly exhaling purely water, with the outer edges curled like a fountain's splash.
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Dave In MD 4 years ago
Blowing air out their blow hole that sprays water that has collected outside the flap that seals off the hole is different than the classic picture of a while blowing a column of water way up into the air.
Among Us 4 years ago
Well I think it's like this. Say you're breathing hard through a mask, such as after a workout while wearing a mask. The mask will have small drops of water on it because of your breath. Whales breathe like this as well, and probably will exhale before they break the surface of the water (to save time?), which is why there is a it of water. It's mainly just mucus and condensation, not the weird water fountain kid's books show.
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Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago
I love the TIL posts, they make me a whole ocean full of random information I can spout out at random times.
Theater Kid 4 years ago
I love these! I tell these to random people all the time in the middle of conversations and no one has ever heard them before.
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