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Today is a brand new day and before it turns into yet another small and insignificant spot somewhere in a 365-day bender, there’s time to make it worthwhile. So today, we baked you a special treat of a list that features some of the most entertaining facts you probably didn’t know.
Thanks to our dear friends and the powerhouse of Reddit, “Today I Learned,” we have quite a read to scroll through right below. The group’s whopping 26.2 million members prove that too many of us love that sense of discovery, no matter how big or small it be. And often all it takes is one specific fact to pump up your trivia muscle!
After you're done, be sure to check out our previous TIL posts here, here and here.
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#1
TIL 110 years ago Dr Charles Campbell constructed 30 feet high bat roost to fight malaria. Bats that lived in the roost ate the mosquitoes and Mitchell's lake municipality was malaria-free in 4 years.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
The best thing about England is the number of bat species we have, and they're all protected so leave them the heck alone!!
Caro Caro 4 years ago
We have bats here. On a summers evening they fly about, it's fantastic and they eat the bloody mozzies.
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GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I had bats living in my attic, but I put a new roof on the house, and now I have bat boxes scattered around. Where I live, I had to wait until after bat breeding season to put the new roof on. I love them. We need to save them, and the bees.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
So you have bats in your belfry? I love it 😹🤣😹🤣😹
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Totally organic pest control. The bats got plentiful food, and the people got a break from malaria. The only ones on the short end of the stick were the mosquitoes—-but they WERE carrying malaria, so if someone had to go, it was them.
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
I saw a dead bat on the pavement a few days ago. Never seen a random dead bat in the street before. I felt so sad about it.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
That's not normal. I hope you reported it, it needs to be tested for Rabies, etc. I really hope that no kids found it, or someone's pet.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I learnt about bat boxes just last week from the Alaskan bush people. Pretty good idea.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I'm always ecstatic when I hear the "fweep fweep" of bats in my yard.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I love freaking people out by calling bats to us, it's easy at dusk.
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Deborah Menno 4 years ago
If it weren't for bats, we would be overrun by insects. It's said that it's their world and we're just guests. We were really lucky to get One Badass, Bug Biting Flying Mammal! 🦇
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#2
TIL that the first child protective services organization in the world was created after the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals realized laws protecting animals from abuse were stronger than laws protecting children
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
First child cruelty case in the UK was prosecuted under animal welfare legislation.
Louis Wright 4 years ago
In 1950 children's rights began to be enforced. Children still treated like animals housed in orphanages. Foster care system is better, but still not the answer. Adoption programs not perfect but better. Fight for children's right to a "normal" home life. Many children would rather stay with their abusive parents than foster care. (My late wife and I were foster home, children's home parents for 38 years before retiring, so I know what I'm writing about.)
DC 4 years ago (edited)
I hate it when people try to make a point by saying that, for example, the space a pupil has on the bus is not regulated, while the space a pig can legally be squeezed into is - as if there was some kind of pampering towards animals, and children were treated like lifeless, nonfeeling objects. It's quite the opposite, but that's far, far besides. Cruelty towards animals can not be justified, and is no less of an issue because other issues exist, too. Cruelty towards children can never be justified just as well. Making up a competition between two cases of protection of the helpless from the powerful is incredibly low...
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Time to come up with laws to protect our home from ourselves - the Earth.
Katrina Gibson 4 years ago
I agree but your comment seems to take away the point being made on this topic of laws on abuse towards animals being far more aggressive to curtail situations than the laws against abuse towards children. I think your comment is better served as a stand alone topic towards stoping abuse of our planet aka a action about advancing studies in sustainability or making laws where governments and ppl have to/agree to adhere to the green movement.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
People don’t realize the SPCA also protects children. I didn’t know that until I was in my thirties.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Child Protective services were around when I was a child, but you'd never know considering what adults got away with back then.
Catherine McKenzie 4 years ago
A majority of animals on this earth are excluded from animal welfare laws because they are seen as 'products' what you do to a lamb, you would be arrested for doing to a dog. its messed up
#3
TIL Mexico was the only country to protest the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. To honor that support, there is a square in Vienna named "Mexikoplatz"
Jihana 4 years ago
Huh, I am from Vienna, but I did not know that. But I low key wondered why we have a Mexikoplatz. Thanks for letting me know.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
That's a very simplistic version of events, the rest of Europe had already banned it from happening under the Treaty of Versailles which is why Hitler (who was born in Austria) ended up marching in and annexing it. A very welcome event in the eyes of many Austrians, compared to the annexation of Crimea where everyone has been too scared of Putin to do s**t about it.
Uchman 4 years ago
No, it's not just a "simplistic version". At that point the treaty of Versailles was virtually worthless as Germany/Hitler has been ignoring it since 1933 and every other country was trying to appease him. Significantly, Mexico was the only country that actually raise an official protest when other European countries were just trying to avoid another war.
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Stan Brooks 4 years ago
Mexico also just legalized abortion, while Texas moves back into the 1900's.
Dave P 4 years ago
People forget when the vote for annexation came around, 45% voted in favor, 55% against. Hitler knew with that support, he could roll in to cheering crowds, which happened. The Austrian Military was paralyzed as well. Because of the celebrating crowds, and the ethnic issue, most countries were afraid to protests and upset valuable trade with Germany. Kudos to Mexico
Katchen 4 years ago
The vote was 99.7% in favor of annexation. It was famously neither a free not fair election. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Austrian_Anschluss_referendum
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In Berlin we have a Mexiko-Platz as well, Form the Same reason
Linda Baumgartner 4 years ago
In January 1917 a diplomatic message was sent from Germany to Mexico proposing a military alliance between the two countries should the United States enter World War I. In return Mexico would receive financial assistance from Germany as well as territory lost during the Mexican-American War. The Zimmermann Telegram was intercepted and decoded by the British who then shared it with the United States.
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Fair-minded of them, after that whole Archduke Maximillian business.
#4
TIL about a man who shot a protected saguaro cactus down with his shotgun in 1982. The cactus fell on him, crushing and impaling him to death.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I'm very happy that I got that reference. This idiot got 10,000 needled.
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RandomX123 4 years ago
You should play Cactus McCoy 1 or 2. You'll get your answer
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#5
TIL that in 2013, Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo, making it the first major motion picture translated into a Native American language
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Depressing it took so long! We need to keep older languages alive. Moana was released in Tokelauan, and there are songs that were never translated into English to encourage natives to keep their language alive.
Maarama Kamira 4 years ago
Do you realise that the colonisers tried to make Indigenous languages deliberately redundant? It is a tried and true step in trying to remove culture.
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Viviane 4 years ago (edited)
For the person who wrote "It would be much more convenient if everyone spoke the same language fluently." One of the issues is that some concepts can be lost by language loss. Some languages are adapted to specific environments and have very specific words. There can also be practical uses for other languages: Navaho code talkers is a specific example. Another example: a French-speaking pilot favours English on the job because it's faster and more direct (seconds can be crucial in flight), reducing misunderstandings. He uses French in his personal life because women found that more romantic.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Another example: Our local Native American population has over a hundred words for rain (Pacific Northwest, USA).
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third molar 4 years ago
Language is not a mere medium of communication. Its part of culture, context and even history imbibed into your identity. Its more than a tool to communicate
Kickin'Wing 4 years ago
Dances With Wolves was available entirely in Lakota since it was released.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
We need to take care of our indigenous people period who cares if it was translated into Navajo - most of our reservations don't have cinemas!
#6
TIL that the song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" by the artist Skrillex was observed as a mosquito repellent due to its low-frequency vibrations. The scientists also found that mosquitoes exposed to the song had sex "far less often" than other mosquitos without music.
Juan Alcorta 4 years ago
I just played the song in the office and I found out it's quite a good human repellent too! Also, I believe it might be a good contraceptive. No posible sex with those noises.
Peter Trudell Jr 4 years ago
not the first time Skrillex has caused people to have sex less frequently...
#7
TIL The British army breaks step when crossing bridges. This is because in 1831 a suspension bridge collapsed from all the soldiers marching in unison.
NsG 4 years ago
Look up what happened with the Millennium Bridge. Pedestrians hit the resonant frequency of the bridge by accident, but then the effect was multiplied when people started correcting their steps to keep their balance.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
There is an old law that prohibits an army pf cats from crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in order to protect from the same phenomena.
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Laugh or not 4 years ago
Yes, since at least the Romans. Who were very good at both building bridges and having a disciplined army.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
To purposely stop walking "in step"/matching strides.
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#8
TIL that the FTC actually recommends against organizations using regular password changing policies as it only encourages users to use simple, easy to remember passwords that they then only alter in predictable ways.
Something 4 years ago
Alternatively, it causes users to come up with passwords so secure that even they can't access their accounts.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Story of my life! Good luck hacking my accounts! I don't even remember the password in some that I'm always connected!
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The more professional people hide it under the keyboard.;)
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James016 4 years ago
My work place has changed our password policy so that we have to change our passwords every 90 days but we have multifactor authentication on everything.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
we have the option of a forever password, but it has to be at least 16 characters with all the usual flourishes
J. Normal 4 years ago
Best password advice I received. Think of a favorite phrase that you think but do not say a lot. then take the 1st letter of each word exchange 1 letter for a number and capitalize somewhere in the middle. example- "the quick dog ran for the mailman" would read - tqDr4tm.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Nah, i would forget that too! For sure I would forget which one is the capital one!
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Seabeast 4 years ago
I once worked for a company that expected that every 3 months. It had to be at least 8 characters, contain both upper and lower case letters, have at least one number, and at least one symbol. The IT department braced for the inevitable "I changed my password this morning and now I can't remember it!" calls.
selioraxemaia 4 years ago
Ok ... listen up ... use old addresses as passwords and include the zip - capitalize the first letter in the address. If the password requires a symbol use the % sign. Not the ! This way you have a nice long password with numbers and letters. Example: 9800Savageave20755% You're welcome.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
God I hope you're being sarcastic and the people that upvited you are smart enough to realize if we did this everyone would be able to hack everyone LOL
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TIL that in China 209 BC two generals were going to be late which was punishable by death. They realized that the punish for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and created an uprising.
Richard Liu 4 years ago (edited)
They're not general but just low level officer. Their names are Chen Sheng & Wu Guang (surname first). Their revolt was suppressed in just 6 months.
An Co 4 years ago
So you are saying they got an extra 6 months of life? Smart move.
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Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Yu, we should leave now and abandon the kung pao chicken and noodles. Hey Xi, why don't we finish our dinner instead and start a rebellion?
Marcellus II 4 years ago
It's all the same when instead of them two, also the people that they instruct to rebel will be killed? Well OK then.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Good idea. But wouldn't moving far, far away been a better idea? Or is that the coward speaking?
#10
TIL that Enya lives in a castle in Ireland, and when Bo Burnham wanted to include Orinoco Flow in his film, he had to send her a hand written letter
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
Agreed... in my next life, I want to live in a castle in Ireland full of cats!
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Cilla Wyke 1 year ago
One of my cats is named Orinoco after this song. He's a bengal with a beautiful flow in his pattern.
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#11
TIL of Lady Lucy Houston, a British philanthropist who, after WWI, recognized the need for a strong Air Force... when the British government refused, she funded development of what became the Spitfire. She passed before WWII, and never saw how much that investment paid off.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
This is interesting. What a great woman. http://www.warfaremagazine.co.uk/articles/Lady-Lucy-Houston-The-Unsung-Heroine/224
Jon Robinson 4 years ago
She also considered funding Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists with £200,000,however Mosley's publication, The Blackshirt, printed what she thought were insulting references to her and so she kept the money.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
The Spitfire was a culmination of female dedication and ingenuity, yet it was only the most important aircraft in the skies over England and the channel. In Europe, the Hawker Typhoon was a much more successful aircraft and despite being all-but forgotten in England, has many memorials in Europe.
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
the spitfire is still a more iconic aircraft. it also had a shorter range than the typhoon
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
So many women changed the course and strategies of wars. Hedy Lamarr is just one, off the top of my head.
#12
TIL that a guy drove 3.25 million miles with his Volvo that he bought in 1966 until his death in 2018
Ivana 4 years ago
My husband had this beat up volvo held together with duct tape, and it out preformed every car. Driving through a field after the rain, every single truck got stuck, the volvo kept on going. He wrapped it around a tree at 50mph, everyone walked out with hardly a scratch. Amazing cars.
Load More Replies... Sunshine Sunshine 4 years ago
That's 5.200.000 km in 52 years. Dude drove 283.97 km/day. That's s lot
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
That's an average amount a day. He could have been a sales rep.
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Mini Muppet 4 years ago
All the parts changed at least thrice. But yeah, the original body was still there.
Chris 4 years ago (edited)
Like trigger's broom... 17 new heads and 14 new handles. (https://youtu.be/BUl6PooveJE)
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#13
TIL, While alcohol made from apples is called cider, alcohol made from pears is called "Perry"
Scagsy 4 years ago
It goes down like water as well and is usually quite strong. Perfect for a hot summers day but watch yourself on it.
Alex Bailey 4 years ago
You are so right. I do enjoy Perry. Oh, and cider!! Can find yourself out your tree before you realise it - some of them are quite strong!
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Sky Render 4 years ago
If you did bricklaying and used pear alcohol as a binding agent in your caulking, would that make you a Perry Mason?
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
That's the real reason they always ask "Wait - where's Perry?"!
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Sam Chilton 4 years ago (edited)
Calvados is also made from apples (sometimes with pears, too).
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
After the maple syrup season, one local producer taps birch trees and concentrates that sap to make a wine.
#14
TIL: President Nixon, wife Pat, and Henry Kissinger took lessons and practiced for months to learn to use chopsticks properly, in preparation for the dinner banquet on his visit to China in 1972
Peter Thielen 4 years ago
Chopsticks actually rule, there's something satisfying about picking up food pinching it between the sticks!
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
I always enjoy my food more with chopsticks. You eat a lot more slowly and tend to savour things more.
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Missy Corron 4 years ago
Been using chopsticks for any years.... when my husband and I traveled to China to adopt... we were praised for 1. Accurate chopstick etiquette 2. Being among the VERY few Americans who bothered to use chopsticks correctly AND earned some basic Mandarin! It's the little things....
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
When I lived in Bangkok, I did it the Thai way: the fork is for pushing the food into the large spoon. Many things can be eaten with your hands, but you’re expected to cut it or pry it off the bone, or what have you. What you DON’T do is put the fork in your mouth.
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Random Person 4 years ago
I'm an underaged child of asian descent... and i dont know how to use chopsticks. Ive also lived in china for a few years...
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
Jeez, months? Took me an hour using a cook book illustration on how to do it.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
It says "...do it properly", that takes practice. Especially if you are nervous because of the diplomatic importance of the situation.
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Kate 4 years ago
When you're a child, no. When you're 60 and learning for the first time? It's a pretty impressive feat.
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Lyn Moffett 4 years ago
Cut a straw in half and slip each end over the top of the chopsticks,,, so much easier.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Easier yes, but not very presidential looking 🤔
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#15
TIL that Filipino churches built during Spain's colonial period used millions of egg whites in the concrete to make it more durable. This is also why Filipino desserts often use lots of egg yolks- many were developed to use up all the extra yolks from construction projects
Laugh or not 4 years ago
On the other hand, monasteries used a lot of egg yolk for their manuscripts and had to create recipes with the white, which is why we have meringue, macarons, and other sweets with a lot of egg whites.
Honu 4 years ago
Well, egg custard is a pretty traditional Spanish desert.
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Kishore Kumar.V 4 years ago
Even the famous "Kodiguddu Meda" 100 year old Heritage, in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh,India.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
The Chinese used sticky rice in their cement...parts of the great wall that are still standing have been found to have rice in the cement. Fun hint, if you drop an egg, sprinkle generously with salt before cleaning it up, it makes it s congeal a bit and makes it much easier to to wipe up.
Susan Mercurio 4 years ago (edited)
Stalinist Russia used human bones. Learned this from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.
#16
TIL James Blunt(singer) developed scurvy in university when he ate only meat for two months 'out of principle' to annoy vegetarian classmates
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
He added orange juice to his diet to try to combat it and got acid reflux. Balance in diet is important!!!
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That's just stupid. I really wish people would leave others alone regarding their food choices. Whether it's meat eaters, vegans, vegetarians and all the rest.
Rissie 4 years ago
James Blunt is hardly stupid, he either made this up (as a joke regarding the current trend of judgy vegetarians/vegans and more) or there is more to the story.
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Stinky Malinky 4 years ago
Meat-eating men really do think that vegetarians care as much about what other people eat as they do.
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
Even worse is the meat-eating man who makes eating meat his whole sad little personality.
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Emmie Jensen 4 years ago
I don’t understand why people do this. Why does it bother them that some people want to make a difference?
Olesia Kovalenko 4 years ago
Because of shame. They don't know how to deal with their conscience and instead of changing their mindset they'd rather attack the person who was able to listen to their conscience and actually try to change things. It's so much easier to be mad and angry than change something
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Viv Justviv 4 years ago
Um..."out of principle"? What principle was this in line with, being your basic a**h**e? Karma (and scurvy, I'm sure) is a b***h. :)
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Wow, what a jerk do you have to be to make yourself sick just to annoy people whose diet choices you don't like?
Catherine McKenzie 4 years ago
What an idiot. According to world health org, processed meat is a class 1 carcinogen (same as cigarettes and asbestos) so he's probably still in trouble
#17
TIL the sex of alligator hatchlings is based purely on temperature while incubating. At 86F or lower, the babies will all be female; at 93F or higher, they will all be male. The mother can sense these changes in temperature and will alter the nest to maintain an optimum temperature.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
This applies to most reptiles, and gives rise to the phenomenon of "hot females" where they're incubated close to the male temperature, but come out female. These tend to be much more aggressive than other females, and sometimes infertile.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Exactly! It's not that hard to find a gator-picture online.
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lara 4 years ago
That's not true, I have seen chickens having sex at all temps.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Easy way to tell them apart (in a general sense): Crocodiles' nose is "A" shaped (pointy) and Alligators' are "C" shaped. So, if it's name starts with A=C shape and vice versa. (And Caimans have crazy mouths.)
#18
TIL The Vatican has its own telescope staffed by priests, and has previously been given awards for the pursuit of scientific research.
Romenriel 4 years ago
Several catholic orders consider pursue of academic knowledge and research to be one of their
Linda Roy 4 years ago
And altar boys! (I'm not Catholic so I don't know if that's the same thing)
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Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
On another note, there are actually 18 observatories on that land, called Mt. Graham. This mountain is sacred to the Apache Tribe, who protested mightily - it being their native homeland - along with many, many other people, that the Vatican not build here. They were utterly ignored. There were other sites to build the observatory. Lots of federal and state regulations were ignored, dismissed, and violated. Trees were cut, land cleared down to the dirt, everything raked clean and destroyed. Cables were run up the mountain, electric, oil, gas lines laid. It looked like a war zone when they were done. https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/indigenoustraditions/sacred-lands/vatican-observatory-vs-san-carlos-apache-sacred-land/
Eet Yeo 4 years ago
Try actually reading up on the case: Dude wasn't punished for "doing science", he was punished for bad citations and talking smack about the government.
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koniec kropka 4 years ago
Yet they cannot admit that the bi le translation in many cases is incorrect.
Jim Day 4 years ago
In Koniec's defense, check out the book "Misquoting Jesus". The worst offenders were Monks whose interlineations were adopted as the correct text. You need to practically go back to the original Greek, and that is Greek to me.
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TIL that in 1939 an experiment was conducted at the University of Iowa on orphans in which the purpose was to induce stuttering in otherwise normally speaking children. Dubbed the "monster study", it caused lifelong psychological issues in some of the subjects.
Call Me Mars 4 years ago
I have gone over that case study in my psychology class. It is very cruel. As someone with a stutter, I find it horrible and cruel.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I'm not sure i want to know but i will ask.... what methods did they use? How can you create a stutter? I cannot imagine
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Rick 4 years ago (edited)
How can you force someone to stutter? Speaking of stuttering, it was Not Quite Today that I learned that people who stutter when they talk can sing without stuttering because we use a different part of our brain when singing compared to what we use when talking. It was also why Marilyn Monroe talked with that breathy voice, because she did it to hide a stutter.
Aileen 4 years ago
Copying Higgleton's comment: "For six months, Mary Nixon and 10 other orphans were relentlessly belittled for every little imperfection in their speech to test the theory that children become stutterers because of psychological pressure... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monster-study-still-stings/#app"
Load More Replies... Caro Caro 4 years ago
Jeeeesus, what we humans do to others. Using children for experiments, maaaan that's so wrong and I just noticed the date, just before WWII and we all know who experimented on who don't we.
Swan 4 years ago
we do :( and I've seen way worse infinitely worse if only this had stopped nowadays..
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Kanuli 4 years ago
Knew someone lefthanded who was forced to write righthanded which broke her and made her stutter actually... Can’t we just accept people how they are?
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Children used to be beaten for being lefties. Prejudice is brutal.
Load More Replies... Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago
And yet psychology didn’t develop a set of ethics until after the Stanford prison experiment in 1971
#20
TIL David Lucas, a producer of the 1976 rock hit "Don't Fear The Reaper", really did want more cowbell, while band members felt he was crazy. In a 2005 interview, the bassist recalled that the cowbell "really pulled the track together".
classbag 4 years ago (edited)
For those who may not know, this refers to a famous sketch from Saturday Night Live. Look up "more cowbell SNL".
Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
Omg! I was making this exact comment about the cowbell to a friend the other day!
Rens 4 years ago
I love the song... Blue Oyster Cult. Did they ever do anything else? I will Google that later
Jo87 4 years ago
Godzilla... If you never listen to another song in your life... Listen to Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Doesn't matter if this is true or not because all I can think of is Christopher Walken in the SNL skit.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Who the hell is David Lucas and why did he steal cowbells from cows? (old and stupid!)
#21
TIL of garden hermits, people encouraged to dress as druids and live in caves and grottoes on the estates of rich people effectively as decoration in the 18th century, usually receiving room and board as payment. One such hermit was fired three weeks into a seven year term after being found drinking at a local pub.
Romenriel 4 years ago
"Druid" is not a correct term. Hermite is a type of Christian monk that lives alone in a wilderness, but now that I think of it, they were similar to druids in some aspects, for example, they were believed to be friends with animals and animals would be helping them out.
Romenriel 4 years ago
*hermit. I googled it and it's supposed to be hermit, sorry.
Load More Replies... Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Give me WiFi and supply me with wine and I can do this no problem. I will dress like an old hag free of charge!
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Christian hermits and Druids are totally different spiritual paths. But that doesn't speak to the freakishness of people with too much disposable income.
#22
TIL that Stalin struggled with depression and summoned renowned Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev to examine him. After the examination Bekhterev said only one word - "paranoiac". He died on the very next day from what most believed was poisoning.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago (edited)
"I have a feeling people don't like me, it's not like I ban them from speaking their minds and send them to gulags to freeze or work to death if I don't like what they say."
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
"I have a feeling people don't like me, it's not like I ban them from speaking their minds and send them nasty tweets to ridicule them if I don't like what they say."
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Allan Breum 4 years ago
"This Putin fellow seems a bit sus... Hmm, my tea tastes funny." *dies*
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s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
And he really tried hard to cheer himself up that way ...
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Vorknkx 4 years ago
Stalin was very prety paranoid for sure. In his villa, he ordered all curtains to be shortened, so that someone wouldn't be able to hide behind them.
TheWickedOne 4 years ago
Probably a good idea for someone like him, it's not being paranoid if people want you dead.
Load More Replies... Allan Breum 4 years ago
Some shrink once examined Stalin's writings, and the writings of those close to him, and came to one firm conclusion; Stalin had extreme untreated Paranoid Schizophrenia.
Izzy Curer 4 years ago
I heard another story like this. I wish I could remember the guy's name. He was a wealthy white colonialist who moved to Africa. His servants hated him and so they began to subtly pretend that he had been cursed. The guy refused to believe in curses because he thought they were silly, but his servants kept asking him if he was feeling okay, and telling him he didn't look well. Eventually, it all got under his skin and he started to actually get sick in the same ways they were telling him he would, and he died.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Oh, please! Name one megalomaniac dictator that didn't have a mental health disorder.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Starting with "Raging Narcissist with Delusions of Grandeur"...
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TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun. That's 243 Earth days to rotate once, and 225 Earth days to complete one orbit of the Sun.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Pretty sure Mercury is the same. Conversely, a lunar year and a lunar day are identical which is why we always have the same side facing us
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
Mercury has a day in the 50s of Earth days and takes 80 some days for an orbit.
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Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Is it shorter in the Butter Cow? Or perhaps it’s longer...butter and a midwestern summer sounds like events get sped up.
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Joeshar 4 years ago (edited)
Probably because of "Tidal locking". 1- If an object is very close to the object it's orbiting, the gravitational force decreases its rotation speed and makes it always show the same surface. Same reason for our moon. 2- The closer you are to the object you orbit; the faster you orbit. Result=low speed in rotation, fast speed in orbit
#24
Today I learned Charlie Chaplin didn't actually have a mustache, it was a part of his makeup.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Unlike Cesar Romero who did have a mustache that Ben Nye attempted to hide under makeup. (Cesar Romero played the Joker in the original TV Batman series.)
GlitterQueen541 4 years ago
I'm very well aware that Ben Nye is a prolific stage makeup company... I still managed to read this as "Bill Nye' and couldn't figure out what science demonstration required hiding a mustache, lol
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Well, the art of makeup is really a science, I suppose.
Load More Replies... Chich 4 years ago
Same with Groucho Marx. It was grease paint. And it took me far too long to realise this :P
glowworm2 4 years ago (edited)
Holy crap! I always thought it was real! Later in life, he actually did grow one though.
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Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago
my grandfather got Rudolf Valentino his 1st job when he arrived in NYC from italy in 1913 in a restaurant in Little Italy. he was bisexual and fairly open about it which shocked the crap out of my grandfather and many others. He didn't last long before being fired.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
What began as a joke with the guys, became his Little Tramp, emulated by many.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Charlie Chaplin was one handsome looking guy & he was a genius - but I hear he was not the best human being!
#25
TIL there is a full taxidermed whale in a Swedish museum that was open to the public until a couple was caught making love inside it (1930's)
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Wow, who looks at this and thinks "let's have sex inside a dead animal". What a turn on lol.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Do it inside dead trees, like the rest of us? AKA houses.
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Gremlan jonnson 4 years ago
My mom went inside when she was a kid, apparently it smelled nasty
#26
TIL pepperoni is an American invention. It's similar to the spicy salamis of southern Italy, but it also has elements characteristic of German sausages (smokiness, beef content, and fine grind). In Italian, "peperoni" just means "bell peppers".
Kari Panda 4 years ago
In Germany, 'peperoni' is used for something similar to chili peppers. For years, when I read about 'peperoni pizza' I believed it was just a pizza with a whole lot of chili.
Zedrapazia 4 years ago
Same here, i was already 18 until I learned that a bell pepper and pepperoni aren't the same
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
This happens frequently in American cuisine. For instance an 'Italian Beef' sandwich is only Italian because the man who invented it was an Italian immigrant.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago (edited)
I’m an American and I’ve never heard of an Italian Beef sandwich. I should probably clarify that I’m a Californian, which means I know very little about what goes on east of the Sierras.
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Lav Oravaf 4 years ago (edited)
generally what you call pizza pepperoni, in Italy is called "diavola" with hot salami, or if you wish the normal salami (not hot) then order a "milano"
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Well this could cause all sorts of pizza related problems. Why aren’t these things sorted out at international summits?
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I was in 7th grade (age 12) when they tried to change USA to the Metric system, it wasn't pretty😬 It always surprises me to remember that we're the only ones in the world (except tiny Myanmar and Liberia) that still use it. 🤯
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SumoNinja 4 years ago
To this day the best pizza I ever had was in the 1980s in southern Germany. Local cheese, local sliced sausage (basically the local "pepperoni").. I've never been able to replicate anything as good. Unrelated to the post, but it reading it made my mouth water all over again.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
It’s making my mouth water and I’ve never even been to Germany.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Pepperoni, my favorite topping. But they did NOT invent apple pie, which makes that dumb saying, as American as apple pie, nonsensical.
Catherine McKenzie 4 years ago
Its classified a class 1 carcinogen (same as asbestos and cigarettes) check out world health organisation website if you dont believe me
#27
TIL ancient Egyptians would give opium to quiet crying babies. This practice was also a popular way to calm babies in the Victorian era, but it sometimes caused infants to starve to death as they were kept in a constant state of narcotism.
Burs 4 years ago
This used to be done in my village too. They would give strong poppy tea to crying babies to calm them down. Good as a painkiller but definetly too dangerous for babies since some would die.
Romenriel 4 years ago
I don't know about Egypt, but in some parts of Europe, people would use wild poppy instead of opium poppy, which only has very moderate narcotic effect.
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Rissie 4 years ago
You always do diaper check, boob, snack bottle, burp, opium. You don't start with the sleepy meds. Duh.
GirlFriday 4 years ago
In the US, as late as the 70's, paregoric was given to babies to quiet them when they were colicky or teething. It had opium in it. I know this because my mother says she gave it to all thirteen of us and she bought in the baby section at the drug store.
Ivana 4 years ago
My mom used whisky for my teeth. She would just rub a little on my gums and said it worked like a charm but I hear people are pretty strongly against that now. Not like I was getting drunk. Just use a tiny bit.
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
They used to sell something in Australia called Gripe Water, for 'unsettled'. Had heaps of alcohol in it! They didn't stop selling it til the 1990s either!
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Tami 4 years ago
My mom gave me codeine when I had a cold and couldn't stop coughing at night. That's the only stuff that really works for me, but it hasn't been OTC for decades and doctors resist giving out prescriptions for it.
Denny Cwiek 4 years ago
During a time when I had almost nightly coughing fits, my doctor prescribed me a cough medicine that contained codeine. All it took was the smallest sip to hit my throat and calmed it right down. I could make a bottle last 6-8 months. He kept renewing it for me until the time his nurse practitioner saw what I was asking for and denied it. I take tiny sips of whisky with honey (little bottle at the liquor store) now instead.
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J. Normal 4 years ago
I was b1tched at - but rubbing my son's gums with a finger soaked in whiskey helped with teething pain. I tried the safe baby teething gels, and all the ice rings - but 13 months of teething made me hit the bottles - tylenol and whiskey fingers.
GirlFriday 4 years ago
My mother and grandmother gave all of us whiskey in our bottles. They rubbed it on our gums, too. Mom had thirteen children, Grandma had eight children and 34 grandchildren. All of us were raised on whiskey.
Load More Replies... Otter 4 years ago
Can we make this legal again, just for babies who are about to fly on airplanes?
Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
Brandy over a sugar cube was routinely used in airplanes in the 60s. Not too long ago, some entitled person asked loudly, ''Why are all the babies crying...they didn't used to''.
#28
TIL that half of all panda births result in twins, however, it is very rare for both cubs to survive as giant pandas almost always abandon a cub if they give birth to more than one
Romenriel 4 years ago
I saw a Youtube video about this! Chinese scientist were trying to keep alive both babies, so they switched them up in regular intervals. The bear mama only had one baby at her at all times, while the other one was in incubator and nursed by caretakers, and then switch so both babies would get mama love and milk.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I volunteer to work, without pay, to be a panda baby nurse. I will happily care for any cubs not being tended by their mom.
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Robert T 4 years ago
China owns all pandas and any pandas in zoos around the world are only on loan. I believe this also extends to any baby pandas those pandas may produce.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Yes that's true. Adelaide Zoo has had two pandas on loan for over 10 years. W**g W**g and Funi. The loan was recently extended, so far breeding attempts have not been successful.
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That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 4 years ago (edited)
This is sad. If the mothers took care of both panda babies, there would be more pandas
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
They abandon one because they can't really take care of two babies at once, I think.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Glad to know pandas are no longer endangered, but there are other less cute animals that require this same diligence from humans.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
YES!!! We should all consider joining the "Ugly Animal Preservation Society".
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Good thing humans don't normally have twin births! Think of all the heartache!
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
They "choose" what their bodies are made to eat. Do you also blame cats for being Obligate Carnivores? Blame them for not being vegans, even though it'd kill them? BTW, if it wasn't for Pandas China would be a bamboo forest with nowhere to live... Do you realize it can grow a yard a day? That's 40mm an hour!!!
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TIL that the opossum and the possum are not the same animal. The opossum lives in North America and the possum lives in Australia and SE Asia. While they are both marsupials, they belong to different orders. An example of a possum would be the sugar glider, which weighs less than 5 ounces.
J. Normal 4 years ago
As homely as the NA opossums are - they are one of our friends. They eat a lot of nasty ticks, are immune to rabies and are non aggressive for starters. I have had several encounters with them, and the freezing when frightened was the most annoying thing about them (he was blocking the trail so I could not drive the tractor). We spent a good 5-10 min trying to convince him to just move along. We finally went and hid behind a tree and he wandered off.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Opossums are typically called 'possums; Possums are named after 'possums.
Sue Hazlewood 4 years ago
Possums are in New Zealand too. Some idiot imported them from Australia and now they are a pest.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I have opossums living in my garage. They are natures clean up crew, and they eat ticks, which is a wonderful thing.
Sar-kei Scyence 4 years ago
So is the phrase actually “Playing opossum” or did it originate to Oz or SE Asia?
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
"Playing Opossum" is "playing dead" as a survival instinct because most animals don't eat dead animals unless they've killed them themselves. It originated with the North American Opossums. I don't believe that Possums do it, they growl and retreat.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
😻Jack & Jill have a cute passel of Joeys there🥰
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#30
TIL that in 1457 golf was banned in Scotland by king James II, because he felt that young men were playing too much golf instead of practicing archery. It remained in banned until 1502, when James IV became a golfer.
Sue Lynn Chan 4 years ago
But...............HEAR ME OUT! What if they use a golf ball made of metals..........so that when the enemies comes, the can swing the golf to the enemies.
Gogubaci 4 years ago
in England there is still a law in effect that says you have to practice archery at least 2 hours a week
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Back then, golf was actually a sport because it was played on rough ground not these manicured surfaces today. BTW, golf is NOT an environmentally-friendly game, ranking near the top as one of the worst.
#31
TIL President Nixon ordered the Secret Service guarding the White House to have fancy uniforms similar to what palace guards wear in other countries. Revealed in 1970, almost no one liked the new uniforms, including the US Secret Service agents. The uniforms were sold to an Iowa Marching Band.
Amanita Virosa 4 years ago
Thanks, they definitely look like a marching band.
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 4 years ago
No point in having a 'secret' service if you're making them wear uniforms. It sounds trumpian.
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
The Secret Service in those uniforms wouldn't have been . . . . um . . . . . very secret.
#32
TIL that James Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, developed a new proof for the Pythagorean theorem while discussing math with some members of Congress. His proof was published in a peer reviewed journal
DE Ray 4 years ago
Garfield was also, if I remember correctly, able to write the same sentence in Latin with his right hand and in Greek with his left simultaneously.
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
That sounds like a incredible skill. Very interesting.
Load More Replies... Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
We had a guy like Garfield and then we had McDonald Dump. What happened?
Sky Render 4 years ago
Fascism disguised as patriotism (as it so often is) happened. It's amazing what you can get people to do if you convince them that it's what they need to do to save face with their fellow countrymen.
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TIL According to a 2011 study, SpongeBob is messing with the memory retention of children, impairing their “readiness for learning.” Findings show that allowing preschoolers to watch the series causes short-term disruptions in mental function and attention span due to frequent camera cut scenes.
Kari Panda 4 years ago
That’s an interesting info. So what‘s a good alternative for young children? Dora the explorer? Or that puppy show that‘s currently so popular? (A lot of shows targeted at young children are educational in some way, but I have no idea which of these have frequent camera cut scenes. Doesn’t seem like something you can simply google, either.)
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago (edited)
PBS Kids has great shows. I'm probably a few years out of date, (because my kid grew) but entertaining AND educational shows include Nature Cat (friendship and biology), Peg + Cat (math), Odd Squad (math and problem solving), Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (friendship), Wild Kratts (biology), Ready Jet Go (science) and older seasons of Bob the Builder (science, math, friendship) and Thomas the Tank Engine (friendship, responsibility), Word Girl (spelling). They're ALL a little slower paced (often using comedy rather than rapid action for excitement) and definitely more psychologically appropriate. Some might be too preachily liberal for some tastes (Arthur) or too old-fashioned (Thomas was originally all-male, and has struggled to be inclusive, but was still very male-dominated, and ended up being completely reimagined from scrap), but they are all designed with kids' well-being in mind.
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Kira Okah 4 years ago (edited)
New Scientist explains well why the study was bunk. Like really, a sample size of 60... https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20914-spongebob-drains-attention-but-doesnt-harm-brains/
Rissie 4 years ago
I call BS on that research. No brain stops learning. SpongeBob is just an example of something that is more interesting than our current way of educating the masses in basis skills. Blame that, not SpongeBob. Or the way it cuts scenes.
An Co 4 years ago
Sounds like a bad study to me. Basically it looks like the same old "comics/d&D/other things kids like are bad for them" crap that was routinely discredited. Would like to see follow ups, as it is 10 years old.
Kira Okah 4 years ago
It's a very bad study from what I can find. New Scientist points out how it is bunk - https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20914-spongebob-drains-attention-but-doesnt-harm-brains/ - actual study linked at the bottom.
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Katrina Gibson 4 years ago
Holy crap!!! I knew it!!! Having 3 kids spanning 8 years break.... woah. I noticed how little there was cohesive scenes that didn't try to keep attention span for a full story. However a lot of cartoons are like that now. I do have my favorites and I do love SB. He kept my attention and I got all the jokes running between rooms cooking and cleaning. I was able to keep up just fine.
Katrina Gibson 4 years ago
What I mean is... 8 years between each lovely kid. :)
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Vivian Orr 4 years ago
SESAME STREET for sure. Also encourages outside play and imagination play.
Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 4 years ago
I never was allowed to warch spongebob, I guess I know why now
#34
TIL the most expensive first class tickets on the Titanic were $4350 (or £870) in 1912 money. That's over $100,000 today.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Well for some. For others it was a very expensive drown.
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#35
TIL In 1888 Alfred Nobel (of Nobel Prize fame) was astonished to read his own obituary titled "The merchant of death is dead". Actually it was his brother Ludvig who died but the article disconcerted Nobel about how he would be remembered and inspired him to change his will.
AJ the 🦔 4 years ago
He invented dynamite to be the "safe" explosive. After it became used for war and cause deaths, he invented the Nobel prize to encourage people to use science for good. It also encourages the arts and peace.
Load More Replies... Maria 4 years ago
You're missing the best part of the story! He was famous for inventing dynamite, but after reading his eulogy in the newspaper he was upset by his legacy and used his fortune to set up the Nobel Prize awards.
Rob Woodman 4 years ago
That’s sort of...well I suppose they didn’t explicitly write it out
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Jonny Man 4 years ago
Because nowadays when people hear "Nobel" they think of prizes for outstanding inventions or art or stuff like that and not about blowing people up with dynamite.
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TIL: According to Dan Aykroyd 80 percent of the dialogue of Ghostbusters was improv. "The rest was just structure and exposition."
lara 4 years ago
I find that "instant" dialogue is better in comedies because the situations bring forth obvious and witty comments that writers cannot "see" at the time they are writing. Robin Williams, and others are brilliant at this.
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
Doesn't look good for Bill Murray, his character spent the whole movie harassing a woman.
#37
TIL drawings of battles between knights and snails appear in the margins of many texts from the 13th and 14th centuries. There is no known explanation for the meaning behind this recurring depiction.
Burs 4 years ago
Do you see any giant snails trying to conquer us? No. Obviously the knights won.
Vivian Ingram 4 years ago
There is an answer: most of those notes and books were written by monks, who gardened as a hobby. Snails were a serious problem in that era, so they drew knights fighting off the snails that the monks could it defeat themselves.
Melissa TO 4 years ago
As a gardener I totally get this! Snails and slugs are awful!!! 😄
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Oh, marginalia! Love it. There's much weirder marginalia than that to check out :)
Richard Liu 4 years ago
Many theories tried to read the metaphors of knight fighting snails. I said it's just the scribe felt boring.
Lara M 4 years ago
Mnemonics. Before books were easily available, if you wanted to retain the information you read, you had to memorize it, and memory training was a serious thing. Attaching ridiculous "memory tags" to the material you want to memorize is a well known mnemonic technique. For those of you here who are in school, try it on your school subjects.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I did! I scribbled all kinds of memory-tags on my margins, but for some reason the teachers weren't amused. And neither did the information stick to my brain, so maybe I did something wrong ;-)
Load More Replies... DDmaybeandor 4 years ago
The same reason for the fancy "s" in the margins in the 90's I bet. It was just fun to draw and caught on.
#38
TIL that during Civil War, the North blockaded salt imports and destroyed salt mines in the South to sabotage food preservation. The food shortages resulted in general unrest and contributed to surrender.
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
Pretty standard old-style warfare, why do you think castles in europe stockpiled food and had a well?
Erik Lawrence 4 years ago
right. thats why they did it. it wasnt an accident.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 4 years ago
I think the important distinction here was that it was to sabotage food preservation, NOT food production. This would create an impact on winter food stores and spread uncertainty about the road ahead. I know what I'm like when I'm hungry during peacetime, I'd be murderous during rationing.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago (edited)
I would think salt would be more irreplaceable to the armies (and maybe cities) than to the farmers themselves? (Smoking doesn't require crystal salt, but curing does, for instance.)
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Yeah, I think the civilians who could get fresh product might not have suffered as much as the soldiers.
Load More Replies... Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
you do know what the Civil War was fought over right? The Confederacy was widely backed by the civilian population who benefitted from the exploitation of people. So they, starve them the f**k out.
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#39
TIL a quantum logic clock at the Univ. of Colorado Boulder is so accurate, it would not lose 1 second in 33 billion years (about 2.5 times the age of the universe)
Guillaume Derode 4 years ago
Which they know because they calculated it and yes, it is possible to measure that small amounts of time. That's what happens when you listen to science instead of politicians.
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Erik Lawrence 4 years ago
this is a great example of the problem with a lot of things now.... people criticizing, and forming opinions, with absolutely no knowledge or understanding at all, but they feel like they know enough to make those criticisms and blasting that opinion out there as if they do know anything about it. people cant accept that they dont know everything anymore. They have zero interest in learning at all, they just want to spout off as if their ignorance has some kind of value.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
It's actually adjusted for leap seconds so... not as accurate as you'd think. To be fair, given the near impossible task of predicting the slowing rotation of the earth and seismic events, no clock will ever be perfect for long.
#40
TIl an english garbage man won the lottery for 10 million pounds (25 mill USD in today's money), lost all of it then 8 years later reapplied for his old job as a garbage man.
Rick 4 years ago
Before anyone feels sorry for him, he didn’t “lose it” through run of bad luck or decisions, he blew it on a 2K a day coke habit and orgies with prostitutes. He was quite profilic in the news for a while.
Stinky Malinky 4 years ago
I just looked him up on Wikipedia to see if he really was a Rubbish Man (lol), or if the tabloids had hyped it all up during the peak of their ASBO Mania. “…he had been catapulting steel balls from his Mercedes van, which resulted in breaking 32 car and shop windows” was one choice entry.
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Lily Lu 4 years ago
I think there was a study that said lottery winners don't always lose everything, people with good spending habits tend to make wise investments when they win the lottery, it's just that people with good spending habits and people who frequently buy/win lottery tickets don't overlap much.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
The guy was an absolute scumbag by any sense of the word. Bought a mansion and turned it into an off-road race track which went down well with the neighbours, then spent the rest of drugs and hookers
Full English 4 years ago
Made me think of the George Best quote: - "I spent a lot of money on booze, girls and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
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An Co 4 years ago (edited)
It takes about 5-10 years to learn how to handle money. About 1/2 of the lottery 'winners' end up broke. Note, the easiest way to make sure you keep the money is to 1) pay off all debts, including your mtg, 2) keep 2% for instant fun, 3) invest the rest in an index mutual fund, and 4) withdraw 1% every 3 months, and live off of that.
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Alan Green 4 years ago
Yeah he was in the press here all of the time where they dubbed him the "Lotto Lout" for annoying neighbours with loud parties, orgies, turning his posh mansion garden into a race track. Doing lots of drugs etc etc. He was constantly in trouble with the law. Even when he collected his winnings he was wearing an electronic tag.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
That's why in some countries lottery winners get financial counseling to make sure that they don't end up like this guy, or worse.
classbag 4 years ago (edited)
That's ironic. People who buy a lot of lotto tickets are the ones who need financial counseling. If you play every once in a while for fun, that's one thing, but I've seen so many people with a lotto-playing/gambling habit who throw so much money down the drain.
Load More Replies... Dina Anastasakos 4 years ago
Idiot. First thing you should do if you win the lottery is hire a Financial Planner, a Tax Lawyer and an Accountant. They will help you invest and keep your money safe.
Fabian Meresse 4 years ago
In France, when you happen to win the lottery over 1M euros, the Française des Jeux ( lottery organiser) gives you a free finance consulting service for at least a year ( to 10 years for bigger earnings) to avoid this. They help you to draw your profile ( what are your favorite hobbies, for instance), how to manage money, taxes etc....
#41
TIL Nokia 1100 phone, originally sold for under $100, reached the price of over $32,000 in 2009 as criminals discovered that it can receive SMS messages for another phone number, thus allowing to intercept sensitive information like one-time passwords for online banking
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I just looked this phone up and found one for sale for .£14.90. Looks like the robbers were robbed😁
#42
TIL that "granny style" is the most efficient throwing technique for free throws in basketball. The only reason no one does it seems to be because the players are afraid of ridicule. There is no rule against it.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Yep, makes you look like an idiot, but much more effective and accurate
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
I think Rick Barry still holds the record for highest free throw % & he did granny style.
#43
TIL that the Beatles’ final concert for a paying audience wasn't sold out, leaving over 15,000 unsold seats, largely because no one realized it would be their last concert appearance.
Ahimsa Soul 4 years ago
No idea why you were downvoted. It's true... didn't something like this happened with Barbra Streisand?
Load More Replies... Marcellus II 4 years ago
Yes, the Beatles, famously unpopular in their time and never causing Beatlemania.
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TIL Elizabeth Ann is a black-footed ferret, the first U.S. endangered species to be cloned. The animal was cloned using the frozen cells from Willa, a black-footed female ferret who died in the 1980s and had no living descendants.
#45
TIL it only takes the average person 10-20 minutes to fall asleep
Chris Jones 4 years ago
My partner can fall asleep in minutes. I take hours and get up frequently.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
So you are the one who is taking our average down...:)
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
I will not fall asleep until I create elaborate fantasy scenarios in my head.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I'm fine with imagining other people's elaborate fantasy scenarios they put on paper :-)
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Wish that was the case for me. It's been taking me at LEAST 3 hours to fall asleep lately. I got up at 2am a couple of days ago and did 2 loads of washing, wrote a Christmas list, budget list and meal plan, did a lil tidy up. Went back to bed at 3:30 but didn't get to sleep til after 5:45 am, just after hubby woke up to go to work.
Scagsy 4 years ago
There's nothing worse than being unable to sleep when you need to.
Load More Replies... Serial pacifist 4 years ago (edited)
Unless you remembered that awkward situation from the other year and start coming up with a savvy reply to someone putting you down this morning.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
A UK study suggested it was 13 mins for women and 7 minutes for men. It takes me less than 1 if I'm tired, 3 if I'm not.
Aileen Grist 4 years ago
Falling asleep is the one thing that people - adults at least - pretend to do so that they can do it for real. We lie there eyes closed pretending to be asleep until it happens. Young children just drop where they are and sleep
#46
TIL A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
Scagsy 4 years ago
There's a study I could have volunteered for if it wasn't for those pesky robots, coming over here and stealing our jobs.
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
LOL...when I was a kid, I kept seeing those commercials with the owl, and so I volunteered myself! I kept track of the licks...then wrote to them using the address on the back of the bag of pops and informed them I knew the number of licks! They actually wrote me back ( I was SOOO excited when I got that letter!) and it had a "Certificate of Appreciation" and a coupon for a free bag of Tootsie Pops. It was a BFD to me as a kid!
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Heehee (...I wonder if you're the same Rob Woodman I went to highschool with?)
Load More Replies... David Gripon 4 years ago
Wrongo!!!! It's 3. I saw a more accurate study when an owl did it in 3.
David Scholl 4 years ago
it had more to do with the artificial saliva and tongue development for medical research. they just found a "fun" spin to put on it.
Load More Replies... Downunderdude 4 years ago
And I bet they used the 'tongue' for other 'experiments'. They were engineering students, after all.
#47
TIL kamikaze pilots weren't 100% volunteer. Pilots were asked to put their hand up in a big group if they didn't want to volunteer. Amid peer pressure, hardly anyone was able to say no to the mission.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It was much more than peer pressure. It was their culture of being courageous and not chicken out. They could die with great honor or as a coward without a face, which would also bring shame on their family.
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
I saw a story on a documentary of one guy who had the nerve to step forward and say I don't want to do this. The next day he was shocked to see his unit being congratulated for 100% volunteering. His C/O put him forward as a volunteer regardless of what he said.
#48
TIL That the US Army tradition of naming helicopters after Native American Tribes (something that was once an official regulation) dates to 1947 and General Hamilton Howze who felt that helicopters were meant to attack the flank and fade away...in the tradition of the Plains Indian tribes.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Instead of spreading diseases, committing genocide, and pillaging native lands, in the tradition of almost all European armies and their descendants in the past.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
i mean, yes, but also this is in the tradition of all armies everywhere. it's kind of the point of armies.
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#49
TIL Bruce Springsteen's mother would rent him guitars for $6 a week in 1957. Springsteen bought his first guitar as a teenager in 1964 for $18.95. Later on, his mother would take out a loan to buy him a $60 Kent guitar.
Victoria Kimball 4 years ago
I had to read this more than once to figure out that she was paying to rent a guitar FOR him.... not that she owned a guitar and was charging HIM rent to use it. 🤣
#50
TIL that a man bet his friend that he could make any house famous. To accomplish this, he wrote thousands of letters requesting services at 54 Berners Street. So many people showed up on the day that parts of London were shut down. The man (who watched it unfold from across the street) won the bet.
#51
TIL that submarines use a generator to extract oxygen from water using electrolysis.
#52
TIL Anchorage, Alaska, is almost equidistant from New York City, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, Germany (via the polar route), and lies within 10 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 4 years ago
Cargo airplane hub. Strange to be at an airport where cargo planes outnumber passenger planes by a lot!
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
That's simply not true. According to Google Maps the distance from Anchorage to New York is about 5400 km, to Tokyo about 5500 km, but to Frankfurt about 7500 km.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I'll agree, that is quite a discrepancy. Though Frankfurt does fit within the 10-hour flight timeframe.
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TIL that there are actually fireflies all along the west coast of the U.S.; they just prefer to be active during the day.
lara 4 years ago
If you want fireflies around your property quit spraying poisons and do NOT cut down tall grasses. They need the tall grass to breed. I never use poisons and once I got my husband to quit cutting down tall grass [because we enclosed the area for pasture] we had hundreds of fireflies in the summer. It was gorgeous.
Kate 4 years ago
Funny, when I lived in the Midwest we cut the grass and that didn't drive the fireflies away.
Load More Replies... A_BadlyDrawnBearPic 4 years ago
Wait, really?! So you mean those flies that I've been killing are fireflies? What?
#54
TIL that Smarties candy was originally made with machines that were built to make gunpowder pellets for ammunition during World War I.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
And where I come from "Smarties" are sugar coated chocolate treats, pretty much M&Ms without the letters on them. And yet we also have these little sherbet pellets like in the picture, so don't ask me how THAT works!
Rick 4 years ago
Fizzers (like the ones shown in the picture) were rebranded as Smarties when released in the USA, possibly due to a Copyright issue? It happens all the time.
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Australia too! Apparently Americans refer to our sweets as "Commonwealth candy".
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Confusion! We call the pictured lollies 'rockets', and 'smarties' are like m&ms
Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
My guess is that this post is actually referring to the chocolate Smarties, known in the UK and Australia, not the sherberty American ones (because they would be a very strange shape for gunpowder pellets).
#55
TIL in 1967 students at the University of Colorado voted to name their new cafeteria after Colorado’s most well-known cannibal, Alfred Packer.
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
"Colorado's most well known cannibal", so just how big was the cannibal population there?
Robert Bailey 4 years ago
Don't know, but now I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
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Stefan Scheiben 4 years ago
Actually the cafeteria, still known as "Alferd Packer Grill " (NOT Alfred P****r, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer), not only was named after that cannibal but also embraced his history in their interior design. There is a huge mural of Packer inside, and their motto is "Have a friend for lunch!". According to wikipedia, there is at least one other grill venue named after packer.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
What a disappointment it would be, to be your state's second most-known cannibal. I guess second most-famous anything from every place is usually forgotten... Nobody remembers Yoshua from Nazareth.
Jake 4 years ago
It isn't funny. Many people starved to death from the Packer party. Appreciation of food is the intent.
Load More Replies... Susan De Nimes 4 years ago
Anglia Ruskin University in the UK decided to rename its student bar in the mid '90s from 'Mandela Bar'. But only the rugby club turned up to the meeting and they jokingly suggested it be renamed after the quiz show host, Jim Bowen. The vote passed.
OffKeySinger 4 years ago
Read his biography and it was interesting but what I liked most was the way he described Arizona (where I grew up). If it's green, it'll stick you. If it moves, it'll kill you. He ate people after the team he was with got trapped in the winter with no food.
#56
TIL In 2012 as a Valentine’s Day promotion, Pizza Hut offered a $10,010 “proposal package” that included $10 in pizza and breadsticks, limo service, a photographer, fireworks, and a ruby engagement ring.
#57
TIL that the two least profitable movies of all time both take place on Mars. Mars Needs Moms, an animated Disney film, lost $143 million, and John Carter, a live action Disney film, lost nearly $127 million.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
I have a feeling that movies taking place on Uranus would be major blockbusters.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Probably., with millions of teenage boys shouting "I saw a movie about Uranus" at every opportunity.
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Donkey boi 4 years ago
I quite enjoyed John Carter! Mars Needs Moms went a little bit silly but enjoyable overall.
XSpooky_Mint 4 years ago
Okay- But has anyone ever heard of Asylum Flims? Those movies are awful
J. F. 4 years ago
"Mission to Mars" (same year) also wasn't that successfull either
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TIL: There's a guy who is responsible for maintaining the database of time zones which computers and operating systems use to configure locales. His name is Paul Eggert. And he's a computer scientist based in California.
Steve 4 years ago
I don't suppose he could pause it this weekend, and let me have one more day before going back to work?
Marcellus II 4 years ago
I hear he's easy to bribe like that, usually charging a pizza per leap day. Which reminds me I have to speak to him about stopping that daylight savings nonsense.
Load More Replies... Karin 4 years ago
Why is there a database of time zones? Isn't there just 24 of them (25 including Newfoundland)? There's maps of them all over the internet. They don't change. They don't move. Why a database?
Bernadette Circle 3 years ago (edited)
The Time Zone Database (called tz, tzdb or zoneinfo) contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and daylight-saving rules. https://github.com/eggert/tz
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#59
TIL that d'Armond Speers tried to teach his son Klingon language, used by Klingons in Star Trek series, as a first language. The boy answered mostly in English which his mother talked to him in and at the age of 5 stopped answering dad when he was speaking Klingon to him.
Burs 4 years ago
That’s probably because mum or somebody else told him to. A toddler cannot distinguish a fictional from a real language.
Kari Panda 4 years ago (edited)
According to Wikipedia, they boy stopped because he couldn’t use Klingon anywhere. Understandable reasoning.
Load More Replies... Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
I had a similar experience: I spoke english to my kid, but she then refused to use it around 5 as I was her only locutor.
Kari Panda 4 years ago
What an idiot. You don’t mess with your child because you‘re a fan of something or find it funny or whatever. What did he thought would happen once the boy went to school?
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
What harm would it do to the kid to speak two languages? Even if one is hardly used anywhere? Many kids in my region grow up with 'lower German' as formative language and then later go to the common "normal" German. They hardly need the other language anywhere but at home, but it's not like they have to endure torture or something.
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Nikki Bastian 4 years ago
Poor kid. That's the age when we're learning to communicate with the world, it's a hell of a thing for a parent to try to limit their kid like that. I don't think there are any English-as-a-second-language kindergartens designed for Klingon speakers.
#60
TIL that humans didn't perform the critically acclaimed high five before the 70's.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
My thought exactly... there are 'salutation critics'?
Load More Replies... Pezor Zass 4 years ago
that's as far as we can trace that instance of it, but think about how many different societies there have been over so much time. slapping hands together in the air had to have happened at some point in the past, too.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Even in a list of new facts I did not expect that! So was it just handshakes and waving before that? ie are we talking about when the western world adopted it? I have many questions to pose to any high-5 experts out there (my anth studies did not include the 20th century)
Dodo 4 years ago
I feel like I've seen high-fiveable moments in pre-1970s movies and it's usually a very vigorous handshake. Possibly with a slap on the back.
Load More Replies... Serial pacifist 4 years ago
In the seventies, people enjoyed getting high, fives or otherwise.
#61
TIL Spirit Halloween, which is owned by Spencer's, runs over 1200 locations each year for 4-8 weeks. They spend the rest of the year scouting empty locations for the next Halloween season
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
Do they have shops though? I thought they were an internet/catalogue thing
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 4 years ago
Be careful what you wish for. I don't think they come in ones and twos, but in HUNDREDS. Every empty storefront here, but only for a couple months.
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TIL that screensavers were originally created to save CRT screens from burning an image into the display due to prolonged, unchanged use.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Ima just have a little cry at how young and naive this person is
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Yep there used to be a 'haunted house' one in the Windows screensaver package, but it was pretty stupid as the image of the house never moved, only its window contents etc, so it would still damage your screen. 3D pipes however, is still my screensaver on my desktop, even today ^-^
Victoria Kimball 4 years ago
BURN-IN WAS REAL! I once had this monitor in my computer store and people would remark that it was a "really good picture for a used monitor." (It wasn't even plugged in.)
classbag 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, I thought this was common knowledge. But I guess screens don't *need* screensavers anymore, so why would kids know that?
Load More Replies... Della Greymane 4 years ago
That's one thing I like about my Roku - it puts up an aquarium screen saver when it's idle. Reminds me of After Dark - just needs the occasional flying toaster.
Sky Render 4 years ago
Ah, the 80s and 90s... Back when paying $20 for a bunch of screensavers was considered a huge nerd flex. AfterDark became so notorious, and its flying toaster screensaver so iconic...
Auntriarch 4 years ago
Thrown eggs, followed by an insulting chicken. We were easily amused then
#63
TIL Americans Watched Over 57 Billion Minutes Of The Office In 2020
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
And I've only watched about 5-10mins of it. That was enough for me.
Scagsy 4 years ago
Me too. The UK version was by far the funniest of the two.
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chuck.dont.surf 4 years ago
Cue everyone who just came here to brag that they've never watched The Office
#64
TIL traditional battleships are no longer used by any navy. Most were decommissioned following World War II, but the US maintained 4 that were in and out of service until the 1990s.
plush n puppet shenanigans 4 years ago
ah yes the iowa class, some of the most decorated ships in American history
Auntriarch 4 years ago
You mean like William Morris wallpaper and Tiffany lamps?
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
Though it's hard to beat a battleship's attack capabilities on any target within 20 miles of the ocean. All the electronic warfare advancements in the world can't stop artillery. And the defensive capabilities are quite impressive too. Modern Anti-ship missiles with a few hundred kilogram warheads are basically going to bounce off of an Iowa-class battleship.
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Will Fenton 4 years ago
And there's a clause in the agreements with the places they went to be displayed as museum ships in the 1990s that says that they need to be maintained in a state good enough that the Navy can requisition them back if needed!
#65
TIL in the early 2000's Serena and Venus Williams, along with their father Richard, were regularly accused of "match fixing" when the sisters competed against one another. One incident, where Venus pulled out entirely from a semifinal match against her sister (tendinitis), had fans demanding refunds
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Serena once said in an interview at Wimbledon that she puts more effort into playing her sister than she does into a semi-final at Wimbledon. Having observed my family's competitive nature, I can understand that.
#66
TIL the 'Fake Shemp' - using one actor to fill in for another - is now prohibited by Screen Actors Guild rules, as a result of a lawsuit filed by Crispin Glover over his replacement in Back to the Future II
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Not exactly true, they have terms to follow because if it was banned completely they couldn't use stunt / body doubles, and they couldn't have recast Rhodes in iron Man for Don "why did they do it" Cheadle
Lulu John 1 year ago
That’s exactly the first example that came to my mind as well!
Load More Replies... Susan De Nimes 4 years ago
He was upside down in the movie to make it harder to notice it was a different actor.
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Seabeast 4 years ago
I wonder how they'd view The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, where Heath Ledger was replace by two other actors in succession?
Dodo 4 years ago
I think that'd be fine because they weren't pretending it was Heath Ledger. Crispin Glover didn't want to do the movie so they quietly replaced him with a guy who was mocked up to look like him.
Load More Replies... Amanita Virosa 4 years ago
Never knew that. Saw them both back in the day and didn't realize the switch.
#67
TIL Vince Gilligan strongly regretted introducing the machine gun to Breaking Bad's last season and found writing a convincing explanation for it so difficult that he nearly abandoned the plot device out of frustration
An Co 4 years ago
Chemists should use chemical weapons. Poison gas or explosives would have been more in character.
Ploploplop 4 years ago
Walt did use explosives and poisons earlier in the series.
Load More Replies... Loty 4 years ago
He should have abandoned it. That machine gun scene is incredibly stupid and unrealistic.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Mythbusters recreated the scene and concluded it was "plausible".
Load More Replies... Will Fenton 4 years ago
I kind of liked it- for me it symbolised the absurdity of his situation- his descent from quiet school teacher to violent criminal.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I've not watched the show, but my inner-MacGuyver really wants to know what he's doing in the desert with the bottom of an office chair and a garage door opener.
#68
TIL The 1941 American movie drama 'Citizen Kane' was originally a box office flop. The movie failed to recoup its cost at the box office. Radio City Music Hall's management refused to screen Citizen Kane for its premiere. Today, Citizen Kane is considered the Greatest American Film of All Time.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Some say it was sabotaged by William Randolph Hearst, who was not pleased that Kane was clearly modelled on him.
#69
TIL that the destruction of Hiroshima was caused by only half a gram of matter being converted to energy: the weight of a butterfly
Stuart Holder 4 years ago
This is 100% false. Around 1 kilo probably underwent fission. Bad no matter what, but lots of material is needed to make an atomic bomb. I know because I got a C in the physics of nuclear weapons class in college
Colin Matthews 4 years ago
Nope. About 1 kg underwent fission but the statement is correct-only 0.5gramme actually converted to energy. https://thebulletin.org/2015/02/the-weight-of-a-butterfly/
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Lucifer 4 years ago
"The uranium in the Hiroshima bomb was about 80 percent uranium 235. One metric ton of natural uranium typically contains only 7 kilograms of uranium 235. Of the 64 kilograms of uranium in the bomb, less than one kilogram underwent fission, and the entire energy of the explosion came from just over half a gram of matter that was converted to energy. That is about the weight of a butterfly." https://thebulletin.org/2015/02/the-weight-of-a-butterfly/
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mummy pig 4 years ago
TIL that I can read censored curse word fluently without even pausing!!!!😂
H Edwards 4 years ago
My favourite bit of censorship in the comments was W**g W**g, the name of a giant panda.
Load More Replies... Jess Ovo 4 years ago
I recently learned that earwigs, those little insects with pincers, have wings. I saw one unfold theirs and take off. :0
Angelynn Wichman 4 years ago
Like we needed another reason to hate those mother effers? UGH
Load More Replies... Jennifer Briscese 4 years ago
TIL that it takes 1.1 gallon of water to grow one almond. That's 1900 gallons of water to grow 1 pound. 80% of the worlds almonds are grown in California. Maybe throw some of that water on the wild fires?
Virginie Michaud 4 years ago
And about 30% of honeybees in the US die each year when they ship and use them to pollinate almond crops, which provides zero nectar for them, hence having to be fed sugar syrup. Then the colonies are sent back home with all the diseases and parasites they got in that huge bee Woodstock and spread it back to the reat of the colonies back home. The single greatest bee killer is almond production. Tell that to your vegan friend who won't eat honey while they drink their almond latte.. 😑
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I have pictures, people even commented on the pics (see alligator post). Maybe it's your phone?
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Johanna 4 years ago
Dear people who works at Bored Panda, would it be so hard for you to add a picture now and then? Now you have no pictures an not information enough to make it interesting. We could rather read Wikipedia.
Yoga Kitty 4 years ago
I had to scroll upwards to check if there were really no pictures - I did not even notice! Maybe that's because I'd rather read text only than be annoyed with unfitting or meaningless pictures always stating "not the actual photo"...
Load More Replies... mummy pig 4 years ago
TIL that I can read censored curse word fluently without even pausing!!!!😂
H Edwards 4 years ago
My favourite bit of censorship in the comments was W**g W**g, the name of a giant panda.
Load More Replies... Jess Ovo 4 years ago
I recently learned that earwigs, those little insects with pincers, have wings. I saw one unfold theirs and take off. :0
Angelynn Wichman 4 years ago
Like we needed another reason to hate those mother effers? UGH
Load More Replies... Jennifer Briscese 4 years ago
TIL that it takes 1.1 gallon of water to grow one almond. That's 1900 gallons of water to grow 1 pound. 80% of the worlds almonds are grown in California. Maybe throw some of that water on the wild fires?
Virginie Michaud 4 years ago
And about 30% of honeybees in the US die each year when they ship and use them to pollinate almond crops, which provides zero nectar for them, hence having to be fed sugar syrup. Then the colonies are sent back home with all the diseases and parasites they got in that huge bee Woodstock and spread it back to the reat of the colonies back home. The single greatest bee killer is almond production. Tell that to your vegan friend who won't eat honey while they drink their almond latte.. 😑
Load More Replies... TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I have pictures, people even commented on the pics (see alligator post). Maybe it's your phone?
Load More Replies... Johanna 4 years ago
Dear people who works at Bored Panda, would it be so hard for you to add a picture now and then? Now you have no pictures an not information enough to make it interesting. We could rather read Wikipedia.
Yoga Kitty 4 years ago
I had to scroll upwards to check if there were really no pictures - I did not even notice! Maybe that's because I'd rather read text only than be annoyed with unfitting or meaningless pictures always stating "not the actual photo"...
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