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Today, I learned there's a subreddit called "Today I Learned" (TIL). Just kidding, I'm not that far behind on Internet culture. In fact, I've already written about it here, here, and here. I just liked the way that sentence sounded.
However, if you aren't as enlightened as I am in the rich Reddit universe, TIL is a place where users submit facts they discovered on the Internet. Usually, they even attach corresponding photos to make it easier for others to digest the information too.
Sure, it's no Britannica, but the most important rule on the subreddit is that the facts must be legit and the online community has 25 million members self-governing its content, so you know what you're reading has to be true.
Here are some of the posts that recently went viral on the sub. Enjoy.
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#1
TIL when NASA used electronic computers for the first time - to calculate John Glenn's orbit around Earth - officials called on Katherine Johnson to verify the computer's numbers; Glenn had asked for her specifically and had refused to fly unless Johnson verified the calculations.
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
When you're so good at math people trust you instead of computers ;D
SimplySarcastic40 4 years ago
how did you learn about this just now? there was a whole movie about it 4 years ago...she even rec'd the presidential medal of freedom...what?
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Maybe this person doesn’t watch movies. This isn’t common knowledge really. People don’t learn about it in school and the news doesn’t really mention it.
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Laura Williams 1 year ago
Awesome movie. Exceptional woman. Regardless of color for those still thinking it the color made a difference.
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#2
TIL Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London's sewers in the 1860's, said 'Well, we're only going to do this once and there's always the unforeseen' and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960's (its still in use today).
Lathari 4 years ago
To add bit more details he first assumed the highest population density at the time and extrapolated it for whole London and calculated the diameter of the pipes based on this. So now we have all of London with maybe 4-5 story houses. Without the doubling modern high-rise blocks would have overwhelmed the system.
kjorn 4 years ago
this is how we should always build things. politicien always see only 4 years at a time
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
The London Bridge was also built with double of everything needed to operate it. In case anything broke or they needed to service something, they just switch to the other one. So wise and cool :)
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#3
TIL Lithuania withdrew from the 1992 Olympics due to the lack of money after the fall of the USSR. The Grateful Dead agreed to fund transportation costs for the basketball team along with Grateful Dead designs for the team's jerseys and shorts. They went on to win the Bronze.
Catlady6000 4 years ago
Yes, an American rock band in the 60s/70s. Not a lot of radio air time, but great concerts. They had followings of groupies that would follow them from venue to venue, called Deadheads. I think they only had 1-2 mainstream songs, "A Touch of Grey" was one. They really kinda had their own ecosystem of groupies, fans fashion, lifestyle, etc
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#4
TIL A Scottish woman was sentenced to death by hanging around 1721. Maggie Dickson was hung, declared dead, put in a wooden coffin and carted off. She woke up en route to the churchyard, the law said her sentence had been carried out and she lived another 40 years known as 'Half-hangit Maggie'.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
There was a guy in colonial Australia who was sentence to be hanged. They tried three times, and each time something went wrong (the rope broke, the trapdoor jammed). After the third failure they shrugged and let the guy go.
saynogo 4 years ago
Or a really loose one, I’d imagine hanging by your neck really stretched out your spinal column.
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Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago
Hanged, not hung. He'd they hung her she'd be on a hook on a door!
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Didn't die, so either. Way more important to not use "hang" if it wasn't a person being executed. But still a silly distinction.
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Coli Erasmus 4 years ago
For concealing a birth. The story goes that she hid her pregnancy to keep her job at an inn. But when the baby was born it was sickly and died a few days later. Maggie didn't have money for a proper burial, so she threw the baby's body in a river.
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Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago
Because of this case the added the words “until death” onto the sentence so that people didn’t get away with the crime.
#5
TIL that Majel Barrett, the voice of the Starfleet computer on Star Trek, recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds before she died which allowed her voice to be used as the computer for future generations.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
She was also married to Gene Roddenberry. And was the blonde nurse on the original Star Trek.
Catlady6000 4 years ago
Here's one for TIL, the whole thing of retirement and getting Social Security at 65 in the U.S. gained momentum after WWII to force older people out of jobs in order to make room for Boomers
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#6
TIL about the Danish Protest Pig. In the early 20th century, Danes living under Prussian rule were banned from displaying the Danish flag. To protest this, they bred pigs with a red and white color pattern similar to their flag. The breed is now called "Danish Protest Pig".
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
Now that is commitment. "We'll mess with evolution just to spite ya!"
Anna K. 4 years ago
That's nothing compared to the Dutch. They bred carrots to be orange instead of purple, in honor of their royal family (the House of Orange).
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Lærke Littlebird 4 years ago
Take it to the Danes to use picks for national pride! Should be the national emblem instead of the swan 😂
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
When they were next under German occupation in WW2, the king and many other Danes wore yellow Stars of David on their clothes in defiance of the Nazi orders requiring it of Jews.
Silas O'Connell 4 years ago
Imagine a country with blue or green or purple on the flag trying that...
Mary Peace 4 years ago
I knew that carrots used to be purple, but I didn't know why they are now orange. (You can get purple carrots and yellow carrots in some shops.)
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#7
TIL Nicaraguan Sign Language is a sign language that spontaneously developed among deaf children in Nicaragua in the 1980s. It is of particular interest to linguists because it is believed to be to be an example of the birth of a new language, unrelated to any other.
Vuun 4 years ago
For those not familiar with the linguistic debate over nature vs nurture, this is a good argument in favour of the "language acquisition device" as Chomsky puts it. This case indicates our brains are prewired to acquire a language as you don't need language contact to achieve that, only human contact.
Aliquid A 4 years ago
All sign languages developed spontaneously. The thing that is special about this one is that it happened recently, so it is easier to study. -- People assume that standard sign language (ASL, BSL etc.) were designed to copy English, but they weren't. They have their own grammar, vocabulary, and rules that do not follow English. They are literally a different language, that evolved independent of the spoken language that existed around them (english)
Candia Lee 4 years ago
ASL was designed as a language to be taught at a school for the deaf in 1817, combining aspects of two spontaneous sign languages and French Sign Language taught in France. ASL, being American, uses English spellings and structure, since English is the deaf reading language.
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Noel Benavente 4 years ago (edited)
i'm from Nicaragua and i didn't know this... not because i do not care, but because this kind of things are not promoted. Our governments are the worst.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Off subject but made me think of Tarzan, whom we are supposed to believe taught himself to read and speak while growing up in the jungle raised by apes.
#8
TIL of Diego, a tortoise whose high libido helped save his species. He & E5 (another male) brought the population from 15 to 2,000, and now the species is considered self-sufficient. After 80 years in captivity, Diego is now retired in the Galápagos, where he'll spend the rest of his life having sex.
CatWoman312 4 years ago
So a 14 year old boy who passed away was reincarnated as a tortoise in his next life. Cool 😂
Louise B 4 years ago
Dammit! You thought of it first! 😂 I was gonna gonna say hard n*b life - I fully admit that your's was better! 😁👌xxx
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#9
TIL: Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it’s known as “wet water.”
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
just like soap to break the cohesion of water and makes it better to clean your pores.
Peko 4 years ago
While soap decreases the surface tension of water that's not what makes it better at cleaning pores.
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𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
it's actually better for you if you drink dry water, which is something i learned from a random 10 minute long youtube video!
K.N. Alexander 4 years ago
Reading the title first made my head hurt. LOL (before reading explanation)
LadySparre 3 years ago
½% of foaming agent added to the water will make "wet water" this will break the surface tension and allow the water to penetrate instead of floating away on the surface.
#10
TIL on the set of Blade: Trinity, Jessica Biel was supposed to fire an arrow directly at the camera, so the camera was surrounded by Plexiglass except for a 2" x 2" square in front of the camera lens. Biel managed to shoot the arrow through the hole and destroy the $300,000 camera.
Rick Seiden 4 years ago
They should have put a mirror in front of the camera at a 45 degree angle to Jessica Biel and have her shoot at the mirror. (Not my idea. A few YouTubers have done this.)
blubber9847 _ 4 years ago
i'm pretty sure the camera would have been unmanned at the time of shooting at it. So the cameraman mostl likely was okay.
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Ray Martin 4 years ago
Call me a nit-picker, but Plexiglass is completely transparent, so why was there a hole in it at all?
#11
TIL Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders, made the entire game himself. Not only was he its designer, programmer, artist, and sound mixer, but he also engineered the game’s microcomputer from scratch.
Random Anon 4 years ago
Wow this man here needs to at least be proficient in multiple tech fields to do that. Huge respect.
#12
TIL that at a 1976 Amsterdam chess tournament, Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi politely asked an English competitor how to spell the words "political asylum." He then went straight to a police station and announced that he wished to defect.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
Can you explain this to me? I don't get it ! ( The post, not your comment)
Load More Replies... Full of Giggles 4 years ago
Kudos to the competitor. Even the smallest act of kindness can have a huge impact on someone else’s life.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Here's a scanned ["45 year old" became "45 year ola"] newspaper article: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/29/archives/soviet-scoffs-at-korchnois-bid-for-asylum-in-the-netherlands.html
Eglė Bukauskaitė 4 years ago
To be fair, a LOT of people who had a privilege to tour outside SSRS done that despite governments vetting candidates (sportsmen/actors/singers/performers/politicians/fishermen/you name it) religiously. They let only those who had families so they would be less inclined to defect.
Bex 4 years ago
Not really. Most Dutch people speak English. We also don't know Mr. Korchnoy's English proficiency v. Dutch.
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Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
Maybe he asked the translator, who would have been an English speaker.
#13
TIL of a brawl involving 50 congressmen on the US House floor in 1858. It ended when someone knocked off a man's wig and the man accidentally put it back on backwards, causing both sides to laugh and stop fighting.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
I felt the opposite. None of our leadership would ever care enough to physically engage, and if they did, it would end in lawsuits and lost jobs rather than laughter. Most of them hate America so much they would never let themselves have any risk of harm or jail in the name of the country.
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The 5-star rated 5-star rating system 4 years ago (edited)
I'm picturing it... such a weird image.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Trump’s plan would be to end up not fighting because they all laughed at the same funny joke? Hardy. Trump’s emergency plan was war on Iran and martial law.
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TIL Noninvasive spinal stimulation enables paralyzed people to regain use of hands. A team of scientists reports that six people with severe spinal cord injuries — three of them completely paralyzed — have regained use of their hands and fingers.
Inga Paškevičiūtė 4 years ago
True! I injured my left hand and can't use it for up to month and I'm a leftie, and it's not the same. Definitely taken all of this for granted. Can't imagine if I was paralyzed....
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Tantalum_Radium 4 years ago
I was diagnosed with MS at 35 and quickly lost sensation in my hands, it feels like I’m wearing woollen gloves constantly. This is something I’m going to look into! Thanks to the poster!
#15
TIL a professional security tester named Jayson E. Street, was once hired to attempt to compromise the computers and networks of a bank in Beirut. He succeeded in the compromise and found several exploits, but was soon shocked to discover he had just robbed/hacked the wrong bank.
#16
TIL That a man in horse-drawn carriage was kicked out of KFC drive-through. He then went to a McDonalds and was served a Big Mac without anyone questioning his method of transport.
jenjie.newt 4 years ago
Didn't a guy once ride a horse into a gas station to buy beer because he was "too drunk to drive"? Reiterate: INTO a gas station
J. Zingler 4 years ago
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Well in England it is your right to use streets with horses / carriages etc. unless of course there is a sign.
Bruce Mardle 4 years ago
Back in the days when bus travel was a thing, I was often on a bus stuck behind a horse-rider [sigh].
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
Today I learned that this is a Miniature Gypsy Horse, one of the smallest breeds of draft horse.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Miniature gypsy is not a breed, it's another thing that have been alterated by USA. Some crazy american mixed gypsy cobs with shetland to "create" a new breed. The one in the pic is a gypsy pony, just a small cob.
Load More Replies... Kendra Miller 4 years ago
If I ran a fast food place the rule would be, If you or your animal(s) s**t on the drive through, you have to clean it up. With that in mind, enjoy.
Bruce Mardle 4 years ago
The KFC employee(s) probably felt guilty that someone had uncovered their secret: "KFC" is short for "Kentucky-Fried Carthorse"!
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Well anything with wheels is considered a vehicle. You can get a ticket for d.u.i. in a wheelchair. At least in U.S. So boo K.F.C.
#17
TIL when pursued, kangaroos will lure the chaser to bodies of water. So they can hold their pursuer under and drown them.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Someone I know had a kangaroo do this to their dog. The dog survived, but it was a close call.
Alice Teasdale 4 years ago
I know this. Saw it yesterday, without the drowning bit, in the house dam on our Kangaroo Island farm. "Grumble o pug" hasn't tried owning farm dogs in a spot where you wake up with a roo at your front door. Ironically, yesterday my husband called the dog off, out of the dam, then the cat attacked the dog and he went back to the roo! Luckily called him off again. We lost a dog to a roo and had to stitch a 30cm wound on the other one when our 3 year old accidentally let them out. So as much as we love Roos, managing dog vs roo is tough. We have a huge yard for them now.
Colin Matthews 4 years ago
Yup. Get Kangas in my garden and i have a dog and a dam. Only big males do this though
#18
TIL in 1865, Charles Dickens was traveling home from France when his train derailed while crossing a bridge, and his car was left dangling from the tracks. He helped save stranded passengers and then climbed back into the dangling car to find a manuscript he was supposed to send to his publishers.
Eric Lafleur 4 years ago
A train wagon for passengers is called a car or a coach. So yes, he was in a car.
CatWoman312 4 years ago (edited)
Very ironic. I was watching a documentary on travel channel last night about strange unexplained things and the episode was about spontaneous combustion. Apparently someone dies from that in this very book.
panda123 4 years ago
The things that trains pull are called cars 93c4ce5a-4...b-jpeg.jpg 
#19
TIL the idea of black holes was first proposed in 1783 by John Michell, calling them "dark stars" and proposing a method to detect them by looking for star systems that showed the gravitational effects of two stars, but only one star was visible, which is indeed how scientists look for them today.
#20
TIL of Frederick McKinley Jones - an orphaned black American who, in the 1930s when racial segregation was the norm, invented the first successful automatic refrigeration system for trucks. This lead to the development of supermarkets and better combat-zone medical supply.
maddie pealer 4 years ago
including the U.S, especially in small ignorant towns such as mine:), its really funny sometimes tho, like we have a ginger white boy who thinks he's a blood and that saying the N-word is cool but he thinks BLM is a terrorist act lmao (he's 14). Super ignorant and overall dumb. Just goes to show that we as a people have really regressed, as well and progressed in certain areas.
Load More Replies... Dave P 4 years ago
He actually improved on the existing model which was massive, made lots of noise and had a small compartment for goods. He figured out how to improve it to allow for a lot more space, less noise, and more efficient. Still a major accomplishment and a brilliant man
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Most of history's great ideas have been radical rethinking of existing notions. The first person to have an idea without outside inspiration typically takes a bee-line directly to what they think the solution is. The second person to look at a problem sees all the issues with the first idea and makes the game-changing breakthroughs.
Load More Replies... Full Nameю 4 years ago
The United States has overcome racism. But sadly the Left is unhappy about that. So they try their best to stir up racism.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
There is only one human race. Most humans have mixed ethnicity.
Load More Replies... Mary Peace 4 years ago
No-one else wants to say it: brilliant work by this man, don't know what we'd do without supermarkets today.
Uchman 4 years ago
So you don't see how someone living in a segregated society with less rights than his white counterparts was still able to surmount all the obstacles to invent something so significant?
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yvette 4 years ago
what problems would that have solved? that is adding to the overall segregation problem.
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TIL that the oldest known domesticated dog remains are over 14,000 years old. The dog died young and is unlikely to have been much use to humans. Nevertheless, it was buried in an elaborate grave alongside two humans.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
I think they are implying that humans evolved dogs thousands of years ago based on jobs dogs could do (like sheep dog, husky, etc) but that this particular dog wasn’t being “used” for anything other than friendship.
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
There is evidence that domestication may have happened as early as 35k years versus 14k years ago. What is more interesting is the self-domestication model is more accepted than the "cavemen stole a wolf puppy" mythos.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
They have found evidence of "proto-dog" dating back 30,000 years, which include fragments of a skeleton and fossilized paw-prints in a cave alongside human footprints.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
If I recall correctly, they were a child's footprints. <3
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Kendra Miller 4 years ago
Sometimes these facts make me wonder if these people are listening to the same podcasts as me: How dogs landed in our laps by Every Little Thing Podcast episode last week
#22
TIL In high school, Donald Glover was voted "Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons." In 2006, Glover sent writing samples to David Miner, which included a spec script he had written for The Simpsons. Miner and Tina Fey were impressed by Glover's work and hired him to become a writer for 30 Rock.
idraax poission 4 years ago
At the time of writing this, he still hasn't been credited as a writer on the Simpsons
#23
TIL that the developers of the racing simulator game Assetto Corsa were attempting to find the source of what they believed to be a bug with the in-game traction control. In reality, the "bug" was the simulation accurately recreating a real world physics problem they were unaware of.
DC 4 years ago
Would be interesting to know which. And also - didn't they have actual engineers on board? I mean, engineers specialized in cars?
Axanthron Myre 4 years ago
click on the reddit link under the picture to go to the original reddit thread, the whole thing is explained a little way down in the comments
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Emre Schley 4 years ago
By the way, AC is so good that they use it in $300,000 F1 simulators used to train REAL F1 drivers!
#24
TIL that a smell can recall emotional memories better than any other sense. A sense of smell is also linked to overall psychological well-being.
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
This doesn't surprise me. Whenever I sniff the pages of an old book my grandparents gave me I can close my eyes and imagine myself in their house, which I last visited in 1978
Danny Ruiz 4 years ago
I can truly relate to that. I have an old Sax that I used when I played in a Soul/Funk band. Anytime I take it out, the smell always takes me back, and I'm suddenly reliving the times with my band mates, and the nightclubs we used to play in. Everytime I open the case, I will spend the next few weeks watching and listening to the groups we used to play on YouTube.
Load More Replies... Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
I saw a documentary about how scientists were trying to use this to "trick" the body into healing. They'd give a potent medicine, and at the same time have the patient smell roses. Eventually, when the patient - a girl named Meret - smelled roses, her body would respond as though she'd just received the medicine.
LuckyL 4 years ago
I heard when you learn for a test to chew a certain kind of chewing gum and to chew the same kind during the test
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
This works really well. It also helps to study in the room where you will take the test;; the more familiar the environment, the better your recall.
Load More Replies... Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I was listening to a podcast this morning. A caller called in wanting to know if it was true (she didn't think so) that we breathe in one nostril at a time. The host of Every Little Thing interview a nose scientist and he said it is in fact true. The air comes in through one nostril fast and the other slower, and then after a couple of hours switches. The theory is that some things are better smelt fast and some smells are better picked up as air slowly wafts up your nose. He also said that air is really dry and dirty so the swap might also give your nostril a chance to rest, clean and repair. Lastly he said that when you are lying on your side the dominant nostril is always the one furthest from the ground, that way you wouldn't "Hoover up the dirt" from our ape days.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Interesting to get confirmation of my observations. Except mine is side-dominant from severely deviated septum. And the lying down thing is gravity drops snot into lower bedside sinuses, blocking airflow. I have excellent smell, tho roomie w allergies is more sensitive.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
I always think about this! It’s just very true. Smells will take you back decades as if it just happened.
Ezigma 4 years ago
My ex had a rare condition where he couldn't smell ANYTHING, not even chemicals, but he had no problem tasting things. Explains a lot now lol!
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Wow. At least he could taste. Or not - tasting nasty odors sounds worse than smelling them. My friend who can't smell raised horses ...
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Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
I read somewhere that the part of the brain most responsible for memory is located above the nasal passages. So the smell literally goes straight into the memory bank.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
Losing my sense of smell has been devastating for this reason. I miss the taste of food too, but not being able to smell the rain, cut grass, vanilla - it's just awful! (not from covid, btw - it's been five years :( )
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Yup. Scents have been used to (temporarily unfortunately) give back Alzheimers and dementia patients some of their memories.
#25
TIL that sleight of hand artist Apollo Robbins was so proficient that he once managed to pick the pockets of 2 secret service agents assigned to former president Jimmy Carter. He managed to steal the forner president's itinerary, the keys to his motorcade and the badges of the agents.
Bob Bobbins 4 years ago
That guy is amazing - if you ever get a chance to watch Brain Games, he's on there a lot.
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
He’s the second best pickpocket ever. No one knows who the best one is.
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#26
TIL that during World War II, M&Ms were exclusively sold to the U.S. military. The candies were heat-resistant and easy-to-transport, perfect for American soldiers’ rations.
Full of Giggles 4 years ago
My grandpop told me about it when I kid. He said some soldiers would use their pieces as poker chips.
Lydia Shen 4 years ago
Okay, genuine question. How are they heat resistant if they are chocolate? Won't they melt?
Candia Lee 4 years ago
They are milk chocolate dots covered in a thin hard sugar shell covered in a thinner food-grade shellac shell. They withstand heat (chocolate might melt but she'll won't) but not great humidity (melts the shell) or pressure (allows melted chocolate out).
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Hannah M 4 years ago
Heat resistant? You just hold one for a few seconds and the colour's oozed all over your hand
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
I don’t. The chocolate inside isn’t good enough to be called chocolate. Plus it has milk in it, which is so gross. There’s a brand called Unreal that makes the same kind of candy but with good chocolate inside. It costs a bit more but it’s worth it if you’re in the mood for that kind of candy.
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#27
TIL that Catherine Zeta-Jones was initially offered the lead role in Chicago, but turned it down in favor of playing Velma just so she could sing "All That Jazz."
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Catherine Zeta-Jones is so beautiful, one of my 5 "allowed if I ever get the opportunity", I think Americans call that a hall pass.
Ivy Ruonakoski 4 years ago
I don't see how Roxie Hart is a lead over Velma Kelly. They have comparable amount of screen time.
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
The story is mainly told from her perspective.
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TIL about a psychological phenomenon known as psychic numbing, the idea that “the more people die, the less we care”. We not only become numb to the significance of increasing numbers, but our compassion can actually fade as numbers increase.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
A personal observation (I'm 60). My mother died when I was 28, and I thought my world had ended. The pain that I felt was nearly insurmountable. But when my father died 9 years later (and I loved him just as dearly) it seemed the pain was not nearly as bad. And then my dearest brother died quite young -54, and I was in my forties by this point. I don't think it's that we care less, so much as we get used to it, and know in spite of the pain we also won't die.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I miss my mom way more than my dad, I think because I got to spend two more decades with her. At 3 I was not affected by my grandfather's death, but when the other died when I was 14 I lay awake in fear of dying in my sleep.
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Jos Tiguidou 4 years ago (edited)
"Half a million people have died in America due to the Covid pandemic. REOPEN ALL BUSINESSES AND SCHOOLS YOU PEASANTS!" This checks out.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
This is because if we really feel it, we can't function enough to keep ourselves alive. But we feel lit *later*, is my guess.
diarykeeper 4 years ago
It's probably an evolutionary 'trick' to prevent from going insane. Some even propose depression to have a similar function, shut down to protect till things work again.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
It's an analogue of the Bystander Effect, where the inaction of others gets copied.
#29
TIL Lighthouses had different techniques for rotating the light, most being too slow, making the light less visible. Augustin Fresnel proposed a mercury flotation system in 1825. Despite some lenses weighing over 6,000 lbs. the design reduced friction, increased rotation, and ultimately saved lives.
Sarah Lishman 4 years ago
Now more commonly used in theatres across the world as stage lights (albeit a heck of a lot smaller in size and weight!)
Haunting Spirit 4 years ago
I live in a town where the lighthouse moves the light clockwise and in the rest of the country they turn counterclockwise.
Connie Martin 4 years ago
The light in my tiny town on Lake Superior was converted to blinking instead of rotating about 15 years ago. We really miss the sweep of the light outside the bedroom windows at night.
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TIL that it used to be illegal in the United States for actors to wear military uniforms in a production that portrayed the military negatively, until the Supreme Court ruled in 1970 that this was a violation of the First Amendment.
Carole Reid 4 years ago
And a lot of movie goers are sticklers for the accuracy of the uniform and decorations.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Do they actually make films that portrays the US Military negatively? Everyone I have seen they won every battle, won both Wars more or less on their own, of course
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
It still impact how much support the production gets from the military.
DC 4 years ago
I'm regularly surprised how careless constitutional rights are given away if the cause is somehow "MURRICA111"-related, but refuse to even reconsider what was meant and why it was meant, also because MURRICA111. Seems like the idea of said MURRICA111 is neither understood nor appreciated in total. In total, it also is spelled in a way looking less stupid.
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
I assume those 1’s are intended to be exclamation marks?
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TIL Carl Stalling composed the music for many early Disney and classic Looney Tunes cartoon shorts, averaging one score a week during his 22 years at Warner Bros. The studio's 50-piece orchestra found Stalling's dynamic cartoon music far more challenging than the film scores they normally played.
#32
TIL children have more energy than endurance athletes. They have fatigue-resistant muscles and they recover faster than adults. Much of this stems from their ability to uptake and distribute oxygen, as well as synergize energy faster.
LuckyL 4 years ago
Well, that explains a lot. (I have a daughter - one is enough to exhaust me)
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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
I read somewhere that scientists once challenged an Olympic athlete to follow a toddler around and do nothing else but imitate the toddler's actions. He was worn out in no time and the kid just went on.
Peter Warholm 4 years ago
But the graph shows the opposite. It shows that Children have lower power output (W/kg) than the 2 named types of adult for the whole duration displayed...
ProductofNZ 4 years ago
I think what they meant was that children are better at maintaining peak energy levels for longer than athletes. (as shown by the graph) Poor wording perhaps?
Load More Replies... Richard Henderson 4 years ago
That graph seems to show that children do not actually have more energy than endurance athletes though.
guy barron 4 years ago
Anyone that's tried to chase a 4-year-old after they've gotten a hold of something they know they shouldn't have can tell you this.
#33
TIL Andrew Thielen's info was fraudulently sold to debt collectors. Their conduct enraged him to the point of spending a years-long crusade to find the source that committed this fraud. Using the same intimidating tactics collectors tried to use on him, he worked his way to the man responsible.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Google "Andrew Thielen debt collector" and you only find exact copies of the above quote (starting on "TIL"). The image and content is from an article about Andrew Therrien though: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Ironic that he didn't put his efforts into pushing for legislation into cleaning up this garbage dump of a business model. The wild west of debt collection is so deregulated, so criminal in it's behavior that consumers need advocates, not people who become the system.
despayre 4 years ago
It took me a while because they had his name wrong. It's Andrew Terrien; interesting article on: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
Janet Wheat 4 years ago
Now your data is sold to equitable and even carfax without your consent. Every time I have my oil changed my mileage is sent to carfax which sends it to State Farm. State Farm adjust the insurance based on the mileage that I use per year.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
I remember this. There’s an article and video out there about it somewhere.
#34
TIL Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were friends at one point, however Doyle refused to accept Houdini performed using trickery and believed he had supernatural powers. Their friendship ended after Houdini exposed séance mediums who claimed to have powers to talk to the dead.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
If I am not mistaken the medium that he exposed was Doyles wife. Thats why they werent friends anymore. If I remember it correctly he gave a 'password' to his wife so if one of them died they could confirm if they were really talking ti their spirit or being scamed.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Answer, answer, tell, tell, answer, tell. (That was the password. Pretty near unguessable.)
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Julie moreau quilliou 4 years ago
Doyle was a nutter and I love him. Check out the story about fairy photos, it's hilarious.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Right? He seemed a bit gullible but in an adorable way
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kalastaja774 4 years ago
Did you also know H. P. Lovecraft and Houdini had plans for entire series of short stories depicting Houdini's made up adventures? Houdini would be the main character and Lovecraft the ghost writer. They ended up doing only one, which is kinda ok. It's about Houdini trapped inside a pyramid, and him finding out a secret cult worshipping some huge creature under the pyramid. Very Lovecraftian.
Abby Parker 4 years ago
Reminds me of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. They had a falling out because, despite all the fantasy in their stories, Tolkien was furious with Lewis for including Father Christmas xD
Zanni B 4 years ago
Thats crazy because I don't think it would work like that considering that the brain dies also so after death..so the living person remember the password but the dead could only recognize their energy from their spirit knowing they know this person but I don't think a password I think that's why ppl are called out on that...in my own opinion
diarykeeper 4 years ago
Doyle also believed in fairies during his EOL. Bell was also having thr time of his life fooling Doyle in some ways... If it hadn't been for Doyle's -undoubtly most stunning - writing talent, that'd have save'd the world from some wannabes...
Ivy Ruonakoski 4 years ago
Neither. Doyle wrote about a detective, he wasn't one
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TIL That when people first started using the telephone they would often yell into the wrong part, and when they did get on the phone, they had to figure out what to say to start a conversation: “Ahoy” was Alexander Graham Bell’s preferred option.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
And that's why Mr Burns on The Simpsons always answers the phone with "ahoy hoy?". He's just THAT old.
BonnieBlueButler 4 years ago
My granddaddy (think backwoods Alabama) always opened with "allllll right?"
Full Nameю 4 years ago
You can run a 9volt between two phones. Use them as if they were connected in same house. Kinda fun
#36
TIL that Doctor Who briefly featured Kamelion, an android who was "played" by an actual robot. Unfortunately, the writers had to kill the character off when the robot's inventor, who was the only one who knew how to control it, died in a boating accident.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
This is why you always have a backup person for important functions!
#37
TIL that a 14th century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta went as far as modern Indonesia, China, India, Russia, Central Asia, Balkans, Spain, Tanzania, West Africa and Maldives, and was by far the most well-travelled human before the modern era. He wrote an account of his travels, known as The Rihlah.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
His travels are impressive. But I have no idea why Spain is in the list since we are neighbours and also in the 14th century part of Spain was arabian. Not very impressive that he went there.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
That has me curious if he left Europe overland via Spain, or simply made a jaunt across the med.
Load More Replies... Dave P 4 years ago
There were many ancient explorers from that era who traveled all over. There was a Chinese one who in the 1200's traveled all the way to England via Persia, Byzantine Empire to Italy to France to England and back to the middle east where he died in what is today Syria. Left a book about his travels that was only translated in the 20th century
Noel Benavente 4 years ago
Everytime i watch a historical movie or tv series (which i love) it amaze me how those travels would have been, weeks by horse to the next town... wow. *_*
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Lion's Stare 4 years ago
It's arguable if he went to all those places. Many historians believe that a lot of what was recorded in Rihlah was based on hearsay, or compiled form other travelers.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
And here in Europe we were in the dark ages, uneducated, inward looking and mostly ignorant
Bruce Mardle 4 years ago
Funnily enough, I saw that drawing in a TV programme I watched a day or 2 ago (which was about Kilwa Kiwasani, a city on the coast of Tanzania, which Ibn Battuta visited).
#38
TIL The last US Civil War Widow died in 2020. The practice of a young woman marrying an older man for his Civil War pension as a dependent was common practice in the early 20th century.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
He was 93 and she was about 80 years younger; she also died at age 101, btw. So, yes, 2020. They got caretakers, and the women got a pension so they didn't die of starvation/poverty. There are at least 3 otheres who made it to the 21st century as Civil War veterans' widows.
Ursula S. 4 years ago
While it is true about the pension and poverty reasons, she neither applied for nor received his pension. Mrs. Jackson said that one of her husband's daughters threatened to ruin her reputation if she went through with the application. She didn't want to be regarded as having taken advantage of him.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Not all women had traditional marital relations with older husband. The older men got care takers and young women got money to help out families.
Janet Wheat 4 years ago
That’s one reason that social security doesn’t kick in with widows benefits until 10 years in case of a death from natural causes.
#39
TIL that in the last year of his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt rode a horse 100 miles in one day in order to prove that his new military physical standards (100 miles in three days) were not unreasonable.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
Horses walk at 4 mph, and trot at 5-11 mph. Since a horse can't trot all the time, it would've taken Roosevelt approx. 20 hours to do 100 miles.
Katrina B. 4 years ago
It could also make a different how big the stride of the horse. A long striding horse could in theory cover slightly more ground.
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Jane Alexander 4 years ago
10 miles was considered a day s ride. I question the truth of this or the morals of T.R. if this was done with just one horse.
#40
TIL that drivers with more expensive cars are less likely to yield to pedestrians. A study has found that the likelihood of yielding goes down by 3% for every extra $1,000 in car value.
Scagsy 4 years ago
Which kinda proves that the richer someone is, the bigger asshat they are. Change my mind
Adam 4 years ago
I decline your challenge to change your mind, as that is impossible
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El Dee 4 years ago
BMW Syndrome. Less likely to indicate when turning, more likely to try to merge at the very end of the cones, generally acting like an entitled asshole. It's not the car, it's the type of people who buy them..
Chich 4 years ago
Next they need a study to find out why people in pickups feel the need to be right on your bumper no matter how fast you are going.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Yeah, but Audi drivers drive so close to you they're essentially riding shotgun.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
I can buy that, but I think people see foreign cars and automatically assume them all to be brand new and expensive just because they look that way, when really someone out there spent $30,000+ on a Dodge. The Dodge will get looked at like they’re a better and safer driver than someone in a five year old BMW despite the BMW costing less. I think really poor people just resent foreign cars because of the perceived status that goes along with it.
Anna K. 4 years ago
God, yes. My first car was a clunky, decrepit 1970s sedan, BUT it was a European make. So I constantly had to deal with people cutting me off and slamming on the brakes, trying to get me to hit them. (My parents wouldn't let me work during the school year and wouldn't let me take the bus, so I didn't have the option of buying my own car until adulthood.)
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Petra Schaap 4 years ago
hmmm... i ride my bike to work each day and started paying attention on who would let me cross the street on a place where I have to wait for cars. I started to realize that no matter the car, no matter the driver, they will stop for me when they are on their own. If there is a line of cars, for example because the light at the beginning of the street just turned green and its rush hour so lot of cars on the road, they will not stop, apart from the last one in the line, sometimes.
Matheus Oliveira 4 years ago
In my place, expensive cars are usually driven by tourists, and they usually yield more often than locals in their "normal" vehicles.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
I'm not sure about that statistic - a car that was $33,333.34 more expensive than whatever baseline this simpleton has chosen would never, ever yield for a pedestrian. So every single person that ever walked out in front of a Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, etc. would have been struck, and probably quite a bit richer if they survived.
#41
TIL about a Japanese seafood processing company where workers can work whenever they want, and every week they report what tasks they dislike, which they are then not allowed to do.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago (edited)
They aren’t even allowed to do the tasks that they didn’t like. Not that they are given permission to choose not to. That’s how I read it.
Load More Replies... Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Very sensible. Why employ people to do something they don't want to do ? I used to be a Hotel manager and one of the first things I'd do when I took over a new place was to find out who wanted to work at a time of the day that suited them (not all of us are early birds or night owls), plus child care arrangements, looking after parents etc etc .... Cut the companies staff departure rates by about 80%. Happier staff, better vibe about the place and ultimately, saved money because of less absenteeism, sickness and just generally pissed off staff. Sadly, the company folded after the death of the owner and a bunch of cnuts took over ..... folded in 8 months ....
M O'Connell 4 years ago
This seems like an efficient use of talent. Someone who is an expert at peeling shrimp might be terrible at grading them. It's best to match the job with the employee's talents.
#42
TIL that if you get a doctorate in Finland, you get a special doctoral hat and sword.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
So that's why they have such a good education system! Kids want to stay in school and learn because they may end up with a sword! ;)
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Or just stay in the USA, be uneducated and end up with a gun, or dead - yay ;0((( Go 'Murica
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#43
TIL that in Ukraine if a marriage proposal isn't accepted by the bride or her family, the would-be groom is given a pumpkin, so he doesn't leave empty-handed.
Hermione Granger 4 years ago
I’m just imagining her yeeting a rejection pumpkin at him on his way out the door
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Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
The family shouldn’t get a say, but such is tradition and cUlTuRe
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
I thought Ukrainian women were the most beautiful in the world. What happened to her?
AnRi 4 years ago
I thought people here had basic manners. What happened to you?
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TIL: Sweden has a hotel for sourdough starters that cares for travelers’ bread dough while they go traveling.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Yes. Yeast is alive. Kill the starter, and you have to start over. Annoying as heck.
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Merty Robinson 4 years ago
You can also put your winter tyres into a tyre hotel for the summer.
#45
TIL that Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer for the 1933-1937 construction of the Golden Gate bridge made safety a high priority on the project. It was the first construction site in America to require workers to wear hard hats.
Dave P 4 years ago
the Bank of NY building site required it as well and it was finished when this was just being started. This is not true.
K Miller 4 years ago
Not really... Hard hats aren't meant to protect your head if you fall. They're meant to protect your head from falling objects...
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#46
TIL After the release of the film "Jaws", fishermen started catching as many sharks as possible, believing they were doing a public service, causing a huge decline in shark populations in the North Atlantic. Peter Benchley, the author of the original book, has become a dedicated conservationist.
Mili Del Rio 4 years ago
What's even sadder is the number of sharks that have their fins savagely cut and are left to die all to make shark fin soup. Watched a show called To Catch a Smuggler and I was shocked at the amount of shark fins they found in a single shipment.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
If every shark in the ocean a plethora of marine animals would gladly take their niche in the food chain within a generation. To hell with them, mosquitos, fire ants, tigers, and 92% of the organisms in Australia.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
This is also why they won't add sharks to Minecraft. They could literally just f*cking make the sharks neutral.
DC 4 years ago
This needs to be known by everyone! It's totally ridiculous: You see a tit on TV and the entire "most advanced nation" is going nuts, while movies causing atrocities of this kind aren't even a reason to slightly frown upon. There should be some information prior to the movie to remind idiots that fiction is not the same thing as reality. Another movie that has caused innumberable deaths and suffering: Finding Nemo. Dumb kids flushed their fish into freedom, they thought, and off into the John they went - a disgusting practice of not caring about animals at all, but losing it about any nudity.
ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago
But sharks are really dangerous—in 2019, 10 people died from shark attacks. Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+die+from+shark+attacks+each+year&oq=how+many+people+die+from+shark+attacks+each&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0i390l4.9296j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Load More Replies... Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
That's what happens when people believe whatever crap they see on movies or tv. In 2016 one of those tv clowns even got elected president!
Noel Benavente 4 years ago
...and after the release of The Fast and the Furious some idiots spent thousands of dollars to modify their cars believing that that could make them better drivers or look cooler.
#47
TIL White-tailed Eagles kept flying into moving turbine blades at the Smøla wind farm in Norway. An experiment of painting a single blade black on each of two turbines compared to two unpainted turbines found that the bird deaths declined by 70%.
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
You’d think they would chose a different colour in the first place .
#48
TIL in 1995, a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 was intercepted and captured by the Taliban. After negotiations for a prisoner exchange fell through, the Russian crew physically overpowered and disarmed their guards and started their plane, narrowly dodging a firetruck as they took off towards freedom.
#49
TIL GoldeneEye 007’s multiplayer mode was so last-minute that neither Rare nor Nintendo management knew about it. The first time executives saw anything was when programmers were playing it.
Bruce Mardle 4 years ago
I remember playing that (single-player) in the rec room of the computer games company I worked at. 1 of my bosses came in, watched me for a minute or 2 then said he'd never seen anyone play it so cautiously :-)
#50
TIL During World War I, the German government carried out a census of Jews to prove that german Jews weren't pulling their weight in the war effort. What they found out instead was that Jews were overrepresented on the front lines.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Later the Nazis showed off pictures of "the perfect Aryan soldier" for a propaganda campaign, and the guy turned out to be half Jewish. Oops. And their "perfect Aryan baby" turned out to be 100% Jewish. Which just goes to show how idiotic the whole ideology was - they couldn't even tell the difference.
Dave P 4 years ago
Not just that, but Jews were overrepresented in elite units, were more likely to volunteer for dangerous missions, etc. 38% of Jews in the Germany military in ww1 were awared the iron cross. The German govt covered up this study during ww1 and it wasnt published till after ww2
JuJu 4 years ago
"To the German mothers! Christian and Jewish heroes fought together and rest together in foreign ground. 12 000 Jewes were killed in action. Mindless hate of parties doesn't stop at the graves of the dead. German women, don't let the pain of Jewish mothers be mocked." Epitaph: "12 000 Jewish soldiers died on the fields of honor for their fatherland"
#51
TIL that “Weird Al” Yankovic sought permission from Coolio before making “Amish Paradise”, offering a percentage of the revenues, but he declined. Coolio later stated that it was a stupid decision and that he wished somebody had stopped him.
Anna K. 4 years ago
Eh, depends. Al wanted to parody "Black or White" as "Snack All Night". Michael Jackson, who normally said yes, turned it down because the song's message was too important to him. And Paul McCartney, a dedicated vegetarian, declined to have "Live and Let Die" parodied as "Chicken Pot Pie" (plot twist: Al's vegan now).
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
Similarly Weird Al probably made more money from "White & Nerdy" than Chamillionaire made from "Ridin'"
N G 4 years ago
I dont know how true it is, but I remember reading an article featuring Don MacLean in which he said he enjoyed Weird Al's "The Saga Begins", that he once started singing THOSE lyrics at a small performance before correcting himself. And, secondary fun fact, The Saga Begins was released before the film came out and was based on trailers and released material - and a LOT of fans wish they could have had the film that was sung about instead of what was actually shown!
Anna K. 4 years ago
Al also paid $500 for a charity pre-screening of the film to make sure his lyrics were accurate. He only had to make a couple of minor tweaks.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
The only thing stupid was to not take revenue since weird al still has a career and coolio doesn’t really.
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
Probably my favorite song by him, the music video is great as well.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
I love Weird Al, UHF was one of my fav films as a kid, no-one else had ever heard of it over here and I caught it late one night on some random cable channel.
#52
TIL that a the Netherlands supposedly declared war on the Isles of Scilly (off the southwestern coast of Cornwall, England) in 1651, and essentially forgot about it until a treaty was signed 335 years later, in 1986. Not a single shot was ever fired.
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
all null location data ends up just off the Scilly Isles- it is where 0,0 is for the British National Grid
#53
TIL that Stephen Cobert donated his portrait to the Smithsonian Institution, which accepted it initially on loan, and displayed it between two bathrooms and above a water fountain at the National Portrait Gallery.
#54
TIL that US presidents used to give out special presidential packs of cigarettes to guests boarding Air Force One, they were later changed to packs of presidential M&M's over health concerns.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago (edited)
Both addictive. One of them less deadly, I hope *eats a blue m&m*
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
I can categorically inform you that everyone who consumes or has consumed M&M’s will die or has died.
Load More Replies... ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago
No it won't, "Mintyminameow," if that's your real name.
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#55
TIL that polka dots are called that simply because the polka was a fashionable dance around the time the pattern became popular, and there's no other reason.
Adult Cereals 4 years ago
I love 40's & 50's fashion!!! the aesthetic is immaculate and the polka dots are an essential!
#56
TIL of Sir David Brailsford, a British cycling coach who theorizes if you make a 1% improvement in a host of tiny areas, the cumulative benefits will be extraordinary. Utilizing this theory of "marginal gains"; his teams have won 18 gold medals, six Tour de France titles, and 59 World Championships.
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
I was allowed to play the triangle at school . Well until the teacher took it off me, as I used the stick to dont on my and others head .
#57
TIL children's author Shel Silverstein has won 2 Grammy Awards. One for the audio recording of Where the Sidewalk Ends, and the other for writing Johnny Cash's famous song, A Boy Named Sue.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Good man, that's all anyone's getting when I go as well - apart from the guitar (I never had one of those).
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GirlFriday 4 years ago
Shel Silverstein wrote more songs than that. His hits included Queen of the Silver Dollar and Sylvia's Mother.
#58
TIL Stevie Wonder wasn't actually born blind, but became so at six weeks old due to the incubator he was placed in after birth containing too much oxygen and causing the condition Retinopathy of Prematurity.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I had a sister born at 6 months, in 1957. The correlation between too much oxygen and blindness had just been discovered. As my poor mother was being wheeled out of the delivery room she was shouting "Don't give her oxygen", because she had just read the article about it. The nurses started scolding her for wishing her baby dead. She survived, and had her full vision, but did have a "lazy eye" for several years. It was quite an accomplishment keeping a baby that premature alive at that time.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
They didn't know any better; they were trying to save lives. I have a friend who's blind for the same reason.
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#59
TIL the first U.S official coin in circulation, the Fugio Cent, designed by Benjamin Franklin had the insignia "Mind Your Business" instead of the modern design "In God we Trust" and had 13 chain rings on the back representing the 13 states.
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
I prefer the original. I see no reason for religion to be on a coin in a country where we can choose what to believe.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
God I wish this were the US motto instead of that dumb religious weird shït.
Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
"God" was added to several things in the US (the pledge of allegiance, our money) in 1950's to counter the "godlessness" of Communist Russia.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Fun Fact: It was soon discontinued because it tended to melt in the Southern Colonies, seeing as how it was made out of chocolate.
#60
TIL A grizzly bear has the best sense of smell on Earth thought to be roughly 2,100 times better than a humans (7 times better than a bloodhounds) and have been known to catch scents from up to 20 miles away.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
No, especially if it involves pickles or anything with bacon in it .....
Load More Replies... Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I listened to a podcast. It was an interview of an older woman who has an incredible sense of smell. She fell in love with a man and his musk. They lived for decades together raising a family. On day he came home and he had a smell on him. She hated that smell and it was a sore spot for years. He later began developing alzheimers. After his diagnosis they went to a support group filled with other alzheimer patients. They all had THE SMELL. When she realized what she was smelling she got in contact with researchers. They dismissed her. Later one of them was reading about how dogs have such a sharp sense of smell that they can smell different kinds of illness. So he looked into her story and tested it by having patients and non-patients wear a shirt and then have her sniff them. She got all but one right. What is even more incredible, the one from the plasibo group she had mis-diagnosed. Some time after that he was diagnosed with alzheimers. I'll list an article below:
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132200-300-meet-the-super-smeller-who-can-diagnose-parkinsons-at-a-sniff/
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#61
TIL that "Made in Germany" was used in the UK as a warning of allegedly inferior German products. Over time, they turned out to be of excellent quality, establishing the brand as a seal of quality.
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
I don't see the Made in China indicator of inferior quality, wearing off anytime soon. 🤔
El Dee 4 years ago
I think that wore ff years ago. They make most of the brand name goods sold around the world now. Very rare to find big brands manufacturing in US/UK/EU
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TIL Clint Eastwood's agent told him not to appear in, "Fistful of Dollars", calling it a 'bad step' for his career. The film launched Eastwood's path to stardom, and he later named his production company, 'Malpaso', spanish for 'bad step.'
#63
TIL the Grateful Dead briefly toured with a PA system called the Wall Of Sound that consisted of six hundred and four speakers, channelling twenty-six thousand watts of power. It has been called “the greatest vessel for the amplification of sound in history”.
DC 4 years ago
Some bands make great music, and some ... well ... do some spectacular shenenigans instead.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
They played some absolutely massive venues, and delay-synched remote PAs weren't a thing yet. Plus, rock is also a spectacle.
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TIL about Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Scapegoated for taking jobs away from "real" Americans during the Great Depression, state and local governments illegally forced hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens into forced exile simply for having Mexican ancestry.
ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago
That's actually not true. The last 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲
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Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
Isn't America great .... Not . It’s is a disgrace to its people . Not even covered for sickness .
#65
![Til The Rubik's Cube Was Originally Designed To Solve “The Structural Problem [of] How Could The Blocks Move Independently Without Falling Apart.” It Wasn’t Until The Designer Erno Rubik Couldn’t “Reset” His Cube That The Idea Of A Puzzle Was Conceived.](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/clipimage-60409b276a57c__700.jpg "Til The Rubik's Cube Was Originally Designed To Solve “The Structural Problem [of] How Could The Blocks Move Independently Without Falling Apart.” It Wasn’t Until The Designer Erno Rubik Couldn’t “Reset” His Cube That The Idea Of A Puzzle Was Conceived.")
TIL the Rubik's Cube was originally designed to solve “the structural problem [of] how could the blocks move independently without falling apart.” It wasn’t until the designer Erno Rubik couldn’t “reset” his cube that the idea of a puzzle was conceived.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
My son has been able to solve it in under a minute since he was about 10 and I still can't figure it out.
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TIL the buzzers on "Jeopardy!" will lock contestants out for .25 seconds if they ring in before the host has finished the last syllable of the question.
Roe Rainrunner 4 years ago
Don't press that damn button too earlier or you get blocked :-D
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Becky Klebe 4 years ago
There is (or was) also a sequence of lights running along the bottom and up one side of the question screen - if you buzz in before that sequence completes, you get locked out.
#67
TIL that the town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, after being left off of of the official state road map, attempted to secede from Wisconsin. They wished to either declare independence and annex neighboring towns, or alternatively be integrated into another state, 'preferably one with better weather'.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
TIL weather depends on the state my town is in, not on geographic position.
idraax poission 4 years ago
I'm gonna email my city and see if we can change our location to California, so it's sunny all the time XD
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#68
TIL that in the early 1940s a Mexican scientist named Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena created a color television system some considered better than any American system at the time. His work made it possible in the 1970s for NASA to transmit color photos of Jupiter from the Voyager satellite.
#69
TIL that playing action video games can train the mind to make the right decisions faster. Video game players can develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, such as everyday activities like driving, reading small print, or navigating around town.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Reading small print is a life saving skill in todays world. Wouldn't want to miss the terms and conditions: "I hereby declare that Facebook has the non-revocable right to take my first born."
Donkey boi 4 years ago
It's also very good for the treatment of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, provided it uses as multi-tasking control basis. It's been shown to help improve memory recall.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
They may be honing reflexes and hand-eye coordination, but too much screen time can have long-term negative impacts on eye health.
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TIL Spaghetti Westerns are named for being primarily produced by Italians. In Japan, they're called "Macaroni Westerns."
#71
TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins was actually the second person considered for the part of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Sean Connery was offered the role first, but turned it down because he thought the script was “disgusting”.
kjorn 4 years ago
sean connery has a bad taste for script... he turned down the role of Gandalf too.
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
And I’m glad he did. Sir Ian McKellan did a phenomenal job as Gandalf.
Load More Replies... Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
a shenshush taker onshe tried to tesht me. i ate hish liver with shome fava beansh and a nishe chianti
Nicholas McShane 4 years ago
Sean Connery was also in line for Gandalf...'You Shall Not Parsh!"
#72
TIL that the red liquid seeping out of a cooked rare steak isn't blood. It is in fact a mixture of a protein called 'Myoglobin' and water. Myoglobin helps muscle tissue store oxygen and just like Hemoglobin, contains iron that turns red when it binds with oxygen.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
No matter what they are steaks are forking delicious and good for you.
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#73
TIL Two French brothers hacked a national semaphore-based telecom system in 1834 to beat the stock market. Later caught, they were not convicted because no law existed to prevent their actions.
#74
TIL that in 427BC Athens sent a ship to Mytilene which had instructions to kill all adult men in the city-state. The next day, Athenians voted to change their decision - a second ship was dispatched. Racing through the night, it reached Mytilene just in time to prevent the massacre from happening.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
Woah 😂 that was an insane request, I wonder what they did to prompt that?
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Peleponnesian war - Google it ; quite brutal, mixed with politics. Rather like the USA under the ex president / idiot. Ultimately failed ; again, rather like etc ........
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
So they sent a ship to kill all the adult men in Mytilene... the capital of the Island of Lesbos... surely there's an inappropriate joke in there somewhere.
MiriPanda 4 years ago
Athens send a ship to kill all men of an allied state? At least according to this map. 🤔
Bruce Mardle 4 years ago
Yes! Classical Greece was full of ironies. In 480BC, after the 2nd Persian attempt to conquer Greece, some Greek said "wouldn't it be a good idea if, instead of Greece consisting of >1,000 independent states with independent defences, we banded together to defend Greece from The Persians?". This was generally agreed, but not everyone agreed on the details, so 2 organisations were formed: the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). Rules for membership of the latter included that a state either had to supply a certain number of warships/crews to the League navy or they could supply enough money for the Athenians to buy same. Over time, more and more states opted for the latter. Eventually, Lesbos and Chios said, "it looks like the Persians aren't planning to attack us; we're leaving the League". Athens replied, "we didn't say you could leave; we like your money!" and attacked them. This led to the 2 leagues fighting, on and off, for about 30 years.
Load More Replies... #75
TIL that Daft Punk's last album, RAM, had such a colossal amount of recordings and musical assets that one option was to release a quadruple album. They cut no corner in the most legendary musicians, gear or studios, going as far as recording orchestra parts for nearly all tracks on the album.
#76
TIL That excessive caffeine ingestion leads to symptoms that overlap with those of many psychiatric disorders. In psychiatric in-patients, caffeine has been found to increase anxiety, hostility and psychotic symptoms.
Rhon 4 years ago
I am caffeine intolerant. Have been for over 25 yrs. it caused anxiety, mood swings, migraines, painful irregular periods, I found it harder to focus my vision.
Random Anon 4 years ago
I on the other hand, cannot function without it. It's like this booster that kicks things up a notch.
Load More Replies... over it already 4 years ago
And about 7 years ago I learned that excessive caffeine consumption can also lead to dangerously low levels of potassium, which can cause hypokalemic seizures. Yay for learning the hard way what no self care during a rough patch in life can do! Much better now (even though the EMS drivers treated me like s**t, assuming I was just drunk as I had had ONE drink just before starting to seize and they could smell it I guess, plus the ambulance costing $500 because AmErIcA.)
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
$500 for ambulance ride?! That's cheap, consider yourself lucky.
Load More Replies... Jim Ellington 4 years ago
My father had explosions of anger almost every day; luckily it almost never got violent. He drank a pot or two of very strong coffee from waking until right before bed. Bladder cancer, possibly from the excessive amount of burnt coffee he consumed in his office, finally did him in.
#77
TIL the concept of "Casual Fridays" began in Hawaii as "Aloha Fridays" as a way for the Hawaiian Fashion Guild to sell more Hawaiian clothing.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
First the Lightbulb Cartel, now this? How many more obscure groups of businesses are there?
#78
TIL during the filming of "Trading Places", Aykroyd's and Murphy's presence on the floor distracted the active traders and over $6 billion of trading had to be halted.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago (edited)
Goes to show that 'money' is only a concept, along with 'commerce' ... understand this and you can make a good life for yourself .... As an aside, they were only in the NYSE for 4 days, and the traders / financial rapists / self serving bastards had to stop trading to the tune of $6 BILLION DOLLARS - WITH AN AVERAGE RETURN OF 3% (NET) - do the sums. these people are vile, profiteering, hateful, , mostly vile arses who have utter contempt for anyone outside their own tight, mostly rich, circle. Surely, it's now time to stop these bastards robbing all of us ?
#79
TIL about the Arnold Reflex, which is when physical stimulation of a nerve in the ear elicits a cough. This is why, for some people, cleaning their ear with q-tips often causes them to cough.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Never clean your ears with q-tips or any other object. The main danger of putting things inside your ear is that you can’t see what you’re doing. You could cause significant harm like irritate, scratch and cut the ear canal, but you also damage the eardrum.
#80
TIL deep-water fish get the bends when they are reeled in too fast. Sports fishermen unintentionally kill millions of fish each year due to the condition called barotrauma.
Cynthia Bonville 4 years ago
It is really tragic and truly impacts the number of rock fish numbers. But the eagles really like the sacrifices to them...
Jessica Nametz 4 years ago
It's when they go from a deep level to the surface quickly and their body doesn't have time to adjust for the change in pressure. More often than not their stomachs expand and come out of their mouths, killing them. Divers have to come up slowly so they don't experience something similar.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Humans should try caring about non human lives since in the end it will be our own demise.
over it already 4 years ago
Sounds bad & painful for the fish, but seriously asking, what's the difference? A hook in their mouth pulling them out of the water will kill them shortly after if not the bends.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
Most non-deep water fish survive when put back in the water.
Load More Replies... Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I was listening to a podcast where they were interviewing a lifelong fisherman (he was a pretty epic guy). He said that when ocean trolling, they would pull up the nets and they would only have licence for 1 out of 4 fish (some are like 1 out of 10) and because they didn't have a licence for the other fish they would just leave them. But when pulled up the net so quickly the fish died from the nitrogen in their blood dissolving(?) and so the boat would be surrounded in a circle of death. So very awful.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
Oh and the podcast was How to save the planet: Kelp episode 1 and 2
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Candia Lee 4 years ago
Sports fishing is not the problem. Commercial fishing uses huge deep nets, but fishers can't legally sell most of the varieties they bring up. Apparently it's not cost efficiently worth their time to raise nets slowly.
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TIL in 2006 50 Cent was sued by Luther Campbell's manager for plagiarizing the lines "It's your birthday" in the song "In da Club". However, the lawsuit was dismissed because the phrase was ruled a "common, unoriginal and noncopyrightable element of the song".
ProductofNZ 4 years ago
Despite the lyrics, it was listed at number 13 in Rolling Stone's "Best Songs of the Decade"...lol
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
“Most popular” would have probably been a better title than “best” lol. Good for 50 cent though.
Load More Replies... Combine Elite Soldier 4 years ago
who out wanna copyright that? it's literally a birthday term thingy i don't know
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
wmg literally copyrighted the happy birthday song
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TIL That despite the success of Power Rangers, the original actors were only paid $600/wk and did stunt work(pink ranger was almost electrocuted/set on fire)
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Back then I'm sure 97% of actors made well less than that and these young people were probably happy just to have work. As far as the stunt work goes, she either did it willingly or failed to read the contract, and while that doesn't excuse the producers for taking advantage of her she kind of let it happen by making a bad decision.
Load More Replies... DC 4 years ago
... I always have to laugh about their name ... the mighty morphin' power rangers implies that they might be competent in drug usage as well as in kicking the ass of extraterrestrial half-mechaninc weirdos. Or is it just a trip inside their mind? Wouldn't work with Morphine, but whole Opium, being the superior drug it is, can provide a trip like that ... well, in theory it can...
#83
TIL A German man (Martin Juergens) claims the Moon has belonged to his family since 1756, when the Prussian King presented it to his ancestor as a symbolic gesture for services rendered. It was decreed the Moon would pass to the youngest born son.
Wij 4 years ago
a mere mortal king would need to own the moon which he could then give away. ergo, it was not his to give, therefore Marty is s**t out of luck. Pretentious prick.
El Dee 4 years ago
Didn't stop the Native Americans being robbed of their lands and murdered wholesale by the settlers..
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 4 years ago
I believe there is also a lady that claimed ownership of the sun. She studied international law and found that there was a no closure of colonisation laws and used that to make a claim of ownership of the sun. There was actually a UN hearing which found she did have the right to claim ownership, however as per the old laws, she would have to plant a flag to make it official. Her purpose was make the united nations revisit old law that allowed people in "poorer" countries to be exploited.
Noel Benavente 4 years ago
I believe the germans are not the best example...
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TIL of Doug Tompkins, a high school drop-out and the co-founder of North Face and Esprit. He eventually sold both businesses and started to do conservation work in South America with his second wife, former CEO of Patagonia. A very experienced outdoorsman, he died from hypothermia while kayaking.
Tim 4 years ago
Started to do conservation work...? As I understand it, they spent millions to buy raw land and keep it as a preserve to prevent it from being developed.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
Exactly that. The chilean government (doesn't matter who the president is) has a tendency to give away land to large mining or electrical companies, as long as politicians get to keep a portion of it. Tompkins wanted to avoid that.
Load More Replies... Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
He donated thousands of hectares to the chilean state for conservation. Luckily he was smart enough to do so by forcing these morons to actually preserve and take care of the land instead of destroying it like they always do. Doesn't matter what political party takes over the government, this place is always lead by greedy and corrupt idiots.
Jojo Dancer 4 years ago
a must watch film about him and Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is "180* (degrees) South", about their journey to Patagonia back in the day. Was on Netflix last time I watched it. Great adventure movie.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Apparently he wasn't a "very experienced" outdoorsman if he allowed himself to die of hypothermia.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
One of the cases where someone can at least say he died doing what he loved
#85
TIL British actor Roger Moore, best known for playing James Bond, thought he looked awkward running so every scene that showed Moore running was performed by a body double. He also had hoplophobia, a fear of firearms, due to a childhood accident.
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
Then the conspiracy theorists would REALLY lose it.
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Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
he made short work of Scaramanga at the end of the film even with this fear...
#86
TIL that Quentin Tarantino dug up and used actual KHJ radio broadcasts from 1968 and 69, along with commercials, for the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He sifted through 17 hours of airchecks to find the tracks he wanted to put in the film.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
It had such potential. But it was too slow and overly graphic
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#87
TIL: The huge underground secret bunker located at Mt. Weather, VA, intended to house the Government in case of a nuclear war, was disclosed to the public when TWA Flight 514 slammed into the mountain close to the entrance of the base in 1974.
over it already 4 years ago
TIL that Mt Weather is a real place (& with a bunker,) and not just in Netflix's The 100.
#88
TIL Paul Horn, a flautist, went on a 1968 trip to visit the Maharishi with The Beatles and during a visit to the Taj Mahal recorded an entire album there in one take. A nearby guard started chanting during recording and there was a natural 28 second echo. The album would usher in "New Age" music.
#89
TIL Kevin Smith’s Dogma is unavailable to stream or purchase digitally and is out of print on home media.
Eunice Probert 4 years ago
It's actually freely available on youtube. I watched the whole movie there recently. It's not available to buy because the profits would go to the Weinsteins. But you can watch it for free.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
You can always pirate it for free in like three seconds on those pirate sites and torrent sites.
Cynthia Bonville 4 years ago
Oh but Satan (Jason Lee) is hilarious... Alan Rickman did perhaps his best performance in my opinion.
Bruce Mardle 4 years ago
Lee plays Azrael, not Satan. If his character had been Satan, he wouldn't have had to come up with an excuse to temporarily leave Hell.
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TIL ancient Mesopotamian beer has been recreated by archeologists who describe it as flat, lukewarm, sour, milky-looking and sometimes a bit cloying; the Mesopotamians didn't know about hops and drank it with long reed straws.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I was listening to a podcast: and they were talking about Egyptian beer (they also didn't have hops yet) was made with bread yeast which made it thick and doughy (they didn't have proper filtration). They podcasters joked about how they were getting a liquid meal, bread and beer all-in-one.
#91
TIL the stereotype of Native Americans saying "how" as a greeting comes from the Anglicization of the Lakota word "háu", which was used by men to greet other men.
El Dee 4 years ago
Much of the English language is botched pronunciations of other languages. I have been told I am saying my own name wrong when I pronounce it properly rather than the anglicized version. It's rather galling..
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Seems like a pretty damned accurate "stereotype" to me. How can "how" be an Anglicized version of "hau", which would be pronounced the same and is written in a non-Native American alphabet?
#92
TIL ancient Romans used to eat hallucinogenic fish at parties to get high.
#93
TIL various sequels to Space Jam were considered after its success, including Spy Jam (starring Jackie Chan), Race Jam (starring Jeff Gordon), and Skate Jam (starring Tony Hawk).
#94
TIL 65% of Staten Island voted to secede from the rest of New York City in 1993, only to have their efforts blocked by the State Assembly.
Dave P 4 years ago
and NYC has voted in the past to secede from NY state and the upstate counties have voted in the past to expell NYC from the state etc. These arent serious measures ever, they are just there for the Republican 53 counties to vent against the 4 solid Democrat ones and the few mixed counties float in the middle.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
It would be nice if that map had Staten Island on it instead of Richmond County.
#95
TIL that in the last 7 years craters started to appear in the Siberian Tundra, similar to the craters that form by cryovolcanism on the Saturn's moon Enceladus.
RandomPandaGuyHamiltonLafayette 4 years ago
Enceladus the giant (I presume), not to be confused with Enchiladas, the salsa covered, Mexican troll.
Danieletc 4 years ago
The have been determined to basically be methane explosions, rather than eruptions. The active components causing this begin no more than 100m below the surface of the ground. Like a meteorite crater, the crater on a land surface is the only similarity with actual volcanism.
#96
TIL the film Donnie Darko took only 28 days to shoot; coincidentally the timer in the movie counting down to the end of the world is approximately 28 days.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Patrick Swayze's Kiddie Porn Dungeon would be a great name for a punk band.
ProductofNZ 4 years ago
Richard Kelly was inspired to move ahead with an 'official' sequel after discussing his film with James Cameron who had watched the film multiple times and suggested he should develop the narrative further.
Noel Benavente 4 years ago (edited)
I haven't watched it, now i know it has to do with the world ending in 28 days :'(
ProductofNZ 4 years ago
It's not what you think. Watch it and you'll see why.
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TIL the martial arts style portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2010 movie "The Book of Eli" is called Kali and is the national martial arts form of the Philippines. It teaches to focus on and react to angles of attack rather than particular strikes/attacks.
#98
TIL During the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal encircled the entire Roman army with his troops and killed between 50,000 - 70,000 Roman soldiers while loosing only 6,000 of his own men. Today this battle is often considered to be the perfect defeat of an enemy army.
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
In my humble opinion, a perfect defeat would be without a single loss of life.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Read Sun Tzu - the Art of War. There is a school of thought that Hannibal may have had envoys who went as far as China and may have had insights that Tzu espoused brought back to him- not proved, but far too close to many of his writings to be discounted ....
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
Know your enemy and know yourself, and you may be in a hundred battles with no fear of harm. All warfare is based on deception. When you are near to the enemy, make him think you are far; when you are far from the enemy, make him think you are near.
Load More Replies... Jim Ellington 4 years ago
And they were avenged quite well by Scipio Africanus. What is the legacy of Carthage today, compared to that of Rome?
#99
TIL in 2004 a Taiwanese woman died of alcohol intoxication after immersion for twelve hours in a bathtub filled with 40% ethanol. Her blood alcohol content was 1.35%. It was believed that she had immersed herself as a response to the SARS epidemic.
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago (edited)
We have to remember that Trump didn't invent stupid. He just made it more fashionable with his followers.
Artoonist Corine 4 years ago
Did you mean "invent"? I am confused what this has to do with a woman dying by immersing herself in ethanol.
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qwerty 4 years ago
The victims of Empress Wu would beg to differ. She would essentially pickle them in vats of wine.
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TIL that Waluigi wasn’t actually created by Nintendo- he was created by Camelot designer Fumihide Aoki solely for the purpose of being Wario’s duos partner/Luigi’s rival in Mario Tennis N64.
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