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TIL Known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, in 1930 the United States enacted heavy tariffs that ultimately failed to achieve their intended outcome. Some economists attributed that action as leading to the Great Depression.
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TIL that Owls don’t have Eye “Balls” they have Eye “Tubes”. This is why they have to turn their whole heads instead of just their eyes.
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Owls Don't Have Eyeballs
You know how we (humans) have eyeballs? Well, owls don’t. They have eye tubes or cylinders, rod-shaped eyes that do not move in their sockets as eyeballs do. Instead, owls have to move their bodies or heads in order to look around.Office for Science and Society
TIL that in 1976, 3 men kidnapped a bus full of schoolchildren with the goal of ransoming them back for 5 million dollars. They tried to place the ransom call, but the line was busy, and they ended up falling asleep. By the time they woke up, the children had freed themselves and made it to safety.
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TIL in 1982 a BA 747 lost all four engines and had its windscreen sandblasted after flying through an Indonesian volcanic eruption. The pilot landed, at night and with limited visuals, and commented afterwards that it was "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse."
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TIL Roman ruins excavations led to a cat sanctuary
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TIL that "floss" is actually an acronym standing for "Frictional Ligation Of Subgingival Spaces"
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TIL that in 2010, a crocodile that was being smuggled aboard an airplane got loose. When passengers scrambled to the front of the plane, it shifted the plane's center of gravity, causing them to crash. There was only one survivor.
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TIL that the actual landmass the state of Rhode Island is named after is more commonly known as Aquidneck Island.
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TIL that Eratosthenes paid a guy to walk 800 kilometers to a tower to measure the length of it’s shadow & that’s how we found out the earth was round.
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This measurement is more than 2,200 years old, and its accuracy is remarkable
How did Greek librarian Eratosthenes accurately measure the circumference of Earth using a stick, a shadow, and a walk?Gareth Hutchens (ABC News)
TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese is produced in New York, and always has been since it was invented by William Lawrence in 1872. He named his company Philadelphia to market off of the city's reputation for high quality dairy products.
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TIL A boy dying of an incurable illness wanted to meet Luke Skywalker (in character). His mental state devolved to the point where he did not realise Luke was fictional. Mark Hamill agreed to dress up in character and meet the boy. He spent hours answering questions.
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TIL that a twitch streamer and youtuber by the name of Masayoshi decided to test something out on his livestream a year ago telling people in chat to type “im 12” and, long story short over 100 twitch accounts were perma banned for “being underage” thanks to twitch’s bots thinking that were underage
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the '12' incident
The day I got half of my chat permanently banned from Twitchexpand for linksSocials► Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/masayoshi► Discord- http://www.discord.gg/...YouTube
hmmm, must have been because of the "new Math." But wow.
Post from @todayilearned, TIL that in the 1980s, A&W launched their third-pounder burger to compete with the quarter-pounder. Confused about low sales, they conducted a study and found that around half the participants thought a third was smaller than a quarter. The burger was rebranded to the "papa burger."
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TIL that if you drive at 45 mph on a specific stretch of Route 66 in New Mexico, the road's rumble strips will play 'America the Beautiful.'
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A Stretch of Route 66 Will Play 'America the Beautiful' as You Drive to the Side
But you have to drive the speed limit.Jay Bennett (Popular Mechanics)
TIL legend has it that brownies were created accidentally by a forgetful baker who forgot to add baking powder to a chocolate cake batter
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The History of Brownies: From Accidental Invention to Beloved Treat - Cute Cakes Bakery & Café
Join us as we decode the history of brownies and key ingredients that contribute to the deliciousness of brownies. And if you're in search of delectable brownies, look no further than Cute Cakes bakery!Cute Cakes Bakery & Café
TIL: This year Arizona signed a bill making Pluto the official state planet. Arizona legislators said Pluto was downgraded due to jealous Europeans. Arizona discovered it whereas all prior planets were discovered by Europeans. The bill was a bipartisan effort.
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TIL Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she took a printout of her problem to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to actor Jack Black.
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Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen
Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missionkottke.org
TIL theft is so rare in Japan that people often use wallets, purses, laptops or phones to save their seats in cafes and public places, leaving them unattended while they go buy food or go to the bathroom.
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The method to save a seat in Japan shows how awesomely safe the country is【Video】
Leaving your belongings unattended to save a seat doesn’t mean you’re sure to lose your stuff, experiment shows.Casey Baseel (SoraNews24 -Japan News-)
TIL in the audio universe, AM/FM radio is still by far the top medium in the US with a monthly reach of 91% of adults (18+). Followed by YouTube Music with 29% and Spotify with 25%.
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TIL that the reason that Mr. Rogers told viewer that he was feeding his fish as he was doing so was because a five-year-old fan who is blind was concerned that he wasn't, so he wanted to put her mind at ease.
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#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
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TIL that in 1990, on flight BA 5390, a poorly installed windshield blew off, partially sucking the captain out of the plane. The crew managed to hold onto him until they landed, and amazingly, he survived.
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TIL Jacques Lusseyran went blind at age 7. At age 14, alarmed by the Nazi's rise to power, he learned German to understand Hitlers speeches. At age 17 he was leader in the French resistance, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was among the 990 out of 2000 French prisoners to survive.
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TIL that Mike Tyson went bankrupt in 2003. Despite having earned $400 million from boxing, examples of reckless spending included $6.3 million on luxury cars and $580K on his 30th birthday party. He has improved his financial situation and now receives $900K/month from his cannabis company, however.
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TIL that in 1996, Bindu Jua, a female gorilla in Brookfield zoo cradled a 3 year old child, who fell into her enclosure and broke his arm, with much care until he received medical attention
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Gorilla Carries 3-Year-Old Boy to Safety After He Fell Into Enclosure in 1996 Incident
Gorilla carried 3-year-old who fell into her enclosure.JULIA JACOBO (ABC News)
TIL, Jumbo the elephant was not named such because of his size. Instead, Jumbo the word, meaning exceptionally large, was only introduced into the english language because of Jumbo the elephant. He was so big and so well known that his name became synonymous with size.
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TIL: a former Italian porn star, Carlo Massi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.
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TIL there is a circular island in Argentina, called El Ojo, almost 400 feet in diameter, floating in a slightly larger circular lake.
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TIL that on Valentine's Day, a group of embittered singles in Shanghai bought up all the odd-numbered seats in the theater, forcing couples to sit apart.
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Valentine's Day pranksters book odd-numbered cinema seats in China
Couples will be forced to sit apart after group of singles work together to buy up tickets to romantic movie at Shanghai cinemaJonathan Kaiman (The Guardian)
TIL about Duck Shit oolong which the discoverer of, named it so that he could keep all the leaves to himself.
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Dan Cong Ya Shi Xiang Oolong | Chinese Oolong | Curious Tea
Dan Cong Organic Ya Shi Xiang is a famous Duck Shit oolong from an organic plantation. It has a floral profile with fruity citrus notes.Curious Tea Ltd
So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.
"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."
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TIL about Yan Tan Tethera, a “language” used traditionally for sheep counting in the British Isles, derived from now extinct languages such as Cumbrian
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* very few land places have a land antipode #maps (Image source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipode…)
TIL the photo of Salvador Dalí jumping and painting while water and live cats fly through the air took 5 hours and 26 tries because they couldn't get the timing right. The "floating" objects hung from wires or were held up off-camera. Dalí’s canvas frame was empty in the pic; he painted it in later.
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« Je vais poser une question à CanardCanardVasY… C'est bizarre comme nom, quand même… »
Donc, finalement, j'ai cherché d'où venait le nom "DuckDuckGo" au lieu de faire ma recherche (c'était quoi déjà ???).
C'est donc écrit dans l'histoire sur Wikipédia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuck…
Et… ça vient du jeu "Duck, duck, goose" qui n'est rien d'autre que… "le facteur n'est pas passé" : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_du…
Truc rigolo appris aujourd'hui !
TIL German mental calculator Gert Mittring broke the world record for taking roots when he successfully calculated the 89247th root of a million-digit number.
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