Today I Learned πŸŽ“
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TIL piss shivers have a technical term (Post-micturition Convulsion Syndrome) and apparently not everybody experiences them. [Source]
TIL that the phrase "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" is from Thucydides' Melian Dialogue. A classic example of political realism, it describes an Athenian ultimatum to the neutral island of Melos: submit or be destroyed. The Melians chose death. [Source]
TIL Urine was injected into rabbits in the 30s to test for a woman's pregnancy. [Source]
TIL that the Jurassic Park character Dr. Alan Grant is based on the real-life renowned paleontologist Jack Horner, who also helped production on the Jurassic Park films for scientific accuracy. [Source]
TIL Drew Barrymore financed production for the 2001 cult favorite film Donnie Darko. [Source]
TIL that Pixar has a "cry formula", in 77% of their films, the emotional gut punch comes in the final 30% of the movie. The studio has made audiences cry for 30 years straight and the pattern is almost identical every time. [Source]
TIL while all puppies from the same litter are fraternal twins, identical twins are extremely rare with only one verified case occurring in a pair of Irish wolfhounds in South Africa. [Source]
TIL that 27 million tons of dust from the Sahara Desert fall on the Amazon basin annually and 43 million tons settles over the Caribbean Sea. [Source]
TIL about the Volkswagen XL1, the most efficient car ever made. It can do 260 mpg and was limited to just 200 production cars. [Source]
TIL the former CEO of Patagonia was married to the co-founder of The North Face. [Source]
TIL that the descendants of Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster, the co-creators of Superman, receive an annual salary of around 500,000 and 25,000 US dollars each from DC in exchange for the company being able to continue retaining the rights to Superman. [Source]
TIL Only one person has died so far in the Catacombs of Paris, In 1793, a man died in the catacombs. It is thought that he lost his light source and was left to die in the darkness. In 1804, 11 years later, his body was found, a few meters from a staircase that led to an exit [Source]
TIL the Australian ute was invented in response to a farmer’s wife’s letter in 1932. A woman from Victoria, wrote to Ford Australia’s general manager during the Depression, asking for a vehicle that was comfortable for driving to church on Sunday yet practical for hauling pigs to market on Mondays. [Source]
TIL the Central African Republic requires you to live there for 35 years, own land, and be awarded a national honour to become eligible for citizenship [Source]
TIL The Italian-American Civil Rights League campaigned to have the word "Mafia" considered a racial epithet. They were a Mafia front. [Source]
TIL about the the Lobster War, when Brazil declared war on France for illegally catching lobsters off its shores. [Source]
TIL a 10-yr-old boy survived after he fell from a treehouse trying to escape a swarm of yellow jackets & landed face-first on a foot-long metal skewer. It went through his face, leaving six inches sticking out. However even at that depth, it didn't hit anything critical & barely injured him at all. [Source]
TIL about β€˜TV pickup,’ a UK phenomenon where breaks in popular television programmes trigger a surge in electricity demand due kettles being switched on simultaneously. [Source]
TIL that in the early 1980s, Steve Miller learned that songs earn individual publishing royalties regardless of length. Using this to his advantage, he separated the 57 second long intro from his song "Sacrifice", named it "Electro Lux Imbroglio" and published it, earning thousands as a result. [Source]