TIL That at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, many of the soldiers were found to have wounds glowing blue and were healing faster than others. They called it Angel Glow. 140 years later 2 teens discovered the cause, a bioluminescent bacterium called Photorhabadus luminesens which inhibits pathogens
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Civil War Saga
The Glowing Wounds of the Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was a major Civil War battle that occurred on April 6 and 7 of 1862 in Hardin County, Tennessee. The battle occurred when 40,000 Confederate soldiers led by General Albert Sidney
TIL that a skeleton from 7150 BC found in an English cave was a DNA match for a history teacher living nearby
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Submitted October 09, 2019 at 04:00AM by White___Velvet
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Gough's Cave
cave of Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, UK
TIL Traditional Chinese medicine has helped to push species including tigers, rhinoceroses, sea horses and pangolins to the brink of extinction. Demand has surged over the past few decades as China’s wealthy population has grown. Global demand is rising as a key pillar of China’s State Council.
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Nature
The World Health Organization’s decision about traditional Chinese medicine could backfire
Traditional therapies have been included in a global diagnostic compendium. That comes with risks.
TIL Aztecs saw giving birth as a battle, and women who died during childbirth were believed to go to the same heaven as fallen warriors.
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Giving birth was one big battle
For the Aztecs a woman giving birth was likened to a warrior in a battle
TIL about Richard Jewel, who found a bomb and evacuated the area, saving many lives. He was investigated and despite never being charged, he underwent a "trial by media" with great toll on his life. Jewel's case is an example of the damage that can be done by media based on bias.
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Richard Jewell
American police officer
TIL: a woman escaped a serial killer who’d held her captive for 3 days, by waiting until he had left for work, then used a key an accomplice had left behind to unlock her chains. She then fought the accomplice, stabbing them with an ice-pick, before running out. It led to the killers arrest.
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David Parker Ray
American serial killer
TIL that NASA has confirmed that the earth is greener than it was 20 years ago due to China's and India's heavy investments in re-plantation.
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NASA
Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth, NASA Study Shows
A new study using data from NASA satellites reports a counterintuitive finding that China and India – the two emerging countries with the world’s biggest populations – are leading the increase in greening on land through planting of trees and intensive crop…
TIL that During the 1990s, Raul Cano, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, revived yeast trapped in amber for 25 million years. Cano went on to found a brewery and crafted an "amber ale" with a 45-million-year-old variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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sanluisobispo
Poly professor brews beer with 45-million-year-old yeast
A Cal Poly professor’s mission to turn a 45-million-year-old yeast into an ingredient for a beer has proven successful — and now he hopes to grow his operation locally.
TIL Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.
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ABC News
People from all over the world are sending emails to Melbourne's trees
Read the weird, funny and philosophical emails that people are sending to Melbourne's trees.
TIL that, the father of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was a vice president of ENRON, another company that committed fraud.
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Submitted October 09, 2019 at 03:24PM by athermalwill
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Elizabeth Holmes
American businessperson; subject of an SEC investigation
TIL that Monty Python’s Flying Circus was commissioned by David Attenborough, who was Director of Programs at BBC in 1969.
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BBC News
Nine astonishing ways David Attenborough shaped your world
Sir David Attenborough has inspired millions by bringing the natural world into our homes. But his impact is even more surprising than you might expect...
TIL the first pro-gay film in the world was a 1919 German film called “Different from the Others”. It was created as a protest against German laws that criminalised homosexuality. The Nazis destroyed most prints of the film, and only one known copy has survived.
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Different from the Others
1919 film by Richard Oswald
TIL that after the Norman conquest, English nobility adopted the title Countess, but rejected "Count" in favor of keeping the term "Earl" because Count sounded too much like "cunt."
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Earl
English title of nobility
TIL Warren Buffett tried to call the CEO of Bank of America to invest $5 billion after the 2008 financial crisis, only to reach Bank of America's call center where they refused to connect him
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Yahoo
That Time Warren Buffett's Investment Was Blocked by Bank of America’s Call Center
(Bloomberg) -- The bathtub epiphany that led Warren Buffett to pump $5 billion into Bank of America Corp. after the financial crisis has been retold many times. Now, a new detail is emerging in the Wall Street fable.In an interview with Bloomberg Television…
TIL Sour Patch Kids were originally called Mars Men, but the name changed in 1985 to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbage Patch Kids.
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Sour Patch Kids
Sour Patch Kids (known as Very Bad Kids in France, and as Maynards Sour Patch Kids in the UK and Canada) are a soft candy with a coating of invert sugar and sour sugar (a combination of citric acid, tartaric acid and sugar). The slogan, "Sour. Sweet. Gone."…
TIL that Walt Disney was presented with one normal sized honorary Oscar and seven little Oscars for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1938.
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D23
These Disney Academy Awards Aren't Your Normal Oscars® - D23
D23 takes a closer look at some of Disney's unique Academy Awards
TIL Sára Salkaházi, a nun, ran a safe house for Jews during World War II saving about 100 of them. She was executed by a Hungarian pro-Nazi party.
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Sára Salkaházi
Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister
TIL that Parks & Recreation successfully predicted the Chicago Cubs to win the 2016 World Series in one of their episodes that aired in 2015.
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Time
Parks and Recreation Totally Called the Chicago Cubs World Series Win Last Year
Treat yo' self, Cubbies
TIL Chanel's directors were Jewish and that during the Nazi invasion of France Coco Chanel used her position as an "Aryan" to claim sole ownership. The Wertheimers, anticipating the move, turned the control over to a Christian French businessman who, after the war, returned the company to them
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Coco Chanel
French fashion designer
TIL Hu Yaobang, whose funeral triggered the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, wanted to have Tibetans and Uyghurs govern themselves, supported improved Sino-Japanese relations, investigated party nepotism/corruption, and was forced to resign as General Secretary for not silencing student protests
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Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982…
TIL about David Bamberger, a former fried chicken tycoon turned rancher that bought and restored 5,500 acres of the most badly damaged, overgrazed land in all of Texas, restored it completely and transformed it into a showpiece for environmental restoration.
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