TIL that as of 2018 most of the early cryonics companies that froze dead bodies for future revival had gone out of business, and their stored corpses have been thawed and disposed of.
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Cryonics
freezing of a human corpse
TIL that baseball fields are often built facing northeast. This is done so the sun is kept out of the batter's eyes during an afternoon game. There is even a rule in Major League Baseball (Rule 1.04) that advises the ballparks to be oriented this way.
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The Hardball Times
Lost in the Sun: The Physics of Ballpark Orientation
There's a rule covering how major league ballparks are supposed to be aligned. Few follow it.
TIL Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse he rode in "Lord of The Rings." The horse had a hard time adjusting to the lights and sounds on set and it took a while for them to get in sync. "We got through it together and became friends. I wanted to stay in touch with him," said Viggo.
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IGN
IGN Inteviews Viggo Mortensen - IGN
The Lord of the Rings & Hidalgo star discusses horses, learning new languages, photography, and more.
TIL Spiders can use Earth Electric Field to fly "hundreds of miles"; Spiders have been found 2.5 miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out in the sea.
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The Atlantic
Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity
Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.”
TIL that 3500-year-old set of laws, Hammurabi's Code, regulated fees for medical procedures and had laws against medical malpractice.
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TIL that in 2017 thieves stole $18k worth of tracking equipment from a Silicon Valley startup business. They were caught within 5 to 6 hours.
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Tech2
Silicon Valley thieves steal $18,000 worth of GPS tracking devices, police track them down
Immediately after the detection of the theft, Roambee went into damage control mode and provided the police with the tools needed to track the GPS devices.
TIL master swordsmith Masamune founded the Soshu tradition about 700 years ago. He has a 24th generation grandson who continues the tradition of forging blades, in the same area, to this day.
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Masamune Sword and Blade Workshop
About Us │ Masamune Sword and Blade Workshop
Goro Nyudo Masamune established the Soshu tradition of blade making. This page is about Masamune Sword and Blade Workshop, run by Tsunahiro (Masamune XXIV), his descendant, who carries on this prestigious tradition.
TIL when the territory of Wyoming applied to join the US, congress told them they'd have to stop letting women vote. Their response was "We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women”. In 1890 they joined as the first and only state to allow women to vote.
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HISTORY
The State Where Women Voted Long Before the 19th Amendment
For 50 years before the adoption of the 19th Amendment, women in one state had full voting rights, and you might be surprised where.
TIL that Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two men who reached Mount Everest, didn't know when his exact birthday was. After his ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953, he decided to celebrate his birthday on that day thereafter.
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Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (/ˈtɛnsɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing[citation needed], was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first…
TIL that a 14-year-old boy who went missing in Belgium in 1999, was found alive and well 20 years later. He spoke little French, and had no contacts when he vanished. It turned out that he’d ran away from home to make a new life for himself, and didn’t want to have any contact with his old family.
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The Brussels Times
Simon Lembi, missing since 1999, turns up safe and well
Simon Lembi went missing from his home in Saint-Gilles in Brussels in 1999, aged only 14. Now, 20 years on, he has been found alive and well. His was one of the first faces to appear on a missing pers
TIL that breeding panda bears is extremely hard and requires a global cooperation because more than half of male pandas exhibit no sexual drive and female pandas are fertile only up to three days a year. One of the methods to encourage the mating pandas is "panda porn".
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Panda pornography
movies for sexual arousal of pandas
TIL that Migros, Switzerland's largest retail company, gives a share to every Swiss adult for free, allowing them to vote in general assemblies. Furthermore, if the earnings before interest/taxes exceed 5%, the supermarkets are forced to lower their prices
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Migros
Swiss retail company
TIL the Japanese voted instant noodles their best invention of the 20th Century
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Japanology
Japan’s “Greatest Invention”: Instant Ramen - Japanology
When, in 2000, Japanese pollsters were asked about what they consider their country’s greatest accomplishments of the 20th century, the top choice was the essence of practicality: Instant ramen.
TIL:That while Harry Houdini was widely known for his death defying escapes, he meant much more to the Hilton twins. A set of conjoined twins whose mother sold them to a side show during infancy. Harry helped them emancipate from their masters, and gain freedom. The most meaningful kind of escape
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Coffin Bell
The Siamese Twins Have Sex, or Thank You, Harry Houdini
Bryn Gribben Violet and Daisy Hilton, were Siamese twins joined at the hip and performed in various capacities in vaudeville. They also infamously had multiple lovers, claiming “not to have…
TIL Rev. Martin Luther King had really bad handwriting, and after his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was smuggled out of jail on scraps of paper, his deputy Wyatt Tee Walker typed it up because he was the only one who could read it
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historynewsnetwork.org
Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights
Walker was hailed as “<a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/walker-wyatt-tee">one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution” by none less than King himself.
TIL Over 60 old police cars were purchased for the making of the 1980 movie Blues Brothers' chase scenes, and none of them survived.
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Bluesmobile
fictional car used by the Blues Brothers
TIL the Haya People of Tanzania have been forging steel for over 2000 years. Investigation of their land led to the discovery of ancient furnaces that were then carbon dated and found to be around 2000 years old.
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Haya people
The Haya are an ethnic and linguistic tribe based in the Bukoba District, Muleba District and Karagwe District of Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania, East Africa. In 1991 the Haya population was estimated to number 1,200,000. They speak the Haya language.
TIL the founders of Mensa envisioned it as "an aristocracy of the intellect", and was disappointed that a majority of members came from humble homes.
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Mensa International
high IQ society
TIL Bubbles in a bath keep the water warmer for longer
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The Naked Scientists
Can bubble bath keep a bath warm for longer?
Hi. I sometimes like a nice warm bath in the winter. After a while, the bath gets colder. I know there are a few ways that the bath can lose heat, but does a thick layer of bubbles on the top make
TIL about Matthew Ryan Hahn, a man that while robbing a house discovered photographs of a man molesting a 2 year old girl. Matthew had 2 strikes on his record already and risked life in prison but still sent evidence to the local police and admitted to the burglary.
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Houston Chronicle
To protect child, he has risked a life in prison
After a sleepless night, Hahn took the card, placed it inside a pink change purse and attached a typewritten note. The two men's lives collided sometime after midnight on Feb. 28, 2005, in the darkness of a messy studio apartment. Both the responding police…
TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after a friend took him to visit a school for black children. He wrote that African ignorance was not inherently natural but come from lack of education, slavery and negative environments. And petitioning Congress to end slavery.
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TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after...
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