TIL bed bugs have dagger penises, and a Swedish researcher decided to use pheromones to leverage their anatomical “feature” to kill one another by means of “uncontrolled shagging”.
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Boing Boing
Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises
Male bedbugs will schtup anything, and when they do, their stabby little penises can do great damage to one another. Female bedbugs have some “down there” armor that absorbs the punishi…
TIL: Japan has one of the highest cremation rates in the world with the country reporting a cremation rate of 99.97%.
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List of countries by cremation rate
Wikimedia list article
TIL that the movie The Woman in Black(2012), starring Daniel Radcliffe, is actually a remake. The original film was released in 1989, and the same character was played by Adrian Rawlins, who played James Potter, Harry Potters father, in the Harry Potter films.
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The Woman in Black (1989 film)
1989 television film directed by Herbert Wise
TIL about “Pikuach nefesh” the principle in Jewish law that the preservation of human life overrides virtually any other religious rule. When the life of a specific person is in danger, almost any mitzvah lo ta'aseh (command to not do an action) of the Torah becomes inapplicable.
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Pikuach nefesh
principle in Jewish law
TIL politicians mocked John Adams, nicknaming him "His Rotundity" after he had suggested that the president should be titled like royalty, suggesting titles such as, "His Majesty the President" and “His Highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same"
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HISTORY
10 Things You May Not Know About John Adams
Learn 10 surprising facts about the scholarly Sons of Liberty member who served as the second president of the United States.
TIL of the Taichang Emperor, a Chinese emperor in 1620 who reigned for just 29 days after falling ill from "excessive sexual indulgence after he was presented with eight maidens". Shortly after, he would experience severe diarrhea after taking a laxative which would ultimately lead to his death.
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Taichang Emperor
The Taichang Emperor (Chinese: 泰昌; pinyin: Tàichāng; 28 August 1582 – 26 September 1620), personal name Zhu Changluo (Chinese: 朱常洛), was the 15th Emperor of the Ming dynasty. He was the eldest son of the Wanli Emperor and succeeded his father as emperor in…
TIL One of the reasons a full circle is 'decided' to be 360 degrees (and not a more obvious number, such as 100) because 360 is divisible by 24 different numbers, which makes it easy for math calculations. In contrast, 100 is only divisible by 9 different numbers.
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Submitted October 29, 2019 at 05:45AM by lefttha
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Science ABC
Why Is A Full Circle 360 Degrees, Instead Of Something More Convenient, Like 100?
A full circle is 360 degrees because of the Babylonian’s usage of the sexagesimal system, number of days in a year and also because 360 is highly composite. The other day, I was helping my [...]
TIL Ireland's Gaelic royal families were not all wiped out by the English. Many were exiled to contiental Europe were they intermarried with royals in countries such as France and Spain. Many of their descendants became leaders in their new homes including French President Patrice de MacMahon
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Patrice de MacMahon
third President of the French Republic
TIL Elvis Presley's manager created and sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money from people who weren't buying Elvis products
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CBC
The ingenious way Elvis Presley even made money off his haters | CBC Radio
Colonel Tom Parker, the mastermind behind Elvis's rise to fame, found a clever way to make money off Elvis fans and non-fans alike.
TIL that the earth will become inhospitable to life in 2 - 3 billion years as the sun increases in temperature, pushing the habitable Goldilocks zone to Mars or beyond.
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the Guardian
Long-range forecast: sunny spell will wipe out life on Earth
Great heat will make Earth uninhabitable in 3bn years, say scientists, and journey to balmy Mars may be best escape route
TIL: Pirates were generally considered by the English government to be reserve naval forces, and were sometimes given active encouragement such as knighthoods. Royal pardons were regularly issued and the public's opinion of pirates was often favorable, some considering them akin to patrons.
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Blackbeard
English pirate
TIL that velociraptors were only slightly bigger than the average chicken.
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Velociraptor
Velociraptor (/vɪˈlɒsɪræptər/; meaning "swift seizer" in Latin) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although…
TIL during WWI, the British Army had “Pals battalions”; letting men from the same community to serve in the war together. This practice was ended after the Somme offensive, as entire battalions were wiped out, meaning their communities back home were devastated.
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Pals battalion
The Pals battalions of World War I were specially constituted battalions of the British Army comprising men who had enlisted together in local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues…
TIL about Aimo Koivunen, who overdosed on methamphetamine in WW2 while evading Soviet forces and ended up skiing 100km during the night losing his squad, ammunition and food supplies
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Aimo Koivunen
Finnish soldier
Today I learned that 57% of Russians think moon landing was a hoax
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TIL That the name "Alfred" literally means "Elf Counsel" and that Alfred the Great, first King of England, was the first known person to bear that name
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Alfred (name)
male given name
TIL In Japanese Folklore, Ijuu is a strange beast that lives in the forests. If you are hiking and run into Ijuu, don't be scared. Just offer to split your lunch with it and the beast will most likely repay you by carrying your heavy backpack.
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百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai
Ijuu – The Strange Beast
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources If you are wandering through the forests of Japan and happen across a beast t…
TIL Hershey's does not meet the legal minimum cocoa content to be described as chocolate in Britain
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC News - The great transatlantic chocolate divide
There’s speculation the US confectionery giant Hershey plans to bid for Cadbury. But is there a transatlantic sweet tooth divide, and might we end up with more “American-tasting” chocolate?
TIL Don LaFontaine, the movie trailer voice guy, offered to record an answering machine message for anyone that contacted him, if he had the time. He received so many requests, he had to stop offering.
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Submitted October 29, 2019 at 08:41PM by TapiocaTuesday
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Don LaFontaine
American voice actor
TIL the female backing volalist on the Rolling Stone's "Gimme Shelter", Merry Clayton, was pregnant when summoned to the recording studio late at night, and suffered a miscarriage a few hours after strenously singing the famous line "Rape, murder! It's just a shot away! It's just a shot away!"
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Gimme Shelter
"Gimme Shelter" is the opening track to the 1969 album Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones. Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, praised the song, stating that the band has "never done anything better".
TIL Pokémon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time with $95 billion, beating out other franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel and Mickey Mouse.
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Submitted October 29, 2019 at 10:15PM by StorySays
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List of highest-grossing media franchises
This is a list of the highest-grossing media franchises. This includes media franchises that started as a book, film, video game, comic book, animated film or television series and have expanded to other forms of media.
For each franchise listed below the…
For each franchise listed below the…