TIL honey bees aren't native to North America. When they arrived from Europe they spread out faster than the colonists, and Native Americans considered the appearance of the "white man's fly" to indicate the approach of European settlers
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TIL that if a cat headbutts you the cat is marking you with their scent and headbutting is typically used for bonding and social purposes.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 03:55AM by Moonrider257812
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FreakyPet
Cat Behavior 101: Why Do Cats Headbutt?
If a person wants to headbutt you, chances are, you know exactly what they’re trying to convey. So, what exactly does a cat mean when it head butts you? Many cat owners experience their cat randomly jumping onto their lap and headbutting them. Some people…
TIL that because penguins have no predators on land, whenever they see a different species they just think it's a strange-looking penguin.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 04:00AM by JG_melon
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YouTube
Emperor Likes Me
I had my very fist up close interaction with an Emperor Penguin!
Most of its friends were quietly molting behind a snow berm on behind me about 15 yards. This one seemed too excited about his new feathers to just stand around though.
Can anyone…
Most of its friends were quietly molting behind a snow berm on behind me about 15 yards. This one seemed too excited about his new feathers to just stand around though.
Can anyone…
TIL: Relative to their size, leaf-blowers are among the most polluting machines ever invented. 1/3 of their fuel is released into the air unburned, as an aerosol; and the amount of pollutants released from running one for 30 minutes is equivalent to that of an F-150 driving from Texas to Alaska.
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Leaf blower
tool that is used to move leaves
TIL about Thad Roberts, a NASA intern who stole millions of dollars worth of moon rocks with his girlfriend, had sex with her on top of the moon rocks, tried to sell the rocks, and ended up in prison.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 03:23AM by throwawayblueline
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Sex on the Moon
book by Ben Mezrich
TIL After capturing Moscow, Napoleon expected Tsar Alexander to sue for peace. The Tsar procrastinated, then heard that Napoleon's army was suffering from lack of supplies: so the Tsar remained absent, & after a month Napoleon had to retreat through the winter, which destroyed his army.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 11:30AM by minddoor
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
TIL Joe Kennedy, JFK's father, made a fortune as a stock market and commodity investor before cashing in all his stocks just days before the stock market crash of 1929. Consequentially, he was one of the few people who vastly increased their fortune during the great depression.
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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman and ambassador
TIL that haunted house attractions didn't really go mainstream in North America until the Great Depression, when parents began organizing haunted houses or trails to keep young men from causing trouble on All Hallow's Eve.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 03:06PM by PikesPique
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HISTORY
The Great Depression Origins of Halloween Haunted Houses
The Great Depression was a time of great economic and social change that affected many parts of American life—including Halloween. Parents, concerned about
TIL 800 years before the Black Death, the same bacteria cause plague in the Byzantine Empire. At it's peak, the plague killed 5,000 per day in Constantinople.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 03:57PM by spartan6222
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Plague of Justinian
541-542 AD pandemic that afflicted the Byzantine Empire
TIL about "turtle glass". Some states have laws that require coastal homeowners to turn off lights and draw curtains after 9pm because baby turtles migrate out to sea by moonlight and sometimes they get confused by lights and swim inland. Turtle glass is special window that doesn't reflect moonlight
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Does Your Southwest Florida Home Require Turtle Glass?
Florida laws protect sea turtles, which are distracted by light when fleeing to the water. Local laws may require that you use tinted turtle glass windows for your waterfront SW Florida home, condo, or business.
TIL Bees don't poop in the hive. Over the winter, it builds up because they stay out of the cold. On warm winter days, they will all fly out at the same time on what are called "cleansing flights."
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TIL Mongolian barbecue is not Mongolian - it was invented by a Taiwanese comedian/restaurateur.
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Mongolian barbecue
A stir fried dish
TIL Gerbils are illegal as pets in California due to its climate being so similar to the gerbil's natural desert habitat that state officials are concerned that gerbils who escape or are released into the wild could establish feral colonies
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Shouselaw
5 Animals that are Illegal as Pets in California
Arrested for possessing an illegal pet in California? Call (855) 396-0370 for a FREE consult with a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney.
TIL that pirates didn't wear the eyepatches because of a lost eye, it was actually to be able to see below deck, where it was dark.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 06:22PM by sebastiansmit
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Mentalfloss
Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches?
The fact that some pirates wore eye patches most likely had nothing to do with a missing eye, and everything to do with being able to see—specifically, above decks and below them.
TIL about Seretse Khama, a Botswana monarch who was exiled after marrying a white woman. After his return as a private citizen, he started an independence movement, became a president and led Botswana to prosperity.
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The Telegraph
A United Kingdom: the true story of Botswana's first president and the English woman he loved
When the black chief-in-waiting of one of Botswana’s most powerful tribes married a white British clerk, they faced uproar and exile in an apartheid-era world.
TIL neutron star PSR J1748-2446 is the fastest spinning celestial object in the universe. The star rotates 716 times every second, so its equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also 50 trillion times the density of lead and has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s.
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Astronomy.com
Weird Object: Neutron Star PSR J1748-2446
The pulsar PSR J1748-2446 is the universe's fastest-spinning object and the most extreme example of a neutron star known.
TIL in 2016, Shabani, a male Gorilla at a Japanese zoo received worldwide attention when women started flocking to see him as they thought him to be extremely handsome and manly. The crowds of women yelling his name made him so uncomfortable, zoo staff had to put up signs telling them to stop
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Shabani (gorilla)
Shabani (Japanese: シャバーニ, romanized: Shabāni) is a male western lowland gorilla, who was born at the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands, raised in Australia, and currently resides at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan. He gained publicity in 2007…
TIL ketchup started as a Chinese fish-based sauce, then it was picked up by the British and made into a mushroom-based sauce, and finally picked up by the Americans and made into a tomato-based sauce.
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Smithsonian
A Brief (But Global) History of Ketchup
Canada recently slapped a tariff on U.S. exports of ketchup, and the EU plans to do the same. But is the condiment all that American?
TIL flushing cat poop kills sea otters by infecting them with toxoplasmosis
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 06:39PM by solarpowerz
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Futurity
How cat poop kills California sea otters
California sea otters are a threatened species, and one of the things that kills them comes from cats on land.
TIL that Franklin Roosevelt probably didn't have polio. His symptoms were more consistent with an autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 10:13PM by SidHoffman
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Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd US President's physical disability
TIL that the word Boycott is named after an Irish landlord named Charles Boycott. After Boycott attempted to evict 11 tenants, the local community decided to shun him. Workers would not work for him, traders would not trade with him, and the postman would not deliver the post.
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Submitted November 01, 2019 at 03:16AM by desfiles
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Boycott
act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country