TIL japanese students tend to bring along a KitKat to an exam as it's pronounced Kitto Katsu in Japanese which means certainly win
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Food for Thought - Kit Kat - Kitto Katsu
Mike Beddall's website, follow the adventures, life and comments of a Canadian guy in Japan!
TIL of the ancient Greek stoic philosopher Chrysippus of Soli, who initiated the success of Stoicism. He died of laughter at the age of 73 after witnessing a donkey eating his figs.
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Death from laughter
cause of death
TIL Stalin was hit by a horse-drawn carriage twice as a child, which led to permanent damage of his left arm. This injury exempted him from fighting in WW I where he would have likely died. -
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Joseph Stalin
General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
TIL of the Australian town of Cooper Pedy. 80% of the residents live underground to avoid the incredible heat above ground.
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Business Insider
Inside the Australian mining town where 80% of people live underground
An entire world, totally unseen.
TIL about the "Tetris Effect" in which, after playing Tetris for a long time, your brain begins imagining and rearranging real world objects as if they were pieces in the game.
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CNN
Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world
When Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov designed Tetris to test a new computer in 1984, he had no idea the simple puzzle would change his life -- and gaming -- forever.
TIL Amtrak trains that are running on time stop in their tracks during fall daylight savings time and wait an hour before resuming. For spring forward, the trains automatically fall behind schedule at 2 a.m. and just have to do their best to make up the time
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The Origins of Daylight Saving Time
Why do we fiddle with moving our clocks forward and back one hour twice a year?
TIL one of the last grizzly bears in CA was captured in 1889, brought to San Francisco as a publicity stunt, then spent 22 years on display in a concrete cell in Golden Gate Park. After he died, 1200-lb ‘Monarch’ was stuffed, again put on display, and became the bear depicted on CA’s state flag.
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Southern California Public Radio
The sad, amazing story of the bear on CA's state flag
The story of Monarch: his life, death, and fascinating relationship with William Randolph Hearst.
TIL that actress Olivia de Havilland, who got her first Oscar nomination in 1939 for her role in Gone With the Wind (at age 23), is still alive. She's 103.
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Olivia de Havilland
American actress
TIL: Cats are known as both Invasive Species AND Superpredators due to their ability to rapidly wipe out entire species of small fauna, only surpassed by humans
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Cat predation on wildlife
Cat predation on wildlife is the result of the natural instincts and behavior of both feral and domesticated cats to hunt small prey, including wildlife. Some people view this as a desirable phenomenon, such as in the case of barn cats and other cats kept…
TIL that in 1895 there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio but they still managed to crash into eachother.
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Transportation Facts: All Fun and Games
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TIL that Lady Gaga admited that Kiss FM was the only radio station to correctly censor the song during the chorus when she replaces "poker face" with "fuck her face". Although not in the official lyrics, the switch can be heard every second repetition of the phrase during the chorus.
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Poker Face (song) | Gagapedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia
"Poker Face" is a song written by Lady Gaga, and producer RedOne in January 2008 from her album, The Fame. It serves as the second single from the album, and was released in late 2008 for certain...
TIL that in 1947, the Kiwanis Club of Ahoskie, N.C. held a drawing for a New Cadillac. When a Black Navy Veteran won, they announced there had been a mistake, refunded the winner the $1 price of his ticket, and drew again for a white winner.
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Black L.A. 1947: Kiwanis Refuse to Give Lottery Winner a New Cadillac Because He’s Black
This is a story that involves a $1 lottery ticket, a new Cadillac and an incredible amount of stupidity by members of an ostensibly charitable organization who were determined to uphold racist atti…
TIL a Scottish man fasted for 382 days, living on vitamin supplements and non-caloric beverages. He was morbidly obese, weighing 456 pounds, and lost 276 pounds. The fast was monitored by doctors, who detected no ill-effects. He never regained the weight. It was the longest recorded fast in history.
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TIL that there has been a boat/barge trapped in the rapids above Niagara Falls for over 100 years
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Niagara Scow
The Niagara Scow (also called The Old Scow) is the unofficial name of the wreck of a small scow that brought two men perilously close to plunging over the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the Niagara Falls. The wreck can still be seen, upstream of the falls.
TIL J. Edgar Hoover recommended that Einstein be kept out of America by the Alien Exclusion Act, but he was overruled by the U.S. State Department. FBI spied on Einstein for 22 years and kept a dossier with 1400+ Pages on him.
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National Geographic News
10 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Einstein
Romantic entanglements and political intrigue followed the famous physicist throughout his life, as shown in the 10-part TV series Genius.
TIL Concorde flew so high passengers received twice the dose of radiation from flying in a conventional aircraft, which was believed to increase cancer risk. The flight deck contained a radiometer so they could descend in case of a solar storm.
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Concorde
supersonic airliner
TIL that during the 1918 flu pandemic the Governor of American Samoa John Martin Poyer quarantined the territory. American Samoa was one of the few places in the world to not suffer any flu deaths.
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John Martin Poyer
(1861-1922) United States Navy officer and 12th Naval Governor of American Samoa
TIL in Quebec after banning ads for toys and fast food targeted at children under 13, the result was lower childhood obesity rates.
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Submitted November 03, 2019 at 05:41PM by Unicorn_Euphoria
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Study: Quebec ban on fast-food ads reduced consumption of junk food
The News Bureau, part of Public Affairs, generates and coordinates news coverage of the Urbana-Champaign campus
TIL that when roosters fully open their beaks,their auditory canals are completely blocked off. Essentially, roosters have built in ear plugs. This stops them from damaging their hearing when they crow.
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Submitted November 03, 2019 at 06:13PM by Unicorn_Euphoria
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mnn
Why roosters don't go deaf from their crowing
Why don't roosters go deaf from their own sound? When roosters crow, their ears become blocked, and this prevents them from going deaf, discovered researchers.
TIL that tomatoes possess the genes to produce capsaicinoids but they are not expressed. Recently, researchers discovered a technique to turn on translation of those genes and they grew spicy tomatoes.
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Submitted November 03, 2019 at 07:10PM by j0m1n1n
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TIL That Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin concluded the first that stars were primarily made of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 thesis, but added that her results were "spurious" because of the consensus at that time. She was eventually proved right by other researchers, yet is almost never credited.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer