TIL Enya has never undertaken a concert tour, yet she is Ireland's bestselling solo artist and second-bestselling artist behind U2, selling an estimated 75 million records worldwide
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Enya
Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
TIL in 2012, the Walmart with the most Facebook likes would get a visit from Pitbull. Internet pranksters quickly made the most remote Walmart in the US (located in Kodiak, Alaska) the most liked Walmart page. Pitbull kept his promise and performed there.
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Kodiak, Alaska Welcomes Pitbull
The Walmart in Kodiak, Alaska received the most Facebook likes, so Walmart and Sheets sent him there. Watch what happens as he is welcomed by over 1,000 Kodiak Residents and 100 Walmart Associates.
TIL that Charles Darwin was an avid beetle collector. One day he found 2 rare beetles and seized one in each hand. He then saw a third one, and thus put one of the beetles he already had into his mouth. It ejected some acid and burnt his tongue, forcing him to spit it out. He lost 2 of the beetles.
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TIL in 2012, Mountain Dew asked the internet to name their new apple drink. Before the poll was shut down, the top four names were: "Fapple", "Gushing Granny", "Diabeetus" and "Hitler did nothing wrong".
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Mountain Dew’s ‘Dub the Dew’ Online Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
Hackers struck a promotional website for the soft drink, and chaos ensued.
TIL hummingbirds consume between 3.14 - 7.6 calories per day and a human with similar metabolism would consume about 155,000 calories in a day.
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TIL hummingbirds consume between 3.14 - 7.6 calories per day and a...
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TIL LEGO launched 'braille bricks' for children to learn braille. The product is currently being tested in various languages too: Danish, Norwegian, English, Portuguese, German, Spanish, and French.
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Design Milk
LEGO Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille - Design Milk
LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced their new project to help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille through custom LEGO Braille Bricks.
TIL Metallica's song "The God That Failed" is inspired by lead singer James Hetfield's mother who was diagnosed with cancer and refused medical treatment, relying on her faith in God instead...
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The God That Failed (song)
song by American heavy metal band Metallica
TIL Alan Turing, WW2 codebreaker and father of modern computer science, was also a world-class distance runner of his time. He ran a 2:46 marathon in 1949 (2:36 won an olympic gold in 1948). His local running club discovered him when he overtook them repeatedly while out running alone for relaxation
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TIL Alan Turing, WW2 codebreaker and father of modern computer...
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TIL of Vince Coleman, a train dispatcher who gave his life in the 1917 Halifax explosion to save hundreds of lives. His last message was: "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
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Vince Coleman (train dispatcher)
Canadian train dispatcher
TIL that Eminem suspected Kendrick Lamar was using a ghostwriter. He invited Kendrick to his house, and insisted he wrote a verse, in a room, alone. After he heard the end product, he said Kendrick was the best rapper he'd met.
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The FADER
Eminem “Tested” Kendrick Lamar To See If He Had A Ghostwriter
Eminem kicked Kendrick Lamar's crew out of a recording session to see if the rapper had a ghostwriter.
TIL that the Warty Comb Jelly does not have an anus in a fixed location on its body. Instead an anus develops when the jelly needs to defecate and disappears when it’s done.
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Animal discovered with ‘transient anus’ that only appears when it is needed
A scientist has stumbled upon a creature with a “transient anus” that appears only when it is needed, before vanishing completely. The warty comb jelly, or sea walnut, looks a lot like a jellyfish,
TIL that in 1452 a Hungarian engineer, known as Orban, offered to sell an extremely powerful cannon to the Roman Emperor. He refused, so Orban instead sold the cannon to the Ottoman emperor, who used it to breach the walls of Constantinople in 1453, which brought the end to the Roman Empire
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Orban
medieval inventor, iron founder and engineer
TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work,claiming they felt gay.
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Mentalfloss
The Time Swedes Called in Gay to Work
Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay.
TIL Washington, DC, is home to one of the largest Ethiopian populations in the world, 2nd only to that of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. While official census data shows about 30,000 Ethiopians in the DC area, others estimate that the true number is closer to 250,000.
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Seriouseats
The Best Ethiopian Restaurants in Washington, DC
Washington, DC, is home to the largest Ethiopian population in the country—and the second largest in the world. Here are four can't-miss Ethiopian restaurants to try in the District.
TIL that 20 African countries are building a green wall across the continent to stop the spreading of Sahara Desert
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Great Green Wall
Great Green Wall — The Great Green Wall
TIL Syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia infection rates are at their highest level since the CDC began keeping track of chlamydia cases in 1984.
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ZME Science
The clap is making a comeback -- as are syphilis and chlamydia
"She's got the clap" -- CDC.
TIL of a very succcesful 18th century race horse named Potoooooooo. Horse breeder originally called him 'Potatoe' and instructed the stable boy to write the name on feed bin. Stable boy thought he had meant 'Pot-8-o's'. Breeder was so amused that the name stuck.
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Potoooooooo
racehorse
TIL that Seneca Village, a community composed mainly of free black people, was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City's Central Park
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Seneca Village
human settlement in United States of America
TIL that Kyoto was actually at the top of the list of targets for the atomic bomb, not Nagasaki nor Hiroshima. Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered for the ancient city with its thousands of palaces, temples, and shrines to be removed from the list, but the military kept on putting it back.
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BBC News
The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb
One American official spared Kyoto the horrific fate that the atomic bomb inflicted on Nagasaki and Hiroshima: the question is why he did so.
TIL National Geographic hires an archivist who has worked by himself in the magazine office basement for over 30 years. He has handled hundreds of thousands of photographs and is responsible for about eight million images in the vintage collection
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YouTube
Meet Our Vintage Collection Archivist, Bill Bonner | National Geographic
Bill Bonner presides over eight million images as the longtime keeper of National Geographic's vintage collection. He's a keeper not only of photographs, but memories—and he treats each like it's the greatest treasure in the world.
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TIL that after hearing Is This It by The Strokes, The Killers scrapped nearly all the songs they were working on, with the only exception being "Mr. Brightside"
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NME
The Strokes on The Killers rivalry: ‘Our songs are better than ‘Mr Brightside’, how come that’s the one everyone is listening to?’
The Strokes' Nick Valensi talks about rivalry the band felt with The Killers in an excerpt from a new book