TIL that "Zyzzyx Road," a 2006 thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl, was released in just one theater for a week. During its short run, a total of six people saw the film, which resulted in $30 in ticket sales, making it the lowest-grossing movie of all time.
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Mentalfloss
11 Movies That Made Less Than $400 at the U.S. Box Office
A pair of movie tickets and a tub of popcorn cost more than the lowest-grossing movie on this list made.
TIL: Italy has an infamous "monster park" called the Gardens of Bomarzo filled with disturbing statues carved by a Renaissance-era mad genius.
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Wander
The Gardens of Bomarzo
Italy's Infamous "Monster Park"
TIL: Attending Harvard is free if your household income is below 65K a year. Harvard’s financial aid programs pay 100 percent of tuition, fees, room, and board for students from families earning less than $65,000 a year.
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Harvard College
Affordability
For 90% of American families, Harvard is more affordable than their local state school.
TIL that in ancient Athens, only the 300 wealthiest citizens had to pay tax; this was considered a high honour, and taxpayers competed to provide the greatest public good
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The Spectator
How ancient Athens made the rich love taxes
They didn’t just buy ships and put on festivals — they competed to do it best
TIL this Sunday (02-02-2020) the date is written the same backward and forward — for everyone in the world — which hasn't happened in 900 years
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Disrn
Sunday's date is written the same backward and forward — for everyone in the world — which hasn't happened in 900 years
Sunday, February 2, marks a unique calendar date, as it forms a palindromic day — one that is written the same both backward and forward.
TIL that a disgruntled postal worker got close enough to assassinate President-elect JFK using dynamite, but didn’t because children were around.
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Time
The Person Who Tried to Kill Kennedy First
He was thwarted three years before Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president
TIL Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste, at 18 befriended a German prince, travelled to Europe, lived with royalty for 6 years, and learned 4 languages. He went back to the U.S. to be a frontiersman, became a gold miner, a hotel clerk, and also led a Mormon group.
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TIL Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste, at 18 befriended a German...
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TIL in 1999, Maude Flanders was killed-off on The Simpsons because of a pay raise dispute with the voice actress, Maggie Roswell. She was flying back-and-forth from Denver to Los Angeles and wanted a raise to cover the costs. Fox offered her a $150 per episode raise, so she quit.
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Los Angeles Times
'Simpsons' Actor Disputes Fox on Reason for Leaving
Television * Her character, Maude Flanders, may be killed off in upcoming show. She says request for raise was refused.
TIL that ‘Womble’ the cat played both Mrs Norris in Harry Potter and Ser Pounce in Game of Thrones
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TIL that ‘Womble’ the cat played both Mrs Norris in Harry Potter...
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TIL: When speaking on the legendary sword fight scene in The Princess Bride, Mandy Patinkin, who played the incomparable Inigo Montoya, said his real-life father's loss to cancer was his inspiration, and he believed killing Rugen (the 6-fingered man) would bring his real father back to him.
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TIL: When speaking on the legendary sword fight scene in The...
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TIL: Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb, famously said "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." after witnessing his creations power. That quote is actually from the Hindu Epic Bhagavad-Gita, and Oppenheimer turned to Hinduism after seeing nuclear weapons capabilities years later.
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WIRED UK
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'. The story of Oppenheimer's infamous quote
The line, from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita, has come to define Robert Oppenheimer, but its meaning is more complex than many realise
TIL Printer Ink is the 8th most expensive liquid in the world at $2,700 per gallon, and it is more expensive than human blood
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Beyond Type 1
The 10 Most Expensive Liquids in the World
Ever wonder what what the most expensive liquids in the world are? And how does insulin weigh in? Beyond Type 1 has the list and it might surprise you!
TIL that trees can make it rain if they need - when hot, trees release monoterpenes which stimulate cloud formation allowing trees to cool off
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Submitted February 01, 2020 at 09:50AM by mshebel
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Owlcation
A Guide to the Different Types of Clouds (With Pictures)
A handy guide for identifying various types of clouds including information on what makes clouds look different, which are responsible for storms, and how some clouds can help in predicting weather.
TIL: The 2024 Summer Olympics, to be hosted in Paris, France, will hold its surfing competitions in Teahupo'o, Tahiti - over 9700 miles from Paris.
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ESPN.com
Paris 2024 approves Tahiti as Olympic surfing venue
The Paris 2024 executive board have approved Tahiti as the site for the surfing competitions at the games
TIL that instead of using the idiom, "It's all Greek to me," when something looks like gibberish, the Greeks themselves often say, "It's Turkish," Turks say, "It's French," the French say, "It's Hebrew," Hebrew speakers say, "It's Chinese," and Chinese people say, "This looks like its from Mars."
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Wikipedia
Greek to me
idiom for something not understandable
TIL King Louis the 14th of France had many bizarre rules in place at the palace of Versailles. One of these rules was that no person could knock on his door, instead they had to scratch the door with their left pinky finger. This lead to a large amount of nobles to grow out their left pinky nail.
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TIL King Louis the 14th of France had many bizarre rules in place...
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TIL Ewa Wisnerska is a professional paraglider who in 2007 was sucked into a storm cloud and survived being 10,000 metres in the air without oxygen and subjected to temperatures of -50 °c. after an hour and falling back down to 6,900 metres she came to and was able to fly her way back down to earth.
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Reuters
German paraglider survives being sucked into killer storm
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A German paraglider was encased in ice and blacked out after being sucked into a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia and carried to a height greater than Mount Everest. She survived.
TIL 60-65% of scholarships and grants either require less than a 3.5 GPA, or don’t ask for a GPA requirement at all. Students would actually be surprised at the sheer number of scholarship opportunities that don’t ask for a GPA requirement. These mostly geared toward extra-curricular activities.
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TIL 60-65% of scholarships and grants either require less than a...
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TIL: In 1775, Mass. farmer Samuel Whittemore, 78 and alone, fired upon British soldiers killing 3. Now out of ammo, he drew his sword to continue the fight. He was shot in the face, bayoneted multiple times, and left for dead. When found, he was trying to reload his musket. He died 18 years later.
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New England Historical Society
Samuel Whittemore, The Oldest, Bravest and Maybe Craziest American Revolutionary
On April 18, 1775, British soldiers left Samuel Whittemore in a pool of blood alongside a stone wall in Menotomy, Mass. As they retreated from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, they had shot the old farmer in the face. Then they bayoneted him at least…
TIL that in the 1960's, Chrysler created a car, the Chrysler Turbine, that could run on many alternate fuels, including: kerosene, jet fuel, perfume, tequila, peanut oil, soybean oil, and furnace oil!
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Wikipedia
Chrysler Turbine Car
automobiles powered by gas turbine engines
TIL that white bears attempting to capture salmon are 30 percent more successful than black bears during the daytime, presumably because, from the perspective of fish in the river, the white bears are less visible against the sky.
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Smithsonian Magazine
This Rare, White Bear May Be the Key to Saving a Canadian Rainforest
The white Kermode bear of British Columbia is galvanizing First Nations people fighting to protect their homeland