TIL some Californian red and white wines went up against French wines in a 1976 blind competition judged by the top wine experts in the world. It was considered a non-event... until the American wines won. And it changed the wine industry forever.
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TIL some Californian red and white wines went up against French...
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TIL Adult Swim cartoon Moral Orel was cancelled for being too dark and depressing. The creator remembers submitting the script for the episode "Alone" and a proposed follow-up episode titled "Rape" and was told the show would end that season.
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'Moral Orel' Is the Most Depressing Adult Swim Show of All-Time
On the tenth anniversary of the satirical stop-motion show, we talked to creator Dino Stamatopoulos about how it depicted the American family in a way The Simpsons never could.
TIL that while female X chromosomes gets mixed and reshuffled, Y chromosomes gets passed down untouched. Resulting in Grandfather, Father and Son having identical Y chromosomes.
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TIL that while female X chromosomes gets mixed and reshuffled, Y...
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TIL that in 1912 the New Zealand rugby team toured the US west coast and played matches agaisnt several universities. Their dominant wins in every match (allowing only 1 try and scoring 457 points across 12 games) is considered a factor in the decline of rugby in America.
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TIL that in 1912 the New Zealand rugby team toured the US west...
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TIL that the church of Scientology ran a criminal operation to purge unfavorable records from 136 government agencies.
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Operation Snow White
criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology
TIL Winston Churchill predicted lab-grown meat 89 years ago. "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."
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Smithsonian Magazine
Winston Churchill Imagined the Lab-Grown Hamburger
But he was off about the year when it would be created
TIL that Catholic marriage used to only require the two parties to consent, and did not require any ceremony or witness by a priest. Such strict rules were put in place in 1563 to increase the Church's power as part of the Counter-Reformation.
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Marriage in the Catholic Church
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also called matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education…
TIL that in the 1920s, a man convinced his wife to pull out all her teeth and then refused to buy her dentures because it was ‘cheaper to feed her soup than solid food’. The wife took him to court and the man was told to get her two new sets of teeth and at least a beef steak a week.
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TIL that in the 1920s, a man convinced his wife to pull out all...
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TIL that as the only surviving member of his unit, 20 year-old Fritz Christen held a position against advancing Russian troops for 3 days. He created the impression of a heavy defense by running back and forth across his line manning different weapons, destroying 13 tanks and killing ~100 soldiers.
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Last Man Standing - The Lone German Soldier Who Held Off A Whole Wave Of Russian Infantry and Tanks
Part of Hitler’s appeal to the German people was his ability to flatter them. According to him, Germans were Ubermensch (superhuman) and therefore had the
TIL a trucker hauling potato chips got lost in an unfamiliar area after entering wrong gps info and becoming stuck on a snowy embankment while attempting to turn around. He was found after 4 days so dehydrated his kidneys shut down and close to having frostbite on one foot but he didn't eat one chip
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Trucker gets lost in the woods with truck full of chips, doesn't eat any
After his truck got stranded, Jacob Cartwright wandered the woods for days without touching the chips he was transporting.
TIL Jacques Lowe, one of JFK’s personal photographers who took some of the president’s most iconic photographs, lost his life’s work of more than 40,000 images when the vault the negatives were stored in were destroyed during 9/11. They were in the archives of the WTC.
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Jacques Lowe: the JFK photographer who lost his life's work on 9/11
The man who got unprecedented access to JFK's life stored his whole archive in a safe in the twin towers. A new exhibition shows the fragments that survived
TIL that fairy dust was later added to Peter Pan after several reports of kids hurting themselves after attempting to fly from their beds
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Top 10 things you didn’t know about Peter Pan
Peter Glanville digs out some amazing facts about Fairy Dust and why the most famous lines of the play were cut during productions of the show playing during the first world war
TIL that after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuania could not afford to send its basketball team to the 1992 Olympics. The Grateful Dead offered to sponsor the team if they played in tie-dyed uniforms. They took home bronze and wore said shirts on the podium.
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Olympic Basketball & The Grateful Dead
TIL of Hannie Schaft, a WWII Dutch resistance fighter known as “the girl with the red hair”. She carried out assassinations and sabotages, but once refused to kidnap the children of a Nazi official. At her execution, she was shot and injured and taunted her killers by saying “I shoot better”.
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Hannie Schaft
Dutch communist resistance fighter and martyr
TIL ABBA's famous outfits were chosen because of Swedish tax law. If they bought cloths for performance they could get a tax deduction, but they had to prove they couldn't be worn on the street. According to Björn "we looked like nuts [...] Nobody can have been as badly dressed on stage as we were"
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Abba admit outrageous outfits were worn to avoid tax
New book reveals band's style was influenced by Swedish laws that allowed cost of outfits to be deducted against tax
TIL the political theorist Thomas Hobbes was born prematurely when his mother heard of the coming invasion of the Spanish Armada he later wrote "My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear."
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Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
TIL that throwing rice at weddings will not cause birds to explode and that the myth that it is harmful was probably started by churches and wedding venues who didn't want to clean it all up and for them to avoid potential slip-and-fall lawsuits
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Is Throwing Rice at Weddings Bad for Birds?
Rumor: Wedding guests should refrain from throwing rice at newly-wedded couples because the rice kills birds who eat it.
TIL: after Canadian Holocaust Denier Ernst Zündel's house was firebombed in 1995, cartoonists across Canada responded to the news of the arson attack with the caption, “what fire?”
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Holocaust Denier in Canada Blames Jews for Letter Bomb - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel has blamed Jewish groups for a letter bomb that was sent to his home here. The 56-year-old German immigrant received on May 15 a 6-pound homemade pipe bomb filled with nails. Zundel became suspicious because the parcel, camouflaged…
TIL chimpanzees and monkeys are living in their Stone Age and have been for thousands of years.
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Chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the Stone Age
We think of the Stone Age as something that early humans lived through. But we are not the only species that has invented it
TIL that 95%-99% of the wasabi you eat at American sushi restaurants is actually horseradish died green. You're not getting the real thing.
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TIL that 95%-99% of the wasabi you eat at American sushi...
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TIL that Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States and commander of all allied forces during WWII, never set foot on an active battlefield during his entire 27 year career in the army.
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HISTORY
Eisenhower takes command
Following his arrival in London, Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe. Although Eisenhower had never seen combat during his