TIL about the Spotlight Effect, due to which people constantly believe that they are being noticed much more than they really are. Since the centre of one's own world is oneself, and not others, you cannot correctly evaluate how others feel about you.
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Verywell Mind
Spotlight Effect: Not Everyone is Looking at You
The spotlight effect is an issue within social anxiety in which you believe that everyone is looking at you when no one really notices.
TIL Titanium was in such short supply, that when Lockheed built the A-12 and later SR-71, the CIA had to set up dummy companies to buy the raw materials from the Soviet Union.
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Lockheed A-12
airplane
TIL Rage Against The Machine Guitarist Tom Morello's Mother is a 97 year old Anti-Censorship Activist who founded the Parents for Rock and Rap - to Counter Tipper Gore's Pro-Censorship PMRC.
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Mary Morello
American activist
TIL that in Toy Story 4 instead of creating all of the individual cobwebs by hand, Pixer created AI spiders that were programmed to spin the webs wherever the cobwebs needed to be.
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Pixar's AI Spiders
As I mentioned in a post about my west coast roadtrip, one of the things I heard about during my visit to Pixar was their AI spiders. For Toy Story 4, the production team wanted to add some dusty ambiance to the antique
TIL When Michael Caine got the script of the film Inception (2010), he was confused and didn't understand when is it a dream and when is reality. Christopher Nolan replied ‘Well, when you’re in the scene, it’s reality.’
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Time
Let Michael Caine Finally Explain the Ending of Inception
Was it only just a dream?
TIL In 1670 a native american tribe decided to travel to Europe to sell pelts after being scammed by colonists. They spent months building a fleet of ships only to have rough sea destroy it as soon as they began the voyage, the natives were saved by the British who then sold them into slavery.
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Sewee
The Sewee or "Islanders" were a Native American tribe that lived in present-day South Carolina in North America.
TIL Buddy, the golden retriever that played the original Air Bud, is the same dog that played Comet on Full House. In 1989, his owner originally found him as a stray in the Sierra Nevada. He took Buddy in and trained him to play basketball, baseball, football, soccer, and hockey.
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Air Buddy (dog)
Dog
TIL in 1980 after causing roughly $200,000 in damage to SNL property and shouting “fuck New York” into the microphone, the punk band FEAR was banned from NBC for life
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YouTube
FEAR: Banned From Saturday Night Live [Documentary]
The true story of how John Belushi's favorite punk band FEAR got themselves banned for life from Saturday Night Live in 1981.
Full SNL Performance Here: https://youtu.be/Frud5RFtTi0
Full SNL Performance Here: https://youtu.be/Frud5RFtTi0
TIL that in Kuwait in 1991, ten Iraqi soldiers surrendered to two American journalists that they came across. They were cold and underfed and had buried their guns. They wanted to be taken prisoner so they could get food and water. The journalists obliged and then took them to a Saudi army unit.
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Danfesperman
Author Dan Fesperman
Author Dan Fesperman: author of the literary thrillers The Letter Writer, Safe Houses, and more
TIL that “Idaho” was not a Native American word as originally thought but rather a made-up word. “To his horror, he found that he had been the victim of a practical joke. [He]learned, to his surprise, that the name did not mean, "gem of the mountains"...In fact, it did not mean anything at all.”
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TIL: The name "spandex" is an anagram of the word "expands"
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Spandex
elastic synthetic fiber
TIL that, in Irish parliament, after Paul Gogarty responded to Emmet Stagg with "Fuck you, Deputy Stagg! Fuck you!", the incident was brought to the Dáil committee, where it was discovered that the word "fuck" wasn't actually in the list of unparliamentary language.
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Paul Gogarty
Irish politician
TIL Walt Disney's younger sister Ruth lived to age 92. Ruth was very shy and private, giving less than a half dozen interviews over the decades. Walt would send an annual December birthday letter to Ruth, accompanied by a check along with a selection of Disney-related merchandise for her son
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Mouseplanet
Letters to Ruth Disney
Jim shares some little-known stories about Walt's only sister.
TIL that in 2005, scientists found a 20cm long stone penis, in a German cave. It is about 28,000 years old and is believed to have been used as a dildo.
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient phallus unearthed in cave
A 28,000-year-old sculpted phallus from Germany is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered.
TIL Shoveling snow is a known trigger for heart attacks. Some hospitals even prepare for more cardiac related visits after a large snowfall.
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Harvard Health Blog
Protect your heart when shoveling snow - Harvard Health Blog
After shoveling the heavy, 18-inch layer of snow that fell overnight on my sidewalk and driveway, my back hurt, my left shoulder ached, and I was tired. Was my body warning me I was having a heart attack, or were these just the aftermath of a morning spent…
TIL in 2015, a guide dog in New York was awarded the ASPCA’s “Dog of the Year” award for running in front of an oncoming bus to protect his blind owner, and didn’t leave her side until she received medical attention even though he suffered a broken leg.
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Figo The Hero Dog Reunited With Owner Audrey Stone In Brewster, NY
A blind woman from Brewster has been reunited with the guide dog that saved her life when she was hit by a mini bus in June.
TIL in 1982, rocker Billy Idol was staying at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. After Idol destroyed his room, the police arrived, and a naked Idol surrendered. He later learned they were not there for him, but were investigating the recent overdose death of John Belushi, who died that same night.
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The Telegraph
Sex, death, and great room service: the wildest celebrity tales from inside the Chateau Marmont
Sex, death, and great room service: the wildest celebrity tales from inside the Chateau Marmont
TIL that chocolate milk was made popular by an Irishman named Sir Hans Sloane when he was visiting Jamaica and was offered a cocoa powder drink by the villagers and thought it tasted foul, so he mixed it with milk instead and brought it back to England where it was sold as medicine.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Chocolate Milk Was Invented in Jamaica
As with many things, the European who gets credit for inventing chocolate milk probably did not actually invent it
TIL in 2007 after Johnny Depp's daughter recovered from a serious E. Coli infection, Depp dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow to spend 4 hours in the hospital reading stories to sick children, and donated £1 million to that hospital.
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Johnny Depp
American actor, film producer, and musician
TIL that the generic silhouette in Microsoft Outlook is actually a shadow cutout of Bill Gates' mugshot when he got arrested for a driving offense in 1977
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Did You Know? The Default Microsoft Outlook Contact Pic Was Bill Gates’ Mug Shot
The generic contact icon used in Outlook 2010 is actually the silhouette of Microsoft founder Bill Gates
TIL After losing a drunken bet with his bandmates, Sabaton singer Joakim Broden had to walk to the band's next gig. Broden walked from Falun, Sweden to Trondheim, Norway, over ~700km, staying at fans' houses and accepting food/beer donations along the way to complete the journey.
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Metal singer walks 350 miles to next concert after losing bet with bandmates
The singer in a Swedish metal band is walking to their next gig after losing a drunken bet with his band mates.