TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the temporary replacement, Carl Perkins, couldn’t make it. An audience member asked Cash if he could fill in for the night, and he said yes. Bob Wootton then became Cash’s guitar player for the next 29 years
https://ift.tt/3bHcXZM
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 05:03PM by krolzee187
via reddit https://ift.tt/37j5Inq
https://ift.tt/3bHcXZM
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 05:03PM by krolzee187
via reddit https://ift.tt/37j5Inq
Wikipedia
Bob Wootton
American guitarist
TIL one of the 'unwritten rules' of the Tour de France: if the Tour is passing through where one of the riders grew up, everyone will slow down to let that rider lead the whole Tour through his hometown (also, if the race leader needs to stop to take a pee break, everyone else slows down/stops too)
https://ift.tt/2GumUMd
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 05:22PM by ugotamesij
via reddit https://ift.tt/2SiZKOZ
https://ift.tt/2GumUMd
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 05:22PM by ugotamesij
via reddit https://ift.tt/2SiZKOZ
NY Times
At Tour de France, Rules of the Road Are Often Unspoken
No breakaways in tunnels and stop when the leader stops: guidelines keep the peace (but not always).
TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was known for wandering the White House turning off lights in rooms he thought empty, sometimes to the surprise of people working in those rooms! This earned him the nickname “Light Bulb Johnson.”
https://ift.tt/39r0pnh
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 04:27PM by sdsanth
via reddit https://ift.tt/2HdZ5bo
https://ift.tt/39r0pnh
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 04:27PM by sdsanth
via reddit https://ift.tt/2HdZ5bo
Kua
6 Electric Fun Facts for Presidents' Day | Kissimmee Utility Authority
In honor of Presidents' day next Monday, we'd like to share 6 fun facts in history of how our past Presidents have had interaction with electricity in the White House.
TIL that during WW1, a Canadian soldier brought his pet bear to Britain. He named the bear Winnie after his home town Winnipeg an later donated the bear to the London Zoo where a boy named Christopher Robin liked it so much it inspired his father to write about it, thus Winnie the Pooh.
https://ift.tt/37mZoLF
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 06:43PM by IGotABananaForXmas
via reddit https://ift.tt/31SxvK7
https://ift.tt/37mZoLF
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 06:43PM by IGotABananaForXmas
via reddit https://ift.tt/31SxvK7
s.telegraph.co.uk
Winnie the Pooh: The real story behind A A Milne's classic books
The real-life family saga – and the chance meeting between a soldier and a bear cub – that inspired one of the greatest children's books of all time
TIL that a janitor at Boston University for 15 years had all his 5 kids go the University, tuition free. Thanks the schools policy that if you work there your kids can go there for free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-RZyaLm0QU&ab_channel=CBSEveningNews
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 09:18PM by Eatyellowsnow1
via reddit https://ift.tt/2HgO5tL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-RZyaLm0QU&ab_channel=CBSEveningNews
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 09:18PM by Eatyellowsnow1
via reddit https://ift.tt/2HgO5tL
YouTube
Janitor sends his five kids to college for free
For the last 15 years, Fred Vautour has worked the grounds of Boston College as a janitor. It hasn't always been glamorous, but sending his five children to ...
TIL MMA fighter Rory MacDonald would come out to music like M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", "300 Violin Orchestra" and Nickleback because the music guy was texting Rory's old phone number for his walkout music and a fan was responding
https://ift.tt/2uTsyDG
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 09:46PM by RockyK
via reddit https://ift.tt/39yc83B
https://ift.tt/2uTsyDG
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 09:46PM by RockyK
via reddit https://ift.tt/39yc83B
Bloody Elbow
UFC: Impostor chose Rory MacDonald's walkout music for years
UFC top welterweight contender, Rory MacDonald details how an unknown fan chose his walkout music for years.
TIL Chipotle pioneered a program to recycle their used gloves into trash bags. Their goal was to reduce waste to landfills by 50% by 2020. 95% of food industry gloves go to landfills because no commercial solution existed, until now.
https://ift.tt/2uxJKQi
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 10:59PM by Steven1027
via reddit https://ift.tt/38np4cb
https://ift.tt/2uxJKQi
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 10:59PM by Steven1027
via reddit https://ift.tt/38np4cb
Recycling Today
Sustainability alert: Chipotle’s pilot program turns plastic gloves into trash bags
Plus Rejuvenation, ReStore partner on landfill diversion program and more sustainability-related news.
TIL it is a myth that bats use their echolocation to deftly maneuver around one another. High speed cameras show that bats crash into each other all the time.
https://ift.tt/2UWXpv5
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 07:27PM by TheeSweeney
via reddit https://ift.tt/31MaHvu
https://ift.tt/2UWXpv5
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 07:27PM by TheeSweeney
via reddit https://ift.tt/31MaHvu
Vice
Bats Crash Into Each Other All the Time, High-Speed Cameras Reveal
Hey, I’m flyin’ here.
TIL that John Pemberton created Coca-Cola as a way to wean himself off of morphine, which he became addicted to after taking a saber to the chest during the Battle of Columbus.
https://ift.tt/2N1ch7x
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 10:08PM by francelic
via reddit https://ift.tt/31T2bv0
https://ift.tt/2N1ch7x
Submitted February 12, 2020 at 10:08PM by francelic
via reddit https://ift.tt/31T2bv0
Wikipedia
John Stith Pemberton
American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola
TIL that during a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, an SS guard was burned alive by prisoners in a crematorium oven
https://ift.tt/10Zwxtk
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 12:57AM by haroldas194
via reddit https://ift.tt/2vvZOSp
https://ift.tt/10Zwxtk
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 12:57AM by haroldas194
via reddit https://ift.tt/2vvZOSp
Wikipedia
Auschwitz concentration camp
network of concentration and extermination camps
TIL that the first case of child abuse case in the US was prosecuted in New York under an animal abuse law, because child abuse laws didn't exist.
https://ift.tt/2d9Rcpc
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 12:15AM by silvertone62
via reddit https://ift.tt/31POZaf
https://ift.tt/2d9Rcpc
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 12:15AM by silvertone62
via reddit https://ift.tt/31POZaf
Wikipedia
Mary Ellen Wilson
American child abuse victim (1864-1956)
TIL that after a horse ran into No Man's Land during World War I and got shot, French soldiers decided to replace it with a fake papier-mache horse with a sniper inside. He also had a telephone wire so he could message back to the trenches on enemy movement. The ploy was discovered after three days.
https://ift.tt/39qClkg
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 01:32AM by Alex_Sylvian
via reddit https://ift.tt/37sAsT6
https://ift.tt/39qClkg
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 01:32AM by Alex_Sylvian
via reddit https://ift.tt/37sAsT6
History Daily
French Soldiers Hid Inside a 'Dead Horse' to Get Close to Enemy Trenches
TIL that Harvey Weinsten wanted to cut a fish scene from the film Snowpiercer. Director Bong Joon Ho told Weinstein that the scene had personal importance, because his father was a fisherman. This was a lie. The scene stayed in.
https://ift.tt/30Xz7jy
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 04:24AM by SolitaryEgg
via reddit https://ift.tt/2tRmxbe
https://ift.tt/30Xz7jy
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 04:24AM by SolitaryEgg
via reddit https://ift.tt/2tRmxbe
IndieWire
Bong Joon Ho Duped Harvey Weinstein With a Hilarious Lie to Save ‘Snowpiercer’ Scene
Bong shares new details of his battle with Weinstein over the final cut of "Snowpiercer" in a new Vulture interview.
TIL President Lincoln signed legislation creating the secret service hours before He was shot at Ford’s Theatre.
https://ift.tt/3bulEXj
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 02:53AM by masked-n-anonymous
via reddit https://ift.tt/2tRgGCM
https://ift.tt/3bulEXj
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 02:53AM by masked-n-anonymous
via reddit https://ift.tt/2tRgGCM
Mentalfloss
Abraham Lincoln Created the Secret Service the Day He Was Shot
Dan Lewis runs the popular daily newsletter Now I Know ("Learn Something New Every Day, By Email"). We've invited him to share some of his stories on mental_floss this week. To subscribe to his daily email, click
TIL a golden chamber with ultra-sensitive lightbulbs is buried under a mountain in Japan and contains water so pure that it can be corrosive and dissolve metal- and it's helping scientists detect neutrinos from dying stars.
https://ift.tt/2UP5pOq
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 03:07AM by pprithamm
via reddit https://ift.tt/37oUbTk
https://ift.tt/2UP5pOq
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 03:07AM by pprithamm
via reddit https://ift.tt/37oUbTk
ABC News
Inside the 'secret underground lair' where scientists are searching the galaxies
Take a 360-degree tour of the vast, mesmerising tank in Japan where scientists are going deep underground to search the galaxies for clues to the origins of life.
TIL The State of Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Nuclear technician and whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. Later he was drugged, abducted and secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted.
https://ift.tt/3byRNwU
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 07:43AM by lopezjessy
via reddit https://ift.tt/2ONGwyO
https://ift.tt/3byRNwU
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 07:43AM by lopezjessy
via reddit https://ift.tt/2ONGwyO
Wikipedia
Mordechai Vanunu
Israeli activist
TIL that the first movie about the Titanic came out 29 days after the actual ship sank, starred a real life survivor who wore what she had on the night it sank in the production, and resulted in her suffering a mental breakdown shortly after its completion.
https://ift.tt/1MrXDe8
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 08:42AM by Haircutchet
via reddit https://ift.tt/38qKdCy
https://ift.tt/1MrXDe8
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 08:42AM by Haircutchet
via reddit https://ift.tt/38qKdCy
Wikipedia
Saved from the Titanic
1912 film
TIL about Stone Man's Syndrome, a disabling disorder with no cure or treatment in which the body repairs damaged connective tissue with bone structure. Surgical removal of the extra bone growths has been shown to cause the body to "repair" the affected area with even more bone.
https://ift.tt/38qCkNh
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 10:06AM by danruse
via reddit https://ift.tt/31N3uvo
https://ift.tt/38qCkNh
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 10:06AM by danruse
via reddit https://ift.tt/31N3uvo
Wikipedia
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
extremely rare connective tissue disease
TIL after discovering a rare tumor on an unborn fetus, a Nigerian doctor removed the baby at 26 weeks, successfully operated on the tumor & put the baby back into the mother’s womb. She carried her daughter full term & both are happy & healthy four years later.
https://ift.tt/31RecRn
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 04:10PM by iharmonious
via reddit https://ift.tt/2uGmfUY
https://ift.tt/31RecRn
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 04:10PM by iharmonious
via reddit https://ift.tt/2uGmfUY
CNN
Meet the baby who was born twice
Taken out of the womb to remove a tumor, a Texas baby was gently returned to her mother's womb and was born once again at the usual nine months.
TIL there was a Butt Hole Road in England but residents of Butt Hole Road had the name of the street changed to stop tourists from visiting the street
https://ift.tt/38tkfOE
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 02:53PM by Joshsaw
via reddit https://ift.tt/2SoPTr6
https://ift.tt/38tkfOE
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 02:53PM by Joshsaw
via reddit https://ift.tt/2SoPTr6
Wikipedia
Butt Hole Road
former name of a street in the town of Conisbrough, Doncaster, England
TIL that Vladimir The Great, Prince of Kiev, considered converting from Paganism to Islam. He sent envoys to study Islam, but upon Learning that Islam forbade alcohol and pork, he got baptized himself and baptized Kiev Rus
https://ift.tt/1KQUlW5
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 03:44PM by HydrolicKrane
via reddit https://ift.tt/2uzdrAx
https://ift.tt/1KQUlW5
Submitted February 13, 2020 at 03:44PM by HydrolicKrane
via reddit https://ift.tt/2uzdrAx
Wikipedia
Vladimir the Great
Vladimir the Great (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь,Old Norse Valdamarr gamli; c. 958 – 15 July 1015, Berestove) was a prince of Novgorod, grand Prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015.