TIL of Eric Erickson, a Swedish businessman who pretended to be devoted to the Nazis, but was really a spy for the American military. He made more than 30 trips to Germany between 1939-1945. He mapped out oil refineries that were later bombed. His family had disowned him for “supporting” Hitler.
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Eric Erickson (spy) | Military Wiki | Fandom
Eric "Red" Erickson (1890 – January 1983) was a Swedish oil executive. Erickson was born in Brooklyn, NY, the son of Swedish immigrants. He claimed to have fought in the U.S. Army in World War I...
TIL that while experimenting on a jet pump project for NASA in his bathroom in 1982, Lonnie Johnson shot a stream of water across the room and thought, "This would make a great gun." The Super Soaker went on to make him some $73 million in royalties.
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Lonnie Johnson (inventor)
American inventor
TIL a Georgia teacher who bought a $400 travel insurance policy was rewarded $10,000 because she read the fine print of the contract. After reading to page 7, she saw a “Pays to Read” bit that said the first to email and mention the fine print contest would win 10K.
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She read the fine print on her insurance policy. It won her $10,000 in a contest
TIL There is a network of colleges that advocate the use of open licensed textbooks with professors adopting these books into their curriculum. As more textbooks are adopted, eventually students will less likely have to buy textbook for their courses in the future
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TIL that Leonard Nimoy was a taxi driver before he got his start on Star Trek, and once gave JFK a cab ride during the 1956 presidential race when Kennedy was a potential Vice president candidate
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Simple Thing Called Life
Leonard Nimoy's cab ride with JFK - Simple Thing Called Life
In 2012, Leonard Nimoy gave the commencement speech at Boston University. One particular story from that speech stuck with me: At 24, a then unknown Leonard Nimoy gave a cab ride to John F. Kennedy. “I drove a taxi at night so that I could be available for…
TIL Big Mama Thornton released “Hound Dog” in 1953, three years before Elvis.
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TIL In LOTR from Bag End to Mt Doom, Frodo travels approximately 1,800 miles in 185 days. That’s an eminently achievable average of 9.73 miles each day. In the Hobbit, Bilbo, on the other hand, travels a total of 950 miles in 172 days — an average of just 5.52 miles per day.
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Lotrproject
Time and distance travelled in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit - LotrProject
A time distance graph of the journeys by Frodo and Bilbo in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings with descriptions for each day.
TIL that Julia Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was born with strabismus (crossed eyes). When her husband became president, she considered getting them surgically corrected, but he told her "Did I not see you and fall in love with you with these same eyes? I like them just as they are."
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Julia Grant
First Lady of the United States
TIL Tom Kenny, the voice actor for SpongeBob has been married to the voice actor for Plankton's computer wife Karen, Jill Talley, since 1995.
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Encyclopedia SpongeBobia
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Person Credits
TIL Charles Manson studied 150 hours of Scientology before deciding the religion was "too crazy" for him.
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TIL despite 77% of agricultural land being used for animal agriculture, it only contributes 18% of global calorie supply and 37% of global protein supply. In contrast, the 23% of agricultural land used for crops produces 83% global calorie supply and 63% global protein supply
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Our World in Data
How much of the world’s land would we need in order to feed the global population with the average diet of a given country?
Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories (as shown in the visualization). This means that what we eat is more important than how much we eat in determining the amount of land required…
TIL Charlie Chaplin was one of the planned assassination targets during a May 15, 1932 coup attempt by Japanese naval officers. While the prime minister was killed at home, Chaplin survived as he was at a sumo event with the prime minister's son.
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Japan Today
Charlie Chaplin narrowly escaped assassination by Japanese 'terrorists' in 1932
Hollywood silent film star Charlie Chaplin passed away 40 years ago this coming December. This year is also happens to mark the 85th anniversary of the Little Tramp's first visit to Japan. Chaplin's sojourn, recalls Yukan Fuji (June 10), coincided with an…
TIL that Nirvana sabotaged their own show in 1992 in Buenos Aires due to the crowd disrespecting an all-girl band that opened for them. Nirvana continued to play only the 10 seconds of Smells Like Teen Spirit, playing toy drums, butchering solos, and yelling hey for most of Come as you Are.
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Consequence of Sound
Watch Nirvana's infamous 1992 concert in Buenos Aires (during which they repeatedly mocked the audience)
The setlist was full of rarities and an impromptu jam session.
TIL that the longest tennis match in history was played at Wimbledon in 2010. It was 11 hours and 5 minutes long, played over 3 days. The final set lasted 8 hours and 11 minutes-longer than the previous record. After, both players and the umpire were given a crystal bowl and champagne flutes.
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TIL James Chadwick (discovered the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discovered the proton) who was a student of Thomson (discovered the electron)
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James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government…
TIL In 2012 a staute of Jesus in India started to drip water mysteriously from its toes. Locale worshippers[Hindu+Muslim+Christian] started to collect that water and some even drank it. The source of water was later found to be a faulty sewage system.
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Weeping crucifix in Mumbai
miracle
TIL that in 1990, a pilot was partially sucked out of his plane when the windscreen failed. The cabin crew couldn't pull him back in so he dangled outside the plane for 20 minutes until the copilot landed the plane. The pilot made a full recovery.
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British Airways Flight 5390
British aircraft incident involving rapid decompression due to window seperation
TIL in the 1940s and 50s MIT scientists fed unsuspecting boys oatmeal laced with radioactive materials at a school for mentally disabled and abandoned boys
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Los Angeles Times
Participants in '50s School Radiation Test Tell of Fears : Ethics: Former students at an institution for the retarded testify about…
Two former students at a Massachusetts school for the mentally retarded told federal lawmakers Thursday that their excitement over taking part in a 1950s school Science Club had turned to fear since they learned that club members were fed cereal laced with…
TIL that Steven Spielberg wrote a treatment for a Jaws Prequel focused on a Young Quint on the U.S.S Indianapolis, described as “Saving Private Ryan, with sharks”.
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Birth.Movies.Death.
Steven Spielberg Wanted To Make A USS Indianapolis Movie
How Quint's famous speech from JAWS almost became the series' first sequel.
TIL that nearly all reptiles are incapable of running and breathing at the same time. This is one of the reasons why they are ambush predators. Komodo dragons can only dash 30 feet (10m) before having to rest for breathing.
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Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern…
TIL in 1986, a large male gorilla named Jambo stood between a five-year-old boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, after the boy fell into the gorilla exhibit and lost consciousness.
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Unusual Update
In 1986, Jambo the gorilla protected a young boy who fell into his enclosure - Unusual Update
Thirty years ago, something happened that helped change the public's view of the gorilla - an event that also proved heartfelt.