TIL during WWII, the Nazis harvested hair from concentration camp inmates and used it to make blankets and socks for U-boat crews. A car company also allegedly used the hair from 40,000 Auschwitz inmates to make textiles. Polish historians claim to have found 1.95 tonnes of the hair-cloth.
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German car firm 'used hair from Auschwitz'
One of the pillars of German industry, the giant but debt-crippled Schaeffler car parts supplier, was accused yesterday of using hair shorn from at least 40,000 Auschwitz death camp prisoners to make
TIL that depression (low energy, social withdrawal, etc.) is believed to be an evolutionary response that was advantageous to many humans to reduce the likelihood of them catching contagious diseases
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The Atlantic
The Evolutionary Advantage of Depression
Genes influencing depression also bolstered our ancestors' immune systems -- an understanding that's informing experimental therapies.
TIL that scientists placed speakers on dead patches of coral in the Great Barrier Reef and replicated the sounds of healthy coral reef. They discovered that twice as many fish arrived and stayed compared to equivalent patches where no sound was played.
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Scientists used speakers to make dead coral reefs sound healthy. The fish came back
A team of scientists from the UK and Australia teamed up to use underwater loudspeakers to try and entice fish back to dead coral reefs and potentially help them recover.
TIL the increasing speed of the remaining aliens in Space Invaders after you shoot them, was done by accident. Destroying an alien freed up memory space, thus being less of a burdon on the system.
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Space Invaders: 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Arcade Classic
Space Invaders has been around for decades. Despite its longevity, there's still new things about it to be discovered.
TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s grave. He even refused to leave after 7 days without food. When a man took him home and fed him, he quickly left and ran back to the grave. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him.
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China dog mounts graveside vigil
A dog in the Chinese village of Panjiatun refuses to leave the graveyard where its owner is buried.
TIL of Jackie Coogan, a child actor in the silent film era who earned millions of dollars, only to find out in his 20s that his parents spent it all on jewelry and cars. He sued and the litigation resulted in the passage of the Coogan Act, which protects child actors
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Jackie Coogan
American actor (1914-1984)
TIL that across 203 episodes of Home Improvement there were 662 grunts. Thats approximately 3.26 grunts per episode.
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Every Grunt from Home Improvement
This is every grunt (662), in order, from all 203 episodes of Home Improvement, with the exception of intro grunts and any other repeated grunts.
TIL the longest game of monopoly was played at a frat in Pittsburgh,lasting five days in 1961. When the bank ran out of money they wired Parker Brothers, who sent them a million $ of monopoly money by air and was delivered by armoured car.
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TIL Mr. Rogers maintained a weight of exactly 143 pounds for decades by swimming and eating carefully, because kids who saw him on TV expected him to always be exactly the same weight... and because 1-4-3 are the number of letters in "I Love You"
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MovieMaker Magazine
Mr. Rogers Weighed 143 Pounds for 30 Years. Here's Why
Mr. Rogers weighed 143 pounds for thirty years, a deliberate decision that isn't addressed in the lovely new film "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
TIL two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued.
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Vice
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons.
TIL about the Grasshopper Mouse - a mouse that eats snakes, scorpions and other critters and is immune to scorpion venom. The best part is that it lets out a horrifyingly cute howl after eating and has been nicknamed the Ware-wolf Mouse
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The Grasshopper Mouse Is a Killer Howling Rodent | Nat Geo Wild
Don't be deceived by the tiny grasshopper mouse's stature because they are anything but your average house mouse. They're natural born killers.
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TIL that professional cyclists pee while cycling to save time, but are fined if it is in front of spectators or cameras.
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Connexionfrance
"I’ve learned to pee in the saddle"
Tour de France cyclists reveal secrets of the race - including the truth about toilet breaks...
TIL Napoleon's worst defeat may not have been Waterloo. In a scene worthy of Monty Python, Napoleon was forced to flee a swarm of rabbits that they were supposed to be hunting. The organizers of the hunt mistakenly purchased domesticated rabbits; the bunnies "attacked" the party expecting treats.
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NAPOLEON AND RABBITS. - Liverpool Herald (NSW : 1897 - 1907) - 6 Apr 1901
Thiebault, like most of Napoleon's fighting Generals had a hearty contempt for Berthier, whom he regarded as a toady and a carpet-knight. The Marshal, ...
TIL that even though Johnny Cash's first wife was Italian-American, black and white photos in the 1960s misled some people into believing that she was black, which led to protests, death threats, and cancelled shows
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HISTORY
Why Hate Groups Went After Johnny Cash in the 1960s
Led by white supremacists, the bigoted boycott threatened Cash’s popularity in the South.
TIL that on 17th May 1972, 10,000 London school kids went on strike to march against caning, detention, uniforms and ‘headmaster dictatorships’. Abandoning lessons to march on County Hall, the government thought it so serious MI5 and the Special Branch were involved to spy on 'school activists.
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Flashbak
Pictures of London's School Strike of 1972 - Flashbak
Pupils marched along the South Bank to County Hall chanting “attack the pigs” and “we want a riot.”
TIL that Benjamin Franklin used chess as a means of learning Italian. He would play games with a friend who was also studying the language. The winner of their match assigned a task to the loser; such as making them learn some Italian grammar, which had to be performed before their next match.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason…
TIL snails, which are hermaphrodites, have sex by first stabbing each other with a tiny spike called a love dart, which determines who is more likely to be the 'male' in the exchange (the better stabber). Scaled to human size, the dart would be a 15-inch knife.
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KQED
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Snail Sex | KQED
Besides having both boy and girl parts, they stab each other with “love darts” as a kind of foreplay.
TIL Physicians in the middle ages would drink their patients urine to diagnose medical conditions. They were able to accurately diagnose diabetes because the urine tasted sweet.
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Sekisui Diagnostics
The Evolution of Diabetes Testing: From Taste to Test
The History of Diabetes Testing
Can you imagine diagnosing Diabetes by tasting urine? It’s hard to imagine, especially considering today’s diagnostic tools and techniques.
Early Days: The Urine Taste Test
Diabetes was first identified as early as 1500…
Can you imagine diagnosing Diabetes by tasting urine? It’s hard to imagine, especially considering today’s diagnostic tools and techniques.
Early Days: The Urine Taste Test
Diabetes was first identified as early as 1500…
TIL a group of amateur astronomers around the world hunt and track government spy satellites. Governments classify these top-secret missions, but a group of dedicated spy hunters tracks the satellites and publishes the data for fun.
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Meet the Amateur Astronomers Hunting for Spy Satellites - Supercluster
Meet the Amateur Astronomers Hunting for Spy Satellites
Inside the global network of astronomers searching the skies for classified government satellites.
TIL there is an animated film based on Titanic that was so bad, one reviewer described as "offensive to the Titanic’s memory"
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Titanic: The Legend Goes On
2000 Italian animated feature film directed by Camillo Teti
TIL Louis Braille lost his sight at 5 years old after an accident trying to make holes in a piece of leather with an awl. 10 years later, he completed his system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. Braille created his own raised-dot system by using an awl.
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Louis Braille
inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired