TIL only 400 out of the 7000 diseases classified as “rare” have an effective treatment. This fact is recognized during Rare Disease Day, which is held every year on the last day of February. This day also holds an extra special meaning on February 29 – the rarest day of the year.
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Star Tribune
Leap Day shines a spotlight on 'rare diseases'
Follow the StarTribune for the news, photos and videos from the Twin Cities and beyond.
TIL that Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and many more novels, graduated Harvard Medical School with his MD. He never obtained his medical license (after deciding he hated the system and culture), and instead pursued writing.
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Wikipedia
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film producer
TIL that the first thing that was ever bought and sold over the internet was weed. In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford's AI Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at MIT, and thus the first act of e-commerce was a pot deal.
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Fast Company
You’ll Never Guess What The First Thing Ever Sold On The Internet Was
Did secure online transactions begin with weed? Groceries? Pizza? Nope.
TIL Brazilian billionaire Chiquinho Scarpa decided 2013 to bury his $500,000 car. This led to an outcry as he rather ruin his car than donate it. But at the burial Scarpa revealed his bluff to the press, saying that anyone who refuse to donate their organs bury something far more valuable than a car
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Adage
Why an Eccentric Brazilian Billionaire Dug a Grave for His Bentley
Eccentric Brazilian billionaire buries Bentley for organ donor charity.
TIL in the evening of September 11, 2001, a man named Henryk Siwiak was murdered in New York City. Since the entire police department was focused on the attacks, little investigation took place. His death remains unsolved and the killer was never found.
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Henryk Siwiak homicide
only official homicide recorded in New York City on September 11, 2001
TIL Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury struggled w/drug addiction & mental health issues for years. When he first fought Deontay Wilder in 2018, Fury donated his entire $9 million purse from the fight to charities that specialize in providing housing for recovering alcoholics and addicts
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Good News Network
Champion Boxer Donated Entire $9 Million Purse From His Big Fight to House the Homeless
Mental health champion and boxing champion Tyson Fury recently confirmed that he had indeed donated his entire fight purse to homeless charity.
TIL People started wearing pajamas, originally spelled “pyjamas,” instead of nightgowns so they’d be prepared to run outside in public during World War I air raids in England.
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BBC
BBC Scotland - BBC Scotland - ‘World War Onesie’ — how night-time air raids started a revolution in the type of clothing women…
The changing face of women’s fashion inspired by First World War air raids
TIL: Monty Python and the Holy Grail's $319,000 budget was bankrolled by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Elton John, and Jethro Tull.
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LAist
How British Rockers Bankrolled Monty Python's Career
"You don't really know what part of your life is interesting."
TIL the same man was fight choreographer for The Princess Bride, Highlander, Lord of the Rings, The Mask of Zorro , and more. He was also a stunt double for Darth Vader's lightsaber battles in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. His name was Bob Anderson.
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Wikipedia
Bob Anderson (fencer)
Robert James Gilbert Anderson (15 September 1922 – 1 January 2012) was an English Olympic fencer and a renowned film fight choreographer, with a cinema career that spanned more than 50 years and included films such as Highlander, The Princess Bride, The Mask…
TIL Enya is a recluse who lives in a mansion with her cats and makes music with an elderly couple, the lyrics to which she sometimes sings in Sindarin and Quenya - elven languages JRR Tolkien invented for Lord of the Rings.
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Page Six
Inside the bizarre life of reclusive singer Enya
She swore off love, lives in a castle with cats and sings in a make-believe language, a fascinating new profile reveals.
TIL that a survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in 2012 found that 45% of them did not want to celebrate Christmas because of financial pressures.
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NBC News
Survey: 45% of Americans would prefer to skip Christmas
TIL Kevin Carter, the photographer that received a Pulitzer Prize for the photograph he took of a starving boy and vulture in South Sudan ended up taking his own life in 1994 with this suicide note “haunted by vivid memories and killings & corpses...starving children...of trigger happy madmen”
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100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time
The Importance Behind the Photo of a Starving Child and a Vulture
It raised the ethical question of when a photographer should intervene
TIL 88 Years ago on 1st Mar, 1932 , 20-mon old son of Charles Lindbergh (who flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927) was kidnapped. Even Al Capone offered his help from prison. In the aftermath of the crime (baby found dead) kidnapping was finally made a federal offense in USA
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HISTORY
This Day in History
Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events on crime, entertainment, and more.
TIL : The first African American to win a Nascar sponsored event Wendell Scott got his win removed in 1963 because race organizers weren’t sure how to deal with the customary kiss given by a white beauty queen to the victor in the winner’s circle. 47 years(20 after his death) he recieved his trophy
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TIL Kevin Carter, the photographer that received a Pulitzer Prize for the photograph he took of a starving boy and vulture in South Sudan ended up taking his own life in 1994 with this suicide note “haunted by vivid memories and killings & corpses...starving children...of trigger happy madmen”
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100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time
The Importance Behind the Photo of a Starving Child and a Vulture
It raised the ethical question of when a photographer should intervene
TIL 88 Years ago on 1st Mar, 1932 , 20-mon old son of Charles Lindbergh (who flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927) was kidnapped. Even Al Capone offered his help from prison. In the aftermath of the crime (baby found dead) kidnapping was finally made a federal offense in USA
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HISTORY
This Day in History
Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events on crime, entertainment, and more.
TIL when Mark, a Texan plumber, traded in his F150 in 2013, the dealership asked him not to remove the decals. Somehow the truck made it to the hands of Islamic militants, and Mark's truck with his decals appeared in propaganda videos. In one day, Mark received over 1000 calls and death threats.
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CNN
Plumber sues auctioneer after truck shown with terrorists - CNN
Mark Oberholtzer sues a Ford dealership for $1 million-plus in damages after his old pickup ended up with Islamic militants in Syria.
TIL that in response to a literal overflow of corpses in Parisian cemeteries in 1780, it took the city 12 years to move between 6 and 7 million bodies to its former underground mine quarries which became the city’s catacombs.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Explore Extremes
More than 200 miles of tunnels sit just under the City of Lights—some lined to the ceiling with skulls and bones
TIL 22-yr-old Canadian man John McCue took it upon himself to fill potholes with the sign: "I filled the potholes. Pay me instead of your taxes." Drivers gave him cash, coffee and joints for filling in potholes.
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CBC
Stellarton man handed cash, coffee, cannabis for filling potholes | CBC News
For the past couple of days, 22-year-old John McCue has been out with his snow shovel filling in potholes on Westville Road with gravel and fill. He said the authorities don't like what he's doing, but drivers do.
TIL the UK has its very own coral reef - off the the coast of Cornwall is an 8000 year old cold water coral reef.
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TIL In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death
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Wikipedia
Frank Hayes (jockey)
American jockey