TIL Häagen-Dazs was created in the 1960s by an American couple living in the Bronx. They used a Danish-sounding name because it conveyed an "aura of the old-world traditions and craftsmanship" and added an umlaut even though that punctuation doesn't exist in the Danish language to make it stand out.
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TIL Häagen-Dazs was created in the 1960s by an American couple...
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TIL In the 90s, "Cheers" lookalike bars were built in airports across the county, complete with animatronic patrons inspired by Norm and Cliff, which triggered George Wendt and John Ratzenberger to sue for copyright and trademark infringement.
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VinePair
Cheers! At These Robot-Filled Airport Bars, Everybody Knew Your Name | VinePair
The ghosts of Cheers’ most famous barflies haunted airport terminals for a full decade, offering questionably witty banter and a vision of our tech-obsessed, frequent flying futures. Learn where they came from, why they disappeared, and the legal battle that…
TIL that when astronauts are outside the ISS, space-borne compounds adhere to their suits causing a distinctive scent when they return to the station. The smell is so unusual that NASA reached out to a top fragrance maker to re-create the odor for its training simulations.
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Popular Science
What Does Space Smell Like?
TIL about "Fallen Astronaut," the first (and, so far, only) art installation on the moon. The 3.3-inch aluminum figurine was left on the surface by the crew of Apollo 15 as a memorial to 14 Americans and Soviets who died in service of their nation's space programs.
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Atlas Obscura
There Is Just One Sculpture on the Moon
“Fallen Astronaut” honors those who died in the Space Race, with a few notable omissions.
TIL Jesus was often depicted performing his miracles with a magic wand in early Christian art.
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TIL Jesus was often depicted performing his miracles with a magic...
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TIL John Martin Poyer, governor of American Samoa, quarantined the entire territory after receiving news of the Spanish flu pandemic. Nobody died in American Samoa, while 23% of neighboring Western Samoa perished.
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John Martin Poyer
(1861-1922) United States Navy officer and 12th Naval Governor of American Samoa
TIL When legendary artist Salvador Dali went to a screening of a new surrealist art film in 1936 he became enraged and knocked over the projector half thru claiming the film maker had stolen the idea for the film from Dali's mind. He yelled: "He stole it from my subconscious!"
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Salvador Dalí
Spanish artist (1904-1989)
TIL the US government created a raisin cartel that was run by raisin companies, which increased prices by limiting the supply, and forced farmers to hand over their crops without paying them. The cartel lasted 66 years until the Supreme Court broke it up in 2015.
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National Raisin Reserve
The National Raisin Reserve was a raisin reserve of the United States. It was created after World War II by the government in order to control raisin prices. The reserve was run by the Raisin Administrative Committee. It was enforced by means of a "marketing…
TIL that the oldest dog ever verified was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey who lived for 29 years & 5 months
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Bluey (dog)
Bluey (7 June 1910 – 14 November 1939) was an Australian cattle dog owned by Les and Esma Hall of Rochester, Victoria, Australia. According to Guinness World Records, Bluey lived 29 years, 5 months and is the oldest dog ever verified. Two owners have made…
TIL that, due to an overlooked detail, Patrick Steward's character of Picard is technically 97 years old in the new series.
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Star Trek: How Old Is Picard? There’s Conflicting Evidence
Jean-Luc Picard's age will break new ground in the franchise.
TIL Uma Thurman was forced to do her own stunts and had a serious car accident on the set of Kill Bill, causing permanent neck and knee injuries. Miramax denied her of the footage unless she signed documents releasing them of any consequences. She refused. In 2018, Tarantino gave her the footage.
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Vanity Fair
Uma Thurman Shares Kill Bill Crash Video: “The Cover Up After the Fact Is Unforgivable”
Thurman told The New York Times that Quentin Tarantino coerced her into driving the car, even though she was worried it might be unsafe.
TIL in the early 20th Century women would use their hat pin to physically defend themselves from being harassed in public transport. It worked so well that law makers at the time outlawed it. In Australia, sixty women went to jail rather than pay fines for wearing “murderous weapons” in their hats
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Smithsonian Magazine
"The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman
To protect themselves from unwanted advances, city women protected themselves with some sharp accessories
TIL of Gad Beck, a Jew who borrowed a neighbour’s Hitler Youth uniform in 1942 and snuck into a pre-deportation camp to rescue his lover, Manfred Lewin. He got Lewin released by lying to the camps CO. Outside, Lewin said he couldn’t abandon his family and went back. Lewin and his family all died.
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Gad Beck
Holocaust survivor, author
TIL that ever since the first atomic bomb tests, the air is contaminated with enough radioactive particles to make modern steel useless in highly sensitive radiological instruments. Today, only steel made before these tests, such as from sunken warships, can be used to make such devices.
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Low-background steel
steel produced prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in the 1940s and 1950s, and so not contaminated with radionuclides
TIL that Edward Jenner discovered vacination by injecting puss from a milkmaid's cowpox sore into an eight-year-old boy and then attempting to infect him with smallpox six weeks later. The boy did not develop smallpox, indicating that the earlier exposure to cowpox protected him from infection.
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Edward Jenner
English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
TIL: When the Nazis and the Vichy government began arresting and deporting the Jews, Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imam of Grand Mosque de Paris made it a sanctuary for endangered Jews. By offering them shelter; and giving them fake identity certificates, to prove they were Muslims, not Jews.
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Thehistoryreader
The History Reader - A History Blog from St. Martins Press
The History Reader is a blog for history lovers and readers of history books
TIL Jet Li was a Chinese citizen until 2003, United States citizen from 2003 to 2009, and has been a naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2009. He was said to have chosen Singapore for its education system for his two younger daughters.
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Jet Li
Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion who was born in Beijing. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen.
TIL The last mammoths died around 3,600 years ago, when the great pyramids of Giza were already 1,000 years old
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The last mammoths died out just 3600 years ago...but they should have survived
We usually think of woolly mammoths as purely Ice Age creatures. But while most did indeed die out 10,000 years ago, one tiny population endured on isolated Wrangel Island until 1650 BCE. So why did they finally go extinct?
TIL that when Adolf Hitler joined the DAP, the predecessor of the Nazi Party, he was member number 555. However, he was only the fifty-fifth member of the party as they started counting membership at 500 to give the impression they were a much larger party.
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Nazi Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (help·info), abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party (English: /ˈnɑːtsi, ˈnætsi/), was a far-right political party in Germany…
TIL that a man walked across Australia, from Perth to Sydney, dressed in a Stormtrooper costume to raise money for a charity that helps cheer up hospitalized children. Over 9 months he traveled 3000 miles (5000km), lost over 26lbs (12kg), went through 7 pairs of shoes, and raised more than $100,000.
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Photos: Stormtrooper walks from Perth to Sidney for charity
Jacob French raised more than $100,000 for the Starlight Children's Foundation after walking from Perth to Sydney — in a stormtrooper uniform.
TIL about Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens. During the Nazi Occupation, the Archbishop spoke out about the deportation of the Jewish population in Greece. When threatened by the Nazis to be executed by firing squad, he sarcastically responded with a request to hung instead as it was "tradition".
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Damaskinos of Athens
politician and priest from Greece