TIL Bessie Coleman was an American Aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot's license.Because flying schools in the United States denied her entry,she taught herself French and moved to France,earning her license from France's well-known Caudron Brother's School of Aviation in just 7 months
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Bessie Coleman
In 1922, aviator Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman to stage a public flight in America. Her high-flying skills always wowed her audience.
TIL the US has only tested a cumulative total of 2,000 people for coronavirus in the past 2 months. Meanwhile Korea is testing 10,000 people per day and UK has tested almost 20,000 people since the virus started.
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The Atlantic
Exclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing
“I don’t know what went wrong,” a former CDC chief told The Atlantic.
TIL in WW1, glow worms were gathered and used in lamps to light the trenches. Also, due to their extreme ability to detect particles in the air, slugs were used to detect gas attacks. If the slugs closed their breathing spires and contracted, troops would know to put on their gas masks
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Task & Purpose
The Most Unexpected Animals To Have Served In War
When you talk about animals in war, most people immediately think of military working dogs, who continue to serve with U.S. troops in support of the Global War
TIL of the Mean World syndrome, a cognitive bias where people perceive the world to be more dangerous than it actually is due to heavy exposure to violence-related content on mass media.
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Mean world syndrome
American film
TIL that in 1935 a recently caught tiger shark at a Sydney aquarium regurgitated a human arm. The police were able to identify the owner of the arm and launch a murder investigation.
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Shark Arm case
The mysterious case that occurred in 1935 in Australia
TIL That Mad Max: Fury Road had filming moved from the Broken Hill region of NSW to Namibia after unusual rainfall caused the desert landscape to bloom with wild flowers.
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Traveller
'Mad Max: Fury Road' film locations: How Namibia replaced Australia
Australia has a stunt double in Mad Max: Fury Road and it's home to some of the most incredible scenery in the world.
TIL that Terry Fox was a 21 year old one-legged cancer patient who ran 3339 miles across Canada in 143 days before dying to raise money and awareness for cancer research. The Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $715 million as of today to support cancer research.
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The Terry Fox Foundation
The Marathon of Hope - Terry Fox
In 1980, Terry Fox embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. That journey was called the Marathon of Hope.
TIL The term "goose" is properly used for a female bird, while "gander" refers specifically to a male. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. A group on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump.
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Goose
common name, for a group of birds (use Q82562 for tribe Anserini)
TIL Sanora Babb was writing a book about the Dust Bowl but John Steinbeck stole her notes to write The Grapes of Wrath, and as it was felt the market couldn’t support two books about the subject, her book remained unpublished until 2004.
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Broad Street
The Woman Behind “The Grapes of Wrath”
by Carla Dominguez Sanora Babb was a writer, poet, and journalist who spent most of her adult life living in the shadow of John Steinbeck. By a strange twist of fate, the meticulous notes she took …
TIL the first black baseball player wasn't Jackie Robinson, but rather Moses Fleetwood Walker, who played in the 1880s despite rampant racism. He was also an inventor, newspaper editor, hotel owner, opera house manager, postal worker, and a published author on race theory.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker
Moses Fleetwood Walker (October 7, 1856 – May 11, 1924) was an American professional baseball catcher who is credited with being one of the first black men to play in Major League Baseball (MLB). A native of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, and a star athlete at Oberlin…
TIL owning an electric car in Norway grants you free public parking, free ferry rides and the right to drive in bus lanes.
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CityLab
Will Norway’s Electric-Vehicle Boom Outlast Its Incentives?
Norway is the world’s biggest per-capita market for electric vehicles, but incentives are being clawed back as Oslo aims to go car-free.
TIL the song we commonly associate with clowns and circuses is actually a military march titled "Entrance of the Gladiators"
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Entrance of the Gladiators
military march by Julius Fučík
TIL that Walt Disney took out multiple loans to finance Snow White, evening mortgaging his own house to pay for it. At the time, insiders in the film industry thought the film would bomb and called it “Disney’s Folly”. Even Walt’s wife, Lillian, thought it would bomb.
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Mentalfloss
30 Fascinating Facts About Your Favorite Disney Animations
From racial controversies to box office bombs, the Mouse House’s most famous animated features weren't always fairy tales in real life.
TIL At the end of WW2 30,000 copies of Munro Leaf's 'The Story of Ferdinand' were given out to German children in order to encourage peace. It had previously been banned under Hitler.
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The Story of Ferdinand
American children's picture book, 1936
TIL - Vindaloo (curry) originated from Portuguese sailors, carne de vinha d'alhos ("meat in garlic wine marinade"). The basic structure of the dish was "preserved" raw ingredients, packed in wooden barrels of layers of pork & garlic, soaked in red wine. This was "Indianized" by the local Goan cooks.
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Vindaloo
Indian dish
TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA
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Merck Group
Merck KGaA (also called as the Merck Group), branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational pharmaceutical, chemical and life sciences company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 56,000 employees and present in 66 countries. Merck was founded…
TIL that, in America, before TV was on 24 hours, there was a nightly sign off where the Star Spangled Banner was played and an image of the American flag was shown before the TV cut to static.
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Local TV Revives a Bygone Tradition: Airing the National Anthem
Broadcasters bringing back “The Star-Spangled Banner” as a daily feature say they are encouraging unity, but the song can also be a dividing line.
TIL Michigan has a small town named Zilwaukee, named so that people would confuse it with Milwaukee and end up settling there.
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Zilwaukee, Michigan
human settlement in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States of America
TIL in 1973, two men went to police claiming to have been abducted by aliens. The police thought they were lying, so they left them alone in the room with a secret recording device. To their surprise, they kept on talking about what happened and how scared they were.
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GreenwichTime
'I floated inside': Man returns to site of 1973 UFO 'abduction' as it gets a historical marker
What is certain about the night of Oct. 11, 1973, is this: When Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker Jr. arrived at the sheriff's department in Pascagoula, Mississippi, they were frantic. They told authorities they had just been abducted by aliens. Each had…
TIL there is a $500m fund for global pandemics that expires July 15 2020. Investors make profit if there is no official Pandemic announced before they expire.
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World Bank
World Bank Launches First-Ever Pandemic Bonds to Support $500 Million Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility
TIL of the anthropic principle: the idea that any data we collect about the universe is filtered by the fact that, in order for it to be observable in the first place, it must be compatible with the conscious thinking life that observes it. We see, only because we are in a universe that can be seen.
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Anthropic principle
philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it