TIL Keurig K-Cups are non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, and generate a ton of plastic waste. They are so environmentally unfriendly that its own inventor has said: “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
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The Atlantic
If You Drink Coffee From Pods, You May Want to Reconsider
K-Cups are accumulating in landfills at alarming rates.
TIL Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold Spielberg, traveled to Moscow as part of a delegation of electrical engineers from Phoenix. The trip coincided with an incident that is the subject of Steven Spielberg's 2015 film "Bridge of Spies." He is also still alive today at 103 years old.
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Arnold Spielberg
American electrical engineer
TIL A member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was denied the right to wear a colander in ID photos in Holland. Pastafarianism is considered a 'satire' and not a 'serious faith.'
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the Guardian
Spaghetti injunction: Pastafarianism is not a religion, Dutch court rules
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster follower denied right to wear colander in ID photos
TIL that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II.
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Anna Bērzkalne
Latvian educator folklorist
TIL stained glass originated to help illiterate people learn about the Bible
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Poor Man's Bible
works of art within churches and cathedrals
TIL Cassandra was a woman in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed
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Cassandra
mythological princess of Troy
TIL In 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing “minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which…enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.” The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.
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www.rcpe.ac.uk
The history of germ theory in the College collections | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bc)De re rusticaVenice, 1514The idea that certain diseases were caused by minute living creatures invisible to the human eye goes back more than 2,000 years. The Roman scholar Marcus Varro was director of the imperial library…
TIl Japan is so successful at returning lost property that 130,000 mobile phones, or 83% of those reported missing, were returned to their owners in 2018.
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Bbc
Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property
Cultural norms, complex religious influences and friendly police officers make losing something no big deal. But does this tell the whole story about Japan’s relationship with honesty?
TIL of Art-o-mat machines; specialised vending machines that dispense art, specifically the artwork of local artists. As of July 2018, there were over 100 machines around the world, and over 400 artists involved.
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Art-o-mat
artist
TIL the Bubonic plague, the cause of the Black Death, is still around. Congo, Madagascar and Peru have several cases a year. Isolated cases occur in the United States and China as well.
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Bubonic plague
human and animal disease; plague involving the lymphatic system
TIL: You are less likely to die during an economic depression. This is mostly attributed to cleaner air, reduced traffic, and fewer dollars spent on vices like tobacco and alcohol.
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Nature
How the next recession could save lives
Death rates have dropped during past economic downturns, even as many health trends have worsened. Researchers are scrambling to decipher lessons before the next big recession.
TIL In the ancient Roman city of Puteoli there was an octopus that would sneak into kitchens through the sewer and eat pickled fish.
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The Conversation
Talking heads: what toilets and sewers tell us about ancient Roman sanitation
Archaeological and textual detective work is filling in some information about how ancient Romans used and thought about their sewers thousands of years ago.
TIL Beth Broderick, probably best known for playing Aunt Zelda in "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, got her start in acting by doing softcore adult films.
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Beth Broderick
American actress
TIL of John Smeaton, an airport worker who kicked an attempted suicide bomber in the nuts. He would later be awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.
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Glasgow Airport attack
terrorist attack at Glasgow aiport
TIL of the Schulze-Boysens, a married couple who were members of the German high society. They were also anti-Nazi activists who formed a resistance group known as the Red Orchestra. They were caught and executed in 1942 but the Red Orchestra continued throughout the war as an espionage network.
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Harro Schulze-Boysen
German officer, commentator, and German Resistance fighter
TIL of John Smeaton, an airport worker who kicked an attempted suicide bomber in the nuts. He would later be awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.
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Glasgow Airport attack
terrorist attack at Glasgow aiport
TIL Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, produced over 179 adult-humored commercials for Wilkins Coffee from 1957-1961. The commercials followed a formula of one muppet creatively harming the other.
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National Museum of American History
Jim Henson creations you may not know: Wilkins and Wontkins
Does this puppet look familiar? Remind you of anyone you know? Does he bear a striking resemblance to a famous frog? This is one of Jim Henson's earliest creations, before Muppets fame. Part of the
TIL phages (a group of viruses) were supposed to be studied as antibacterial agents in human medicine, but were cut short by the discovery of penicillin shortly after. With today's increasingly drug-resistant bacteria, phages are being considered once again.
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Wiley Online Library
Back to the future: bacteriophages as promising therapeutic tools
Bacteriophages (phages), natural predators of bacteria, are becoming increasingly attractive in medical and pharmaceutical applications. After their discovery almost a century ago, they have been par...
TIL of Eva Umlauf, a Jew who arrived in Auschwitz at the age of two in 1944. Despite her young age, she was tattooed with her camp number: A26959. Getting it was so painful, that she passed out. Her mother was a digit lower. Eva thinks she was the youngest child to have been tattooed who survived.
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the Guardian
Tales from Auschwitz: survivor stories
Tuesday 27 January is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Six survivors, some of whom will be returning to the site for the last time, tell Kate Connolly their stories
TIL that after a woman murdered her husband and attempted suicide, their pet parrot who was the sole witness began repeating what's thought to have been their last conversation, including the words: "Don't shoot!"
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Submitted March 19, 2020 at 02:20PM by Weaselur
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The Independent
Woman convicted of husband's murder after parrot witness repeats 'don't shoot'
A woman has been convicted of murdering her husband after his last words were apparently repeated by the pet parrot who witnessed the attack. Glenna Duram, 49, shot Martin Duram, 46, five times
TIL the first words spoken in a film were “wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet” in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer
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the Guardian
You ain’t heard nothin’ yet: the moment Al Jolson sounded the birth of the talkies
Ninety years ago, in October 1927, Warner Bros was facing ruin. It staked its future on a film called The Jazz Singer – and turned an entire industry upside down