TIL a Canadian man getting a rectal exam by his doctor at a hospital was observed by people he assumed were medical practitioners/med students. He sued the hospital and observers after learning the observers were two actors who play doctors on TV doing research for the TV series "Saving Hope."
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Brampton hospital, TV show actors named in lawsuit
BRAMPTON — A Brampton man is suing a local hospital, doctor and actors in a popular Canadian medical drama, alleging he was assaulted and his privacy violated during a rectal exam.
TIL that bees can't see red. What we perceive as the colour red is seen as black by bees. However, they can see ultraviolet. UV allows them to see vein like patterns in a flower, like a map which allows them to locate the nectar treasure.
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Can bees see colors we can’t? | EarthSky.org
Bees can see ultraviolet - a color humans can only imagine - at the short-wavelength end of the spectrum.
TIL That Elton John Once Rewrote John Lennon's Imagine After Seeing The Extravagant Lifestyle Lennon Had Been Living. Elton Parodied The Song, Changing The Lyrics To "Imagine six apartments, it isn't hard to do, one is full of fur coats, another's full of shoes."
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Elton John Rewrote ‘Imagine’ to Tease John Lennon
Elton John said he rewrote the lyrics to John Lennon's Imagine to tease him about shopping habits in October 2019.
TIL Coca-Cola has a medical application. It is sometimes used for the treatment of gastric phytobezoars (trapped mass in the gastrointetsinal system). In about 50% of cases studied, Coca-Cola alone was found to be effective in gastric phytobezoar dissolution.
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Coca-Cola
Carbonated soft drink
TIL the skull on the moth covering Jodie Foster’s mouth on the poster for Silence Of The Lambs is actually 7 female bodies as depicted by Salvador Dali and represent the movies victims
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The Skull on “The Silence of the Lambs” Movie Poster Is Actually Made of Naked Women – Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors”
Fun fact about the movie poster for the 1991 movie The Silence of the Lambs: the skull on the backside of the moth covering Jodie Foster's mouth is actuall
TIL In 2017, Canadian scientists recreated an extinct horse pox virus to demonstrate that the smallpox virus can be recreated in a small lab at a cost of about $100,000, by a team of scientists without specialist knowledge.
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Smallpox
human disease
TIL Essential Oils are not 'essential' or indispensible for the human body (like essential amino acids and essential fatty acids). The word 'essential' in Essential Oils simply means it contains the essence of the plant's fragrance.
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Essential fatty acid
Essential fatty acids, or EFAs, are fatty acids that humans and other animals must ingest because the body requires them for good health but cannot synthesize them.
TIL that David Attenborough is the only person to have received BAFTAs for programs in five different video formats: black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.
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David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (/ˈætənbrə/; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming…
TIL in order to improve speech-to-text, many 'private' Alexa conversations are being listened to by real people. An investigation found that these employees have group chats where they share recordings they find funny.
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There's a simple way to make sure Amazon workers can't listen to what you say to Alexa — here's how to do it
There's an option inside the Alexa mobile app that lets you prevent your recordings from being sent to Amazon workers.
TIL Martin Luther's son, Paul, was a survivor of the bubonic plague. After surviving, he dedicated his life to chemistry and medicine, developing the pharmaceuticals Unguentum ex nitro, Magistrum perlarum, Magistrum collorum, and Aurum potabile.
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Paul Luther
German scientist
TIL After Roger Ebert gave Baseketball (1998) a negative review, Trey Parker and Matt Stone named an episode of South Park "Robert Ebert should lay off the fatty foods". Roger Ebert was not in the episode or even mentioned.
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BASEketball
1998 American sports comedy film directed by David Zucker
TIL that during World War 2, Ford Motor Company produced a B-24 bomber every 63 minutes
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Willow Run Bomber Plant - The Henry Ford
Every American automaker turned its workforce and facilities to military production during World War II. But no project captured the public's imagination like Willow Run, where Ford Motor Company built one B-24 Liberator airplane every 63 minutes. The plant…
TIL Disney World is the second-largest purchaser of explosives in the United States. The first is the U. S. Department of Defense
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Did You Know: Disney Is The Second Largest Buyer Of Explosives In The World - GoodTimes: Lifestyle, Food, Travel, Fashion, Weddings…
Disney World is the second largest consumer when it comes to explosive devices, ranking right after the US Government. But it has a different purpose!
TIL that skunk spray can't be removed with tomato juice because they are both acids, rather you need combine baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and dish soap to create a base that nuetralizes and removes the smell.
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How To Get Rid of That Skunk Smell? (video) - American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
TIL the last US President who was fluent in a language other than English is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who spoke good French and German. Roosevelt died in office in 1945
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Why American presidents aren't bilingual anymore
After FDR, there have been no bilingual U.S. presidents.
TIL Bruce McMahan, a hedge fund billionaire who married his biological daughter and maintained a manipulative, adulterous, and incestuous relationship with her, managed to successfully scrub his existence from the internet after it was revealed.
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MEMO TO BRUCE McMAHAN, DAUGHTER-SEDUCER (UPDATED) | The Village Voice
Dear Bruce, Listen, I know you have a lot of money. Like, piles of cash that you don’t know what to do with. But surely,...
TIL the movie 'Seven Pounds' about a man (Will Smith) giving the gift of life to seven strangers, foregone the usual Hollywood premiere and instead chose Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, St. Louis, and Denver to premiere the film to raise funds for food banks in each region.
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Seven Pounds
2008 film by Gabriele Muccino
TIL In June of Year Without Summer (1816), a group of writers had to stay indoors in Switzerland because of “incessant rain”. As a result of a contest to write the scariest story, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Lord Byron wrote A Fragment, a precursor to Dracula
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Year Without a Summer
1816, a volcanic winter event during the Little Ice Age
TIL during a 2000 celebrity edition episode of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", comedian Norm MacDonald made it to the million dollar question, but passed on it to not risk it. However, his anwer was right.
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Norm MacDonald Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 11 19 2000
TIL of Susanne Ripton, a Jew who survived the holocaust as a child. In 1940, when she was 4, soldiers broke into her home in Paris. She was saved when a neighbour rushed in and said that she was her daughter. She spent years hiding. In 1969, she discovered her parents had been killed at Auschwitz.
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Suzanne’s story: Hiding from the Nazis in occupied France | BBC Teach
WARNING: This clip contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.
Suzanne Ripton’s story of living in hiding, as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
Suzanne recounts the terrifying experience of Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940, her sudden…
Suzanne Ripton’s story of living in hiding, as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
Suzanne recounts the terrifying experience of Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940, her sudden…
TIL a New York deaf man sued Pornhub for not providing closed captioning to all of their videos. Despite Pornhub's VP asserting that they do have a closed captions video section, the man's lawsuit specifically cites “Hot Step Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew" as a video that lacked closed captions.
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Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions
A deaf man is suing Pornhub.