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.
TIL Japan has been wearing surgical-style masks since 1918 and has become a part of social etiquette. It is also worn as a fashion item and serve as defensive barriers due to social awkwardness. Total sales of disposable face masks amounted to ¥35.8 billion in 2018.
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Mask Culture in Japan
Wearing surgical-style masks, primarily to prevent the spread of illness, has become a part of social etiquette in Japan. The custom was spurred on by the H1N1 influenza epidemic of 2009, and there are now a huge variety of masks on sale.
til that in the 1952 Olympics, Luxembourg won a gold medal which was so unexpected that the band did not know their national anthem and instead had to improvise and played gibberish.
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The Olympic Gold Medal that Surprised Even the Organizers | The Olympics On The Record
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Luxembourg middle-distance runner Josy Barthel put his country on the map and into the record books at the Olympic Games Helsinki 1952, creating a bit of a confusion for the local organizers..
The most…
Luxembourg middle-distance runner Josy Barthel put his country on the map and into the record books at the Olympic Games Helsinki 1952, creating a bit of a confusion for the local organizers..
The most…
TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers' Party was a satirical Polish political party, whose goal was to promote cultural beer-drinking in English-style pubs instead of vodka and thus fight alcoholism.
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Polish Beer-Lovers' Party
Polish political party
TIL Garden Veggie Straws, which shows fresh vegetables on the bag, and are promoted as a healthy alternative to chips, are actually made of salt, starch, and tomato paste. They have less nutrition than actual potato chips and the manufacturer, which has a history of false claims, is now being sued.
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There’s no actual veggies in ‘Veggie Straws’: suit
Two snack-loving men have sued Hain Celestial Group after discovering there are no actual vegetables in the company’s popular Garden Veggie Straws. The snack food, which claims to have 30 percent
TIL when the Grand Canyon divided the local squirrel population, they evolved into two different species. Despite being separated only by the Colorado River and remaining extremely similar in appearance, they are now so genetically incompatible that they can no longer interbreed.
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Nature up close: Grand Canyon ecosystems
A walk through the national park is a trek through several different ecosystems, each with distinct flora and fauna
TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.
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Joseph P Kennedy's Hollywood Years: The First and Only Outsider to Fleece Hollywood by Cari Beauchamp
Joe Kennedy's murky dealings are revealed in this scrupulous biography, says Sarah Churchwell
TIL Steve Carell didn't actually want to leave The Office after 7 seasons - instead, NBC didn't renew his contract because an executive wasn't a fan of the show and didn't want to pay his high salary.
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The Office: Steve Carell never wanted to leave long-running sitcom, new book claims
Steve Carell never wanted to leave The Office and only did so when US broadcaster NBC let his contract lapse, a new book has claimed. The US remake of the British comedy helped turn Carell into a
TIL Finland is the only country in the world with regulated 10-month emergency supply of critical medical equipment, medicine, energy and more
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The National Emergency Supply Agency - Huoltovarmuuskeskus
The National Emergency Supply Agency (NESA) is an organisation working under the Ministry of economic affairs and employment. It is tasked with planning and measures related to developing and maintaining...
TIL in 2015 a new antibody test was announced by a researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston that can reveal every virus your body has ever mounted a response against. The researcher estimated it would cost $25 per test.
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New Test Can Find Just About Every Virus You Ever Caught
A new, low-cost, blood test can find just about every virus you ever caught in a single drop of blood.
TIL in the entire 120+ year history of Kansas University's basketball team there has been only one coach with a losing record. His name is James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.
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Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball
The Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball program of the University of Kansas. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I and the team competes in the Big 12 Conference. Kansas is considered one of the most…
TIL the YMCA sued the Village People over their "YMCA" song for trademark infringement, but the two sides settled out of court and the YMCA later expressed pride towards the band for their song as a salute their organization
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How Did the Real YMCA React to the Disco Song About It?
Everyone also liked “Y.M.C.A.”—except the actual organization.
TIL that ZZ Top is the longest-running group with an unchanged line-up in the entire history of popular music
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Oldest Bands In Music: 30 Acts That Defy The Laws Of Age And Time
It’s better to burn out than to fade away… but sometimes a band does neither. After decades on the road, the oldest bands in music still bring the noise.
TIL in 1987, the Burmese government demonetised the 25-, 35-, and 75-kyats notes without warning or compensation, rendering around 75% of the country's currency worthless and eliminating the savings of millions of Burmese. Dictator Ne Win did it bc the notes weren't divisible by his lucky number, 9.
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Ne Win
Burmese politician and general
TIL Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos were both abandoned by their biological father as children and refused to meet them once they were adults.
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Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs: Both Estranged From Dads and Wild Tech Successes
Among Bezos' cohorts are such American success stories as Steve Jobs, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, all of whom either didn't know or didn't grow up with their biological dads.
TIL Cats do not need to blink on a regular basis to keep their eyes lubricated. Unblinking eyes are probably an advantage when hunting. Cats will, however, squint their eyes, usually as a form of communication expressing affection and ease around another cat or human.
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Cat senses
The ways in which cats experience the world. (Smell, Sight, Touch, Taste, and Hearing)
TIL Admiral J.Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam and held prisoner for 7,5 years, 4 of them in solitary. He endured captivity by drawing inspiration from Epictetus, a stoic and former slave who who shrugged off even his own state of slavery as a natural inconvenience that should not concern him
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Epictetus
ancient Greek philosopher (c.55 - 0135)
TIL that in Buddhism, one "Aeon" is the amount of time it takes to completely erode a huge rock 16x16x16 miles in size, by brushing it with a silk cloth once a century.
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Kalpa - Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia
Kalpa (Skt.; Tib. བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. bskal pa) — an aeon, a vast period of time related to the different phases of a great universe (or trichiliocosm), according to Abhidharma literature.