TIL Spaceballs creator Mel Brooks made a deal with George Lucas, that allowed him to spoof Star Wars in exchange for not selling any merchandise related to the film. The action figures Rick Moranis is seen playing with in the movie are the only official Spaceballs merchandise ever made.
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The Merchandising Scene in 'Spaceballs' Is Funnier Than You Remember
You probably remember the scene in "Spaceballs" where Mel Brooks' character tells us that "it's all about the merchandising!" What you might not know is that, ironically, all of that merchandise never saw the light of day, thanks to an agreement Brooks made…
TIL that 19 percent of adults in the U.S. cannot read a newspaper or complete a job application and 50 percent of U.S. adults cannot read a book written at an eighth-grade level
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Literacy in the United States
overview of literacy in the United States
TIL - The military did a study and found that 90% of more than 100 over the counter and prescription drugs were perfectly good to use after 15 years in storage.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Drug expiry debate: the myth and the reality
TIL Austria does not usually allow dual citizenship but they made a special exception for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1983 when he became U.S. citizen
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian-American actor, businessman, bodybuilder and politician
TIL The gas bags inside hydrogen airships of the 1930s were made from the outer layer of a cow’s intestines. Joined together when wet, the living tissues grow together, creating an impermeable bond. The gas bags of the Graf Zeppelin were made from the guts of around half a million cows.
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TIL that Dick Van Dyke once fell asleep while surfing, drifted into open water and was rescued by dolphins who pushed him back to shore
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the Guardian
Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke
Mary Poppins star feared death after apparently falling asleep on his surfboard but friendly sea creatures pushed him to shore
TIL that in 1777 the Sultanate of Morocco was the first county to recognize the United States as an independent nation with a treaty of peace and friendship.
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Morocco World News
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah's Diplomatic Initiatives towards the US
The history of Moroccan-American relations dates back to the late eighteenth century, when the sultan Sidi Muhammad Ben Abdellah
TIL about Benson rafts, huge rafts up to 1000 feet long made of thousands of logs lashed together that used to be floated across 1,100 miles of open ocean from the mouth of the Columbia River to San Diego as a cheaper alternative to sending the logs by rail.
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Benson raft
barge used to transfer timber
TIL that Dragonflies are older than dinosaurs and used to have a wingspan of 2.5 feet
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ABC News
Prehistoric-Sized Dragonflies? It's in the Air
TIL Oliver R. Smoot was 5’7” in 1958 when his fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, used him to measure the Harvard Bridge. The bridge is 364.4 Smoots long +/- 1 ear.
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Smoot in stone
TIL the last bursts of light in the universe will not be visible from any of the other last remaining stars. The distances will be so large that the photons will decay before crossing them.
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Popular Mechanics
Sad! This Is When the Universe Will Truly End
After the very last supernova explodes, it's curtains.
TIL Queen Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) is a polyglot who speaks ~10 languages; English, French, Flemish, Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish. At the age of 12, she translated religious works by her stepmother in English to French, Latin, and Italian.
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Elizabeth I
Queen regnant of England and Ireland (1533-1603)
TIL a man suеd a strіpper, saying he had a whіplаsh injury when she swung her brеasts, "like two cement blocks", into his face. A female bаіliff examіned the breasts in private, and found them to be "soft", weighing ~2 pounds each. After retiring, the strіpper sold one of her brеast implаnts on еBаy
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ClubLexus - Lexus Forum Discussion
Stripper Selling Infamous Breast Implant on EBay - ClubLexus - Lexus Forum Discussion
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TIL the reason why the snowman is abominable, is because of a mistranslation by a journalist. The local name for the creature was "metoh-kangmi" which translates to "man-bear snow-man", but the metoh part was mistranslated as filthy which got later changed to abominable.
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Yeti
cryptid
TIL that there are contact lenses that are worn overnight which temporarily reshape the cornea, allowing the user to have perfect vision during the day without having to wear glasses/contact lenses
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Orthokeratology
corrective contact lenses
TIL that in 2016, a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded a Daallo Airlines flight, intending to destroy the aircraft. 15 minutes after takeoff, the explosives detonated, blasting a hole in the plane, and instantly sucking the bomber out. He was the only fatality.
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BBC News
'Somalia plane bomber given bomb in laptop' on CCTV
Somali intelligence officials release a video showing a passenger being given a laptop they say concealed a bomb that blew a hole into a passenger plane.
TIL Curry was introduced to Japan by the British. The British brought curry from India back to Britain and introduced it to Japan after it ended its policy of self-isolation. Curry in Japan is categorized as a Western dish
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Curry
dish whose origins are in South and Southeast Asian cuisines
TIL that King Louis XVI was condemned to death by a majority of only 1 vote. Amongst those who voted in favor of the execution was the king's own cousin, Philippe Égalité, whom the king did not have positive relations with. Philippe himself would be guillotined on the same scaffold a year later.
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Louis XVI
Louis XVI (Louis-Auguste; French pronunciation: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as Citizen Louis Capet during the four months just…
TIL that the reason Yukon Cornelius keeps licking his ax in the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" special is because he's looking for peppermint. The scene explaining that was deleted.
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HuffPost
Here's An Explanation To That Weird Ax-Licking Scene In 'Rudolph'
The version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" you've been watching on TV is actually wrong.
TIL of the tragedy of Love Canal, NY a town that was meant to be a dream community but was built on a toxic waste dump. The government ignored helping the families suffering from birth defects and health issues until a group of activist moms kidnapped 2 EPA officials for a few hours.
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Love Canal
former neighborhood
TIL 70% of U.S. adults who are at least 20 years old are overweight or obese.
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Submitted December 02, 2020 at 07:10PM by cottagecow
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The Washington Times
Doctors fear obesity diagnosis will embarrass patients
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. physicians say they don't discuss weight loss with their obese patients for fear of embarrassing them, according to a survey examining barriers to treatment in the obesity ep