TIL that Kyrgyzstan is more distant from the ocean than any other nation. At a minimum of 1620 miles from any ocean, it is the most land-locked state in the world
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Central Asia Rally
Kyrgyzstan: The Furthest Country From Any Ocean - Central Asia Rally
Did you know that Kyrgyzstan is the furthest country from any ocean? Despite that, it's home to some of the most gorgeous lakes in the world.
TIL Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson were largely considered to play James Bond in the movie "Goldeneye". Neeson turned it down because he wasn't interested in action films at the time and Gibson was too busy with his project "Braveheart" despite being recommended by Sean Connery.
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List of actors considered for the James Bond character
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TIL After Sir Terry Pratchetts death, Neil Gaiman had the only hard drive containing his unfinished novels crushed with a steamroller, as per the late fantasy writers request
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Submitted December 08, 2020 at 08:51PM by quitpayload
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Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller
Unpublished works are lost for ever with crushing of computer hard drive – as the late fantasy novelist had instructed
TIL Carol Burnett sued Family Guy after the show portrayed her cleaning the floor of a porn shop. The judge ruled against her under the 1st Amendment, but stated "the character Burnett created was far more creative than anything the Family Guy team could come up with on their own."
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Carol Burnett
American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, writer
TIL dogs would often dig up bodies and tombs in ancient Egypt, which was a problem because the dead and their belongings were sacred. So, the Egyptians gave the god Anubis a canine head and made him "protector of the dead."
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Anubis
Anubis or Inpu, Anpu in Ancient Egyptian (/əˈnjuːbɪs/;Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις, Egyptian: inpw, Coptic: .mw-parser-output .script-coptic{font-family:"New Athena Unicode","MPH 2B Damase","FreeSerif","Arial Coptic",Quivira,Analecta,Antinoou,"Sophia Nubian","Noto…
TIL that Maus is the only graphic novel, as of 2020, to win the Pulitzer Prize
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Maus
graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman
TIL about Triboulet, a notorious jester who was allowed to choose his own death after having insulted the Queen of France. He chose to die of old age, which make the King laughing so much, he banished him of the realm instead.
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Triboulet
French jester
TIL two Liverpool fans travelled to see Liverpool play against the Belgian team Genk - but by mistake, went to Ghent, 150 km away, only discovering their mistake an hour before the match. After hearing the story, the local team KAA Gent offered them to be VIP guests at an upcoming match against Genk
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Liverpool fans travel to wrong city
Two Liverpool fans missed their side's Champions League win over Genk on Tuesday - because they travelled to Ghent by mistake.
TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
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BBC News
Kathy Sullivan: The woman who's made history in sea and space
Kathy Sullivan is the first person to ever travel to both space and the bottom of the ocean.
TIL NASA used Taco Bell tortillas for space missions - bread had too many crumbs so they used tortillas for standwiches, and NASA started making space tortillas. Taco Bell made a tortilla in the 90s with a 9 month shelf life, so NASA started using those instead.
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CNET
How NASA reinvented the tortilla, and other tales of food in space
What are NASA's secret recipes for feeding hungry astronauts when they're in orbit? CNET Road Trip 2014 bellied up to the space agency's Food Lab to find out.
TIL Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 only after Bell Aircraft balked at the $150,000 bonus requested by their own test pilot. Yeager completed the task as part of his standard USAAF $283/month Captain’s salary.
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Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in…
TIL that in 1985 two bodies were discovered in a barrel in Bear Brook National Park, New Hampshire. 300 feet away was a second barrel containing two more bodies from the same murder, but it was not discovered until 15 years later in 2000. All four bodies remained unidentifiable until 2019.
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Bear Brook murders
The Bear Brook murders (also referred to as the Allenstown Four) are female murder victims, two being discovered in 1985 and two in 2000, at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire, United States. All four of the victims were either partially or…
TIL NBC executives hated the script for the Seinfeld episode, 'The Chinese Restaurant', and only agreed to allow it to be filmed after co-creator Larry David threatened to quit. It is now considered a ground-breaking episode of TV, and the best example of Seinfeld's 'show about nothing' premise
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The Chinese Restaurant
"The Chinese Restaurant" is the 11th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld's second season on NBC, and is the show's 16th episode overall. The episode revolves around protagonist Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and his friends Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and George…
TIL that shampoo is a word derived from "champu" which is made from shikakai , hibiscus, arappu (Albizzia amara) in India. Colonial traders cleansed hair, body daily with it and introduced it in Europe after returning from India.
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Shampoo
hair care cleaning product, typically in the form of a viscous liquid or bar
TIL after losing her position in her university's anatomy department in 1938, Rita Levi-Montalcini set up a laboratory in her bedroom and studied the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos. This work led to her discovery of nerve growth factor, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1986.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909-2012)
TIL Danny Trejo often chooses to play bad guys to teach younger audiences that bad guys often die or go to prison and that one should try to have a decent life.
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Danny Trejo
Mexican American actor
TIL: Nazis offered Iron Cross for 4 Finnish Jews during WW2. None accepted. For example, Leo Skurnik was awarded Iron Cross for evacuating a German soldier under enemy fire. Major Skurnik told the Germans that Skurnik would "wipe his arse with the medal."
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nationalpost
For the Jews who fought for Hitler, discomfort still — despite rejecting Nazi Iron Cross for saving German lives
When his commander told Major Leo Skurnik he had been approved for the award, he responded, 'Tell your German colleagues that I wipe my arse with it!’
TIL every year approximately 6 humans are killed by sharks, and about 100 million sharks are killed by humans
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Sharks vs. humans: At 100 million deaths against 6 each year, it's not a fair fight
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TIL that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" in 1958 (she turns 76 this week!)
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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had sold over 25…
TIL when a school board tried to ban "To Kill a Mockingbird" as immoral, author Harper Lee wrote a letter asking if the board members were literate and donated money to enroll them in the first grade.
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Harper Lee
American author
TIL Narinder Singh Kapani (1926-2020) is acknowledged as the Father of 'Fiber optics'-a term he coined. His work in 1953 ushered in a new era of High speed Internet, endoscopy, spectroscopy etc An unsung hero, he never patented it. He NEVER won a nobel.
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Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist