TIL John Stark, an unpaid rescuer of the Donner Party who refused to leave any of the 9 dying survivors, mostly children, behind (unlike his paid partners who just grabbed one kid each and left). He carried 2-3 at a time, then went back and repeated the process. Stark, and all 9, survived.
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Thestormking
Nugget 57
Tahoe Nuggets are free email bulletins with photos, video, and descriptions of winter storms, hiking, skiing, exploring and much more!
TIL a researcher recorded more than 100 animal handlers and found it's pretty much universal -- regardless of the language spoken or the animal being handled -- that humans use short, repeated sounds to get an animal to go or speed up, and long, slow sounds to get an animal to stop or slow down.
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The Other End of the Leash
It's How You Say It - The Other End of the Leash
For those of you without grey hair, the index cards on the right are how we organized information back in the dark ages. (Also known as The 80’s.) I found hundreds of them this weekend while cleaning out a closet, kept from the research I did for my dissertation…
TIL that it was widely assumed that infants felt no pain and they routinely underwent major surgeries without anesthesia up until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987.
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TIL : The World population was about 300 million at the time of Jesus. A thousand years later it was about 310 million.
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NOVA | World in the Balance | Human Numbers Through Time | PBS
(non-Flash version) Trace the dramatic history of human population growth from 2,000 years ago to 50 years into the future.
TIL in 1998 the Vietnam Unknown remains were removed from the Arlington Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after the serviceman's identity became known through DNA testing.
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Wikipedia
Michael Blassie
US Air Force officer
TIL the reason snow is able to absorb sound is because it is porous. Snowflakes are six-sided crystals, and they are filled with open spaces.Those spaces absorb sound waves, creating a quieting effect over a blanket of snow.
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Forest Preserve District of Will County
Why Is The World So Quiet When It Snows? The Science Behind the Silence
It's not just a myth that the world seems more quiet after a snowfall. There's science behind the silence.
TIL Ben & Jerry's ice cream was invented because Ben (original founder) was born without the ability to smell (rare condition called anosmia). It left him with little sense of taste so he liked his ice cream really rich and with big chunks. It became their trademark.
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https://www.benjerry.com
10 Fun Facts About Our Funky Chunks
What is it about those funky chunks that make Ben & Jerry’s flavors so inexplicably euphoric? We’re not quite sure, but it sure is working. Get funky with these 10 fun facts.
TIL in nightclubs in Ireland in the 80's & 90's the music had to be turned off and lights turned on half ways through the night because the nightclub had to serve a substantial meal by law so the clubs could keep their alcohol licence
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Submitted December 18, 2020 at 10:45PM by MyNameIsBarbarella
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Dublin Inquirer
The Rise and Fall of Nightclub Meals
For most of the last century, nightclubs were supposed to stop the music, turn on the lights, and give clubbers a late-night dinner. That really confused Fatboy Slim.
TIL actor Robert Mitchum proposed to his wife by saying "Stick with me, kid, and you'll be farting through silk." Their marriage lasted 57 years.
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the Guardian
Review: Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care by Lee Server
Chris Petit salutes Lee Server's Baby, I Don't Care, an account of the lazy panache of Robert Mitchum, who was finally beaten by the Hollywood system
TIL that legendary Hollywood director Martin Scorsese, best known for his violent gangster films, has used the same female editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, on every movie he's made since Raging Bull in 1980.
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Submitted December 19, 2020 at 12:34AM by duevigilance
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the Guardian
Raging Bull, Cape Fear, Goodfellas… the woman behind Scorsese’s classics
Thelma Schoonmaker, on the eve of receiving a Bafta fellowship, discusses the art of film editing and her 50-year career
TIL a con artist asked Al Capone for $50,000, claiming he could double it in two months. However, he did nothing with the money and after the two months gave it back to Capone, who, impressed by his integrity, gave him a tenth of the loaned money. That $5,000 was what he wanted in the first place.
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Smoothest Con Man That Ever Lived
"Count" Victor Lustig once sold the Eiffel Tower to an unsuspecting scrap-metal dealer. Then he started thinking really big
TIL: About "domestication syndrome". Only elephants have floppy ears in the wild. Dogs, rabbits, foxes, pigs, sheep, goats, etc have floppy ears only when domesticated.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics
Charles Darwin, while trying to devise a general theory of heredity from the observations of animal and plant breeders, discovered that domesticated mammals possess a distinctive and unusual suite of heritable traits not seen in their wild progenitors. ...
TIL when filming the original Borat film, Sacha Baron Cohen never washed Borat's suit or wore deodorant when in character. He said it gave Borat a "kind of dreadful Soviet-bloc smell the moment I walk in".
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Submitted December 19, 2020 at 03:08AM by MasterLawlz
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TIL of Wei Jie. A frail youth who lived in 3rd Century AD China, he was considered to be so beautiful that hordes of admirers mobbed him/his home all day, which caused him to die of stress. "Wei Jie died of stares" is now a Chinese idiom describing celebrities who have very obsessive fandoms.
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TIL Bismarck created health, accident, old age and disability insurance aimed at the working population to lower the popularity of the ever-growing Social Democratic Party
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Submitted December 19, 2020 at 10:10AM by ericprogramming
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Otto von Bismarck
German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
TIL Not long after Julius Caesar was assassinated, a comet shone for seven successive days. This signified Julius Caesar's ascension to Godhood, and propaganda for Caesar's nephew. The comet was described as: "To make that soul a star that burns forever, Above the Forum and the gates of Rome."
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Wikipedia
Caesar's Comet
non-periodic comet
TIL that Bob Clark directed Black Christmas (1974), one of the most terrifying holiday films of all time; just under a decade later, he directed A Christmas Story (1983), one of the most beloved holiday films of all time.
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Submitted December 19, 2020 at 12:28PM by bbk8z
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Mentalfloss
12 Surprising Facts About Black Christmas
Nearly a decade before he made 'A Christmas Story,' Bob Clark turned a horror movie about an unsuspecting group of sorority sisters and a mysterious killer lurking in their attic into a different kind of holiday classic.
TIL several people walked out of every screening of Reservoir Dogs at the Sundance film festival because of its graphic violence, including horror movie director Wes Craven best known for his A Nightmare On Elm Street films.
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EW.com
Even Wes Craven Walked Out of 'Reservoir Dogs' During the Torture Scene
At the Tribeca Film Festival 25th anniversary screening of 'Reservoir Dogs,' Tarantino and star Michael Madsen recalled the film's torture scene
TIL male and female reindeer both have antlers. Males however, shed them at the end of mating season in early December, while females do not. Meaning Santa's reindeer are likely all female.
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Global News
Rudolph and rest of Santa’s reindeer are all female, says N.S. scientist
Andrew Hebda, a zoologist at the Nova Scotia Museum, says it's most likely that Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and the rest of the team pulling Santa's sleigh are all female.
TIL that 'John Wick' (2014) was originally titled 'Scorn' but Keanu Reeves kept telling everyone that he was starring in a movie called 'John Wick' so the studio decided to roll with that instead because it was four to five million dollars in free advertising for them.
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Submitted December 19, 2020 at 03:59PM by Niyazali_Haneef
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Digital Spy
John Wick's original title was changed from Scorn after Keanu Reeves kept getting it wrong
Nice work, Keanu!
TIL that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover possessed one of the world's largest collection of pornography, both for blackmail and for personal titillation purposes
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Submitted December 19, 2020 at 11:14AM by DrScientist812
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J. Edgar Hoover
American law enforcement officer and first director of the FBI (1895-1972)