TIL about Taxi Dance Halls of the late 1920s and early '30s where lonely men looking for human contact paid 10 cents a song to dance with women for a few minutes. In 1931, there were at least 100 taxi dance halls in New York, visited by up to 50,000 men each week.
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Atlas Obscura
The Lost Lingo of Depression-Era Taxi Dancers
In the 1920s and '30s, ticket-a-dance halls were full of "nickel-hoppers" and "fish."
TIL before Lady Gaga was famous, a small group of haters at her university created a Facebook group called "Stefani Germanotta you will never be famous" that included insults and photos of her
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Bored Panda
Gaga’s University Peers Had A FB Group Dedicated To Shaming Her For Trying To Be Famous
There can be 100 people in a room and 99 of them don’t believe in you but all it takes is one and it just changes your whole life...
TIL Each US state manages a federally-allocated fund to support victims of crime; if you are the victim of a crime, you can apply for reimbursement for medical services, mental health counseling, lost wages, and other costs incurred as a result of the crime.
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Office for Victims of Crime
Help in Your State | Help for Victims | Help in Your State
Find services for victims of crime in your area.
TIL of the Inughuit of northwest Greenland, the world's northernmost people. When contact was made in 1818 they had been isolated for several hundred years and were completely unaware of the existence of other humans.
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Inughuit
ethnic group
TIL In 1939 a 24 year old Orson Welles attempted to adapt Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' but had to cancel due to budget constraints. The studio asked him for a more conventional project. He suggested a B film of his, an exploration of a newspaper tycoon’s rise and downfall. He called it Citizen Kane.
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One Room With A View
Best Films Never Made #23: Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness - One Room With A View
Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness, the greatest film never made?
TIL, Italy once tried to ban pasta because they believed that it weighed Italians down and prevented them from achieving any kind of greatness.
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Mentalfloss
Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy
Futurist leaders considered pasta an “absurd Italian gastronomic religion” that went against the grain of fascism (literally).
TIL Ainu people are indigenous to Hokkaidō, Japan. They have their own religion, language, and culture. Now fewer than 100 speak the language.
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【速度修正 + カラー補正】カラー化映像でよみがえる1919年の日本の生活
この動画はモノクロフィルムをAIでカラー化したものです。
以前アップした『カラー化映像でよみがえる1919年の日本の生活』という動画のフレームレートの調整、色補正をしています。また、音がないとあまりにも寂しいので、フリー素材の川の音や風の音を付け足しています。元々は無音なので、雰囲気を壊したくない方はミュートでのご視聴をお願いいたします。
カラー化映像でよみがえる1919年の日本の生活
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もとはA Trip through Japan with…
以前アップした『カラー化映像でよみがえる1919年の日本の生活』という動画のフレームレートの調整、色補正をしています。また、音がないとあまりにも寂しいので、フリー素材の川の音や風の音を付け足しています。元々は無音なので、雰囲気を壊したくない方はミュートでのご視聴をお願いいたします。
カラー化映像でよみがえる1919年の日本の生活
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もとはA Trip through Japan with…
TIL Macy's Department Store declined to be featured in the movie "Elf" because they didn't like the idea that there was a fake Santa working there and felt it would blow the illusion for kids.
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ABC News
8 things you never knew about the Christmas movie 'Elf'
TIL despite originating the role of Eliza in the My Fair Lady musical, studio head Jack Warner did not cast Julie Andrews due to her lack of name recognition. Andrews then won an Oscar in 1964 for Mary Poppins, which was in competition with My Fair Lady. In her acceptance speech, she thanked Warner.
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Julie Andrews
British actress, singer, author, theatre director, and dancer
TIL the biblical tale of Moses was likely inspired by the Mesopotamian legend of Sargon of Akkad, which predates Exodus by over a millennia and also features a baby abandoned on a river who is raised in a palace and grows up to overthrow a king
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Ancient History Encyclopedia
Moses
Moses (c. 1400 BCE) is considered one of the most important religious leaders in world history. He is claimed by the religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Bahai as an important prophet of God...
TIL Coriander and Cilantro are the same plant. Cilantro is the leaves and Coriander is the seeds
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Coriander
species of plant
TIL A Charlie Brown Christmas revitalized American demand for real Christmas trees, replacing the aluminum tree
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Great Falls Tribune
How Charlie Brown killed the aluminum Christmas tree
Aluminum Specialty was running three shifts a day, 10 months out of the year just to keep up on tree orders.\nThen the Peanuts gang came to town.
TIL Huge feral hogs have invaded Canada, building ‘pigloos’ as they go
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Animals
Huge feral hogs invading Canada, building ‘pigloos’ as they go
Feral swine, the offspring of wild boars and domestic pigs, are spreading through Canada into areas where many didn’t think they could survive.
TIL that Ice Cube’s good day rapped about in his song “good day” was calculated to be 01/20/1992. Events such as the Lakers defeating the super Sonics along with the advent of beepers “beep from Kim” all helped in narrowing on the exact date.
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VULTURE
Someone Figured Out Exactly What ‘Good Day’ Ice Cube Was Talking About
January 20, 1992. Amazing.
TIL Asphalt is the most recycled material on the planet, with 80% of North American asphalt being recycled annually
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TIL The USPS used to burn letters sent to "Santa". Now nonprofit organizations respond to children's letters on behalf of Santa
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Smithsonian Magazine
What Happens to All Those Letters Sent to Santa?
Believe it or not, most get answered
TIL that Jurassic Park's visual effects were so groundbreaking to filmmakers that it inspired Peter Jackson to begin work on Lord of the Rings, George Lucas to start on the Star Wars prequels, and Stanley Kubrick to invest in his pet project, A.I (Artificial Intelligence). Jurassic Park (film)
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Jurassic Park (film)
1993 American science fiction adventure film
TIL That the camera company Kodak created the world's first digital camera in 1975 but chose not to produce any digital products for FIFTEEN YEARS, because they were worried that it might eat into their sales of analog film. By that point the market was crowded and they never recovered.
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U.S.
Focus on past glory kept Kodak from digital win
Eastman Kodak Co's long decline that culminated in a bankruptcy filing on Thursday can be traced back to one source: the former king of photography's failure to reinvent itself in the digital age.
TIL that Daniel Oppenheimer won the Ig Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 for his paper "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly" which argues that simple writing makes authors appear more intelligent than complex writing.
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Daniel M. Oppenheimer
American psychologist
TIL that cheese is the most shoplifted food at 4% globally being stolen
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Curly Tales
The World's Most Stolen Food Is Cheese! | Curly Tales
Not chocolates or liquor but the world's most stolen food is cheese. As surprising as it may sound it's cheese!
TIL the first thing ever sold over the internet was marijuana. In the 1970s, students from Stanford sold weed to students at MIT using ARPANET to arrange the transaction.
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History Daily
What Was The First Thing Ever Bought On The Internet? Weed, Of Course
The first online sale was, naturally, weed. When was the first online sale? How did the first online sale take place?