TIL "larger crocodiles can go for over a year without eating a meal. In extreme situations, crocodiles appear to be able to shut down and live off their own tissue for a long period of time."
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Nature
Supersize Crocs | Crocodile Secrets of Survival | Nature | PBS
The crocodile has few natural predators, an armor of bony plates covering most of its body and strong jaws capable of crushing anything from bones to cast iron.
TIL Before Houdini died, he and his wife agreed that if Houdini found it possible to communicate after death, he would communicate the message "Rosabelle believe", a secret code which they agreed to use. Rosabelle was their favorite song.
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TIL of Loren Krytzer, a man who was living on $200 a month when he sold a 'worthless' blanket for $1.5 million. He learned the value of this Navajo blanket while watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow, where a similar blanket was appraised. The winner of the auction was the appraiser from the show
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CNBC
This man was living on $200 a month when he sold a 'worthless' blanket for $1.5 million
Loren Krytzer was scraping by on disability checks when he became a millionaire overnight, all thanks to a blanket from his closet.
TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.
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Life expectancy
statistical measure of how long a person or organism may live, based on factors of their life
TIL for the longest time (not anymore) the fastest man made object was a manhole cover blown into space in 1957 by the US with a nuclear bomb. They estimated approx. 125000 mp/h (200000 km/h). This would have had them zipping past Pluto around 1961.
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Business Insider
A nuclear bomb shot a manhole into space before Sputnik - Business Insider
Robert Brownlee told us how he shot an object into space before Sputnik.
TIL of a French soldier who was taken as a POW and fed only potatoes during his captivity, and survived. Feeling like he should have died, he made it his life’s mission to convince the world of the nutritional value of potatoes, and his tomb in France is decorated with potatoes as a tribute.
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Atlas Obscura
Grave of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.
TIL About James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who was worth $10 million when he killed three people in a sweat lodge. After 20 months in jail he was released and went right back to the same career
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CNN
Sweat lodge guru's return angers victims
Sweat lodge victims and their families are angry that James Arthur Ray, the self-help guru responsible for a fatal retreat in 2009, is attempting a comeback.
TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town
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Jackson, Wyoming
town in the Jackson Hole valley of Teton County, Wyoming, United States
TIL Saudia Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter
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BBC News
Saudi textbook features image of Yoda with King Faisal
A picture of the Star Wars character sitting beside the late King Faisal is mistakenly included.
TIL about "the Singing Revolution" which happened between 1987 and 1991 in Estonia when people gathered in public places to sing national songs together despite the ban. This and the "human chain" from Estonia to Lithuania were among the events that led to the independence of Baltic states.
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ICNC
Estonia’s Singing Revolution (1986-1991)
Estonia, which had endured foreign occupation for centuries, joined its fellow Baltic Republics of Latvia and Lithuania in a nonviolent movement that enabled them to become independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Estonians began…
TIL In 1986, Optimus Prime was actually killed off in the Transformers movie, in order to make way for new and more expensive toys. He was eventually resurrected due to Hasbro underestimating the backlash over his death.
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The Transformers: The Movie
1986 US animated film
TIL the acronym EGOT meaning a person who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, was first coined by Miami Vice actor Philip Michael Thomas. In a 1984 interview he expressed his plans to win them all in the next five years. As of 2021, he has not been nominated for any of these awards.
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Philip Michael Thomas
American actor
TIL Rabies often causes involuntary erections and hands-free orgasms, sometimes as many as 30-50 per day in the final phases before death.
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BMC Infectious Diseases
Clinical features of rabies patients with abnormal sexual behaviors as the presenting manifestations: a case report and literature…
Abnormal sexual behaviors presenting as manifestations of rabies have occasionally been reported in the literature, although little attention has been paid to these cases to date. This study aimed to analyze the clinical features of rabies cases with abnormal…
TIL The Laurel Thatcher Ulrich quote "Well-behaved women seldom make history" is not a call for women to rebel or challenge authority, but is instead a plea to recognize women in history who quietly advanced women's issues by fulfilling more traditional gender roles.
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
American historian
TIL Ikea products are not given names like “white table” just in Swedish. They are actually given the names of people, cities, etc. It’s the equivalent of entering a Home Depot and buying a lamp named Steve and a desk named New York.
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The meaning behind all those obscure IKEA product names
IKEA has a very specific system in place for naming its products. Founder Ingvar Kamprad named each product after a specific Swedish word.
TIL Pronoia is the opposite of paranoia. A paranoid person thinks everyone in conspiring against him or her, whereas a pronoid person thinks everything is secretly conspiring to help him or her.
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Pronoia (psychology)
Pronoia is a neologism coined to describe a state of mind that is the opposite of paranoia. Whereas a person suffering from paranoia feels that persons or entities are conspiring against them, a person experiencing pronoia feels that the world around them…
TIL that popcorn, being relatively inexpensive, became popular during the Great Depression. It became a source of income for many struggling farmers, including the Redenbacher family. In fact, when sugar was rationed during WWII, Americans ate three times as much popcorn as they had before.
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Popcorn
snack food
TIL In the 1880’s, the Old Faithful geyser would be used to launder clothes. Dirty clothes would be placed in the crater and after an eruption, they were “ ejected thoroughly washed”
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Old Faithful
geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States
TIL that Louis Armstrong, an influential jazz figure, didn't receive formal musical training until he was arrested for firing a pistol at age 11. In there, the music teacher, Peter Davis, taught him how to play the bugle and cornet. In retrospect, Louis said that was when "me and music got married."
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HISTORY
9 Things You May Not Know About Louis Armstrong
Check out nine little-known facts about the jazz legend nicknamed “Satchmo.”
TIL that Samuel L Jackson's films have collectively grossed $27 billion dollars worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time
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Samuel L. Jackson
American actor and film producer
TIL An electric eel can also remotely control its prey's movements, with electrical impulses acting on the prey's motor neurons. It can make hidden prey twitch to reveal itself, and then freeze so that it doesn't escape.
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Science
The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel
Electric eels can incapacitate prey with an electric discharge, but the mechanism of the eel’s attack is unknown. Through a series of experiments, I show that eel high-voltage discharges can activate prey motor neurons, and hence muscles, allowing eels to…