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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Business Insider
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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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…
TIL that South Africa is the first state in the world which voluntarily gave up all nuclear arms it had developed itself. It produced six nuclear weapons in the 1980's but dismantled them in the early 1990's. The country has been a signatory of the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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The National Interest
Why South Africa Built Nuclear Weapons and Then Gave Them Up.
Why?
TIL that in 2007 a group of otters at the Bronx Zoo forcefully drowned a langur in full view of visitors and other langurs. The langurs had been tormenting the otters, so they united and exacted revenge by drowning the monkey and left its dead body afloat for the other langurs to see.
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monkey death at bronx zoo
monkey killed by otters
TIL the idea caffeinated coffee & tea dehydrate you is misunderstood. It's true that caffeine can be a weak diuretic - (stimulates urination) - but the loss is negated by the water in the drink itself. You're ingesting more fluids than urinating when drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee or tea.
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Time
No, Coffee and Tea Aren't Actually Dehydrating
Here's why
TIL researchers successfully killed MRSA (the antibiotic resistant superbug) with a blue laser and peroxide. They found a blue light can "bleach" the protective layer of the MRSA membrane which then makes it more vulnerable. This weakened it enough for hydrogen peroxide to finish the job.
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Boston University
How Light Turns Hydrogen Peroxide into a MRSA Treatment
To combat antibiotic resistant bacteria, Boston University College of Engineering researchers have invented a new blue light therapy that can kill 99.9 percent of MRSA without antibiotics.
TIL that James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, is the only president to have military experience without having been an officer. He was a private in the Pennsylvania militia in 1814.
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. (/bjuːˈkænən/ byoo-CAN-nən; April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States (1857–1861). He previously served as Secretary of State (1845–1849) and represented Pennsylvania…
TIL that Russian President Boris Yeltsin once got so drunk at a state dinner that he drummed on Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's bald head, using dinner spoons.
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U.S.
Russia's Yeltsin known for gaffes, off-color jokes
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who died on Monday, developed a penchant over 15 years in high office of jolting world leaders by committing gaffes, cracking off-color jokes or blurting out flippant comments.
TIL that, upon his death in 1977, jazz composer Paul Desmond left the rights to royalties for his performances and compositions, including "Take Five", to the American Red Cross, which has since received combined royalties of approximately $100,000 per year
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Take Five
"Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by saxophonist Paul Desmond and originally recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet for their albumTime Out at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studios in New York City on July 1, 1959. Two years later it became a surprisehit…
TIL In 1986, two Russian airline pilots got into an argument over wether one could land the plane without vision. The main pilot pulled the curtains over the windows, insisting he could. Then, the plane missed the runway, flipped and killed 70 of the passengers
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Aeroflot Flight 6502
1986 Tu-134 crash in Samara
TIL studies done by online stockbrokers where they analyse the results achieved by their clients found that the ones that did the best were those that had died (and the category that did second best had forgotten their log in details).
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Two Cents
The Best Investors Literally Forget About Their Portfolios
“Set and forget” investing isn’t sexy, but it works. In fact, lazy investing is so effective, a study from Fidelity found that the best performing investors had either forgotten about their accounts or even crazier—they were dead.
TIL That Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.
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BBC News
Boeing uses potatoes instead of people to test wi-fi
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing used unusual substitutes for passengers while testing its in-flight wi-fi system - potatoes.
TIL in 1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin got drunk in Washington DC and was found outside in his underwear trying to find pizza
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HISTORY
When a Russian President Ended Up Drunk and Disrobed Outside the White House
Was Bill Clinton's 1994 meeting with Boris Yeltsin the most hilariously awful state visit in history?
TIL a dragonfly can live for 5 years but only develops wings in its last 2-4 months of life. During its second stage of life, the nymph lives a water-bound existence where it molts (sheds skin) up to 12 times before developing wings.
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Sciencing
Life Cycle of a Dragonfly
Dragonflies have three stages to their life: egg, nymph and adult. The length of each stage depends on the species of dragonfly.
TIL that Massachusetts, one of the least obese states to begin with, is one of the only states in the Union to report a drop in obesity rates within the past few years.
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Boston Magazine
Mass. Has the Third-Lowest Obesity Rate in the Country
According to the new State of Obesity report.
TIL that Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was painted on cardboard
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The Scream
group of paintings by Edvard Munch