TIL Boris Yeltsin's faith in communism was shattered after an unplanned visit to a grocery store in a Houston suburb
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TIL : After battle of Shiloh - 1862, many Civil war soldiers life was saved by a phenomenon called Angels glow. The soldiers who lay in mud for two rainy days had wounds that glowed in dark and healed unusually fast. In 2001, two teens discovered the reason - bioluminescent bacteria.
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Medical History Tour
Angel's Glow — Medical History Tour
During the two days of fighting at the Civil War battle of Shiloh (1862) the wounded numbered over 16,000. Many were immobilized in the mud of the rain-soaked fields situated between river and swamp. Their wounds were easily contaminated. And some of these…
TIL Teeth are only able to experience one sensation, that being pain. When you eat or drink something too hot or too cold, or a dentist operates on your teeth, you will only experience pain because that is the only thing the nerves around your teeth respond to.
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Dental (Odontogenic) Pain
TIL that the U.S. Department of Defense spends over $84 million a year on Viagra (and other erectile dysfunction medications).
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Military Times
DoD spends $84M a year on Viagra, similar meds
Defense Department spends millions on Viagra, Cialis, with most going to retirees.
TIL Norman Lloyd is the world's oldest living actor. He started his acting career at age 9 in 1923. He is still acting at 106 today. He also produces, with his latest film having been released in 2015. If he lives 3 more years, he will have been acting for a full century.
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Norman Lloyd
American actor, producer & director
TIL whales spouting water out of blowholes is a common error propagated in children's books and movies (the whale would be drowning if it did so). A 2016 scientific survey of children's books featuring whales and cetaceans revealed 74/116 had factual errors, including almost half of the non-fiction.
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Storybook Whale Fail | Hakai Magazine
Does it matter if children’s books deliver inaccurate science?
TIL of Emmanuel Nwude, a Nigerian scammer who managed to sell a fake airport to a Brazilian bank for $242 million between 1995 and 1998.
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The Scammer who Sold a $242 Million Imaginary Airport to a Bank
One of the biggest scams of the 90's
TIL that Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, singlehandedly calculated an orbital technique called "Mars Cycling" which would allow for spacecraft to perpetually travel between Earth and Mars with only a single initial boost. Crew would board and return via a secondary spacecraft, saving fuel.
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Mars cycler
kind of spacecraft trajectory
TIL that Elephants can hear through both their ears and feet. Through special fat pads called digital cushions, they can hear sounds other elephants vocalize below the range of human hearing from many miles away. This helps warn them of far off danger, incoming floods, and rival elephants.
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TIL about Lima Syndrome, the opposite of Stockholm Syndrome. It is a situation where the captors develop sympathy for their captives.
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Lima syndrome
(n.) the opposite of Stockholm syndrome: a situation in which hostage-takers become sympathetic to their hostages On 23 August 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson walked into a branch of the Swedish bank Kreditbanken in Stockholm and attempted to rob it. In the resulting…
TIL That dogs and cats circle around before bedding down as a throwback to their wild ancestors. Their survival instincts provoked them to position themselves in the direction of the wind to pick up predator scents and choose the best angle for keeping an eye on the environment.
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Why Cats Turn Around Before Lying Down
Turning around before bedtime has its origin mostly in evolutionary history where cat ancestors were practicing these habits for health or protection. These innate habits remain in their genetic code to this day but if your cat is seeming to be doing it excessively…
TIL William Rankin survived a (40 minute) fall through a thunderstorm cloud. Suffering immediate frostbite and mid-air internal bleeding, while being suspended aloft by updrafts, he watched lightning appear, which he described as blue blades several feet thick, and thunder that he could feel.
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William Rankin
Survivor of fall through a thunderstorm cloud
TIL Reading Rainbow was canceled after funding shifted towards shows that taught children how to read rather than why to read. “Reading Rainbow encouraged kids to pick up a book and read.”
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TIL Rick Springfield, the singer behind the 80's rock hit, 'Jessie's Girl', has one of the largest collections of Star Wars toys in the world, with an estimated value of more than $500,000
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You Won't Believe Rick Springfield's Star Wars Toys Collection
Check out all of Rick Springfield's Star Wars toys including extremely rare Turkish Bootleg Uzay action figures worth thousands of dollars.
TIL about Mohamed Bishr, an Egyptian man who was repeatedly kidnapped by gangs who planned to use him as a Saddam Hussein lookalike in porn films. The gangs had planned to pass the films off as "found footage" and sell them to international media.
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Ahram Online - Saddam 'double' escapes Alexandria porn kidnap gang, again
Saddam double escapes Alexandria porn kidnap gang, again
TIL that in Tongan mythology the God Tafakula defeated his enemy gods by straddling an island. He then bent over, to show his anus, which shone brightly like the sun, scaring off the other gods.
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Tofua
island in Tonga
TIL that Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, earned his PhD in 2 weeks immediately after being forced to flee Hamburg for debunking the mayor's fake taxidermied 7-headed hydra.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (/lɪˈniːəs, lɪˈneɪəs/; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ fɔn lɪˈneː] (listen)), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial…
TIL 20% of humans have sensory processing sensitivity - a greater sensitivity and responsiveness to the environment and to social stimuli. Studies show these individuals are strongly affected by others' moods, and have a higher brain activation of regions involved in attention and action planning.
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The highly sensitive brain: an fMRI study of sensory processing sensitivity and response to others' emotions
Theory and research suggest that sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), found in roughly 20% of humans and over 100 other species, is a trait associated with greater sensitivity and responsiveness to the environment and to social stimuli. Self-report studies…
TIL Mozart had a sister who was also considered a music prodigy. They toured together, and she even sometimes received top billing. Her father forced her to abandon her career once she became a 'marriageable age'. She is believed to have written some compositions, but none have survived
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Was Mozart’s sister actually the most talented musician in the family?
Get ready to celebrate Nannerl, the forgotten musically gifted sibling in the Mozart household…
TIL, the worst opening in chess is called The Bongcloud Attack. It has been used by Grandmasters as both a joke and as a show of dominance.
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Bongcloud Attack
The Bongcloud Attack is an unorthodox chess opening that consists of the moves:
TIL: That a Japanese ice cream company created a commercial to publicly apologize about needing to raise the price of their ice cream bars for the first time in 25 years from 60 yen to 70 yen
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The Independent
A Japanese ice company deeply apologizes for raising prices by 9 cents
The company has now made a public apology through a 60 second advertisement that ran on national TV