TIL: Charles Darwin terraformed Ascension Island in the Atlantic by bringing hundreds of non-native plants from all over the world. The mix of flora is not found anywhere else together naturally.
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Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
A lonely island in the South Atlantic conceals Darwin's best-kept secret. Could it shed light on the colonisation of Mars?
TIL that an 8-year-old boy earned an estimated $26 million, over a 12-month period, from reviewing toys on YouTube.
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the Guardian
The highest YouTube earner this year? An eight-year-old
Gaun’s online video channel, Ryan’s World, has 23 million subscribers and raked in $26m last year
TIL people keep finding meticulously crafted hollow dodecahedrons throughout Europe dating back to the Roman Empire but historians have no idea what they're supposed to be used for as there's no historical record of them anywhere. Theories range from dice to knitting.
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Roman dodecahedron
small hollow object made of bronze or stone, with a dodecahedral shape
TIL in 1957 Richie Ashburn of The Phillies hit a foul ball into the stands that struck fan Alice Roth, breaking her nose. Roth was carried off on a stretcher, and was hit again by another foul ball from Ashburn. The two become friends, and Roth's son later served at the Phillies batboy.
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Richie Ashburn
Don Richard Ashburn (March 19, 1927 – September 9, 1997), also known by the nicknames, "Putt-Putt", "The Tilden Flash", and "Whitey" (due to his light-blond hair), was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball. (Some sources give his full middle…
TIL One hit wonder Chamillionaire known for his hit song "Ridin", has shares or investments in over 40 companies, is a resident investor in LAs biggest firm, and has a net worth of over 50 million, independent from his rap career.
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Face2Face Africa
You see him rollin': Chamillionaire is now a millionaire with money in more than 40 companies - Face2Face Africa
American rapper Chamillionaire has transitioned from the music industry into the tech space, becoming of the known investors in the area.
TIL of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman emperor who lived a simple life on a farm and only took power as Dictator of Rome when people asked him to save the republic. During his two reigns, he only stayed in power long enough to get the republic through an emergency, then returned to his farm.
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TIL that actress Jan Stirling had airfare to fly to the US but found lingerie she liked, used the last of her money to buy it, trading in the airfare for a ticket on a steamship. Midway thru the voyage she learned that the airship she had been booked on, the Hindenburg, had been destroyed in a fire.
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Jan Sterling
American actress
TIL that Steve Jobs was in line to be awarded as Time Magazine's person of the year for 1982 but they decided to give it to a machine after he gave interviews denying paternity of his own daughter and disparaging the mother. The daughter went on to write a book that details how badly he treated her.
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Lisa Brennan-Jobs
writer, journalist, daughter of Steve Jobs
TIL bail money isn't a payment, it's collateral. If you show up to court, you get the money back (or it goes towards court costs). If you skip your court date, you lose it.
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1st Choice Bail Bonds
Getting Bail Money Back: Everything you need to Know | 1st Choice Bail Bonds
Any stage of criminal proceedings is granted to have a bail. Bail is an agreement between a defendant and the court. This will give assurance [...]
TIL when a hermit crab want to upgrade their shell and sees a new one washed up on the beach, the crabs in the vicinity will form a orderly queue nearby and then change shells all at once, with each crab moving into the next biggest shell just abandoned by its former occupant
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Hermit Crabs LINE UP To Swap Shells! | Life Story | BBC Earth Kids
These clever hermit crabs have organised themselves so they can all swap shells! Hermit crabs often live together in large groups of over 100, giving them plenty of chances to swap shells with each other as they grow.
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TIL Dame Helen Mirren's father was a Russian aristocrat stranded by the Bolshevik revolution and ended up driving a cab in London to pay the rent.
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Helen Mirren
British actress
TIL Kanye West's $1.3 billion net worth in Forbes is based on his shoe company Yeezy being worth $1.26 billion if it was sold. He has $17 million in cash.
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NME
Kanye West is now hip-hop’s second billionaire, according to Forbes
After reviewing his finances upon request, Forbes Magazine says Kanye West is now officially a billionaire. West is now hip-hop's second billionaire.
TIL that nine months after Stu Sutcliffe left the Beatles to pursue a career in painting, he died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 21.
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Stu Sutcliffe
Scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles
TIL a man was arrested in Japan for selling hacked Pokémon. The suspect had his computer seized by authorities and police believe the man made up to the equivalent of $10,000 selling illegal Pokémon.
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Dexerto
Pokemon Sword & Shield player arrested after selling $10,000 illegal 'mon - Dexerto
A Pokemon Sword & Shield player was arrested in Japan after selling a hacked Shiny Sobble and trading it to another fan.
TIL The Bellagio fountain loses almost 12m gallons of water per year averaging out to 33,000 gal per day
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Las Vegas Sun
How much water evaporates from the Bellagio fountains?
How much water evaporates during each Bellagio fountain show? How many gallons evaporate during hot summer days?
TIL Big Bang Theory character Leonard Hofstadter was named after Robert Hofstadter; an American physicist who jointly won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate
TIL about “crazy ants” that often form colonies within electrical equipment and can cause problems in all kinds of electrical systems similar to termites in wood.
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Rasberry crazy ant
species of insect
TIL the Finnish government recently invested €98 million in a new central library. Finnish writers receive library royalties—they are almost as much per borrowed book as the royalty for each paperback sold.
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The Paris Review
How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country - The Paris Review
Finland believes in, and produces, great literature. We Finns just hadn’t been all that loud about it before.
TIL the bluefin tuna is one of the fastest accelerating fish reaching a maximum of 3.27 G, or approximately 32 ms^-2. It would reach a speed of 144 mph if the tuna did it for 2 seconds. That's faster than any car. The bluefin tuna's top speed is roughly 44 mph.
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Atlantic bluefin tuna
species of tuna in the Scombridae family
TIL British breweries donated free beer to soldiers during WWII, but after D-Day, there was no room for it on the ships going across the English Channel. Spitfire mechanics and pilots worked together to modify pylons to carry beer kegs and deliver brews to the troops. Flying high enough chilled it.
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Aviation Humor
Spitfire – bringing beer kegs to the men in Normandy
RAF Spitfire - “Mod. XXX” Beer-Carrying SpitfiresBritish breweries donated free beer to soldiers during World War II, but just after D-Day, there was no room made to ship it over the Engl
TIL in 2008, a woman who had been missing for 24 years was discovered to be locked up against her will in her father's basement for all those years. In a prison interview, the father said: "Just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and other girls down there."
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Who
Josef Fritzl 10 Years On: My Conversations With a Monster
Ten years after being freed from the cellar where her father had imprisoned her for 24 years, Elisabeth Fritzl has found happiness.