TIL that while Einstein's theory of general relativity was complete by 1916 the theory was not seen as very applicable to physics. It took till the 1960s, nearly 50 years later, before the theory became central to modern physics.
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Theory of relativity
physical theory about space and time
TIL British band Iron Maiden released 'Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter' on Christmas Eve 1990 in order to "scare the living daylights out of Cliff Richard", who was promoting 'Saviour's Day'. Despite being banned by the BBC and rarely being played live, it remains the band's only UK #1.
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Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter
"Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter" is the second single from the 1990 Iron Maiden album No Prayer for the Dying.
TIL - The Death Star has a trench because the model arrived as two hemispheres and lighting would have made hiding the equatorial "flaw" impossible
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Interesting Engineering
The Real-Life Engineering Inspirations Behind Star Wars' Spacecraft
From darts to outboard motors, here's what inspired some of the iconic Star Wars ship designs.
TIL despite being famous on TV for his quick temper and frequent swearing, a 2005 interview revealed that Gordon Ramsay retained 85% of his staff since 1993.
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Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay OBE (/ˈræmziː/; born 8 November 1966) is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer. He was born in Johnstone, Scotland, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Ramsay founded his global restaurant group, Gordon…
TIL that people used to believe that mischievous sprits lived in the grains of wood, so while they were speaking about good fortune they would "knock on wood" to make noise so that the spirits couldn't hear what they were saying and cause their fortune to take a turn for the worse.
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HISTORY
Why do people knock on wood for luck?
In many cultures, it’s a common superstition for people to knock their knuckles on a piece of wood to bring themselves good fortune or ward off bad luck. Yet
TIL in 1996 a man broke into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and demanded that Kermit the Frog’s “Rainbow Connection” be played for 12 hours straight to “tell people how he felt”.
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TIL Irish pubs all over the world have their interior designed, built, shipped and installed by specialized Irish companies. Bar owners can choose the style they want, and at least one company will even work with consultants on menu development.
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Eater
Meet the Companies Literally Dropping ‘Irish’ Pubs in Cities Across the World
The Irish Pub Company exports six mail-order bar "styles"
TIL that the Beatles’ final concert for a paying audience wasn't sold out, leaving over 15,000 unsold seats, largely because no one realized it would be their last concert appearance.
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The Beatles Bible
Live: Candlestick Park, San Francisco: The Beatles’ final concert
Although they made an unannounced live appearance in January 1969 on the rooftop of the Apple building, The Beatles' final live concert took place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. There was a big talk at Candlestick Park…
TIL that the two least profitable movies of all time both take place on Mars. Mars Needs Moms, an animated Disney film, lost $143 million, and John Carter, a live action Disney film, lost nearly $127 million.
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Best Life
30 Movie Facts That Will Blow Your Mind | Best Life
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or a hardcore cinephile, there’s likely a whole lot of movie facts about your favorite films that you may not know.
TIL about Cambyses’s Army of 50,000 men who marched into the desert in 524 BC and were never seen again (until human remains were recently found).
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NBC News
Vanished Persian army said found in desert
Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambyses' army that vanished 2,500 years ago.
TIL that the FTC actually recommends against organizations using regular password changing policies as it only encourages users to use simple, easy to remember passwords that they then only alter in predictable ways.
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Federal Trade Commission
Time to rethink mandatory password changes
Data security is a process that evolves over time as new threats emerge and new countermeasures are developed.
TIL that the Aztec god of war's symbol is the hummingbird, because hummingbirds are vicious little bastards
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Huītzilōpōchtli
deity
TIL about Garden Path Sentences, which are grammatically correct sentences that confuse the reader by making them parse the sentence incorrectly initially, causing confusion. Examples include "The old man the boat" and "The horse raced past the barn fell."
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Garden-path sentence
grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect
TIL that NFL QB Drew Bledsoe sheared a blood vessel from a hit. He most likely would have died but a team doctor caught it before he went home. The case is now taught to med students as a reason to not “jump to conclusions”. Bledsoe was replaced by a young QB named Tom Brady, his first game.
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Sports Illustrated
Bledsoe's brush with death that launched Tom Brady
The famous hit on Drew Bledsoe that launched Tom Brady's career also served as a valuable lesson for the sports medicine community.
TIL in 1959 Cornell physicists had speculated that any extraterrestrial civilization attempting to communicate via radio signals might do so using a frequency of 1420 mHz which is naturally emitted by hydrogen. 18 years later that exact transmission was read in Ohio, nicknamed the "Wow! signal".
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Wow! signal
The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by the Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from…
TIL humans have stripes on our bodies which are invisible to the naked eye, called Blaschko’s Lines
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Mentalfloss
Our Skin Is Covered With Invisible Stripes
Let the zebras and tigers have their stripes. We have our own.
TIL that strippers can deduct boob jobs as a business expense
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HuffPost
Can Strippers Deduct Breast Implants?
TIL that in China 209 BC two generals were going to be late which was punishable by death. They realized that the punish for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and created an uprising.
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Chen Sheng Wu Guang uprising
The Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising (simplified Chinese: 陈胜吴广起义; traditional Chinese: 陳勝吳廣起義; pinyin: Chén Shèng Wú Guǎng Qǐyì), July–December 209 B.C., was the first uprising against Qin rule following the death of Qin Shi Huang. Led by Chen Sheng and Wu…
TIL that there is a fake McDonald's restaurant in Los Angeles hiding in an office park used only for TV and commercial purposes
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Submitted September 30, 2021 at 11:34PM by Chazay
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TIL Spirit Halloween, which is owned by Spencer's, runs over 1200 locations each year for 4-8 weeks. They spend the rest of the year scouting empty locations for the next Halloween season
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Vox
Halloween pop-up stores, explained
Here’s how former big-box stores transform into seasonal Halloween pop-ups.
TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes. An elite Ancient Greek military unit, composed of 150 homosexual couples. They were the first army to defeat the Spartans in battle.
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The Daily Beast
The Victorious Gay Greek Army That Got Canceled by History
Everybody names sports teams after the Spartans even though they were losers, but isn’t it high time we gave it up for the Thebans.