TIL a Venezuelan Naval Vessel clashed with a Portuguese Cruise ship and lost. After opening fire, the Venezuelan patrol boat rammed the RCGS Resolute, a five-star ice-strengthened expedition cruise ship, and subsequently sank. The Resolute suffered only superficial damage.
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BBC News
Venezuela navy vessel sinks after 'ramming cruise ship'
The cruise ship's owners say the naval vessel rammed it, but Venezuela accuses the ship of "piracy".
TIL Famous suffragette Susan B. Anthony didn't actually have a middle name. There was a craze for middle initials at the time, so she chose "B"... because her namesake aunt had married a man named Brownell.
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Wikipedia
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected…
TIL Peter Wingfield, who played Methos in Highlander: The Series, went back to medical school at 49 and is now an anesthesiologist at Cedars-Sinai in LA.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 04:00AM by Cornualonga
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Wikipedia
Peter Wingfield
British actor
TIL that Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and The Wrestler were originally supposed to be one movie about an affair between an obsessed ballet dancer and a burnt out wrestler. He eventually realized it was way too much story and split them, doing The Wrestler about 10 years later
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Collider
Darren Aronofsky Says BLACK SWAN and THE WRESTLER Began as One Film
In a recent interview to promote his upcoming ballet thriller BLACK SWAN, director Darren Aronofsky revealed its link to his prior film THE WRESTLER.
TIL of guevedoces--genetic males in a small community in the Dominican Republic that are born with a vagina instead of a penis. At puberty, the vagina fuses into a fully-functioning penis and scrotum.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 06:54AM by Sawses
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BBC News
The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces
Children in a remote village in the Dominican Republic have an extremely unusual condition.
TIL Agatha Christie has outsold Stephen King and J.K Rowling combined by about 2 billion books.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 09:21AM by shallowblue
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Wikipedia
List of best-selling fiction authors
Wikimedia list article
TIL that to prevent the Soviet Union from using radio-controlled explosives in WWII the Finnish army played nonstop polka for 4 months to keep them from detonating
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 09:13AM by Dinoboy6430
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Säkkijärven polkka
Finnish song
TIL in 1942, British Admiral Admiral Max Horton chose to play the U-boat commander in a wargame designed to analyse the conflict in the Atlantic. He was 'rather dismayed' when he was outsmarted 5 times out of 5 by 20 year-old Janet Okell
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Wikipedia
Janet Okell
English professional wargamer
TIL: A writer was caught for a murder only after a detective read his novel about a fictional murder which contained similarities and details to the real life murder that only the killer would know about. Authorities found he was also planning to commit another murder to tie in with his second novel
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 04:31PM by Raiiniei
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Bbc
The murderer turned author who published clues to his crimes
As a Chinese author has been convicted of four murders – claiming his works were influenced by what he’d done – Hephzibah Anderson looks at gruesome cases that featured in novels.
TIL in 1978 Emilio Palma was the first person born on Antarctica, making them the only currently living person that was the first person born on a continent
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 04:43PM by justhereforhides
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pantheon.world
Emilio Palma Biography - First person born on the Antarctic mainland
Pantheon profile of Emilio Palma, First person born on the Antarctic mainland. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia making him the NaNth most popular celebrity.
TIL during France's 100-year rule over Haiti, one million people were either worked to death or starved.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 03:21PM by Profligatus
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Wikipedia
Slavery in Haiti
Slave labor as a legal institution extant 1492–1804
TIL: A 19-year-old college student nearly died of a sodium overdose after being pressured by his boneheaded friends to quaff more than a quart of soy sauce.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 06:00PM by Raiiniei
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The Week
Yes, drinking a quart of soy sauce will probably kill you
One Virginia teen fell into a coma and nearly died after guzzling the sauce
TIL Desert sand is effectively useless for construction. Saudi Arabia imports sand from Australia.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 06:37PM by PowderKegDiplomacy
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Deutsche Welle
Sand crisis: Mafias thrive as shortages loom
Demand for construction sand is rising faster than supply, pushing even countries in the Middle East to import it from as far away as Australia and Canada.
TIL actor Rob Lowe was uncredited in the movie Tommy Boy (1995) because he was contractually obligated to Stephen King's The Stand (1994) at the time, so he took the part simply as a favor for friend Chris Farley
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 08:21PM by Xyeeyx
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Mentalfloss
15 Things You Might Not Know About Tommy Boy
Rob Lowe originally had the David Spade role.
TIL former President Harry S. Truman started his mornings with a 5 a.m. shot of Old Grand-Dad bourbon that — in Truman’s words — 'got the engine running.' He accompanied his morning whiskey fix with toast, eggs, bacon, and milk.
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VinePair
10 Things You Should Know About Old Grand-Dad
From its humble price tag and distinctive rye spice notes and rich history, here are 10 things you should know about Old Grand-Dad.
TIL psychopaths are immune to the sympathetic, contagious yawn response. Additionally, researchers found that those resistant to the 'contagious yawn' were also resistant to being startled.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 10:15PM by kevlarbuns
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TODAY.com
Is that nasty coworker a psychopath?
People high in psychopathic personality traits often don't "catch" the contagious yawn, a new study finds.
TIL of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was abducted on August 14, 2012 while reporting on the civil war in Syria. He has since been missing for more than 9 years.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 09:13PM by Thanos40
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Wikipedia
Austin Tice
American journalist, war correspondent
TIL during the filming of "Superbad"(2007), Mintz-Plasse, the actor of Fogell (McLovin), was 17 at the time of filming. So his mom had to be on set when they shot his sex scene.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 11:28PM by ThunderPheonix21
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Wikipedia
Superbad
2007 film by Greg Mottola
TIL the U.S. sent numerous monkeys to space in the 1940s & 50s. The 1st reached space in 1949 in a V-2 then died due to parachute failure. Not until 1959 did a monkey survive a trip to space without dying on the mission or soon after. The Soviets used dogs.
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Submitted October 08, 2021 at 09:52PM by wjbc
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Space.com
Monkeys in Space: A Brief Spaceflight History
A look at simian astronauts over the years.
TIL that the Ronald McDonald house only makes about $6000 a year from pop tab donations. The program was designed to teach kids about philanthropy and recycling, and was never intended to be a major source of income for the charity.
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Submitted October 09, 2021 at 03:30AM by TheDarkLordOfSarcasm
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The Observer
Value of collecting pop tabs // The Observer
For over three years now, my friends and I have had an obsession with collecting pop tabs, those metal pieces on the tops of aluminum cans. The idea behind collecting the pop tabs is that they can be donated to the Ronald McDonald House Charities, an organization…
TIL of Alfred Nakache, a Jewish-French swimmer who held the 200m men’s breaststroke record, was deported to Auschwitz where his wife and daughter were murdered, yet came back to compete in the 1948 London Olympics
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Submitted October 09, 2021 at 03:01AM by joetheschmo2001
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Swimming World News
Olympic Perspective: Alfred Nakache, The "Swimmer & Survivor of Auschwitz"
Olympic Perspective from the Past for the Present generation coming to terms with a shift from Tokyo 2020 to 2021 that offers hope not finality This weekend, Swimming World is trawling