TIL after the film Deliverance was released in 1972, tourism became the main source of income in Rabun County, Georgia, where the movie was made. Visitors arrived by the tens of thousands. A $20 million whitewater rafting industry now exists in the county.
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Deliverance
1972 American thriller film by John Boorman
TIL in 1972, The Los Alamos National Laboratories patented a nuclear tunnel boring machine, claiming it could reach depths of 18+ miles. It uses molten lithium to melt through rock, leaving behind a tunnel with a glass-like finish.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TUNNELING BY MELTING - ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION USA
A machine and method for drilling bore holes and tunnels by melting in which a housing is provided for supporting a heat source and a heated end portion and in which the necessary melting heat is deli
TIL the USPS had plans to replace their fleet with EVs in response to the 1979 oil crisis. Their prototype had a range of 40 miles.
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KurbWatt
motor vehicle
TIL that the first time the concept of Human Extinction was explored in literature, was in 1816, "the Year Without a Summer". Lord Byron wrote 'Darkness' about an apocalyptic end of the world. In 1824 he envisaged humanity being threatened by a comet impact, employing a missile system for defense.
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Global catastrophic risk
A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying modern civilization. An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's…
TIL “Community” creator Dan Harmon discovered he had Asperger syndrome while writing the character of Abed.
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Abed Nadir
fictional character on the NBC/Yahoo! Screen sitcom series Community
TIL that Francis Ford Coppola suffered an epileptic seizure while shooting Apocalypse Now, had a nervous breakdown, and allegedly threatened to commit suicide at least three times.
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Mentalfloss
17 Facts About Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed (loose) adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was supposed to be directed by George Lucas.
TIL in 1998, a minister who was using a .357-caliber Magnum to compare sin to Russian roulette died five days after shooting himself in the head with a blank round and shattering his skull in front of several hundred parishioners, including his family.
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Los Angeles Times
Minister Fatally Shoots Himself During Sermon
A minister who was using a .357-caliber Magnum to compare sin to Russian roulette died after shooting himself in the head with a blank round before several hundred parishioners, including his family.
TIL that Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" was nominated for two Razzie Awards for Worst Actress and Worst Director
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The Shining (film)
1980 British-American horror film by Stanley Kubrick
TIL a 17 year old promoter in Cologne booked improv jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. A mistake left an undersized out-of-tune piano with dead keys on stage. The young promoter pleaded and the show went on. It became the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano recording ever.
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BBC
BBC Radio 4 - For One Night Only, Series 6, Keith Jarrett: The Cologne Concert
Paul Gambaccini tells the story of Keith Jarrett's 1975 live album The Cologne Concert.
TIL That the Burj Khalifa is not connected to a sewage system and each day hundreds of trucks have to pump out the sewage.
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Inhabitat
The Incredible Story Of How The Burj Khalifa's Poop is Trucked Out
Burj Khalifa photo from Shutterstock
You'd think that the world's tallest building - a structure that requires amazingly complex engineering and technology to reach its heights - would have an…
You'd think that the world's tallest building - a structure that requires amazingly complex engineering and technology to reach its heights - would have an…
TIL that if a diesel engine can draw fuel from an unintended source, like excess combustible gas that is in the air, it will have a runaway and experience overspeeding at RPMs of up to 10X the engines rated capacity.
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Diesel engine runaway
Uncontrolled acceleration of a diesel engine
TIL The Crew of Six Million Dollar Man Discovered A Corpse Of an Old West Outlaw While Filming in a Funhouse
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Dusty Old Thing
The Outlaw Corpse and the Six Million Dollar Man
We've never heard of anything like it before.
TIL of the Pintupi Nine, a group of Aboriginal Australians that lived a traditional lifestyle and were unaware of the outside world. In 1984 they made contact with other Pintupi peoples living in remote Western Australia.
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Pintupi Nine
group of Aboriginal Australian traditional hunter-gatherers
TIL the oil pipeline shutdown in the spring due to ransomware was by the owner - not the attackers. The ransomware affected Colonial's billing system and the owner decided to shut-off the oil so he wouldn't lose money.
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Jalopnik
The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, But It Was Shutdown To Make Sure Its Owner Could Still Get Paid
The cyber attack that shutdown the Colonial pipeline causing a gas panic and stoking fears of gasoline shortages, didn’t actually shut down the pipeline. It impacted the billing system at the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut it down because they were worried…
TIL the anime film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train grossed over 503 million dollars at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing film of 2020, the first time a non-Hollywood production topped the annual box office.
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TIL jazz guitarist Pat Martino suffered a near-fatal seizure in 1980 which left him with amnesia and no recollection or knowledge of how to play the guitar. He re-learned how to play the instrument, and resumed his performing and recording career in 1987 until his death in 2021.
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Pat Martino
American jazz guitarist and composer
TIL that port wine is traditionally opened with a set of heated tongs. The hot glass is then cooled, resulting in the neck of the bottle breaking off cleanly.
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Port tongs
Tongs to cleanly break off a bottleneck when the cork cannot be removed
TIL until the Anatomy Act of 1832 (UK) there weren't enough corpses for medical schools and body snatching proliferated to a point grieving families had to guard graves after burial. Robbers didn't steal jewelry/clothes as that was a felony punishable by death/transportation; a body was only a fine.
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Body snatching
secret removal of corpses from burial sites
TIL a 62 yo father and his 37 yo son were bow hunting elk in Wyoming when a grizzly bear appeared and charged the son who ran down the mountain towards the father. As the bear closed the distance the father released an arrow, barely missing his son, penetrating the heart of the grizzly.
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Outdoor Life
Backcountry Grizzly Attack
Ron Leming Jr. and his Dad survived a harrowing bowhunt for elk. Instead of a trophy bull, the duo encountered a huge boar grizzly bear.
TIL there are 17 monarchies in the world ruled by a Queen, 16 of those are Queen Elizabeth II
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List of current monarchies
This is a list of current monarchies. As of 2021[update], there are 44 sovereign states in the world with a monarch as Head of state. There are 13 in Asia, 12 in Europe, 10 in North America, 6 in Oceania and 3 in Africa.
TIL WebCrawler launched in 1994 and is the oldest surviving search engine on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.
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WebCrawler
web search engine