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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 03:12AM by aniket_wxgh
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 05:53AM by kind-of-there
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 01:42PM by Alexdoh
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 04:20PM by charleythehawk
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 03:29PM by Johnny_Banana18
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 04:19PM by SalivaIceCubes
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 04:42PM by hobbitdude13
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 08:46PM by ptomoson
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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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 07:16PM by Icolan
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Wikipedia
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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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 08:11PM by LateBoomerKY
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WebCrawler
web search engine
TIL that polar bears and grizzly bears can interbreed where their ranges overlap in the Canadian Arctic. The offspring are called grolar bears or pizzly bears.
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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 10:12PM by sober_disposition
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Wikipedia
Grizzly–polar bear hybrid
hybrid between polar bear and grizzly bear
TIL that the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York was designed and built with an elevator shaft even though the elevator hadn't been invented yet because the architect was confident that the elevator would be invented soon.
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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 10:49PM by sober_disposition
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Cooper Union
college in New York City
TIL when William Henry Harrison, the first US president to die in office, died in 1841, it took 110 days for the news of his death to reach Los Angeles. That's over three times longer than his presidency itself.
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Submitted November 03, 2021 at 10:56PM by Dapianoman
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First transcontinental telegraph
American telecommunication circuit
Today I learned a business got the US government to topple a democratically elected government under false pretenses over bananas.
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Submitted November 04, 2021 at 01:19AM by paraif1975
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United Fruit Company
American corporation