TIL in 2003 when the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington was in a cracked state from weathering, a retired used car salesmen purchased a $31,000 marble slab to donate for its repair. The donation was rejected by Congress in part because it didn’t go through a competitive bidding process.
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The Denver Post
Marble for Unknowns tomb just sits
Marble for Unknowns tomb just sits
TIL of the Emery Celtic Cross - in the early 2000s, a Forester in Ireland planted two different species of trees to create a 125 metre tall Celtic cross design within a forest. The design was first discovered in 2016 by an airplane passenger, 6 years after the Forester, Liam Emery, had died.
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IrishCentral
Moving origins of the giant Celtic cross shape in a Donegal forest
Like the crop circles spotted in farmers’ fields the massive Celtic cross shape spotted by passengers flying over Donegal set the internet abuzz – from the US to Australia the image went viral, back in 2016.
TIL that a pilot's 16 year old son was allowed to sit at the plane's cockpit of an Aeroflot flight while it was on autopilot. He disengaged the autopilot, triggering a series of events which led to the plane crashing and the death of all 63 passengers and 12 crew onboard.
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Aeroflot Flight 593
crashed airliner
TIL Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK and RFK, had a forced lobotomy arranged by her father when she was just 23, leaving her incapacitated for the rest of her life.
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Rosemary Kennedy
younger sister of John F. Kennedy
TIL about Walter White -- no, not the Breaking Bad Walter White -- but Walter Francis White, a Black American NAACP activist who infiltrated hate groups because he was light skinned and investigated lynchings. He was instrumental in setting up the NAACP fund which fought segregation.
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Walter Francis White
American civil rights activist
TIL After Ayrton Senna's death, it was discovered he secretly donated an estimated $400 million of his personal fortune to help poor children
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Ayrton Senna
Brazilian automobile racer
TIL flexing the tensor tympani muscle is what causes only some people to hear the "rumbling noise" when squeezing eyes shut. Even fewer can voluntarily flex the muscle
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Happy Mag
Apparently "ear rumbling" is a thing, and only some people can do it
Only a certain percentage of people can create this rumbling sound in their ears, which involves voluntarily controlling the tensor tympani muscle.
TIL In 1975 Elvis went to see a movie with his gf. He was spotted by fans and they went crazy. His gf walks up and pranks the fans saying to Elvis, "Charlie, you're not using that Elvis bit again are you? Come on, you're not telling these people that you're Elvis again are you? The fans left.
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Interview with Linda Thompson | Elvis Articles
He got calls from Frank Sinatra and President Nixon. He would have me go to the phone and say, is this really President Nixon? Is this really Frank Sinatra? | Elvis Presley
Today I learned that the Coca-Cola Company is the worlds leading plastic waste producer, using about 200,000 plastic bottles per minute, amounting to about one-fifth of the world’s polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle output. This amounts to 2.9 million tons of plastic waste per year.
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JD Supra
Coca-Cola Sued For Deceptive Sustainability Claims
Last week, Coca-Cola was sued by Earth Island Institute for deceptive marketing regarding its sustainability efforts “despite being one of the largest contributors to plastic pollution in the...
TIL about the Racial Equality Proposal, an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles proposed by Japan, though broadly supported did not pass due to opposition from the United States and Australia. This was one reason for an alienated Japan's increased nationalism and militarism leading up to WW2.
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Racial Equality Proposal
1919 proposal by Japan to the Paris Peace Conference
TIL the James Bond villain 'Goldfinger' was named after a famous architect writer Ian Fleming hated, Goldfinger (architect) threatened to sue so Fleming threatened to call the film 'Goldprick'. Erno Goldfingers best known work is the awful post modernist Trellick Tower in London.
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Ernő Goldfinger
Hungarian-born architect and designer of furniture
TIL dead squids continue to try and reproduce if they haven't been boiled properly.
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ABC News
Cooked Squid Inseminates Woman's Mouth
A Korean woman ate a squid that released sperm in her mouth.
TIL a hurricane caused Tim Duncan to take up basketball. He grew up in the US Virgin Islands, and trained to be an Olympic swimmer like his big sister... until Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic pool. He was too afraid of sharks to swim in the ocean, so he tried basketball instead
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Tim Duncan
Timothy Theodore Duncan (born April 25, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Nicknamed "the Big Fundamental", he is widely regarded as the greatest power forward of all time and one of the greatest players in NBA history.…
TIL the prosthetics in The Elephant Man (1980) were designed directly from body casts of Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) made in 1890 & preserved for 90 years in a hospital museum. The prosthetics were so acclaimed that audiences pressured The Oscars into creating the "Best Makeup" award
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The Elephant Man (film)
1980 film by David Lynch
TIL that the US exports more bull semen to Iran than any other country. In 2018 alone, the amount of semen exported from the US was more than the combined total of the next seven other countries exporting semen to Iran.
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TIL the worst human stampede in Britain was when 183 children were crushed to death in a stairway rushing to collect gifts from the entertainers after a variety show, in June 1883
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Victoria Hall disaster
stampede that occurred in Sunderland, England
TIL After his health started failing, Pope Innocent VIII was prescribed breastmilk. In his last few days, the 60 year old Pope couldn't eat anything but drink "a few drops of milk" from his personal wet nurse
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Pope Innocent VIII
Pope of the Catholic Church, 1484–1492
TIL In 1997, a chimpanzee got caught having collected ammo for "premeditated" tourist-stoning in a Swedish zoo. He was castrated as result of that.
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Santino (chimpanzee)
Santino (born April 20, 1978) is a male chimpanzee held at Furuvik zoo in Sweden. In March 2009, it was reported that Santino had planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on visitors to the zoo.
TIL that a study was done to determine if 'bad English teeth' is a myth and it revealed that American teeth are actually worse off
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Luxembourg Times
Bad English teeth a myth, 'Austin Powers' study finds
A long-standing stereotype that English people have terrible teeth was busted on Thursday as a light-hearted study revealed that US citizens do not have better oral health than English people.
TIL a "Kangaroo Court" refers to the historical practice of traveling judges on the U.S. frontier who were paid on the basis of how many trials they conducted per day, hopping from place to place guided less by concern for justice and due process, than by the desire to wrap up as many trials per day
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TIL that the state of Rhode Island in 2020 dropped the 'and Providence Plantations' in its name making it no longer the longest official state name
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Newport, RI Patch
Which State Has The Longest Name Now?
With the loss of "Providence Plantations," Rhode Island gave up its top spot.