TIL William Dampier was a pirate-scientist who studied botany, zoology, and the ocean. He circumnavigated the world 3 times, landed in Australia eight decades before Captain Cook, and influenced Darwin’s thinking on the mutation of species. He was also probably the first European to smoke marijuana.
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TIL The mongols had a superstition that said that spilling royal blood would lead to great disaster. So instead they had other creative ways of executing such people. Including sewing up your orifices, drown you in molten metal or have horses trample you.
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CVLT Nation - The Home of Underground Culture
How the Mongols Executed Enemies With No Blood Spilled…
Disclaimer: The history of the Mongol Empire is as vast as the empire once was. Sadly its truth has been relegated to the “great men, great deeds,” or shall I say “evil men, evil deeds,” section of our education system. Genghis Khan was a barbarian, and that…
TIL Nike's Cortez shoes were going to be called Aztec, but Adidas threatened legal action because of their Azteca Gold shoes. In response Nike decided to name the new model after Hernán Cortés, whose expedition led to the Aztec Empire's fall.
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Nike Cortez
first track shoe released by Nike
TIL Ed Sullivan went against pressure to not have African American entertainers on his show, and to not interact with them when they appeared. He presented groundbreaking performances by people like Bo Diddley, and presented obscure, less mainstream Black acts he knew from spending time in Harlem.
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Ed Sullivan
American television host
TIL Even wild rodents enjoy running on wheels. When wheels were placed in nature, free living wild mice were observed to spontaneously run on them. The average maximum speed achieved by wild mice was higher than what captive mice reached in a laboratory.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Wheel running in the wild | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The importance of exercise for health and neurogenesis is becoming increasingly clear.
Wheel running is often used in the laboratory for triggering enhanced activity levels,
despite the common objection that this behaviour is an artefact of captivity and…
Wheel running is often used in the laboratory for triggering enhanced activity levels,
despite the common objection that this behaviour is an artefact of captivity and…
TIL bananas and eggplants are berries, but strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are not. People called certain plants "berries" long before a scientific definition for what a berry actual is was created, and this is why the discrepancy in the use of the term happens.
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Bananas Are Berries?
What, exactly, makes a fruit a fruit?
TIL the West Virginia town of Vulcan couldn’t get any funds to repair a failing bridge during the Cold War so they wrote to the USSR and requested aid. Once someone from the Soviet Union came out to survey, the State government then passed legislation to have funds to repair the bridge.
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TIL the popularity of American football has declined so much in the US that many high schools no longer have enough players to even have a team
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Athletic Business
Disbanding Varsity Football Teams a Nationwide Trend
The nationwide forces that are beginning to uproot football have converged at a place called High School North. Demographic shifts, concussions, single-sport specialization and cost - among the same issues that have caused youth football numbers to plumme
TIL when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, they had about 15 seconds of fuel left.
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the Guardian
'We had 15 seconds of fuel left': Buzz Aldrin on the nervy moon landing
Astronaut’s newly released video interview describes final moments before ‘the Eagle’ landed on the moon
TIL Showering more than 3 times a week is often counter productive, as it can kill off bacteria that help protect your skin against germs.
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WebMD
How Often Should You Shower?
How often should you shower to stay healthy? Can you do it too much?
TIL Botox is derived from botulism. “Sausage poison” is what Justinus Kerner called the pathogen in the 1820s; he had observed the paralytic effects after a single giant sausage sickened 13 people, six died. Decades later, named it Bacillus botulinum, after botulus, the Latin word for sausage.
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TIL that in 2002 Joe Strummer (former frontman for The Clash) was vacationing in L.A. and found out Johnny Cash was in town recording. He came every day, and extended his vacation another week, to watch him play. They recorded Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" together, with Tom Morello on guitar.
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Far Out Magazine
Listen to Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer sing Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’
With Tom Morello on guitar
TIL male fruit flies rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have had a successful encounter.
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Deprived of Sex, Jilted Flies Drink More Alcohol | UC San Francisco
Deprived of Sex, Jilted Flies Drink More Alcohol
A group of scientists at UCSF has discovered that a tiny molecule in the fly’s brain govern the behavior of males who go on a drinking binge after female fruit flies reject their sexual advances.
TIL the term "parting shot" (i.e., a final cutting remark made at the moment of departure) comes from the phrase "Parthian shot", named after Parthian horse archers who, while retreating at full gallop, would often turn around in their saddles and shoot at the pursuing enemy.
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Parthian shot
expert mounted archery while fleeing
TIL that Cosmonauts used to bring a triple barreled pistol on space missions, mainly for the purpose of defending against Siberian wildlife. It fired both Shotgun and AK-74 ammunition.
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TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol
triple-barreled Soviet pistol that was carried by cosmonauts on space missions
TIL Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Oscar for Gone with the Win, however she was unable to attend the premier in Atlanta at a whites-only theater, sat at a segregated table on the side of the room at the Oscars and was not buried in the Hollywood Cemetery despite her final wish.
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Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to…
TIL The stars in the Paramount logo honor the 22 actors and actresses put under contract in 1916 by film producer and founder Adolph Zukor
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production and distribution company and the main namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global. It is the fifth oldest film studio in the world, the second oldest film studio in the United States…
TIL that a micro-animal known as Tardigrade has survived all five mass extinction events.It can live in boiling water, solid ice and endure the intense radiation of space.It can survive a decade in a desert without a drop of water to drink as well as in the deepest trenches of the sea.
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TIL that we have the science to eradicate mosquitoes exclusively saving 100's of thousands of people from death by virus' transmitted by them but haven't done it yet because it could mess up the eco systems food chain if they all died
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Smithsonian Magazine
Kill All the Mosquitoes?!
New gene-editing technology gives scientists the ability to wipe out the carriers of malaria and the Zika virus. But should they use it?
TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob's withdrawal from Vegas.
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Sands Hotel and Casino
former hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, United States, that operated from 1952 to 1996
TIL that starting in 2018, the Canadian government has made admission to all national parks, historic sites, and marine conservation areas free for kids 17 and under. Stating, that by connecting with nature, youth would gain a better understanding of the need to protect it for generations to come
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Government of Canada Announces Free Admission to Parks Canada’s Places for Youth 17 and Under Starting in 2018 - Canada.ca
Free Admission to Gros Morne National Park for Youth 17 and Under Starting in 2018.