TIL there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. A study led by Yale University researches with scientists from 15 different countries arrived at an estimate of 3,000,000,000,000 (3 trillions) of trees, by combining on-the-ground study with satellite imaging.
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Nature
Trillions of trees
Nature - Survey of surveys finds 422 trees for every person on Earth.
TIL same-sex relations have been legal in the Netherlands since 1811.
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LGBT history in the Netherlands
The history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the Netherlands has reflected the shades of tolerance or rigidity which were utilized by the rulers of the country at various periods in its history. Since World War II, the movement for LGBT…
TIL in 2010 Charles Manson was caught with a flip phone in prison where he made calls and texts to people California, New Jersey, Florida and Canada.
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Submitted January 19, 2022 at 04:27PM by AudibleNod
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Cbsnews
Charles Manson's Cell Phone Shocks Calif. Prison
Smuggled Prison Phones Present Growing Problem in Golden State Prisons, Newspaper Reports; Guards Confiscate Thousands Yearly
TIL in 1944, 40 years after the Wright Brothers completed their historic flight, Orville Wright took his last ever flight on a Lockheed Constellation. He commented that the wingspan of the Constellation was longer than the distance of his first flight.
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Wright brothers
The Wright brothers – Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) – were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.…
TIL about Guangxi Massacre occurring between 1966 and 1976 in China. Massive human cannibalism occurred even though no famine existed. Public records indicate that at least 137 people were eaten by others and at least thousands of people participated in the cannibalism.
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Guangxi Massacre
1966–76 massacre in China during the Cultural Revolution
TIL that PhD students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression than other people.
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Ph.D. students face significant mental health challenges
Study of doctoral students in Belgium highlights the mental health struggles that many in academia experience
TIL that in the 1800s, US dairy producers would regularly mix their milk with water, chalk, embalming fluid and cow brains to enhance appearance and flavor. Hundreds of children died from the mixture of formaldehyde, dirt, and bacteria in their milk
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Smithsonian Magazine
The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid
In an unpublished excerpt from her new book The Poison Squad, Deborah Blum chronicles the public health campaign against tainted dairy products
TIL Bill Nye left his job at Boeing to pursue a career in comedy by performing science experiments “Almost Live!” and later pitched his segment as its own show, leading to the creation of “Bill Nye the Science Guy”
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Almost Live!
sketch comedy television show
TIL: Clela Rorex, a clerk in Boulder County, Colorado, who was known for briefly awarding same-sex marriage licences in 1975, once denied a licence to a man who wanted to marry a horse, because the horse was 8 years old and didn't have parental consent.
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TIL: Clela Rorex, a clerk in Boulder County, Colorado, who was...
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TIL One of the earliest quotations of the saying "Fortune favors the brave" came from Pliny the Elder, who said it before setting sail towards the erupting Mount Vesuvius, where he was killed instantly
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Fortune favours the bold
Translation of a Latin proverb
TIL, the library at University of Coimbra in central Portugal hosts a colony of bats. Every night, the windows of the library are left open and the bats come in to feed on insects, thereby protecting the centuries-old historic documents. Every morning, librarians clean the bats' excrement.
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Smithsonian Magazine
These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats—and They Like It That Way
They actually serve a very specific purpose
TIL that the Large Hadron Collider accelerates controlled protons to about 0.999999990 c, only about 6.8mph (11 km/h) slower than the speed of light. It takes less than 90 microseconds for a proton to travel 26.7 km around the main ring resulting in 11,245 trips around the ring per second!
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Submitted January 20, 2022 at 03:26AM by temporalwanderer
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Large Hadron Collider
particle collider
TIL Music is a 'Cultural Universal', which means it is a thing that is common to all known human cultures worldwide. These include: Personal Names, Sexual Jealousy, Proverbs, and Incest Prevention or Avoidance.
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Submitted January 20, 2022 at 05:33AM by ChronosBlitz
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Cultural universal
anthropological concept, element common to all human cultures
TIL that a comic book writer adopted two black daughters and wanted a comic book character they could relate to, so he made Miles Morales
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Submitted January 20, 2022 at 03:55AM by SuperAlloyBerserker
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TIL that the Judean Date Palm was extinct until scientists germinated 2,000 year old seeds to bring the tree back into existence. The seeds were discovered in an ancient jar in Israel, dated between 155 BC to 64 AD.
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Judean date palm
species of palm
TIL the surname "Esposito" and its variants comes from children who were abandoned ("exposed") in Italy (before the XVII century, when the law forbade it). Every person with that surname today descends from an exposed child that kept the surname the orphanage once gave them.
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Esposito
family name
TIL the Levi Straus was not the inventor of Denim jeans but partnered with Jacob Davis after Davis approached him to fund the patent. Jacob Davis devised the riveting of the pants independent of Straus and also came up with the double orange threaded stitch design.
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Jacob W. Davis
tailor
TIL that the official world record for "Longest Time Spent Masturbating" is 10 hours and 10 minutes. That record was achieved at the 2012 San Francisco "masturbatae-a-thon".
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Masturbate-a-thon
The Masturbate-a-thon is an event in which participants masturbate to raise money for charity and increase the public awareness and dispel the shame and taboos that exist about this form of sexual activity.
TIL that Superman had an alternative story where Superman's rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas.
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Submitted January 20, 2022 at 12:40PM by noypi14
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Superman: Red Son
2003 three-issue comic book mini-series
TIL a translator misinterpreted President Carter's words during his speech in his 1977's visit to Poland, and made it appear as if he had sexual desires for the country.
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Submitted January 20, 2022 at 07:58AM by COMPUTER1313
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Bbc
The greatest mistranslations ever
After Google Translate’s latest update, BBC Culture finds history’s biggest language mistakes – including one that raised tensions in the Cold War.
TIL that clozapine (an antipsychotic drug) can cause constipation so severe that you vomit fecal material. A man is reported of dying from pneumonia that developed after aspirating such vomitus.
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Sciencedirect
Fatalities Associated With Clozapine-Related Constipation and Bowel Obstruction: A Literature Review and Two Case Reports
Constipation is an exceedingly common side effect of treatment with clozapine. In rare cases, this side effect has resulted in fatal complications.The…