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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Submitted January 19, 2022 at 10:07PM by 39parrots
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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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Submitted January 20, 2022 at 01:59AM by piponwa
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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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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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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…
TIL: There are 20 non-canonical books (books not in the Bible) that are referenced in the Hebrew Bible, most of which are lost works.
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Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible
non-canonical books referenced in the Bible
TIL there's one type of true wild horse that's still alive: the Przewalsk's Horse.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Przewalski's horse | wild horse subspecies
Przewalski’s horse, (subspecies Equus caballus przewalskii or E. ferus przewalskii), last wild horse subspecies surviving in the 21st century. It was discovered in western Mongolia in the late 1870s by the Russian explorer N.M. Przhevalsky. Przewalski’s horse…
TIL Mila Kunis was born in Ukraine and moved to this country not speaking any English. At age 14 she started playing Jackie Burkhart, lying about her age (the producers asked if if she was turning 18 and she simply said yes not indicating exactly when).
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Mila Kunis
American actress
TIL about the concept of ant mill or "death spiral" among group of army ants. Basically a group got separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track, then followed one another instead, forming a circling track. They are trapped into this pattern until they die out of exhaustion.
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Why army ants get trapped in ‘death circles’
Army ants are blind and use pheromones to follow trails of other ants, but if a trail loops they get locked running in an endless circle.
TIL Dolly Parton wrote 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You' on the same day. Both hit #1 on US Country Charts, went Platinum, and made Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs of All Time. 'I Will Always Love You' was named the #1 Song of the Rock Era in "The Top 500 Songs of the Rock Era: 1955–2015".
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Snopes
Did Dolly Parton Write ‘Jolene’ and ‘I Will Always Love You’ in One Day?
The world-famous country music artist recalled having a "good writing day" in 1972.
TIL that for a time lots of navy ships and other military véhicule where painted in pink for better camouflage during dusk and dawn. The idea came from Lord Mountbatten after he saw a ship repainted in pink (the only colour available at the harbour) disappear in the sunset
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Mountbatten pink
naval camouflage colour
TIL that Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
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Submitted January 20, 2022 at 11:00PM by 020200202020
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Mentalfloss
Why Are There 60 Seconds in a Minute, 60 Minutes in an Hour but 24 Hours in a Day?
We can thank the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians. Here's how people decided how long an hour, a minute, and a second are.