TIL Liam Neeson was offered the role as Ra's al Ghul in The CW's Arrow Season 3. He had previously played the same character in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. Neeson was willing to return to the role. But he had to turn it down because he didn't have the time for it.
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IGN
Liam Neeson Was Offered the Role of Ra's al Ghul in Arrow - IGN
Find out why Oscar-winning actor Liam Neeson didn't reprise his Dark Knight trilogy role as Ra's al Ghul for The CW series.
TIL that Worcestershire sauce was created John Lea and William Perrins. The name Worcestershire sauce has been considered a generic term since 1876, when the English High Court of Justice ruled that Lea & Perrins did not own a trademark for the name Worcestershire.
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Worcestershire sauce
sauce
TIL that in parts of India, when a Tiger kills someone in the forest a red cloth is tied to a tree to mark the spot where they are killed and to show where a tiger has been hunting.
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Earth Journalism Network
A battle for survival in the Sundarbans
In the absence of alternative livelihoods, villagers living in the region claim unfettered access to the forest, despite high chances of tiger attacks.
TIL Voyager 1 and 2 both travel at 35,000mph, and are about 900,000 miles further away from Earth each day. They are now more than 10 billion miles away since launch in 1977.
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NASA
A Day in the Life of NASA's Voyagers
Out beyond 10 billion miles away from Earth, there is no day and night. Time and space are fathomless and our Sun is a distant point of starlight — a faint reminder of the home the Voyagers left behind 40 years ago.
TIL After the collapse of the Soviet Union; over 50% of the nuclear fuel used in America reactors from 1993-2013 came from demilitarized Soviet-era nukes in Russia. The program was called "Megatons to Megawatts" and over 20,000+ warheads were purchased
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Megatons to Megawatts Program
The Megatons to Megawatts Program, successfully completed in December 2013, is the popular name given to the program which is also called the United States-Russia Highly Enriched Uranium Purchase Agreement. The official name of the program is the "Agreement…
TIL Francisco Goya's Black Paintings were originally painted on the walls in his house and were never meant to be seen by the public. After Goya's death Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger had the art put on canvas and donated them to the state in 1881.
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Black Paintings
paintings by Francisco de Goya
TIL that fibromyalgia, a life-altering condition affecting 10M Americans, is centuries old, yet has no known cause, no diagnostic tests, had no medications until 2007, proper diagnosis averages 5 years… even the name tells nothing: its Latin/Greek root words are just "joint + muscle + pain"
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Healthline
Fibromyalgia: Real or Imagined?
When you live with fibromyalgia, you may experience pain and fatigue that your family, friends, and even your doctor might not understand. Here's how to find the treatment and support you need.
TIL During WWII Switzerland shot down Allied aircraft killing a total of 36 airmen after accidental bombings by the Allied forces
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WW2DB
Switzerland in World War II
TIL that there are trails in Ireland that have been certified as part of the International Appalachian Trail, because they were formed together during Pangea
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International Appalachian Trail
Homepage - International Appalachian Trail
TIL that Amish farms are the most profitable farms in the US. Despite being small, having no mechanisation and only working an average of 920 hours a year.
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TIL that the dragonfly is arguably the worlds greatest predator to ever exist, having a success rate of up to 97% (Compared to African Lions at 30%) and having no major evolutionary morphology change for around 320 MILLION years, making it one of the most evolutionarily successful animals ever
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Dragonfly
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera (from Greek ἄνισος anisos, "unequal" and πτερόν pteron, "wing", because the hindwing is broader than the forewing). Adult dragonflies are characterized by a pair of large…
TIL the backfire effect is a cognitive bias that causes people confronted with evidence that challenges their beliefs to reject that evidence, while strengthening the support of those beliefs. Presenting evidence which proves they’re wrong can backfire, and make their original stance even stronger.
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TIL the backfire effect is a cognitive bias that causes people...
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TIL The Sultana steamboat sank in the Mississippi River, killing upwards of 1400 people (almost as many as the Titanic). Today the wreckage lies 37 feet below a soybean field in Marion, Arkansas.
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Arkansas Online
Plans afoot to secure more space to relate Sultana's tragic story
The Sultana Disaster Museum occupies a tiny space for such a huge disaster.
TIL that the small planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago was called Theia and supposedly provided earth with most of its water content
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Theia (planet)
planet that is hypothesized to have impacted Earth and created the Moon
TIL Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were classmates at the Pasadena Playhouse, where they were both voted "Least Likely To Succeed".
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Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor and novelist. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, Hackman has won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTAs. Upon the death…
TIL as the Portuguese royal family and aristocracy were sailing to Brazil to escape Napoleon's armies, an outbreak of lice on the ships forced the noblewomen to shave their heads. They disguised their baldness with turbans on arrival, unintentionally starting a fashion craze in Brazil.
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Words Without Borders
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TIL there are no more than 12 Kmart stores remaining in the US. At its peak in 1994 there were 2323 stores in the US and 2486 globally. Until 1990, when it was surpassed by Walmart, it was the second largest retailer in the US after Sears.
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Kmart
American big box department store chain
TIL that on Titanic, third-class women were 41% more likely to survive than first-class men
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Anesi
Titanic Disaster: Official Casualty Figures and Commentary
Titanic Disaster official casualty figures, with commentary on sex, age, and class variations.
TIL that Anne Rice revealed in her final book that her vampires weren't actually supernatural, but created by a space alien from Atlantis.
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Submitted January 31, 2022 at 02:26AM by CreepingCoins
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Gizmodo
Anne Rice Just Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Vampires
When you think of vampires, chances are you think of Anne Rice’s Lestat—gothic, beautiful, tortured, romantic, everything that has practically defined the creatures in pop culture since Rice wrote Interview With the Vampire in 1976. But in her new book, the…
TIL that Ben Sliney, former FAA National Operations Manager, made the choice to ground all planes in US airspace on his first day on the job, September 11, 2001.
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Ben Sliney
former United States Federal Aviation Administration National Operations Manager
TIL Antarctica has two cultural holidays. One of which, Midwinter Day, is celebrated in June by having a dinner including lobster and ribeye steaks. Some stations also watch films about being trapped in snow, Like The Shining or The Thing.
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Midwinter Day
holiday celebrated in Antarctica