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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Submitted January 30, 2022 at 08:35PM by thepassageoftime
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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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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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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
TIL that when the ancient Marquesan people, who became Hawaiians, first sailed to Hawaii, they brought pigs, dogs, and chickens to eat. These fat, slow dogs that mainly ate fermented Taro root were called Poi dogs and were eaten and sometimes sacrificed and placed in ritual graves with children.
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The Answer to What's a Poi Dog in Hawaii - Air to Hawaii
What's a poi dog? Today in Hawaii, this typically refers to a mongrel type of everyday dog. But int the past, this wasn't the case. Find out more here.
TIL The US Government lost 12 Billion dollars in cash shipped directly to Iraq.
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How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish
Special flights brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone.
Today I learned that Marilyn Monroe had an older sister, Berniece Baker Miracle, who is still alive at 104. They looked very alike.
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Marilyn Monroe’s Sister Just Turned 101 And She’s Beautiful
Marilyn Monroe had been raised for a short time in an orphanage and she often told the press that she had no living family. Due to the star’s wishes for privacy, fans around the world had no idea that she had a sister for many years. After Monroe’s death…
TIL In ancient Rome, masters discouraged slaves from running away by putting a tattoo reading "Stop me! I am a runaway!" on their foreheads.At a temple of the Greek god of healing, thousands of tablets from escaped slaves asking the god to make the tattoos on their forehead disappear have been found
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Slavery in ancient Rome
institutionalized servitude in ancient Rome
TIL about the Ritchie Boys, largely made of a group of German-born Jews who fled their homeland, came to America, and then joined the U.S. Army to use their knowledge of the German language and culture to return to Europe and fight Naziism.
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Ritchie Boys: The secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews who helped the Allies beat Hitler
The Ritchie Boys were responsible for gathering more than half the actionable intelligence on the battlefield during World War II. For the many German-born Jews in their ranks, defeating the Nazis was heartbreakingly personal.
TIL of the Republic of Pirates, a Caribbean state that lasted for 12 years under the governance of a pirate code.
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Republic of Pirates
The Republic of Pirates was the base or stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the Bahamas for about eleven years from 1706 until 1718. While it was not a republic in a formal sense, it was…
TIL It’s easy to implant entirely false memories in the mind of a witness. As proof, when it was suggested to subjects that they’d met Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, some accepted it as their own memory, even though Bugs is a Warner Brothers character & wouldn’t have ever been there
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'We can implant entirely false memories'
You were abducted by aliens, you saw Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, and then you went up in a balloon. Didn't you? Laura Spinney on our remembrance of things past
TIL A boneless ham is a ham from which the bone has been removed, after which the ham is tightly pressed into an oval-shaped package. Salt will break down some of the proteins in meat muscle, allowing them to reconnect and link with each other. That's why a boneless ham still appears solid.
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Serious Eats
The Food Lab's Definitive Guide to Buying and Cooking Hams
Don't know the difference between a city and a country ham? Don't know how to cook and serve them? Don't worry; we've got you covered. Here's our complete guide to the types of ham out there, what to look for when shopping, and how to cook and serve your…
TIL after Portuguese explorers completed the first sea route to India in 1498 and disembarked in Calicut, the first people they met were two Spanish-speaking Tunisian merchants who said: "The Devil take you! What brought you here?". They responded: "We came in search of Christians and of spices".
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TIL after Portuguese explorers completed the first sea route to...
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TIL Roger Sherman was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. He also signed the 1774 Petition to the King.
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Roger Sherman
early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721-1793)