TIL that Michael Jackson was interested in playing Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, however Director George Lucas wanted Jar Jar Binks to be portrayed using CGI, while Michael Jackson wanted to do it using make-up and prosthetics.
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Rolling Stone
Michael Jackson Wanted to Play Jar Jar Binks in ‘Star Wars’
Michael Jackson wanted to play despised 'Star Wars' character Jar Jar Binks, but George Lucas denied him the part.
TIL Two teams competed to design the iPhone. Dial based hardware vs. touch screen. It wasn't until the iPhone reveal event, that on stage, Jobs ruthlessly made it clear which team won. He showed the world the power of touch, by deleting the contact of loosing designer Tony Faddell with a single tap
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The Verge
The secret origin story of the iPhone
An exclusive excerpt from The One Device about the engineering fight that created the iPhone as you know it.
TIL the word “Faggot” was removed from Dire Straits song played by some Canadian radio stations
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Rolling Stone
Dire Straits’ ‘Money for Nothing’ Banned in Canada
Some radio stations protest decision by playing it on repeat
TIL In Australia, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta is held annually on the dry Todd riverbed. Competitors run down the course carrying bottomless boats. It was cancelled once, in 1993, due to flooding
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Wikipedia
Todd River
river in Northern Territory, Australia
TIL prior to the work of Harvey Nininger (1887-1986) experts thought searching for meteorites was a waste of time. Starting in 1923, he was credited with half of all meteorite discoveries on earth by 1941.
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Wikipedia
Harvey H. Nininger
American lay scientist
TIL: Costa Rica abolished their military in 1948 and hasn't had a standing army since
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UNESCO
Abolition of the Army in Costa Rica
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, the sciences, culture and communication. UNESCO’s programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable…
TIL The guy who produced Billy Idol's records also wrote "Don't You Forget About Me" (Breakfast Club) and offered it to Simple Minds. They initially declined. Billy Idol, Bryan Ferry, and several others also passed. So Simple Minds reconsidered, and it went on to top the charts in several countries.
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Wikipedia
Keith Forsey
English pop musician, songwriter, record producer
TIL that Groundhog Day was introduced to America by German settlers who originally used a hedgehog to predict the weather, switching to the groundhog as they were easier to come across in the Keystone State.
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Sky HISTORY TV channel
Punxsutawney Phil, the only weatherman you need this Groundhog Day
5 quirky facts about Groundhog Day, one of America's weirdest but most beloved traditions
TIL someone translated Dracula into Icelandic and it took over 100 years for anyone to point out he just made a fanfic-rewrite of what he wanted the story to be.
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Wikipedia
Powers of Darkness
early version of Dracula
TIL that "The Problem We All Live With," a painting by Norman Rockwell, depicts a real person amid a historic event in 1960: Six-year-old Ruby Bridges on her way to an elementary school during a desegregation crisis in New Orleans.
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The Problem We All Live With
painting by Norman Rockwell
Til theres a place off the coast of Australia where octopus, who are mostly solitary creatures, have made a small “city” of sorts.
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Ars Technica
Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia
Divers found octopuses building structures out of shells, socializing with neighbors.
TIL Bruce Willis turned down the role of Sam in the movie Ghost. He said he didn't understand how the movie would work with the main character being dead for the majority of the movie, and the role went to Patrick Swayze. Nine years later Willis would star in The Sixth Sense.
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People
20 Things You Didn't Know About Ghost, 25 Years Later
The Demi Moore romance-thriller first hit theaters 25 years ago this week
TIL that crocodiles have been observed to balance twigs on their heads to lure nest-building birds, thus proving them to be much more sophisticated than previously believed and joining a small group of predators who use bait to catch prey
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Smithsonian Magazine
Crocodiles Balance Twigs on Their Heads to Lure Nest-Building Birds
While crocodiles and alligators are stereotyped as "lethargic, stupid and boring," researchers say the reptiles are more cunning than they seem
TIL: Olympus Mons on Mars is so big the escarpment, or cliffs, around the base of the mountain are as high as 6 miles tall, which is taller than Mt. Everest, which for reference is only about 5.5 miles tall.
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Space.com
Olympus Mons: Giant Mountain of Mars
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. The massive Martian mountain towers high above the surrounding plains of the red planet, and may be biding its time until the next eruption.
TIL The pilot that dropped the Tsar Bomba nuclear bomb was given a 50% chance of survival that mission, given the speed and size of the blast and whether his plane could escape in time
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Tsar Bomba
most powerful nuclear weapon ever created
TIL when Christopher Columbus and his crew were stranded on Jamaica for 6 long months, fearing the indigenous people would turn on him, he successfully predicted a lunar eclipse and successfully used it to frighten them into thinking it was God’s wrath.
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March 1504 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse occurred on 1 March 1504, visible at sunset for the Americas, and later over night over Europe and Africa, and near sunrise over Asia.
TIL in 2014 a group of civilian 'technoarchaeologists' operating from a former McDonald's contacted an abandoned 35 year old NASA solar satellite and took control of it, before a lack of fuel pressure derailed their plan to return the space probe to its original parking space at Lagrange point L1.
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reddit
TIL in 2014 a group of civilian 'technoarchaeologists' operating...
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TIL that a minority of people use two spaces after a period and that one space has been endorsed by the Chicago Manual of Style
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Instructionalsolutions
How Many Spaces Should Be After a Period? (One vs. Two)
Should a business writer use one or two spaces after a period, question mark, exclamation mark, or colon?
TIL that Michael Jackson was so desperate to play Spider-Man that he held talks with Stan Lee, expressing his interest to buy Marvel.
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Submitted February 02, 2022 at 10:31PM by Porirua_
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CINEMABLEND
Wait, Did Michael Jackson Try To Buy Marvel Comics?
Could the King of Pop have owned the House of Ideas?
TIL the fed set the reserve requirement ratio at 0% in 2020 and is keeping it at 0%. This is the percentage of your deposits a bank is required to make available for withdrawal without having to borrow the money from somewhere else.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board - Reserve Requirements
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
TIL no human has beaten a computer in a chess tournament in over 15 years
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Submitted February 03, 2022 at 12:35AM by dart_catcher
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Cornell Chronicle
Chess engine sacrifices mastery to mimic human play | Cornell Chronicle
Researchers have developed an AI engine trained to play chess like human – improving online chess games and shedding light on how humans could learn from AI in other areas.