TIL of John Robert Dunn - a South African born Scotsman who became a Zulu chief and fathered 117 children with 48 zulu women and one mixed English-woman in the late 1800s.
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John Robert Dunn
South African hunter, settler and diplomat
TIL less than a month after the Titanic sank, its nearly identical sister ship, the Olympic, saw its crew refuse to work because it held insufficient and unseaworthy life boats. Instead of purchasing new life boats, the White Star Line fired the workers.
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RMS Olympic
Lead ship of the Olympic-Class ocean liners. Sister ship to RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic
TIL that all the gold ever mined would fit into a cube of 21 x 21 x 21 meters.
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World Gold Council
How much gold has been mined? | World Gold Council
Over 187,000 tonnes of gold has been mined, most of which still exists today. Learn how much gold has become jewellery and the future of gold mining.
TIL In order to draft up the Nuremberg racial laws, the nazis studied in detail American racial laws. However they found the "one-drop" rule too harsh and thus settled to regard anyone with 3 of 4 Jewish grandparents as a Jew.
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HISTORY
How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow
To craft legal discrimination, the Third Reich studied the United States.
TIL that the 1841 Creole Mutiny -- the "most successful slave revolt in U.S. history" -- won the freedom of 128 people when the Creole, a ship carrying slaves from Virginia for sale in New Orleans, was taken over and sent to the Bahamas, straining U.S. relations with Great Britain.
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Creole case
slave revolt onboard the ship Creole
TIL Producer, rapper, and MC Dennis Coles, also known as Ghostface Killah, was the eldest of 9 children. He cared for two younger brothers with muscular dystrophy, lifting them in and out of their wheelchairs at 13 years old. When he found success with Wu Tang, he focused on getting them cared for.
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HipHopDX
Ghostface Killah Says "Illmatic" Made Him "Step His Pen Game Up"
Exclusive: Ghostface Killah recalls his formative years and how battles with the Wu-Tang Clan and other peers in Hip Hop have influenced him.
TIL in the Addams Family movie (1991), Uncle Fester was going to be an imposter in the end, until 10-year old Christina Ricci (Wednesday Addams) explained to the director "in a very articulate way" all of the problems with that ending.
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The Addams Family: Barry Sonnenfeld on Original Ending With Imposter Uncle Fester
In this clip from the new special features on the digital/physical 4K release of The Addams Family, Director Barry Sonnenfeld discloses how the film’s Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) ended up being part of the family in the plot due to the cast’s efforts.
TIL that John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is tall – 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), compared to the actors playing hobbits at around 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) so the filming was much easier because he had a perfect proportion to the hobbit actors
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John Rhys-Davies
Welsh actor
TIL: that its a common practice in China, to not tell an old person about their cancer diagnosis, where it is believed that telling them can make their condition deteriorate quicker.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
To Tell or Not: The Chinese Doctors’ Dilemma on Disclosure of a Cancer Diagnosis to the Patient
TIL in 2004 there were more British free range and organic eggs being sold than could ever possibly be laid in UK farms. After delivery drivers began suspecting that the "industrial eggs" they delivered were being relabeled, investigators found that Keith Owen had sold 100m mislabeled eggs
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the Guardian
Egg boss jailed for 'free range' fraud
• Supermarket customers duped in two-year, £3m scam • Lawyer claims client is far from industry's only bad egg
TIL there are four stages to learning a skill: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.
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Four stages of competence
learning model relating the psychological states in progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill
TIL all Golden Retrievers descend from a single mating pair of a Flat-coated Retriever named Nous and a Tweed Water Spaniel named Belle
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Golden Retriever
The Golden Retriever is a British breed of retriever dog of medium size. It is characterised by a gentle and affectionate nature and a striking golden coat. It is commonly kept as a pet and is among the most frequently registered breeds in several Western…
TIL- apples are not indigenous to North America, nor most of Europe. They originated in Kazakhstan, in central Asia east of the Caspian Sea. The capital of Kazakhstan, Alma Ata, means “full of apples.” By 1500 BC apple seeds had been carried throughout Europe
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historicsites.nc.gov
Origins of Apples | NC Historic Sites
Apples are not native to North America. They originated in Kazakhstan, in central Asia east of the Caspian Sea. The capital of Kazakhstan, Alma Ata, means “full of apples.” By 1500 BC apple seeds had been carried throughout Europe. The Greeks, Etruscans,…
TIL: Most bars in America use a "shaker pint" glass that is anywhere from 13-15oz but seldom an actual US pint size of 16oz.
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The Source Weekly - Bend
In Search of the Honest Pint: A pint is 16 ounces - except (sometimes) when it's a pint of beer
The cup never lies.It seems pretty simple: A pint equals 16 ounces. So when you go into a bar, pub or restaurant and order a
TIL the oldest continually operated Chinese restaurant in the US is located in Butte, Montana. Pekin Noodle Parlor has been open for over 110 years.
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Atlas Obscura
The Oldest Continuously-Operating Chinese Restaurant in the United States Is in Montana
Pekin Noodle Parlor opened in Butte in 1911.
TIL Chairman Mao, in a discussion with Dr Henry Kissinger in 1973, offered to send 10,000,000 women to the United States in exchange for improved trade relations.
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history.state.gov
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
XVIII, China, 1973–1976 - Office of the Historian
XVIII, China, 1973–1976 - Office of the Historian
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TIL the demigod Maui was crushed to death by the obsidian teeth in the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō's vagina
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Māui (mythology)
Polynesian mythological hero and trickster
TIL that American figure skater Peggy Fleming won gold at the 1968 Olympics in France, and it was the only gold won by the United States that year. It was also the first gold medal won by an American figure skater since the 1961 plane crash that killed all 18 members of the US figure skating team.
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Submitted February 04, 2022 at 05:33AM by scot816
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Best Life
See Olympic Figure Skater Peggy Fleming Now at 73 — Best Life
Figure skater Peggy Fleming won gold at the 1968 Olympics 54 years old. Find out about the sports icon's life and career today.
TIL - In 2019 Turkey set a world record by planting 11 million tree saplings; 3 months later, 90% were dead because they had been planted in the wrong season, and there hadn't been enough rain that year to support them.
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Submitted February 04, 2022 at 07:30AM by benbernards
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Vox
The surprising downsides to planting trillions of trees
"We’re not going to plant our way out of climate change."
TIL that during WW2, a unit of the US Army called the 442nd Battalion(a unit made up almost entirely of Japanese Americans) scaled a <1000 foot cliff in complete darkness to launch a surprise attack on the Germans and break the Gothic Line.
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TIL that during WW2, a unit of the US Army called the 442nd...
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TIL - Ketchup originally was made with mushrooms, with the mushroom version being popular around 1750. The tomato version only appeared about 100 years later.
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Ketchup
table condiment usually made of tomatoes