TIL Johnny Yong Bosch became a voice actor by accident. He had to dub over his lines for a film after an audio production issue and a producer said he had a good “hero voice” and asked him to audition for an animation. A few weeks after that audition he booked the role of Vash in the anime Trigun.
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Innovation & Tech Today
Former Power Ranger Johnny Yong Bosch Talks Voice Acting - Innovation & Tech Today
Anyone who grew up in the 90s may recognize Johnny Yong Bosch as Adam Park, the second Black Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. However, Bosch has
TIL that Disney doesn't own the copyright to their theme tune, "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 1940's Pinocchio. The rights to that song, as well as several other Disney songs, were sold in 1933 to a music publisher because Disney "had no means of commercially exploiting" them at the time.
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Read Bourne v. Walt Disney Co., 68 F.3d 621, see flags on bad law, and search Casetext’s comprehensive legal database
TIL that the only Cat successfully launched into space was Félicette, she was launched on 18 October 1963 from the Algerian desert.
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Félicette
first cat sent to space, on 18 October 1963 as part of the French space program
TIL of Edward Archbold who, in 2012, won a pet python in an eating contest, but died shortly after by choking to death. The contest involved eating live cockroaches, and Archbold died after his airway was obstructed by "arthropod body parts."
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Cockroach-eating competition man 'choked to death'
A Florida man choked to death in October after eating dozens of live cockroaches in a contest to win a python, an autopsy finds.
TIL that Oliver Reed (actor who played Proximo in the Movie Gladiator) died during filming of a heart attack. He became ill after allegedly drinking 3 bottles of Captain Morgan, 8 German beers, cognac, and numerous shots of whiskey at a pub in Malta. The pub was renamed “Ollie’s last pub.”
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Revolutionwatch
Past Times: Oliver Reed
Celebrating the Machine with a Heartbeat
TIL that in the 1950’s Dr. Curt Richter conducted a series of tests with rats in which the first set drowned in water after 15min. But the next set were dried off and placed back in the water and remained alive and swimming for up to 60hrs. Showing that idea of “hope” can keep them alive longer.
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TIL Stored fresh vegetables have lower vitamin C content than frozen ones.
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Frozen versus fresh vegetables
Stored fresh vegetables have lower vitamin C content than frozen. Research scientists have examined and compared nutrients in frozen and fresh vegetables.
TIL that during World War II, the United States published a spy manual urging middle managers in enemy territory to sabotage their employers by bringing up irrelevant issues, promoting bad workers, haggling over petty details, and holding unnecessary meetings.
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Atlas Obscura
The Early Spy Manual That Turned Bad Middle Management Into An Espionage Tactic
When you think of Allied espionage, you might imagine disguised explosives, wiretaps, bat bombs, or other dramatic inventions. But declassified documents...
TIL there is a activity called parahawking that combines paragliding with falconry in which Birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals. Parahawking was developed by British falconer Scott Mason in 2001
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Parahawking Is the Closest You Can Get to Being a Bird
Paragliding high above a beautiful landscape is already a bucket list item, but doing it alongside an Egyptian vulture might bump it up to the top of the list. Pioneered by Scott Mason, who has been training birds since he was ten, parahawking consists of…
TIL that Mushrooms have their own language. A professor at the University of the West of England found in his lab that the electrical signals of four species of fungi pulse in patterns that are similar in structure to human languages.
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Psychedelic Spotlight
Mushrooms Have Their Own Language, New Study Suggests
Scientist finds mushrooms' electric pulses could be organized into "trains" that resemble human words, and a vocabulary appears to be present.
TIL that in 2010 when Leslie Neilson died, ESPN published an obituary for his Naked Gun character Enrico Pallazzo.
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ESPN.com
Hruby: Remembering the life of Enrico Pallazzo
Remembering legendary opera singer/umpire Enrico Pallazzo
TIL A company in the 90's made pencils with the anti-drug slogan "Too Cool to Do Drugs" but had to recall them because, when sharpened, they read "Do Drugs"
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Did These Pencils Accidentally Promote Doing Drugs?
Some mistakes are harder to erase.
TIL that yaks are the Swiss-army knives of domesticated animals. They can be milked like a cow, ridden like a horse (including for playing polo), sheared for wool (super warm and soft) like sheep, eaten like a pig, pull carts like an ox, carry stuff like a donkey and their dung burns like wood
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Yak
species of mammal
TIL that the CIA's analysis of Osama bin Laden's PC found a “fairly extensive” hentai collection, a Steam account with Counter-Strike, FFVII, and Animal Crossing, as well as 28 crochet tutorial videos among 174GB of mostly-western entertainment
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HISTORY
9 Unexpected Things Navy SEALs Discovered in Osama bin Laden’s Compound
From al Qaeda emails to Disney films to pornography, the terrorist leader had a wide array of diversions in his Pakistan hideout.
TIL: The USA Declared the Marianas trench a National monument
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Marianas Trench Marine National Monument
Marine national monument in the U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
TIL that dandelions are edible and are actually really nutritious and can be eaten raw
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Cleveland Clinic
Can You Eat Dandelions? 5 Reasons to Try It Today
The potential health benefits of dandelions in your diet
TIL that the New Zealand govt maintains an online tool predicting when you have a 50% probability of dying by. Based on your current age and sex, and using historical data on age of death and implied trends, it spits out the age at which you are predicted to have a 50% chance of dying by.
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www.stats.govt.nz
How long will I live? | Stats NZ
Get an indication of the age you're likely to live to.
TIL that cannabis and hops both belong to the same family, Cannabaceae.
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Cannabaceae
Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants, known as the hemp family. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including Cannabis (hemp), Humulus (hops) and Celtis (hackberries). Celtis is by far the largest…
TIL El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel was sentenced to 3 years in prison for assisting her husband in his criminal enterprise. A minimum sentence of 10 years was originally planned. Government rumours assure her cooperation. Her life is now at risk, as the cartel does not forgive traitors or suspectes.
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the Guardian
El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel Aispuro sentenced to three years in US prison
Coronel admitted to acting as a courier between Joaquín Guzmán and other members of the Sinaloa cartel while he was in prison
TIL that if a juror believes the law is unjust, they have to right to find a defendant "Not Guilty" regardless of the evidence.
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Jury nullification
when a jury finds a defendant not guilty because they disagree with a law or its punishment
TIL the US has a population density of only 34 people per square kilometer. By comparison the Netherlands has a density of 457 per km and Bangladesh is at 1087 per km. If the US had the same density as Bangladesh there would be a staggering 10.5 Billion Americans.
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List of countries and dependencies by population density
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