TIL the billionaire founder of Duty Free Shoppes is a lifelong renter and has donated his entire $8 Billion fortune to philanthropic initiatives
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Chuck Feeney
American businessman
TIL Consumers lose $3 billion a year in unspent gift cards, with starbucks itself having $140 million in unused gift cards.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 02:34AM by spankacrocodile
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CNBC
Consumers lose $3 billion a year in unspent gift cards
Gift cards provide retail companies with capital as they wait for them to be redeemed. In 2019, Amazon had $3.3 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards on the books.
TIL Freddy Mercury once helped dress Princess Diana in full drag(male model)to sneak her into the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in South London so she could have a good time without attention.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 07:34AM by dknogo
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Far Out Magazine
When Freddie Mercury put Princess Diana in drag and smuggled her into a club
A tale as old as time
TIL that milk is sprayed on vineyards to prevent grapes from becoming mildewed.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 04:40AM by owlbe_back
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Nature
Milk makes wine fine
Nature - Dairy sprays protect grapevines from powdery mildew.
TIL, despite its vastness, it only takes 39-40 digits of pi to calculate the size of the observable universe to an accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom. Because of this, NASA uses only 15 digits of pi in even their highest accuracy calculations.
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NASA/JPL Edu
How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - Edu News | NASA/JPL Edu
Earlier this week, we received this question from a fan on Facebook who wondered how many decimals of the mathematical constant pi (π) NASA-JPL scientists and engineers use when making calculations:Does JPL only use 3.14 for its pi calculations? Or do you…
TIL that time dilation is the reason we can use muon tomography to scan the Great Pyramids. From their point of view, muons only live a very short time. But they go so fast that from our point of view, they live long enough to penetrate the atmosphere and large objects.
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Muon
elementary subatomic particle with negative electric charge
TIL the average American woman 20 years and older is 170.6 lbs and 5'4
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Healthline
What’s the Average Weight for Women?
Discover the average weight for women in the United States and how they compare to others worldwide. Learn about body mass index (BMI) and how it differs for children and adults. Explore the relationship between height and weight. We’ll also share tips for…
TIL When Caesar said, 'the die is cast' he was quoting a comedian. The phrase comes from Arrhephoros, a play by the Greek comedian Menanders, and Caesar originally said it in Greek.
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Menander
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
TIL about Louis Remme, who rode on horseback nonstop from Sacramento to Portland in 1855, racing against the ship-borne news of a bank run that would prevent him from withdrawing his own money.
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AMERICAN HERITAGE
Remme’s Great Ride
TIL the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics were violent and not child-friendly. The mousers were rat devouring robots, Donatello was prone to violent rages, and the turtles didn't obsess over pizza, but did kill people regularly.
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EW.com
30 years later, the first 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' comics still pop
TIL that the picture of George Washington on the $1 bill is based off an unfinished portait of him.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 03:18PM by Travoltage
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TIL Momma bears are so protective of their young they’ll actively seek out human occupied areas because they know male bears, who would want to kill their cubs to increase the chances they mate with them, will avoid human contact.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 06:11PM by East_Accident1822
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Smithsonian Magazine
Mama Bears Use Humans To Keep Their Cubs Safe
During mating season, humans might stress female bears out, but male bears stress them out more
TIL that Leo Marks, a WWII cryptographer, suspected that Germans had infiltrated the Dutch network in 1943 because all messages were being sent without any errors. To test his theory, Marks sent a message with "HH" and received "HH" in response. "HH" was a common German sign-off for "Heil Hitler."
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the Guardian
Obituary: Leo Marks
Master SOE codebreaker who turned his wartime experiences into film scripts.
TIL it's illegal to receive compensation for fortune telling in Oklahoma
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Justia Law
2021 Oklahoma Statutes :: Title 21. Crimes and Punishments :: §21-931. Fees for fortune telling prohibited.
Justia Free Databases of US Laws, Codes & Statutes
TIL Kurt Russell portrayed Elvis in the 1979 made-for-TV movie “Elvis“, his real dad acted as Elvis‘ dad, and his first wife played Priscilla Presley. In 1994 Forrest Gump, Kurt Russell did the voiceover on the Elvis clip, and in 1963 he played as a child extra in a movie with the real Elvis.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 06:44PM by rigorousthinker
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ScreenRant
Kurt Russell Made His Movie Debut Kicking Elvis Presley
He didn't just play Elvis, he kicked him!
TIL Christmas celebrations in England and America were illegal during parts of the 17th century. Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" .
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 06:55PM by ReviewNecessary6521
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Puritans
subclass of English Reformed Protestants
TIL that ancient Britons come mainly from Spain
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 02:08PM by Dunlain98
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Evening Standard
Ancient Britons come mainly from Spain
Scientists have discovered the British are descended from a tribe of Spanish fishermen. DNA analysis has found the Celts — Britain's indigenous population — have an almost identical genetic "fingerprint" to a tribe of Iberians from the coastal regions of…
TIL about Nannie Doss, a serial killer known as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow and Lady Bluebeard. After her fifth husband had died, it was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, two sisters, her mother, two grandsons and her mother-in-law.
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Wikipedia
Nannie Doss
American serial killer
TIL that TIME Magazine's Person of the Century online poll resulted in the top spots going to Jesus Christ and Ric Flair, neither of which were considered eligible.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 09:33PM by Stocky_Racoon
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Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century
Wikimedia list article
TIL the Reno 911! pilot was conceived and shot in 5 days. The team had worked on a series of pilots, one of which, after a year's worth of development, was terminated the day before shooting. The team asked if they could make another pilot (Reno 911!) with the remaining funds, and executives agreed.
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Submitted July 01, 2022 at 07:41PM by sexpressed
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Wikipedia
Reno 911!
American comedy television series
TIL that after a thief stole the Lone Ranger's custom Pearl Handled Colt Pistols from the actor Clayton Moore's luggage, he was caught by the police and sentenced to one month in jail and 600 hours of shoveling horse manure at the police stables.
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True West Magazine
The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
On Christmas Eve in 1986, Clayton Moore flew into Houston, Texas, and discovered his luggage was lost, an unfortunate, but rather commonplace, event at