TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only US capital without a McDonald's
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Montpelier, Vermont
capital of Vermont, United States and seat of Washington County
TIL Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers and eventual 14th Air Force Commander, built a brothel. "His men were going to visit brothels, regardless of what the rules said," and it was "better to have his "boys" visit a brothel that was regularly inspected to reduce venereal diseases."
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Claire Lee Chennault
Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II.
TIL that chimpanzees are NOT 5 times stronger than humans. A chimpanzee's muscular performance can in fact only produce around 1.35-1.5 times the performance that human muscle can produce. This means that a large and athletic person will be as strong as a chimpanzee.
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TIL 377 people have completed the ascent to K2's summit. There have been 91 deaths during attempted climbs.
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K2
second-highest mountain on Earth, located on the China–Pakistan border in a region also claimed by India
TIL Story Musgrave is the most formally educated astronaut with seven academic degrees and only astronaut to have flown on all five space shuttles.
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Story Musgrave
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to…
TIL Gene Roddenberry, creator of the original Star Trek series, as well as the Star Trek feature films, as well as the TNG series, was one of the first humans in 1997 to have his ashes carried into Earth’s orbit.
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H&I
Did you know Gene Roddenberry had his ashes launched into space?
Both Roddenberry and Doohan have visited the final frontier.
TIL the original version of The Game of Life had a suicide square
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Today I Discovered Why The Original Game Of Life Had A 'Suicide' Ending
Usually these days we see cheery or campy old franchises getting a gritty, modernised reboot – but have you ever...
TIL that the surgeon August Bier tested on his own assistant a form of anesthesia consisting of injecting cocaine directly into the spine, and to check how effective it was, he stuck a needle in his leg, hit him in the shins with a hammer, ripped off his pubic hair and even squeezed his testicles.
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August Bier
surgeon (1861-1949)
TIL That "Barker’s Beauties," the models on The Price is Right, did not have contracts, but were were rehired on a week-to-week basis to keep their salaries low.
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For Barker's Beauties, This Is Not a Game
Two longtime 'Price Is Right' models have been let go; producers say the show's changing.
TIL that Eddie Money didn’t like the demo of “Take me home tonight“ but knew he had to persuade Ronnie Spector to do the catch line of “be my baby“ from her 1963 hit. The success of their song helped revive his career and encouraged her to resume hers.
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Take Me Home Tonight (song)
"Take Me Home Tonight" is a song by American rock singer Eddie Money. It was released in August 1986 as the lead single from his album Can't Hold Back. The song's chorus interpolates the Ronettes' 1963 hit "Be My Baby", with original vocalist Ronnie Spector…
TIL that the highest-ranking US military officer of Vietnamese descent is the only survivor of a family whose killer was photographed being shot in the head in a Pulitzer-winning photograph.
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Huan Nguyen
US Navy admiral
TIL that David Gilmour guitarist for Pink Floyd discovered a teenage Kate Bush and is largely responsible for starting her musical career
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Far Out Magazine
How Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour discovered a teenage Kate Bush
"It’s absolutely beautiful, isn’t it?"
TIL the author J.D. Salinger was a Sergeant in the US Fourth Infantry Division in WWII. He landed in the second wave at Utah Beach on D-Day, carrying a draft of "The Catcher in the Rye" with him there and through several battles, and at the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
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AMERICAN HERITAGE
“Catcher in the Rye” on D-Day
J.D. Salinger carried a draft of his later-to-be-famous novel with him when he landed on the beach at Normandy.
TIL of "mail jumping", a form of mail delivery in Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, USA where mail carriers ride along the side of a boat, jump off on to the dock, deliver mail, pick up outgoing mail, and jump back on to the boat all while the boat continues to move.
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Mail jumping
type of mail delivery
TIL that the winner of the marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics, Fred Lorz, was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race
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Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – men's marathon
The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24.85 miles (40 km).
TIL that the german city Wolfsburg was entirely built for the workers of the volkswagen car factory, one of the largest factories in the world, at just under 6.5 million m² (70 million sq ft.) the roofs of the factory combined are bigger than monaco
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Wolfsburg | Germany
Wolfsburg, city, Lower Saxony Land (state), northern Germany. It lies along the Mittelland Canal, about 45 miles (70 km) east of Hannover. The village of Hesslingen, dating from about 700, was the first settlement near the site of Wolfsburg; the town was…
TIL that the first documented mention of adults playing cricket came from 1611, when two men were fined 12d each for failing to attend church on Easter Sunday because they were playing cricket.
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Wisden
What Are Cricket's Origins?
When did cricket start?
TIL Even though George Washington defeated Cornwallis in 1781 at Yorktown, it still took almost 2 more years before the war was officially over with England.
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Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris [ushistory.org]
British general Charles Cornwallis surrendered with 8000 troops at Yorktown, VA in 1781. This severe blow to the British was the last straw in their resistance to the American colonies Revolution, but the war would not officially end until September of 1783…
TIL there was an advert in the UK for the food 'faggots'. It was found to have breached the advertising standards code due to the line "I've got nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them". Facebook also banned many users for using the word on their platform.
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Faggot (food)
traditional dish in the UK
TIL Dolly Parton had the Robert F. Thomas Chapel built at her Dollywood theme park to honor the mountain doctor who delivered her for a sack of cornmeal.
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Faith & Footprints: Robert F. Thomas Chapel In Dollywood
In the middle of the popular Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee sits the Robert. F. Thomas Chapel. This small, one-room church is an iconic fixture
TIL that there is a village in China with 367 households but 39 pairs of twins, even chickens are reportedly laying eggs with double yolks.
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Mashable
Chinese village with 39 sets of twins can't explain how it has so many
Even the chickens have been laying "double yolk" eggs.