TIL That the only natural forest in Greenland is in Qinngua Valley in southern Greenland, only 9 miles long. The surrounding local geography protects the valley floor just enough to support the tree growth despite the sub-Arctic climate.
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Wondermondo
Qinngua Valley | Wondermondo
In Qinngua valley is the only natural forest in Greenland, mainly consisting of birch and willow trees, which grow here up to 7 - 8 m high.
TIL 50 Cent offered Floyd Mayweather $750,000 to his charity of choice. The stipulation was for Mayweather to read one page of Harry Potter. He declined. 50 later lowered the requirement to one page of any Dr. Seuss book. Mayweather declined again.
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AllHipHop
50 Cent Challenges Floyd Mayweather To Read A Dr. Seuss Book On National TV
50 CENT TO MAYWEATHER: WE KNOW YOU CAN’T READ A HARRY POTTER BOOK SO WE’LL LET YOU READ “CAT IN THE HAT”
TIL about Delhi’s Sabharwal family has got the rare distinction of being the only family where every single member is a doctor for the past five generations.
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Submitted July 10, 2022 at 10:40AM by avoosin
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IBR
140 Doctors in a Family - IBR
Delhi’s Sabharwal family has got the rare distinction of being the only family where every single member is a doctor for the past five generations. It started with their great grandfather “Lala Jeevanmal Sabharwal” who was a station master in Lahore. One…
TIL The presidential yacht of Yugoslavia, Galeb, was a former Italian and Nazi warship. The Nazis minelayer was sunk by the Allies in 1944 and Yugoslavia raised it, converting it to a yacht in 1952. Ship visitors include Queen Elizabeth II, Khrushchev, Nehru, Nasser, and Kurt Douglas.
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Wikipedia
Yugoslav training ship Galeb
yacht
TIL that only 20 years after the Wright Brothers first flight, we had successfully completed the first air to air refueling in June 1923.
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Submitted July 10, 2022 at 10:48AM by IncRaven
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TIL a NASA physicist fought his HOA in court for 7 years when they required him to buy a $500 mailbox
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Yahoo News
Man Battles His HOA for 7 Years Over a $500 Mailbox—and Wins
Imagine being forced to buy a $500 mailbox. That's what happened to a Maryland man who took his homeowners association to court and won. The post Man Battles His HOA for 7 Years Over a $500 Mailbox—and Wins appeared first on Real Estate News & Advice | realtor.com®.
TIL that Mummy Brown was a pigment used by European painters that was made from the flesh of Egyptian mummies. It was also common to export mummies from Egypt to Europe to be ground up and consumed as “medicine”
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Journal of ART in SOCIETY
The life and death of Mummy Brown
This article by Philip McCouat tells the extraordinary story of how the crumbled remains of mummies came to be used by European artists right up to the twentieth century
TIL about “The Jalen Generation”. 90’s and 2000’s NBA star Jalen Rose got his name when his mom combined James and Leonard together. There were no other Jalens at the time, but because of Rose’s popularity currently over 30 athletes with versions of the name Jalen are playing in the NBA and NFL.
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ESPN.com
The Jalen Generation: How Jalen Rose's name has spread throughout the world of sports
Multiple potential first-round picks in the NFL and NBA draft share a bond through a name the late Jeanne Rose created for her son.
TIL: William H. H. Murray's 1869 book "Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks" was so popular that in a matter of months it caused a "Murray Rush"---where thousands of hunters, fishers, and campers from NY and Boston went to Adirondacks and spurred modern American camping.
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TIL the painting Las Meninas is one of the most analyzed works in western art. Critics have called it the “theology of painting” and “true philosophy of art”. It’s influenced many artists including Goya and Sargent. Picasso was so obsessed with the painting he executed 58 different interpretations.
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TIL the TV channel TLC was originally founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA to transmit educational lessons to children in schools.
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TLC (TV network)
TLC is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. First established in 1980 as The Learning Channel, it initially focused on educational and instructional programming. By the late 1990s, after an acquisition by the owners of Discovery…
TIL a plant hopper (Issus coleoptratus) is the first species found to have functional biological gears
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Submitted July 10, 2022 at 11:10PM by frozenpyromaniac
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Bernoid
Leafhopper Nymph - It's got GEARS! - Bernoid
The Art of Jo Brown, Illustrations and artwork by Jo Brown.
TIL The FDR Memorial in Washington DC was designed to be accessible to people with physical impairments. However, vision-impaired visitors complained that the braille was illegible due to improper dot spacing, and in some cases was placed eight feet off the ground.
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Los Angeles Times
New FDR Statue's Braille Shows a Form of Blindness
Disability: Most blind people can't read the lettering on the memorial because it is too big and too far off the ground. Designers are called insensitive.
TIL in 1906 a Moroccan serial killer of 36 women was sentenced to be crucified. They changed his execution method to decapitation after international pressure. After more outcry, his sentence was again changed: he was walled alive inside the city bazaar's walls. His screams were heard for two days.
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Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi
Moroccan serial killer
TIL “Nickelodeon” is not a made-up word, but a theatre from the early 1900s. Nickelodeons were the first type of indoor exhibition spaces dedicated to showing motion pictures, and took their name from the admission cost (five cents) and the Greek word “odeion”, which refers to a roofed-over theater.
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Useless Etymology
Movies, Jukeboxes, and Demons: The Etymology of “Nickelodeon”
Before the TV network that defined the childhood of every 90s kid, “nickelodeon” was a word for a motion-picture theater or a jukebox. “Nickelodeon” is composed of the eleme…
TIL that Pres. George HW Bush vomited on the lap of Japanese PM Kiichi Miyazawa during a 1992 state banquet. The incident caused a wave of late night TV jokes & ridicule, even coining Busshu-suru meaning "to do the Bush thing or bushing it". It was also spoofed in the film "Hot Shots! Part Deux."
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Wikipedia
George H. W. Bush vomiting incident
when US President vomited into Japanese Prime Minister's lap
TIL that the entire score to Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ movie was a Tchaikovsky ballet. Disney writers came up the lyrics for ‘Once upon a dream’ and just laid them over the music.
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Submitted July 11, 2022 at 03:19AM by StealinMagnolias
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Bachtrack
Symphonic storytelling: The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the Ugly Duckling of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets. It was the second in the trilogy, completed in 1889, but has neither the dramatic thrust of Swan Lake nor the calorific sugar-coated charm of The Nutcracker in terms of popular…
TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf tried to estimate pi using a needle experiment. He conducted experiments throwing the needle 5000 times, obtaining a value of 3.1596
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Submitted July 11, 2022 at 02:38AM by vancouver_reader
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Maths History
Rudolf Wolf
Rudolf Wolf was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.
TIL that Bo Jackson is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football, and using him in Tecmo Bowl is cheating
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Submitted July 11, 2022 at 03:54AM by Politicsbeerandguns
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Bo Jackson
Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American former professional baseball and American football player. He is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football. Jackson's elite achievements…
TIL that lemons float while limes sink
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Submitted July 11, 2022 at 05:01AM by mikeyv683
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Lifesavvy
This Is Why Lemons Float but Limes Sink
You and a friend have ordered drinks at the bar, except yours came with lime and theirs has lemon. Despite the similarities of the citrus, your limes are sinking to the bottom while the lemons are floating. Why?
TIL of the Nuclear Boy Scout. At 17 years old, David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor out of household items in his backyard. The contraption malfunctioned and released radiation in his town, leading to his arrest. He was subsequently promoted to Eagle Scout.
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Submitted July 11, 2022 at 05:52AM by albino-ugandan
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