TIL that John Parr's hit song St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) is only vaguely about the movie, but is specifically about (and directly inspired by) Canadian athlete Rick Hansen. Hansen was going around the world in his wheelchair to raise awareness of spinal cord injuries at the time.
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St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" is a song by British singer John Parr from the 1985 film St. Elmo's Fire. It hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart on 7 September 1985, remaining there for two weeks. It was the main theme for Joel Schumacher's film, and…
TiL that in the early 70's, the cannabis strain "Acapulco Gold" was so popular at Columbia University that the college had a dedicated smuggling route via Austin, Texas.
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Acapulco Gold
cannabis strain
TIL Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press conferences where only female journalists were allowed. This ensured they kept their jobs during Depression-era layoffs, earning a steady income & professional status.
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TIL of the "evil" number Belphegor’s Prime: 1000000000000066600000000000001. It's a palindromic prime w/ 666 in the middle, & 13 zeros on each side (plus horn-like 1s). It's named after a Prince of Hell responsible for ingenious discoveries, and its symbol is the Greek letter pi (π), but upside down
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Belphegor's prime
the prime number 10³⁰+666×10¹⁴+1
TIL "1" wasn't considered a number by Ancient Greeks (even Aristotle & Euclid). Numbers were *multitudes* of units (1 was the unit). "One is the seed of number but not number." This view didn't change til 1701 AD, when 1 was defined as a number in the first math dictionary: "Mathematicks Made Easie"
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Smithsonian Magazine
Is One A Number? According to ‘Mathematicks Made Easie,’ Yes
The ancient Greeks, and people for almost 2,000 years after them, argued over whether one was a number
TIL that the Tour de France has a dedicated support team to travel the route ahead of the stage and cover graffiti of genitals.
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Cycling Today Official
Meet Tour de France workers who convert phallic graffiti into artwork (video) | Cycling Today Official
Before every stage of the Tour de France, a crew of workers drive along the route in their van, painting over any phallic imagery on the roads or walls.
TIL Mike Myers originally did Shrek‘s voice with a Canadian accent. He later decided that Scottish would be more fitting for an ogre. He re-recorded all of Shrek’s lines for free, because he “wanted it to be good.”
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TIL that Spiro Mounds, a Native American "King Tut's Tomb", were ransacked, desecrated, and destroyed by a group of local treasure hunters in 1935, and is considered the worst looting of an archaeological site in US history.
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Spiro Mounds: North America's lost civilisation
A treasure lost to time: Looters destroyed America's largest collection of Native American relics. Now, many have been reunited in a new museum exhibit.
TIL about Mary Louvestre; an African-American Civil War spy who delivered details about the construction of the Confederacy's first ironclad into Union hands by tracing plans her employer had using her seamstress skills.
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Mary Louvestre
Mary Louvestre (or Touvestre) was an African-American Union spy in Norfolk, Virginia during the US Civil War. Mary delivered details of plans for the conversion of the wrecked USS Merrimack to an ironclad that would be named the CSS Virginia and which represented…
TIL The second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri, died in mysterious circumstances in 1966. No autopsy was ever performed, the Indian Government released no information about his death, and the media was kept silent. His death is considered to be one India's biggest unsolved mysteries.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri (pronounced [lɑːl bəˈhɑːd̪ʊɾ ˈʃɑːst̪ɾi] (listen); 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian statesman who served as the second prime minister of India. He promoted the White Revolution – a national campaign to increase the production…
TIL David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', released in July 1969, was banned by the BBC for the duration of the Apollo 11 mission.
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TIL that all of the gold ever discovered by humankind would fit in a cube that is only 22 meters wide on every side.
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World Gold Council
How Much Gold Has Been Mined? | World Gold Council
Lately, 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 that special effects had to be employed in The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's film of The Band's farewell concert, due to a visible amount of cocaine being present on Neil Young's nose during his performance.
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The Last Waltz
The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as The Band's "farewell concert appearance", and the concert…
TIL that people who grew up in the era of black and white movies mostly reported dreaming in black and white, while the people before and after them reported dreaming in color.
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TIL the warty comb jellyfish, also known as the sea walnut is the only creature with a disappearing butt. The anus is not visible when it is not pooping.
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Massive Science
Meet the warty comb jelly, the only animal with a disappearing anus
Its anus appears and disappears every time it needs to poop, at least every hour. That's just one strange facet of comb jelly biology
TIL that in Budapest, Hungary, there is a statue of Detective Columbo and his dog. The mayor, who backed the $63,000 statue, claimed that the actor who played Columbo is related to Hungarian politician Miksa Falk, despite the lack of evidence for this.
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Slate Magazine
Budapest Has a Strange Statue of TV Detective Columbo in a Public Square
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TIL only 5% of residential homes in the UK are thought to have air conditioning and many buildings are designed in a way to keep heat in.
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TIL that a trio of drunken boys decided to sail out to sea looking for a girl they saw at a sports competition event. They ended up sailing for more than seven weeks and drifted 1300 km off course before being rescued by a tuna boat. They all survived by drinking beer, eating coconuts and a bird.
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Stuff
Boozy teens' midnight trip goes 1300km astray
Somewhere on the tiny atoll of Fakaofo is the face that launched a tiny outboard-powered dinghy.
TIL The Bodhi fig tree in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is the oldest tree on Earth with a known planting date. It was planted in 288 BC by an Indian Princess. The sapling was taken from the original tree where Buddha found enlightenment. The tree is honored every year on December's full moon.
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Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
holy tree in Sri Lanka
TIL In 1924, CEOs of the leading light bulb companies held a secret meeting to stop improving their lightbulbs. This was because if they kept on making their lightbulbs last longer, then eventually consumers wouldn't have to buy any more lightbulbs.
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TIL of Peter Bergmann, aka the Irish Somerton man, a mysterious man who was found dead on a beach in Sligo, Ireland in 2009 with no ID, no documentation and no money, who had given a fake name and address at the hotel he was staying. He has never been identified.
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Peter Bergmann case
Unidentified person case