TIL when a pilot ejects from their plane, the ejection seat manufacturer gives them a tie. The Ejection Tie Club is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat. There are over 6,000 members.
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TIL Leonardo Davinci was famed for buying caged birds at markets and setting them free.
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Submitted July 27, 2022 at 06:39PM by Krieger_Bot_OO7
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Artsy
What Leonardo da Vinci Learned from Animals | Artsy
The iconic Renaissance man saw in animals not beasts but the “image of the world.”
TIL that a group of friends started to build a castle from scratch in 1997 using only medieval methods and materials. It is called Guedelon castle, and the building process is still ongoing.
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Submitted July 27, 2022 at 07:26PM by Grothorious
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Guédelon Castle
castle
TIL that the penis of a male honey bee explodes after mating with the queen. The 'pop' can even be heard by us.
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Submitted July 27, 2022 at 11:32PM by YTaries_fn
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Orkin
Mechanics of Honey Bee Mating: Honey Bee Mating Habits | Orkin
Learn more about the mating habits of honey bees on Orkin.com, including information on the mating rituals carried out by the honey bee queen and the male honey bees.
TIL that the city council of the 2.5 square mile city of Bell in Los Angeles fraudulently paid themselves the highest salaries for the positions in the country, over $750k per year, largely set up via a voter fraud scheme to remove salary caps.
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City of Bell scandal
The Bell scandal involved the misappropriation of public funds in Bell, California, United States, over a period of several years in the late 2000s. In July 2010, the Los Angeles Times published an investigative article on possible malfeasance in the neighboring…
TIL women could only play golf on Sunday afternoons at Pine Valley Golf Club (consistently ranked as one of the best courses in the world) until they changed the rule in 2021.
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Submitted July 27, 2022 at 08:44PM by BuckM11
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Pine Valley Golf Club
Golf course in Camden County, New Jersey
TIL About Truman Show Delusion - a Form of Psychosis in Which People Believe They Are Secretly Starring in Their Own Reality TV Show
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 02:21AM by FearlessAd7269
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The Truman Show delusion
The Truman Show delusion, also known as Truman syndrome, is a type of delusion in which the person believes that their lives are staged reality shows, or that they are being watched on cameras. The term was coined in 2008 on film boards by brothers Joel Gold…
TIL: Players on losing teams in the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship take home a pouch dirt from the field, as a memento of their fleeting time on the hallowed grounds of Kōshien, the field the tournament has been played on since 1924.
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Kōshien baseball tournament
tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium
TIL: The brand Fruit Of the Loom is older than the light bulb, automobile and the telephone.
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 06:41AM by pratorian
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Fruit of the Loom
Fruit of the Loom is an American company that manufactures clothing, particularly casual wear and underwear. The company's world headquarters is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Since 2002 it has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
TIL about De Defectibus, a set of instructions about what to do in case anything goes wrong during the Sacrement of the Eucharist, including if rats steal the bread used or if the priest dies during mass.
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 04:56AM by res30stupid
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www.dailycatholic.org
DE DEFECTIBUS - POPE SAINT PIUS V's PAPAL BULL (defectib.htm)
DAILY CATHOLIC
TIL the infamous shock video "2 Girls 1 Cup" was originally sold as a DVD titled "Hungry B*tches". The "vomit" in the movie was just food the actors had chewed and spit-out without swallowing, and film's director has stated in court that the supposed excrement they consume was just ice cream.
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2 Girls 1 Cup
2007 Brazilian scat-fetish pornographic film
TIL About Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who attacked the US House of Representatives to protest the forced takeover of Puerto Rico, shooting Five US Congressmen
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 02:06AM by Ask_me_4_a_story
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Global Voices
Not just the U.S.: Residente portrays all of America in ‘This is Not America’
With millions of views on Youtube, Puerto Rican rapper Residente makes a case for Latin America's struggle for human rights.
TIL in a cave near Nazareth, archeologists found a skeleton of a 13 year old boy with with deer horns that had been placed on his chest. The cave was dated to be around 92,000 years old.
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 09:02AM by dustofoblivion123
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journals.openedition.org
The excavation of Qafzeh
The excavation of the Qafzeh cave by René Neuville, while he was serving as the French Consul General in Jerusalem, began in earnest in 1934, after a test excavation conducted the year before revea...
TIL that when Kentucky Fried Chicken moved its headquarters to Tennessee, Colonel Sanders said "This ain't no goddam Tennessee Fried Chicken, no matter what some slick, silk-suited son-of-a-bitch says". The company moved back to Kentucky.
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History of KFC
Wikimedia history article
TIL the BBC initially refused to publish Richard Dimbleby's eye witness account of Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they didn't believe it was as terrible as he described. It's estimated 70,000 people died at Belsen. The BBC only agreed to broadcast after Dimbleby threatened to resign.
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BBC Archive
Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
Richard Dimbleby describes the scenes of almost unimaginable horror that greeted him as he toured Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation.
TIL during the 1942 blockade of Leningrad, where starvation was utilised as a siege strategy, those convicted of cannibalism were divided into two legal categories: corpse-eating and person-eating. The former were sent to prison, while the latter were shot.
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 01:03PM by Smolesworthy
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Siege of Leningrad
The siege of Leningrad (Russian: блокада Ленинграда; German: Leningrader Blockade) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany's…
TIL that Yurin Norstein has been working on his animated feature film 'The Overcoat' since 1981. With only 30 minutes of animation completed in over 42 years, it's production time is already the longest of any animated film in history.
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 02:13PM by Lupercali
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The Overcoat (animated film)
Russian unfinished animated feature film directed by Yuriy Norshteyn
TIL that in 1982 all five TV Emmy award nominees for Best Actor were from one show, Hill Street Blues
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 04:22PM by es_price
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Variety
Taurean Blacque, Detective Neal Washington on ‘Hill Street Blues,’ Dies at 82
Taurean Blacque, beloved for his role of Detective Neal Washington on "Hill Street Blues," died Thursday. He was 82 years old.
TIL Lee Harvey Oswald was court martialed while in the Marines for accidentally shooting himself in the elbow with an unauthorized handgun
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 05:45PM by TimelyConcern
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Lee Harvey Oswald
American former marine who assassinated John F. Kennedy
TIL turning over control of the Panama Canal to Panama was a huge controversial emotional issue dividing many Americans in the 1970's
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 06:30PM by SolidCucumber
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Council on Foreign Relations
TWE Remembers: The Fight over the Panama Canal Treaties
President Obama begins his Latin America trip on March 19. When he stops in Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador the official business will range from trade to energy to regional security. One issue that w…
TIL if an ant fell from a plane, it would not take damage or die.
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Submitted July 28, 2022 at 08:04PM by BrokenWalker
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Misfit Animals
Do Ants Take Fall Damage And What Height Can They Survive From? | Misfit Animals
No, ants do not take damage from falling.