TIL the word “emoji” does not originate from the word “emotion.” Emoji is Japanese for “picture character.” Eh + moji.
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CNN
Shigetaka Kurita: The man who invented emoji
A new book celebrates the original emoji set, created in just a matter of weeks in 1999 by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita on a grid of 12 by 12 dots.
TIL that in WWI, there were bicycle ambulances, made of two, three, or four bicycles with an attached stretcher. Two-bicycle ambulances were developed as early as the 1890s.
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The Online Bicycle Museum
1914 Royal Enfield Bicycle Ambulance WW1 – The Online Bicycle Museum
TIL in Henry Fords' childhood farming was manual. He wanted to "lift the burden of farming from flesh and blood and place it on steel and motors." Ford was the only automotive firm to sell cars, trucks and tractors simultaneously from 1917 to 1928.
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Fordson
former tractor brand
TIL that in Laguna, Brazil, bottlenose dolphins actively herd fish towards local fishermen and then signal with tail slaps for the fishermen to throw their nets. This collaboration has been occurring since at least 1847.
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Laguna, Santa Catarina
Laguna is a Brazilian municipality located in the southern state of Santa Catarina, 120 kilometers south of the state's capital, Florianópolis, and north east of Porto Alegre. The population is 46,122 (2020 est.) in an area of 336.4 km². Elevation is 2 m.…
TIL: Spartans magistrates would declare war on their slaves every year so they were free to harm or kill them
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helot | Definition, History, & Facts
helot, a state-owned serf of the ancient Spartans. The ethnic origin of helots is uncertain, but they were probably the original inhabitants of Laconia (the area around the Spartan capital) who were reduced to servility after the conquest of their land by…
TIL about the Antikythera Mechanism which is widely considered to be the first analogue computer created by the ancient Greeks. The mechanism had about 30 precision gears which makes it the earliest discover of gears in Europe, and could track celestial body movements, eclipses, and sporting events.
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Antikythera mechanism
ancient analog computer designed to calculate astronomical positions
TIL that in 2001, actor Mark Ruffalo had a realistic dream that he had a brain tumor. Despite no previous signs, he went to see a doctor due to the vividness of his dream. The doctor ordered a scan and it turned out that he did indeed have a tumor, which was subsequently removed.
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Submitted August 23, 2022 at 04:16PM by Imaginary_Emu3462
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The "Crazy" Way Mark Ruffalo Discovered He Had a Brain Tumor
Whether you know Mark Ruffalo as the king of rom coms, the Hulk in the Marvel movie franchise, or as an Oscar-courting dramatic actor, one thing's for sure: there's no denying his talent or versatility. However, in the year 2000—just as his career was taking…
TIL that the longest perfectly straight stretch of the U.S. interstate highway system is on I-80 between Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska and is approximately 72 miles (116 km) long.
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Interstate 80
Interstate Highway in the United States from California to New Jersey
TIL an Indianapolis fertility doctor ultimately inseminated nearly 100 women (to date) between the late 70s / early 80s with his own sperm unbeknownst to them, and most of the families live within 25 miles of each other
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Indianapolis Monthly
Donald Cline: The Fertility Doctor Accused of Fraud
Donald Cline admittedly used his own sperm to impregnate women without their knowledge at least 50 times over seven years.
TIL that a ghost kitchen is a kitchen set up to cook food for delivery only, across several brands.
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Submitted August 23, 2022 at 07:52PM by bartonski
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Ghost kitchen
delivery-only restaurant operation
TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended the hanging of abolitionist leader John Brown. Booth stood near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.
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Submitted August 23, 2022 at 09:37PM by TrashClear483
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John Wilkes Booth
American stage actor and assassin (1838-1865)
TIL Quaternary Twins are when two babies are both cousins and genetically siblings. This happens when two identical sisters have children with two identical brothers.
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What are quaternary twins? The rare phenomenon when identical twin sisters marry identical twin brothers and have babies at the…
You’ve probably heard of Irish twins, identical twins and fraternal twins. But these are quaternary twins.
TIL that in 2013 a climber found a box full of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds on a remote glacier on Mont Blanc. Authorities determined they were likely from an Indian plane that crashed there in 1966 and gave the climber half the gems (worth $169,000) to reward his honesty in turning them in.
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BBC News
French climber handed Mont Blanc gems after 2013 find
The stones are believed to be from an Air India plane which crashed into the mountain in 1966.
TIL that for more than 20 years, Comedian Janeane Garofalo and her ex-boyfriend Robert Cohen were legally married to each other without knowing. The two had what they believed to be a joke wedding in Las Vegas, and it wasn't until Cohen got engaged in 2012 that the two became aware of their union.
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Janeane Garofalo
American stand-up comedienne
Today I learned that ponytails can cause migraines to those who wear them, because of the tension of the hair that pulls the skin of the head.
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Ponytail
looser bunch of hair (opposing a pair of shorter/tighter pigtails)
TIL: Play-Doh was originally started as cleaner for coal residue one home wallpaper in the 1930s. When people stopped using coal for home heating, a nursery school teacher helped repurpose it for kids modeling clay in the 1950s and she also came up with the name Play-Doh
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Play-Doh
modeling compound used by young children for art and craft projects
TIL 2010 Vancouver luge gold medallist Felix Loch had his medal melted into 2 discs and gave one to the parents of a deceased competitor who died in a practice run on the day of the opening ceremony
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Submitted August 24, 2022 at 04:55AM by Imaginary_Emu3462
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TIL George V’s death was purposely expedited by his doctor when he injected the Kings jugular vein with morphine and cocaine. Some have called it euthanasia, others, murder.
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Dappled Things
When a Royal Physician Killed a King — Dappled Things
A murder of convenience.
TIL A report about American fast food consumption concludes people actually eat more fast food as their income levels go up
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Submitted August 24, 2022 at 06:10AM by Pure_Candidate_3831
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Vox
The more money you make, the more fast food you eat
A new CDC brief suggests it’s not people below the poverty line doing the buying — it’s people well above it.
TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed country in history. An average of 55 bombs dropped per minute over 9 years.
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Submitted August 24, 2022 at 08:11AM by tommos
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Operation Barrel Roll
Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 14 December 1964 and 29 March 1973 concurrent with the Vietnam War. The operation…
TIL Virgil McCroskey purchased 4,400 acres of land for tourism in Idaho on the condition he maintain it himself for 15 years; McCroskey accepted the terms, and lived exactly 15 more years, fulfilling his obligation to the state of Idaho just weeks before his death in 1970 at age 93.
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McCroskey State Park
state park in Idaho, United States