TIL: Until 2013, foreign chefs in Japan were legally barred from working in restaurants specializing in traditional Japanese food and could only serve foreign cuisine. Japan changed its regulations for foreign chefs after traditional Japanese cuisine won UNESCO designation.
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TIL Horses in herds will often have a “guard horse” stand watch while others lay down to sleep
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Horse Network
7 Strange Sleeping Habits of Horses
You step outside and lovingly gaze into the pasture only to find your horse lying flat on his side. Your heartbeat quickens. OH MY GADS—HE’S DEAD! How many of us have lived out this scenario? (*raises hand*) You hurry out to the pasture, but upon closer inspection…
TIL reproduction via Sex started in Scotland A team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland
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BBC News
Sex 'emerged in ancient Scottish lake'
The first animals to copulate were small fish that lived 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland, a study suggests.
TIL: President John Tyler swore allegiance to the Confederacy after his presidency and was buried with a confederate flag draped over his coffin in the CSA, making him the only former president to not be laid to rest under a US flag
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John Tyler
John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President…
TIL In the early 1700's, Britain sent over 50,000 convicted criminals to the US to be sold as laborers, mostly settling in the south to work Tobacco farms.
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TIL that Ayn Rand actually hated the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists of her time.
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 09:39PM by cutarecordonmythroat
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Ayn Rand Lexicon
—Ayn Rand Lexicon
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: This mini-encyclopedia of Objectivism is
compiled from Ayn Rand’s statements on some 400 topics in philosophy,
economics, psychology and history.
compiled from Ayn Rand’s statements on some 400 topics in philosophy,
economics, psychology and history.
TIL John Barrymore's corpse was stolen from a morgue by Errol Flynn and WC Fields for one last party
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Mental Floss
Weekend at Errol Flynn’s: When John Barrymore’s Friends Stole His Corpse From the Morgue for One Last Prank
Drew Barrymore recently corroborated this epic Hollywood legend, but it’s still highly questionable.
TIL of Boston Red Sox player Fred Thomas, who was granted a furlough by the Navy to play in the 1918 World Series during WWI. He remains the only active member of the military to play in a Major League game.
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Submitted August 25, 2022 at 11:13PM by foofoofum
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TIL the Fiat Panda is not named after the panda bear, but after Empanda, the Roman goddess and patroness of travelers.
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Fiat Panda
car model manufactured by Fiat
TIL NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft was secretly modified with missile countermeasures before bringing Enterprise to the 1983 Paris Air Show.
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The Drive
Space Shuttle Carrying 747 Was Secretly Modified To Defend Itself From Heat-Seeking Missiles (Updated)
NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft was secretly equipped with infrared countermeasures for its high-profile 1983 European tour.
TIL not only was Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the WTC on 9/11, but with his camcorder he captured everything from the 2nd plane hitting to both towers collapsing. While he has released screenshots, he has declined to publish the full tape, feeling it was too intimate to be tastefully shown to the public.
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YouTube
Neil Degrasse Tyson on 9/11
NDT and Joe talk about 9/11, how it was able to happen and the physics behind the plane and tower collisions.
TIL singer-songwriter Jewel had a relationship with actor Sean Penn. He sought her out with a phone call to her father's home in Alaska after watching her television debut on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 1995. Jewel's father assumed it was a prank call.
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Entertainment Tonight
Jewel Reveals Pre-Fame Relationship With Sean Penn: 'I Liked His Mind'
The singer-songwriter penned a track for the film 'The Crossing Guard' in 1995.
TIL Red Bull energy drink was originally invented by a duck farmer from Thailand as a hangover cure before being bought over by Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz who discovered it on a business trip in 1987.
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the Guardian
Thai billionaire who invented Red Bull dies aged 89
Chaleo Yoovidhya's energy drink, originally sold to Thai truck drivers and labourers, became a huge global brand
TIL Phryne of Greece was acquitted due to her beauty, after jurors admired her naked body
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Phryne before the Areopagus
painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
TIL that lipstick was first invented in ancient Sumerian and Indus Valley about 5,000 years ago. Later, people wore lipstick for different purposes. The ancient Egyptians wore lipstick to show social status rather than gender, while the Chinese protected their lips.
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Lipstick
cosmetic for coloring the lips
TIL more countries use the comma separator (17,6) than the point separator (17.6)
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Decimal separator
A decimal separator is a symbol used to separate the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form (e.g., "." in 12.45). Different countries officially designate different symbols for use as the separator. The choice of symbol…
TIL that in addition to using the stars, Micronesians navigated the Pacific by recognizing and interpreting different type of ocean swells, even using them to pinpoint the existence of islands hundreds of miles away. Marshallese islanders additionally made stick maps of these ocean swell patterns.
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Marshall Islands stick chart
Micronesian navigational aid
TIL that John Ratcliffe (the bad guy in Pocahontas) was actually for trading with Native American Indians and was disliked for doing this by his fellow colonists. He was eventually killed by Native Americans though by being skinned alive from the feet up by mussel shells
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John Ratcliffe (governor)
Colonial governor of Virginia
TIL India faces 50 year cycles of rat floods. The cycle is driven by the flowering cycle of bamboo that produces excesses of seeds that increase the rat population. The last mautam (Melocanna baccifera driven event) occured 2007-8 and the next thingtam (Bambusa tulda driven) is to occur in 2025-6.
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Mautam
cyclic ecological phenomenon
TIL Hall of Fame QB Bret Favre almost died in a car accident at age 22, less than a mile from his destination. His car flipped three times, was freed after his brother smashed the windows with a golf club, and later had 30in of his small intestines removed by doctors.
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Brett Favre
Brett Lorenzo Favre (/fɑːrv/ (listen) FARV; born October 10, 1969) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 20 seasons, primarily with the Green Bay Packers. Favre had 321 consecutive starts from 1992…
TIL during a preview of the Sistine Chapel paintings, one of the Pope's men criticized all the "disgraceful" nudity. So Michaelangelo painted the critic's likeness into the Last Judgement, wearing nothing but a snake that's biting his dick.
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Biagio da Cesena
Papal Master of Ceremonies