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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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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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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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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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
TIL that in the D-Day landings of 1944, only about 14 percent of the force were infantry, 6 percent were tank crews, and the rest were "rear area functions," - Logistics, medical staff, etc.
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TIL Minnesota isn't the land of 10,000 lakes, but is the land of over 14,300 (named) lakes.
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Minnesota: Land of How Many Lakes? | Minnesota Sea Grant
Growing up in Minnesota, I felt some pride that we must be the most "lakey” state in the nation because we had 10,000 lakes. Of course, I didn’t think we had exactly 10,000 of them, but I could imagine the consternation early explorers would have felt had…
TIL the original Ninja Turtles comic was full of references to Daredevil: they got their powers after a blind man was hit by a truck carrying radioactive ooze (just like in DD), their main enemy clan was The Foot (in DD it's The Hand), and their sensei was Splinter (like DD's mentor: Stick).
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)
American comic book published by Mirage Studios, started in May 1984
TIL Bruce Springsteen's hit "Born in the U.S.A." isn't celebrating patriotism, but criticizing war, and relating veterans' hardships
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TIL that the sons of Chang and Eng Bunker, who were the origin of the term "Siamese Twins" for conjoined twins, fought on the Confederate side during the US Civil War. Chang's son Christopher and Eng's son Stephen both fought as Confederate Cavalrymen, in separate units.
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Chang and Eng Bunker
The origins of the phrase “Siamese Twins,” Chang and Eng Bunker were conjoined twins who operated a plantation in North Carolina during the Civil War. Born...
TIL that seaweeds, like kelp, are not plants. They belong in the kingdom Protista. Seaweeds lack the vascular system and roots of a plant; they can absorb the water and nutrients they need directly from the ocean.
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Portsmouth Herald
Seaweed actually not plants at all
The jury is out on seaweeds; some people probably hear the word and think about sushi, some think about beautiful underwater seaweed forests floating up toward the sun, gently swaying with the curren…
TIL in 2011, a South Korean mall had to be evacuated after a 17-person dance class matched the natural resonance of the building it to violently shake for 10 minutes
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Submitted August 26, 2022 at 09:14PM by CWHzz
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Techno Mart
Techno Mart refers to either of two different shopping malls in Seoul, South Korea. The Gangbyeon branch, located in Gwangjin District, contains an estimated 2000 electronics and appliances stores. The Sindorim branch is located in Guro District.
TIL: Gaston Glock began as a manufacturer of curtain rods in the 1960s, and knives for the Austrian military in the 1970s, and did not design or manufacture a firearm until he was 52 years old
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Gaston Glock
Austrian engineer and CEO of firearms manufacturer Glock