TIL in the entire history of the WNBA there has only been 28 dunks performed by 7 different women.
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Slam dunk
basketball technique
TIL 17 yr old future President Herbert Hoover showed great talent on the math entrance exam for Stanford but he never finished high school. He received remedial tutoring in August before he was accepted into the tuition-free university, and he vowed to help other students get a Stanford education
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 04:30AM by Pure_Candidate_3831
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Reassessing Herbert Hoover: the Stanford Techie | Stanford Historical Society
Elena Danielson presentation slides (pdf) It all happened with the speed of a start-up. Right after being hired as Stanford University's founding president in March 1891, David Starr Jordan recruited energetic faculty like math professor Joseph Swain, who…
TIL the French and Spanish have a 600yr old peace treaty requiring payment of 3 cows each year
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 09:06AM by bennovw
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TIL that the lyrics of "Bad Moon Rising" from CCR where often misheard as "there's a bathroom on the right", especially during live performances - prompting John Fogerty to occasionally sing it wrong on purpose to confuse the audience even more.
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 07:54AM by meanbawb
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TIL that during deep sleep, the cerebro-spinal fluid found in the brain and spinal cord flows into the brain and helps carry away waste products, including amyloid proteins that are associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 09:26AM by tidder-wave
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TIL about Ota Benga, an indigenous Mbuti who was featured at a 1904 human zoo (Louisiana Purchase Exposition). There he was kept, caged, with an orangutan as an attempt to ridicule Darwinism. He was given a bow and arrow so as to "enhance the primitive image".
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 04:22AM by CYBORG303
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Til wolverine was created because Marvel's then editor in chief Roy Thomas wanted a Canadian hero to boost north-of-the-border sales
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 02:00PM by JOMO_Kenyatta
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CBR
Weapon X-plained: Wolverine Co-Creator Reveals the Truth Behind His Origin
In a CBR Exclusive, Roy Thomas helps clear up the mysteries around Wolverine's not-so-secret origins.
TIL that the first touch screen in a car was in a 1986 Buick Riviera. The display offered automatic climate control, AM/FM radio with optional graphic equalizer, trip calculations, gauges and even the vehicles diagnostic info. This included status on the powertrain, brake wear and electrical system.
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 05:01PM by VoidOfEndlessDark
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Hagerty Media
Infotainment systems? That’s so 1986
Remembering the ‘86 Buick Riviera’s revolutionary tech.
TIL Hans Christian Ørsted made the first connection between electricity and magnetism, which brought about a communications revolution due to its application to the electric telegraph
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 08:11AM by pufballcat
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Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
TIL Vertus Hardiman, who at age 5 in 1928 was subject to radiation experiments disguised as a new ringworm treatment. He lived 80 years suffering necrosis of his skull, hidden under hats and wigs.
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 06:27PM by Glandrid
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Listen: Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgotten
The final episode of the "Color Code" podcast discusses the story of Vertus Hardiman, a victim of irresponsible medical practices that left him with physical and psychological scars for life.
TIL that the term "millionaire" was first used in the U.S. by Thomas Jefferson in 1786. That is equivalent to approximately $30M today.
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Millionaire
individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency
TIL that scientists trying to study birds in Australia fitted them with tracking harnesses, and the birds helped each other take the harnesses off.
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Submitted August 30, 2022 at 07:14PM by MalC123
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TIL that the popularity of "Doer" names for Boys - like Racer, Trooper, Charger, Wrangler, etc. - rose by 1000% between 1980 and 2000, and has since largely stabilized at around 50,000 "Doer" named Boys per year.
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Namerology
Racer, Trooper, Charger and All the Names that “Do”
It’s not just Carter and Cooper anymore. Check out some of the types of “doer” names that have appeared in the US baby name statistics in recent years: Fishing, hunting, camping: Angler, Camper, Caster, Tracker, Trapper Speed and sport: Catcher, Driver, Fielder…
TIL that blueberries weren’t commercially cultivated until the 1910’s, after a long history as a regional wild food
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TIL while filming “The Other Side Of The Wind” in 1970, director Orson Welles was unable to afford to pay his cinematographer Gary Graver for his work. Instead, Welles gave Graver his Oscar statuette that he had won for Best Original Screenplay for “Citizen Kane” in 1941.
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the Guardian
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane Oscar sells for $860,000
A buyer in the US snaps up Welles's only non-honorary Oscar, awarded for the screenplay for his 1941 masterpiece
TIL About 'Project 100,000', a Vietnam era program to recruit 100,000 men a year to fight America's war in southeast Asia. Many of the recruits were illiterate, had IQs of less than 70, or suffered from other mental or physical impairments. Thousands of the recruits died in combat.
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Task & Purpose
Inside the Pentagon's shameful effort to draft mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam
The story of how men were aggressively recruited and pushed through training without having met even the minimum of standards set for them.
TIL in 1927, 15-year-old tennis player Sidney Wood became the youngest man ever to play Wimbledon. In 1931, aged 19, he became the only person to win Wimbledon by default when his final opponent Frank Shields (Brooke's grandfather) withdrew with an injury. Sidney Wood died in 2009 at the age of 97.
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Sidney Wood
US tennis player
TIL I learned for the Voyager program engineers computed 10,000 potential trajectories. This was done not only to optimize the journey but also avoid having voyager reach a planet at Christmas or Thanksgiving time.
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Submitted August 31, 2022 at 12:54AM by SigmaGrooveJamSet
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Porkchop plot
in astrodynamics, a chart showing contours of equal characteristic energy against combinations of launch date and arrival date for a particular interplanetary flight
TIL about Gardiners Island. 2nd largest private island in the US and owned by the same family since 1639. Located at the east end of Long Island, it's over 5 sq miles with 1,000 acres each of old growth forest and meadows. Captain Kidd buried treasure there, first lady Julia Tyler was born there.
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Submitted August 31, 2022 at 01:49AM by WhyteCross
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Gardiners Island
island in New York, United States
TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named 'Village Idiot'
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Submitted August 31, 2022 at 03:07AM by literally12sofus
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Nickelback
Canadian rock band
TIL 37% of the entire US government budget was pension payments to veterans of the Civil War by 1894.
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Submitted August 31, 2022 at 03:33AM by DontUnclePaul
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Dependent and Disability Pension Act
1890 act that provided pensions for all discharged and disabled veterans