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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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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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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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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Gardiners Island
island in New York, United States
TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named 'Village Idiot'
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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
TIL that a third type of twins exist: "Semi-identical" - When a single egg is fertilized by two sperm and then splits.
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Semi-identical twins 'identified for only the second time'
The boy and girl are identical on their mother's side but share only a proportion of their father's DNA.
TIL The saying 'It's all Greek to me' has dozens of localised variations, including 'That's Chinese to me (Dutch)', 'To me this is Turkish (Venetian)', 'Am I speaking Persian? (Hindi)' and 'It's all Hebrew (Finnish).
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TIL There's a forum community offering $10,000 if someone can prove they have a 10" Johnson. Almost 700 pages and no dice.
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TIL that when sperm whales started getting killed for lamp oil, they were able to develop and spread effective defence tactics across the ocean in just a few years
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How Sperm Whales Learned to Outsmart their Hunters | Wild to Know
The sperm whale is the world’s largest toothed predator. It also has the biggest brain of any animal on earth. This mind has helped them outwit their natural predators, but what happened when sperm whales came up against humans?
With fascinating facts and…
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TIL Chile has such a long coast, in part, because they won all of Bolivia's coast and some of Peru's coast in a late-1800s war. This is still a sensitive issue between Chile and Bolivia today.
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War of the Pacific
The War of the Pacific (Spanish: Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War (Spanish: Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal…
TIL that the word ‘bomb’ refers to bees, because ancients used to throw beehives as an early sort of grenade
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Submitted August 31, 2022 at 04:29PM by darkenedgy
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The Apiarist
Bee bombs - The Apiarist
There are both etymological and practical links between bees and bombs. The words Bombus, bomb and boom share the same origin ... and bee bombs have been widely used during warfare.
TIL that dozens of indigenous women have gone missing in and around the Yakama Reservation in Yakima, Washington, USA. Some have been found dead, and most cases are unsolved.
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The Vanished
TIL of Fidel Castro’s dairy cow, Ubre Blanca, who was specially bred to break the American record in milk production
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Submitted August 31, 2022 at 04:22PM by darkenedgy
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Al Día News
Ubre Blanca, the super cow that Fidel Castro raised to satisfy his dairy addiction
The Cuban dictator had a dairy cow, and no, it's not just any cow.
TIL Passenger pusher has been a profession since atleast the early 1900s. By the 1920s the New York pushers were known and disliked international for their aggressive nature and reputation as "sardine packers".
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Submitted August 31, 2022 at 07:30PM by jamescookenotthatone
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Passenger pusher
worker who pushes people onto the train at a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours