TIL of the The Fort Worth Perfume Panic of 2009, a smell began wafting through a Fort Worth call center that someone quickly recognized as a poisonous carbon monoxide leak. 34 people were hospitalized but no gas leak was ever found. The strange odor that people were complaining about was perfume.
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TIL that IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, was purchased by Amazon in 1998 and has been owned by them since then
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Encyclopedia Britannica
IMDb | History, Features, & Facts
IMDb, in full Internet Movie Database, Web site that provides information about millions of films and television programs as well as their cast and crew. The name is an acronym for Internet Movie Database. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, IMDb…
TIL Devils Hole is a window into a vast aquifer and an unusual indicator of seismic activity around the world. The pool reacts to large quakes far away. Quakes in Mexico, Japan, Indonesia and Chile have caused water to ‘slosh’ around like water in a bathtub (up to two meter waves)
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SPOOKY GEOLOGY
Devil's Hole – SPOOKY GEOLOGY
TIL That a prisoner attempted to sue Satan and his Staff. One of several reasons the case was dismissed was that that Satan was a foreign prince. And if sued as a defendant, he would be able to claim sovereign immunity from suit.
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United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff
United States federal court case
TIL about the Manna of Saint Nicholas, a pleasant smelling liquid that is extracted from the remains of Saint Nicholas of Bari every year and is believed to help cure ailments by drinking the pure manna mixed with holy water or applying it the area of a body that is sick.
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St. Nicholas Center
Devotion & Use of Manna - St. Nicholas Center
Everything about St Nicholas: stories, customs, crafts & more.
TIL The head of the Gestapo during WW2, Heinrich Muller, was never found. Multiple conflicting stories about his death or survival exist, and he's one of the highest ranking 'missing' Nazis.
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Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)
German police official and head of the Gestapo (1900-1945)
TIL the famous basilica of La Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain, cannot be funded by corporate donations or government fundings, according the will of its late designer and architect Antoni Gaudí, which among other things made it hard to complete the construction of the building still underway
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euronews
Why has Barcelona's Sagrada Familia taken so long to complete?
Land was first purchased for the church over one hundred years ago. COVID-19 delays have taken its completion in 2026 from a certainty to a definite-maybe.
TIL Tonic water was created as an early prophylactic treatment against Malaria (due to the added Quinine) by the British army. They added Gin to improve taste and now we have the G&T.
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Submitted September 03, 2022 at 07:21PM by miniclaw
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Thehindu
Why Indian tonic waters, created by British soldiers to combat malaria, are seeing a resurgence
The drinks originated here in 1825 when British Army officers stationed in India began blending quinine with sugar, water and gin to create a multi-tasking, malaria-fighting, accidentally delicious sundowner. Now, pair them with gin, whisky or even coffee
TIL of Alice Nutter, an English woman who was hanged after a 9 year old accused her of being a witch
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Submitted September 03, 2022 at 07:36PM by RiskyyyRondo
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Alice Nutter (alleged witch)
accused in the Pendle witch hunt
TIL Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is the coldest national capital in the world, with a January average of -21.6C (-6.5F).
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Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar (/ˌuːlɑːn ˈbɑːtər/; Mongolian: Улаанбаатар, pronounced [ʊˌɮaːm‿ˈpaːʰtə̆r] (listen), lit. "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia. It is the coldest capital city in the world. The municipality…
TIL the 1988 Camelford Water Disaster was the UK's worst mass poisoning event. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water supply, leading thousands to become sick. Inquests on people who died many years later found very high levels of aluminium in the brain.
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Camelford water pollution incident
mass poisoning
TIL Kentucky statesman Henry Clay made the first known import of Hereford cattle into the United States in 1817: 1 cow, 1 bull and 1 heifer. The shipment cost him $500. Cattle descended from those Herefords were dubbed "Seventeens" in reference to the year they were brought to the US.
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Herefordamerica
History
Hereford History The Hereford Comes to America Compiled By Jill Hotchkiss and Byron Bayers (Sources: History of Hereford Cattle by T.L. Miller and The Here...
TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them
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Defense Media Network
Operation Paperclip | Defense Media Network
Operation Paperclip, named after the use of the ordinary paperclip attached to the personnel files of select German scientists, was a special operation.
TIL The Assyrians had basic lens technology. One of their creations, the Nimrud lens, dates to 710 BCE, though its purpose is debated. Lenses could have been used to start fires, as decoration, or astronomy tools (with references to the snakes of saturn being the rings or mythology)
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Nimrud lens
piece of rock crystal
TIL Sushi grade and Sashimi grade fish is actually super frozen fish, not fresh fish. It is frozen below -60f. in the usa, there is no regulation, and any supplier can claim sushi grade fish.
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Serious Eats
What Is "Sushi-Grade," Anyway? A Guide to Eating Raw Fish at Home
We spoke to some experts to help demystify what "sushi-" and "sashimi-grade" mean, and to outline best practices for preparing fish at home for raw consumption, whether it's crudo, sashimi, ceviche, or <em>aguachile</em>.
TIL about “ceremonial deism”, a legal principle used by the United States government to justify the usage of the phrase “In God We Trust” on coins and for the national motto. Through customary usage over a long time, the phrase is merely “ritual and non-religious”.
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Ceremonial deism
designation of governmental religious references and practices deemed to be mere ritual and non-religious through long customary usage
TIL in 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe, and were convicted
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Abscam
FBI sting operation
TIL Mark Twain was one of the first American writers to document native islanders surfing in Polynesia. In his 1872 travelogue, “Roughing It”, Twain describes watching it, and even attempts it himself. But only once.
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SURFER Magazine
Surf-Bathing Revisited | SURFER Magazine
A salute to Mark Twain, one of the original “surf writers”.
TIL of Solomon Lefschetz, a mathematician who lost both of his hands in an industrial accident. He would go on to revolutionize algebraic topology and algebraic geometry.
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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 06:12AM by colton5007
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Solomon Lefschetz
Jewish American mathematician (1884-1972)
TIL of B virus, a form of herpes that leads to death in 40% of cases, and another 40% suffer brain damage. It comes from macaques monkeys which are currently an invasive species in a state park in Florida.
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B virus
species of virus
TIL FDR died in the middle of posing for this portrait.
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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 09:38AM by TheAxThatSlayedMe
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Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
watercolor left incomplete by the subject's death