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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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 06:47AM by Liz-Bien
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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
TIL Indian King Tipu Sultan made a life sized model of a Tiger mauling a British soldier called 'Tipu's Tiger' to intimidate the British.
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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 12:19PM by NisERG_Patel
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Tipu's Tiger
Tipu's Tiger or Tippu's Tiger is an eighteenth-century automaton or mechanical toy created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near life-size European man. Mechanisms…
TIL, Synsepalum dulcificum is a plant in the Sapotaceae family known for its berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods (such as lemons and limes) subsequently consumed to taste sweet
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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 01:39PM by orpheun
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Synsepalum dulcificum
miracle fruit, causes sour foods to taste sweet
TIL: In 1990 a courier was robbed on a street in London, England. The robber made off with bearer bonds to the value of £292 million. Today, this is equivalent to £758 million - or $1.086 billion USD. This is still the highest amount ever stolen in a street robbery.
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City bonds robbery
1990 heist in London
TIL that the city of Isfahan immediately surrendered to the turco-Mongol conqueror Timur and was treated with mercy. The city then killed Timur’s tax collector and his soldiers. He ordered the massacre of over 100,000 of the cities citizens and built dozens of piles out of their heads as revenge.
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Timur
Timur (Chagatay: تيمور Temür, lit. 'Iron'; 9 April 1336 – 17–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī (Chagatay: تيمور کورگن Temür Küregen), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia…
TIL Vietnam is the second largest exporter of coffee in the world
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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 09:32PM by 6_figures_a_year
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List of countries by coffee production
Wikimedia list article
TIL: Giuseppe Jona (renowned physician) of Venice was demanded by the Nazi’s to hand over a list of all Jews that lived there, which he possessed. On the day of the handover, he burned the list, then killed himself. His actions resulted in only 243 deported Jews and approx. 1,200 saved.
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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 11:23PM by peksislove
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Venezia Autentica | Discover and Support the Authentic Venice
The Greatest Hero Venice Ever Had: History Of Giuseppe Jona
In 1940, Giuseppe accepted to become the Venice rabbi and guide the Jewish community in such hard, disturbing, and dangerous times.
TIL: Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist who graduated from MIT and Caltech, a major contributor to the field of engineering and aerodynamics, worked on the Manhattan Project, deported by the US during the Red Scare to China, and became the "Father of Chinese Rocketry"
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Submitted September 04, 2022 at 11:49PM by Krelius
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Qian Xuesen
Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a Chinese mathematician, cyberneticist, aerospace engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics.…
TIL Arica, Chile is the driest city in the World, with an average of 1.8mm (0.07 in) of rain a year. Some places in the surrounding desert have not received rain in over 500 years.
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Arica
city of Chile
TIL According to his widow, Constanze, Mozart received the commission for composing his Requiem from a mysterious messenger who did not reveal the commissioner's identity, and that Mozart came to believe that he was writing the requiem for his own funeral.
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 12:50AM by Keywhole
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Requiem (Mozart)
The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver…
TIL there's a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Alberta, Canada called "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump." It's where the aboriginal people used to chase buffalo off a precipice and then carve up their remains at their camps below.
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UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by ...
TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 06:09AM by gintokireddit
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The Moveable Fest
The "Harold and Kumar" Scene You Will Never See and 5 Other Highlights from the 10th Anniversary
A full cast and crew reunion at L.A.'s New Beverly Cinema uncovers the scene that was destroyed, how the franchise nearly didn't happen and what inspired it
TIL that there was a porno called "Super Hornio Brothers" starring Ron Jeremy, that Nintendo bought up the rights to stop distribution
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 05:23AM by Mr_Plow97
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Super Hornio Brothers
1993 film by Buck Adams
TIL of the Sama-Bajau, an ethnic group of Maritime Southeast Asia, that live a seaborne lifestyle, many of whom still live in houseboats that roam the Coral Triangle (the waters around the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea)
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 03:53AM by mickeyslim
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Sama-Bajau
indigenous group originating from Bajau island in Anambas Islands Regency, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia
TIL that in his first few appearances, Beetle Bailey was a college student rather than a private, but the strip wasn't successful, so its author had Beetle enlist in the Army shortly after, where he has remained ever since.
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 01:19AM by ShabtaiBenOron
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Bay to Bay News
At 70, Beetle Bailey is still marching, napping
Beetle Bailey is celebrating 70 years. (Courtesy of King Features) DOVER — Our old friend, Beetle Bailey, has been aggravating Sarge and napping on newspaper comics pages for a long, long …
TIL scientists made a computer model and concluded that giraffes would perform poorly compared to other mammals and are hence likely to avoid swimming if possible.
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 07:46AM by sinmantky
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TIL that bishops who are over 80-years-old cannot participate in electing a new Pope
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 09:48AM by gabbledygool
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Papal conclave
meeting to elect a pope
TIL about windcatchers - towers to catch winds for natural ventilation of buildings without electricity. Windcatchers were an important architectural element in Persia and a solution for cooling. The warm air was cooled by the soil and water in the channel and released into the interior.
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Portable fans © 2022
How Ancient People Managed to Stay Cool in Hot Climates?
People in antiquity managed to stay cool in hot and dry climates inventing the geothermal cooling, the fan, evaporating water and catching winds - see more...
TIL Marino Faliero, the only Doge of Venice in history to have been executed for a coup attempt, was erased from all official documentation and had his portrait in the Doge’s Palace painted over with a black cloth.
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 11:31AM by chai-knees
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Walks of Italy
Marino Faliero: The Venetian Doge Written out of History
Soldier, ruler and coup leader, this Doge had it all - until he lost it. Read the story of Marino Faliero, the 55th Doge of Venice.
TIL: The most expensive photograph was made by Man Ray and cost $12.4 million
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Submitted September 05, 2022 at 01:33PM by wwqt
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Le Violon d'Ingres
photograph by Man Ray