TIL that in 1951, the future President of Botswana (then a member of the Botswanan Royal Family) and his wife were exiled to the UK for 5 years, as the South African government disapproved of their interracial marriage and the UK did not want to imperil their access to cheap resources in SA.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 12:05AM by Apprehensive-Hat-494
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Ruth Williams Khama
First Lady of Botswana (1923-2002)
TIL heavy malt taxation during the Napoleonic wars caused Scotch distilleries to use more raw grains; unintentionally increasing the quality.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 05:23AM by Palorius
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Scotch whisky
malt or grain whisky (or a blend of the two), made in Scotland in a manner specified by law
TIL: Coastal species are using plastic trash as rafts to spread across the oceans
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 06:14AM by nasandre
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Nature
Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas
Nature Communications - Discoveries of persistent coastal species in the open ocean shift our understanding of biogeographic barriers. Floating plastic debris from pollution now supports a novel...
TIL that in Singapore, one would require a permit to own a car known as the Certificate of Entitlement (COE), often costing as much as the vehicle itself, if not more. Introduced in 1990, its implementation is largely due to regulate the growth of cars in the country.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 08:21AM by ExtensionWees
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TIL Sumerians counted with the 3 knuckles of the 4 upper fingers on one hand, then tracked groupings with all 5 fingers on the other hand. This is why seconds and minutes are still measured sexagesimally (base 60 = 3 x 4 x 5)
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 10:12AM by PianoCharged
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TIL the Saturn V rocket, which first took humans to the Moon, weighed just under three million kilogrammes before launch, or roughly the weight of 400 elephants. More than 90% of this weight was fuel alone, leaving a payload of just 43,000 kilogrammes to reach the Moon's orbit.
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Moon dust could be used to make rocket fuel
Moon dust can be used to create the materials needed to explore space.
TIL that you don’t need a state driver’s license to compete in NASCAR.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 03:04PM by ciph_3r
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EssentiallySports
Are NASCAR Drivers Required to Have a Driver's License? - EssentiallySports
All racers require a license to compete and NASCAR is the same. No respectable series is foolish enough to let anybody get in the cars
TIL Hummingbirds have an exceptional memory due to an enlarged hippocampus. This allows them to remember the exact location of specific hummingbird feeders along their migration path from North America to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 04:52PM by Winger52
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Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics around the equator.…
TIL The MS Stockholm, famous for crashing into the SS Andrea Doria and losing her bow, still sails today. The ship has since been transformed into a cruise ship and sails under the name MV Astoria.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 05:18PM by jamescookenotthatone
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MV Astoria
cruise ship, a former ocean liner
TIL that Billy Beane (Oakland A's GM and subject of the book/flim "Moneyball") and Billy Bean (MLB's Ambassador for Inclusion) both played outfield for the same team in 1988 with Pete Rice, and were dubbed the, "Rice and Beans" outfield.
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Outsports
Brad Pitt does not play gay Billy Bean in "Moneyball," he plays straight Billy Beane
The Billys: Bean and Beane
Billy Bean and Billy Beane could not be more different. Yet they...
Billy Bean and Billy Beane could not be more different. Yet they...
TIL that there was a mutualistic relationship between human whalers and orca around twofold bay Australia until 1930, it may have been 1,000s of years old.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 09:29PM by MansfromDaVinci
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Old Tom (orca)
killer whale known to Australian whalers
TIL about Volcanoville, California which got its name from miners' mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 09:36PM by Xerxes2004
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Volcanoville, California
unincorporated community in California
TIL While being interviewed on the set of Conan the Destroyer, Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked about a set of boots he had on from another production, explaining "Oh, some shit movie I'm doing, take a couple weeks." It was The Terminator.
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The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will one…
TIL Thomas Edison controlled most of the film industry in New Jersey which annoyed smaller independent producers and filmmakers. They retaliated by moving their independent films to Hollywood, and eventually became Universal, Paramount and 20th-century Fox.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 11:36PM by SingLikeTinaTurner
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TwentyFlow
How Thomas Edison pushed Hollywood to Fame | TwentyFlow
Hollywood is the capital of the movie industry and Thomas edison played a major role in its origin story. Did you know that before the 20th century, Hollywood was nothing but a small town in California? Read on....
TIL of the McCarthy Massacre, when Louis Hastings intended to cut off the isolated village of McCarthy, Alaska, kill all the residents, dump the bodies on a glacier and destroy a part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. He killed six of the 22 residents before being being arrested.
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McCarthy, Alaska
Small community in southeast Alaska
TIL of Dr. Kathy Sullivan. Sullivan was the first woman to perform a spacewalk in 1984 and the first woman to descend to Challanger Deep, the deepest part of the Ocean, in 2020.
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Submitted September 12, 2022 at 01:09AM by ickydonkeytoothbrush
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Kathryn D. Sullivan
American geologist and NASA astronaut
TIL that the British royal family owns a stamp collection worth £100 million.
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Submitted September 11, 2022 at 10:54PM by cartstanza
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Royal Philatelic Collection
Postage stamp collection of the British Royal Family
TIL that British Royalty used to place wax or wooden figures of the deceased on top of the coffins for display before burial. Afterward, the figures were publicly displayed in Westminster Abbey dressed in the deceased's own clothes. Over 20 of these Funeral Effigies still remain.
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Submitted September 12, 2022 at 12:39AM by AspireAgain
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Westminster Abbey
Funeral and wax effigies | Westminster Abbey
Find out about the funeral effigies at the Abbey.
TIL Bob Mackie designed the Miss Starlett costume Carol Burnett wore on The Carol Burnett Show's "Went with the Wind,” a Gone with the Wind parody. Mackie designed the gown without any help from the comedic team and Burnett said everyone seeing it for the first time couldn't keep a straight face.
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Submitted September 12, 2022 at 01:35AM by WonderWmn212
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National Museum of American History
Miss Starlett costume, worn by Carol Burnett on "The Carol Burnett
“I saw it in a window and just couldn’t resist it,” Carol Burnett remarked about her outrageous “curtain dress,” worn in a comedy sketch that aired on her CBS TV series. Designer Bob Mackie created the costume for the sketch, which was a wild parody of the…
TIL until last year (2021), gas pumps in Hawaii were not allowed to have a hands free mode.
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Submitted September 12, 2022 at 02:56AM by waiting_for_rain
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Hawai'i Public Radio
Hawaiʻi Can Refuel Hands Free With State Fire Code Amendment
Hawaiʻi residents may soon enjoy the addition of gas pump handles with latches.
TIL cyber criminals with the help of A.I voice cloning software, used a deepfaked voice of a company executive to fool a Emirati bank manager to transfer 35 million dollars into their personal accounts. The bank manager had recognized the executive's voice from having worked with him before.
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Submitted September 12, 2022 at 05:17AM by delano1998
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Gizmodo
Bank Robbers in the Middle East Reportedly 'Cloned' Someone's Voice to Assist with $35 Million Heist
Deepfake technology was used to simulate the voice of a bank manager's business associate, which led to illegitimate financial transfers.