TIL a US treasure hunter found over $500M worth in gold and silver from Peru sunk in the Atlantic ocean. A legal fight forced them to return the booty to Spain. Some of the coins reportedly found are still "missing".
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Submitted September 24, 2019 at 02:55PM by NYChamp
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the Guardian
Treasure from sunken galleon must be returned to Spain, judge says
US court says $500m of gold and silver coins recovered by US treasure-hunters from Atlantic in 2007 belongs to Spain
TIL that Soul Asylum’s "Runaway Train" helped find 25 missing children featured in the music video, but also led to a girl being returned to a "bad home situation" and a fireman discovering his daughter was killed by her mother and buried in the mother's backyard.
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Wikipedia
Runaway Train (Soul Asylum song)
"Runaway Train" is a power ballad by American rock band Soul Asylum. Its music video is notable for featuring images of young missing people, although lead singer Dave Pirner states that the lyrics originally described his experience of depression.
TIL The world record for keeping the original 1996/1997 Tamagotchi alive is Age 89 days.
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reddit
TIL The world record for keeping the original 1996/1997 Tamagotchi...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/amansaggu26 • 164 points and 12 comments
TIL A pirate had a bounty of $500 put on him by a governor, so he put an even larger bounty on the governor (reports say either $1500 or $5000).
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Famous-Pirates
Jean Lafitte Biography - Famous Pirate
Jean Lafitte is today remembered as one of the most famous American pirates of the 19th century. During his active years he was celebrated as a hero by the ordinary people and as a criminal by US government. His idolized image of rebellious pirate has survived…
TIL of Jim Shooter, a Comic Book writer who started writing comics at the age of 13 and sent them in to DC comics. The head of DC liked them so much that he immediately commissioned Shooter to write Superman stories. Shooter got a regular position at 14, working to support his struggling parents.
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Jim Shooter
publisher
TIL: Thor Christiansen, a Serial Killer who was only caught because his fifth would-be victim survived a shot to the head. She recognised him months later in a bar and reported him to police. Law enforcement then linked him with four other then-unsolved murders that had a similar MO.
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Thor Nis Christiansen
American serial killer
TIL that in 1914 Capt Campbell, a British POW held in Germany, asked permission from Kaiser Wilhelm II to visit his dying mother in England. The Kaiser agreed, on the condition that Campbell return to the camp, which he did - and remained there until the war ended in 1918.
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BBC News
The British WWI prisoner of war who returned to captivity
A British officer captured during World War I was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return, a historian has discovered.
TIL prison inmates in Ohio made a computer hidden in the ceiling, wich was connected to the prisons network
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Ars Technica
Inmates built computers hidden in ceiling, connected them to prison network
Ohio prison's lax supervision was akin to "an episode from Hogan's Heroes."
TIL that if you don't eat sushi by age 35, there is a 95% chance you never will. As we get older, we are less open to "novelty."
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The New Yorker
Open Season
The New Yorker, March 30, 1998 P. 57
TIL Quokkas have a survival instinct which triggers when a mother is threatened by a predator. She will throw her baby at the predator, which will hiss at the predator while the mother makes her escape.
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Submitted September 24, 2019 at 10:10PM by LeafyG
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Mentalfloss
6 Things to Know About the Super Cute Quokka
In which we discover why the quokka is smiling.
TIL over 15 to 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' "Stranger Things" series, saying no one would be interested in a Sci-Fi horror that revolves around kid protagonists. One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead.
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CNBC
35-year-old brothers who created 'Stranger Things' got rejected by over 15 networks before Netflix said yes
Twins Ross and Matt Duffer nearly gave up on "Stranger Things" before Netflix finally picked it up with the brothers signed on to write, direct and produce.
TIL A train company invented a way to ship oil without pipelines; bitumen is converted into a solid product and sealed in plastic made from recyclables. The pucks are designed to be transported in regular container cars by train and loaded onto cargo ships at coal terminals. They float too!
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Submitted September 25, 2019 at 03:12AM by Lepidopterex
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CBC
CN Rail, First Nation plan to break ground on new 'bitumen puck' facility this year | CBC News
CN Rail and an Alberta First Nation want to start construction on a new facility to produce bitumen pucks this year and begin shipping the product around the world before the end of 2020.
TIL about Dr Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to get a PhD in Chemistry in Germany in 1900. She assisted with the weaponisation of Mustard gas, which was subsequently used on the frontlines in 1915. During a party to celebrate it's successful use, she committed suicide by shooting herself.
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Wikipedia
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist
TIL that Ben Stiller came up with the idea for "Tropic Thunder" while working on the set of Steven Spielberg's WW2 drama "Empire of the Sun" and seeing actors come back from "fake" Army boot camp and treating it like a real war experience.
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ComingSoon.net
Ben Stiller Feels the Tropic Thunder - ComingSoon.net
Directing and starring in the ensemble war comedy
TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber. It is full of feathers.
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Submitted September 25, 2019 at 04:32AM by Dieheartfan
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TIL that, despite being 10 times smaller than California, The Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural and food products: In addition, Dutch farms are some of the most water-efficient in the world
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Submitted September 25, 2019 at 11:44AM by JanjaRobert
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Magazine
This Tiny Country Feeds the World
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
TIL Pakistan arrested the doctor who helped CIA detect and confirm Osama bin laden's hideout by running DNA test obtained through a fake hepatitis camp run by Doctor shakil afridi. He was ordered 33 years in prison for treason against his country by giving info to CIA.
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The New Indian Express
Pakistan court accepts review petition of jailed doctor who helped CIA track down Osama
Dr. Shakeel Afridi, a 57-year-old former surgeon of Khyber Agency, had run a false vaccination campaign in Abbottabad to help the CIA track down Osama bin Laden.
TIL: Quaker Oats fed radioactive milk and oatmeal to unsuspecting special needs kids under the guise of a science club in order to find out how beneficial certain nutrients were in their oats.
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Submitted September 25, 2019 at 02:41PM by Inquisitive_Imp
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Smithsonian
A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down
When MIT and Quaker Oats paired up to conduct experiments on unsuspecting young boys
TIL Astronomers discovered a bizarre rogue planet wandering the Milky Way. The free-range planet, which is nearly 13 times the mass of Jupiter and does not orbit a star, also displays stunningly bright auroras that are generated by a magnetic field 4 million times stronger than Earth's.
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Submitted September 25, 2019 at 05:44PM by clayt6
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Astronomy.com
Astronomers discover a free-range planet with incredible magnetism
A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from Earth. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world h
TIL of "Word of Faith", a global evangelical movement that "renounces poverty" as a requirement to glorify god. The movement encourages followers to give the church as much of their income as they can with the promise it will come back 10-fold. Also, Joel Osteen is worth $60m.
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Submitted September 25, 2019 at 06:11PM by LavaSquid
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Wikipedia
Word of Faith
Evangelical Christian movement which teaches that Christians can access the power of faith or fear through speech
TIL: Medieval scribes would frequently scribble complaints in the margins of books as they copied them, as their work was so tedious. Recorded complaints range from “As the harbor is welcome to the sailor, so is the last line to the scribe.”, to “Oh, my hand.” and, "A curse on thee, O pen!"
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Submitted September 25, 2019 at 08:15PM by Tokyono
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Bookstellyouwhy
The Humorous and Absurd World of Medieval Marginalia
Copying books was tedious work. That's why medieval scribes carved out a space for themselves in the margins.