TIL "High" in High Crimes and Misdemeanors refers to "the office, not the offense" in fact, "the offense may not even be a breach of criminal statute" this is due to more being expected from our leaders and can even include dishonesty and abuse of authority.
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Wikipedia
High crimes and misdemeanors
legal term in the United States Constitution and other documents
TIL that according to MIT, Magic: The Gathering is considered the world's most complex game. A proof shows that optimal play in Magic: The Gathering is so difficult that a computer would be unable to figure out the winner.
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Submitted October 03, 2019 at 02:00AM by PunishingCrab
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MIT Technology Review
“Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game
A new proof with important implications for game theory shows that no algorithm can possibly determine the winner.
TIL Mary Todd Lincoln, upon becoming First Lady, found the White House heavily dilapidated. She proceeded to redecorate the building, purchase multiple custom fine china sets, and accrue a bill that outraged the President.
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China service of the Lincoln administration
The china service of the Lincoln administration generally refers to a set of purple-banded china (porcelain) dishes used for serving and eating food at the White House, home of the President of the United States. Also known as the Lincoln solferino china…
TIL of Lucy Ann Johnson, a woman who disappeared in September 1961. Her husband reported her missing in 1965, and he was suspected of her murder. In 2013, Johnson was found alive. She said that she had left because her husband had been abusive.
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Lucy Ann Johnson
Missing Canadian woman
TIL In 1723 the death rate in London outstripped the birth rate and it remained higher for the next decade. Gin was to blame. Women addicted to Gin neglected their infants or quietened them with Gin.The term 'Mothers Ruin' survives to this day
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Diffordsguide
History of gin (1728 - 1794) London's gin craze
The impact of gin on London’s deprived inner-city population unused to anything stronger than beer has been compared to the effects of crack cocaine on modern day American inner-city ghettos. The period during which gin had its greatest impact in Britain…
TIL some trucks in North Korea are powered by burning charcoal because the price of oil is too high for most citizens.
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Radio Free Asia
Charcoal-powered Vehicles Stage a Comeback in North Korea
With high oil prices, North Koreans have again turned to the cheap but dirty fuel to power trucks.
TIL over 100 marijuana plants sprouted on the Anaheim Stadium playing field in 1976 after The Who played a concert there.
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Los Angeles Times
Some Goose Eggs Are on Anaheim Stadium Scoreboard
Anaheim Stadium's moments of glory are well-documented.
TIL about the Shope papilloma virus, a virus that can cause rabbits to grow "horns" on their head. This may have led to the myth of the jackalope
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Shope papilloma virus
papilloma virus
TIL that in 2009, Tasmanian opium farmers discovered circles and patterns in their crops. It turns out it was wallabies getting high and bouncing around in circles.
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Submitted October 03, 2019 at 05:03PM by VictorJ45
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the Guardian
Wallabies damaging crops in Tasmania poppy fields after getting high
State official talks of problem for suppliers of legally grown opium
TIL that Ryan Gosling gained 60 pounds for a role in Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" by drinking melted Haagen Dazs ice cream when he was thirsty. He was fired days before production began and replaced with Mark Wahlberg.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Ryan Gosling: Why Peter Jackson Fired Me From 'Lovely Bones'
In The Hollywood Reporter's annual actors roundtable discussion, the "Blue Valentine" star says Jackson disapproved of the 60 pounds he'd put on from "melting Haagen Dazs and drinking it."
TIL of The Testimony of Truth, a 4th century Gnostic manunoscript that tells the story of The Garden of Eden from the point of view the serpent, a gnostic symbol for divine wisdom and knowledge, in which it depicts God as jealous and the villain in the story.
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Testimony of Truth
The Testimony of Truth is the third manunoscript from Codex IX of the Nag Hammadi Library. The copy of the manunoscript from the Nag Hammadi Codices is in very poor condition and is almost too fragmentary to read and comprehend. The text is different from many…
TIL: the most celebrated 'toilet attendant' is Victoria Hughes, who for three decades served in a female public toilets in Bristol. Unexpected national fame came her way at the age of 80 in 1977 when she published her memoirs, called Ladies Mile. She revealed to being a confidante of prostitutes.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Fame at last for prostitutes' friend from the ladies loo
Victoria Hughes has become the first professional lavatory attendant to make it into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, that all-devouring leviathan of British heroes and eccentrics.
TIL that when America's first rocket scientist, Robert Goddard, theorized that rockets could reach the moon, the New York Times harshly criticized him and wrote that he "lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 49 years later, Apollo 11 succeeded and the NYT published a retraction.
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delanceyplace
the new york times didn't believe rockets could be used to explore space -- 10/3/19
Today's encore selection -- from The Eagle Has Landed by Jeffrey K. Smith. Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard:
TIL the earth's center is 2.5 years younger than the outside as a result of gravitational time dilation
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Wikipedia
Gravitational time dilation
form of time dilation
TIL Weird Al Yankovich once turned down a 5 million dollar offer to star in a beer commercial, because he felt many of his fans were young and impressionable.
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VVN Music
Weird Al Yankovic Talks About Beer Endorsement He Turned Down
by Andrew Tijs of Undercover 'Weird Al' Yankovic doesn't regret a lot from his career, and that goes for a multi-million dollar beer endo...
TIL ice is a mineral just as much as Quartz is. Ice is a naturally occurring compound with a defined chemical formula and crystal structure, thus making it a legitimate mineral. Its only limitation, in comparison to all other minerals, is that it is not stable at room temperature.
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Geology
Is Water a Mineral? -- Is Ice a Mineral?
The best way to determine if water or ice are minerals is to compare their properties to the definition of the word mineral.
TIL that Six Flags Amusement Park is named that way because of the 6 different flags that have governed over the state of Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. The first Six Flags park was Six Flags Over Texas.
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Six Flags
amusement park operator
TIL Tom Scholz, founder of the band Boston, received bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, and got a job at Polaroid. He used the money to make a studio in his basement, which he used to record 'Boston' by himself. The band was just for touring and vocals.
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Tom Scholz
musician
TIL Jason Statham almost drowned during the filming of The Expendables 3 when a truck's brakes failed and it plunged into the Black Sea, but survived thanks to being an Olympic-class diver.
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Business Insider
Jason Statham Almost Died While Filming 'The Expendables 3'
He handled it ok.
TIL Dartmouth chemistry professor Karen Wetterhahn spilled 1 or 2 droplets of dimethylmercury on her gloved hand while working in a lab. Less than a year later she was dead from poisoning.
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Submitted October 04, 2019 at 03:21AM by esacnitsuj
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Chemistry World
The dangers of dimethylmercury
Looking back at how the death of Karen Wetterhahn changed lab safety
TIL that bats are one of just a few species, besides humans, that communicates directly to individual bats, instead of just making broad communication sounds.
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Submitted October 04, 2019 at 05:15AM by NATOrocket
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Smithsonian
Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot
A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they