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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Wikipedia
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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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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Wikipedia
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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Wikipedia
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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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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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
TIL Malcolm X said that white people could not join his black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity, but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Brown was a famous abolitionist convicted and hanged for treason after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.
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Wikipedia
John Brown (abolitionist)
American abolitionist
TIL: Brushing your teeth can significantly reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
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www.heart.org
Bad tooth-brushing habits tied to higher heart risk
When it comes to heart health, there may be benefits to brushing your teeth twice a day for two minutes, a new study suggests.
TIL Goodhart's Law, the principle that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. For example, when a government tries to bring down unemployment figures to demonstrate how well the economy is doing, unemployment figures stop being a good measure of the economy.
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Wikipedia
Goodhart's law
adage that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
TIL that anonymous launched operation Chanology and sent thousand of all black faxes to the church of scientology to deplete their ink cartridges. This along with many other actions was done in response to the church's attempt to remove material from a 2008 interview with scientologist Tom Cruise.
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Project Chanology
Project Chanology (also called Operation Chanology) was a protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous, a leaderless Internet-based group. The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology's attempts…
TIL in World War 2, German POWs in America were shocked by how African Americans were treated. This was due to the prisoners working alongside them in the fields, allowing them to become closer over their shared labour.
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Medium
Even Nazi prisoners of war in Texas were shocked at how black people were treated in the South
In Texas, some of the Germans actually befriended Americans of all colors
TIL Theo Jansen has been creating strandbeesten, which are moving kinetic structures, sometimes wind-propelled, that resemble walking animals. All of his models are based on a system of triangles and connecting links which convert the rotation of an axle into a stepping motion of six or more legs.
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YouTube
STRANDBEEST EVOLUTION 2017
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Numerous specimen of the Strandbeest evolution on music of Khachaturian's Spartacus. It open the archives of fossils. Theo Jansen's work since 1990. He tries to make new forms of live on beaches. His animals get their energy from the…
Numerous specimen of the Strandbeest evolution on music of Khachaturian's Spartacus. It open the archives of fossils. Theo Jansen's work since 1990. He tries to make new forms of live on beaches. His animals get their energy from the…