TIL about Winston County, Alabama, which during the American Civil War attempted to cede from the Confederacy and become a free republic, as the lack of any plantations and resulting rarity of slaveholders in the region gave the locals little reason to sympathize with the rebel cause
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 04:24AM by BrokenEye3
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Republic of Winston
Former un-recognized Republic
TIL that the jacuzzi was invented by Candido Jacuzzi to provide pain relief for his 15-month-old son, Kenny Jacuzzi, who was born with rheumatoid arthritis.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 05:18AM by AMobOfDucks
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Candido Jacuzzi
American inventor
TIL, “Meatless Monday” was originated by the FDA in WWI to help support the war effort, by limiting the need to ration by the military, and feed the people of Europe.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 03:15AM by cixelsyd17
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History of Meatless Mondays | The History Kitchen | PBS Food
On her website ToriAvey.com, Tori Avey explores the story behind the food – why we eat what we eat, how the recipes of different cultures have evolved, and how yesterday’s recipes can inspire us in the kitchen today. Learn more about Tori and The History…
TIL that a Soviet teenager Zinaida Portnova killed over 100 Nazis by poisoning them, Betrayed and captured, she is said to have shot the Nazi detective who captured her.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 08:56AM by ItsBlare
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Zinaida Portnova
Soviet partisan
TIL about an experimental social movement created by high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. It quickly got out of control and he had to stop it. There was even a resistance movement that had formed.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 07:35AM by kdcj
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The Wave that changed the world
The classroom guards, symbolic armbands and secret salutes carried out by members of an elite student movement at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto may have ended decades ago, but that brief, ominous week in April 1967 when a history lesson took an unexpected…
TIL a bone marrow transplant recipient’s blood type eventually changes to match the blood type of the donor.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 07:00AM by GrayWalle
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TIL The Largest Prison Strike In The History Of The U.S. (24,000 Prisoners) Was In 2016 Over Prison Slavery, Poor Wages and living conditions. The Strike Received Very Little Mainstream Media Coverage
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 12:40PM by heyImjustdave
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2016 U.S. prison strike
American prison labor strike
TIL when Paul Verhoeven first received the noscript for Robocop, he threw it away in disgust after glancing through it. His wife picked it up from the bin and read through it more thoroughly, and persuaded him that it had more substance than he initially thought.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 01:30PM by Tokyono
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RoboCop
1987 science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven
TIL: 7,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert and the Arabian desert were actually grassland suitable for pastoral farming
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 03:00PM by marzipanmaddox
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African humid period
The African humid period (AHP) is a climate period in Africa during the Holocene during which northern Africa was wetter than today. It was caused by changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun, and involved changes in vegetation and dust in the Sahara that altered…
TIL about Lawrence John Ripple, a man who robbed a bank to get away of his wife, but ended up being sentenced to house arrest.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 12:08PM by sorynell
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The Independent
Pensioner who robbed bank to escape wife sentenced to house arrest
A Kansas man who robbed a bank to get away from his wife has been sentenced to six months house arrest as his punishment due to his mental health. Lawrence John Ripple, 70, walked into the Bank of
TIL that in 1921 private police in the US dropped bombs and mustard gas on a coal miners' camp when they went on strike for better working conditions
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 03:47PM by srsly_its_so_ez
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Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century…
TIL of Koko the Gorilla. She knew 2,000 words of spoken English and could form 1,000 different signs of Gorilla Sign Language. One day she told her mentor that she wanted to be a mother, so she gave her a kitten who Koko named. After it died, Koko expressed grief.
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Koko (gorilla)
female gorilla research subject
TIL that Spanish conquistadors in America didn't realize the true value and rarity of platinum and only cared about gold, but counterfeiters would use platinum to make fake gold and silver, so the Spaniards would dump any confiscated platinum into the sea to try and combat this forging problem
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Platinum coin
Platinum coins are a form of currency. Platinum has an international currency symbol under ISO 4217 of XPT. The issues of legitimate platinum coins were initiated by Spain in Spanish-colonized America in the 18th century and continued by the Russian Empire…
TIL that Mozart had an extreme dislike for the soprano Adriana Ferrarese del Bene. She had a strange tendency to bob her head to low and high notes, and knowing this, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece with constant harmonic leaps. He took great pleasure watching her bob her head "like a chicken".
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 05:29PM by VictorJ45
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Opera Omaha | Did You Know...Così Fan Tutte Edition
Join Opera Omaha for its 2019-2020 season filled with incredible productions including, Madama Butterfly, The Abduction from the Seraglio and the third annual ONE Festival, featuring St. John the Baptist and The Capulets and the Montagues.
TIL Psychology researchers found that pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat. Embracing your darker moods can make you feel better in the long-run.
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Berkeley News
Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
Embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in the long run, psychologists find
TIL that Steve Jobs had the only form of pancreatic cancer that was treatable and curable, but relied heavily on alternative medication, which largely attributed to his death.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 08:27PM by Workodactyl
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Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a match through Tinder with a woman camping 45 minutes away.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 07:19PM by TheFineMantine
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Tinder Makes Its First Match in Antarctica
Once it was just lonely penguins getting lucky in Antarctica, but now a scientist has proved that Tinder works in…
TIL that the term “Peeping Tom” originates from the time Lady Godiva rode her horse naked around Coventry in protest at her husband’s (Earl of Mercia) tax increases. She asked people not to look but a man named Thomas did and according to legend, was struck blind.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 04:08PM by StypticParasite
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Lady Godiva
Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Countess of Leicester
TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils
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Tadj ol-Molouk
Tâj ol-Moluk Âyromlu (Persian: تاج الملوک آيرملو, born Nimtâj Âyromlu (Persian: نیمتاج آیرملو; 17 March 1896 – d. 10 March 1982) was Queen of Iran as the wife of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran between 1925 and 1941. The noscript…
TIL that till 2016 Michael Caine's legal name was Maurice Micklewhite. He legally changed it to Michael Caine because of the rise in airport security checks. Airport security guards know him as Michael Caine but his passport had a different name which made him wait hours.
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Submitted October 05, 2019 at 11:10PM by mayank4278
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the Guardian
My name is Michael Caine … actor changes name due to Isis
Frustrated by airport security staff, actor Maurice Micklewhite has decided to subsume his birth name to his showbiz moniker for good
TIL all audience members on Judge Judy are paid actors and in order to be able to attend a taping of the show, the actors need to be a member of the Screen Actor's Guild (although some exceptions are occasionally made)
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Submitted October 06, 2019 at 12:53AM by tokoolfourskool
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Judge Judy Free TV Show Tickets
Judge Judy Free Tickets. Smart, savvy and strongly opinionated, Judge Judith Sheindlin holds court as presiding judge over real-life cases on reality courtroom show Judge Judy.