TIL the Laotian rock rat, deemed extinct for 11 million years, was rediscovered in Laos along the Mekong river being sold as meat at a local street market in 2005
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TIL the Laotian rock rat, deemed extinct for 11 million years, was...
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TIL that in 2012 a Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao announced to offered $65m to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter Gigi Chao. He later doubled his offer to $130m. After this Gigi said in an open letter that "I think I'll marry a man when he marries a man."
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The Independent
Gigi Chao, lesbian daughter of Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao, appeals to father over 'marriage bounty'
The daughter of a billionaire property tycoon who doubled a marriage bounty on her head has published an open letter asking her father to accept her for who she is.
TIL the summit of Mt. Everest has just become another "tourist spot" for the rich and you can go despite having no prior mountain climbing experience
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Submitted October 07, 2019 at 04:52PM by rhophiehalul78
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Mount Everest deaths: 'Traffic jam' to blame? Why such a deadly season
TIL when John Bardeen won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, the Swedish king criticized him for not bringing his children to the ceremony. Bardeen promised he would bring them the next time he won - and in 1972, he did when he became the first person to win 2 prizes in the same field.
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John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer
TIL That South Park episodes are written, recorded, and animated in 6 days. This is done so the show can comment on current events close to when they happen.
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Submitted October 07, 2019 at 05:46PM by FractalCycle
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6 Days to Air
2011 television documentary film directed by Arthur Bradford
TIL The mother of a sick baby asked Ronaldo for an autographed shirt so she could sell it for the baby's treatment. He sent her a signed shirt and cheque for $83,000.
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Cristiano pagará la operación de un niño con displasia cortical
Le pidieron una camiseta y unas botas para recaudar fondos y el jugador decidió pagar la intervención de un niño de Villaluenga de la Sagra. Cuesta 60.000 euros.
TIL that Isaac Newton studied alchemy, tried to put all the world's religious histories together into one timeline, thought Atlantis was real, associated with secret societies like the Freemasons, and predicted the end of the world in 2060.
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Isaac Newton's occult studies
Works by Newton now seen as non-scientific
TIL Canada once minted a $1 million dollar coin, which was promptly stolen and never found.
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Submitted October 07, 2019 at 08:11PM by ScamSchoolBrian
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TIL Canada once minted a $1 million dollar coin, which was...
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TIL penguins need their feet to be bare despite walking on ice. Their bodies are so well insulated that they need the freezing cold to help regulate their body temperature and keep it from overheating.
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TIL walking before solving a problem improves your creativity by an average of 60%.
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Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. They examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person's creative output increased by an average of 60 percent when walking.
TIL that if a flat worm's head is cut off, not only does it regrow its head and brain, but the new brain contains all the memories of the old brain.
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Grist
Cut off this worm’s head, and it will grow back with the same memories
If you snip off a planarian’s head and tail, one worm can become three worms. And all three may share the same memories.
TIL that Americans are the most charitable people in the world. "Americans are about twice as generous in their private giving as Canadians, and 3-15 times as charitable as the residents of other developed nations. Americans also volunteer more than almost any other wealthy people."
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TIL: The guy who played Carlo in the Godfather shot and killed a member of the Medellin Cartel who was harassing a female patron in his casino and who had stabbed him with a broken bottle. Pablo Escobar put out a hit until he realized the target was in one of his favorite movies.
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Gianni Russo
American Actor
Today I learned about Project 100,000, which saw nearly 354,000 intellectually, physically, or mentally impaired men and women drafted into the US military during the height of the Vietnam war, going on to suffer casualty rates three times higher than that of normal soldiers.
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HistoryNet
McNamara's Boys
In 1966 the U.S. military desperately needed more troops in Vietnam. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had a plan to get them
TIL that the model for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Marge Champion, is still alive and turned 100 this year.
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Marge Champion
American dancer, choreographer, and actress
TIL that Levi's doesn't know the significance of most of their historical trademarks, including their three-digit model numbers (e.g. 501) or the arc design stitched on their back pockets. This is because all of their records were lost with their headquarters in the 1906 San Francisco fire.
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TIL of the 'Merci Train'. 49 box cars sent from France to the US filled with personal items donated by the French people as a 'Thank You' for food & supplies donated to them following WW2. One car was delivered to each state, and many states still have theirs housed in local museums.
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Merci Train
gift boxcars sent from France to the US in 1949
TIL humans can't actually smell metal. Instead, whenever we touch metals it is a reaction between oils on our skin and the metals which we are smelling.
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Nature
A 'metallic' smell is just body odour : Nature News
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TIL Eisenhower visited Taiwan in 1960 and an estimated 650,000 people packed into the Presidential Plaza to hear the American president. He lauded President Chiang for his courage and tireless effort in leading the nation in the struggle against inhuman tyranny
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The Chinese Like Ike
TIL about Ten Cent Beer Night, a MLB promotion on June, 4, 1974, between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers, at Cleveland Stadium, leading to a riot between the teams and fans. Cleveland’s manager sent his team on to the field, with bats, in order to protect the Texas team from drunken fans.
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Submitted October 08, 2019 at 03:40PM by Angry0tter
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HardballTalk
Happy 45th birthday to Ten Cent Beer Night
Baseball has an attendance problem. Maybe they should do it again?
TIL that the world's largest cannabis grow-op is Canada's Aurora Sky near Edmonton, Alberta. The 800,000 sq. ft. greenhouse is the size of 14 football fields and produces 8,000 kg (17,363 lbs) of marijuana (roughly 12 million joints) per month.
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Aurora Sky's the limit at massive cannabis facility built to harness the power of the sun | CBC News
From the "mother room" where baby buds begin, to the glass ceiling that melts snow and reuses the water, the Aurora Sky cannabis facility in Leduc is harnessing efficiency and innovation to build a very green future.