TIL: Female Atlantic right whales lower their voices to a whisper when communicating with their young to prevent “eavesdropping” by predators
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South China Morning Post
Whales ‘whisper’ to keep young safe near predators
Using suction cups, scientists attached microphones to Atlantic right whales to study their voice patterns.
TIL that in WWII, an Australian soldier removed his own appendix in the middle of a Philippine jungle in 1944, without any anaesthetic and with only the use of a mirror and an ordinary knife. The operation took 4 and a half hours and he stitched himself up with jungle fibre.
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Trove
GENERAL SAYS MC WINNER EARNED VC Surgical drama of Mindanao jungle - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 15 Jan 1948
BRISBANE, Wed: In the Mindanao jungle in 1944 a soldier, with the aid of a mirror, removed his own appendix without ether. Today, at Government House, he received the Military Cross and bar for a ...
TIL that pirates were considered "Hostis humani generis" (the enemy of all mankind) and it was the universal right and duty of all nations to capture any pirates they encountered and execute them if found guilty. Even in modern days piracy is considered a special crime of universal jurisdiction.
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Hostis humani generis
legal term for criminals beyond any legal protection
TIL that pre WWII socialite Peggy Guggenheim admitted to having slept with 1,000 men, and when asked how many husbands she has had, Peggy replied "You mean my own, or other people's?".
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Peggy Guggenheim
American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite
TIL A suspected rhino poacher who illegally entered a national park in South Africa was trampled to death by an elephant then eaten by a pride of lions. His accomplices told the man's family they moved his body to a road & left the park. Park rangers said lions left only the man's skull & trousers.
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TIL A suspected rhino poacher who illegally entered a national...
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TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
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TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated...
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TIL the New York City Blackout of 1977 helped ignite the Hip-Hop scene. Prior to the outage, there was only a handful of DJ’s in the area, which was suffering economically. After, there were over a 1000 DJ’s due to people looting the music equipment stores during the blackout. Hip-hop had exploded.
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Ambrosia For Heads
40 Years Ago A New York City Blackout Turned Up The Power On Hip-Hop (Video)
Thursday (July 13) marks the 40th anniversary of New York City's infamous 1977 electricity blackout. This was a pivotal moment in Hip-Hop history which ignited a surge in the formation…
TIL During WW1 Germany refused to feed occupied Belgium, which was blockaded and unable to fulfill its food demands. In response Herbert Hoover established the Commission for Relief in Belgium. The CRB shipped 5.7 million tons of food and fed 11 million Belgians between 1914 and 1919.
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Commission for Relief in Belgium
organization
TIL that since roosters crow at an average of 130 decibels, their external auditory canals close off completely when they fully open their beak. This prevents them from damaging their own hearing when they crow.
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Science
How roosters protect themselves from their own deafening crows
New research locates the defense mechanism
TIL during 2005 in Glendale, CA a suicidal man parked his car in front of a commuter train. The train derailed and collided with two additional trains resulting in over a 100 casualties. The man survived and was sentenced to life without parole.
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2005 Glendale train crash
in downtown Los Angeles, California, US
TIL that a booker for WCW once told Mark Calaway, then using the name Mean Mark Callous, that nobody would ever pay to see him wrestle. The next year he left the company and joined WWF and started wrestling as The Undertaker
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The Undertaker
American professional wrestler
TIL of "Hammer" Simwinga, a Zambian man who has helped stop poaching in North Luangwa Nat'l Park. Most villages near the park relied on poaching for income. Simwinga eliminated the need for poaching for 35K+ people in 60 villages by teaching sunflower planting, beekeeping, & sustainable farming.
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TIL of "Hammer" Simwinga, a Zambian man who has helped stop...
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TIL Pacific Gas & Electric attempted to build a nuclear reactor In Bodega Bay CA where the San Andreas Fault line ran directly through the reactor core. Protests by locals were ignored until an 8.6 earthquake in Alaska caused them to be listened to.
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Sonoma Magazine
Nuclear Fault Line – Bodega Head
In 1958, Pacific Gas & Electric believed Bodega Head was the ideal place for a power plant....
TIL in WWI, a German ship made its way to a British colony about 1700 km off the tip of India. The captain of the ship was surprised when he was welcomed. No news of the war had reached the colony. The ship was repaired and restocked, and in thanks, the captain had a local’s boat fixed.
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WAR HISTORY ONLINE
Daring and Elusive - SMS Emden and Her Crew have Inspired 100 Years of Film and Stories
“She wanted to disturb the British supply lines like a wolf breaking into the sheepfold; doing as much damage as she could while avoiding superior enemy
TIL in Ontario, anyone living within 50km of a nuclear plant can order free iodine tablets for use in the event of a nuclear accident. Anyone within 10km receives them by mail automatically.
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preparetobesafe.ca
Ki Pills - Prepare to be Safe
Learn about potassium iodide (KI) pills and use our map to find out if your home or business will be receiving a supply of KI pills in the mail.
TIL Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto, has finally visited it, as his ashes are aboard the New Horizons spacecraft that completed a Pluto flyby in 2015.
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Business Insider
A man’s cremated ashes are heading to Pluto on a space probe, and it’s the longest known post-mortem flight
Clyde Tombaugh caught the first glimpse of Pluto in 1930. An ounce of his cremated remains is en route to Pluto on the New Horizon spacecraft.
TIL during Napoleon’s Russia campaign, one of his soldiers had a mare who attacked people she didn’t like. In one battle, when a Russian soldier stabbed the mare in the thigh, she tore off his face. She then went on a rampage and tore apart another Russian soldier, mashing his body under her feet.
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Hoover Institution
Fightin’ and Writin’
Military memoirs high and low
TIL Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.
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Jalopnik
Audi Is Designing Extra Loud Horns For India
In India, honking is not used as a sign of aggression; it's just how you get through the country's massive, chaotic streams of traffic. Audi is now designing louder, longer-lasting horns specifically for the Indian market.
TIL that "a moron in a hurry" is a legal test for trademark infringement in which two trade marks are considered to be different enough from each other to coexist if only a moron in a hurry would confuse them. This test has been applied in cases in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.
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A moron in a hurry
English legal test for trademark infringement
TIL - the entity known as "the Satan" first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a heavenly prosecutor. His mandate is to test the loyalty of God's followers in the nation of Judah by forcing them to suffer.
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Submitted January 13, 2020 at 03:55PM by cluthais
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Satan
Christian devil
TIL: The coldest ever recorded temperature in Singapore is 67F. The warmest temperature is 97F meaning there's only a 30 degree difference between the warmest and coldest temperatures.
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Geography of Singapore
Singapore is a very small, heavily urbanised, island city-state in Southeast Asia, located at the end of the Malayan Peninsula between Malaysia and Indonesia. Singapore has a total land area of 724.2 square kilometres (279.6 sq mi).