TIL a guy who posted a video of himself viciously abusing a dog got no jail time, was then viciously beat up in a revenge attack by an animal lover, and the animal lover was released after police interrogation.
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Newshub
Dog abuser beaten in revenge attack
A British man filmed viciously abusing his pet dog alongside his brother was forced to call police after becoming the victim of an apparent revenge attack in his Yorkshire home.
TIL Queen Elizabeth has met 12 US presidents during her reign. Which is over a quarter of all presidents since the United States' inception.
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Submitted February 23, 2020 at 12:29AM by nuktl
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Business Insider
What Queen Elizabeth's relationship was like with every US president, from Truman to Trump
Queen Elizabeth II, longest currently-reigning monarch, will greet Trump during his June UK trip. She's met with all but one US president since 1951.
TIL Agatha Christie described the symptoms of thallium poisoning so well in her novel, The Pale Horse, a nurse who read the novel recognized the symptoms in a baby that was dying, and saved it’s life.
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NY Times
Agatha Christie Book Saves an Infant's Life
Brit Journal of Hosp Medicine repts that nurse Marsha Maitland at London's Hammersmith Hosp helped diagnose illness of dying infant who had same symptoms as character in Agatha Christie book The Pale Horse, which she was reading (S)
TIL One reason Action Comics #1 from 1938 is so valuable is because it had a coloring contest which required entrants to tear out the last page of the Superman story in order to enter
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TIL of Adam Clayton, a guy in his 20's who fought for right to die legislation bill C14 in Canada, while dealing with incurable chronic nerve pain. He committed suicide in late 2016.
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YouTube
General Overview
Welcome to my living Hell.
TIL: Hundreds of thousands of Filipino men answered President Truman's call to serve in the US army and resist the Japanese occupation. After the war, he refused to honor promised citizenship and benefits for service. Citizenship would not be granted until the 1990s.
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NBC News
Thousands of Filipino-American WWII Vets Make Appeals Over Equity Pay Denial
Nearly 75 years after he signed up to fight under the U.S. flag, the VA continues to deny recognition of Artemio Caleda’s service.
TIL In the ancient Roman comedic play "The Mother-in-Law," a husband falsely accuses his new wife of infidelity after she gives birth mere months into marriage. A stolen ring reveals he assaulted his future wife in a dark street before they met, and is in fact the father of the child.
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Wikipedia
Hecyra
Ancient Roman play by Terence
TIL when Jesse Owens broke the world record in the 200m dash in 1936, the second place runner—Mack Robinson, brother of baseball legend Jackie Robinson—also broke the previous world record. He worked as a middle school janitor the rest of his life afterward.
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Wikipedia
Mack Robinson (athlete)
Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson (July 18, 1914 – March 12, 2000) was an American track and field athlete. He is best known for winning a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he broke the Olympic record in the 200 meter but still finished behind…
TIL Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting's co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1
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Vox
The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained
Why Americans ration a drug discovered in the 1920s.
TIL that Spirited Away is the only anime ever to have won an Oscar.
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Submitted February 23, 2020 at 12:53PM by HooPyDood
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Wikipedia
Spirited Away
2001 Japanese animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki
TIL that the Apollo astronauts couldn't get life insurance for their unique, dangerous jobs...so they signed hundreds of autographs, which their families would have been able to sell if they didn't make it home.
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Submitted February 23, 2020 at 02:46PM by TwoTheVictor
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TIL that in the 1600s, some monks in Germany only drank beer and water during their 40-day fast for lent. They concocted an “unusually strong” brew, full of carbohydrates and nutrients. In 2011, a journalist attempted to re-create their fast. He lost 25 pounds during the ordeal.
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Catholic News Agency
These 17th century monks did a beer fast for Lent
With the Lenten season fully in swing, Catholics are immersing themselves in 40 days of abstaining from sweets, technology, alcohol and other luxuries.
TIL Microfilm, a way to store documents by photographing them and reducing the size of the photograph up to 99% of the original. Is surprisingly robust, being difficult to destroy and can apparently last up to 900 years.
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TIL Agatha Christie essentially invented the standard modern crime fiction formula that most TV shows follow: A murder is committed, multiple suspects (all concealing secrets), the detective gradually uncovers the secrets, discovering the most shocking twists towards the end and solving the crime.
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Wikipedia
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer
TIL Aaron Burr was the only Founding Father who believed wholeheartedly in women's rights
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Submitted February 23, 2020 at 04:53PM by grahamlester
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Time
Forget Hamilton, Burr Is the Real Hero
We can learn more from him in today's political world
TIL that Greenland Sharks born around the time of the American Civil War are still juveniles. The maximum lifespan of a Greenland Shark is ~400-500 years old.
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Submitted February 23, 2020 at 06:42PM by Oldmanofthemountian
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The New Yorker
The Strange and Gruesome Story of the Greenland Shark, the Longest-Living Vertebrate on Earth
How a triple infanticide in Germany shed light on an elusive cold-water predator.
TIL that the year 1816 is known as the "year without summer" due to the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia which resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, a global temperature drop of up to 3 degrees Celsius and unusually cold and wet conditions sweeping across Europe and North America.
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TIL that Bob Barker, who hosted "The Price is Right," trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn't sent to the fleet in time to fight. He once said: "I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II."
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Submitted February 23, 2020 at 07:07PM by ZugZugWorkWorkDabu
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Togetherweserved
Shadow box
Navy.Togetherweserved.com - Shadow Box Profile of Robert William Barker, LTJG
TIL when deaf people with schizophrenia 'hear voices', they hallucinate hands communicating using sign language
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Submitted February 23, 2020 at 09:53PM by Honesty_Addict
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UCL News
Exploring how deaf people 'hear' voice-hallucinations
A new UCL study, published in the July 2007 issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, systematically explores the perceptual characteristics of voice hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia for the first time.
TIL that in 1729, Jonathan Swift published a satirical essay in which suggested that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes of the British towards the poor and Irish in general
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Wikipedia
A Modest Proposal
satirical essay by Jonathan Swift
TIL: Spanish Flu is called "Spanish" because Europe was at war and no other country publicly reported their own cases. Spain was a neutral country, publicly reported their cases and took the fame. The real epicenter was a war camp on France.
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HISTORY
Why Was the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Called the ‘Spanish Flu’?
In World War I, neutral Spain was the first to report flu deaths in its newspapers, so commentators soon nicknamed the pandemic ‘Spanish flu.’