TIL: In 2011, new students at the Wabash College in Indiana were required to play the video game Portal as part of a course on what it means to be human. The course discussed how Portal's villain presents different versions of themselves, showing a public face, while hiding a different private face.
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Giant Bomb
Intro to GLaDOS 101: A Professor's Decision to Teach Portal
Wabash College professor Michael Abbott gambled on teaching Portal in a classroom.
TIL TBS sped up Seinfeld by 7.5% so they could add 2 more minutes of commercials.
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Collider
Seinfeld Sped up by 7.5% by TBS to Allow for More Commercials
TBS has sped up Seinfeld by 7.5% to allow for more ad time; a fan noticed the difference by comparing a recent rerun to the same episode from 10 years ago.
TIL scientists trained bumblebees to pull strings for food; they pulled strings to bring discs with sugar water out from under a plastic sheet. Over 60% of other bees watching behind a clear wall knew to pull the string when it was their turn.
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Science
Hints of tool use, culture seen in bumble bees
String-pulling skills readily spread among bumble bees, despite their small brains
TIL that while writing the popular 1990s song Friday I'm in Love, The Cure frontman Robert Smith became convinced that he stole the tune from somewhere, and was so paranoid that he called every person he knew and played the song for them, asking if they recognized it. It was, indeed, unique.
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Friday I'm in Love
"Friday I'm in Love" is a song by British rock band The Cure. It is the second single taken from the album Wish (1992), and was a worldwide hit. It won the award for European Viewer's Choice for Best Music Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
TIL Soviet scientists defended the world's largest seed bank during the 28 month Siege of Leningrad when it couldn't be evacuated. 9 scientists starved, surrounded by tons of crops and fruit, refusing to destroy 'the future of Russia'.
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Atlas Obscura
From WWII to Syria, How Seed Vaults Weather Wars
Svalbard, the Norwegian island halfway between Europe and the North Pole, is a place of extremes. It's the northernmost place in the world where people live...
TIL The day that "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" premiered, there was an op-ed in the New York Times noscriptd "O'Brien flops" that said "one can't help but have grave doubts about his prospects". The op-ed was written by Conan O'Brien himself.
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Nytimes
From the Archive - Op-Classic, 1993 - O'Brien Flops! - NYTimes.com
For a look into the past, rather than the year 3000, read an Op-Ed published at the debut of Conan O’Brien’s “Late Night.”
TIL the term "Native American" is falling out of favor amongst indigenous Americans, in favor of indigenous Americans, American Indian, or the name of their own tribe.
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americanindian.si.edu
Native Knowledge 360° | Did You Know?
Answers to some of the most frequent questions asked by our visitors. The National Museum of the American Indian wants to elevate the dialogue about Native Americans in K-12 education. It's important to start with some of the most basic and often misunderstood…
TIL that the product that ruined Kodak, the digital camera, was invented by an engineer at Kodak
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Steven Sasson
American inventor
TIL in 2010, Philadelphia school authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school issued laptops the students were using at home in order to spy on the students. They even disciplined a student for his "improper" behavior at home.
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ABC News
Pa. School Faces FBI Probe, Lawsuit, for Using Webcams on Laptops to Watch Students at Home
The FBI and a Philadelphia-area prosecutor are looking into whether a school district broke the law when it remotely activated cameras on school-owned laptops and watched students in their homes. The parents of 15-year-old Blake Robbins have filed a lawsuit…
TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was arrested in part because of his use of the phrase "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." The odd phrasing showed up in both his manifesto and his personal letters.
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TIL as many as 55% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage -- most often before a woman misses a menstrual period or even knows she is pregnant and that more than 80% of miscarriages occur within the first three months of pregnancy, mostly caused by chromosomal abnormalities.
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ResearchGate
(PDF) Spontaneous first trimester miscarriage rates per woman among parous women with 1 or more pregnancies of 24 weeks or more
PDF | Background: The purpose of this study was to quantify spontaneous first trimester miscarriage rates per woman among parous women. A vast amount... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
TIL Mad Magazine was threatened with a lawsuit after their parody of The Empire Strikes Back. The matter was dropped after Mad publisher Bill Gaines sent the lawyers a copy of a letter from George Lucas praising the satire
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Mad (magazine)
American comic and satirical magazine
TIL cats have contributed to the extinction of at least 63 global vertebrate species, deemed one of “the most ubiquitous and environmentally damaging invasive predators on Earth", while new studies shows cats are ineffective when it comes to catching rats.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Cats Are Surprisingly Bad at Killing Rats
Over a 79-day period, feral felines killed just two rats, instead opting to hunt less challenging prey
TIL the first "Made in <Country>" label was created in 1887 in England to discourage foreign goods and to encourage consumption of domestic-made goods; this ultimately backfired when Britons bought more goods made in Germany than domestic made ones
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Deutsche Welle
125 years of 'Made in Germany'
A little label on German products was supposed to keep them from gaining popularity in Great Britain. But the scheme backfired: the 'Made in Germany' trademark eventually made items sell like hot cakes.
TIL that Michael Crichton, after clashing with journalist Michael Crowley over a previous book, created a character in his book 'Next' that was a child molester with a 'small penis'. The character's name was Mick Crowley.
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Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film producer
TIL the maze generation algorithm for the 1982 Atari game Entombed always makes solvable mazes just by looking at the 5 nearest tiles, and nobody understands why it works—it came upon a programmer when he was drunk
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Entombed (Atari 2600)
1982 video game
TIL there is a guy who has been offering $200 to anyone who can tell him about this entirely random picture he found on the web in 2002
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TIL putting LED lights on float lines of 864 fishing gillnets reduced the bycatch of sea turtles by 74.4% & by 70.8% for dolphins, whales, & porpoises. The same amount of targeted fish were caught by both 864 lighted gillnets & 864 unlighted gillnets in a study of 3 ports in Peru from 2015 - 2018.
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Mashable India
Researchers Use LED Lights To Save Dolphins And Turtles From Fishing Nets
Study finds LED lights can alert dolphins and turtles about fishnets while target fish are caught.
TIL that if calcium crystals form in your inner ear canal, resulting in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (dizziness when you move), you can easily cure it by moving your head about like you're one of those maze ball toys.
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YouTube
Epley Maneuver to Treat BPPV Vertigo
Perform Dix-Hallpike maneuver first to determine which side and what maneuver to use to treat BPPV: https://youtu.be/wgWOmuB1VFY.
Video demonstrates how the Epley maneuver is performed to treat POSTERIOR canal BPPV affecting the right ear (0:32). Animation…
Video demonstrates how the Epley maneuver is performed to treat POSTERIOR canal BPPV affecting the right ear (0:32). Animation…
TIL that J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics in 1906 when he showed electrons were particles. His son G. P. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves.
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Chemistry World
A history of the electron: JJ and GP Thomson
A tale of two Thomsons
TIL Nataliya Dmytruk, a Ukranian sign language interpreter, refused to translate false election results on live TV, signing "our President is Viktor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results...they are all lies". Leading to national protests invalidating the election & aiding the Orange Revolution
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Nataliya Dmytruk
Ukrainian journalist