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
TIL Tony Hendra, the actor who plays Spinal Taps manager Ian Faith attempted suicide the night before the first day of filming. He credits the joy he received from making this movie with bringing him back from his depression.
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Surprising Facts About This Is Spinal Tap— The OG Mockumentary
Turn your knowledge up to eleven.
TIL by the late 90s the buses in Belgrade were in such bad condition that one passenger died after falling through the rusted floor of a bus and being crushed by a wheel.
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Sanctions against Yugoslavia
During the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s, several rounds of international sanctions were imposed against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which consisted of the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro. In the first round of sanctions,…
TIL that in 2019, A&W became the first franchised restaurant chain to turn 100 years old
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Businesswire
A&W Becomes First Franchise Restaurant Chain to Turn 100
A&W is the first restaurant chain to turn 100. Its centennial includes raising money for Disabled American Veterans - DAV.
TIL Two homosexual lovers, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, assassinated the king of Athens, Hipparchus, and triggered events that would usher in democracy. They became known as the Tyrannicides, the preeminent symbol of democracy to ancient Athenians.
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Harmodius and Aristogeiton
two men from Ancient Athens
TIL there are an estimated 40 million slaves in the World today. For context, the trans-Atlantic slave trade was responsible for 12 million slaves over 400 years.
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TIL: the popular Sriracha sauce in the US (in the green-capped bottle) tastes different because they have a different supplier of chile peppers. The owner sued the original supplier for $1 million claiming he overpaid. The farmer countersued and won $23.3 million and now makes his own sriracha.
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Los Angeles Times
Jalapeño farmer wins $23.3 million in heated dispute with Sriracha maker
After the collapse of a nearly 30-year partnership with the maker of the world-famous Sriracha sauce and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit with the company, Craig Underwood is still betting on his farm’s peppers.
TIL: Somebody is using a retired 727 as a home outside Portland, OR
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Atlas Obscura
Airplane Home in the Woods
This converted Boeing 727 makes a surprisingly comfortable residence for one man and his family.
TIL Joseph Lister, the father of antiseptic medicine, had the idea that surgeons could prevent infecting their patients by washing and disinfecting their hands with carbolic acid before surgery. This idea earned him ridicule—until people started noticing that it did indeed help.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Joseph Lister | British surgeon and medical scientist
Joseph Lister, British surgeon and medical scientist who was the founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine. While his method, based on the use of antiseptics, is no longer employed, his principle—that bacteria must never gain entry…
TIL that Robert Smith (singer/guitarist of The Cure) played the piano as a child, but his younger sister Janet was a piano prodigy so he switched to the guitar because "she couldn't get her fingers around the neck." Janet later married Cure guitarist Porl Thompson and played on Cure side projects.
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Robert Smith (singer)
English singer, songwriter and musician
TIL A 2001 investigation found that in several cases, payday lenders in California were charging considerably higher rates than loan sharks from the Chicago Outfit organized crime syndicate.
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Sacramento News & Review
We are a group of award-winning free alternative weekly newspapers published by Chico Community Publishing, Inc. We publish the Chico News & Review in Chico, California, the Sacramento News & Review in Sacramento, California and the Reno News & Review in…
TIL That after the "I Have A Dream" speech, the FBI anonymously wrote a letter to MLK JR. demanding that he kill himself
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FBI–King suicide letter
anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation meant to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr.
TIL If you are an American who just left your job for any reason and lost your job-based health coverage, you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period. This means you can enroll in a Marketplace insurance plan any time of year. You usually have 60 days from the day you lose your coverage to enroll.
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HealthCare.gov
Get Marketplace health coverage outside Open Enrollment only with a Special Enrollment Period
Outside Open Enrollment, you can enroll in or change a Marketplace plan if you have a life event that qualifies you for a Special Enrollment Period.
TIL that the first battle of WWI consisted of a British ship firing a single shot at a German ship on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) in Africa, and taking the captain "prisoner." The two captains had been drinking buddies for years, and weren't about to let the war ruin it.
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The Telegraph
First World War centenary: the battle on Lake Malawi
In the year of the First World War centenary, Tom Rowley learns the truth about a naval battle staged on the tranquil waters of Lake Malawi, in Africa
TIL that when Mel Brooks was 16 years old, he worked for a theatrical producer who raised funds by sleeping with his investors, most of whom were elderly women. He also knew two showmen who created flop after flop, but still profited. They inspired him to make the 1967 film, “The Producers”.
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Mentalfloss
12 Outrageous Facts About The Producers
Utterly fearless, Mel Brooks’s classic comedy joked about every taboo subject the late 1960s had to offer.