TIL Sriracha sauce was created in Sri Racha, Thailand by a woman named Madam La Orr Suwanprasop. After being blessed by a monk to do so, she began selling her famous sauce. The same monk suggested she name it after her hometown of Sri Racha.
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Sriracha
hot sauce
TIL: 80’s Night Court had the tallest cast in sitcom history. Richard Moll was 6’8, John Laroquette 6’4, Harry Anderson 6’4, Charles Robinson 6’2, and Marsha Warfield 5’11.
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`NIGHT COURT' - TV'S TALLEST TEAM
In the spirit of ``March Madness,'' let us consider prime time's tallest - and most effective - team: the Night Court (8 p.m., Ch. 2) ensemble.
Up front are a pair of 6-foot, 4-inch forwards: Harry Anderson as maverick judge Harry Stone and John Larroquette…
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TIL that pooping is really the only reason for a sloth to ever leave its tree, and it's the only time they have to stand upright. They only poop once a week, and can lose up to one-third of their body weight by pooping.
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Sloths Only Poop Once a Week — But They Make It a Good One
Once a week or so, sloths climb down from their trees and poop on the ground. It feels so good, they do a little dance. But this time of pleasure is also a time of peril.
TIL that Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent. According to a Russian diplomat, "Lenin said that his tutor in English was an Irishman and that was why he was speaking with an Irish accent."
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Russians back Enda Kenny after Collins-Lenin gaffe at commemoration
Enda Kenny has received support from the most unexpected quarter after his Michael Collins gaffe – with the Russ...
TIL: Minesweeper's theme was so controversial in some countries that Microsoft was forced to replace the mines with flowers in some locations and rebrand it as "Flower Garden". Link
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The Minesweeper Controversy: How Flower Garden came into Windows Vista
Every Windows user must be familiar with Minesweeper, the simple but addicting logic game, that first made it appearance on Windows 3.1 in 1...
TIL in 1999 supermodel Fabio Lanzoni killed a goose with his face while riding a roller-coaster
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From March 30, 1999: Fabio gets hit by a goose riding Apollo's Chariot
The supermodel was at Busch Gardens Williamsburg to celebrate its then-newest roller coaster, Apollo's Chariot. He took a front seat inaugural ride... but ended up with a face of feathers and a bloody nose in need of stitches.
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TIL: It is completely legal for women to be topless in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
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TIL: It is completely legal for women to be topless in Colorado,...
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TIL Chris Farley looked so bad during his final SNL appearance that the episode has never been shown again. He died less than two months later.
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Chris Farley
American actor and comedian (1964-1997)
TIL of the sunkin library book burning memorial in Berlin, Germany. The library is built underground, is not accessible to the public, and can only be viewed through a glass plate that shows enough empty bookcases to hold 20,000 books, the amount burned in a book burning event on May 10, 1933.
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Memorial in memory of the burning of books
Memorial at the Bebelplatz in Berlin (Germany)
TIL one of the reasons why Northern Cheyenne reservation traditionalists oppose coal mining on the reservation is that the 1700s Cheyenne mystic Sweet Medicine prophecized that mining the "black rock" would change the tribe forever.
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'Black Rock' Divides the Northern Cheyenne - Daily Yonder
[imgbelt img=montana-coal-mapfix530.jpg]The Northern Cheyenne have thus far refused to permit coal mining on reservation lands, but some members of the tribe are willing to risk disruption for jobs the industry may bring.
TIL of the Native American silversmith Sequoyah, who, impressed by the writing of the European settlers, independently created the Cherokee syllabary. Finished in 1821, by 1825 thousands of Cherokee had already become literate.
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Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
TIL in 2012, Dunkin’ Donuts launched an ad campaign in Seoul, Korea where scent spray devices installed on buses would release a fragrant coffee aroma when triggered by the sound of the DD radio jingle. The campaign reached more than 350,000 people, and sales near bus stops increased by 29%.
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The Future of Advertising (Will Be Squirted Into Your Nostrils as You Sit on a Bus)
Dunkin' Donuts' scentastic "Flavor Radio" brings ad targeting to the human senses.
TIL that a “touron” is park ranger slang for a tourist who behaves like a moron when entering a national park.
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Touron
Touron is a derogatory term combining the words "Tourist" with "Moron" to describe any person who, while on vacation, commits an act of pure stupidity. The term is considered park ranger slang that describes how some tourists act when entering a national…
TIL Only five babies were born in the London subway station. One of them is talk show host, Jerry Springer.
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How Many Babies Have Been Born On The Tube?
And what's Jerry Springer got to do with it?
TIL that in 1958 a black man named Clennon King applied to the University of Mississippi and was admitted to an asylum. The judge ruled that only insanity could make a black man think he could apply to the university
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Clennon King | Mississippi Encyclopedia
Clennon Washington King Jr., the first African American to attempt to attend the University of Mississippi and the first black man to run for president of the United States, spent five decades fighting for civil rights as a controversial and eccentric professor…
TIL The Venus Flytrap is native only to a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina and nowhere else
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Venus flytrap
Carnivorous plant that captures prey by quickly closing its leaves into a jaw-like trap
TIL Pelorus Jack was a dolphin that used to guide ships through a notoriously dangerous channel in New Zealand. In 1904 someone aboard the SS Penguin tried to shoot Jack with a rifle, he survived and continued to guide all ships except the SS Penguin.
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Pelorus Jack
Pelorus Jack (fl. 1888 – April 1912) was a Risso's dolphin that was famous for meeting and escorting ships through a stretch of water in Cook Strait, New Zealand, between 1888 and 1912. Pelorus Jack was usually spotted in Admiralty Bay between Cape Francis…
TIL Nike dropped Allyson Felix's 7 yr old sponsorship because she asked that she shouldn't be punished if her performance dropped due to childbirth. 10 months later she won a gold medal breaking Usain Bolt's world record for most gold medals in world championships history, with her daughter watching
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Allyson Felix
Allyson Michelle Felix OLY (born November 18, 1985) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and 400 meters. At 200 meters, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, a 3-time World champion (2005–09), and 2-time Olympic…
TIL Memorial Day was started by freed slaves to honor soldiers who died during the civil war
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HISTORY
Memorial Day
Originally known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day started in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971 to honor those who served and died in wars.
TIL that for 5000 years, Europeans built huge magnificent cities, and lived in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 years. People in current-day Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the area, intentionally set their settlements on fire between 7000-2000 BC, for reasons still being researched.
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Burned house horizon
Phenomenon of presumably intentionally burned settlements
TIL Despite publishing vast quantities of literature only three Mayan books exist today due to the Spanish ordering all Mayan books and libraries to be destroyed for being, "lies of the devil."
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Maya codices
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