TIL of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant. It was much closer to the epicenter of the 2011 Earthquake than the Fukushima Power Plant, yet it sustained only minor damage and even housed tsunami evacuees. It's safety is credited to engineer Hirai Yanosuke who insisted it have a 14m (46FT) tall sea wall
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Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
nuclear power plant
TIL of Raymond Robinson, a severely disfigured man who only went out for walks late at night so as not to cause a panic. Urban legend spread about "The Green Man", a faceless monster that wandered the roads at night. People who heard the legend are often shocked to find out he was a real person.
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History Daily
Green Man: The Legend Of Raymond Robinson
Green Man or Charlie No Face is a local legend in Western Pennsylvania, but Robert Raymond was a just a mortal man who'd suffered a terrible accident. Who was Green Man? Was Green Man a real person?
TIL A Group Of Flat Earthers Spend $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat, Accidentally Prove It's Round
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Triple M
Flat Earthers Spend $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat, Accidentally Prove It's Round
"What I just told you was confidential"
TIL that the common cultivated strawberry does not occur in nature. It is a hybrid of the Virginia wild strawberry and the Chilean beach strawberry, invented in France in the 18th century.
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Strawberry
fruit
TIL Horses have blind spots on the front and back of their body. Keeping a hand on their body while walking around them decreases chances of kicking out of shock or fear.
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Expert advice on horse care and horse riding
Horse Vision and Eyesight
There are many myths about the way horses see and perceive their worlds, but ongoing research is giving us greater insight into equine vision and changing the way we ride and train our horses.
TIL that the Pentagon Building has no marble within it. This is because the Pentagon was built during WW2 amd the source of Marble for the government which was Italy was considered an enemy nation.
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TIL Shoveling snow is a known cause for heart attacks - the increase in blood pressure combined with cold air constricting arteries creates the right environment for it to happen.
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BBC News
Why do so many people die shovelling snow?
Why not clearing the snow from your driveway might just save your life.
TIL that computers are incapable of producing randomness so when perfoming tasks like procedural generation they use outside sources like the mouse position or the fan noise as a starting point or even use "pseudorandom" generation algorithms using pre-made numbers.
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How-To Geek
How Computers Generate Random Numbers
Computers generate random number for everything from cryptography to video games and gambling. There are two categories of random numbers — “true” random numbers and pseudorandom numbers — and the difference is important for the security of encryption systems.
TIL Don Rickles past away before he was able to record any dialogue for Toy Story 4. Rather than replacing him, Disney reviewed 25 years of material from the first 3 films,video games,and other media; they were able to assemble enough dialogue to cover the entire film!
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Los Angeles Times
How ‘Toy Story 4’ and Pixar keep Don Rickles’ legacy alive two years after his death
The toys in “Toy Story 4” are freaking out in Bonnie’s family RV when Rex spirals into his typical hysterics.
TIL the Milton Hershey School was established in 1909 by the chocolate tycoon and his wife, as a school for poor orphans. Milton Hershey left his entire fortune to the school, including a controlling interest in the Hershey Company, and it now has an endowment in excess of $12 billion.
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Milton Hershey School
The Milton Hershey School is a private philanthropic (pre-K through 12) boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Originally named the Hershey Industrial School, the institution was founded and funded by chocolate industrialist Milton Snavely Hershey and…
TIL The original English version of the Deck the Halls line "don we now our gay apparel" was "fill the meadcup, drain the barrel"
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Deck the Halls
Traditional Yuletide/Christmas and New Years' carol.
TIL that in 1978 an architectural student discovered that a skyscraper in NY could topple if strong winds hit the building. The engineer that is credited for designing the building then made secret nightly repairs in collaboration with the NYPD, without alerting the general public to the danger
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99% Invisible
Structural Integrity - 99% Invisible
When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world. You can pick it out of the New York City skyline by its 45-degree angled top. But it’s the…
TIL Die Hard is not only based on a book, it’s a sequel and the original starred Frank Sinatra
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The Detective (novel)
book by Roderick Thorp
TIL NFL player Pat Tillman joined the army after 9/11 but became opposed to the war while oversees. He was then killed by a soldier standing less than 10 yards from him during friendly fire. His unit then burned his journal and the army lied to his family, claiming he'd been killed by the enemy.
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Pat Tillman
Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002 in the aftermath of the September…
TIL a tiny English village twinned itself with Paris after writing to the Mayor of Paris proposing a twinning, receiving no reply, assuming it was fine, and so put up road signs declaring it official.
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European elections 2019: The village (sort of) twinned with Paris
Whitwell is "twinned" with one of Europe's biggest cities - but do locals still love the continent?
TIL that during the response to a major bridge collapse in Oklahoma in 2002, an ex-con took command of the disaster site by impersonating a US Army Captain. He directed FBI agents, appropriated vehicles and equipment and lead the rescue/recovery effort for two days before fleeing the scene.
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I-40 bridge disaster
Highway bridge collapse
TIL When Steven Spielberg re-enrolled at California State, Long Beach to earn his BA more than 30 years after dropping out, he was given three course credits in paleontology for making Jurassic Park.
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Steven Spielberg to Grads: 'Earn This'
Watch film director Steven Spielberg's Harvard commencement speech
TIL Nim Chimpsky was a chimpanzee raised like a human child by a surrogate family as part of a controversial project on animal language acquisition. During his lifetime, Nim learned over 125 signs, including "stone smoke time now" which Nim used when he wanted to smoke marijuana.
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Nim Chimpsky
chimpanzee
TIL: Before electricity, theatrical groups would heat up calcium oxide, also known as quicklime, for stage lighting. This is where the expression “in the limelight” originates from. People use to literally be in the limelight.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Limelight | theatre lighting
Limelight, first theatrical spotlight, also a popular term for the incandescent calcium oxide light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816. Drummond’s light, which consisted of a block of calcium oxide heated to incandescence in jets of burning oxygen and hydrogen…
TIL- Ghyslain Raza, the "Star Wars Kid", had his video uploaded without permission. He left school due to depression, taking final exams in a psych unit, and sued the families of the uploaders. He later got his HS diploma, went to law school, and did a media tour speaking out against cyber-bullying.
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The Daily Dot
The incredibly sad saga of Star Wars Kid
There's a dark side to the viral video.
TIL that John Williams, the legend film composer (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) had problems with the musical timings in E.T.’s BMX chase scene. Steven Spielberg told him to record the music just as he wanted, he then edited the chase sequence around Willams’s Oscar winning soundtrack.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (soundtrack)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Music from the Original Soundtrack is the film score to the 1982 film of the same name composed and conducted by John Williams. The score was released by MCA Records on June 11, 1982. It won the Academy Award for Best Original…