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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BBC News
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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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…
TIL a British pilot of a 747 announced to his passengers: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress'. They landed safely with no injuries.
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British Airways Flight 9
aviation accident
TIL that Joseph Kony, made infamous by the Kony 2012 documentary, has still never been captured and at this point is no longer being hunted.
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Joseph Kony
Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
TIL: Hall of Fame Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan was in the league long enough to strikeout 7 pairs of fathers and sons when they eventually joined the league later on his career.
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1980s Baseball
16 Ridiculous Nolan Ryan Statistics - 1980s Baseball
How can a man who struck out nearly 900 more batters than anyone else in the history of the game be overrated? When his name is Nolan Ryan.
TIL that there is an Antarctic dialect of English, which has developed among researchers in Antarctica who have their own slang and speech patterns. Since this is one of the few linguistically isolated areas in the world, it is being used to understand how dialects originate.
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Scientific American
Linguists Hear An Accent Begin
Residents of an overwintering station in Antarctica provided linguists with evidence of the first small changes in speech that may signal the development of a new accent.
TIL that Nazi soldiers would regularly take a type of crystal meth called Pervitin, which was considered a "superdrug," to enhance performance, reduce fatigue and drain them of their empathy, effectively turning them into "ruthless killing machines."
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CBC
Nazis on meth, army vets on ecstasy: how drugs shape warfare | CBC Radio
From berzerkers on mushrooms, to Nazis on meth and Iraq vets on ecstasy, armies and soldiers have used drugs to fight, cope with and recover from war since ancient times.
TIL professors of universities during the Vietnam War inflated students' grades in order to help them avoid the draft.
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TIL moviegoers seeing "13 Ghosts" in 1960 could choose if they wanted to see the ghosts or not. The ghosts were added with a red filter on scenes with a blue filter. People were given viewers with red and blue cellophane, and depending on which one they looked through could "remove" the ghosts.
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13 Ghosts
1960 American horror film directed by William Castle
TIL during the filming of the original pilot of Game of Thrones, the Danny/Drogo sex scene was filmed outside with their horses behind them. They had to stop the scene because people on set started laughing. Turns out one of the horses got turned on and their giant horse boner was on camera.
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George RR Martin on the Unaired Game of Thrones Pilot
Previous Video - George RR Martin on his Favorite Targaryen: https://youtu.be/1Phh5AS3uMY A Song of Ice and Fire Author/Game of Thrones Creator George R. R. ...
TIL that when Joseph Stalin was dying, his private physician was not available because he was already being tortured in the basement of the KGB headquarters for suggesting the Soviet leader required more bed rest.
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Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (/ˈbɛriə/; Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, IPA: [ˈbʲerʲiə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, translit.: lavrent'i p'avles dze beria, IPA: [bɛriɑ]; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician…
TIL about Sergei Krikalev, a Russian astronaut stranded aboard the Soviet "Mir" Space Station during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The mission ended up being twice as long as planned, and he is referred to as "The Last Soviet Citizen".
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Sergei Krikalev
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
TIL Aroldis Chapman holds the record for fastest pitch at 105.1 MPH. When Nolan Ryan played they clocked pitches at 10 feet from the plate, now they clock it at release point. Had Ryan pitched his record 100.9 today it would have clocked at around 108 MPH and he would have regularly thrown 106-107.
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Beyond the Box Score
Nolan Ryan’s incredible career should earn him the noscript of "best pitcher ever"
When looking back on his 27-season career after retiring, the endless feats make the case for Ryan as the GOAT.
TIL that Stephen Baldwin has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the initials "HM" for Hannah Montana. He got it because Miley Cryus told him he could cameo on the show if he had the initials tattooed on his body. He was never given the opportunity to cameo and now regrets getting the tattoo.
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Stephen Baldwin
actor and producer from the United States