TIL Egyptian Arabic is the first language of 92 million Egyptians and the most widely spoken Arabic dialect. It is understood by almost all of the 300 million Arabic speakers in the world, thanks to the Egyptian cinema and media industry
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Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic - essential facts and features | العربي المصري
Egyptian Arabic is the language of Egypt. Listen to vocabulary, compare it to Modern Standard Arabic, take the quiz or enroll in the beginner's course.
TIL that the dumpster was patented in 1935 by the Dempster Brothers. The first front-loading garbage truck that made use of dumpsters was called the Dempster Dumpmaster.
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Dumpster
type of mobile garbage bin
TIL raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other food-borne disease source, making it one of the world's most dangerous food products
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Pasteurization
process in which certain foods are treated with mild heat in order to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life
TIL that in 1986 The Slow Movement that believes in "doing everything as well as possible, instead of as fast as possible." Began with a protest against the opening of a McDonalds in Rome.
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Slow movement (culture)
social movement advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace
TIL O.J. Simpson hosted a hidden-camera reality television show in 2006 where he pulled silly pranks on unsuspecting victims. The pranks are often so ill-conceived that when O.J. utters the show’s tag line, “You’ve been juiced!” it’s unclear, what, in fact, has just happened.
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O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "the Juice", is an American former football running back, broadcaster, actor, advertising spokesman, and convicted felon. Once a popular figure with the U.S. public, he is best known for being tried for…
TIL that on the set of Kill Bill, Uma Thurman had been on a serious car crash because director Quentin Tarantino insisted she perform her own driving stunts. Thurman knew the car wasn't safe but Tarantino insisted and she caved. Thurman permanently damaged her neck and her knee.
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Quentin Tarantino
American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
TIL: Thanks to the National Labor Relations Act, an employer cannot prohibit their employees from discussing their salary or wage levels with one another.
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National Labor Relations Act | National Labor Relations Board
Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare…
TIL That famous FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was a closeted homosexual and cross dresser. The mafia gathered evidence of this, and blackmailed him into never publicly acknowledging the mob's existence, let alone investigating them.
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Los Angeles Times
J. Edgar Hoover Was Homosexual, Blackmailed by Mob, Book Says
A new book contends that former FBI chief J.
TIL Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer was brutally killed in prison when another inmate beat him to death with a metal bar taken from the prison weight room. The killer later revealed that he was sickened by Dahmer's crimes and his habit of fashioning severed limbs from the prison food.
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Jeffrey Dahmer
Convicted serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 males between 1978 and 1991. He was killed in 1994 by a fellow prison inmate.
TIL Alexandra Elbakyan, a science graduate born in Kazakhstan due to the frustrations of publisher paywalls she found once returning back home from a research internship at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlantis, founded the largest pirate site for academic papers Sci-Hub
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The Independent
Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles,
TIL in Russia the first day of school is called "Knowledge Day" falls on Sept 1st and is a national holiday. Kids and parents celebrate by bringing their kids to school carrying balloons and presents for their teachers, it's especially special for first graders.
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Real Russia Travel Services
Knowledge Day: Back-to-School in Russia
It’s coming up to that time of year when all parents and kids start getting ready to go back to school. With this in mind, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to share one of our own ‘back-to-school' stories through the eyes of one of our team.…
TIL: Whisky was originally a medical drink distilled by monks. When King Henry VIII started closing monasteries in 1536, those monks began distilling and selling to anyone, starting the consumption of spirits as a pastime
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Whisky
The Whisky Success Story - Whisky.com
The story of how whisky rose to today's fame and success. The article looks at the Scotch industry and its brands.
TIL That there is a difference between button up and button down shirts, the name button down comes from the buttons on the end of the collar, to button the collar down to the shirt. Hence the name. So all button down shirts are button up shirts but not all button up shirts are button down shirts
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TODAY.com
Chrissy Teigen asks: Is it a button-down or a button-up shirt?
Is there even a difference?
TIL that a duck’s wake always creates an angle of 38.9 degrees no matter how fast the duck is going
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Wake
region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary solid body
TIL that Ishi is known as the “last wild Indian” in America. He lived most of his life outside modern culture after his tribe, the Yahi (of the Yana group) became extinct in the late 1800s because of the California Gold Rush. He lived alone in the wilderness after his family died.
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Ishi
last of Yahi people
TIL: That in the late 1800s they used to put fake horse heads on the front of automobiles as to not spook the actual horses in traffic.
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Hagerty Media
The harebrained idea to help horses get used to horseless carriages | Hagerty Media
How do you make the switch from horse power to horsepower a little easier on the real Equidae? Horsey Horseless.
TIL about pan-human love. In past 300k years, we overlapped with 6 known human species. All but us now extinct, though we interbred and carry the DNA of at least two (Denisovans, Neanderthals). Some Neanderthal skeletons carry our DNA too. Denisovans and Neanderthals mixed separately from us also.
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Discover Magazine
Just How Many Extinct Types of Human Did Our Ancestors Meet?
Long before this cave painting was made, our ancestors met and interacted with multiple types of ancient human.
TIL that Archibald Roosevelt,son of President Teddy Roosevelt,was wounded during WW1. He rejoined the army during WW2 and was wounded in the same knee as he had been during WW1,making him only American to ever be classified as 100% disabled twice for the same wound incurred in two different wars.
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Archibald Roosevelt
United States Army officer
Til about “King” Jadwiga of Poland. She was named king of Poland because there were no ruling queens allowed but the rules didnt specify the king had to be a male.
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History Channel
Woman Is Crowned King of Poland | History Channel on Foxtel
On this day in 1384, ten-year-old Jadwiga of Poland, daughter of Louis I of Hungary and Elizabeth of Bosnia, was crowned king of Poland. Born in Buda,
TIL in the mid 90’s a man tried to sue P.epsi because they wouldn’t redeem his 7,000,000 P.epsi points for a Harrier Jump Jet (valued at $33.8 million at the time) he saw in a commercial which was intended to be humorous. He was ultimately unsuccessful with his lawsuit.
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Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.
American court case on the law of contract
TIL that the last uncontacted Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in 1984 in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes.
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Pintupi mark first contact with white Australia
The last remaining group of Indigenous Australians to make contact with white Australia is marking the 30th anniversary of the event.