TIL that dogs can suffer from PTSD, and even experience flashbacks of traumatic experiences.
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12 Facts about Canine PTSD
Military dogs are no longer just sentries. They are soldiers capable of sniffing out mines, tracking down enemy fighters, and clearing buildings.
TIL Larry David made a “no hugging, no learning” rule for the 1990's hit sitcom Seinfeld noscripts. He didn't want the characters to have sentimental revelations. It was a show about four friends, none with particularly active goals, bantering in between moments of recognizable awkwardness.
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the Guardian
'No hugging, no learning': 20 years on Seinfeld's mantra still looms large
It’s two decades since the divisive finale and from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia to Atlanta the influence of Seinfeld can still be felt in shows that put an emphasis on probing taboos rather than sitting comfortably
TIL During the 1960s the US government sprayed chemical weapons throughout poor neighborhoods of St. Louis without the residents knowledge as part of a chemical weapons test.
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TIL Schopenhauer called the post-orgasm feeling “devil's laughter" because it is the realization that we are all slaves to the Will of Life, as it takes precedence over our own happiness.
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The Book of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German 19th-century philosopher, who deserves to be remembered today for the insights contained in his great work: The World as Will and Representation.
Schopenhauer was the first serious Western philosopher to get interested in…
Schopenhauer was the first serious Western philosopher to get interested in…
TIL of Charles Ramsey, a Cleveland man who was key in the rescue of 3 women & a child from over a decade of captivity in a neighbor's home. When word got out he was eating a Big Mac when he heard a woman's cries for help, over a dozen Ohio restaurants pledged to offer him a free burger anytime.
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TIL that Mike Tyson knocked out another kid for ripping the head off of a pigeon. Tyson had grown up with nothing & found that feeding and spending time with them was an honour & got him away from all the bullying he had endured. To this day he still loves & has his own collection of racing pigeons.
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Sportscasting | Pure Sports
Mike Tyson Spends an Obscene Amount of Money on His Pet Pigeons - Sportscasting | Pure Sports
Despite his tough exteriors, Mike Tyson loves his pet pigeons. He's also spent a pretty penny to ensure his birds are the best of the best.
TIL the standard airline practice of pre-boarding (i.e., allowing passengers with small children and those who need extra assistance to board first) actually improves boarding efficiency by 28% and decreases time to takeoff.
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Ars Technica
Letting slower passengers board airplane first really is faster, study finds
"The more parallel you can make the boarding process, the faster it will go."
TIL that after Ukraine banned the display of communist symbols in 2015, the city of Odessa turned a statue of Lenin into a monument to Darth Vader
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NBC News
Statue of Lenin Becomes Darth Vader Monument
The force has awakened in Ukraine.
TIL about "The Johnson Treatment", where President Lyndon Johnson used to urinate or expose his penis during conversations to establish dominance.
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HistoryCollection.co
LBJ Used this One Thing To Control Others Around Him, Which Became Known as the Johnson Treatment
President Johnson had a very unusual way of getting people to do what he wanted. People called it the "Johnson Treatment," and it often involved his penis.
TIL that Stan Lee and Dr. Seuss were in the same military unit during WW2
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The Drive
Stan Lee Fought The Nazis As A U.S. Army Playwright During WWII
The comic book icon thought of his military service as among his proudest moments and it showed in his work in the decades that followed.
TIL there is a McDonald's in LA that serves no food. It is strictly for filming when the set needs to be McDonald's.
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TIL that when a girl from India lost both her arms, she received big, dark and hairy arm transplants from a man. However after a few years, her new arms became more slender and also changed colour to match her skin tone.
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The Straits Times
Indian female amputee gets hands from male donor; doctors puzzled by
South Asia News -NEW DELHI (AFP) - When amputee Shreya Siddanagowda was offered new hands, the Indian student didn't hesitate - even though they were big, dark and hairy, and once belonged to a man..
TIL that the Transformers character Wheelie, who speaks entirely in rhyme, has a Transformers Wiki page that is 10,000 words long and is written ENTIRELY IN RHYME.
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TIL Producer Deborah Forte of Scholastic Entertainment says they were inspired to create the Magic School Bus TV show after learning that many girls and minorities were opting out of science at young ages.
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Wikipedia
The Magic School Bus
American edutainment media franchise
TIL Only five Olympians have ever won more than eight gold medals. Four of them have nine golds each. Michael Phelps is the fifth, with an unbelievable 23.
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List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
Wikimedia list article
TIL that Gene Wilder got into comedy and acting because of his mother's heart condition. His mother's doctor told him to 'Try to make her laugh,' to make her feel better, leading to his conscious efforts to make other people laugh.
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Wikipedia
Gene Wilder
American actor and comedian (1933-2016)
TIL The US government has been using Native American land for nuclear waste, mining, and testing for decades.
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Las Vegas Sun
Native American tribe claims nuclear waste can't be stored on its land
To the Western Shoshone, most of Nevada isn’t Nevada. At least not in the current sense. More than 150 years after the first treaty between the Western Shoshone and the federal government was signed, the two nations disagree on the outcome — the Shoshone…
TIL that the brain releases so much dopamine during orgasms that a brain scan resembles that of someone on heroin.
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What happens in the brain during an orgasm?
The pleasure center of the brain helps us understand drug highs, but also sexual pleasure. Learn about the pleasure center of the brain and what it does.
TIL that Dr. Bronner, of the "all-one" Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, fled to the United States in 1929 and urged his parents to come with him. The last he heard from them was "You were right," before they were killed in the Holocaust.
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Wikipedia
Emanuel Bronner
American soapmaker
TIL that aside from the destruction of the tea and a padlock, no property was damaged or looted during the 1773 Boston Tea Party protest. The participants reportedly swept before they left.
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HISTORY
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated
TIL that mathematicians have proved a majority-rule democracy can be forced to vote in favor of any set of policies by constructing a series of intermediate policy sets, each of which a majority of voters will prefer to the preceding policy set.
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McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem
result in social choice theory