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TIL that in the 80s, deaf Nicaraguan children with no prior sign language (or any true language) exposure were brought together to a deaf school, & started spontaneously making their own sign language, developing complexity & syntax. This gave linguists rare insight into the birth of human language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjtioIFuNf8&feature=youtu.be

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 03:07PM by nehala
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TIL Martin Couney ran infant incubator exhibits, in which premature babies were displayed to the public for 40 years. He didn’t charge the parents a penny, instead visitors paid 25 Cents to get in. This covered all the costs to run the facility. Many babies with no chances to survive were saved.
https://ift.tt/2VBLty5

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 03:27PM by woolsprout
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TIL that Guinness World Records accepts payments (ranging from $12,000 to $500,000) from individuals, organizations and governments to either find a record that they could break or to create an entirely new record category
https://ift.tt/3il2O8c

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 12:19PM by Ryan_Holman
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TIL a Russian cat was used by prisoners to sneak drugs into their penal colony near Moscow. The cat allegedly had 5.79 grams of hashish & 1.56 grams of amphetamine under its collar. Defense/prosecution lawyers each wanted the cat to support their case but it escaped from its kennel before trial.
https://ift.tt/2MKN7s6

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 06:00PM by Miskatonica
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TIL that Russian scientists managed to grow 32,000-year-old plants from seeds they found encased in ice in Siberia
https://ift.tt/2YQn9La

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 07:28PM by MetalManiac619
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TIL New toilets on the Navy’s two newest aircraft carriers clog so frequently that the ships’ sewage systems must be cleaned periodically with specialized acids costing about $400,000 a flush!
https://ift.tt/3dPPfdB

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 07:52PM by joelman0
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TIL A man named Bill Haast, also known as "Snake Man" injected himself with snake venom for several years in an effort to build up immunity. He survived 172 snake bites, donated his blood to snakebite victims, and lived over 100 years
https://ift.tt/2hUk3Ri

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 08:59PM by Doodle_Dragon
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TIL One of South Park co-creator Trey Parker's first productions was a sketch for his 6th grade school variety show called "The Dentist." There was so much fake blood involved that the sketch upset kindergarten students in the audience and Parker's parents were called.
https://ift.tt/2Akd5Ao

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 09:30PM by ComplexCut1
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TIL that Aspirin was trademarked by Bayer in 1897. Bayer, a German company, was forced to surrender the trademark in the Treaty of Versailles, causing aspirin to become a generic drug.
https://ift.tt/3imZARR

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 09:05PM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL New York City’s tap water is full of copepods (tiny crustaceans). Because of this, the water is technically not kosher.
https://ift.tt/2YQIdAV

Submitted July 01, 2020 at 11:22PM by DjDisingenius
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TIL the girl from the “she sells seashells” rhyme, Mary Anning, discovered the first known Ichthyosaur fossil in a cliff by the beach, and went on to become the first female paleontologist in the world.
https://ift.tt/30gfHug

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 12:26AM by Ultimatethies
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TIL that Celine Dion's performance of "My Heart Will Go On" for the movie Titanic was her first and only take of the song, originally recorded as a demo track for James Cameron to hear how the song went.
https://ift.tt/2VCKbCY

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 02:56AM by snafusis
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TIL: Glasgow's Duke of Wellington statue was allowed to keep a traffic cone on his head by the local council because every time they removed it over the last 30 years a new one would appear within days costing them £10,000 a year to remove them.
https://ift.tt/2VEhWnH

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 02:06PM by Live-Love-Lie
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TIL about ‘The Sarco’ a suicide machine that provides a painless death "Within a minute the user loses consciousness, death comes a short time later."
https://ift.tt/2H3FNI7

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 04:09AM by esotericspeech
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TIL in 1990 43 out of the 45 climbers attempting Lenin Peak were buried in an avalanche. The two survivors could hear their comrades shouting for help hours after the slide, but failed in any attempts to rescue them as the ice set like concrete immediately
https://ift.tt/2AododD

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 03:04PM by AmJusAskin
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TIL that "home equity loan" is a euphemism for a second mortgage. Invented in 1982/83, the term was part of a systematic effort to sell more loans and financial products.
https://ift.tt/2Z8SDuW

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 02:00PM by comtedeRochambeau
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TIL: there are two ways to perceive time; ego-moving, where we perceive ourselves moving forward through time, and time-moving, where we perceive time moving toward us. So if asked to move a Tuesday meeting forward a day, half of people would think that meant Monday, the other Wednesday.
https://ift.tt/3gl9Rfn

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 03:18PM by QuantumComputations
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TIL Blazing Saddles had a television spin off that ran for four seasons, of which only one episode was ever aired. The series was made to get around a contract with Mel Brooks that required a TV show before they could make a sequel film, WB simply made an series without telling Brooks.
https://ift.tt/2ZwrTV3

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 04:22PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL that an ethical hacker called Jim Browning (Alias) routinely tracks down internet scammers who exploit old and vulnerable people online. He managed to shut down a company that scammed people with the help of BBC recently.
https://youtu.be/le71yVPh4uk

Submitted July 02, 2020 at 07:02PM by carpe_dieum
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