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."
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Newsweek
What is the Sarco? This death pod lets users kill themselves with the press of a button
The death pod is the vision of euthanasia activist Dr. Philip Nitschke and Dutch engineer Alexander Bannink.
TIL PornHub Plowed New Jersey and Boston streets for free during winter storm Stella.
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The Drum
Pornhub gives a truck: Branded plows clear East Coast snow in Storm Stella stunt
Irreverent porn website Pornhub is stealing more headlines with a PR stunt in which it looks to help clear roads around Boston and New Jersey following storm Stella.
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
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Wired For Adventure
Tragedies on the mountain: Lenin Peak 1990 - Wired For Adventure
If you want proof that Friday 13th is an unlucky day, look no further. This fateful day on Lenin Peak in 1990 proved to be disastrously unfortunate for the 45 climbers that were making an attempt to its summit in one of the most deadly mountain disasters…
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.
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TIL that "home equity loan" is a euphemism for a second mortgage....
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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.
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The Cut
The Fuzzy Way We Talk About Time Can Make You Miss a Meeting
A cognitive scientist investigates the surprisingly confusing phrase, “Let’s move the meeting forward two days.”
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.
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Wikipedia
Blazing Saddles
1974 film by Mel Brooks
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.
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YouTube
Spying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]
When a scammer connected to my PC, I was able to reverse their connection and discover that they had CCTV. You're going to see the most detailed exposé of a tech support scam ever seen on YouTube. The company were called Faremart.com - A travel agency in…
TIL Betty White was originally set to play Blanche and Rue McClanahan was set to play Rose. However, with neither actress wanting to be typecast, Golden Girls producers allowed them to switch parts.
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Blanche Devereaux
Fictional television character
TIL that when Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed, the first helicopter on scene that evening reported no signs of life so rescuers decided to pause and continue the next morning. Many initial survivors slowly died through the night from shock and exposure, leaving 4 survivors out of 524
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Japan Airlines Flight 123
Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic Japan Airlines passenger flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Osaka International Airport, Japan. On August 12, 1985, a Boeing 747SR operating this route suffered a sudden decompression twelve minutes into…
TIL elephants rarely get cancer because they have extra copies of two cancer-fighting genes: P53, which hunts for cells with miscopied DNA, and LIF6, which obliterates the mutated cells before they can form a tumor.
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Science
Elephants rarely get cancer thanks to a ‘zombie’ gene
Cancer-fighting gene called LIF6 died and rose again during elephants’ evolutionary history
TIL Everything in Prince's first album was made by himself. He sang all the parts and played all the 27 instruments, including the guitars, bass, synths, drums, windchimes, piano, clavinet, and even the bongos.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Here’s the Guitar That Prince Revolutionized Music With in ‘Purple Rain’
The artist gave the "cloud" guitar to the Smithsonian in 1993, but only now do we know it's the same instrument used in the iconic movie
TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.
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Six Colors
Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives
That’s a black hole. Source: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. In a legitimately amazing achievement for humanity, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration announced that it has directl…
TIL A medieval French soldier climbed up a toilet into a besieged castle to let his army in. King John of England had specifically requested that toilet be installed for personal use during church services. The castle’s fall led to English loss of Normandy and the signing of the Magna Carta.
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TIL A medieval French soldier climbed up a toilet into a besieged...
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TIL in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler praises America as the one state that has made progress toward a primarily racial conception of citizenship, by “excluding certain races from naturalization.”
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The New Yorker
How American Racism Influenced Hitler
Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
TIL: in 1978, 2,300 students tried to set a WR for the largest tug of war game. Instead, disaster ensued. The 2,000ft long braided nylon rope snapped, recoiling several thousand pounds of stored energy. Nearly 200 students lay wounded, 5 with severed fingertips, hundreds more faced 2nd degree burns.
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Newspapers.com
Marshall Layton tug of war
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Harrisburg Middle School - Newspapers.com
Clipping found in The Daily News in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on Jun 14, 1978. Marshall Layton tug of war
Harrisburg Middle School
Harrisburg Middle School
TIL That Animators In Japan Are So Underpaid And Worn Followers Started A Philanthropic Structure So Struggling Anime Artists Can Make It Through In Tokyo.
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Japan Today
Japanese fans fund 'Animator Dormitories' to help young anime artists in Tokyo
A housing support project for young animators has reached its 1,500,000 yen initial target goal for maintenance costs on Japanese crowdfunding site READYFOR, receiving 1,621,000 yen with 112 supporters and 51 days left on the campaign. Due to their success…
TIL a Chinese teen visiting Egypt in 2013 prompted outrage when he wrote his name on the wall of an ancient monument. He carved 'Ding Jinhao was here' in Chinese into the wall of 3,500 year old Luxor Temple.
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CNN
Netizen outrage after Chinese tourist defaces Egyptian temple
Parents of a 15-year-old Chinese tourist have apologized after the teenager defaced a stone sculpture in an ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple with graffiti.
TIL Coca-Cola’s formula still includes extract from the coca leaf, the source plant of cocaine, the original stimulant in addition to caffeine. Imported from Peru and Bolivia, the leaves are processed by a plant in New Jersey, the only plant authorized by the US federal government to do so.
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Wikipedia
Coca-Cola
Carbonated soft drink
TIL that in 2014 Korean Air vice president Heather Cho was so angry about receiving macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate, she forced the plane to taxi back to gate and unload the offending flight attendant. "Nutgate" ended up costing her 5 months in jail
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Wikipedia
Nut rage incident
air rage incident that occurred on December 5, 2014, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City
TIL to explain why there are so many Japanese tourists flocking to see the northern lights, Alaskans made up a lie that Japanese couples have sex during the celestial show for good luck and a blessed child. This lie made it to the NY Times as fact and now it's a common (but false) folklore.
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ArcticToday
How a baseless myth about Japanese tourists and the northern lights was born — and still persists - ArcticToday
Whether you’ve seen the northern lights for a thousand nights or are just witnessing them for the first time, there is something magical about the pulsating flashes and ghostlike curtains soaring above the earth. Visitors from all over the world travel to…
TIL That November 2, 2000 was the last time all humans were on the planet together. Since then at least one person has remained on the international space station
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Bored Panda
People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones
Save your dinner table companions from yet another did you know that a banana is a berry? with these truly mind-boggling facts as said by the dear people of Reddit.