TIL Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan were professional acquaintances during the Voyager project in 1977. When Sagan returned a phone call from Druyan it turned into a date and they were engaged by the end of the call. They married in 1981 and were together until Sagan's death in December 1996.
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TIL the pirate 'Black Bart' believed Irish people to be some of the worst people to have on your crew due to them being highly mutinous. As a result, many people who Bart tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent so they could get out of it.
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Wikipedia
Bartholomew Roberts
Welsh pirate
TIL There is no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Fed - Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment?
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
TIL of the “Buckskin Girl” murdered 40 years ago, and unable to be identified but named after her coat. In 2017 an unrefrigerated lab vial of her blood was successfully DNA analysed. Her mother was located still living in the same house, refusing to move or change phone numbers hoping for her return
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DNA Doe Project
American non-profit volunteer organization formed to identify unidentified deceased persons using forensic genealogy
TIL That the domesticated hamsters we now call pets are all descended from one “Adam and Eve” like pair captured in Aleppo, Syria in 1930.
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Untold Story of the Hamster, a.k.a Mr. Saddlebags
The hamster may be ubiquitous now, but it was a pioneering scientist who brought the rodent into labs and homes across the world
TIL Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage
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TIL that Hunter S. Thompson once tied Bill Murray to a chair and dumped him to the bottom of a swimming pool. The pair were attempting a series of Houdini-style escapes, and Thompson saved Murray just before he drowned
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Happy Mag
5 tales of madness from the life of Hunter S. Thompson
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional”: here are 5 our favourite stories from the wild life of Hunter S. Thomson
TIL A 30,000 Year Old Virus Was Found to Still Be Infectious After It Was Isolated from Siberian Permafrost
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PNAS
Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology
Giant DNA viruses are visible under a light microscope and their genomes encode more proteins than some bacteria or intracellular parasitic eukaryotes. There are two very distinct types and infect unicellular protists such as Acanthamoeba . On one hand, Megaviridae…
TIL 5% of people do not experience a headache in their lifetime.
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Advil
Headaches-101
Learn what a headache is, and find out about the different types of headaches: cluster, tension, and migraine.
TIL that when the Vatican considers someone for Sainthood, it appoints a "Devil's Advocate" to argue against the candidate's canonization and a "God's Advocate" to argue in favor of Sainthood. The most recent Devil's Advocate was Christopher Hitchens who argued against Mother Teresa's beatification
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Devil's advocate
former official position within the Catholic Church
TIL that Satanists and the church of Satan do not believe in Satan as a being and are actually an atheist organisation, therefore do not worship any supernatural being, be it the devil or otherwise
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Church of Satan
F.A.Q. Fundamental Beliefs | Church of Satan
F.A.Q. Fundamental Beliefs Why do Satanists worship The Devil? We don’t. Satanists are atheists. We see the universe as being indifferent to us, and so all morals and values are subjective human constructions. Our position is to be self-centered, with ourselves…
TIL The Greek philosopher Chrysippus of Soli died in 206 BC, at the age of 73, after a laughing fit caused by his own joke. His biographer reports he saw a donkey eating some figs and yelled that it needed to be given a pure wine to wash the figs down.
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Daily Stoic
Who Is Chrysippus? The ‘Second Founder of Stoicism’ Who Died Laughing
Learn about Chrysippus, know as the Second Founder of Stoicism, who, using the work of Zeno, compiled what would come to be known as the basis of Stoicism.
TIL the term “cage free” for Chickens does not mean the birds are actually cage free or even have access to the outdoors. It simply means their cages are at least 1-1.5 sq ft.
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SFChronicle.com
What does 'cage-free' really mean, exactly?
Dozens of other big companies followed, including Taco Bell, Costco and Nestle (but only for its American products, like Toll House cookie dough). Animal-welfare activists say the announcements are a huge step in the right direction, because it means these…
TIL A 2 year study showed that washing hands 5 times daily reduced incidence of respiratory infections by 45%.
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TIL SIM card is not just an ordinary piece of read-only memory. It's a separate micro-computer with its own environment capable of running Java Card applets
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Java Card
Smart card
TIL that the Danish astronomer who demonstrated light has a speed, invented a precursor to the Fahrenheit scale, and invented the mercury thermometer... also ran the police force in Copenhagen and fired all the officers because morale was low.
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The Independent
Determination of the speed of light: Who is Ole Roemer and how did he make his discovery?
The 340th anniversary of Ole Roemer's experiment to demonstrate the speed of light has been celebrated in a Google doodle. But who is the astronomer and how did he make this significant discovery?
TIL that although we think of electric vehicles as being a very modern technology, they actually pre-date internal combustion engines and were popular between the 1880s and 1920s.
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Wikipedia
History of the electric vehicle
aspect of history
TIL A concerned person walked by a house and heard a man shouting "why won't you die?" with a child screaming inside. The police were called. This triggered a full police response. It turned out he was trying to kill a spider.
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the Guardian
Australian man screaming at spider 'why don't you die?' triggers full police response
Multiple officers arrive at home to find Perth man with ‘serious fear’ of arachnids ‘trying to kill a spider’
TIL in 2013, Metallica performed in Antarctica just to break a record and be the first musical act to perform on all 7 continents.
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Guinness World Records
Metallica become first band to play on seven continents with Antarctica gig
US rock band Metallica have achieved a new Guinness World Records noscript after becoming the first musical act to play a concert on all seven of Earth's continents.
TIL that a Calvin and Hobbes comic from 1992 referred to the start of the universe as the Horrendous Space Kablooie, saying that "The Big Bang" was too boring. The term Horrendous Space Kablooie (or HSK) has since become popular among scientists, and has been used in books and university courses.
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Wikipedia
Calvin and Hobbes
comic strip by Bill Watterson
TIL that civil rights legend John Lewis once attended Comic-Con dressed as himself during the March on Selma. He led the children in a march around the convention center wearing the same kind of coat and backpack as he did at Selma.
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Submitted July 18, 2020 at 08:09PM by CrassostreaVirginica
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Business Insider
Congressman and Civil Rights legend John Lewis went to Comic-Con dressed as a real-life hero: Himself
Sorry Marvel and DC: History won Comic-Con this year.