TIL when Southwest Airlines tried to change their motto to “Just Plane Smart” in the 1990s, they found out a much smaller company was already using it. To settle the issue, the CEOs of each company engaged in an arm wrestling match and the smaller company, Steven’s Aviation, ended up winning.
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Southwest
Malice in Dallas: 25 Years ago Today
One of the highlights of my career at Southwest happened 25 years ago today, when I played the role of ring announcer for Malice in Dallas. Instead of taking a dispute over the slogan Just Plane Smart to a courtroom, Herb agreed with Stevens Aviation…
TIL a man known only as "Django" drove his own boat out & freed a whale caught in a shark net off an Australian beach (without cutting the net). Before taking action, Django had waited hours for help from officials who had been called; when officials arrived, he faced a fine for acting alone.
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Australian man fined for rescuing whale from sea nets
After rescuers failed to arrive, the man launched his own rescue, driving his boat out to the whale.
TIL in 2013, a wild male tiger walked right up to a tiger enclosure at a zoo in India. Attracted by a captive female, the zookeepers let him in through a door in the enclosure. He stayed for a month, then escaped by jumping the fence, then returned a few weeks later.
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TIL Adolf Hitler's personal chauffeur and close confidant, Emil Maurice, was Jewish. He was also one of the founding members of the SS. After uncovering of his Jewish heritage, Hitler declared that he was an 'honorary Aryan' and prevented him from being expelled from the SS by Himmler.
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Emil Maurice
German officer
TIL Voting is mandatory in Belgium. Citizens are automatically registered in the electoral polls and more than 90% of the eligible population takes part in the voting process, since you risk a fine if you do not vote either in person or by proxy.
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Angloinfo
Voting in Belgium - Belgium - Angloinfo
The EU treaty (known as the "Maastricht Treaty") gives every citizen in the European Union the right to vote and stand as a candidate in local, muni...
TIL In 1536, French explorer Jacques Cartier and his crew were cured of scurvy by drinking tea of pine needles and by eating bark given to them by the Iroquois after the crew suffered months of nutritional deprivation at sea. Pine needles have approximately 3 to 5 times more vitamin C than an orange
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Foraging for Wild Edibles
Pine Needle Tea Recipe
Pine needle tea, a natural source of vitamin C, an easy recipe.
TIL that a man that went looking for the Titanic was only using that as a cover for a secret Cold War US Navy mission. The mission was competed 12 days earlier than expected, so with the time he had left he looked, and he found it!
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National Geographic
Titanic Was Found During Secret Cold War Navy Mission
Read how National Geographic revealed the clandestine military project that led to the discovery of the famed shipwreck.
TIL the majority of mammal fossils are male. Some think because they more wide-ranging, reckless and foolhardy, e.g. in the case of mammoths, “they were more likely to do silly things, like die in tar pits.”
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Atlas Obscura
Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males
One theory is that reckless young bison and mammoths got into more trouble.
TIL According to a study's preliminary results, when shopping, consumers respond rationally for the first 23 minutes, then they begin to think with the emotional part of their brain. After 40 minutes, the brain becomes tired and effectively shuts down, ceasing to form rational thoughts altogether.
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BBC News
Bangor University: Brain research looks at how we shop
Researchers are trying to find out what goes through shoppers' heads when they pick up special offers at the supermarket.
TIL Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe, the villain in "Pocahontas," died horrifically in real life. After being tricked, ambushed & captured, women removed his skin with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into a fire as he watched. They skinned his face last, and burned him at the stake.
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Pocahontas (1995 film)
American animated film
TIL that Thomas Edison produced a film called Fred Ott’s Sneeze, a 5 second film where Fred Ott, one of Edison’s assistants, sneezes. It is the oldest surviving film with a copyright.
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Fred Ott's Sneeze
1894 film by William Kennedy Dickson
TIL: The top 10% of American drinkers consume nearly 60% of all alcohol sold - averaging 74 drinks per week.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Ten Percent of Americans Drink Half the Booze
America has a lot of moderate drinkers, and a few really heavy ones
TIL the character who played Elaine's father on Seinfeld, Alton Benis, was meant to have a recurring role, but the staff became scared of the actor after he stole a butcher's knife from the set. When confronted, he pretended to stab seinfeld with the knife and was not asked to return
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The Jacket (Seinfeld)
"The Jacket" is the third episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and the show's eighth episode overall. In the episode, protagonist Jerry Seinfeld buys an expensive suede jacket and has dinner with the father of his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes.…
TIL that the two of the US pilots who were able to take off during the attack on Pearl Harbor and down 7 enemy aircraft in the process were denied the Medal of Honor because their commanding officer said they had "taken off without orders".
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HistoryNet
American Aviators Aloft at Pearl Harbor
Two heroic American aviators led a spirited defense against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
TIL Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s wife kept hanging up on his phone calls from the ISS thinking he was a telemarketer. The 3 second delay made her think no one was on the other side of the line when she’d answer. NASA then gave her the ISS’s phone number so her phone read “SPACE” each time he called.
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YouTube
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED
Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield answers the internet's most searched questions about himself. What inspired Chris Hadfield to become an astronaut? What did Chris Hadfield learn in space? What awards has he won? What's his IQ? Chris answers all these questions…
TIL Child labor in the United States was largely ended by a photographer named Lewis Wickes Hine. He took child laborers photos at eye level to humanize and personalize each child. He captured nearly identical pictures across the country to show lawmakers this was a systemic problem.
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YouTube
These photos ended child labor in the US
Child labor was widely practiced until a photographer showed the public what it looked like.
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TIL that before the Americans with Disabilities Act passed, activists with disabilities shed their wheelchairs and pulled themselves up all 100 of the Capitol steps. This action "inconvenienced" several senators and pushed them to approve the act.
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Los Angeles Times
Disabled Persons Rally, Crawl Up Capitol Steps : Congress: Scores protest delays in passage of rights legislation. The logjam in…
Crawling up the Capitol steps to dramatize the barriers confronting them, scores of disabled persons rallied Monday to protest delays in congressional action on a Senate-passed bill to expand their access to jobs, transportation and public services.
TIL Captain America #1, with its iconic cover of Cap punching Hitler, came out a year before the US entered WWII. At the time most people did not support war with Germany, so Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, both Jews, received death threats. However, the Mayor of New York was a fan and pledged protection.
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CBR
The History Behind Captain America Punching Hitler
What did it mean for Cap to punch out Hitler a year before the U.S. went to war with Germany?
TIL Manny Pacquiao ran away from home and lived in a cardboard box after his drunk father ate his dog.
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The Independent
Manny Pacquiao 'ran away from home to live on the streets aged 12 because his father ate his dog'
Ahead of Saturday's 'fight of the century', when Manny Pacquiao faces Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas, Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach has made the startling revelation that his fighter ran away from
TIL that the lower left side of Sylvester Stallone's face (including parts of his lip, tongue, and chin) is paralyzed due to a nerve being accidentally severed during his birth, which gave him his signature snarling look and slurred speech.
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Sylvester Stallone
American actor, screenwriter, and film director
TIL Albert Battel was a German Army Lt. He blocked Waffen SS troops from taking Jews from a Ghetto for execution and his Sgt threatened to shoot the SS if they tried. He then broke into the Ghetto with army trucks and evacuted 100 Jews into the protection of the German army.
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Albert Battel
German Righteous Among the Nations