TIL Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's father descended from Black Loyalists, who escaped to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War on the promise of British emancipation.
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Rocky Johnson
Canadian professional wrestler
TIL three cows that were swept off an island in North Carolina during Hurricane Dorian were found alive on a different island. Cape Lookout National Seashore Park officials say they believe the three stranded cows swam up to five miles.
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Submitted July 31, 2020 at 04:49AM by Miskatonica
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Cows swept to sea by Hurricane Dorian found alive
Officials believe the three cows washed up on the Outer Banks after swimming for up to five miles.
TIL That the Kauai' o'o's song was recorded before it went extinct in 1987. It captures the voice of the last known bird, a male, singing a duet and pausing for the female to respond. These birds mated for life.
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TIL that the only difference between a caribou and a reindeer is that caribou are wild and reindeer are domesticated.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Fun Facts about Reindeer and Caribou
Facts about reindeer and caribou. CVM’s OMUMS works hard to make sure safe and effective drugs are available for minor species, like reindeer and caribou.
TIL Marie Antoinette built an entire fake village, complete with a working farm and fake villagers, in the backyard of Chateau de Versailles, so she could pretend to be a "peasant" whenever she felt like it.
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Hameau de la Reine
outbuilding of the Petit Trianon located in the castle of Versailles park
TIL Alan Rickman's signature sound was the result of a speech impediment when he could not move his lower jaw properly as a child.
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That Voice: Remembering Actor Alan Rickman
Fans and friends are mourning the actor best known as Snape in the Harry Potter films, Has Gruber in Die Hard and for a shocking gay kiss in Dark Harbor.
TIL the oldest known written complaint is from ancient Babylon written c. 1750 BC. In it, a customer named Nanni complains to the merchant Ea-Nasir about the low quality of his copper as well as him being rude to Nanni's servent who had to pass through enemy territory only to be refused a refund.
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Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir
clay tablet from ancient Babylon considered to be the oldest known written complaint
TIL the first artifical sweetener Saccharin was discovered on accident when a chemist forgot to wash his hands after work and tasted something "unspeakably sweet" during supper. He dropped his dinner and went on to taste every beaker in his lab, which luckily for him contained nothing poisonous.
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The Inventor of Saccharine
TIL that the founder of Guinness World Records was assassinated by the IRA after offering £50,000 for information on several bombing suspects.
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead
The BBC TV presenter and co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records is killed outside his home.
TIL Mathematician and computer scientist Grace Hopper identified the first computer bug in 1947. It was a moth stuck inside of a computer.
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TIL in 2008, Five European divers got swept away by strong currents in Indonesia and survived 12 hours adrift at sea. They ended up stranded on Rinca Island and fended off a Komodo dragon. After spending 2 days on the island they were eventually rescued by a search boat.
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Stranded divers fended off aggressive Komodo
Five divers described Monday a harrowing five days spent on a remote Indonesia island, where they had to fend off a Komodo dragon and scavenge for mussels after being swept away.
TIL the Grasshopper Mouse survives on a meat-based diet and is not only immune to scorpion venom, but converts it into a pain killer. It is also known as the Werewolf Mouse because it howls to mark its territory.
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The Grasshopper Mouse Is a Killer Howling Rodent | Nat Geo Wild
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TIL: Viagra, when dissolved in water, can help plant stems stay erect and double their lifespan.
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Viagra 'can perk up wilting flowers'
Viagra can help perk up wilting cut flowers, it has been claimed.
TIL of the Chinese Poet, Li Bai. Considered the greatest poet in Chinese literature, a good chunk of his poems are dedicated to alcohol and drunkeness due to his rampant alcoholism. Legend has that he drowned after drunkenly trying to embrace the moon's reflection upon the river during a ferry-ride
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Li Bai
Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Pe̍k, 701–762), also known as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (Chinese: 太白), art name Qinglian Jushi (Chinese: 青蓮居士), was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure…
TIL an EPA employee was convicted of defrauding the agency of $800,000 for skipping work over the course of 11 years by pretending to be a CIA agent.
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John C. Beale
former climate policy expert of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
TIL: In his college days, Steve Wozniak used a blue box (an illegal phone hacking device) to call the Vatican. He pretended to be Henry Kissinger and asked to speak with the Pope but was denied because the Pope was asleep.
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Blue box
electronic device used to illegally place free long-distance telephone calls
TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory *might* have its origins in a 1952 Ray Bradbury short story. In it, a time-traveler travels back 66 million years where he accidentally crushes a butterfly, resulting in an altered timeline observed upon his return.
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Butterfly effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
TIL: American companies were THE number one entities that helped Germany rearm them selves after WWI, illegally.
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German rearmament
rearmament carried out in Germany during the interwar period (1918–1939)
TIL Robin Williams tested out his make-up on 'Mrs. Doubtfire' by walking into a San Francisco sex shop and trying to purchase a large dildo. He was recognized by the cashier. Williams later wrote, 'Did I make the purchase? No. Did I walk away with a really good story? Yes.'
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TIL the funk band Vulfpeck released a completely silent album on Spotify and asked their fans to play it on repeat while they slept. The album, called Sleepify, earned $20,000 in royalties before spotify caught on, allowing Vulfpeck to give their fans a free tour.
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Sleepify
Sleepify is an album by American funk band Vulfpeck. The release does not contain any audible music, and consisted solely of ten, roughly 30-second-long tracks of silence; the album was made available on the music streaming service Spotify, where the band…
TIL About a paper which models the expected "time-to-failure" of potential conspiracies. E.g. if the moon landing was a hoax, the conspiracy would have had to involve 411k people, and thus the model posits that the conspiracy would have been exposed within about 4 years
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On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs
Conspiratorial ideation is the tendency of individuals to believe that events and power relations are secretly manipulated by certain clandestine groups and organisations. Many of these ostensibly explanatory conjectures are non-falsifiable, lacking in evidence…