TIL a person traded his way from a red paperclip to a house in fourteen transactions.
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One red paperclip
website
TIL about Nikolai Vavilov who, obsessed with ending famine, created the world's largest collection of plant seeds, advancing the genetic study of cultivated plants. He faced anti-Mendelian forces during the Stalin era, leading to arrest in 1940. Ironically, he died in captivity, by starvation.
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Nikolai Vavilov
Russian botanist and geneticist
TIL November 2, 2000 was the last time all humans were on Earth together. Ever since then, at least one person has remained on the International Space Station.
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NASA
Humans in Space Overview
NASA brings you images, videos and features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Get updates on missions, watch NASA TV, read blogs, view the latest discoveries, and more.
TIL that the lead singer of the California punk band The Offspring (Self Esteem, Come Out and Play, etc.) has a Ph.D in Molecular Biology and that his dissertation focused on HIV/AIDS research.
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Rolling Stone
Offspring’s Dexter Holland Finishes Ph.D, Thesis on HIV Research
The Offspring's Dexter Holland has completed the molecular biology Ph.D program he put on hold to focus on rock & roll.
TIL about the arrest of 16 y/o Daniel LaPlante, who, after a bad date, dug a burrow into the crawl space of the girl’s home & terrorized her for months as a spirit of her late mother then discovered dressed as a bride wielding a hatchet by her dad.
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Parkaman.com
The Strange Case of Daniel LaPlante - Real Night Horror Story
Daniel LaPlante (Danny LaPlante) holds a rare prestige in the annals of true crime. It is not the murders for which LaPlante was responsible for which provided him his infamy, but the nightmarish events which preceded them, despite no lives being lost in…
TIL The Offspring's Album 'Smash' had a small budget of $20,000, which limited studio time, the last four songs recorded for the album were worked through in just two nights. 'Smash' went on to be the best-selling album released by an independent record label with over 11 million sales.
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Smash (The Offspring album)
Smash is the third studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released on April 8, 1994, by Epitaph Records. After touring in support of their previous album Ignition (1992), the band recorded their next album over two months at Track Record in…
TIL that many Union veterans saw it as insulting that Confederate monuments were being built to commemorate the very traitors they fought against. They saw it as an affront to their military service and an affront to their dead colleagues who died fighting the Confederacy.
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PA in the Civil War
The Pennsylvania veterans who opposed Gettysburg’s first Confederate monument
In the decades after the Civil War, Pennsylvania veterans sought to keep Confederate monuments and memorials off the Gettysburg battlefield.
TIL Quantum Immortality is a thought experiment according to which self conscious beings cannot experience death. According to the experiment, the self conscious being’s mind would just switch to another reality in which its death did not occur.
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Quantum immortality
thought experiment
TIL that “TurboTax Free” is not actually free, but “TurboTax Free File” actually IS free (if you make under 36k). This was done to purposefully mislead the public into paying for a service that should be free according to the IRS.
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The Verge
TurboTax intentionally hides its free tax filing service from Google search results
The main TurboTax software is rarely free to use, regardless of what the website says.
TIL the last person who spoke exclusively Irish, Seán Ó hEinirí, died only 22 years ago in 1998
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Seán Ó hEinirí
Irish seanchaí; last person who spoke only Irish
TIL that the Amboseli National Park in Kenya is experiencing an Elephant baby boom
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Africanelephantjournal
Baby elephants Amboseli | Journal of African Elephants
Baby elephants are raining from the sky in Amboseli
TIL of a young SS soldier forced to play a piano for his Russian captors. They made it clear in sign language that he would be executed the moment he stopped. The man played for 22 hours, after which he collapsed in tears. The Russians congratulated him and then shot him.
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Hoover Institution
A Contest of Brutality
Victorino Matus on The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
TIL that Dr. Strangelove was originally conceived as a drama about the nature of nuclear warfare, but as Kubrick was writing the screenplay, he felt many of the accurate depictions of nuclear warfare policy were too unbelievable for audiences to take seriously, and so it was turned into a comedy.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | film by Kubrick [1964]
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, British satirical film, released in 1964, that was director and cowriter Stanley Kubrick’s landmark Cold War farce. It overcame a troubled production to become a film classic. Set at the…
TIL that the world's highest mountain Mt. Everest is littered with frozen corpses because it's too dangerous and expensive to get them down. One such corpse named "Green Boots", has long been used as a landmark to help climbers travel up the mountain
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Dead bodies litter Mount Everest because it's so dangerous and expensive to get them down
Reuters/Phurba Tenjing SherpaClimbers make their way to the summit of Everest in Nepal on May 22, 2019.11 people have died summiting Mount Everest this spring.The
TIL Supreme stole their famous box logo from another artist named Barbara Kruger. When Supreme sued another company for copyright infringement of their box logo, Kruger was asked for comment by a Complex editor. Her comment was “What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers”.
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I Think About When a Feminist Artist Dragged Supreme a Lot
The absence of digital niceties in Barbara Kruger’s statement sends a chill of awe down my spine.
Today I learned of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's done Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 37 cases last year.
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Atlanta Magazine
Dr. Donald Hopkins helped wipe smallpox from the planet. He won't rest until he's done the same for Guinea worm disease.
As special advisor for Guinea worm eradication at the Atlanta-based Carter Center, Hopkins insists the end is close and says he won’t retire until Guinea worm is completely wiped from the planet. “There’s no way I can stop,” he says. “I've got the tiger by…
TIL that IMDB's rating system goes to 11 for "This is Spinal Tap". All other movies only go to 10.
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Geeks of Doom
IMDb's 'This Is Spinal Tap' Rating Goes To 11 - Geeks of Doom
Our friends over at /Film noticed something interesting about IMDb's rating for the film This Is Spinal Tap: It goes to 11. If you look at the entry on IMBb you'll see that the maximum rating listed for the film is 11, though you really can only rank it…
TIL about a Mississippi born alligator named Saturn. He was gifted to the Berlin Zoo in 1936, escaped during the allied bombing in 1943. British soldiers found Saturn 3 years later and gifted him to the Soviet Union. He died at Moscow Zoo on May 22, 2020 (approx 83 years old)
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Saturn (alligator)
American alligator residing in the Moscow Zoo
TIL that Sweden had a chance at Norways oil resources for 40% of Volvo back in the late 70s, but Volvo shareholders believed it was being sold too cheap and declined. Norway oil fund is now over 1 trillion $ and Volvo was sold in 2010 to a Chinese company for 1.8 billion.
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Volvo Deal
The Volvo Deal was a plan for industrial cooperation between Norway and Sweden whereby Norway would get 40% of the shares of the Volvo car manufacturing concern, while Volvo would get control over oil resources on the Norwegian continental shelf. The plan…
Today I learned that the nations of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are considering merging to form a new nation: the East African Federation
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East African Federation
Proposed African country
TIL That Jim Henson's puppeteers sometimes didn't break character during bloopers
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YouTube
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas "Outtakes"
"drum roll" please!!!! lol
side note: the one rolling the drum is Jerry Juhl the one telling them what to do in the background is the late Jim Henson "kermit" & that puppeteer doing the temp voice for 'ma' otter is Frank Oz you all might…
side note: the one rolling the drum is Jerry Juhl the one telling them what to do in the background is the late Jim Henson "kermit" & that puppeteer doing the temp voice for 'ma' otter is Frank Oz you all might…