TIL that Andre Agassi, one of the greatest ever male tennis players (and husband of Steffi Graf, one of the greatest ever female tennis players), wrote in his autobiography that "I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have"
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TIL President Jimmy Carter’s son smoked weed with Willie Nelson on the roof of The White House
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Country Music Channel
Jimmy Carter's son confirms he smoked weed on the White House roof with Willie Nelson | Country Music Channel on Foxtel
The Green House effect
TIL I learned there’s a freshwater lake on a golf course in Australia with bullsharks. The sharks came to the lake due to a flood and aren’t able to go to the ocean after the flood receded. They have since breeded in the lake.
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Brisbane Times
Wildlife on golf courses: Animals can be an extra hazard for players
Golfers share their fairways with some pretty unusual wildlife.
TIL that William Atherton who plays the lawyer Walter Peck in Ghostbusters was so hated that after the movie came out he was harassed on the street and challenged to fights in bars.
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IFC
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Ghostbusters
It’s National <em>Ghostbusters</em> Day today (really!), and in celebration we thought we’d dig deep into the 1984 horror-comedy classic to reveal seven fascinating bits of trivia that you might not have heard before.
TIL The first Sikh member of the US Army - Bhagat Singh Thind gained US citizenship in 1918 and was stripped of it 4 days later for being Indian. The Supreme Court ruled against him in his second attempt. He succeeded in his third attempt.
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Bhagat Singh Thind
Indian American writer and civil rights activist
TIL Elderly Lion Couple at the Los Angeles Zoo that were soulmates were put to sleep at the same time so neither had to live alone
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Bored Panda
Elderly Lion Couple That Were Soulmates Are Put To Sleep At The Same Time So Neither Has To Live Alone
These lions were charismatic both together as partners and separately, but they were hardly ever apart from one another. Their undivided attention was always on the other as they rested together, cuddled, and nuzzled often.
TIL that there are “harbinger zip codes”, these contain people who tend to buy unpopular products that fail and tend to choose losing political candidates. Their home values also rise slower than surrounding zip codes. A yet to be explained phenomena where people are "out of sync" with the rest.
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kottke.org
The "Harbinger Customers" Who Buy Unpopular Products & Back Losing Politicians
This paper, about the curious phenomenon of "harbinger customers" and "harbinger zip codes", is really interesting. These harbinger customers tend to buy unpopular products like Crystal Pepsi or Col
TIL childhood trauma is actually relatively common. 60% of the population experiences trauma by the age of 16. Research suggests childhood trauma has life-long impacts in the form of diminished health, financial and academic success, and social life.
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Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Multi-decade Study Found Childhood Trauma Exposure Common, Raising Health Risks in Adulthood
A long-term study of 1,420 people finds that childhood trauma is more commonplace than is often assumed, and that its effects upon the transition to adulthood and adult functioning are not only confined to post-traumatic stress symptoms and depression but…
TIL In his songs, Chuck Berry articulated every word, with precise diction and no noticeable accent, leading some listeners and concert promoters, used to a different kind of rhythm-and-blues singer, to initially think he was white. Teenagers didn't care about his race
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Anchorage Daily News
Chuck Berry, who helped define rock 'n' roll, dies at 90
He was rock's master theorist and conceptual genius, the songwriter who understood what the kids wanted before they knew themselves.
TIL bananas would not be nearly as available to most of the world if banana-pickers were paid a livable wage.
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Itotd
The Truth About Bananas | Interesting Thing of the Day
TIL Navajo was once in danger of losing a lot of speakers, but the Navajo nation set up programs to teach the language as well as many bilingual schools. Now there are even institutes, community colleges, and technical universities with classes in the Navajo language
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Alpha Omega Translations
Top 10 Indigenous Languages of the U.S.
There are over 300 different languages spoken in the U.S. today; half of those are indigenous languages spoken by Native American tribes
TIL that Rick Moranis is returning to on-screen acting after a 23 year hiatus
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BBC News
Rick Moranis returns to acting for Honey, I Shrunk The Kids sequel
The actor's last on-screen film role was in 1997 - but he's about to return to the big screen.
TIL a 9,000 year old skeleton found inside a cave in Cheddar, England, has a living relative was teaching history only a 1/2 mile away, tracing back nearly 300 generations.
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The Independent
The family link that reaches back 300 generations to a Cheddar cave
Adrian Targett visited the home of a close relative yesterday. He had to put on Wellington boots because the floor is muddy. The relative was not in. Hardly surprising: he died 9,000 years ago.
Today I learned that trees have a maximum height of 426ft and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity.
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List of tallest trees
Two main opposing forces affect a tree's height; one pushes it upward while the other holds it down. By analyzing the interplay between these forces, a team of biologists led by George Koch of Northern Arizona University calculated the theoretical maximum…
TIL Before Edward I was king of England, he was a prisoner of Simon de Montfort. One day, he asked if he could ride the guards horses and raced them one by one. When he got to the last horse, he rode off to freedom, and all the other horses were too tired to give chase.
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Medievalists.net
Who was Edward I?
The Five-Minute Medievalist talks about the life and times of Edward I, King of England.
TIL Andrew W.K. was named the Person of the Year in 2018 by the American Association Of Suicidology "due to his consistent and powerful use of positivity to improve the lives of those who hear his music."
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Andrew W.K.
American singer-songwriter
TIL: Chickens are naturally cannibalistic and wearing rose tinted glasses made for chickens reduced their ability to see blood, which reduces their cannibalistic tendencies.
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National Band and Tag Company
Chickens Can Put Their Shades On Too - National Band and Tag Company
Did you know National Band & Tag used to manufacture rose colored Chicken Glasses to help stop chickens from pecking at each other? The sight of blood intensified the pecking instinct in chickens, so the rose-colored lenses made the red disappear, thus reducing…
TIL after laying eggs, octopus moms’ only function is to protect and tend to their eggs because their brain shuts down except for the optic glands. They remain stationary for anywhere from months to years depending on the species of octopus, uninterested in food even when its offered to them.
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WNYC Studios
Octomom | Radiolab | WNYC Studios
A mile under the ocean, we get to watch an octopus perform a heroic act of heart and determination.
TIL that some company tried to rip off the show "the amazing world of gumball" (rip off show is called miracle star) and after the people who created the real show heard this, they made an episode called "the copycats" to spread the awareness of it.
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Polygon
Cartoon Network dunks on ripoff shows in best way possible
The Amazing World of Gumball just wants other cartoons to "be their own you"
TIL the ZAZ trio (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker), creators of movies like "Airplane!", "Top Secret" and "The Naked Gun", pulled a prank that cost them 60,000$ and took 4 years, just to have an announcer at a horse racetrack say "all pink on the inside"
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The Laugh Button
How the creators of Airplane! pulled off one of the funniest jokes we’ve ever heard
Holy hell! This is one of the funniest stories we’ve heard in a long time. Ask yourself, “how far are…
TIL a Princeton University undergraduate designed an atomic bomb for his term paper. When American nuclear scientists said it would work, the FBI confiscated his paper and classified it. Few months later he was contacted by French and Pakistani officials who offered to buy his design. He got an "A".
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