TIL Les Garland was tasked with recruiting Mick Jagger to pioneer the "I want my MTV" ad campaign, with no budget. When Jagger told Garland that he couldn't do it with no pay, Garland offered $1 from his own pocket. Mick Jagger agreed to do the ad.
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TIL Les Garland was tasked with recruiting Mick Jagger to pioneer...
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TIL about Nancy Dupree, an American-born woman who became known as the 'grandmother of Afghanistan.' Moving there in 1962 as a diplomat's wife, she spent the rest of her life in and around the country, collecting and saving documents and eventually founding a new library of Afghan history
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Nancy Dupree
American archaeologist
TIL that Koko the Gorilla not only could communicate with humans using sign language, but she also had multiple pet cats throughout her life. Koko was apparently very loving and gentle with her cats.
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Koko (gorilla)
female gorilla research subject
TIL that in the 70s, George Lucas wanted to direct a Flash Gordon movie. When he couldn't secure the rights, he created Star Wars instead.
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Flash Gordon
hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip
TIL Gooogle's first female engineer explained how she worked 130-hour weeks - by being strategic about when she slept, when she showered, and how often she went to the bathroom. She said that the nap rooms at Gooogle were there because it was safer to stay in the office than walk to your car at 3 am
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Marissa Mayer reveals how to work 130 hours a week...
Could you work 130 hours in a week?
TIL Mad Magazine received a notice of legal action in 1980 from Lucasfilm over its parody of The Empire Strikes Back. Mad sent back a letter they had on file from George Lucas saying how much he loved the parody and the lawyers were never heard from again.
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Mad (magazine)
American comic and satirical magazine
TIL about the 1956 Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. Americans with 4500 Euros can obtain a 2-year visa to work as an independent contractor in Holland. This can be extended long enough to ultimately apply for Dutch/EU citizenship.
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Dutch American Friendship Treaty
What is DAFT? – Dutch American Friendship Treaty
Learn about the Dutch American Friendship Treaty (DAFT) and how it helps an American moving to the Netherlands. Find out if you can apply for a DAFT visa.
TIL the San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants is the only zoo outside of Australia to have Platypuses. When they were sent from Australia, in 2019, it was the first time in 50 years that Platypuses had been cared for outside of Australia.
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TIL Alexander the Great arranged a mass wedding for his Macedonian soldiers to marry Persian women to unite the regions called the Susa Wedding. After Alexander died, all the men except two divorced their Persian wives.
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Susa weddings
mass wedding arranged by Alexander of Macedon
TIL: US city Cincinnati was named in honor of Roman statesman & military leader Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus who saved Rome from a 458 BC crisis then gave up his absolute power and returned to farming
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Cincinnati
city in Ohio, United States; county seat of Hamilton County
TIL The only President and Vice President not elected to the office was Gerald Ford. Using the 25th Amendment, President Richard Nixon appointed Ford as Vice President after Spiro Agnew resigned from the position. Nine months later, President Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford rose up in his place.
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HISTORY
9 Things You May Not Know About Gerald Ford
Explore some interesting facts you may not know about the 38th U.S. president, Gerald R. Ford.
TIL From 1984 - 1988, Spider-Man wore a black costume with a white spider design on his chest. The change to his iconic design was met with controversy. Years later, it was revealed the costume was an alien symbiote which, in turn, gave birth to Venom, one of Marvel's most popular characters
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional superhero created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. He appears in American comic books published…
TIL: In 2013 a cat guided a lost hiker down a Swiss mountain,the little feline made sure the man wasn't left behind by checking on him every now and then.Once they reached their destination they parted ways.
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Meet the cat who rescued a tourist lost in the Swiss Alps
There are those who say cats cannot be relied upon because they’re only out for themselves.
TIL when Eva Peron died at 33, her body was embalmed and put on display. After a military coup it was lost for 16 years, until it was found in Italy and returned to her husband who kept it in his dining room. Upon his death, both corpses were displayed together briefly before finally being buried.
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Eva Perón
Argentinian actress and politician (1919-1952)
TIL There are at least 3 companies operating under some form of the name WHATABURGER or What-A-Burger. There is the Texas based company, Virginia based, and a third based in the Carolinas. They sued each other in the early 2000's and a result of the lawsuits was that all 3 could keep using the name.
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What-A-Burger
What-A-Burger is the trading name used by a small group of restaurants which were established by entrepreneur brothers Jack Branch and Paul E. Branch Jr. and members of the Branch family beginning in 1957 though the first What-A-Burger was opened in 1950.…
TIL the prevailing theory behind why humans like music is that we learn patterns and regularities within music, and we unconsciously predict what will come next. When we are right, our brain gives us a dopamine rush. Thus the constant dance between expectation and outcome is pleasurable to us
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Bbc
Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good?
No one knows why music has such a potent effect on our emotions. But thanks to some recent studies we have a few intriguing clues.
TIL The largest ever study on narcissism found that Baby Boomers score higher on hypersensitivity and narcissism tests than millennials.
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Mashable
Narcissism study finds boomers are more 'hypersensitive' than millennials
Who's calling everyone snowflakes?
TIL plants make up 82% of the total biomass of Earth. Of all the mammals on Earth, 96% are livestock and humans, only 4% are wild mammals. Of all the birds on Earth, 70% are chicken and poultry, 30% are wild birds. The total biomass of the human race accounts for just 0.01% of all life on Earth.
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the Guardian
Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study
Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact
TIL that since 2014, Paul Rudd and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been co-owners of Samuel's Sweet Shop, a candy store in the town of Rhinebeck, New York. They saved it from being closed after the previous owner, a friend of theirs, died suddenly.
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Paul Rudd
American actor
TIL Redbone, the band that wrote "Come and Get Your Love" (the song featured in the opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy), was formed after Jimi Hendrix had inspired the original members to create an all Native American band
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TIL In 1963, Félicette was the first cat to be launched into Space. She experienced weightlessness and safely returned to Earth. 14 cats went through intensive training but Félicette was chosen for her calm disposition. Some claim the other cats became too fat.
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