TIL in 1928, Olympic rower Bobby Pearce stopped mid-race to let a family of ducks pass, giving his opponent a 5-length lead. In the last 1,000 meters, Pearce pulled ahead by 30 seconds, winning the gold and setting a record.
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Submitted November 16, 2020 at 03:04PM by SpiritualHawk420
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TIL McDonald’s use wider straws to improve the taste of Coca Cola
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Mcdonalds
Our Food, Your Questions: McDonald’s Food Facts | McDonald’s
Have a question about our food? We have the answer. Learn more about how some of your favorite McDonald’s items are made.
TIL that Shirley Temple, following the end of her acting career, made an unsuccessful run for congress and later became United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia
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Submitted November 16, 2020 at 03:07PM by je97
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Shirley Temple
American actress and diplomat (1928-2014)
TIL about how in 2008 during the macy's thankgiving day parade, during the final performance of the "foster's home for imaginary friends" float the pre-planned musical number, the music was cut, only for Rick Asltey to come out and perform "Never Gonna Give You Up" live
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The Telegraph
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade: Rick Astley performs his own Rickroll
The ultimate Rickroll, or the death knell of a internet fad that has long ceased to amuse? Rick Astley was the surprise star of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, emerging from the back of a float to sing his 1980s hit Never Gonna Give You Up.
TIL that gargoyles are only considered gargoyles if they collect rainwater and spit it out of their mouth. Otherwise, they are called grotesques.
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Submitted November 16, 2020 at 07:25PM by LittleCabbage564
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Gargoyle
sculpture of a grotesque being or animal on a building, often used as a waterspout
TIL leading up to Pearl Harbor the US lost track of Japanese aircraft carriers, observed the Japanese consulate burning documents, encountered hostile submarines near Hawaii and had reports of a cluster of aircraft 137 miles north of Oahu, yet only realized an attack was under way when bombs dropped
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Roberta Wohlstetter
American academic
TIL the United States Senate used the same gavel from 1789-1954, until then Vice President, Richard Nixon, broke it during a particularly heated debate on nuclear energy.
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Submitted November 16, 2020 at 05:43PM by stupidusername69
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Gavel
ceremonial mallet used to maintain order during gatherings
TIL the best-selling living author, Danielle Steel, has received "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" for her 179 books. In her romance novels, she draws from her experiences of having been married 5 times to financiers, ex-convicts, and a vintner, and having 9 children.
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Danielle Steel
American writer
TIL that the Little Red-Haired Girl, the object of Charlie Brown's affection, was based on a woman named Donna who Charles Schultz loved in his youth. Schultz proposed to her but she chose another man. Many Peanuts strips where characters discuss love are based on dates Schultz and Donna went on.
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Vanity Fair
Charlie Brown Never Found His Little Red-Haired Girl, but We Did
Donna Wold’s hair is now white, not “violently red”, but she still remembers her courtship with a man named Sparky, and the comic strips that read “like an old love letter.”
TIL John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, knew the play he was watching by heart. He timed his shot with the audience's laughter at one of the best lines in the play; Lincoln was laughing at this when he was shot.
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1865 murder of the 16th President of the United States
TIL horses originated in North America, migrated to Asia and were domesticated, went extinct in North America, and were brought back over again by the Spanish thousands of years later.
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Horses in the United States
Horses were a crucial component of American life and culture since the founding of the nation. In 2008, there were about 9.2 million horses in the US, with 4.6 million citizens are involved in the horse business. Notably, there are about 82,000 feral horses…
TIL Jeff Bezos started Amazon with a $300,000 investment - from his parents.
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Jeff Bezos
American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc.
TIL that silent discos are banned in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, for being too noisy
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BBC News
Swiss city bans 'noisy' silent discos
Authorities say the silent events are not necessarily silent.
TIL: Sony didn't believe that Aaron Sorkin's 162 page noscript for 'The Social Network' would come out under 2 hours. David Fincher timed Sorkin reading it aloud. The reading took 1 hour and 59 minutes, which was the exact running time of the final cut
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YouTube
DP/30: The Social Network, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin
TIL that in 2000 a doctor was driven from her home by vandals who were confused between paedophile and paediatrician and thought she was a child molester.
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the Guardian
Doctor driven out of home by vigilantes
Self-styled vigilantes attacked the home of a hospital paediatrician after apparently confusing her professional noscript with the word "paedophile", it emerged yesterday.
TIL Microsoft had to fly in the Photographer of the "Bliss" Image (XP Background), because no courier service had an insurance which would have covered the six figure price tag on the Photograph/Original Negative
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Bliss (image)
default computer wallpaper of Windows XP
TIL that Meat Loaf being cast in The Rocky Horror Show was NOT stunt casting, as the musical opened in 1973 and he didn't have his first hit record until 1977. Also, in the musical he played both Eddie and Dr. Scott.
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The Rocky Horror Show
musical
TIL at US Supreme Court, the most junior associate justice is charged with menial tasks, such as answering the door of conference room, serving beverages and transmitting orders of the court to the clerk.
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Supreme Court of the United States
highest court in the United States
TIL before women became the norm, the earliest telephone operators were teenage boys. These boys would frequently misbehave on the job, drinking, fighting, swearing, and playing practical jokes on the customers.
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Submitted November 17, 2020 at 04:57AM by ClassicPartyGuy
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The Atlantic
When Phone Operators Were Unruly Teenage Boys
Before they were women, they were swearing, wrestling, beer-drinking pranksters.
TIL that there is a shanytown on the edge of Seoul's affluent Gangnam District, created by people evicted from houses in low-income areas demolished prior to the 1988 Olympics, who came there as their last refuge. It has 2500-4000 residents, mostly impoverished elderly, living in shacks and trailers
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Guryong Village
Guryong or Guryong Village (Korean: 구룡마을) is an illegal encampment (commonly called a slum or a shantytown) on private land in Seoul, South Korea, on the edge of the affluent southside district of Dogok-dong, Gangnam District from which it is separated by…
TIL that when Germany invaded Belgium in World War I, King Albert I took personal command of the Belgian Army. He led his army for 4 years, fighting alongside his troops, while his wife, Queen Elisabeth, worked as a nurse at the front. His 12 year-old son, the Crown Prince, also fought in the ranks
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Albert I of Belgium
Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934. He ruled during an eventful period in the history of Belgium, which included the period of World War I (1914–1918), when 90 percent of Belgium was overrun, occupied…