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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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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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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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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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…
TIL in 2001, while performing the song "Two Step," Dave Matthews sang the words "Let it rain" and immediately the crowd was poured on by a violent rain and hail storm, which did not stop until the song concluded. This performance has now been called "Two Step in the Rain."
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Bestsongsever
Dave Matthews Band - Two Step
TIL rockstar Alice Cooper is an avid golfer. Because golf didn’t fit his “anti-establishment” persona, he used to put on a fake moustache and play on random public courses — until he realized a true “maverick” wouldn’t care what people think.
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PGATour
What they said: Alice Cooper
PGA TOUR
TIL Rodrigo De Triana was supposed to be awarded a lifetime pension by being the first sailor of the ship to spot land. Columbus later said he spotted it himself the night before and claimed the pension. Some sources say, De Triana never recovered from this event and later committed suicide.
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silive
Goodbye, Columbus: Celebrated cultural icon is not the hero he appears to be (Commentary)
Celebrated explorer's deeds and intentions belie his lofty status
TIL that North Korea bought thousands of Volvos from Sweden in 1974. They never paid for them and Sweden still sends twice-yearly reminders to Pyongyang
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Submitted November 17, 2020 at 02:22PM by chrzzl
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TIL Napoleons military genius was considered to be so enormeous that the entire stategy of the Coalition that defeated him (the Trachenberg Plan) depended on retreat wherever & whenever they faced him and only attacking his underlings until they built up an overwhelming numerical troop advantage.
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Trachenberg Plan
Coalition campaign plan in the Napoleonic Wars
TIL: After WW2, the Allies discovered meticulous plans for a Sun Gun by the Nazis. Planned by renowned Nazi Scientist Hermann Oberth, it was a .62 mile mirror attached to a space station to burn cities and evaporate oceans estimated to take 15 years to build. He later joined NASA.
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TIL Aluminum is so expensive to smelt from ore, yet so cheap to recycle, that up to 75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in use today
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Aluminium recycling
Aluminium recycling is the process by which scrap aluminium can be reused in products after its initial production. The process involves simply re-melting the metal, which is far less expensive and energy-intensive than creating new aluminium through the…
TIL: There is no such thing as "Alpha" or "Beta" wolves in a pack. The biologist who popularized the theory later realized that parental figures were leading packs and spent the rest of his career trying to debunk the spread of this idea.
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L. David Mech
American Biologist , Ecologist
TIL that an escaped convict was captured in Wisconsin after living for 3 years in a homemade bunker in the woods. The bunker was so sophisticated that it even had a TV, fans, and lights that were powered by pedaling a bicycle.
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Wisconsin fugitive lived in a homemade bunker for 3 years with TV and lights powered by a bicycle
Running from the cops is never a good idea, but one Wisconsin man managed to delay his inevitable capture by over three years by hiding out in his own makeshift bunker built into a hillside. Jeremi…