TIL in 2007 six US cruise missiles with the nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a bomber, not reported missing, and remained mounted for 36 hours with no security precautions for nuclear weapons implemented.
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2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale…
TIL: Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, released a limited 200 signed copies of the book bound in an asbestos cover making them fireproof. They rarely sell for less than $10,000.
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Submitted November 17, 2020 at 08:16PM by Captain-Yesh
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TIL that a newborn is triggered into its first breathe by contractions that reducing oxygen flow through the umbilical, which increases carbon dioxide. The increase of carbon dioxide causes acidosis which triggers the respiratory center of the brain, causing the baby to start using it's lungs.
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Lumenlearning
Adjustments of the Infant at Birth and Postnatal Stages | Anatomy and Physiology II
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TIL about the Native American town of Saukenuk, which had as many as 5000 residents in 1826. It was a multi-ethnic settlement, and featured a central courtyard, straight and well-kept streets, hundreds of large wigwams, a very large temple/council house, and was surrounded by vast farmland.
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Black Hawk State Historic Site
state park in Illinois, USA
TIL that there is a traditional European custom called "telling the bees," where bees would be informed about important events like deaths, births, and marriages; and that if the bees were not properly informed people feared they would leave the hive, stop pollinating or producing honey, or die
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JSTOR Daily
“Telling the Bees” | JSTOR Daily
In nineteenth-century New England, it was held to be essential to whisper to beehives of a loved one’s death.
TIL of the Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger", which means that people will accept absurd information, as long as enough people are saying it.
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Three men make a tiger
"Three men make a tiger" (Chinese: 三人成虎; pinyin: sān rén chéng hǔ) is a Chinese proverb or chengyu (four-character idiom). "Three men make a tiger" refers to an individual's tendency to accept absurd information as long as it is repeated by enough people.…
TIL the Law and Order "clang" sound is actually 6-7 separate sounds, including the sound of 500 Japanese men stomping on a wooden floor.
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'Law & Order''s tune
''Law & Order'''s tune -- Composer Mike Post's TV theme music evokes the mood of the high-profile cop show
TIL the actress who played the girl in the red jacket in Schindler's List was 3 at the time of filming. Spielberg asked her not to watch the film until she was 18, but she watched it when she was 11 and said she was "horrified"
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Schindler's List
1993 film by Steven Spielberg
TIL that Shaquille O’Neal holds the record for biggest total purchase in Walmart history. Shaq spent $70,000 in one stop at Walmart in 2008.
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Submitted November 18, 2020 at 12:31AM by ChappedAssholeLover
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Business Insider
Shaq has a wild story about spending $70,000 at Walmart — the biggest purchase in company history
Shaquille O'Neal spent so much at Walmart that American Express shut off his card before he assured them that he indeed was making the purchase.
TIL UPS delivery routes are designed to avoid left turns as this causes the vehicle to idle longer than making right turns. This move saves UPS 10 million gallons of fuel per year.
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Bromford Lab
Why Do UPS Trucks Only Turn Right? — Bromford Lab
Microsoft hosted a session for us to help us re-imagine field services - and that got us thinking…
TIL Schrödinger's Cat was a thought experiment designed to be so absurd that people would realize that's not how quantum mechanics work.
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Science Questions with Surprising Answers
What did Schrodinger's Cat experiment prove?
Schrodingers Cat was not a real experiment and therefore did not scientifically prove anything. Schrodingers Cat is not even part of any scientific...
TIL That the brain shields us from existential fear by categorising death as an unfortunate event that only befalls other people.
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Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth
Brain seems to categorise death as something that only befalls other people
TIL that China's 17th-century Tianqi Emperor suffered from a learning disаbility, and was illiterаte. However, he was an outstanding carpenter and craftsman, spending vast amounts of time on woodworking, and he instructed his servаnts to sell his creations undercоver, to see how much they were worth
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Tianqi Emperor
The Tianqi Emperor (23 December 1605 – 30 September 1627), personal name Zhu Youjiao, was the 16th Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1620 to 1627. He was the eldest son of the Taichang Emperor and a elder brother of the Chongzhen Emperor, who succeeded…
TIL Dracula was translated into Icelandic in 1901, and it wasn't until 2014 that anyone noticed this version was actually a significantly different novel with a smaller page count and a lot more sex
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Dracula
1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker
TIL of “Slug Bug”, an American custom in which the first person to see a Volkswagen Beetle can punch anyone near them on the shoulder.
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Donaldsons Volkswagen
Everything You Need To Know About The Volkswagen Beetle Punch Buggy Game
What Is The Real Origin Of The Slug Bug Game? We all know the game.
TIL that for 15 years, Sweden thought enemy submarines were invading their waters, but it turned out to be farting herrings. Shoals were huge enough for the collective flatulence to register on military radar, producing sounds and small bubbles which were mistakenly identified as Russian subs.
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Rbth
The strange and stinky mystery behind Russia-Sweden tensions in the 1980s
Surveillance of a Soviet submarine, a Swedish prime minister, a secret room, a Russian president and herring farts – these are the elements of a detective story that unfolded between Russia and Sweden in the 1980-1990s. And who knows how it would have ended…
TIL That on Saving Private Ryan, Matt Damon, who played Private Ryan, was trained separately, so the rest of the group, whose characters are supposed to feel resentment towards Damon's character, would not bond with him.
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TIL A Hong Kong gangster kidnapped the child of Asia's richest man and extracted $130 million ransom and later telephoned him and asked for advice on how to invest it.
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South China Morning Post
Kidnapper of Li Ka-shing's son rang tycoon to ask where he should invest HK$1billion ransom
Tycoon Li Ka-shing has revealed for the first time details of the kidnapping of his eldest son, Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, by crime king 'Big Spender' Cheung Tze-keung 17 years ago.
TIL a one word article was the shortest ever published in the New York Times. The noscript: “When I’m Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit ‘Reply All’ Asking to Be Removed?” The entire article: "No."
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TIL that George Clooney wanted Julia Roberts for the movie Ocean's Eleven but never met her before. Julia Roberts was charging $20 million a movie at the time so Clooney, unable to afford her, send her a noscript with a $20 bill with a note, 'I heard you’re getting 20 a picture.' She agreed to do it.
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EW.com
George Clooney explains how he charmed Julia Roberts into his next movie
''The Perfect Storm'' star talks about his two upcoming projects
TIL Stalin had a son who he hated and who was later captured by the nazis. The nazis thought they could use him as a bargaining chip to trade to his father Joseph in return for Nazi generals. In response, Stalin said, "I do not trade generals for soldiers" Stalin's son would later kill himself.
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The Independent
Joseph Stalin’s hated son surrendered to the Nazis, archives reveal
Stalin is known to have despised his first son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, who is thought to have committed suicide in 1943