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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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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the Guardian
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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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
TIL that a large number of PlayStations are being assembled and packaged in an almost fully automated factory in Japan rather than by cheap labor in China. One PlayStation can be assembled every thirty seconds in a factory with only four people.
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Nikkei Asia
PlayStation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
Robots carry on legacy of craftsmanship at little-known Kisarazu plant
TIL that actress Margaret Hamilton, best known for terrifying multiple generations as the Wicked Witch of the West, was a former kindergarten teacher who used her fame to benefit children, animals, and public education for the rest of her life. She was described as very kind and great with kids.
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Margaret Hamilton (actress)
American film character actress (1902-1985)
TIL James Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after the excitement of seeing Star Wars in 1977.
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James Cameron
Canadian film director
TIL Prince was 5’2″, or 157.5 cm tall and weighed 112 pounds, he often wore heels to combat his small size. His grand piano was even modified by shortening the legs so he could reach the pedals while sitting down to play.
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Music In Minnesota
20 Strange Facts You Didn’t Know About Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prince was 5'2" in height but showed the world that the smallest people can have the biggest impact. He is widely regarded
TIL, in the U.S., it is possible to be charged, tried and convicted of resisting arrest alone, without any underlying cause for the original decision to arrest or even if the original arrest was clearly illegal.
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Resisting arrest
In some countries, resisting arrest is a criminal charge against an individual who has committed, depending on the jurisdiction, at least one of the following acts:
TIL Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, was convicted of a 2004 coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea.
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Mark Thatcher
British businessman
TIL about Martine Rothblatt, founder of Sirius XM satellite radio who, after her daughter was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension - a disease for which there was no cure - earned her PhD and started a biotech company which developed a drug to treat the disease.
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TIL Ada Lovelace is called the world's first computer programmer; She wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.
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Mentalfloss
Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace has been called the world's first computer programmer. What she did was write the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.