TIL Enron traders were so blatant in creating financial fraud schemes that they once booked a sale from an imaginary buyer named M.Yass. Some sources say, the purpose was to laugh at financial regulators
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Socialist Review
Shining the Light on Corruption
revolutionary, anti-capitalist socialist magazine based in Britain
TIL Stephen Hawking saw a future in which the rich would use genetic engineering to make themselves smarter, more disease resistant and likely to live longer. “Once such superhumans appear, there will be significant political problems with unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete", he wrote.
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CNBC
Stephen Hawking feared that a rich, 'superhuman' species is set to end humanity
The posthumous release of a new book has revealed the physicist's apocalyptic theory about genetic engineering.
TIL it took 75 years for 100 million people to get access to the telephone; the gaming app "Pokemon Go" hooked that many users in less than one month in 2016. That is how fast the digital revolution is compared to other transformations.
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CNBC
Everything you need to know about the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will take center stage at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting next week in Davos, Switzerland.
TIL: In 2014, in the game EVE Online, a massive battle was fought over territory which ended up causing losses of $330,000 actual dollars because of the destruction of players' ships. EVE Online's currency is tied to actual dollar values and the losses for individual ships could cost up to $4,000.
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The Verge
Spaceships worth more than $200,000 destroyed in biggest virtual space battle ever
EVE Online has its own economics, politics, and trade systems, built almost entirely by players in the 10 years the game has been running. It also has its own wars, as huge alliances vie for...
TIL Eminem's "Rap God" song holds "Most words in a hit single" World Record with an average of a little over 4 words PER SECOND! for a total of 1,560 words in 6 minutes
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Guinness World Records
Most words in a hit single
Eminem
TIL Coyotes and Badgers can form hunting pairs, and work together.
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Animals
Why this coyote and badger 'friendship' has excited scientists
A viral video taken under a California highway captured a playful intimacy between two predators that's rarely seen by humans.
TIL that the 1936 film 'Circus' - Stalin's favourite and the most successful of all time within the Soviet Union - was about an American woman with a Mixed Race son, who finds acceptance in the USSR. The movie's climax had the boy being held and sung to lovingly by various Soviet ethnic groups.
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Circus (1936 film)
1936 film by Grigori Aleksandrov
TIL that there is a forest in France with wild wallabies. The Australian marsupials, which resemble small kangaroos, escaped from an enclosure in the 70s and have been thriving in the wild ever since.
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Wallaby colony thrives in forest near Paris
Wallabies brought to France from Tasmania in the 1970s thrive in a forest around a village near Paris.
TIL Jerry Springer was the mayor of Cincinnati from 1977 to 1978, when he resigned after he was caught soliciting a prostitute. He was only caught because the check bounced.
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Jerry Springer
American television presenter, former lawyer, politician, news presenter, actor, and musician
TIL the song 'Rapture' by Blondie (1981) was the first single featuring a rap to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie, has said many rappers, including the Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep, told her it was the first rap song they ever heard.
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Rapture (Blondie song)
"Rapture" is a song by the American pop/rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980).
TIL in 1917 when Shackleton found rescue from a doomed expedition he took to the Antarctic in August, 1914, he asked how the war turned out. The answer was "the war isn't over. Millions are dead. Europe is mad. The world is mad."
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Today in History
December 5, 1914 Shackleton Expedition
At South Georgia Island, Ernest Shackleton asked how the war had ended. The response hit like a hammer. “The war isn’t over. Millions are dead. Europe is mad. The world is mad”…
TIL long term radiation damages the cameras on the ISS. Also, astronauts occasionally see flashes of light as heavy ions or charged particles crash through their skull and fire off photo receptor cells in their eyes despite being closed.
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Research on Station
Space radiation damage to HDTV camera CCDs onboard the international space station - Research on Station
The image quality of high-definition television (HDTV) cameras and camcorders for space activity is degraded by the presence of permanent bright pixels (so-called “white defects”) due to space radiation. We studied the space radiation damage to HDTV charge…
TIL that "piggy" bank originally had nothing to do with pigs. "Pygg," in Olde English, was a type of clay used to make jars, containers..., and coin banks. It was also pronounced like "pug." As time passed, the "y" in "pygg" was pronounced like a short "I," and the rest is history.
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The Straight Dope
What’s the origin of the piggy bank?
A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
TIL Budapest, Hungary declares lomtalanítás or "get-rid-of-junk" days where residents pile mountains of trash in the streets. Scavengers, scrappers, and collectors sift through the piles before sanitation workers clean it all up.
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Welovebudapest
Of Trash and Treasure: “Lomtalanítás” reveals many Budapest lives
We explore this surreal phenomenon of bulk-garbage disposal and societal interaction, when the streets are filled with rubbish and relics and even kitchen sinks.
TIL that Canada's first historical Thanksgiving meal predated the American one by 43 years.
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Time
The Surprising Reason Canadian Thanksgiving Is Different From the U.S. Version
The date difference isn't the only thing that separates the two holidays
TIL During the Great Plague of London, the City Corporation ordered the killing of all cats and dogs, in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease. It's estimated that 40,000 dogs and 200,000 cats were killed, however it was the rats spreading the virus, not cats or dogs.
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Britain Express
The London Plague 1665
The plague in London, 1665. How it began and spread. Life in plague London.
TIL of Mary Prince, wrongfully convicted of murder. As a trusty prisoner assigned to Jimmy Carter's home, she became his child's nanny. As President, Carter and his wife wrote to the parole board to have Prince reprieved so she could live and work at the White House. She was later pardoned.
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Mary Prince (nanny)
politician
TIL about the Megagon, a shape with 1,000,000 sides that, even if it were drawn at the size of the Earth, would be hard to distinguish from a circle.
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Megagon
polygon with 1 million sides
TIL that Anorexia has the highest death rate of all mental disorders
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Eating Disorder Hope
Anorexia Death Rate – Highest Mortality Rate of Mental Disorder: Why?
A released stufy confirms that anorexia death rate (anorexia nervosa) has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder
TIL I learned that the United States life expectancy is decreasing.
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Submitted November 21, 2020 at 03:27AM by LinguadodoMato
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TIL the Lewis & Clark expedition only suffered one casualty. Dysentery, snake bites, a dislocated shoulder, venereal disease and Lewis being shot in the buttocks after being mistaken for an elk all threatened the group's well-being, but the only man to die did so as a result of a burst appendix.
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HISTORY
10 Little-Known Facts About the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Explore ten surprising facts about one of America’s first and greatest expeditions of discovery.