TIL 11,000 year old footprints of giant sloths have been found preserved in gypsum in New Mexico. Some also have human footprints within them, which effectively records all the action of a sloth hunt
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VOA
New Mexico Desert Captures Evidence of Sloth Hunt
Rare human prints were found at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.
TIL there's an American attorney who has been under house arrest for a year because of a contempt of court charge for failing to turn over his personal electronics to Chevron. The maximum sentence for his crime is six months.
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Submitted November 27, 2020 at 02:51PM by TheKrispyKritter
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Steven Donziger
American lawyer
TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers."
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Robert Gould Shaw
Union United States Army officer
TIL Pablos Escobar imported 4 hippos for his private zoo. Today there are close to 80 hippos living wild in Columbia.
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Pablo Escobar's hippos
Hippos owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar
TIL the oldest tree ever discovered was cut down by a scientist and a park ranger in order to retrieve a $50 scientific tool
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Submitted November 27, 2020 at 04:18PM by blitzkrieg9
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Smithsonian Magazine
How One Man Accidentally Killed the Oldest Tree Ever
In 1964, Donal Rusk Currey killed the oldest tree ever. It was a Bristlecone pine, and here's why they live so long
TIL that the reason why Olive Oil bottles are so dark is because it's protecting the oil from the light, Which if not dark will degrade the oil.
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Submitted November 27, 2020 at 05:48PM by NatureMan123
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Old Town Oil
Why do your Extra Virgin Olive Oils come in dark bottles?
It’s a question of quality—dark glass protects the oil from the deteriorating effects of light. This is also why many health products come in brown bottles, wine is bottled in dark green glass, and clear, glass milk bottles have been replaced with opaque…
TIL To deter Tree Theft from public parks, some cities spray trees with fox urine each year around Christmas time. It freezes on the trees and is odorless outdoors, but if brought into a home, the smell is "eye watering"
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The Daily Nebraskan
Fox urine spray thwarts tree thefts
What can run a feral, East Campus cat off a liver truck and save a few trees in the process?
TIL In the 1960’s, Paul Klipsch was found in his office, stripped down to his skivvies with the thermostat set to high. He was trying to determine why early calculators would quit when operated at high temperatures. He later sent a letter to the manufacturer, explaining the source of the problem.
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MadMikesAmerica
One crazy genius - Paul W. Klipsch
An eccentric genius, Paul Klipsch, invents a revolutionary loudspeaker in 1945 that it still being produced today.
TIL women in the Viking Age could own property, request a divorce and reclaim their dowries if their marriages ended.
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Submitted November 27, 2020 at 09:29PM by rocksofiron
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HISTORY
What Was Life Like for Women in the Viking Age?
Women in the Viking Age enjoyed more freedom and held more power in their society than many other women of their day.
TIL that to train new operatives during the Cold War, the Soviets built fully functional replicas of American towns. Their residents consisted of retired deep cover operatives who taught the trainees everything they needed to know about blending into American life.
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New York Post
‘1000s’ of Russian spies in U.S., surpassing Cold War record
The Russians are coming? The Russians are here. America is infested with more Russian spies than at any point in history, say former intelligence agents who spoke with The Post. “I would
TIL an anonymous poster discovered a partial solution to a mathematical problem that hadn't been solved in over 25 years because they were trying to figure out the shortest way to watch every possible order of the first season of the anime "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya."
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The Verge
An anonymous 4chan post could help solve a 25-year-old math mystery
An anime math problem
TIL that dolphins have a highly developed spoken language, similar to the human language. This indicates a high level of intelligence and consciousness in dolphins. In addition to this, dolphin brains are somewhat larger and more complex than human ones.
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Sciencedirect
The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins
This paper continues studies in the problem of animal language by registering acoustic signals from two quasi-stationary Black Sea bottlenose dolphins…
TIL Abraham Zapruder, the man who filmed Kennedy's assassination, was originally not even going to bring his camera because it had been raining that morning. Later, his assistant insisted he retrieve it from home before going to Dealey Plaza because the weather had cleared.
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Abraham Zapruder
witness to the Kennedy assassination
TIL that in 2012, a uk couple jokingly invited Queen Elizabeth II to their wedding. She stopped by and said hello
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Submitted November 28, 2020 at 03:01AM by DaddyJay2812
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BBC News
Queen's wedding visit at Manchester Town Hall 'the best present'
A newlywed couple say having the Queen as a surprise guest at their wedding was "one of the best presents you could wish for".
TIL: An amateur Egyptologist, Seamus Blackley, successfully baked bread with 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from ancient Egyptian ceramics once used to bake bread and brew beer. The dormant yeast was activated by a nutrient solution injected into the ceramics during the extraction process
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Smithsonian Magazine
This Bread Was Made Using 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Yeast
After extracting the dormant yeast from cooking vessels, an amateur gastroegyptologist used ancient grains to recreate an Old Kingdom loaf
TIL that one reason Lyndon B. Johnson did not run for re-election was because a study he commissioned had predicted he would die at 64 and thus may not make it through a 2nd term. True enough, he would die on 22 January 1973 at 64, 2 days after what would have been the end of his 2nd term.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
36th president of the United States (1908-1973)
TIL Danny DeVito’s height is the result of Fairbank’s Disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth.
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Biography
Danny DeVito
American actor Danny DeVito began his rise to fame on the TV show 'Taxi.' Since then, he's starred in feature films such as 'Twins' and 'Ruthless People' and on the TV show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'
TIL that, contrary to expectations, objects with greater drag generate less heat when entering the atmosphere. This is because a pocket of air forms in front of the object. After this was discovered in 1951, vehicles such as the Apollo capsule were designed to enter the atmosphere blunt-end first.
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Submitted November 28, 2020 at 03:39AM by WouldbeWanderer
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Atmospheric entry
movement of an object through the gases of an atmosphere from outer space
TIL that after the 1980 Irpina Earthquake hit Southern Italy, the corruption was so bad that only 1/4 of the 40 billion dollar rebuilding fund got spent on relief. The rest got distributed among politicians and the mafia.
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Submitted November 28, 2020 at 04:04AM by Kalehfornyuh
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1980 Irpinia earthquake
November 1980 earthquake in Southern Italy
TIL that English cricket great Denis Compton was renowned for his absent-mindedness. He once arrived at a match without his kitbag, so he used an antique bat from the stadium's museum; and during a major celebration in honour of his 70th birthday, his mother rang, telling him that he was only 69
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Submitted November 28, 2020 at 01:14PM by malalatargaryen
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Denis Compton
Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex. He was also an accomplished footballer, who played most of his football career at Arsenal.
TIL in the 17th century, weavers in Nimes, France, accidentally made denim while trying to replicate the process of producing another popular fabric called serge. They called the new material “serge de Nimes” meaning literally “serge from Nimes.” Over time, merchants shortened the name to “denim”.
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Ellicott & Co.
Denim: A Mythic History
The Future Is Tinted Indigo