TIL about Mary Ann Brown Patten, who took command of a merchant vessel in 1856 when the captain, her husband, became ill and the first mate was found to be sabotaging the voyage to win a bet he'd placed on a competitor. She defeated a mutiny attempt and brought the ship safely back to port.
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Mary Ann Brown Patten
American sailor
TIL that in fall of 2018, Starbucks’ coffee was found to have connections to forced labor plantations where workers were subject to debt bondage and unsafe working conditions. This was 8 months after they were named one of the World’s Most Ethical companies for the 12th year in a row.
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Fair World Project
Starbucks Has a Slave Labor Problem
Once again, Brazilian labor inspectors have found slave labor on plantations "certified" to Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices standards.
TIL in January 2015, Marshawn Lynch was threatened with a $500,000 fine by the NFL if he didn't make himself available for Super Bowl Media Day. He showed up, set a timer on his phone, answered 29 questions with some variation of "I'm here so I won't get fined," and left the podium within 5 minutes
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ESPN.com
Lynch: 'I'm here so I won't get fined'
During Super Bowl media day, Marshawn Lynch, reportedly threatened with a $500,000 fine, answered every question with some variation of "I'm here so I won't get fined."
TIL that after illegally demolishing the historic London pub Carlton Tavern (that survived the Blitz), a property developer was ordered by the courts to rebuild it "brick by brick." It's taken over 5 years and it has still not been completely finished.
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BBC News
Demolished Maida Vale Carlton Tavern must be rebuilt 'brick by brick', inquiry rules
Developers who knocked down a 1920s west London pub shortly before it was to be given listed status must rebuild it "brick by brick", an inquiry rules.
TIL At Frank Sinatra's birth, the doctor thought he was a stillborn. Blue and not breathing, the doctor laid him on the counter while he attended to Sinatra’s mother. It was only when his grandmother picked up the newborn, ran him under cold water and slapped his back that Sinatra started breathing
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PBS NewsHour
8 things you didn't know about Frank Sinatra
Saturday marks what would've been legendary crooner Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. Even though he never formally learned to read music, Sinatra's career spanning half a century earned him the nicknames "The Voice" and "The Sultan of Swoon," as he left an…
TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.
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Grunge.com
The Untold Truth Of Christopher Walken - Grunge
The untold truth of Christopher Walken is filled with odd stories. Turns out, Walken isn't that different from the character he usually plays on screen.
TIL Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother was also assassinated, and his brother was found dead in a swimming pool at age 38.
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MLK's mother gunned down 6 years after his death
Six years after an assassin cut down Rev. Martin Luther King, a man walked into Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and killed the late civil rights leader's mother as she played the organ for morning services.
TIL the last time the British Empire expanded was 1955, when they annexed a tiny rock 300km off the Scottish coast to prevent the Soviets spying on their ballistic missile tests.
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Rockall
uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean
TIL: The Eiffel tower has a reletively untouched apartment designed and put in by Gustav Eiffel which few people were ever allowed in and he turned down every request by wealthy Parisians who wanted to stay the night in it.
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Condé Nast Traveler
There Is a Secret Apartment at the Top of the Eiffel Tower
When Gustave Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower, he included a private apartment for himself at the top.
TIL when entering a highly-competitive energy drink sector with a low marketing budget, Red Bull needed to come up with a unique way to create brand awareness. Red Bull decided to strategically place empty cans of its product around garbage cans outside of popular late night venues in London.
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Hustle Over Everything
How Red Bull Used Garbage Cans As A Marketing Strategy
Red Bull has been famous for their notorious guerilla marketing tactics. In the early 80s, they were planning on launching Red Bull in London but they wanted to approach marketing differently than they had before. Rather than using traditional marketing…
TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion
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Smithsonian Magazine
Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion
The 40th President of the United States was a big science-fiction fan
TIL the largest Giant Squid recorded by scientists weighed nearly a ton and measured 43' (13m), but are rarely seen alive in their habitat due to living deep underwater; these Giant Squids are capable of catching prey 33' (10m) away using tentacles 2x the squid's length with sharp suckers attached
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TIL that when a new IKEA was built in Valladolid, Spain, in 2011, the company held an online poll on how to name the road leading to the store. The majority voted for: "Calle Me falta un tornillo" ("I'm missing a screw Road"), and IKEA and the municipal administration named the road accordingly.
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Verne
La historia de la calle Me falta un tornillo del Ikea de Valladolid que votaron los vecinos
La empresa organizó una votación en 2011 para nombrar la vía.
TIL Will Smith is the only actor to have 8 consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, followed by Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks with 7 each.
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www.deltafilms.net
Artist Spotlight - Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. is one of a small group of people who have enjoyed success in three major entertainment media in the United States. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet.
TIL of Waverly Woodson, a black medic who treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day while injured himself. As he hit the beach a shell tore apart his landing craft, filling him with shrapnel. Despite this, he set up an aid station and treated wounds for 30 hours, at one point even amputating a foot.
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HISTORY
A Black Medic Saved Hundreds on D-Day. Was He Deprived of a Medal of Honor?
Waverly Woodson treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day, despite being injured, himself.
TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.
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the Guardian
France pays tribute to six-year-old resistance hero Marcel Pinte
Special Armistice Day ceremony lauds contribution of wartime courier who died in 1944
TIL Subway Rolls Contain So Much Sugar They are Not Considered Bread In Ireland
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BBC News
Subway rolls ruled too sugary to be bread in Ireland
A court says the bread used in the firm's hot sandwiches must be taxed because of its sugar content.
TIL about Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist who is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation. He is called "the father of the Green Revolution" and bred a high-yield and disease-resistant dwarf wheat that helped many countries to battle mass starvation.
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Norman Borlaug
American biologist
TIL that in 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.
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Irish Examiner
Surprise jet arrival left lasting legacy in town
30 years ago today Captain Ruben Ocana’s Gulfstream II made an unexpected landing on Mallow Racecourse, Ray Ryan recalls
TIL there is a 1,700 year old Ethiopian counterpart of the Rosetta Stone called the Ezana Stone. The innoscription commemorates Ethiopian military victories and their conversion to Christianity in their native language Ge’ez, as well as ancient Greek and South Arabian Sabaen.
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Ezana Stone
stele in Aksum, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum, in present-day Ethiopia
TIL In the 20th century India lost more than 95% of its vulture population. The deaths are due to a medication for cows that is poisonous to the birds. The loss of vultures had increased the spread of disease and vermin populations. Also Parsi sky burials have had to be cancelled.
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Indian vulture crisis
Vultures endangered due to drugs in carcasses