TIL pirates often stocked a variety of flags and usually flew false flags, only raising the Jolly Roger when they had their prey vessels within firing range.
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Jolly Roger
Pirate flag
TIL: Eric Dolphy died in Berlin becuase Dr's took a stereotypical view that, as a black jazz musician, he would be a junkie (he was actually a teetotaler, and a Diabetic)
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Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
TIL despite her repeated claims to be more than 85% correct, a 2013 article found that "psychic" Sylvia Browne was accurate in 0/33 of her predictions. For example, she had predicted that she would die at age 88; she died at age 77.
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Sylvia Browne
American author, psychic and medium
TIL that Mark Hamill auditioned for the role of Mozart in the movie adaptation of 'Amadeus' after playing the role on broadway, but was rejected after a studio executive said, "I don't want Luke Skywalker in this film".
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Mark Hamill
American actor, producer, director, and writer
TIL a nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth itself. 1 nautical mile is equal to 1 minute of arc on the planet earth. So 60 nautical miles is equal to 1 degree of arc. Consequently earth circumference is 60*360 = 21600 nautical miles.
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What is a nautical mile, and how does it differ from a normal mile and a kilometer?
A nautical mile is used for navigation at sea. It is a unit of measurement that is based on the circumference of the Earth. How does it relate to a standard mile and a kilometer? Find out in this article.
TIL the people of Africa have more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined.
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Submitted January 23, 2021 at 02:11AM by SonOfQuora
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TIL that churros are pressed out in a star shape because otherwise it's very possible for them to violently explode while frying, spraying hot oil and bits of churro all over the kitchen
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Submitted January 23, 2021 at 02:43AM by JoystickMonkey
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BS' in the Kitchen
Churros – When Good Churros Go Bad
This post is like a recipe and public service announcement all in one, read carefully, this could save you from disaster. Actually. I should also mention, I didn’t make these with the intenti…
TIL that the reason why the hair on the back of our necks raises when we see something scary or profound is because when humans still had fur, this would make us appear much larger than what we usually are, just like what a cat does. This is called the Piloerection Reflex, or Goosebumps.
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Goose bumps
body causing its hairs to stand on end
TIL: Garth Brooks' only single to not reach #1 (out of 21) was "We Shall Be Free" because of the "controversial" lyrics like: "When the last thing we notice is the color of the skin And the first thing we look for is the beauty within" and "When we're free to love anyone we choose we shall be free."
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We Shall Be Free
"We Shall Be Free" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in August 1992 as the first single from his album The Chase and also appears on The Hits, The Limited Series, Double Live, and The Ultimate…
TIL Mexican soccer player Jesús Corona was given the name "Tecatito" by his team, because they were sponsored by Tecate beer and they didn't want to have his own name "Corona," also the name of a competing beer, on his jersey
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Jesús Manuel Corona
Jesús Manuel Corona Ruíz (American Spanish: [xesuzmaˈnwel koˈɾona ˈrwis]; born 6 January 1993) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger or right-back for Portuguese club Porto and the Mexico national team.
TIL:The discoverer of neutron(James Chadwick) was a student of discoverer of proton(E.Rutherford) which in turn was a student of discoverer of electron(J.J. Thomson)
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Submitted January 23, 2021 at 09:45AM by HolotropicMind
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James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government…
TIL historians have partnered with a retirement home to find those still able to read the civil-war era cursive noscript of the Seward family.
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Spanning the Generations, One Letter at a Time
For historians, a collection of documents connected to a man like William Henry Seward, is a treasure trove. Seward, secretary of state under President Lincoln, US senator, governor of New York, was certainly a person who played a major role in American politics…
TIL Ronald Reagan holds the record for both the coldest Inauguration (7 degrees) and the record for the warmest Inaguration (55 degrees)
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TIL Susan Travers, the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, waited until she was 91 to write her autobiography so everyone mentioned had already died
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Susan Travers | Military Wiki | Fandom
TIl that woodpeckers will drill holes into the skulls of baby birds in order to consume their brains.
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Zombie woodpecker guzzles dove brains
A pair of Mourning Dove babies fall prey to a bloodthirsty Gila Woodpecker in Tucson Arizona.
TIL Sushruta, the first known plastic surgeon specialized in rhinoplasty i.e. nose reconstruction. This was important in ancient India as convicted criminals and women accused of adultry had their noses amputated as a mark of untrustworthiness. Rhinoplasty offered them a chance to escape the stigma.
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Sushruta
Sushruta (c. 7th or 6th century BCE) was a physician in ancient India known today as the “Father of Indian Medicine” and “Father of Plastic Surgery” for inventing and developing...
TIL India banned jury trials after a Naval officer murdered his wife’s lover and a combination of sympathy for the wronged husband and a concerted media campaign to paint him as such resulted in the jury acquitting him.
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K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra
Commander K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was a 1959 Indian court case where Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife's lover. Commander Nanavati, accused under section 302, was initially…
TIL Mike Birbiglia is a diagnosed sleepwalker who jumped through a second story window while dreaming that a missile was about to hit his hotel. Birbiglia restrains himself by sleeping in a sleeping bag and wearing mittens at night.
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Rolling Stone
Q&A: Mike Birbiglia on Directing ‘Sleepwalk With Me,’ ‘Piloting’ Standup
'I think of my one-man shows as giving the audience a full meal as opposed to giving them chicken wings'
TIL that "Shaun of the Dead" was considering the noscript "From Dusk Till Shaun." And that "Into the Spider-Verse" has a "From Dusk Till Shaun" movie poster in the background- suggesting it exists in a parallel universe.
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CINEMABLEND
How Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Landed Its Excellent Shaun Of The Dead Gag
Did you catch this Easter Egg from the Oscar-winning animated film?
TIL that a town in Arizona was terrorized in 2014 by gangs of wild chihuahuas. They chased children and pooped everywhere.
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Submitted January 23, 2021 at 06:59PM by _CAD3_
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Ragtag Team of Rogue Chihuahuas Terrorizing Arizona Town
They're also recruiting other strays to join their crew
TIL Military Headstone; If you leave a penny, it means you visited. A nickel means that you and the deceased soldier trained at boot camp together. If you served together, you leave a dime. A quarter is very significant because it means that you were there when that soldier was killed.
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The meaning behind the tradition of leaving coins on veterans' gravestones
For those that have visited grave-sites of U.S. veterans, you may have noticed coins on the top of headstones that were left behind by previous visitors. A coin left on the headstone is a message to the deceased veteran's family that someone has visited their…