TIL George Orwell’s French teacher at school was Aldous Huxley
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George Orwell's letter from his former French teacher, Aldous Huxley, about Nineteen Eighty-Four
Shortly after George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, he received a letter from his onetime high school French teacher, Aldous Huxley, who had published Brave New Work 17 years earlie…
TIL the people staying at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station over the winter have an annual tradition of watching “The Thing from Another World (1951)”, “The Thing (1982)”, and “The Thing (2011)” back-to-back after the last plane leaves for the season.
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Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
United States scientific research station at the South Pole
TIL that the Irukandji, a jellyfish from Australia that is less than an inch big, has a sting which causes feelings of impending doom, incredible lower back pain, relentless nausea and vomiting, full body cramps, and profuse sweating.
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The Cut
Apparently There’s a Jellyfish Whose Sting Causes Feelings of Impending Doom
Among other things.
TIL Irène Curie and her husband received a Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity, 30 years after Irène's parents received their Nobel Prize. She died due to overexposure to radiation, also just like her parents. Her children are still alive and are also prominent scientists.
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897-1956)
Today I learned that female trout fake orgasms to make male trout prematurely ejaculate so the females can continue their search for a more preferred coupling
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Fishy Orgasms
TIL of Jim Haynes, the man who "invited the world over for dinner". As an American living in Paris, Jim had an open-house policy every Sunday evening for more than 40 years, where anyone was welcome at an informal dinner. It is estimated over 150.000 people attended over the years.
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BBC News
Jim Haynes: A man who invited the world over for dinner
The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.
TIL that after landing on the moon during Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin accidentally damaged the circuit breaker that would arm the ascent engine that would get them off the moon. The astronauts activated the engine by triggering the circuit with a felt-tipped pen.
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Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong…
TIL that there is an area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in which scientists have discovered Great White Sharks congregate at every year. They have nicknamed this stretch of ocean "The White Shark Cafe"
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Geography Realm
The White Shark Café
The White Shark Café is an area of the Pacific Ocean where great white sharks are fond of swimming.
TIL Marlon Brando was a two-time Academy Award winner and eight-time nominee. He spoke five languages – English, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. His acting skills were so legendary that Robin Williams, Michael Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg and Sean Penn showed up to his acting classes.
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The Irish Times
10 things about Marlon Brando that might just surprise you . . . or will they?
Ahead of the release of Brando’s acclaimed ‘posthumous autobiography’ Listen to Me Marlon, we take a look at some lesser-known moments of genius from the star’s life
TIL during the Edo period in Japan, some firefighters set fires intentionally so they could show off their firefighting skills in public or create more business for themselves since some firefighters had construction businesses. Some firefighters were executed for this.
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Fires in Edo
Fires in Edo (江戸), the former name of Tokyo, during the Edo period (1600−1868) of Japan were so frequent that the city of Edo was characterized as the saying "Fires and quarrels are the flowers of Edo" goes. Even in the modern days, the old Edo was still…
TIL that ancient Babylon had suburbs. A 539 B.C cuneiform clay tablet stating: "Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world. It is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from the noise and dust"
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Grin
GRIN - The Life and Death of Great American Suburbs
The Life and Death of Great American Suburbs. Political and Social Consequences of fifty years of Sub-Urbanisation - Sociology - Essay 2002 - ebook 0.- € - GRIN
TIL about Cynthia Hess, an exotic dancer who in 1994 got the IRS to agree that her breast implants were a business expense, and therefore, was exempt from tax.
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TIL that a "Mary Sue" character - usually a writer self inserting themselves into a story where they can do nothing wrong - is named after a Star Trek fanfic where a 15 year old Lieutenant Mary Sue ran the ship, won the Nobel Prize, and her birthday was a national holiday each year.
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TIL BBC has a kids show called “RastaMouse” where the main character- RastaMouse, is a Jamaican, crime-fighting, reggae music star
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Rastamouse S01E01 Da Crucial Plan
RASTA MOUSE
TIL Larry Hillblom, the H of DHL, regularly took "sex safari" trips to Asia to prey on underage girls. When he died in a plane crash, 4 of the illegitimate children he fathered were able to claim $50 million each from his estate.
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Larry Hillblom
American businessman
TIL Vietnamese farmers after the war repurposed external fuel tanks jettisoned by American planes into river canoes, which have lasted for nearly 5 decades.
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TIL buffets are called "vikings" in Japan. This is because a Japanese restaurant manager went to Sweden and liked smörgåsbords so much he copied the idea at his restaurant. This Swedish word was too hard to pronounce in Japanese, so the word "vikings" was used instead after a employee suggested it.
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Japan Talk
The Strange Story of Japanese Vikings
How Japan's best hotel introduced vikings to Japan.
TIL in 2003 two men, who weren’t licensed to fly, stole a parked Boeing 727 from Luanda International Airport and neither the men or the plane have ever been found.
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2003 Angola 727 disappearance
stolen aircraft incident at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport
TIL that The International Kilogram, a cylinder of a platinum-iridium alloy is *exactly* 1 kilogram, and is locked in a vault southwest of Paris, that takes 3 keys to open. It has only been taken out on 3 separate occasions since it was created, almost 140 years ago.
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Atlas Obscura
Le Grand K
The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.
TIL The US National Park Service put out a set of guidelines to avoid being attacked by a bear, such as moving sideways away from the bear and vocalizing to identify yourself as a human. They also advised: “Do NOT push down a slower friend (even if you think the friendship has run its course)."
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the Guardian
US government issues bear advice: friends don't let friends get eaten
The National Park Service has warned against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack ‘even if the friendship has run its course’
TIL: A shoelace knot gets untied while running due to the foot striking the ground at 7G. As the knot loosens, the swinging leg applies an inertial force on the free ends of the laces, which rapidly leads to a failure of the knot in as few as 2 strides after inertia acts on the laces.
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Berkeley News
Shoe-string theory: Science shows why shoelaces come untied
Berkeley scientists have begun to unravel a knotty mystery