TIL about King Tut's dagger, which was found in his tomb and is believed to have been made from iron from a meteor. At the time of King Tut, iron smelting was rare and the iron would have been worth more than gold.
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Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger
ancient Egyptian tomb artifact
TIL Eminem broke the "Fastest rap in a #1 single" world record three times in a row - after having set the record with 6.46 words per second in "Rap God", he then broke it in "Majesty" at 6.5 wps and later broke it once again by rapping at 7.5 wps in "Godzilla".
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Guinness World Records
Fastest rap in a No.1 single
Eminem
TIL: Min horses are used as blind guides. They have a very wide range of vision, with a range of nearly 350 degrees. Horses are the only guide animals capable of independent eye movement and they can track potential danger with each eye. Horses can see clearly in almost total darkness.
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Submitted January 27, 2021 at 02:32PM by captmomo
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guide-horse.org
Guide Horse Foundation - Miniature horses for the blind
Guide Horse Foundation for the blind using miniature horses
TIL about the existence of "The Sweatbox," a making-of documentary about Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove" that Disney had financed but was so "awkwardly truthful" about how Disney movies are made, it was never officially released
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Submitted January 27, 2021 at 05:57PM by Banjohobo
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VULTURE
‘We’ll Never Make That Kind of Movie Again’
This is the story of one strange moment in animation history, two reluctantly warring teams of animators, and three movies, only one of which you can see today.
TIL that The Offspring Front man Dexter Holland Earned a Doctorate in Molecular Biology from the University of Southern California in 2017, Focusing on HIV and Immunodeficiency Viruses.
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Submitted January 27, 2021 at 06:25PM by NJShadow
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Variety
The Offspring’s Dexter Holland Earns Doctorate in Molecular Biology
The punk rock frontman returned to University of Southern California after a multi-year hiatus to complete his research in virology.
TIL that in 1953 an 18-year apprentice heating engineer claimed to have seen the ghosts of a Roman legion marching through a cellar he was working in. His claims were deemed nonsense, until future excavations proved his denoscription of them to be true, as the presence of a Roman road under the house
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Wikipedia
Treasurer's House, York
Grade I listed historic house museum in York, United Kingdom
TIL the late Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed onscreen by a Terminator, a Predator and a Xenomorph.
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Submitted January 27, 2021 at 10:30PM by PoopMobile9000
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ScreenRant
The Only Actor To Be Killed By A Predator, Terminator & Xenomorph
This genre legend is the only actor to have fallen to all three monsters.
TIL why noses run when it's cold out. Lungs are irritated by cold and dry air, so the nose gets more blood to keep it warm, and secretes more liquid to increase the humidity of the air you breathe in.
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Submitted January 27, 2021 at 08:49PM by MakutaMK
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medicine.uq.edu.au
Why does your nose run when it's cold?
About 50-90 per cent of people get a runny nose when it’s cold. We call this “cold-induced rhinitis”, or “skier nose”. People with asthma, eczema and hay fever seem to experience it more.
TIL October 31, 2000 was the last time every person in the world was on Earth. Since then, there has been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station.
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Submitted January 27, 2021 at 08:45PM by Pupikal
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nationalpost
Humans have been living in space for 20 years: Canadian astronauts on the ISS and beyond
Canadian astronauts Chris Hadfield and David Saint-Jacques, part of that unbroken chain, reflect on the meaning of space flight, and its future
TIL that during the 1930's, brothers Homer and Langley Collyer filled their house with over 140 tons of debris (including guns, human organs in jars, and fourteen pianos) which they made into a booby-trapped maze. Langley was killed by one of the traps in 1947, and Homer, unable to escape, starved.
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Collyer brothers
American compulsive hoarders
TIL British sailors on the HMS Dolphin in the 18th century discovered that native Tahitian women were eager to exchange sex for iron, and they began pulling nails out. The resulting trade became so extensive that the loss of nails started to threaten the ship's structural integrity.
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HMS Dolphin (1751)
ship
TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
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Naked Came the Stranger
1969 novel
TIL that Eartha Kitt was invited to a lunch by President Johnson at the White House. She was asked about Viet Nam and instead of giving a polite response, ranted about how horrible it was. This lead to the CIA trying to ruin her career and an effective US blacklist for over ten years
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Eartha Kitt
American singer, actress, dancer, activist and comedian (1927-2008)
TIL That the pilot of the failed Challenger spacecraft's last audible words were "Uh oh"
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Submitted January 27, 2021 at 06:05PM by Cliche_Fangurl
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Challenger disaster | Summary, Date, Cause, & Facts
Challenger disaster, explosion of the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Challenger, shortly after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986, which claimed the lives of seven astronauts, including Christa McAuliffe, who had won a national screening…
TIL of 67 yr-old 4'10" 100 lb Lorenza Marrujo, aka “Lady Ninja” who has a black belt in jiujitsu. When she saw a 5'9" 170 lb man attacking her friend, Lorenza bent his fingers back, hit him twice with her elbow in his sternum, and pinned him to the floor with knees on neck & chest till help arrived.
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Associated Press
Meet 'Lady Ninja,' the 67-year-old who beat up a man attacking her friend — and saved her life
“I’m getting rusty in places,” she said, adding she “would have done more damage” if she had been a bit better prepared.
TIL That octopuses, when given the drug Ecstacy, were affected in very similar ways to humans, such as showing an increase in social behavior and more exploratory touching with their peers.
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Submitted January 28, 2021 at 03:48AM by bhaggith
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TIL The Sopranos creators were often contacted by the FBI and told that actual mobsters, whose conversations were picked up by wiretaps, had plenty to say about the show. They considered the show's portrayal of the mob life so dead-on, they thought one of their own was was working on the inside.
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TIL The Sopranos creators were often contacted by the FBI and told...
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TIL that the most recognazible symptom of rabies, hydrophobia, isn't specific to water but any liquid too, including the infected's own saliva. Being unable to swallow saliva, causes it to accumulate on the mouth, increasing the chances of the host spreading the virus through biting
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Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals. Early symptoms can include fever and tingling at the site of exposure. These symptoms are followed by one or more of the following symptoms: violent movements, uncontrolled…
TIL of Aardman Animations, a British animation studio based in Bristol. They are known for films using plasticine and clay animations, their most famous characters being Wallace and Gromit. They also did the animation for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" music video
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Submitted January 28, 2021 at 02:27AM by annoying_house_phone
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Aardman Animations
British animation studio
TIL that Queen Elizabeth is both the 4th longest-reigning monarch and the 21st longest-reigning monarch in world history -- having ruled the commonwealth for 69 years, but of Jamaica for only the 58 since its independence
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Submitted January 28, 2021 at 05:27AM by FidoTheDisingenuous
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List of longest-reigning monarchs
This is a list of the longest-reigning monarchs of all time, detailing the monarchs and lifelong leaders who have reigned the longest in world history, sorted by length of reign. Currently reigning monarchs are highlighted in green.
TIL in New Zealand in 1959, only 21 people out of their entire population of 2.3 million were officially unemployed
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Submitted January 28, 2021 at 08:11AM by SocialistNewZealand
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Economy of New Zealand
The economy of New Zealand is a highly developed free-market economy. It is the 52nd-largest national economy in the world when measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 63rd-largest in the world when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP).…