TIL about the craze of Pet Rocks in 1975. For about 6 months, they sold over one million Pet Rocks for $4 each. It was just a rock in a box with some straw and a care manual for tricks to teach. The creator had the idea in a bar as his friends complained about their pets.
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Pet Rock
collectible
TIL in 2013 a Canadian bank robber obsessed with Taylor Swift stole a Cessna 172 from a flight school, crossed the US border and flew to Nashville undetected. The plane crashed at Nashville International Airport, killing him instantly. No one noticed the burning wreck for five hours.
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The bizarre story of a Canadian bank robber, Taylor Swift and a mysterious plane crash in Tennessee
Why would a Windsor pilot slip over the border to the U.S.? Investigators found clues in Michael Callan's parole records and his obsession with teenage…
TIL that graffiti artist Banksy sought to trademark his image of a protester throwing flowers. The trademark office denied it on the grounds of him having no interest in selling his work. In the ruling they used a quote from one of Banksy's books: "copyright is for losers"
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Banksy loses battle with greetings card firm over 'flower bomber' trademark
The elusive artist was "inconsistent with honest practices" in the case, EU authorities say.
TIL that the area code for Brevard County, Florida, home to the Kennedy Space Center, is 321. This was done deliberately; it is a reference to the countdown heard before every space launch.
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Here’s How the “321” Space Coast Area Code Was Born
It officially went into effect November 1, 1999.
TIL: Mara Wilson in Matilda was embarrassed about dancing on her own during the cereal scene, so Danny DeVito made everyone in the studio dance with her when filming.
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Matilda -Behind the scene ( The actors speak)
Behind the scene from the movie Matilda 1996
TIL During WW1, Australian Soldiers at the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux managed to steal a German tank as a trophy and transport it to Australia. Today it stands as the only surviving A7V Sturmpanzerwagen.
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TIL Occam's Razor has a counterargument in medicine called "Hickam's Dictum" (by Dr. John Hickam!). Some doctors (using Occam's) look for a single, elegant cause for all of a patient's symptoms. But Hickam's Dictum says: "A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases."
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TIL Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plagiarizing his directorial debut in 2012. When he publicly apologized to the original artist, Dan Clowes, people discovered that Shia's apology was itself plagiarized verbatim off a Yahoo Answers post from 2010.
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A Brief History of Shia LaBeouf Copying the Work of Others
Is this a breakdown or a breakthrough?
TIL during the 2014 Groundhog Day festival, New York mayor Bill de Blasio dropped the Staten Island Zoo's weather-predicting groundhog on its head, killing it -- which was then covered up by zoo officials who claimed Staten Island Chuck had "died of natural causes"
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TIL of the Plain Writing Act (2010), which states all US legislation must be written in clear, concise, and simple writing that everyday folk can understand
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TIL of the Plain Writing Act (2010), which states all US...
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TIL Gene Roddenberry created the Star Trek TNG character Geordi La Forge in honor of George La Forge, a quadriplegic fan of the original Star Trek series, who died in 1975.
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TIL Gene Roddenberry created the Star Trek TNG character Geordi La...
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TIL James Derham was a black man who worked as an assistant under several doctors who owned him in the 1700s. He learned about medicine from them which lead him to open his own practice after he was freed. He was the first African-American to practice medicine in the U.S.
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TIL that Ancient Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro accidentally discovered germs in 36 BCE, saying "...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."
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TIL That during the filming of Groundhog day, Bill Murray had so many resentments with Harold Ramis and the production team that they told him he had to hire an assistant as a go between. He hired an assistant that was completely deaf and could only speak using sign language.
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'Groundhog Day': My favorite Bill Murray story
TIL In 2019 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards signed over all publishing rights to Bitter Sweet Symphony back to Richard Ashcroft (of The Verve)
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TIL When George Carlin created his 'Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television' bit, the FCC didn't have the legal authority to ban dirty words from public airways. That bit, played uncensored by a NYC radio station, led to the getting that authority.
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Seven dirty words
George Carlin's list of "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" or "Filthy Words"
TIL that in 1940, on the way to their invasion or Ardennes, France, the massive German army got into a major traffic jam. French reconnaissance pilots spotted it and reported it to French High Command who promptly said "that can't be true" and ignored it. An aerial attack could have ended the war
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TIL The Pirate voice. comes from one person, from Robert Newton's performance in Treasure Island in 1950, an exaggeration of his Cornwall accent.
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TIL that the reason we get a runny nose after crying is because the leftover fluid that wasn’t shed through tears gets drained into the nose through the “lacrimal point” (that weird mysterious hole on your lower eyelid).
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The human body is sometimes capable of completely crazy things. And how about this? Looks... strange. But everyone can do it with the help of organs that you don't even know about. Today…
The human body is sometimes capable of completely crazy things. And how about this? Looks... strange. But everyone can do it with the help of organs that you don't even know about. Today…
TIL Nyepi, a hindu festival, celebrated in Bali is a national self reflection day which is observed by silence. Surprisingly, tourists are not permitted onto the beaches or streets. telecommunications companies even switch off internet services for a 24 hour period. Airport are closed too.
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Hari Raya Nyepi in Indonesia in 2021 | Office Holidays
Read about Hari Raya Nyepi in Indonesia in 2021. Hari Raya Nyepi is the Balinese Hindu New Year and is a public holiday in Indonesia. It is celebrated on the first new moon in March. It usually takes place on
TIL that in 1971, a young hacker named John Draper discovered that the toy whistles found in Captain Crunch cereal boxes were capable of mimicking the tones used by phone companies, allowing him to make free phone calls.
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