TIL The character Machete is canonical the same character as Machete from the “spy kids” movies.
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Machete (character)
fictional character created by Robert Rodriguez
Today I learned that the Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" made the writers consider doing a Simpsons spinoff called "Springfield Stories", which, like the episode, would focus on Springfield in general, rather than the Simpsons themselves.
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22 Short Films About Springfield
"22 Short Films About Springfield" is the twenty-first episode of The Simpsons' seventh season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 14, 1996. It was written by Richard Appel, David S. Cohen, Jonathan Collier, Jennifer Crittenden…
TIL that Silent Hill was based off a real town, Centralia, which still has a toxic coal mine burning underneath them 60 years later.
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Silent Hill: True Story & Real Town's History Explained
Silent Hill's true story & real town history explained.
TIL more than 2,000 homeless people live underground in New York City. Commonly referred to as “Mole People”, they have a hierarchical community and often times are living directly under the most populous parts of the city
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20 Secrets About The Mole People Living In New York City's Tunnels
Some might call these the lucky ones because there are thousands of homeless in the city that can't find the resources to get out.
TIL that Barry George, the man wrongly convicted of the murder of UK television presenter Jill Dando, was denied compensation as a victim of miscarriage of justice for the 8 years he spent in prison as a judge deemed that he was “not innocent enough to be compensated”.
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The Independent
'Not innocent enough to be compensated': Barry George loses legal
53-year-old was acquitted of killing the 37-year-old BBC presenter at a retrial in August 2008
TIL that Billie Holiday died broke - with just $0.70 in her bank account and an estate worth $1000, despite being a household name.
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The Telegraph
10 famous people who died without a will - and the problems it caused
10 famous people who died without a will - and the problems it caused
TIL the flag of the Philippines is flown with the red side on the upper side in times of war and the blue side on the upper side during times of peace.
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Flag of the Philippines - Wikipedia
TIL that Lea Thompson (Back to the Future) studied ballet as a girl & danced professionally by the age of 14, winning multiple prestigious scholarships. Told she did not have the right body to become a prima ballerina by Mikhail Baryshnikov himself, she changed her focus to acting.
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Lea Thompson
American actress of film and theatre, and director of TV productions
TIL that Pelé’s last game was an exhibition match between his two former clubs: the New York Cosmos and Santos. Pelé played the first half for Cosmos and the second half for Santos.
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Goli Sports
Throwback Thursday – Pelé’s last game - Goli Sports
#TBT to when the legend Pelé played his very last game if football and scored the final goal of his career. Watch the video of Pelé score his last ever goal.
TIL that Yungay, Peru was the site of the deadliest avalanche in history. In 1962, two American scientists predicted the calamity, and were consequently forced to flee by the government. 8 years later, their prediction came true and 20,000 people were killed in a day.
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Yungay, Peru
capital city of Yungay, Ancash, Peru
TIL that cheese is the most stolen food in the world. 4% of global cheese supply is stolen every year
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Cheese Is Most Stolen Food In The World
A report by the UK’s Center for Retail Research found that cheese is the most stolen food in the world. It turns out that about 4 percent of cheese goes missing from stores. The researchers say the cheese disappears most …
TIL Raul Julia or 'Gomez' from Addams Family (1991) was visibly ill with stomach cancer on set of the sequel. He died less than a year later.
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Addams Family Values
1993 film by Barry Sonnenfeld, Scott Rudin, Paul Rudnick
TIL after WWII ended, Jewish people were forced to live for months in their concentration camps, in their camp uniforms and poorly insulated buildings, leading a US representative to conclude: "We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them."
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Harrison Report
1945 report on conditions in displaced persons camps in post-WW II Europe
TIL Alan Turing wasn't pardoned until 2013 for 'Gross Indecency' because of his sexuality despite shortening the length of WW2 by 5 years and being considered the father of modern computing, his work saved thousands of lives
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Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing is given a posthumous royal pardon for his 1952 conviction for homosexuality.
TIL that for the 2015 Chinese film "Wolf Totem", 35 Mongolian wolves were trained in China for over 4 years by a Scottish trainer, who trained them to sit, snarl, and fight on cue. After filming, the wolves were ultimately relocated to Canada, since they only understood commands in English
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Wolf Totem (film)
2015 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud
TIL that cavemen had relatively straight teeth and that crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon
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Why Cavemen Needed No Braces
Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale symptom of an underlying epidemic.
TIL Robert-François Damiens, after trying to assassinate the king, was sentenced to be executed by having his skin ripped with pliers, molten lead and sulfur being poured onto his ripped skin, then dismemberment by four horses. At hearing this, Damiens replied: “Well, it's going to be a tough day.”
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Black comedy
Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark humor, dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful…
TIL Cannabis (hemps or weed) is one of the closest living relatives to roses, both being in the Rosales clade
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Cannabaceae
Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including Cannabis (hemp, marijuana), Humulus (hops) and Celtis (hackberries). Celtis is by far the largest genus, containing…
TIL actor Edward James Olmos who played William Adama in the show Battlestar Galactica, had a clause in his contract about no aliens. "The first four-eyed monster I see, I'm going to faint on camera, and you're going to write me off the show." The show became a cult classic for its gritty realism.
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Why Battlestar Galactica Never Had Any Aliens
They didn't want to be like Star Trek.
TIL Young Earth Creationism is a belief that the Earth and all its lifeforms were created around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. It is a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. Some claim Dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Others claim Dinosaurs never existed at all.
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Young Earth creationism
form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that (as stated in religious texts) the Earth and its lifeforms were created in their present forms by supernatural acts of a deity between approximately 6,000 and 10,000 years ago
TIL of Diana Trujillo - who despite being a 17 year old immigrant arriving to America with no English skills and only $300 dollars in her pocket - was able to work her way from housekeeper to becoming an aerospace engineer at NASA who helped create the robotic arm for Mars rover Perseverance.
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