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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Submitted March 01, 2021 at 02:53PM by NounyAdjective
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Stanford University Press Blog
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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TIL that Clint Eastwood hated the cigars that his character smoked in the “Dollars Trilogy”. Because he would have to do multiple takes, he smoked them quite a bit. According to Eli Wallach, Eastwood would sometimes tell the director: “You’d better get it this time, because I’m going to throw up.”
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12 Great Facts About The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The final film in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy,” which was released 50 years ago, is the most famous Spaghetti Western of all time.
TIL that only 4% of mammals on Earth are wild. 36% are humans, and 60% are livestock.
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Playgroundequipment
How Fast is the Planet Dying? 26 Eye-Opening Statistics - PlaygroundEquipment.com - Infographic
TIL that in 1994, students in Kaktovik, Alaska created a new system of numerals to reflect the way counting is done in their language: in base 20. The system is relatively easy to learn and even makes basic math easier. It has since been widely adopted in Inupiaq communities.
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Kaktovik numerals
Inuit numeral system for a base 20 counting system
TIL that Zambia had its own space program in 1964, whose mission statement included sending "Afronauts": a crew consisting of a 17 year old space girl, a cat, and a priest to Mars. The priest was specifically instructed not to enforce Christianity of the Martians if they didn't want it.
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The Zambian Space Programme
It was not just the US and the Soviet Union racing to the Moon in the 1960s. A 1964 article in Time magazine about the independence of Zambia included a footnote referring to one man who was not so happy about the celebrations - because it was getting in…
TIL India's army reportedly spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus.
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India: Army 'mistook planets for spy drones'
India's army spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus, it's reported.
TIL in 1998, Alex Trebek donated of 74 acres of open land (worth $2m at the time) in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for the purpose of conservation and as a wildlife corridor
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Alex Trebek
Canadian-American television personality
TIL that when cowboy actor Slim Pickens enlisted in the US Army during WWII, he told the recruiter that his profession was "rodeo". This was misheard as "radio" and Slim spent the entirety of the war stationed at a midwestern broadcast station.
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True West Magazine
Cowboys in Combat - True West Magazine
Most movie cowboys were not real cowboys. The idea of people such as Dean Martin or John Candy playing rough, […]
TIL a science teacher from rural Kenya who donates most of his salary to help poorer students was crowned the world’s best teacher in 2019 and awarded a $1,000,000 prize, beating 10,000 nominations from 179 countries
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Kenyan science teacher Peter Tabichi wins $1m global award
Franciscan brother who gives away 80% of his income scoops Varkey Foundation prize
TIL That as a child Snoop Dogg sold candy, delivered newspapers, and bagged groceries to help his family make ends meet. He was described as having been a dedicated student and enthusiastic churchgoer, active in choir and football.
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Snoop Dogg
American rapper, singer, actor and record producer
TIL about Jordan Kinyera, a Ugandan man, who was only six years old when his father lost his land in a legal dispute. After studying for 18 years, he has finally won it back 23 years later, after becoming a lawyer.
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Submitted March 02, 2021 at 12:36AM by SollicitorNoctua
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TIL the rarest naturally occuring element on Earth, astatine, is so rare that there is only 28 grams of it on Earth at any given time. It is difficult to study, as most of its isotopes have a half-life of 1 second or less. Its appearance is not known with certainty.
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Atatine Abundance in the Earth's Crust
Calculation of the total amount of astatine in the Earth's crust (much less than an ounce)