TIL Spencer’s owns Spirit Halloween. Half of Spencer’s yearly revenue comes from just two months of sales from Halloween costumes.
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Mentalfloss
Fart Gallery: A Novel History of Spencer Gifts
When U.S. Army Corps bombardier Max Spencer Adler was shot down over Europe and imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, it’s not likely he dreamed of one day becoming the czar of penis-shaped lollipops and lava lamps.
TIL In WW II, German submarines used the lights from US coastal cities to see US shipments. Coastal cities refused to limit lighting as was done in Europe due to tourism, and as a result much shipping was destroyed.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 02:54PM by RoadsterTracker
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Wikipedia
Blackout (wartime)
anti-aircraft measure that consists of minimizing light output of a city
TIL that in 1216 Prince Louis of France invaded England and was proclaimed King of England with the support of many English nobles. Eventually the English changed their minds and paid him to agree that he had never actually been king, so Louis doesn't appear in any official list of Kings of England.
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Louis VIII of France
Louis VIII (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (French: Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. From 1216 to 1217, he invaded and claimed the Kingdom of England. Louis participated in the Albigensian Crusade in southern France…
TIL that monkeys in Japan learned to wash sweet potatoes in fresh water to clean them. They later switched to washing sweet potatoes in salt water. It is theorized that this is because they like the salty taste more than plain potatoes.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 07:00PM by I_am_1E27
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Primates
Sweet-potato washing revisited: 50th anniversary of the Primates article
TIL Tommy Chong’s daughter Rae Dawn Chong discovered actor Chris Pratt working as a waiter at a Bubba Gump restaurant and cast him in a film.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 05:41PM by OG_Cryptkeeper
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EW.com
How Chris Pratt Went from Zero to Hero
Get ready to meet the next movie star: After a career playing second fiddles (and an awesome toy), Chris Pratt bolts onto the A list with two major films
TIL that Abe Lincoln won the 1860 election while NOT being on the presidential ballot in 10 Southern states.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 07:56PM by Mercury-Redstone
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1860 United States presidential election
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, absent from the ballot in ten slave states,…
TIL George Washington was known as "town destroyer" and "burner of towns" among Native Americans
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Town Destroyer
Native American nickname for George Washington
TIL that in Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston used to hum improvised tunes. He then joined a songwriters guild so that everything he improvised earned him a royalty check of a few hundred dollars. He used this money to throw parties for the cast and crew. The crew even encouraged his humming.
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Esquire
Bryan Cranston Was Briefly Suspected of Murdering His Nemesis
And nine other things we learned from the 'Breaking Bad' star's new memoir.
TIL: A park bench in Bristol was given an official postal address so doctors could register the homeless as patients
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC News | HEALTH | Bench address beats homeless red tape
A park bench in Bristol has been given an official postal address so doctors can register the homeless as patients.
TIL that “Golden Girl” Bea Arthur enlisted in the Marines in 1943 where she was one of the first members of the Women’s Reserve and spent time as a typist and a truck driver.
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The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Bea Arthur, US Marine | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Bernice Frankel's Official Military Personnel File reveals a Golden Girl's WWII service history.
TIL Kentaro Miura, author of manga series Berserk, was so meticulous that he would often go pixel-by-pixel in digital drawing software meant to streamline his inking and drawing process
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OTAQUEST
Kentaro Miura Talks New Manga 'Duranki,' Future of 'Berserk' and More in New Interview – OTAQUEST
Comic Natalie sat down with Kentaro Miura for a new interview this week, as the creator aimed to ease fan anxieties as well as to promote his new series.
TIL A top NASA astronaut was accused of hacking her estranged spouse's bank account from space
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NBC News
A NASA astronaut is accused of hacking her estranged spouse's bank account from space
The allegations come during a custody and divorce dispute between astronaut Anne McClain and her estranged spouse.
TIL your body will dissolve loose pieces of bone in your body after a fracture
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Mediniche
Fracture - Mediniche, Inc.
Your skeleton is composed of 206 bones and functions to your body form ....
TIL: Tim Burton cast Black actors Billy Dee Williams and Marlon Wayans as 'Harvey Dent' and 'Robin' - Both actors were contracted to appear in Batman Forever but Burton's choices were later reversed by director Joel Schumacher who chose to replace the pair with Tommy Lee Jones & Chris O'Donnell.
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Wikipedia
Batman Forever
1995 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman directed by Joel Schumacher
TIL when New Zealand crowd-sourced ideas for a new national flag, one of the most infamous designs was "Fire the Lazer", a flag with a silver fern and a kiwi shooting a laser out of its eyes.
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Wikipedia
Laser Kiwi flag
proposed flag for New Zealand
TIL that the team behind The Sims had originally decided to leave same-sex relationships out of the game until a newbie on the team by the name of Patrick J. Barrett III coded all basic interactions of the game due to one of his senior team members being on vacation
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The New Yorker
The Kiss That Changed Video Games
In 1999, an unplanned, illicit kiss between two Sims characters made the game the talk of a video-game conference.
TIL of the Öland massacre, where an entire village was slaughtered and left where they fell for 1500 years. Into the modern era, children were warned to never play near it and the site lay undisturbed and out in the open
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www.archaeology.org
Öland, Sweden. Spring, A.D. 480 - Archaeology Magazine
A hastily built refuge—a grisly
massacre—a turbulent period in
European history
massacre—a turbulent period in
European history
TIL as a young boy Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) had his village occupied by nazis, his family forced to work while living in a 3 by 3 meter mud hut for 21 months, saw his little brother being hanged (but saved by his parents) and his two older siblings deported for slave labor (who escaped).
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Wikipedia
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934-1968)
TIL that Stan Lee often took credit for other's work and let himself be mythologized by the media by neglecting to correct them when they gave him sole credit for works that were a team effort.
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Submitted May 21, 2021 at 02:54PM by seizonnokamen
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Esquire
Stan Lee's Legacy of Controversy, Lawsuits and Sexual Harassment Allegations Explained
TIL Lafayette’s grave in Paris is filled with dirt from Massachusetts as he wished to be buried in American soil. Additionally, I learned the flag remained in place during WW2 because the Nazis never looked behind the private cemetery’s walls.
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Submitted May 21, 2021 at 03:34PM by brianbo402
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Journal of the American Revolution
LaFayette, the American Experience - Journal of the American Revolution
I had the opportunity to visit the grave of the Revolutionary War hero the Marquise de LaFayette recently. As the American colonists were seeking...
TIL The actors in 'Scott Pilgrim vs. The World' were taught to play and are actually the musicians featured in the soundtrack for their band.
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The Cultured Nerd
[TCN’s Fictional Bands] Sex Bob-Omb from “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”
TCN’s newest series takes a look at fictional bands from film and television and rates their music both in and out of the fictional context, starting with the one and only Sex Bob-Omb from Sc…