TIL In 1802, Napoleon added a Polish legion to fight off the slave rebellion in Haiti. However, the Polish army joined the Haitian slaves in the fight for independence. Haiti's first head of state called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe", which was then regarded as a great honour.
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Polish Haitians
minority of Polish ancestry in the Caribbean island of Haiti
TIL, the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea is a wildlife haven. While most natural wildlife and rare plants have been killed off in the South, the DMZ hasn’t been touched in over 60 years, which resulted in unique species of flora and fauna to flourish in this area.
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TIL the Python programming language was not named after the snake. But was actually named after "Monty Python's Flying Circus", a British surreal sketch comedy series because the creator wanted to give his programming language a name that was "unique, mysterious and short".
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
British sketch comedy television series
TIL the child actor who played Oliver Twist also grew up to play Uncle Fester in the Addams family.
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‘Addams Family’ Star Jackie Coogan Was Haunted By His ‘Lost Childhood’ When He Played Uncle Fester
Jackie Coogan is known for playing Uncle Fester in the '60s series 'The Addams Family.' However, the role reminded him of his lost childhood.
TIL that after an All-Star professional sports career in both football and baseball, Bo Jackson completed his Bachelors degree in Family and Child Development to fulfill the promise he made to his mother.
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Bo Jackson
Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American former professional baseball and football player. He is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football. Jackson's elite achievements in two…
TIL the story of eight elderly Belgian nuns who sold their convent without permission from the church for $1.4 mil. They used the money to buy a castle in France, racehorses, and a number of luxury cars including a Mercedes with a bar.
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Tampa Bay Times
Police investigate sale of convent, purchase of palace
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TIL that 50% of people in court-mandated anger-management treatment have previously unrecognized ADHD
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ADDitude
How ADHD Ignites Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
For people with ADHD or ADD, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria can mean extreme emotional sensitivity and emotional pain — and it may imitate mood disorders with suicidal ideation and manifest as instantaneous rage at the person responsible for causing the pain.…
TIL in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sappy movies with you and wipe away your tears. The company, "Ikemeso Danshi," (Handsome Weeping Boys) was born out of the idea that crying can be therapeutic and showing off your vulnerability can make you work better as a team.
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BBC News
The ‘handsome weeping boys’ paid to wipe away your tears
Japanese companies are paying for employees to attend "crying workshops".
TIL the EU offers free train passes to 18-year-olds so that they can explore Europe
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Brusselstimes
EU will offer 18-year-olds free Interrail passes for 2022
TIL of "Corporal Jackie," a baboon who was commissioned as a corporal in the South African Army when his owner refused to go to war without him. He lit cigarettes for his comrades, was wounded twice and won medals, and comforted wounded men until help could arrive.
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Corporal Jackie
Corporal Jackie was a baboon in the South African army during World War I. He was made their mascot when his owner was drafted into war, and would not leave Jackie at home. Jackie received various injuries during the war such as being shot in the shoulder…
TIL Charlemagne may have been killed by his tablecloth. He liked it because he could throw it into a fire to clean it. He died of pleurisy, one of the effects of asbestos exposure.
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The sordid, bizarre history of asbestos goes all the way back to Emperor Charlemagne
Most of us know asbestos as 'that puffy stuff it cost a fortune to take out of the walls of public schools.' Yes, it's annoyingly toxic, but this substance also has a long and sometimes bizarre history that stretches back to the Dark Ages. See what all the…
TIL that in 2009 Icelandic engineers accidentally drilled into a magma chamber with temperatures up to 1000C (1832F). Instead of abandoning the well like a previous project in Hawaii, they decided to pump water down and became the most powerful geothermal well ever created.
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The Conversation
Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity
Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface? A promising report from a geothermal…
TIL when Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs first opened in 1916, the owner hired people to dress as doctors and eat hot dogs outside his shop, to convince people his hot dogs were healthy.
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Steve Pomeranz
How "Nathan’s Famous" Became America’s Top Dog
Nathan’s Famous: The hot dog that inspired a movie. In These Vagabond Shoes, Kevin Bacon travels across NYC on a quest for the iconic Coney Island frankfurter.
TIL Putting spaces between written words wasn't a thing until the 7th Century and didn't become popular in Europe for another few hundred years (Romanauthorsthoughtyoucouldjustfigureitoutfromcontext)
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www.medievalcodes.ca
Spaces and silence
Framing manunoscript technology as "codes," this project examines how medieval people organised, stored, transmitted, and searched for information.
TIL that flowers are physically growing with darker coloured petals nowadays due to their rapid adaptation to combat the suns radiation from the thinning ozone layer.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Flowers Are Changing Color in Response to Climate Change
As temperatures and ozone levels rise, blossoms are adjusting their UV pigmentation
TIL That, in 1979, two East German Families wanted to escape East Germany, and to do that, they made a hot air balloon, got on a hill, and with that balloon they got 2,500 meters into the air, and managed to cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany with a Hot Air Balloon, flying past border defenses
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East German balloon escape
1979 event
TIL Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, was adopted when he was just 6 weeks old. His adoptive mother died when he was 5, and he was abused by his adoptive father. Hoping he could find better matches for other children in the future, he founded the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in 1992.
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Dave Thomas (businessman)
American restaurant owner and philanthropist
TIL despite not being involved with the company for decades, Steve Wozniak remains an employee at Apple and still gets a salary because nobody will fire him
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Steve Wozniak at From Business to Buttons 2015
inUse Experience (http://inuse.se) presents an on-stage interview with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak. The recording was made at the User Experience, Service Design and Innovation conference "From Business to Buttons" (http://frombusinesstobuttons.com)…
TIL, You aren't supposed to store potatoes beside onions. Onions give off a gas to age potatoes faster
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Consumer Reports
Keep Your Onions & Potatoes Separated And Other Tips For Storing Fruits & Vegetables
We've all got kitchens and we all eat food, but not everyone can agree on where and how to store that food so it doesn't immediately turn into a moldy mess or dry out into a worthless husk. We've already looked at the the best places and methods for keeping…
TIL that a breed of wool dogs existed on the pacific northwest coast. Indigenous people would keep the dogs isolated on small islands to prevent inter breeding with hunting dogs. The wool dogs were cared for and feed a rich diet of seafood to produce strong yarn to make blankets from.
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Hakai Magazine
The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them | Hakai Magazine
Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them, both materially and spiritually.
TIL that the oldest animal (at least, the oldest whose age has been identified) was a 507 year-old clam that washed up on the beach in Iceland. Researchers, not realizing how old the clam was, killed it while they were examining it.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 05:36AM by Choano
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Ming (clam)
clam; oldest animal ever discovered