TIL the song Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover is not about a woman lusting after a man. Instead it's about a woman (the narrator) wishing she could save another woman who is trapped in an abusive relationship. The "I wish I was your lover" line is the narrator longing to show the woman what love can be.
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Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
"Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins. Released in 1992 from her debut album Tongues and Tails, the song achieved success in many countries worldwide; in the United States, it reached…
TIL That when mummification became accessible to middle/lower classes in ancient Egypt, embalmers started secretly cutting out the hearts of the lower classes so the elite wouldn't have to share the afterlife with them. The heart was considered the seat of the soul and vital to access the afterlife.
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USA TODAY
Modern medicine is lifting the veil of secrets covering ancient Egypt's mummies.
TIL that Nova Scotia sends Boston a Christmas Tree every year to thank them for their assistance after the Halifax Explosion. For Nova Scotians it is considered a great honor to have your tree selected, and often times the trees are donated in honor of a survivor or casualty of the explosion.
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Boston Christmas Tree
The Boston Christmas Tree is the City of Boston, Massachusetts' official Christmas tree. A tree has been lit each year since 1941, and since 1971 it has been given to the people of Boston by the people of Nova Scotia in thanks for their assistance after the…
TIL a Brazilian company reverse engineered the Nintendo Entertainment System and produced a clone that could play official carts since it was never released there. Nintendo asked them to cease but because they designed their own hardware and Nintendo had no presence in Brazil it was totally legal.
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Watch our video history of gaming in Brazil
See the complete series on how clones shaped the console wars and defined a nation’s industry.
TIL that if February, Germany charged a 95 year old woman with 10,000 counts of aiding and abetting murder because she was a stenographer for a SS officer at a concentration camp when she was 17. She lives in a nursing home, but if the case goes to trial, she will be tried in juvenile court.
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Stutthof camp: Woman, 95, accused of aiding Nazi mass murder
The woman was the secretary to the SS commandant of the Stutthof camp.
TIL: During the filming of The 3 Stooges second anti-Nazi comedy film "I'll Never Heil Again", Moe Howard has rushed from the set wearing his "Hitleresque" costume to get to his daughter's birthday party. Bystanders have reported that Hitler was running red lights to the LAPD.
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I'll Never Heil Again
1941 film by Jules White
TIL that Saffron (the spice) has a comparable antidepressant effect to antidepressant medication with none of the side effects
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Saffron (Crocus sativus) for depression: a systematic review of clinical studies and examination of underlying antidepressant mechanisms…
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Saffron, a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, has now undergone several trials examining its antidepressant effects and, in a recent meta-analysis, was confirmed to be effec...
Saffron, a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, has now undergone several trials examining its antidepressant effects and, in a recent meta-analysis, was confirmed to be effec...
TIL there is a time system called Decimal Time (which is not the same as Metric Time) which splits the day into 10 hours of 100 minutes, with each minute being 100 seconds. A decimal minute is about 86 seconds in our current measurement.
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Decimal time
time of day in decimal units
TIL that in 1987 actor Matthew Broderick caused a head-on collision that ended the lives of two women in Northern Ireland after driving on the wrong side of the road. He paid a $175 fine.
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Matthew Broderick
American film, stage and voice actor
TIL Wiz Khalifa sparked outrage in 2017 during a visit to Pablo Escobar's grave when he posted pictures of flowers at the grave's headstone. Medellin’s mayor, Federico Gutierrez, called the rapper disrespectful saying he should have brought flowers to the victims of Escobar's violence instead.
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Wiz Khalifa sparks outrage for visiting Escobar's grave
Colombia's mayor is calling Khalifa a "scoundrel" after the celebrity posted pictures of him apparently smoking marijuana by the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's grave.
TIL that 31% of India's population is vegetarian, by far the highest rate in the world. India has more vegetarians than the rest of the world put together.
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Vegetarianism by country
Vegetarian and vegan dietary practices in various countries
TIL that Busch Beer was created to spite Major League Baseball. STL Cardinals owner August Busch Jr was told by MLB he couldn't name their ballpark Budweiser Stadium. He got approval to name it after his family, and then ordered his brewers to create the new beer.
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TIL Mark Thatcher, the son of Margaret Thatcher, is a convicted felon after financing the 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinean in exchange oil concessions. He served 4 years in prison and was fined US$560,000. The UK knew about the planned coup, and it's possible the Bush government did as well.
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2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt
The 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt, also known as the Wonga Coup, failed to replace President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo with exiled opposition politician Severo Moto. Mercenaries organised by mainly British financiers were arrested in Zimbabwe…
TIL that frozen blueberries are healthier than fresh blueberries in a certain way as the antioxidant value in blueberries actually increase during freezing. This is because the ice crystals disrupt the structure of the plant tissue, making the anthocyanins more available.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidant Activity in Different Types of Berries
Berries, especially members of several families, such as Rosaceae (strawberry, raspberry, blackberry), and Ericaceae (blueberry, cranberry), belong to the best dietary sources of bioactive compounds (BAC). They have delicious taste and flavor, have economic…
TIL that Bethesda filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros.' Westworld mobile game copying the code of the Fallout Shelter mobile game when a bug in the Westworld game was found, which is the exact same bug as the one that the Fallout Shelter game previously had
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Westworld bug outs stolen Fallout Shelter code, alleges Bethesda lawsuit
Bethesda has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and Behaviour Interactive, accusing the duo of copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, deceptive business practices, and unfair competition, all of which stem from the recent release of…
TIL In 1940, when Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas was given an ultimatum by Mussolini to surrender Greek lands for Italian occupation, Metaxas allegedly sent one word in reply: “No.”
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Oxi day
At 3 a.m. on the morning of October 28th, 1940, Emanuele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador to Greece, delivered an ultimatum from Benito Mussolini to Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. Il Duce demanded...
TIL that the thinking--i.e. non-physical activity--involved in mentally rigorous activities such as chess can require so much of the body's energy that individuals can burn hundreds of calories per hour engaging in them.
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CBC
Forget the treadmill: An intense game of chess can burn hundreds of calories, research suggests | CBC Radio
Research shows high-level chess players can burn hundreds of calories while competing. We talk to grandmaster Maurice Ashley about why the game needs brains, and brawn.
TIL Bill Murray got so annoyed with producers on the set of 'Groundhog Day' that he hired a deaf Personal Assistant to handle all interactions with the studio, despite him nor anyone else knowing sign language.
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'Groundhog Day': My favorite Bill Murray story
TIL The NY Yankees used to play the Frank Sinatra version of "New York, New York" after wins and the Liza Minnelli version after losses. Minnelli complained and asked them to play her version after wins or not at all. So the Yankees began playing the Sinatra version after every game, win or lose.
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Theme from New York, New York
"Theme from New York, New York" (or "New York, New York") is the theme song from the Martin Scorsese film New York, New York (1977), composed by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb. It was written for and performed in the film by Liza Minnelli. It remains…
TIL that Haiti and Liechtenstein showed up at 1936 Berlin Olympics only to discover that they both have the exact same flag
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WorldAtlas
Two Countries Showed Up To 1936 Olympics With The Exact Same Flag
Prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics, Haiti and Liechtenstein were sharing identical flags without realizing it.
TIL the first Ford Mustang (Serial #000001) got delivered and sold before anyone noticed, and they had to trade the 1,000,001st to the owner to get it back.
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1965 Ford Mustang Convertible Chassis 5F08F100001
1965 Ford Mustang Convertible, chassis 5F08F100001. New 1965 Ford Mustangs had been rolling off the assembly line at Dearborns Rouge Factory for about five...