TIL there were no tomatoes, potatoes, blueberries, peanuts, corn, beans, chocolate, vanilla, or tobacco in the old world until about the year 1500, as they are native to the Americas. This was part of the Columbian Exchange which also included many other plants, animals, fungi and diseases.
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New World crops
crops native to the New World and not found elsewhere before 1492
TIL that back in 2800 B.C., cities in Pakistan had a form of plumbing for bathing and sanitization which would later become the influence for the modern day bathroom. & The earliest known bath tub dates back to 1700 B.C., found in the Palace of Knossos, in Crete.
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Brownstoner
Victorian Bathroom: A Quick History of the Bathroom
Victorian bathroom: Topped only by the kitchen, the bathroom is one of the most important and frequently renovated rooms in any house or apartment.
TIL that although Usain Bolt has won 8 gold medals in the Olympics, he only ran for 114 seconds in the finals. When you include the preliminary rounds, Bolt has spent only 325 seconds on the Olympics track. This means that he has got a gold medal for every 36 seconds, including qualifying rounds.
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BBC News
Usain Bolt's amazing Olympic career in even more amazing numbers
Usain Bolt has won nine Olympic golds in only two minutes on the track. That's not normal.
TIL that there have been three Nobel Laureates who were under arrest at the time of the award. All of them were being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Submitted August 12, 2021 at 02:23PM by closestconch10
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Nobel Prize facts
TIL that the oldest penis graffiti/carvings was found on the limestone cliffs of a remote Greek island of Astypalaia. The graffiti also includes the phrase "Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona."
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Fast Company
World’s Oldest Penis Graffiti Found On Remote Greek Island
Plus, “Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona.”
TIL the Curie's were a "Nobel Prize family." Not only did Marie Curie win the Nobel twice; once with her husband, Pierre Curie. Their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, and her husband, Frédéric Joliot, were also jointly awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Nobel Prize facts
TIL of Forrest Spaulding who in 1938 drafted a Library Bill of Rights against censorship. When challenged for a library copy of Mein Kampf he responded, "if more people had read it, Hitler's despotism might have been prevented". Spaulding's bill was later adopted by the American Library Association.
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Forrest Spaulding
American librarian
TIL that The Blade Runner Director's Cut only exists because a Warner Bros. executive accidentally gave a theater Scott's personal cut which he had left in a screening room. His cut garnered critical acclaim prompting Warner Bros. to allow him to make an official version.
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Mentalfloss
How One Movie Theater's Mistake Changed Ridley Scott's Blade Runner Forever
'Blade Runner,' Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic, was met with a tepid reception by audiences and got throttled by 'E.T.' It wasn't until a mistake made at a revival house in 1990 that audiences saw the director's true intentions.
TIL Airline crews are categorized as “radiation workers” in the U.S. and receive more radiation exposure on an annual basis than nuclear power plant workers.
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TIL Airline crews are categorized as “radiation workers” in the...
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TIL that when Wayne Rogers left M*A*S*H, the producers tried to sue him for breach of contract. They discovered that Rogers had never actually signed his contract, having objected to a morals clause, and that he had been a free agent the entire time.
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Outsider
'M*A*S*H': Why Did Trapper John Actor Wayne Rogers Leave the Show After Three Seasons?
"M*A*S*H" fans lost one of the stars of the show unceremoniously when Wayne Rogers decided to leave the series after three seasons.
TIL Obsidian was denied a bonus from completion of Fallout New Vegas because the game scored an 84 on Metacritic (one point under the contractual 85)
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Eurogamer.net
Obsidian Fallout New Vegas deal with Bethesda meant bonus payment only with 85+ Metacritic
It got 84.
TIL: King Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, was a socialist who wrote a book describing his vision of the U.S. population living in a single utopian metropolis/building powered by Niagara Falls. Only 1 in 7 people would need to work, and it would be free of money and thus free of crime.
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Buffalo Rising
Gillette’s The Human Drift
Author: Richard Young
The next time you are wandering the aisles of your local CVS and you happen to come upon the shelves stocked with shaving products, you might give pause to consider that the recent resurgence of Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier that…
The next time you are wandering the aisles of your local CVS and you happen to come upon the shelves stocked with shaving products, you might give pause to consider that the recent resurgence of Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier that…
TIL A bank robber in France made a fictitious, coded document which he claimed as evidence during his trial. While the judge was distracted by the document, Albert Spaggiari jumped out of a window, landing safely on a parked car and escaped on a waiting motorcycle. He was never seen again.
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TIL that an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210, upset many parents because a teenage character "suffered no consequences and showed no remorse" for losing her virginity, prompting the network to "punish" the characters via a pregnancy scare
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Beverly Hills, 90210
1990 American teen drama television series
TIL that Kirsty MacColl died while pushing one of her children out of the way of a speedboat owned by a billionaire. A deckhand claimed he, and not the billionaire was responsible for piloting the boat. He paid a fine of $90 to avoid prison.
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Kirsty MacColl
English singer and songwriter
TIL at the time of the Russian Revolution, the Winter Palace held arguably the best stocked wine cellar in history. The Bolsheviks tried to pipe it out of the palace into the Neva River, to avoid a drunken mob. This led to crowds clustering around the palace drains, and a drunken mob formed anyway
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Winter Palace
historic building in St. Petersburg, Russia
TIL that the Apollo 11 spacesuits worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were actually created by bra maker seamstresses at Playtex.
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Glamour Daze
Playtex - From Bras to Space Suits on Apollo 11
Apollo 11 space suits designed by bra and girdle manufacturer Playtex and the future of fashion depicted in 2001: A Space Odyssey
TIL The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader
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WorldAtlas
What Was The Last Segregated School In America?
Segregated schools were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. A remnant of a past era. However, segregated schools still existed until recently.
TIL the movie "Fifty First Dates" is actually inspired by a true story. Michelle Philpots suffered two auto accidents, and over the following few years developed memory issues which eventually caused her to wake up every morning stuck in 1994 and before.
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Cosmopolitan
The woman with amnesia whose true story may have inspired 50 First Dates
The Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore film 50 First Dates might be a romantic comedy, but if you imagine a life where you were unable to create new memories, it probably wouldn't be all that funny.
TIL That the first known accident between two airbag-equipped cars took place in 1990 when a 1989 Chrysler LeBaron crossed the center line and hit another 1989 Chrysler LeBaron head-on, causing both driver airbags to deploy. Both drivers survived with minor injuries.
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Airbag
vehicle safety device
TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins originally wanted to be a composer. He released an album that topped the UK classical charts in 2012. At the age of 26, he composed a waltz that was finally performed 47 years later by André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra, who specializes in waltzes.
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