TIL 'Third World' referring to a country comes from the Cold War. First World were capitalist, Second World were communist, and the Third World encompassed all the other countries that were not actively aligned with either side in the Cold War.
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HISTORY
Why are countries classified as First, Second or Third World?
People often use the term “Third World” as shorthand for poor or developing nations. By contrast, wealthier countries such as the United States and the nations
TIL of Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist and mathematician, who worked on the Manhattan Project during WW2 to help America build the world's first atomic bomb. During the Cold War, he was accused of being a communist and fled America to China, where he helped China build its first atomic bomb.
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Qian Xuesen
Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a Chinese mathematician, cyberneticist, aerospace engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics.…
TIL A FedEx employee from Tennessee has made mathematical history with the discovery of the largest known prime number. Jonathan Pace, a 51-year-old engineer living in Germantown, Tennessee, discovered the number after running a special piece of computational software for six days straight.
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CNBC
FedEx employee from Tennessee discovers largest known prime number
The world's largest prime number is 23 million digits long and part of a group of primes studied for centuries.
TIL Kenny G was one of the original investors in Starbucks and has made more money investing than from his music career.
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MoneyGrower
Kenny G - Secret Buy & Hold Dividend Millionaire - MoneyGrower
If you had to do a double take of the noscript, I wouldn’t blame you. But Kenny G is in fact a secret buy and hold dividend millionaire. Yes the same Kenny G who rose in stardom during the 80’s and 90’s with hits such as Duotones, Going Home, Forever in Love…
TIL People who speak English as a second language outnumber those who speak it as their first language 4 to 1
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Babbel Magazine
How Many People Speak English, And Where Is It Spoken?
English is the most-spoken language in the world, but how many people speak English and where all those speakers? Find out more!
TIL, Angostura bitters has a label that doesn't fit because two brothers in 1870 redesigned the bottle and label but did not consult one another. They entered a contest but did not win. One of the judges convinced them to keep it as "signature labelling."
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Esquire
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Angostura Bitters
Here's everything you ever wanted to know about the world's favorite bitters.
TIL Senator Bob Dole befriended a bar tender he often saw and later convinced him to take the LSAT exam and paid for it. The bar tender went on to get a perfect score and was accepted into Harvard Law School.
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Bob Dole
Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate during the final 11 years of his tenure, including…
TIL for a motorcycle stunt in 'No Time To Die', they had to pour 8400 gallons of Coca Cola onto a street of Italy to make the stunt possible. They did that to make the street less slippery and it cost over $70k.
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NME
‘No Time To Die’ producers poured 8,400 gallons of Coca-Cola on Italian street for James Bond stunt
The producers of 'No Time To Die' used 8,400 gallons of Coca-Cola to make a cobbled street less slippery for a James Bond motorbike stunt.
TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhattan Project scientists. Finished high school at 14, graduated from Harvard at 18, and recruited for the nuclear program at 19. Fifty years later, near death, he admitted to having been a Soviet informant the entire time.
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Theodore Hall
American scientist
TIL: Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States in which all the major professional teams share the same primary colors (black and gold).
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MLB.com
Why Pittsburgh's teams wear black and gold
PITTSBURGH -- When you think of Pittsburgh’s sports teams, two phrases might come to mind: “City of Champions” and “black and gold.” The Steelers, Penguins and Pirates all proudly wear black and gold in Pittsburgh, the only city in the United States in which…
TIL that the American Nazi Party erected a hidden monument in honor of executed Nazis In Washington DC.
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The Denver Post
Six Nazi spies were executed in D.C. White supremacists gave them a memorial — on federal land.
A team of power company workers were trudging through a seldom-visited thicket in Southwest Washington when they spotted something odd in a ditch.
TIL: That the military uses silly string to detect tripwire. The string is light enough to show the location of the tripwire without triggering it!
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Submitted December 07, 2021 at 06:16AM by uhohspagettiio
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Silly String
practical joke device
TIL Electronic Storage Device Detection K9s. These dogs are trained to locate SD cards/flash drives, recording devices, cameras, and other tiny electronic devices. These dogs are particularly helpful during building/room searches of suspected human traffickers & child pornographers.
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CNN
Pound puppy turned police 'porn dog'
He struts between desks at the Weber County Sheriff's office, greeted like a celebrity by colleagues who call out, "Hey, it's the porn dog!"
TIL the King of Germany in 1184 invited dozens of nobles to a meeting on the second floor of a monastery. The wooden floor collapsed under the weight, smashed through the first floor below, and fell into the latrine cesspit in the cellar. 60 people drowned in liquid excrement.
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Erfurt latrine disaster
deadly fecal incident
TIL taking steroids and not working out leads to more gain in size and strength than working out without steroids
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TIL that the US Navy maintains a white oak forest in Indiana for the oldest commissioned US naval vessel, USS Constitution. The forest is 150 oak trees in reserve for repairs to the wooden 224 year old Constitution when she needs it.
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Military.com
Why the US Navy Manages Its Own Private Forest
When you need 200-year-old trees to repair a 200-year-old ship, where do you go? The Navy thought ahead.
TIL the Telecommunications Act of 1996 loosened regulations on how many stations a single company could own, leading Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) to grow from 40 stations to 1,240 in just six years, homogenizing playlists nationwide & radically (negatively) altering the music industry.
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TIL that, due to gravitational time dilation, Earth’s core is about 2.5 years younger than its surface.
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Gravitational time dilation
form of time dilation
TIL NBC's then President fired Norm MacDonald for making jokes about his friend O.J. Simpson murdering his wife.
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Submitted December 07, 2021 at 04:45PM by i_m_fury
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Don Ohlmeyer
American television producer
TIL the Large Hadron Collider had to be turned off for a period of time because a bit of baguette was found in it.
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Submitted December 07, 2021 at 06:20PM by ahorseinuniform
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the Guardian
Big bang goes phut as bird drops baguette into Cern machinery
Large Hadron Collider relaunch tests halted by power cut. Scientists pinpoint cause as fowl play
TIL: China creates so much synthetic diamonds that are identical to real diamonds that prices of diamonds are being driven down and De Beers has created a university to study how to identify "natural" and "man made" diamonds because no experts can tell the difference.
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South China Morning Post
China’s lab-grown diamond industry has De Beers fighting back
De Beers fights lab-grown diamonds with technology as China’s synthetic gems threaten viability of their market