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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Submitted December 07, 2021 at 03:23AM by jdward01
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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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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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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
TIL that reindeer is the only mammal to change eye colour to adjust the amount of light that enters the eyes in different seasons. They have golden eyes in summer and blue in winter
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www.nhm.ac.uk
Colour in the collections: reindeer eye
Discover one of the more unusual colourful specimens at the Museum - a reindeer eyeball that has been sliced in half.
TIL that in 2019, the cardigan sweater that Kurt Cobain wore during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert sold for $334,000. It is currently the most expensive sweater to ever be sold at an auction.
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Rolling Stone
Kurt Cobain’s ‘Unplugged’ Sweater Sells for Record $334,000 at Auction
Kurt Cobain's green cardigan from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert sold for $334,000 at auction Saturday.
TIL: When Texas surrendered the land currently known as the “Oklahoma Panhandle”, it was actually unowned for 40 years. Officially called the “Public Land Strip” during that time but often referred to as “No Man’s Land”.
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Oklahoma Panhandle
The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from…
TIL The Ramones named their band as tribute to Paul McCartney early days with The Beatles when he was known as Paul Ramone
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FeelNumb.com
Paul McCartney’s Pseudonym Inspired The Ramones Band Name
From May 20 to May 28, 1960, The Silver Beetles (as they were called at the time) toured Scotland, backing a young musician named Johnny Gentle. As part of this tour, the whole band decided to give themselves pseudonyms. Dee Dee then came up with the idea…
TIL NFL star Tom Brady was drafted in to the MLB in 1995 at the age of 17. He was selected in the 18th round by the Montreal Expos. He never played a single game. And he is the only active player who was drafted by the Expos.
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Pats Pulpit
Tom Brady is not the only former Patriot to get selected in the MLB Draft
The greatest quarterback of all time was famously drafted by the Montreal Expos.
TIL Julian Lennon had to buy letters he wrote to his father (John Lennon) at an auction, because Yoko Ono wouldn't give them to him.
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YouTube
Julian Lennon slams Yoko Ono and talks of John Lennon and Paul McCartney (part1)
This is an interview with Julian Lennon from March 18th 1999 with Dini Petty. He speaks of his new album, his TRUE feelings of Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Paul McCartney and his father John Lennon. A very interesting interview where Julian speaks very openly…
TIL in the original Star Wars Trilogy, despite being told by Luke to 'stay on the ship', R2D2 never follows his commands. Later, in the prequel trilogy, the last thing Anakin says to R2D2 was to stay on the ship, which he does. Never seeing Anakin again.
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Digital Spy
Star Wars fan spots tragic R2-D2 detail that you won't have noticed
I'm not crying you're crying we're all crying
TIL due to their historical, institutional and material value, the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom are uninsurable.
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Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
British royal regalia