TIL that the mousetrap is the "most frequently invented device in American history". The American Patent and Trademark Office has issued a total 4400 mousetrap patents, and 400 applications are still made yearly. Only 20 of these inventions have been commercially successful.
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 01:46PM by Fruit_Louse
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www.uh.edu
No. 1163: A Better Mousetrap
To build a better mousetrap -- that people will use
TIL that Asian Americans make up 7% of the US population, but represent more than 17% of practicing physicians—making them the largest minority in the field.
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 03:44PM by Lord-AG
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Yahoo
Asian Americans like being doctors, but not seeing them
Despite high income, education, and insurance rates, Asian Americans have low rates of specialist visits
TIL the first known mention of pizza is a 997 text requiring that the bishop of Gaeta is given 12 pizzas every Christmas and Easter
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 03:16PM by litux
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Wikipedia
Pizza
Italian dish of oven-baked bread with various toppings
TIL that Disney secretly bought up 10,000 acres of land around DC to build a new theme park. It ultimately never got built because the American history theme would have been too controversial
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 05:26PM by VXRex
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Collider
A Deep Dive Into the Bloody Battle for 'Disney’s America', the Theme Park That Never Was
If you thought Splash Mountain was controversial, get ready for an inside look at Disney's America, the highly contested, never-built theme park.
TIL: When the Titanic rammed an iceberg, William Murdoch, the officer in charge, was portrayed in the film as shooting a passenger and then committing suicide. In reality, he was last seen trying to fill as many lifeboats as possible and heroically went down with the ship.
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 07:26PM by Leoz_13
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www.williammurdoch.net
An Honest Hero | William Murdoch
Investigates the life and the mystery surrounding Titanic's First Officer, William McMaster Murdoch with regularly updated research.
TIL a schoolboy allergic to cheese died after a student threw a piece of cheese at him.
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 08:26PM by iceTreamTruck
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Sky News
Boy's death after cheese thrown on his neck was 'extraordinarily unusual', inquest told
Karanbir Cheema collapsed at his school after the incident in west London on 28 June 2017, and he died almost two weeks later.
TIL: Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic genius. He is able to draw entire cities from memory after seeing them only once. He once drew a 19-feet long drawing of New York City after a single 20-minute helicopter ride.
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 05:57PM by Leoz_13
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Legit
Throwback to When Autistic Artist Drew New York City Skyline from Memory after 20 Minutes Helicopter Ride
An American autistic artist, Stephen Wiltshire, shocked the world when he drew a picture of New York City skyline from memory after 20 minutes in a helicopter.
TIL that even though bees are not kosher, the honey they help produce is considered so. While typically products of non-kosher animals are also considered non-kosher, honey is different because it isn't secreted by the bee itself.
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 09:25PM by dilettantedebrah
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STAR-K Kosher Certification
Do Bee Don't Bee- A Halachic Guide to Honey and Bee Derivatives | STAR-K Kosher Certification
Published Fall 2010 As we look toward the beginning of the new year, we turn our thoughts to teshuva, and the hope that our tefillos will be answered for a sweet new year. This request has been symbolized for hundreds of years on Rosh Hashana by eating challah…
TIL That Rankin/Bass, the company behind many classic Christmas movies such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, often outsourced the traditional animation aspects of their films to Japanese studios. One of those was a studio called Topcraft, which employed a young artist named Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao, [mijaꜜzaki hajao]; born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller…
TIL: A camel after standing in 109 F (43 C) heat all day decapitated his absent-minded owner after he remembered to untie him.
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Submitted December 22, 2021 at 11:33PM by LimeSugar
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TIL that Ralph Lazo was the only non-Japanese-American or spouse to voluntarily stay at a concentration camp, joining his Japanese-American friends on the train when they were forcibly relocated to Manzanar.
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Ralph Lazo
Teacher and activist
TIL there was a rumor in the 1960s that Japan made products in a town called Usa which were then exported to the US with the label "MADE IN USA" to make them appear as if they were made in the US.
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Snopes
Was a Town in Japan Renamed ‘Usa’ So Its Products Could Be Labeled ‘Made in USA’?
Did Japan rename a town 'Usa' so it could identify its products as 'Made in USA'?
TIL if a camel rejects her new-born or there's a need to adopt an orphaned calf, Mongol herders use a chanting ritual accompanied by fiddle or flute to coax her into accepting the calf. The camel mother may act aggressive initially, so the herders will change the melody depending on her behavior
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UNESCO - Coaxing ritual for camels
Mongol herders perform the coaxing ritual to encourage a female camel to accept a new-born calf or to adopt an orphan. The mother is tied close to the calf and a singer begins a monotone song accompanied by gestures and chanting. The coaxer changes the melody…
TIL that in 1921, a dog was put on trial for "catslaughter." He was represented by an actual lawyer, tried in an actual courtroom, in front of an actual judge, with an actual jury, who acquitted him for the crime.
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Submitted December 23, 2021 at 12:38AM by ClapboardArchipelago
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, December 21, 1921, Image 1
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, December 21, 1921, Image 1, brought to you by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA, and the National Digital Newspaper Program.
TIL the captain of the Costa Concordia, a cruise liner which ran aground in Italy in 2012, killing 32 people, was jailed for an extra year because he abandoned the ship and his passengers rather than staying on board to assist in their rescue.
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The captain goes down with the ship
maritime tradition
TIL about Roland the Farter, a medieval jester for King Henry II. Each Christmas he was obligated to perform a special fart for the kings court. He was compensated with a Manor and 30 acres of land.
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Submitted December 23, 2021 at 06:23AM by -Omegamart-
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Roland the Farter
medieval English flatulist
TIL Hydrox is the brand name for a cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookie, however Oreo, a Hydrox imitation eventually exceeded Hydrox in popularity, which resulted in the Hydrox cookies being perceived as an Oreo off-brand.
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Submitted December 23, 2021 at 11:18AM by Cheap_District_9762
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Hydrox
cookie brand by Leaf Brands LLC
TIL that A Christmas Story is narrated by Jean Shepherd who wrote the short story that the film is based on. His career was primarily in radio, but he was encouraged to become a writer and adapt the stories he did for radio by his close friend, Shel Silverstein.
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Submitted December 23, 2021 at 06:11AM by VoteHolt
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Jean Shepherd
American writer and radio host (1921-1999)
TIL A cat’s purr frequency is between 25 and 150 Hertz. This frequency corresponds with the frequency that scientists have found that promote bone density and healing. This vibrational frequency technique is used in astronauts to help mitigate bone density issues from low gravity.
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Submitted December 23, 2021 at 02:46PM by Velinarae
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RSPCA Queensland
The Meaning Behind a Cat's Purr | Blog | RSPCA Queensland
Spend enough time with a cat and you are sure to experience its rumbling purr. But does a cat’s purr really only mean it is happy? Or is the meaning much deeper?
TIL that smoking dead scorpions to get high is a practice in certain regions of Pakistan, with most users mixing dried dead scorpions with either tobacco or hash, and that the high lasts for almost 10 hours.
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Submitted December 23, 2021 at 12:27PM by meme_stealing_bandit
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DAWN.COM
Smoking dead scorpions is KP's latest dangerous addiction
Experts say scorpion venom is more harmful than any drug— addicts start living in a constant state of delusion.
TIL that Jill Dando, presenter for the BBC "unsolved crime" series Crimewatch, was murdered during her time as host for the show. Crimewatch reconstructed her murder and a suspect was convicted. However, the conviction was overturned, he was acquitted upon retrial, and the case remains unsolved.
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Submitted December 23, 2021 at 04:09PM by ez2remembercpl
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BBC News
The Murder of Jill Dando: 'Sensitive', 'powerful' but 'lack of answers'
The reviews are in for the BBC documentary into the unsolved killing of the TV personality, 20 years ago.