TIL When Charlie Sheen announced that he was HIV positive in 2015, it resulted in a vast increase of online search queries for HIV prevention and testing, which was later dubbed the "Charlie Sheen effect".
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Charlie Sheen
American film and television actor
TIL about Mauro Prosperi who was lost in the Sahara. To avoid agonizing death from starvation and to save his wife from legal red tape, he slashed his wrists with a knife. However, due to his severe dehydration, his blood had clotted around the cuts. He reached a nomad tribe a few days later.
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BBC News
How I drank urine and bat blood to survive
Extreme marathon runner Mauro Prosperi spent 10 days alone in the Sahara desert after getting lost in a sandstorm. He only just survived.
TIL a huge library has been created in Minecraft to hold uncensored documents, articles and information from across the world. This offers a unique opportunity to people in censored countries to view censored materials in a safe environment.
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Submitted January 02, 2022 at 03:23PM by Neo-Chromia
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About — blockworks
Our expert team of architects, artists and developers.
TIL that Mohamed Bzeek, an Arab-American from California, is a foster parent who takes in only terminally ill children. He has fostered 80 children over 20 years, a practice he has continued even after his wife passed away in 2015.
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YouTube
GoFundMe: Mohamed Bzeek
Inspired by a story in the LA Times, Margaret Cotts took action and started a GoFundMe for Mohamed Bzeek and his foster children, many of whom have terminal illnesses.
In just two months, 7,574 people donated nearly $400,000 to support his ongoing dedication…
In just two months, 7,574 people donated nearly $400,000 to support his ongoing dedication…
TIL, the Finnish Airforce used a swastika on their emblem from 1918-2017. The swastika came from a plane given to the Finns by Eric von Rosen, who believed the swastika was a lucky charm. The emblem now features a golden eagle.
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Deutsche Welle
Finland's air force removes the swastika from logo after almost a century
The Finnish air force command has dropped the swastika from its logo without making an announcement. The air force had been using the symbol since 1918.
TIL about Hikikomori: modern day hermits/recluses in Japan whose numbers are on the rise, with an estimated million youths/middle age already afflicted.
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Hikikomori
reclusive adolescents or adults
TIL: Wing Commander ‘Woody’ Woodhall was found to be shortsighted in one eye at the outbreak of WW2. Pilots who needed glasses could not fly, however he found out monocles were not mentioned so he wore one instead and continued flying. He went on to be Duxford’s Battle of Britain Station Commander.
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Key Aero
Battle of Britain at 80: Duxford Station Commander
"It was Woody that got us home again." That was one fighter pilot’s verdict...
TIL That in 2007, professional footballer Didier Drogba helped end the Ivorian civil war after calling for a match against Madagascar to be played in a rebel-controlled area, and an end to the violence.
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BBC Sport
How Didier Drogba helped halt a civil war
Didier Drogba was the figurehead for Ivory Coast's 'golden generation'. Their remarkable powers helped bring a damaged nation together.
TIL of the death of Captain James Cook, the first European to discover Hawaii. When Hawaiian natives stole one of Cook's longboats, he attempted to get it back by kidnapping their chief. This almost succeeded, but after discovering Cook's plot, the angry natives clubbed and stabbed him to death.
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Death of James Cook
event in Hawaiian history
TIL about Mauro Prosperi who was lost in the Sahara. To avoid a slow agonising death, he cut his wrists. However, due to his severe dehydration, his blood had clotted around the cuts. He was able to reach a tribe a few days later.
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BBC News
How I drank urine and bat blood to survive
Extreme marathon runner Mauro Prosperi spent 10 days alone in the Sahara desert after getting lost in a sandstorm. He only just survived.
TIL: McDonald's did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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Snopes
Did Cocaine Users Cause McDonald’s to Replace Their Coffee Spoons?
Businesses are not well served when their products are associated with illegal activities.
TIL of the Holocene calendar or Human Era (HE) calendar. This calendar adds 10,000 years to the current year and argues the true beginning of civilization began when humans shifted from hunter-gatherers to agricultural societies. (Roughly 10,000 years ago.) - The current year would be 12022 H.E.
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Holocene calendar
calendar era such that 2000 CE is 12000 HE (“Holocene era”)
TIL that US President Nixon believed that France, Italy and Latin America are too immature for democracy and should instead be ruled by authoritarian regimes
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Attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade
An attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade occurred in Caracas, Venezuela, during his 1958 goodwill tour of South America, undertaken while Nixon was Vice President of the United States. The attack on Nixon's car was called, at the time, the "most violent attack…
TIL In 1993 a French man driving a Citroen car in a remote area of the Moroccan desert had a breakdown and became stranded. To survive he tore down the car, built a motorcycle from the parts, and rode it back to civilization. When he arrived he was ticketed for operating an illegal vehicle.
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Emile Leray Survived The Desert By Building A Motorcycle From His Broken Car
When Emile Leray’s Citroen 2CV broke down in the Sahara Desert in 1993, he tore the car apart and built a motorcycle from the parts to escape dying from the elements. It worked. That was 25 years ago. Leray gets the MacGyver Award for that year, and every…
TIL that WD-40 stands for "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt"
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Oh My Arthritis
WD-40 Can Help People With Arthritis - Oh My Arthritis
Everybody knows WD-40 is the product for silencing squeaks, displacing moisture, preventing rust, and loosening stuck parts. You probably have a can sitting in your garage right now. What you probably didn't realize though is that WD-40 can help people with…
TIL in The Big Lebowski, Jesus Quintana is wearing rings from the American Bowling Congress that certify his ability to roll a perfect 300 game, an almost perfect 299 game and an incredibly difficult 800 series. Those rings tell you that creep can roll.
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 02:08AM by oceanicplatform
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The Big Lebowski - Jesus Scene (1080p)
Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
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TIL that falling bullets can reach a terminal velocity 3x faster than the speed needed to penetrate the skull AND falling bullets are > 5x as lethal as non-falling bullets.
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Submitted January 02, 2022 at 08:54PM by bagmorgels
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Cranial Gravitational (Falling) Bullet Injuries: Point of View
TIL Betty white's character, Rose Nyland, on The Golden Girls, had a brush with HIV. The show, noscriptd “72 Hours,” centered on Rose after she learns that a blood transfusion she received may have exposed her to HIV. The message of the show was that HIV and AIDS had the potential to affect anyone.
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 04:10AM by SetMau92
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TIL that there was an ancient Greek statue considered so beautiful that it aroused men sexually. One young man threw himself off a cliff after being caught trying to have sex with it.
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 01:45AM by Blackcrusader
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Aphrodite of Knidos
sculpture of Greek sculptor Praxiteles of Athens
TIL about the Guatemala syphilis experiments, US-run non-consensual experiments on vulnerable members of the Guatemalan population. The lead physician John Charles Cutler was also involved with the more well-known Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Guatemala syphilis experiment | American medical research project
Guatemala syphilis experiment, American medical research project that lasted from 1946 to 1948 and is known for its unethical experimentation on vulnerable human populations in Guatemala. The intent of the study was to test the value of different medications…
TIL in 1959, a geologist built a rock cairn 1.2 m away from a glacier and left a note, asking whoever found it to measure the distance to the glacier. When it was found in 2013, the distance had grown up to 101.5 m. For a scientist in the 1950s to predict a glacier retreating was highly unexpected.
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ZME Science
Geologist leaves message in a bottle near glacier in 1959, gives indication about global warming
In 1959, an American geologist built a rock cairn 1.2 meters away from this glacier; he left a note, asking whoever finds it to measure the distance to