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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The Big Lebowski - Jesus Scene (1080p)
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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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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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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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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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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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Geologist leaves message in a bottle near glacier in 1959, gives indication about global warming
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TIL of an 80,000 year old tree in Utah named Pando - a clonal colony of an individual quaking aspen, all belonging to one single living organism, identical in genetic markers, with one massive underground root system.
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 06:32AM by atbis27
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Pando (tree)
extremely old, large tree; a clonal colony forming one interconnected root system in Sevier County, Utah, United States
TIL that the inventor of the X-Ray never patented his accidental discovery due to the obvious benefits to medical applications.
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 09:42AM by JaWasa
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Atlas Obscura
The Existential Horror Created by the First X-Ray Images
"I have seen my death!"
TIL that, as a philanthropist, actor Paul Newman was counted as the person who had distributed more money - in relation to his own wealth - than any other American during the 20th century.
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 01:15PM by Maynard078
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Paul Newman obituary
Blue-eyed star's acting career was just one facet of a man who was America's biggest philanthropist in proportion to his own wealth
TIL Persistence of a 12-year old boy led to clearing the name of the USS Indianapolis' captain more than 50 years after the tragedy. The Congress passed a Sense of Congress resolution exonerating the captain.
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Charles B. McVay III
Charles Butler McVay III (August 31, 1898 – November 6, 1968) was an American naval officer and the commanding officer of the cruiser USS Indianapolis when she was lost in action in 1945, resulting in a significant loss of life. Of all captains in the history…
TIL in 1976, the band Queen had been booked to appear on Bill Grundy's Today show, but the group pulled out last second. EMI scrambled to find a last minute replacement, and settled with The Sex Pistols. The interview became a potty-mouthed confrontation and changed British broadcasting forever.
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Louder
What happened when the Sex Pistols appeared on the Bill Grundy show
In December 1976, a sweary, televised incident made Britain gasp and the Sex Pistols front page news...
TIL that the Navy bean is the considered the official bean of the Nation of Islam, and is said to allow one to live up to 140. All other types of beans are "divinely prohibited"
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The Radical Pie That Fueled a Nation
The bean pie is sweet, custard-like, and a foundationally humble foodstuff. It’s also a culinary icon of the controversial Nation of Islam and of revolutionary black power.
TIL that an acoustic piano has a tension string of almost 20 tons, because it has over 230 strings, and each string is under a tension of almost 90 kg (do the math). Because of this the piano is so heavy: because its iron-cast frame to withstand that tension.
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Christhepianotuner
How much tension is in a Piano?
Available for Piano Tuning and repairs in Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester and beyond
TIL that "Solitaire" refers to any tabletop game you can play by yourself, not just the famous card game that was included on Microsoft Windows. The card game simply called "Solitaire" on Windows is actually named "Klondike".
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Solitaire
Card game normally played alone
TIL: Norwegians pay half tax in November, so everyone has more money for Christmas.
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 07:31PM by Leoz_13
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Norwegians pay half tax in November so everyone has more money for Christmas
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TIL there's an 18% average mortality rate for catch and release fishing with the rate varying significantly between species
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Submitted January 03, 2022 at 06:41PM by RoboticMind
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Catch and release
method of fishing
TIL In the 1984 comedy horror film called Gremlins, as the special effects relied mainly on puppetry, an earlier attempt to use monkeys was abandoned because the test monkey panicked when made to wear a gremlin head
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Gremlins
1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante
TIL Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis sent a telegram to Paul McCartney inviting him to play bass on their upcoming album. However, McCartney was on vacation and finances and busy schedules eventually prevented the album from ever being made. The telegram is on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Prague.
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Rolling Stone
Jimi Hendrix Sought Paul McCartney for Supergroup with Miles Davis
Guitarist reached out to Beatles bassist with 1969 telegram
TIL that Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of President John Adams, underwent a mastectomy in a room of the Adams home at age 46. The operation was performed without the benefit of anesthesia.
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Abigail Adams Smith
Abigail "Nabby" Amelia Adams Smith (July 14, 1765 – August 15, 1813) was the daughter of Abigail and John Adams, founding father and second President of the United States, and the sister of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. She was…
TIL Airline travel is just as stressful on dogs who received anxiety medication as it is on dogs without medication. Observing the heart rate and taking blood/saliva samples showed the same stress levels in every dog, proving flying is not good for canine health, even with medication use.
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Physiology and behavior of dogs during air transport
Twenty-four beagles were used to measure physiological and behavioral reactions to air transport. Each of 3 groups of 4 sedated (with 0.5 mg/kg body weight of acepromazine maleate) and 4 non-sedated (control) dogs was flown on a separate flight between ...