TIL that Steve Irwin and his father discovered a species of turtles that can breathe through their cloaca in 1990. It's named after them: Irwin's turtle.
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Irwin's turtle
species of reptile
TIL of Adolf Hitler’s Madagascar Plan. The plan was to relocate all the Jews to Madagascar. This idea later was shelved in favor for the mass genocide of the population.
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The Nazi plan to relocate Jews to Madagascar, one of World War II's
Germany's Madagascar Plan is one of the lesser-known ‘what ifs’ of World War II history.
TIL in 1997, Lottie Williams of Tulsa Oklahoma, was struck harmlessly in the shoulder by a 15cm piece of metallic material which was determined to be a piece of a Delta II rocket that had been launched eight months earlier. Williams is the only known person to have been struck by space debris.
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Midcourse Space Experiment
space observatory
TIL Rats can learn to drive, and seem to enjoy it
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Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats
It was for a study on how enriched environments can affect stress response.
TIL Microsoft's iconic Solitaire game for Windows was developed in 1988 by then intern Wes Cherry out of boredom. He received no royalties.
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Meet the Intern Who Wrote Solitaire for Microsoft
In 1988, Wes Cherry was an intern at Microsoft when he created a game that would change the lives of office workers forever. That game was Solitaire. At the time there weren't many desktop computer games and most households still didn't have personal computers.…
TIL the movie Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was written, directed, and starred by the same person (Steve Oedekerk). He used footage from a 1976 Hong Kong film and filmed new scenes to create a new plot. He re-dubbed all characters himself (except for the character Whoa).
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
2002 film by Steve Oedekerk
TIL that because Peru's Machu Picchu is in a hidden location, invisible from below, the Spanish conquistadors never came across the site, and thus were not able to destroy it. Local communities knew about it, but because the Spanish had a reputation of destroying temples, they did not speak of it.
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Machu Picchu 101 | National Geographic
Machu Picchu is a testament to the power and ingenuity of the Inca empire. Built without the use of mortar, metal tools, or the wheel, Machu Picchu stands as an archaeological wonder of the ancient world. But why was it built—and deserted?
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TIL that showman P.T. Barnum got his start by purchasing an enslaved woman named Joice Heth. She was in her 70’s but he claimed she was 161 years old and had been the nanny of George Washington. He exhibited her until her death, and then allowed the public to view her autopsy for 50 cents each
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TIL that 3 of the 5 longest recorded sniper kills were by Canadian soldiers using the McMillan TAC-50 rifle.
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McMillan TAC-50
sniper rifle and anti-materiel rifle
TIL IBM donated an International Translator System for use at the Nuremberg Trials, which brought the trial to life through simultaneous interpretation of English, Russian, French, and German delivered to 600 headsets with five audio channels. Later, IBM sold the proven system to the United Nations.
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Translating and Interpreting the Nuremberg Trials | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Interpreters and translators were the unspoken heroes of the Nuremberg Trials. Their work at Nuremberg was a groundbreaking development in simultaneous interpretation.
TIL Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA game in 1962 but it was not televised and no video footage of the game has since been recovered. NBA wasnt recognized as being a major sports league and struggled to compete against college basketball. No members of the New York press were at the game
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Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game
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TIL about "JanSporting", the act of putting a backpack on the intoxicated to prevent them from turning on their back while unconscious.
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Why Do College Kids Think a Backpack Can Save a Drunk Friend's Life?
Hidden in the tragedies of two recent deaths at Pennsylvania colleges is an odd trend: Students putting backpacks on intoxicated friends to prevent them from sleeping on their back in case they throw up.
TIL the year zero doesn't exist: the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC
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Anno Domini
Western calendar era
TIL Karoshi, which can be translated literally as "overwork death", is a Japanese term relating to occupational sudden mortality. The phenomenon of death by overwork is also widespread in other parts of Asia. 745,194 deaths worldwide were attributable to long working hours in 2016, based on WHO/ILO.
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Karoshi
sudden death from overwork
TIL: Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina were ridiculed by representatives of the aerosol and halocarbon industries for their hypothesis that CFCs would lead to depletion of the ozone layer. The chair of DuPont called it: "a science fiction tale...a load of rubbish...utter nonsense".
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Montreal Protocol
environmental protocol designed to protect the ozone layer
TIL about the Bodo League Massacre of 1950, where 60,000-200,000 civilians suspected of being communists (many of whom had no connection with communism) were executed in South Korea during the Korean War
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Bodo League massacre
Massacre during the Korean War.
TIL Ben Franklin performed his kite experiment standing on an insulator under a roof holding a dry silk string. He attached the silk string to a key, the key to a hemp string, and the hemp to a kite. The key was also attached to a Leyden jar which stored electricity conducted from a storm cloud.
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Kite experiment
Science experiment on lightning and electricity
TIL that owls cannot move their eyes. This is because their eyes are not balls, but cylinders that are held in place by bones called sclerotic rings. This is also the reason that owls have evolved to be able to rotate their head 270 degrees left and right, and 90 degrees up and down.
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TIL about Project 100k, where LBJ and Sec of Def Robert MacNamara decided to lower the mental and medical standards to recruit more soldiers to fight in Vietnam. These soldiers died at ~3x the normal rate.
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Project 100,000
1960s program by the United States Department of Defense to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards
TIL in 1943 three Italian POWs escaped a British camp and climbed Mount Kenya with improvised equipment. After an eventful 18-day period on the mountain, they broke back into camp. They received 28 days in solitary confinement, commuted to 7 days by the camp's commandant for their "sporting effort"
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya
1947 book by Felice Benuzzi
TIL: it’s so common and customary to have American style tacos on Fridays in Norway, they have a name for it: Fredagstacos
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