TIL Darwin, Australia was named after Charles Darwin but before he published his theory of evolution. Captain Wickham sailed with Darwin during HMS Beagle's first voyage, then he named the area after his old crewmate during the second voyage when he surveyed Northern Australia.
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Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin /ˈdɑːrwɪn/ (listen) (DAR-win; Larrakia: Garramilla) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory.
TIL the creators of "Parks and Recreation" did research for the show by interviewing actual government officials. One said, "Well, I’m a libertarian, so I don’t really believe in the mission of my job. Yes, I’m aware of the irony." The character of Ron Swanson was born.
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Los Angeles Times
Making bureaucracy work: How NBC's 'Parks and Recreation' overcame bad buzz
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
TIL that during WW2, the Obo Monuvo tribe of the Philippines fought the Japanese by serving them "Kallot", a poisonous yam that requires a special procedure for eating. The Japanese have no idea about the poison, and they were hacked to death by the tribes after they stopped moving from the poison.
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TIL Cyril Radcliffe was given only five weeks to draw the borders between the newly independent India and Pakistan. Additionally the English Radcliffe had never been further east than Paris when he was chosen for the job. 14 million people had to move as a result of Radcliffe's borders.
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Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe
British Viscount (1899-1977)
TIL Pixar renders its animated movies with one of the top 25 supercomputers in the world; with all that power, it still took 2 years of processing to render every frame of Monsters University.
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Rendering
Science Behind Pixar
TIL that the 97-kilogram Welcome Stranger, the biggest gold nugget ever found, wasn't discovered deep beneath the earth in a mine, it was only 3 cm below the surface.
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Welcome Stranger
gold nugget found in Victoria, Australia
TIL about St Brigid of Ireland, who turned bathwater to beer
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The story of how St Brigid turned bathwater to beer
FEBRUARY 1 is a special day in the Irish calendar: St Brigid’s Day. One of Ireland’s three patron saints alongside St Colmcille and St Patrick, the feast of St Brigid also happens to fall on the Celtic first day of spring, Imbolc. There are plenty of stories…
TIL Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) built a speaking machine out of bellows and leather lips that could generate sounds similar to 'ma' and 'pa' in a failed bid to win a bet with Matthew Boulton that he could build a machine to speak the lord's prayer
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TIL that in the 1971 INDO-PAK war, BBC once mistakenly reported that Indian Air Force had air-dropped 5,000 soldiers,13 times more than the actual number of 384.The incorrect report scared Pakistan and hastened the surrender of Pakistani soldiers which eventually led to the liberation of Bangladesh.
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1971 War: BBC’s Historic Error Which Helped Indian Army During Bangladesh Liberation - Indiaahead News
During the 1971 India-Pakistan War, BBC made an error which helped the Indian soldiers to win a battle.
TIL that in the world's first novel, the 11th-century Japanese "Tale of Genji", none of the characters are given explicit names. It was considered rude to call people by name, so the characters are referred to using (for example) their jobs or clothing color, which change throughout the story.
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The Tale of Genji
classic work of Japanese literature
TIL that Rick James fled from America due to a Vietnam draft card he had received, and then settled in Canada where he met Neil Young and started his musical career.
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Far Out Magazine
The troubling life of funk pioneer Rick James
He threw it all away
TIL Mount Thor in Canada has the world's longest vertical drop. If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything.
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TheTravel
What It's Like To Climb Mount Thor, The World's Steepest Vertical Face
Laying claim to the greatest vertical drop on earth, climbing this rock face is quite the challenge and not easily done.
TIL half of American adults can't read a book written at an 8th grade level
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Wylie Communications, Inc.
What’s the latest U.S. literacy rate?
Can they read you now? Half of Americans have basic or below-basic skills.
TIL that no babies are born with freckles because they haven't been in the sun long enough for specks to develop.
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Parents
Why Babies Don't Have Freckles
Learn about why babies don't have freckles, when they develop, and what they mean for your child's health and well-being.
TIL that a pod of beluga whales adopted a lost narwhal and have accepted him as one of their own
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A pod of beluga whales adopted a lost narwhal, and it's too wholesome
A narwhal has been adopted by a pod of beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River, according to CBC, and please be warned, the wholesomeness of this story may be completely overwhelming. The narwhal has been spotted in the same area for the past three years…
TIL that serial killer Richard Cottingham aka “The New York Ripper” who murdered 12 people shared an office with fellow murderer “The Dating Game Killer”, Rodney Alcala who took 8 lives.
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Richard Cottingham
American serial killer
TIl Wozniak has credited watching Star Trek and attending Star Trek conventions while in his youth as a source of inspiration for his starting Apple Inc.
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Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
TIL: Sperm whales are so named because of a waxy substance known as spermaceti found in their heads. This substance was used in oil lamps, lubricants, and candles in olden days leading to these whales being the primary target of the whaling industry
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NOAA
Sperm Whale
Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales and have one of the widest global distributions of any marine mammal species. They are found in all deep oceans, from the equator to the edge of the pack ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.
TIL That China's one child law involved a 'Family Planning Team' that hunted down pregnant women in hiding because they already had one child. That teams enforcement included inducing labor, then drowning or strangling the infant.
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TIL Often truncated, Oppenheimer's fuller quote was "I remembered the line from the Hindu noscripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'"
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb"
TIL baby owls sleep facedown because their heads are too heavy
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TimesNowNews.com
Netizens surprised to learn baby owls sleep face down as their heads are too heavy
Adult owls are able to support the weight of their heads as they gain strength after a few months. But younger owls struggle to do so and have to lie down while napping.