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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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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Wikipedia
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.
TIL the paintings of Washington crossing the Delaware were by a German artist, and the original was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1942.
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Wikipedia
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings)
painting by Emanuel Leutze, Metropolitan Museum of Art
TIL the UK was the number 1 European recipient of aid from the Marshall Plan, receiving $2.7 billion
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BBC - History -
British History in depth: The Wasting of Britain's Marshall Aid
British History in depth: The Wasting of Britain's Marshall Aid
A lost opportunity, by Correlli Barnett
TIL Andromachi Papanicolaou, the wife of the man who invented the Pap smear volunteered to have her cervix sampled every day for 21 years to help with his research. Their findings went on to save the lives of millions of women by preventing the development of cervical cancer through early detection.
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Andromachi Papanikolaou
Bolivian laboratory technician and the wife of Georgios Papanikolaou
TIL in 2006, a mother and son were convicted of trying to extort money from Cracker Barrel by claiming they found a dead mouse in her soup. Charges were filed after a necropsy showed the mouse had no soup in its lungs and had not been cooked, signs that it was dropped into the soup after its death.
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NBC News
Mother, son convicted for mouse-in-soup scam
A woman and her adult son have been convicted of trying to extort money from the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain by claiming they found a dead mouse in a bowl of soup while celebrating Mother’s Day in 2004.
TIL Air Conditioning was Invented in 1902 to Dry Ink, but Became Popular After Installation in a Movie Theater in New York 20 years Later.
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99% Invisible
Thermal Delight - 99% Invisible
In the summer of 1902, the Sackett and Wilhelms Lithography & Printing Company in Brooklyn, New York had a problem. They were trying to print an issue of the popular humor magazine Judge, but the humidity was preventing the inks from setting properly on the…
TIL that oceanic life benefits by dumping iron into it. Not only in artificial reef habitat in but also as a food source to phytoplankton. Phytoplankton can drastically reduce our carbon levels and restore species numbers up the food chain.
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Complicated Role of Iron in Ocean Health and Climate Change
Iron dust may have played a significant role in the last ice age, and it could be an important factor in mitigating future global temperature increases
TIL that the ancient Greek poet, Hipponax (late 6th c BC), in a viciously satirical poem about a sculptor, called him "metrokoites" -- a motherfucker. It is the first known use of the term.
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TIL Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise (Harriet) didn't die until recently at an estimated age of 175 years.
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Wikipedia
Harriet (tortoise)
1830-2006 female Galápagos tortoise
TIL that members of Black Sabbath almost killed their drummer Bill Ward, by painting him in gold paint and lacquer when he passed out after a night of drinking.
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Far Out Magazine
A catalogue of mayhem: The horrendous pranks Black Sabbath played on Bill Ward
Besieged Bill Ward.
TIL The famous Kirk and Uhura kiss wasn't the first interracial kiss on television. It was preceded by several others, including one in 1958 in which William Shatner was also a participant.
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Wikipedia
First interracial kiss on television
first televised depiction of a kiss between people of different races
TIL that there’s no evidence sugar causes hyperactivity.
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Does Sugar Really Make Children Hyper? – Yale Scientific Magazine
TIL flea circuses would sometimes glue tiny musical instruments to fleas, then glue the fleas to the floor and heat it. The fleas trying to escape the heat then made them "play" the instruments.
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Flea circus
A flea circus is a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged to perform circus acts within a small housing.
TIL that Billie Joe Armstrong once dropkicked a guy in the middle of a Green Day concert after he saw him roughing up a young girl. He stopped the show and challenged him to a fight before jumping into the crowd.
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Submitted July 22, 2022 at 11:13PM by derstherower
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Rock Celebrities - One And Only Source About Rock And Metal Stars
The Reason Billie Joe Armstrong Drop-Kicked A Fan In The Middle Of A Show
Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong has a successful music career spanning over more than three decades, starting from his first band named Sweet Children with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt. The vocalist has released several monumental albums with…
TIL that Jupiter has 79 moons. 53 of them have names and the rest are in the queue.
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NASA Solar System Exploration
Jupiter Moons
Jupiter has 79 confirmed moons.
TIL the Cities of Tampa and Miami have a rivalry over where the Cuban Sandwich was first invented and that Tampa passed a resolution in 2012 naming it the official sandwich of the city.
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Serious Eats
How Tampa Claimed the Cuban Sandwich
The fact, fiction, and legend behind the iconic Cuban sandwich.
TIL There are only 3 Kmart stores left in the US
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Submitted July 23, 2022 at 02:10AM by Sad_Cherry2884
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Yahoo
Kmart store closings 2022: Just three Kmarts remain after new round of closures
Three Kmart stores will be open after the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, 15 miles south of New York City, is scheduled to permanently close on April 16.
TIL In the 90s, Visa payments for online porn were supervised by a man called Dick Held. He was an ex-FBI agent and headed up Visa’s risk assessment division.
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Pushkin Industries
Episode 8: Inside Porn’s Star Chamber | Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?
In the season finale, Alex and Patricia discover how Visa and MasterCard became the reluctant rulers of porn.