TIL "cretinism" is an outdated medical term for congenital hypothyroidism, which can lead to mental impairment. It's most often caused by iodine deficiency, and over 100 countries mandate iodized salt as a preventative measure
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Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome
Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome is a medical condition present at birth marked by impaired physical and mental development, due to insufficient thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) often caused by insufficient dietary iodine during pregnancy. It is one…
TIL that, while Marge vs the Monorail is considered one of The Simpsons' best episodes, many of the writing staff consider it one of the worst and the beginning of the show's reliance on absurd cartoonish plots
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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 06:46PM by Rob-With-One-B
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Marge vs. the Monorail
"Marge vs. the Monorail" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 14, 1993. The plot revolves around Springfield's impulse purchase…
TIL there is a super massive black hole named TON 618 which is 140 trillion times more luminous and 66 billion times more massive than the Sun. This is more mass than the entire Milky Way galaxy.
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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 05:47PM by TimelyConcern
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TON 618
Quasar in the constellation Canes Venatici
TIL that over 5,000 dead fish, crabs, and other sea creatures were embedded in the ice skating rink at Space World in Japan. Some were arranged to spell "HELLO". Visitors called it a waste of life, so a memorial service was held and the fish repurposed as fertilizer.
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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 06:53PM by Decapod73
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CNBC
5,000 fish in ice at Japan skating rink sparks uproar
An amusement park in western Japan sparked an uproar after it displayed about 5,000 dead fish in the ice at a skating rink, forcing the park to close the attraction.
TIL Christopher Walken volunteered to be in Fatboy Slim's iconic "Weapon of Choice" music video
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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 09:24PM by varnecr
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Higher-Frequency
Fatboy Slim Interview
online Multimedia for Club Music Lovers
TIL blacking out from alcohol doesn’t cause you to lose memories, but rather your brain temporarily loses the ability to create new memories during the blackout (so the memories never exist)
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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 10:30PM by OneTimeISawABird
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Interrupted Memories: Alcohol-Induced Blackouts | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Drinking to the point of a blackout has gained pop culture notoriety in recent years. Alcohol-induced blackouts can lead to impaired memory of events that transpired while intoxicated, and a drastically increased risk of injuries and other harms. They can…
TIL that a woman living in California in the 1940s housed thousands of spiders in her home to harvest and sell their silk to the US military for bomb sites during WW2. The government's couriers would arrive to pick up the silk with empty briefcases handcuffed to their wrists.
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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 11:40PM by Scatter_Cushion
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The Scientist Magazine®
The Spider Lady, Circa 1939
Nan Songer, a spider expert living in California, played an integral part in the Allies’ success in World War II by supplying silk for bombsights.
TIL that when creating Finding Nemo, Pixar decided to show off the ocean they had created by pitting it against live-action footage of a real ocean. It was so realistic that nobody could tell the difference, so they made the ocean a more cartoonish blue to blend in with the animated fish.
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YouTube
Finding Nemo (2003) - The Making Of
An incredible in-depth look at all the work that went into making one of the most beloved animated films of all time. From taking the animators scuba diving to the intense ways they animated the heart-breaking scenes, this documentary will grab hold and carry…
TIL about Dr. Mary Walker, an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor. She worked as an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines during the civil war.
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WWP News & Media: Veteran Group Outings, Charity Events, Helping Vets
Dr. Mary E. Walker: The Sole Female Medal of Honor Recipient
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re traveling back in time to 1861 and the start of the Civil War. Learn how Dr. Mary Edwards Walker became the only female veteran to be awarded the Medal of Honor!
TIL "Clyde" the orangutan in Clint Eastwood's film "Every Which Way But Loose" was frequently beaten by his trainer and died of a cerebral hemorrhage near the end of filming for the sequel
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Los Angeles Times
'Every which way but abuse' should be motto
I GENERALLY don't want to be in any club that includes Pamela Anderson, which is part of the reason I'm often skeptical about PETA causes.
TIL in 1982 the submarine HMS Conqueror stole a passive sonar array being towed behind a Soviet ship, using mechanical pincers mounted on the sub's bow to cut the cable and make it look like it had gotten snagged on terrain. She wasn't detected, despite being just feet away from the ship.
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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 06:27PM by TheSorge
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Popular Mechanics
In 1982, A UK Sub Stole a Top Secret Soviet Sonar Device
The incident brings new meaning to the term "cord cutting."
TIL That, until recently, people who spent more than six months in Britain from 1980 to 1997 were unable to donate blood because of an outbreak of "mad cow disease" in the area at that time
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 03:35AM by LEPNova
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PubMed Central (PMC)
FDA bans blood donation by people who have lived in UK
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TIL that the 1st King of England made a law that said everyone had to be in bed by 8pm
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 01:11AM by PoppedUrMomsCherry
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Curfew bell
The curfew bell was a bell rung in the evening in Medieval England as the curfew signal for everyone to go to bed.
TIL about Wisdom, the worlds oldest known wild bird at the age of 71. She laid eggs as recently as Nov 2021 and has had the same mate for the past 11 years. She’s hatched 30-36 chicks in her lifetime.
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NPR.org
Wisdom The Albatross, Now 70, Hatches Yet Another Chick
"Each year that Wisdom returns, we learn more about how long seabirds can live and raise chicks," said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Beth Flint.
TIL about Open Insulin Foundation, a team of biohackers working to make insulin accessible to everyone via an open source small scale manufacturing model. Their work started in 2016 with a $16k crowdfund, and now they are transitioning into a 501(c)(3).
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 06:59AM by adventurepaul
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TIL about John Alen Chau, an Evangelical Missionary from Alabama who tried to travel to Sentinel Island near India and convert a tribe of self isolating and uncontacted natives. He was killed by the natives after barely making contact
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Wikipedia
John Allen Chau
American missionary (1991-2018)
TIL That in the event of a battery fire, Tesla's electric door latches will not open and there are only manual latch overrides for the front doors, not the rear.
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 08:45AM by onymousbosch
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autoevolution
We Need to Talk About Tesla's Doors and Their Hidden Manual Releases
We have been covering a wave of Tesla fires in May that still have no explanation. One of these episodes demonstrated that “the safest cars on Eart...
TIL that half of Niger's 25 million population is aged 14 or below, with only 4% making it to their 60s.
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 04:05AM by erasmers
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TIL Johnny Carson was asked by Mel Brooks to play the gunslinger character in the movie Blazing Saddles which eventually went to Gene Wilder. Of that screenplay, Carson, while on a Mexican vacation, told Brooks "I read it in L.A. and it wasn’t funny, and it’s even less funny in Mexico."
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 02:39PM by kozmonyet
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Mental Floss
11 Facts About <em>Blazing Saddles</em>
3. Mel Brooks's audacious comedy was the first movie to incorporate audible flatulence (though the offending noises were muted when the film aired on television).
TIL the tendency of teens to be night owls and the elderly to be early birds is an evolutionary safety feature, so at least one person is awake at almost all times
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 04:37PM by angelofthewild
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www.science.org
Early bird or night owl? Modern-day sleeping habits may be ancient survival tools
TIL About a mysterious sonar ping discovered near the titanic and that has been recently discovered to be a volcanic reef abundant in life
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 02:50PM by Alexdoh
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Yourweather.co.uk | Meteored
Scientists solve decades-long mystery of Titanic sonar 'ping'
Discover what the strange noise coming from the Titanic is. The mysterious sonar "beep" was discovered in 1998. Now the origin has been found.