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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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 11:16PM by helloitscrash
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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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Submitted November 11, 2022 at 08:53PM by MightGuy420x
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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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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 01:26AM by gunring012
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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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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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Wikipedia
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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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 05:46AM by sickwickednasty1
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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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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.
TIL Henry Winkler (The Fonz) turned down the role of Danny Zuko in the movie Grease, hoping not to be typecast. The role went to John Travolta, who had played the character Doody in the stage production of Grease.
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 04:05PM by OccludedFug
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Wikipedia
Grease (film)
1978 romantic musical film directed by Randal Kleiser
TIL the seemingly out of place lyric in Paul Simon's 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes' about 'she makes the sign of the teaspoon, he makes the sign of the wave' is actually a reference to South African taxi hand signals, indicating going to a rich district and a poor district, respectively.
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 06:19PM by Handsome_McAwesome
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TIL the Miami zombie attack had no actual evidence of bath salt use despite it still being brought up in most conversations bath salts are mentioned in
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 07:23PM by Wutsalane
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Cbsnews
Medical Examiner: Causeway Cannibal Not High On Bath Salts
Rudy Eugene, the Causeway Cannibal who ate the face off a homeless man he attacked along the MacArthur Causeway, was apparently not high on bath salts or any other exotic street drug at the time of the attack, according to a report released Wednesday by…
TIL of the Diderot Effect, where acquiring a new thing leads you to want to upgrade and acquire other things.
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 08:03PM by deepsea333
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Thin. Rich. Happy.
The Diderot Effect & Why Buying New Things (Might) Make You Sad. - Thin. Rich. Happy.
There is a curious thing called the Diderot Effect, which may explain why we can buy loads of stuff and still feel a bit, well....sad.
TIL That the Congo River is the deepest in the world at 729ft (220m) and it’s basin is half the size of the US. (1.5mil sq miles or 4mil sq km.)
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 06:31PM by WLThrasher
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Condé Nast Traveler
The Odd Thing About the World's Deepest River
Africa's Congo River claims many noscripts, including being home to the highest number of unique species in the world.
Today I learned that Princess Diana’s Boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed was the first cousin of the late Washington Post Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He was the romantic partner of Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris, France
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Submitted November 12, 2022 at 06:39PM by zack_pizazz
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