TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.
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Submitted November 29, 2022 at 07:14AM by AppalachianMarxist
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TIL about the TwitterPeek, a Twitter-only mobile device introduced in 2009 that allowed users to send and receive tweets...and nothing else
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Peek (mobile Internet device)
former mobile technology company
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TIL Cocaine Bear is the first movie release starring Ray Liotta after his death and is inspired by the true story of an American black bear that ingested a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985.
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Cocaine Bear
upcoming film directed by Elizabeth Banks
TIL one of the paintings used as set dressing for the home in the film Stuart Little was a long lost 1920s painting by Róbert Berény, Sleeping Lady with Black Vase. The painting wasn’t identified for a decade after the films release, when an art historian was watching the film with his daughter.
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Stuart Little (film)
1999 film directed by Rob Minkoff
TIL Robert W. Service sent his poems to his father to be printed and given as gifts to friends. Service received back an offer of royalties for publication, the printers had loved the poems, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses was an immediate success and Service quit his bank job the next year.
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Robert W. Service
Canadian poet and writer (1874-1958)
TIL That M*A*S*H episode ''Lend A Hand'' (Season 8, Episode 20) starred not only the main character Alan Alda, but also his father Robert Alda and his brother Anthony Alda with the three of them sharing the screen at the same time.
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Me-TV
The M*A*S*H episode ''Lend A Hand'' was an Alda family affair
Alan Alda's father and brother lent a hand to Hawkeye in season eight.
TIL Volcanos in Hawaii can produce hair-like strands of glass called "Pele's Hair."
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Geology
Pele's Hair and Pele's Tears - Strange lavas from Hawaii
Pele's hair is one of the most unique types of lava. It looks almost exactly like coarse, golden-brown human hair, but according to Hawaiian legend, it is the hair of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes.
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TIL that the last round of Fifa World Cup Group Stage Matches are played simultaneously because of the Disgrace of Gijón. This is to avoid match fixing.
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Submitted November 29, 2022 at 03:07PM by Upper_Light_5773
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Disgrace of Gijón
The "Disgrace of Gijón" is the name given to a 1982 FIFA World Cup football match played between West Germany and Austria at the El Molinón stadium in Gijón, Spain, on 25 June 1982. The match was the last game of the first-round Group 2, with Algeria and…
TIL that two people were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research and (conflicting) discoveries on the electron. J.J.Thompson in 1906 for discovering it's a particle and HIS SON J.P.Thompson in 1937 for proving that it's a wave.
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Particles and waves
Quantum mechanics tutorial
TIL Tom Seaver was named on 425 out of 430 ballots for the Baseball Hall of Fame. 3 were blank as a protest against Pete Rose being ineligible. One was sent by a writer recovering from surgery who did not notice Seaver's name and one never voted for any player in their first year of eligibility.
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Tom Seaver
American baseball player
TIL Although over 90 percent of people have voiced support for organ donation, just half the population has registered to be an organ donor.
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TIL of William Sidis who was raised by his father, a psychologist, to prove that extreme intelligence can be learned. He entered Havard a 11, spoke 25 languages including his own and published in various different topics. He might have been the smartest person to have ever lived.
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William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
TIL Annie of Annie's Mac and Cheese fame is also the woman behind Smartfood Popcorn, which originally used the same powdered cheese recipe.
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Submitted November 29, 2022 at 07:45PM by grepto
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SFGATE
I found Annie from Annie's Mac and Cheese. Here's her story.
Annie Withey is far more interested in tending to her farm than running a business.
TIL the guy who played Nick the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life," Sheldon Leonard, became one of the most successful TV producers in history, having created the Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke, among many others. As a tribute, the two main characters on "Big Bang Theory" were named after him.
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Sheldon Leonard
American actor, producer, director, and writer (1907–1997)
TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.
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TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S....
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TIL that Vernors, the oldest ginger soda in the U.S., is aged in wooden barrels for 3 years and is considered medicine by many Michigan natives.
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Submitted November 29, 2022 at 10:56PM by GoldenAreolas
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Why Detroiters are obsessed with the cure-all ginger ale Vernors
If you grew up in Southeast Michigan, regardless of the problem, Vernors was the solution.
TIL that, to prove that a jellyfish caused Irukandji syndrome, a scientist stung himself, his son, and a lifeguard with the jellyfish.
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Irukandji syndrome
Medical condition
TIL that 73.9% of North Americans are overweight
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Submitted November 30, 2022 at 12:31AM by chaoswoman21
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Human body weight
person's mass or weight
TIL love is as strong as illegal drugs. When you fall in love the same part of your brain is stimulated as when you take mind-altering substances like cocaine.
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Submitted November 30, 2022 at 02:20AM by Canes-Venaticii
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the Guardian
Love really is like a drug
Love (or maybe lust) not only blocks pain, it also seems to stimulate the same parts of the brain as cocaine
TIL that Dolly Parton considered suicide in the 1980s. Her dog "Popeye" jumped on her and distracted her from following through.
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Submitted November 30, 2022 at 03:42AM by FlashyBehind
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TODAY.com
How Dolly Parton believes God sent her a sign as she contemplated suicide
“I was having some serious conversations with God during that time,” she said. “I just said, ‘You’re going to have to get me some answers or I’m getting out of here.’”
TIL the patent for Insulin, a life saving medication for people with diabetes, was sold for only $1 on January 23, 1923 by Frederick Banting saying “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.”
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Diabetes UK
100 years of insulin
Who discovered insulin?