TIL Alpha Centauri, the nearest solar system, is 4.4 lights years away or about 40 trillion km's. It would take roughly 18,000 years to reach it with our current technology.
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Space.com
Alpha Centauri: Closest star to Earth
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri and its two Alpha Centauri companions.
TIL in 2010, Washington D.C. held a mock election and invited hackers to test its online voting system. They managed to elect Master Control Program from "Tron" as mayor, Skynet from "Terminator" to Congress, and Bender from "Futurama" to the school board. It took D.C. officials two days to notice.
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The Globe and Mail
Rise of e-voting is inevitable, as is risk of hacking
As more municipalities experiment with electronic balloting, cybersecurity experts warn of the inherent risks
TIL nine women, called "The 9 Nanas," kept a decades-long secret that even their husbands knew nothing about. For 30 years, they gathered at 4 a.m. to bake cakes, send care packages to people, anonymously pay bills and buy clothes for those in need.
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 01:31AM by Canes-Venaticii
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HuffPost
It Ain't Over: The Business 9 Women Kept A Secret For Three Decades
The Business 9 Women Kept A Secret For Three Decades
Til that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded her Christmas hit 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree'
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 12:00AM by GhostofHmsVictory
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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had sold over 25…
TIL The F-35 cost the US $397 Billion Dollars vs $26 billion in today's cost for the entire atomic bomb project
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 04:35AM by suckatgrammer
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Nextgov.com
The A-Bomb and the F-35 Debacle
The aircraft will cost 15 times atomic bomb development, after adjusting for inflation.
TIL of Malthusians. They believe a finite earth can’t sustain mankind’s indefinite expansion unless checked by law, war, famine, or natural disaster
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 05:38AM by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
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Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
TIL Van Halen would contractually obligate venues to place a bowl of M&M's in their dressing rooms, and, in a separate part of the contract, require that all the brown M&M's were to be removed. This was a test to see if the full contracts were read and observed, with particular emphasis on safety.
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Van Halen
American heavy metal band
TIL the Hawaiian flag has a Union Jack on it because when King Kamehameha received one as a gift from British traders, he liked it so much that he just stole the design to use as his own.
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 04:48AM by FancyStegosaurus
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Hawaii Magazine
What's the Story Behind Hawaii's Flag? - Hawaii Magazine
You ask. We answer.Pat Duffus of Clearwater, Florida writes: What is the story behind the Hawaiian flag? When I see it I am reminded more of Britain than
TIL people who received bionic eye implants lost vision after the company who created them went bust.
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 06:38AM by SatsumaHermen
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IEEE Spectrum
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.
TIL A family owned company that's been recreating discontinued candies have brought Creme Savers back!
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Iconic Candy
Where to Find Creme Savers - Iconic Candy
After being taken off shelves more than a decade, Creme Savers candy is officially making a comeback, with much excitement from those who are familiar with this nostalgic candy. Iconic Candy LLC, a candy company that specializes in reviving previously discontinued…
TIL that Karl Marx had an illegitimate son with his housemaid that he never acknowledged, and Marx's friend Engels agreed to take on paternity for the boy instead.
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OpIndia
Karl Marx had impregnated his maid and didn’t own up the child
A well-kept secret from the dark side of Karl Marx's life which he didn't want you to know | OpIndia News
TIL Mexico is the top consumer of eggs in the world surpassing Japan, with 409 eggs per person in 2021.
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WATTPoultry.com
World per capita egg consumption record broken by Mexico, again
While gathering data for Latin American production and consumption of chicken and eggs in 2021, I admit I was surprised by the annual per capita egg consumption of Mexico reported by the National Poultry Producers association – 409 eggs per person!
TIL there’s a 1400 sq mile island off the coast of Yemen that’s described as “the most alien place on earth,” and 37% of its plant species are endemic.
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 07:17AM by W3bneck
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Socotra
main island of Socotra Archipelago in the Guardafui Channel
TIL about Robert Rayford, the earliest known HIV/AIDS victim in the US. He died on May 15, 1969
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 12:44AM by demetrios3
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Robert Rayford
American teenager who died in 1969, thought to be the first death from AIDS in North America
TIL Matthew Weiner got his job on the The Sopranos because David Chase liked a spec noscript Weiner wrote, that noscript would go on to be the pilot for Mad Men.
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 12:47PM by jamescookenotthatone
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Matthew Weiner
American screenwriter
[TIL] Early in his career, Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, had a habit of getting into fights. He once had a shootout with a competitor, Matt Stewart. After Stewart shot and killed one of Sanders' employees, Stewart was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders' competition.
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Entrepreneur
7 Things You Didn't Know About the Real Colonel Sanders
As KFC's ad campaign brings the Colonel back from the dead, it ignores some of Sanders' complexities that made him so interesting.
TIL that approximately 1,000 copies of the Ultimate Toy Box edition of the movie Toy Story 2 were shipped with a processing error that included a scene from an R-rated film 'High Fidelity', which featured the usage of the word "F**k" several times.
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Toy Story 2
1999 American animated film
TIL Most airports in the U.S. have incinerators that burn most of their waste and garbage. This includes burning roadkill, such as deer, that die on airport property.
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 05:43PM by iEatSwampAss
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Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd
Airport Incinerators | Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd
The global leaders in airport incinerators. For waste management solutions designed specifically with your needs in mind choose Addfield.
TIL that in Argentina, where the Parana river forms its delta, there is a perfect shaped circular island (with a diameter of 120 meters), which can float freely around its axis, thus changing frequently its position
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 07:04PM by Scientific_Racer57
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Earthly Mission
This Circular Island in Argentina Not Only Floats, But Also Rotates Constantly
And we don't really know why.
TIL about the small town of Swastika, Ontario. During WW2, the provincial government tried to change the town's name. The town's residents rejected this, stating "To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first".
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Submitted December 08, 2022 at 07:00PM by flopsychops
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Swastika, Ontario
town in Ontario, Canada
TIL Blue eyes do not contain blue pigments. The color comes from structural color, there are small particles suspended within the fibrovasular structure of the stroma that cause blue light to scatter. This is an example of the Tyndall effect.
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Tyndall effect
light scattering by particles in a colloid