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TIL Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote the bass lines for Bust a Move and You Oughta Know and has written songs with Jewel, Warren Zevon, Jane's Addiction, Slash, Alice Cooper, Mars Volta, Patti Smith and Tom Waits
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Submitted December 15, 2022 at 07:51PM by FoFoAndFo
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Flea (musician)
American bassist
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TIL in 1997, Amy Tobey, an employee in charge of ball-park music at Fenway Park, played ‘Sweet Caroline’ during a Boston Red Sox game because someone she knew just had a baby named Caroline. It caught on with fans, and now many teams from different sports leagues play the song during home games.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 01:29AM by big_macaroons
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Where it began – The origin of Sweet Caroline in sport and why it sounds so good
Neil Diamond’s 1969 hit has become an England anthem, but where did its popularity start?
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TIL in a 2005 Empire article, Henry Cavill was dubbed “the unluckiest man in Hollywood” after losing roles in Bond and Harry Potter franchises.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 02:51AM by Ajthaking31
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Fact-O-Meter: Did You Know? Henry Cavill Was Once Called The ‘Unluckiest Man In Hollywood’!
Henry Cavill is the heartthrob of millions of people in the world today. But the actor has had his shares of setbacks and rejections....
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TIL that famed aviator, Charles Lindbergh, once recieved a Nazi medal, and that when speaking of him, Roosevelt remarked that "if I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi."
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 04:18AM by lenny_the_pope
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Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
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TIL: 2nd POTUS Adams never owned a slave and declined on principle to use slave labor
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 04:17AM by nomnomnomnomRABIES
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John Adams
president of the United States from 1797 to 1801
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TIL Ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker has an "Ejectee Club" for pilots who have used one of their ejection seats to avoid injury or death, complete with a special tie.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 03:53AM by oneblackened
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TIL for 50+ years, Australian children in the outback attended school via shortwave radio and sent homework via air mail due to the distance between homes. "Schools of the Air" were many children's first social experience outside their families; its quality equaled or surpassed traditional schools'.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 11:35AM by lemontreelemur
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School of the Air
generic term for correspondence schools
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TIL The Silver Snoopy award is given out by NASA to those with achievements in safety or aided in mission success. Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz was a big fan of the space program and did the art for free.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 02:03PM by jamescookenotthatone
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Silver Snoopy award
NASA Award for safety
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TIL the younger sister of the famous writer Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) was beheaded on 16.12.1943 in Berlin for antiwar and antinazi words.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 02:14PM by razdvatri4
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TIL that Alf ended with Alf kidnapped by the US government to be dissected. Originally a season finale, Alf's fate was sealed with the cancellation of the series.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 07:20PM by gnulynnux
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ALF (TV series)
American sitcom
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TIL that Aunt Bethany, from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, is played by the famous actress Mae Questel. Mae is best known for voicing Betty Boop, Minnie Mouse, and Olive Oyl.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 06:47PM by hzleyed-fbomb
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Mae Questel
actress (1908-1998)
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TIL Richard M. Daley authorized the midnight bulldozing of Meigs Field, a small, downtown, lakefront airport in Chicago. This stranded 16 planes on the ground including several Fire Department helicopters. The FAA fined the city $33,000 for not giving 30 days notice ahead of an airport closure.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 07:06PM by trifletruffles
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Richard M. Daley
American politician
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TIL that the popularity of Tom Yum and other Thai dishes led to the employment of 120,000 people in Malaysia
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 06:30PM by doyouhavetono
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Tom yum
hot and sour Thai soup
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TIL In 1981, two walkways in a Hyatt Regency hotel collapsed during a party, killing 114 and injuring 216.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 07:01PM by misterdonut11331
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Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
1981 structural collapse in Kansas City, Missouri
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TIL during a tour of Germany in 1958, Jewish Comedian Groucho Marx climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charleston.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 10:29PM by Grumplogic
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Groucho Marx
American comedian (1890–1977)
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TIL that in 1979 tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis lost 16 times in a row to Jimmy Connors. He then won a game and said, "Let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row."
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 10:51PM by anogre8me
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Vitas Gerulaitis: The Man Who Was More Than A Quote
Forty years on from Gerulaitis' famous quip after snapping a 16-match losing streak against Connors, ATPTour.com pays tribute to the legacy of the 'Lithuanian Lion' Vitas Gerulaitis.
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TIL that the Cure's Robert Smith played lead guitar for Siouxsie and the Banshees on their '79 tour when they lost their guitarist. Siouxsie bassist Steven Severin believes Robert Smith learned how to be a better frontman by watching Siouxsie perform during this time.
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Submitted December 16, 2022 at 09:25PM by malloryduncan
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Robert Smith (musician)
English singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
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TIL about Tommy Manville, the heir to the Johns-Manville fortune. The terms of his family trust granted him $250,000 "when he married." As a result he got married 13 times, giving the women a cut of the proceeds before quickly divorcing them.
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Submitted December 17, 2022 at 01:57AM by theHAREST
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Tommy Manville
American socialite
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TIL that van Gogh's rendering of the stars in Café Terrace at Night is so precise that the painting can be dated within a day or two of its creation.
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Submitted December 17, 2022 at 05:08AM by doc17
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Café Terrace at Night
painting by Vincent van Gogh
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TIL Squirrels can survive a fall from any height, at least hypothetically They’re small, they’re fluffy and they’re really good at not getting hurt when falling off of tall objects Squirrels.
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Submitted December 17, 2022 at 08:45AM by sayhaight
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Squirrels can survive a fall from any height, at least hypothetically
Squirrels, in theory, can survive a fall from an object of any height due to two factors: their size and their mass. A force (such as the force of gravity) is calculated by multiplying mass and
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TIL Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) received an invitation in 2012 to the 50th reunion for Harvard’s 1962 undergraduate class while at ADX Florence prison. In his RSVP, he listed his occupation as ‘prisoner’.
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Submitted December 17, 2022 at 09:38AM by systemization
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Unabomber can't make Harvard reunion, sends update
The 50th reunion for Harvard's University's undergraduate class of 1962 took a strange turn when Ted Kaczynski, the year's most infamous graduate, sent in a status update that was published in the alumni book.
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