TIL The slipping on a banana peel gag was originated using the now extinct Big Mike banana, whose peel was actually slippery
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The Extinct Slippery Banana - Sliced Coconut
For a long time slipping on a banana peel has been a slapstick staple. As a kid I found this hilarious. The slipping on the banana peel, not the fact that other people thought it was funny. Although now that I write it, I think it is funny how often someone used…
TIL: About a company that is genetically engineering poplar trees (already fast-growing, asexually spreading trees) to reduce their energy needs by adding metabolic genes from pumpkins and algae. The engineered trees grow 1.5x than controls. They've planted 600 trees in Oregon and plan to do more.
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A Startup Is Engineering Trees to Grow Faster and Capture More Carbon
The team selected genes from pumpkin and green algae that would enable the poplars to have lower photorespiration rates.
TIL The ~1mm large animal known as Trichoplax can regenerate from just a handfull of cells and if its chopped up, the individual pieces will try to find each other and join back together.
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Trichoplax
genus of Placozoa
TIL Ants alone comprise about 20% of the entire animal biomass on land, totalling around 20 quadrillion. They outweigh all mammals and birds on Earth, combined.
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Earth's 20 Quadrillion Ants Outweigh All Wild Birds and Mammals, Combined
Estimating ant numbers and mass provides an important baseline from which to monitor ant populations amid worrying environmental changes.
TIL Archduchess Mathilda of Austria died after setting her dress on fire while trying to hide a cigarette from her father, who had forbidden her from smoking.
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Archduchess Mathilda of Austria
Archduchess Mathilde Marie Adelgunde Alexandra of Austria (25 January 1849 – 6 June 1867) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as the daughter of Archduke Albert, Duke of Teschen. She was intended to become the Queen of Italy as the wife of Umberto…
TIL the band ABBA gave the rights to its first Spanish-language song "Chiquitita" (Little Girl) to UNICEF and the proceeds from the Latin American hit are used to fund schools for girls in the poorest regions of Guatemala.
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Abba's Chiquitita: Guatemala school uses Unicef funds
Abba gave the copyright of hit song Chiquitita to Unicef - who use the profits to fund education.
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TIL Chemical conversation cues are the main ways cats communicate with others. Cats have scent glands on paws, cheeks, lips, forehead, tail, flanks, and around rectum. Cats deposit the pheromones and oils from these scent glands signalling different meanings.
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Cat Language: How Cats Communicate With Each Other
TIL Switzerland has a merchant marine force. Switzerland is connected to the ocean via the Rhine and as of 2010 there are 37 ships flying the Swiss Flag.
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Merchant Marine of Switzerland
merchant navy of Switzerland
TIL the US Navy developed an e-reader with no cellular or wifi connectivity preloaded with 300 books called NeRD.
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Meet the ‘NeRD,’ the Navy’s new e-reader
The U.S. Navy has announced the "NeRD," a customized e-reader for its sailors.
TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history
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TIL racing icon Carroll Shelby helped found the Chili’s restaurant chain. After Shelby held what is widely recognized as the first organized chili cook-off in 1967, his son-in-law approached him with a proposal for a chili-themed restaurant. Shelby provided funding and curated the menu and design.
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Did You Know Racing Legend Carroll Shelby Helped Found Chili's?
Fast and Casual
TIL For their California Adventure expansion, Disneyland planned a ride themed as a thrilling limo drive evading paparazzi. The experience had to be completely redesigned in the wake of Princess Diana's death, and the final product was closed after less than a year.
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Superstar Limo
Short-lived dark ride that was located in Disney California Adventure
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TIL when endangered animals are seized, the location the animal came from can be determined by the parasites the animal has. Different regions of the world have different parasites. Parasites in animals can identify their source. This helps secure convictions for poachers.
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TIL When General Patrick Cleburne passed St. John's Episcopal Church, he commented that "it would be worth dying to be buried in a place so beautiful." Two days later he was killed in battle, and his body was laid to rest in the churchyard of St. John's Episcopal Church.
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Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne | Tennessee Encyclopedia
Major general in the Army of Tennessee, Patrick R. Cleburne […]
TIL of Deli Mike, a Turkish Airlines Airbus A340 notable for her temperamental behavior. Known for “pranking” passengers and crew, she would turn lights on and off and refuse to retract the landing gear seemingly at random. One story went that staff fixed a faulty instrument panel by talking to her.
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Deli Mike
airbus A340 aircraft with strange unreliability
TIL that famed herpetologist Robert Merten documented his death by twig snake bite in his journal, which took 18 days to prove fatal. He wrote near the end that it was "the only appropriate demise for a herpetologist".
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Robert Mertens
German zoologist
TIL in the 2003 SpongeBob episode "Mid-Life Crustacean", Mr. Krabs is invited to join a panty raid with SpongeBob and Patrick. The episode was removed from streaming services in 2018 by Nickelodeon, Paramount+, and Amazon.
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Mid-Life Crustacean
"Mid-Life Crustacean" is the second half of the 15th episode of the third season and the 55th overall episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. The episode premiered on Nickelodeon on January 24, 2003. It is no longer rerunning…
TIL the 1970 song “In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry was used in a 1990s UK advertisement for a campaign against drunk-driving, because of the lyric “have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.” The ad showed a group of drinkers at a rural pub getting killed when their car crashes.
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In the Summertime
"In the Summertime", released in 1970, is the debut single by British rock band Mungo Jerry. It reached number one in charts around the world, including seven weeks on the UK Singles Chart, two weeks on one of the Canadian charts, and number three on the…
TIL that to get the pear or apple into a bottle of brandy, they place the empty bottles over the budding fruit at the start of the season, and allow it to grow into the bottle all summer.
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Submitted January 11, 2023 at 02:37AM by Great-Tical
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It's a pear in a bottle, but how'd it get there?
At Peach Street Distillers, they have over 20 different kinds of spirits and one very special brandy. It has a pear in the bottle.
TIL Public toilet seats are U-shaped because the American Standard National Plumbing Code writes that they must have a gap at the front.
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Why Is There a Gap at the Front of Public Toilet Seats?
Open-front public toilet seats are U-shaped, while those in private residences are O-shaped. What gives?
TIL aquarium employees told the rap group Salt-N-Pepa that when they put their hit song "Push It" on, the sharks would start mating
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How we made Salt-N-Pepa's Push It
‘An aquarium told us that when they put the song on, the sharks started mating’