TIL On average, the United States has only eight public toilets per 100,000 people
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Which Cities Have The Most and Fewest Public Toilets? | QS Supplies
Whether out shopping, or exploring a new city, we’re all going to need to use the toilet at some point during the day. But which cities across the UK and the US have the most and least public toilets? @QSSupplies have created the Public Toilet Index to find…
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TIL the hottest man-made temperature was 7.2 trillion degrees Farenheit, 250,000 times hotter than the sun
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Stuff
The hottest man made temperature ever has just been created | Stuff
Smashing atoms together can be used for evil, but some scientists are in it for that Guinness World Record
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TIL that bumper car smell is actually ozone that is produced by the electrical discharges.
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USA TODAY
Bumper cars: A crash course on the classic amusement park ride
Bumper cars have been essential attractions from the earliest days of amusement parks to the present.
TIL The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.
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Aardwolf
The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is an insectivorous species of hyena, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called the maanhaar-jackal (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena and civet…
TIL that Switzerland has legally mandated daily 'quiet hours' and the whole day of Sunday is considered 'quiet time.' You can be cited for doing things like cutting your grass on Sunday.
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Submitted March 23, 2023 at 02:45PM by Infernalism
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Night-time noise restrictions in Switzerland | Homegate.ch
There are few things more irritating than being woken by noisy neighbours. But how much do you actually have to put up with.
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TIL Hippocrates believed that hair was hollow and its purpose was storing semen, which was created in the brain. As men went through puberty the semen would flow into the hair all over their bodies. Women lacked body hair but had long head hair to more readily absorb semen during intercourse.
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TIL that Po Boy Sandwiches originated in New Orleans, and are derived from fried oyster sandwiches, called Oyster Loaves. A wide selection of fillings include roast beef, ham, shrimp, sausage, french fries and fried chicken. A "dressed" po' boy has shredded lettuce, tomato, pickles, and mayo.
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Submitted March 23, 2023 at 03:19PM by jdward01
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Po' boy
A po' boy almost always consists of meat, which is usually roast beef or fried seafood, often shrimp, crawfish, fish, oysters or crab. The meat is served on New Orleans French bread, known for its crisp crust and fluffy center.
TIL about Ahimsa silk (or peace silk) which uses a nonviolent methods to breed and harvest silk worms where the pupa is allowed to hatch and the leftover cocoon is used.
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Submitted March 23, 2023 at 04:08PM by QuicklyThisWay
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Ahimsa silk
type of silk which is obtained without killing silk worms
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TIL Jethro Tull's album Thick as a Brick was created as satire, a jab at the 10+ minute songs from prog rock bands at the time. It's now considered one of the best prog-rock albums of all time.
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The Story Behind The Song: Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull
At a critical and commercial peak after Aqualung, Tull frontman Ian Anderson created an album that split one epic track over two sides - parodying prog and rock poetry
TIL about the Essex, an American whaling ship that was sunk by a sperm whale in 1820. The survivors made for land off the South American coast. Seven crew members were cannibalized before eight survivors were rescued. The tragedy gained international attention, inspiring the novel, Moby Dick.
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Essex (whaleship)
American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts
TIL that the Hemlock Water Dropwort is the most poisonous plant in the UK. Its poison constricts the muscles, causing death by asphyxia, which also causes a rictus like death grin. Use of this plant in Phoenician Sardinia for executions is the origin of the term "Sardonic Grin".
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Wild Food UK
Hemlock Water Dropwort, Oenanthe crocata
How to identify Hemlock Water Dropwort, Oenanthe crocata
TIL cockroaches can survive radiation because their cells don't divide constantly like human's. "Cells are most sensitive to radiation when they are dividing" and a cockroach molts at most once a week.
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Submitted March 23, 2023 at 08:17PM by wrxie
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TIL baby manta rays are born like little burritos, with their fins wrapped around their bodies.
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TIL Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States and the face of the US $100 bill, was the first person to write about tofu in English.
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Submitted March 23, 2023 at 11:21PM by tossinthisshit1
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Real Time Communications World
Benjamin Franklin on Food - Real Time Communications World
Benjamin Franklin maintained a lifelong fascination with what he ate and was not one to miss out on the pleasures associated with eating.
TIL the ‘70s fascination with truckers as anti-government modern cowboys started when an advertising executive invented C.W. McCall, a folksy trucker character, for a bread ad. He recorded country music using McCall as a stage name, and his #1 hit, “Convoy,” spawned a movie by the same name.
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The Drive
The 1970s Trucking Craze Can Be Traced Back to a Regional TV Commercial for Bread
Before Smokey and the Bandit, there was C.W. and Mavis.
TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.
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Nicki Minaj pays $450K to Tracy Chapman over copyright lawsuit
Chapman sued Minaj in October 2018 for sampling her 1988 song "Baby Can I Hold You."
TIL Werner Klemperer who played German Colonel Klink on the TV show Hogan’s Heroes had Jewish ancestry and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He said he would only take the role if the Nazi always looked like a fool.
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Submitted March 24, 2023 at 04:49AM by triviafrenzy
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Werner Klemperer
German-American actor and musician
TIL: James Blunt gave Weird Al Yankovic permission to parody his single "You're Beautiful." But after Yankovic recorded "You're Pitiful," Blunt's record label refused to let it be commercially released. Yankovic didn't include it on his album. Instead, he released it as a free digital download.
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You're Pitiful
"You're Pitiful" is a parody of the James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" written and recorded by American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. It was released exclusively online on June 7, 2006. In it, Yankovic chides a 42-year-old man who lives a pitiful…
TIL that even though Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had married and divorced TWICE, she still considered him the love of his life. He must of felt the same way because days before his death he sent her a letter asking for a reconciliation. 24 years later she was buried with the letter.
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Richard Burton's Love Letters to Elizabeth Taylor Unveiled in July Issue of "Vanity Fair"
Love Letters between Hollywood Icons Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Offer New Insight into Their 20-Year Tumultuous Relationship.
TIL IBM made the punch card systems the Nazi’s used to catalog people who were sent to the camps. Anyone who had a number tattoo was most likely assigned it from an IBM punch card system.
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Submitted March 24, 2023 at 04:12AM by golamas1999
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IBM and the Holocaust
book by investigative journalist Edwin Black
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TIL that in Uruguay, up until 2017, if you caught your spouse in bed with someone else, it was within your rights to beat or kill either of them
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Submitted March 24, 2023 at 07:17AM by t0rche
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Crime of passion
violent crime which is done because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage
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