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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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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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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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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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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Crime of passion
violent crime which is done because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage
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TIL about Kessler Syndrome, which describes the exponential growth of space debris, as collisions between space junk create smaller and difficult-to-track pieces of debris that contaminate our orbital real estate.
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Space junk: Houston, we have a problem
Humans have left an absolute mess in space but no one wants to clean it up.
TIL that Liza Minelli, daughter of Judy Garland, the actress who played Dorothy in the 1939 MGM film, “Wizard of Oz,” was once married to Jack Haley, Jr., son of Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man in the same film. He was Minnelli’s 2nd husband.
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Liza Minnelli
American actress and singer
TIL Exxon paid less than 4% of the cleanup they promised after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989
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HISTORY
Exxon Valdez crashes, causing one of the worst oil spills in history
March 24, 1989: One of the worst oil spills in U.S. history begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground
TIL: Shia LeBeouf blatantly plagiarized an authors work, never credited him, and never apologized, for his short film HowardCantour.com
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Far Out Magazine
The incredible plagiarism surrounding the work of Shia LaBeouf
Not his own.
TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community.
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American Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine developed by Chinese Americans
TIL: Actor Tony Danza (peak fame in the 80s) was briefly a professional boxer. He went 9-3 with 7 KOs (5 in the 1st round).
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Tony Danza
American actor
TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’
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Mambo No. 5
"Mambo No. 5" is an instrumental mambo and jazz dance song originally composed and recorded by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949 and released the next year.
TIL the UK tradition of Fish and Chips was introduced by Spanish and Portuguese Jewish immigrants in the 16th century. It was created to allow Jews to safely eat fish cooked for Friday night dinner the following day on the sabbath, the day Judaism forbids cooking with fire or electricity.
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Fish and chips
hot dish of fried fish and fried potato