TIL of Columbia, the personification of the United States for over 200 years, and was even the alternate name for the United States. She is the reason for the District of Columbia, British Columbia, etc. She was replaced by Lady Liberty, and was gradually forgotten after WWI.
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Columbia (personification)
historical and poetic name used for the United States of America
TIL The Inquisition never actually ended, is still ongoing, and is now known as "The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith"
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Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
dicastery of the Roman Curia
TIL there are an estimated 950 TRILLION invasive quagga mussels in Lake Michigan.
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Submitted March 28, 2023 at 04:18AM by TheProcrastafarian
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Great Lakes Now
Are invading quagga mussels contributing to healthier beaches? | Great Lakes Now
The aquatic invader is the quagga mussel and there are an estimated 750-950 trillion of them in Lake Michigan. Because they feed on phytoplankton, a major food source for fish, water clarity has increased dramatically since their arrival, according to the…
TIL that the term Gaslighting comes from a 1938 play and a 1944 film, in which an abusive husband Gregory manipulates his wife Paula to make her feel as if she has gone mad. One of the ways he does this is by dimming and brightening the gaslights, all while convincing Paula that its all in her head.
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The World from PRX
Here's where 'gaslighting' got its name
'Gaslighting' has been all over the press lately, mainly in reference to Donald Trump. But the term dates all the way back to the 1930s.
TIL that the Utah state bird is the seagull (Larus californicus). This is because seagulls saved the people of Utah by eating up crickets that were destroying crops in 1848.
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Submitted March 28, 2023 at 06:31AM by FarmerNeedsHeauxs
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TIL about Lillan Bloodworth, who donated blood every 56 days for nearly 50 years. By the time she stopped at age 85, she had donated 23 gallons. (The average person's body contains about 1.5 gallons.)
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Submitted March 28, 2023 at 12:23AM by WouldbeWanderer
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By Age 85, She'd Given 23 Gallons Of Blood: 'Because I Can'
Lillian Bloodworth, now 92, says when she first started to give blood, other donors would read her name tag and ask if that was really her name or if it was a gimmick for the blood bank.
TIL Simeon Stylites lived on top of columns for 37 years. Simeon did this as a form of asceticism because when he lived in a cave people kept making pilgrimages to him and asking him religious questions. Ultimately his column life drew in even bigger crowds who would climb ladders to talk to him.
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Simeon Stylites
Christian ascetic saint
TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God.
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Chinese gods and immortals
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TIL that the creators and writers of John Constantine have reported seeing him in real life. Alan Moore even claimed that Constantine told him "I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any c*nt could do it."
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Submitted March 28, 2023 at 04:29PM by LyraFirehawk
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John Constantine
DC comics superhero
TIL René Auberjonois, who played Odo in Deep Space Nine, is the great-great-great-grand nephew of Napoleon
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René Auberjonois
American actor
TIL that American chicken is not considered safe for European consumption
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The Conversation
Chlorine-washed chicken Q&A: food safety expert explains why US poultry is banned in the EU
Washing chickens in chlorine isn’t actually deemed dangerous – it’s what comes with it that’s the problem.
TIL Earth is the only known place in our solar system where fire occurs, and no known exoplanets have enough oxygen to allow fire to exist.
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Astronomy.com
Does fire exist anywhere else besides on our planet?
Al Conrad discusses the prevalence of fire in the universe beyond Earth.
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TIL in 1971 a Time Dilation experiment had 2 flights w/atomic clocks go around the world to prove Einstein's theories of relativity (time moves slower as you approach the speed of light, and/or when exposed to more gravity). The clocks gained 0.15 microseconds compared to the ground based clock.
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Relativistic Time Dilation Experiment
This video clip summarizes the October 1971 Hafele–Keating Time Dilation Experiment as a demonstration of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity.
To perform this demonstration, physicist Joseph C. Hafele and astronomer Richard E. Keating took four cesium…
To perform this demonstration, physicist Joseph C. Hafele and astronomer Richard E. Keating took four cesium…
TIL that Marry Mallon ('Typhoid Mary') lived in forced quarantine for the last twenty years of her life in an Island just off of New York ('North Brother Island')
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Submitted March 28, 2023 at 09:37PM by AdmiralHempfender
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Mary Mallon
infected houseworker in New York City
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TIL that the G-Spot was named after a German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg. In other words, it's called the Gräfenberg spot
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Regnier de Graaf
Dutch physician (1641-1673)
TIL that of the two 1988 films starring Tom Cruise, one of them (Rain Man) won the Oscar for Best Picture, while the other (Cocktail) won the Razzie for Worst Picture. Cruise remains the only actor to achieve both distinctions in the same year.
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Cocktail (1988 film)
Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roger Donaldson from a screenplay by Heywood Gould, based on Gould's book of the same name. The film tells the story of a young New York City business student, Brian Flanagan, who takes up…
TIL that the US, Canada, and Cuba have the lowest burden of food borne illness on the planet.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010
Illness and death from diseases caused by contaminated food are a constant threat to public health and a significant impediment to socio-economic development worldwide. To measure the global and regional burden of foodborne disease (FBD), the World Health…
TIL Benzodiazepines were originally marketed in the 1960s for the relief of anxiety, stress and insomnia and became very popular with women of the time. The gendered cultural meanings of Valium, a well-known benzodiazepine, was cemented in the 1966 Rolling Stones’ song “Mother’s Little Helper”.
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Mother’s little helper? Contrasting accounts of benzodiazepine and methadone use among drug-dependent parents in the UK
To explore the ways in which opioid-dependent parents accounted for their use of opioids and benzodiazepines during and after pregnancy.Longitudinal qualitative interviews [n = 45] with 19 opioid-dependent adults recruited in Scotland, ...
TIL about the Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves, an all women crime syndicate in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that specialized in shoplifting and pretending to be maids and robbing the wealthy families who hired them.
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Submitted March 28, 2023 at 10:02PM by Professor_Hillbilly
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Forty Elephants
19th- and 20th-century gang of female shoplifters in the UK
TIL there's a full-scale replica of the Greek Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Submitted March 29, 2023 at 01:54AM by 500owls
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Artsy
Why Is There a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee? | Artsy
There is also a 42-foot-tall gold-coated sculpture of Athena inside.
TIL that the fast food chain Popeyes isn't named after the cartoon character, but Gene Hackman's character from The French Connection.
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Fox News
How did Popeyes get its name? (And no, it wasn't named after Popeye the Sailor)
There's an official explanation for t he chain's name. And it has nothing to do with chicken.