TIL Early drones were developed during the First World War. These radio controlled planes were primarily for target practice but by 1942 a drone with a built in TV camera was capable of delivering a torpedo to a ship 20 miles from the controller.
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Submitted March 29, 2023 at 02:05PM by jamescookenotthatone
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History of unmanned aerial vehicles
aspect of history
TIL: In golf, if your ball lands near an animal with large teeth or venomous fangs, you're allowed to claim "free relief" and drop a new ball within one club's length of where the original ball landed.
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Submitted March 29, 2023 at 07:38PM by OvidPerl
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Golf
Rules you can use: What to do if wild animals attack your golf ball
What happens if a wild animal moves your ball during a round? Here's all you need to know about the rules regarding animals on the course.
TIL: The outflow from Amazon River could fill 83 Olympic sized swimming pools per second.
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Submitted March 29, 2023 at 04:27PM by the_ballmer_peak
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List of rivers by discharge
Wikimedia list article
TIL Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony was initially his tribute to Napoleon, whom he admired. But when Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804, Beethoven angrily declared that Napoleon had become a tyrant, and he erased Bonaparte's name from the score’s noscript page.
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Submitted March 29, 2023 at 09:27PM by GeoJono
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TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
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Submitted March 29, 2023 at 11:48PM by RedditPrat
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Mattiedna Johnson
african American nurse and laboratory technician
TIL why the pool tables in Michael Jackson's Beat It video have no pockets. It's because the tables shown are used for a pocketless game called carom billiards.
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Submitted March 29, 2023 at 08:00PM by Sandstorm400
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Michael Jackson Official Site
What Details Do You Notice In The ‘Beat It’ Short Film In 4K?
Did you ever realize that the pool tables in “Beat It” are missing pockets? That’s because tables shown are for a different type of cue sport, a pocketless game called carom billiards. What other details in the 4K short film can you notice? Watch now: ht…
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TIL about Def Jam Rapstar, a 2010 rap karaoke game that caused its developers to be sued for 8 million dollars because it did not get the rights to the songs in the game.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 12:15AM by temporarysecretary17
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Def Jam Rapstar developers sued over disputed song rights
The developers responsible for 2010 music noscript Def Jam Rapstar are being sued by record label EMI for allegedly failin…
TIL that there is an art installation in Burlington, Vermont that is called the world's tallest filing cabinet. It's name is "File Under So. Co., Waiting for". It was built in 2002 in response to years of delays building the Interstate 189 bypass into downtown Burlington
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 01:34AM by IAmDavidGurney
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TIL about the Davy Crockett - a tripod mounted gun developed by the US during the Cold War. It fired a tactical nuclear warhead with a range of up to 4 miles and a yield that caused fatal radiation within a radius of a quarter of mile
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Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
nuclear-armed recoilless gun of American origin
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TIL In 2012, a solar Coronal Mass Ejection that might have taken the world 4 to 10 years to recover from missed Earth by about 9 days
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July 2012 solar storm
unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection
TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 04:19AM by krisalyssa
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Tularemia
primary bacterial infectious disease that has material basis in Francisella tularensis, which is transmitted by dog tick bite (Dermacentor variabilis), transmitted by deer flies (Chrysops sp) or transmitted by contact with infected animal tissues.
TIL that just a few days after surviving the sinking of the Titanic, actress Dorothy Gibson starred in a silent motion picture short about the disaster called "Saved from the Titanic". Gibson even wore the same clothes she wore the night of the sinking to add to the films authenticity.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 03:51AM by PresLyndonBJohnson36
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Saved from the Titanic
1912 film
TIL Margaret Knight (1838-1914) invented a machine to mass produce flat-bottomed paper bags and, after winning a lawsuit against a fraudster who copied her design, the patent was issued in 1871. Her first invention was when she was 12 years old (and began working in a factory). She had 87 patents.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 06:27AM by WonderWmn212
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National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Pneumatic Sheet-Feed Apparatus
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet-feed apparatus which was granted patent number 109224. The patent details a sheet feeder using two suction tubes to lift and carry each sheet from the paper bank to the cylinder.
TIL that Joe Jackson would hit his kids with belts, cords of electric kettles or anything he could reach. Michael Jackson recalled that he was too fast for his father to catch most of the time, but when he did "...it was bad. He would throw you and hit you as hard as he can"
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 07:00AM by lightblue_sky
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Yahoo Entertainment
Michael Jackson was 'chemically castrated' by his late dad, claims singer's ex doctor
Michael Jackson was chemically castrated as a child by his recently deceased father Joe Jackson, according to the King of Pop’s former doctor, Conrad Murray.
TIL that William Daniels, famous for playing Mr. Feeney on "Boy Meets World," has been married to to actress and fellow Emmy Award winner Bonnie Bartlett since June 30, 1951; at more than 71 years, it is the longest active Hollywood marriage as of today.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 06:43AM by arrogant_ambassador
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William Daniels
American actor
TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an 'exception' to copyright laws.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 09:28AM by TheHorrorJunkie
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GOSH Charity
Peter Pan copyright
Great Ormond Street Hospital
TIL in 1996, a 21-year-old man burst into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and demanded that Kermit the Frog's rendition of Rainbow Connection be played.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 01:24PM by tom275bo
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Rainbow Connection
song originally appearing in the Muppet Movie
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TIL William Bligh was not only overthrown as Governor of New South Wales in Australia’s only military coup but was previously overthrown as Captain in the famous mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 01:37PM by autumn-knight
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William Bligh
officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)
TIL about the Phoebus Cartel, an oligopoly that carved up the early light bulb market for profit and to reduce the operating life of light bulbs from about 2,500 hours to under 1,000 hours to force people to buy more bulbs. It’s an early example of planned obsolescence to drive profits.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 03:14PM by Esc_ape_artist
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Phoebus cartel
cartel to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs
TIL that when former White House press secretary James Brady died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide because it was ultimately caused by a gunshot wound he sustained in 1981, during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 11:45AM by IAmTiborius
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Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
1981 shooting of US President Ronald Reagan and murder of then White House Press Secretary James Brady
TIL about William Duell, a criminal, who was hanged in 1740. His body was sent to be dissected for medical purposes. However, he started breathing and was revived by the staff. His sentence was commuted, and he was exiled to North America where he died at an old age.
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 12:51PM by racc15
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William Duell (criminal)
English murderer