TIL that Edgar Allan Poe at age 27 married his 13-year old cousin, whom he loved more as a sister. (By then she was already a widow, and apparently they got married so he could provide for her).
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Submitted March 30, 2023 at 11:31PM by Ajayu
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The Eccentric and Not-So-Eccentric Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A parrot was first considered to be the titular bird, rather than The Raven. Source: The Eccentric and Not-So-Eccentric Life of Edgar Allan Poe
TIL Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as an independent sovereign nation
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United States Department of State
U.S. Relations With Morocco
More information about Morocco is available on the Morocco Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet. U.S.-MOROCCO RELATIONS Morocco was one of the first countries to recognize the newly independent…
TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered.
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Sun tanning
the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light
TIL Shel Silverstein wrote extensively for Playboy, frequented the Playboy mansion and slept with "hundreds, perhaps thousands of women".
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Submitted March 31, 2023 at 05:56AM by incockneato
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Shel Silverstein
American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writer (1930-1999)
TIL Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
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Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
In the wake of the killing in Uvalde, here’s what America can learn from Australia’s response to tragedy.
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TIL that Neil Degrasse Tyson recorded the WTC attacks on 9/11. He caught the second plane strike, and both collapses.
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[Text] Neil deGrasse Tyson Remembers 'the Horror' of 9/11 | Witnify
Share on Facebook Tweet Add My Story “I will never be the same after yesterday, in ways that I cannot foresee…” THE HORROR, THE HORROR From: Neil deGrasse Tyson VIA E-MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2001, 10:00 AM Firsthand account of the WTC attacks and subsequent…
TIL: an Italian former porn star, Carlo Masi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.
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Carlo Masi
Italian mathematics lecturer and pornographic actor
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TIL of Cáin Adomnáin, dubbed "Europe's first human rights treaty". Created in the year 697, was a set of laws - which kings across Ireland and parts of Scotland mutually agreed to follow - that guaranteed the safety of non-combatants in warfare.
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Cáin Adomnáin
697 prohibition against war crimes in Ireland
TIL: The 62 books in the mainline Goosebumps series were published in only 53 months. RL Stine published more than a book a month for almost five years.
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List of Goosebumps books
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TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules.
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Dinner
largest most formal meal of the day
TIL A newborn baby is 75% water at birth. A slightly higher water content than bananas, but slightly less than potatoes.
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Born Wet, Human Babies Are 75 Percent Water. Then Comes The Drying
A fresh tomato is 93.5 percent water. A fresh baby girl or boy is 75 percent water. A banana, 74 percent. We all start wet, and then, inevitably, dry. A 1-year-old baby carries 10 percent less water; a male adult 15 percent less. Life is a slow evaporation…
TIL that for 15 years some of Canada’s largest grocery chains, including Loblaws, conspired to keep bread prices artificially high. During that time bread prices rose 96% compared to overall food inflation of only 45%.
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Bread price-fixing in Canada
2018 scandal in Canada
TIL A casino can just kick you out if you win to much even if you are not cheating or doing anything wrong.
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Can A Casino Ban Me In Nevada?
Arrested for trespassing at a Nevada casino? Call Las Vegas defense lawyers @ (702) 333-3673 for help.
TIL that during the 17th century, coffeehouses were so popular in England that they were often referred to as "Penny Universities". For the price of a penny, one could buy a cup of coffee and engage in stimulating conversation on a wide range of topics, from politics to literature.
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English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries
English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries were public social places where men would meet for conversation and commerce. For the price of a penny, customers purchased a cup of coffee and admission. Travellers introduced coffee as a beverage to England…
TIL The Aristocrats joke gained public attention when Gilbert Gottfried told it in an attempt to win back the audience after his 9/11 joke at the Friar’s Club was poorly received. For context, this happened 18 days after the attack.
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The Aristocrats
usually-obscene joke about a performance act
TIL: honeycombs start out circular, and the surface tension of the beeswax pulls them into hexagons as it solidifies, because it is the most energetically favorable conformation.
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Honeybee combs: how the circular cells transform into rounded hexagons
We report that the cells in a natural honeybee comb have a circular shape at ‘birth’ but quickly transform into the familiar rounded hexagonal shape, while the comb is being built. The mechanism for this transformation is the flow of molten ...
TIL the longest recorded sniper kill was in June 2017, by an unnamed Canadian sniper with a 3,540 m (3,871 yd) shot in the Iraqi Civil War, surpassing a 2009 record by over 1,000 m (1,100 yd).
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Longest recorded sniper kills
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TIL Elvis Presley craved the Fool's Gold Loaf, which consists of a hollowed-out loaf of French bread filled with one 1-lb. jar each of creamy peanut and grape jelly and a pound of fried bacon. It packs ~8,000 calories. He and friends once flew from Memphis to Denver to eat 30 of them.
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Submitted April 01, 2023 at 12:30AM by grandmamimma
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Fool's Gold Loaf
sandwich
TIL that Hawaii was a sovereign self-governing kingdom all the way up until 1893, totally unassociated with the U.S., until a coup d'état that year by 13 businessmen and 162 U.S. troops, with the openly stated goal of annexing the islands. (They succeeded.)
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Nisei Veterans Legacy
Hawaiian Monarchy Overthrown; Territory of Hawaii
The Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown on January 17, 1893, after a group of 13 Caucasian businessmen and lawyers staged a coup d'état against Queen Liliuokalani and her government.
TIL Disney World had its own airport that had a runway that featured a set of grooves, like rumble strips on the side of a highway, that played “When You Wish Upon a Star” when driven over at roughly 45 miles per hour to surprise the airplane passengers.
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Submitted April 01, 2023 at 02:34AM by nomadofwaves
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Walt Disney World Airport
Walt Disney World Airport, also known as Lake Buena Vista Airport and Lake Buena Vista STOLport (IATA: DWS), is a former small airfield owned by The Walt Disney Company, located within Walt Disney World, just east of the former Walt Disney World Speedway…
TIL That Elvis Presley's manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money from people who weren't buying Elvis merchandise
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Submitted April 01, 2023 at 04:23AM by ColleenLoyde
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Colonel Tom Parker
Dutch entertainment impresario (1909-1997)
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