TIL of Alcohol Flush Syndrome - facial flushing, nausea, and fast heart rates from drinking alcohol. It is commonly called "Asian Flush" because 30-50% of East Asians lack the enzyme needed to metabolize alcohol
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 02:27AM by EtOHMartini
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Wikipedia
Alcohol flush reaction
condition in which a person develops flushes or blotches
TIL That Andre The Giant Let Out A 16-Second Fart That Brought Production Of The Princess Bride To A Standstill
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 08:07AM by LuxLiner
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Snopes
André the Giant and the 16-Second Fart
André the Giant's "Princess Bride" co-star Cary Elwes wrote about this "veritable symphony of gastric distress" in his 2014 book "As You Wish."
TIL about the “Old Man of the Lake,” a 30-foot tall, 450 year old tree stump, most likely a hemlock, that has been bobbing vertically in Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896. Moving freely, it can be virtually anywhere on the lake, so boat captains commonly communicate its position for safety.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 08:43AM by iamveryDerp
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Wikipedia
Old Man of the Lake
log that has been floating in Crater Lake since 1896
TIL: Darude, the DJ who wrote Sandstorm, was thrown out of a club for not playing Sandstorm.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 12:10PM by OvidPerl
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TranceAddict
Darude cut short at Club Dome Sat 16th
TIL when you eat the absolute minimum to survive on body fat alone you poop every 40-50 days
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 11:57AM by Kissaki0
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration
A 27-year-old male patient fasted under supervision for 382 days and has subsequently maintained his normal weight. Blood glucose concentrations around 30 mg/100 ml were recorded consistently during the last 8 months, although the patient was ambulant ...
TIL radioactive powder from a stolen radiotherapy unit was spread throughout a town in Brazil in 1987 as people were fascinated by its blue glow. They spread the dust in their homes showing it to family and friends, a 6 year old girl ingested some of it. 112,000 people were tested for contamination.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 03:52PM by rocklou
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Goiânia accident
radioactive contamination accident in Brazil
TIL that when the Ottomans invaded Wallachia, they found 23,844 impaled Turks, that Vlad The Impaler had left for them.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 10:30AM by VengefulMight
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Night Attack at Târgoviște
The Night Attack at Târgoviște (Romanian: Atacul de noapte de la Târgoviște) was a battle fought between forces of prince Vlad III of Wallachia, and sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire on Thursday, 17 June 1462. The battle started after Mehmed, who already…
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TIL Wolves don't have Alpha Male mentalities. This was a misunderstood theory.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 05:09PM by Tennessee84
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sciencenorway.no
Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding
The researcher who introduced this term tried to clear the confusion up two decades ago, but the myth still lives on.
TIL that in Japan, there's a train station that has no entrance or exit, and it exists only so that passengers can admire the view!
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 04:06PM by Entire-Ad242
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mozo.com.au
Offbeat travel spots: The Japanese train station in the middle of nowhere
Deep inside the inland jungle of southwest Japan, along the winding udon noodle of the Nishiki River, is a train station. That mightn’t seem like a big deal. There are train stations all over Japan. So what?
TIL that the Cadbury Creme Egg began in 1963 as Fry's Creme Egg, becoming the Cadbury Creme Egg in 1971. Creme Eggs are produced by Cadbury in the UK, Hershey in the US, and by Cadbury Adams in Canada. In 2016, UK sales of the Cadbury Egg dropped sharply after the recipe was changed to cut costs.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 04:43PM by jdward01
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Cadbury Creme Egg
A Cadbury Creme Egg, originally named Fry's Creme Egg, is a chocolate confection produced in the shape of an egg. It originated from the British chocolatier Fry's in 1963 before being renamed by Cadbury in 1971. The product consists of a thick chocolate shell…
TIL some estimates put the failure rate (red ring of death) of Xbox 360s at up to 54% and. Even those sent in for repairs would fail at a rate of 41% afterwards.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 07:11PM by furutam
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Inverse
The Red Ring of Death: How a Billion-Dollar Reboot Changed Xbox Forever
The Xbox's darkest hour cost a fortune but turned the company into the juggernaut it is today.
TIL that the only time a federal agency has raided another is when the FBI and EPA raided the Department of Energy while investigating environmental crimes related to nuclear weapons production
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 05:53PM by getthedudesdanny
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Outrider
The Rocky Flats Raid
Are we doomed to repeat our mistakes? Or, can we learn from our past and build a safer, healthier future?
TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play atop the World Trade Center. September 2000.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 08:32PM by joomanburningEH
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Headbangerz Club
The Bizarre Letter Limp Bizkit Received A Day Before The 9/11 WTC Attacks — Headbangerz Club
It’s been 19 years since the World Trade Center attacks. On September 11, 2001, two passenger planes crashed, with a few minutes interval at the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
TIL A Mother discovers her son's bride is her long-lost DAUGHTER after she spots a birthmark on their wedding day (but the marriage goes ahead anyway because the groom had been adopted)
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 08:45PM by Algrinder
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Yahoo News
Woman Discovers Her Son's Bride is Her Long Lost Daughter
A woman in eastern China had the shock of her life when she found out that her son was marrying her long-lost daughter. The reunion occurred right at the would-be spouses' wedding in Suzhou, Jiangsu province on March 31, according to Sohu News. The shocking…
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TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi who was the heaviest man alive at 1,340 lb. When Saudi King Abdullah heard of this, Khalid was ordered to a medical center in Riyadh. In about four years, Khalid would weigh 150 lb.
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Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari
Saudi Arabian man who was the heaviest living person in 2013
TIL That following his NASA career, Homer Hickam, known for the movie October Sky, about his teenage exploration of rocketry, became a successful dinosaur hunter, and has discovered, or has helped to discover, 5 of the 40 fossilized T-Rex skeletons ever found.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 06:58PM by acousticwonder
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The Tuscaloosa News
Homer Hickam has passion for writing and and dinosaur hunting
Huntsville author Homer Hickam is a passionate writer and he and a friend have found five of the 40 T-rex skeletons that have ever been found.
TIL that before the world's first nuclear explosion, the chance that the earth would be vaporized by the explosion was estimated at "slightly less than 3 in 1,000,000".
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 09:05PM by sbennett21
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TIL Bananas are curved because they grow against the pull of gravity. They begin growing downwards, but as they get larger, they grow upwards to catch more sun, resulting in a curved shape.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 10:45PM by Imbiberr
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Chiquita
Healthy snacks that are curvy and proud! | Chiquita
The benefits of bananas are amazing. And now you can get your favorite banana brand as organic too. Truly the best healthy snacks...
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TIL 9/11 Cost the US economy a total of $110 to $120 Billion dollars + an incalculable loss to the global economy
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 10:22PM by thegreatmanproject
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www.iags.org
The Cost of September 11
How much did the September 11 terrorist attack cost America?
TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 01:58AM by Miamime
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope
The Hot House [Dr. Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian]
Lots of people have dabbled with strange home businesses -- but only one of them set up a radium refining facility in the basement of his suburban duplex.
TIL the average desk-bound employee spends 28 per cent of their professional lives reading and responding to e-mails
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 02:37AM by Ok_Copy5217
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McKinsey & Company
The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies
The most powerful applications of social technologies in the global economy are largely untapped. By using social technologies, companies can raise the productivity of knowledge workers by 20 to 25 percent.