TIL that the invention of bicycles was fundamental to the early women's liberation movement. Bicycles promised freedom to women long accustomed to relying on men for transportation. It was also the main reason corsets and long skirts fell out of fashion in the early 20th century.
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National Women's History Museum
Pedaling the Path to Freedom
Bicycles promised freedom to women long accustomed to relying on men for transportation. Suddenly, the relatively inexpensive and readily accessible technological innovation gave women more control over where they went and when.
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TIL about the Barnes Opening, considered one of the worst chess openings and deemed as having almost no strategic advantages and a lot of drawbacks.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 04:15AM by NirgalFromMars
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Wikipedia
Barnes Opening
The Barnes Opening (sometimes called Gedult's Opening) is a chess opening where White opens with:
TIL 42 was the last natural number below 100 whose representation as a sum of three cubes was found (in 2019). The representation is: (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
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Submitted May 01, 2023 at 11:24PM by SaintBiggusDickus
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MIT News
The answer to life, the universe, and everything
Using the Charity Engine computer cluster, Andrew Sutherland of MIT and Andrew Booker of Bristol University solved the famous Diophantine Equation mathematics puzzle for the number 42. That is, are there three cubes whose sum is 42?
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TIL The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Was Distributed Through a Mafia-Owned Film Company
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 03:15AM by DCFUN45
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BuradaBiliyorum.Com
Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Connection To The Mafia Explained -BB
One wouldn’t normally associate horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with organized crime, but it turns out the Mafia had a hand in its release. In 1974, two very different films arrive…
TIL the term "house poor," which is anyone whose housing expenses account for an exorbitant percentage of their monthly budget.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 05:43AM by Data_Driven_Dude
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Investopedia
House Poor: What It Means, Steps to Avoid It
House poor describes a person who spends a large proportion of his or her total income on homeownership.
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TIL The lead singer of the Gin Blossoms was forced out of the band due to addictions issues, and the record company withheld $15k owed to him until he signed over most his royalties. Shortly after the band scored a hit single with one his songs. He committed suicide a few months later.
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Gin Blossoms
American alternative rock band
TIL that Seretse Khama, former president of Botswana, managed to transform the poorest nation on earth into one of the fastest growing economies in the world
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 12:20PM by Complete_Spot3771
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Seretse Khama
First President of Botswana (1921–1980)
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TIL the last writers strike in 2008 led the first season of Breaking Bad to be two episodes shorter and kept Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) alive. He was originally planned to be killed off first season.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 02:29PM by homerjay42
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VULTURE
Vince Gilligan Was Planning on Killing Off Breaking Bad’s Hank Way Sooner (Season One!)
There are silver linings!
TIL contrary to popular belief, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence didn’t die by autoerotic asphyxiation. The rumour was started by his partner Paula Yates, who while grief-stricken, was unable to accept the fact that Hutchence took his own life. The coroner also confirmed that Michael died by suicide.
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Far Out Magazine
Debunking the myth around Michael Hutchence’s death
The unglamourous truth.
TIL Firefighters use a chemical called "wet water". The chemicals added to the water allow it to spread efficiently, and helps put out fires.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 04:40PM by bobboe1993
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TIL that Abraham Lincoln's supporters called themselves 'Wide Awakes'
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Wide Awakes
1860s Republican youth organization
TIL that two of the three battalions of Fiji's military is on international peacekeeping duty; one in Iraq, and another in Sinai. They are the third largest contributor to Sinai peacekeeping forces and the leading contributor to Iraq's.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 02:32PM by romulusnr
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Fiji Infantry Regiment
The Fiji Infantry Regiment is the main combat element of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. It is a light infantry regiment consisting of six battalions, of which three are regular army and three are Territorial Force. The regiment was formed with the…
TIL that after Rocky Marciano knocked one of his opponents Carmine Vingo into a coma, he stopped boxing until Vingo had recovered.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 02:44PM by VengefulMight
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Wikipedia
Carmine Vingo
American boxer (1929-2015)
TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd the band who had a massive hit with their song 'Sweet Home Alabama' are actually from Jacksonville, Florida
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 10:01PM by mintwolves
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
American rock band
TIL that in 2017, several Maryland college students consumed so much alcohol at a house party, that the air in the house registered a reading of 0.01 on a breathalyzer.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 11:43PM by ciph_3r
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Cbsnews
So Much Alcohol At College House Party In Md. That Air Tests Positive For Booze
Six college students are facing numerous criminal charges after a massive house party in Bethesda.
TIL that there is a stereotype about Circassian women being the ideal standard of attractiveness for a woman to reach, the illusion being particularly strong in the 18th century with cosmetic companies going as far as to sell products that they claimed were used by Circassian women.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 06:58PM by Sepehr360
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Circassian beauty
Stereotypical belief
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TIL that some US states, such as Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, still have laws that prohibit blasphemy to varying degrees. However, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, rendering these laws obsolete and unenforceable.
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 11:48PM by theID10T
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Blasphemy law in the United States
In the 20th century, the United States began to invalidate laws against blasphemy which had been on the books since before the founding of the nation, or prosecutions on that ground, as it was decided that they violated the American Constitution. The First…
TIL The town of Dish, Texas was renamed in 2000 as part of an agreement with the cable company and provided residents free TV service and a DVR
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Submitted May 02, 2023 at 10:04PM by maxbuckeye
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Dish, Texas
town in Denton County, Texas, United States
TIL that 13% of people who receive CPR outside of a hospital are still alive a year later.
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Submitted May 03, 2023 at 02:56AM by hopefulmonstr
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BioMed Central
The global survival rate among adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a systematic…
Background To quantitatively summarize the available epidemiological evidence on the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Methods We systematically searched the PubMed, Embase, and…
TIL that a McDonald's in the Netherlands once fired an employee for selling a coworker a hamburger and then separately giving them a piece of cheese, arguing that she should've charged more for a cheeseburger. Courts ruled in the employee's favor, ordering the rest of her contract paid out in full.
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Submitted May 03, 2023 at 05:05AM by c1570911
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC News - McDonald's 'wrong' to fire worker over cheese slice
A Dutch branch of McDonald's was wrong to fire an employee for giving a colleague a piece of cheese on a burger, a court rules.
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TIL that the Komusō were Japanese monks who symbolized their absence of ego by always wearing baskets on their heads.
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Submitted May 03, 2023 at 12:37AM by ShabtaiBenOron
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Komusō
monks and formerly spies