TIL that Big Ben is leaning to one side and may eventually become unstable. 🇬🇧
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BBC News
Clock ticking for leaning Big Ben
Big Ben is leaning to one side and may eventually become unstable - but only in thousands of years, according to a newly revealed report.
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TIL I learned that the the town of Boring (Oregon, US) established relationship with village of Dull (Scotland, UK) in 2012; the following year they were joined with the Shire of Bland (New South Wales, AU) to form the League of Extraordinary Communities.
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Bland Dull and Boring Sign
In 2012, the towns of Boring in Oregon, US, and Dull in Scotland teamed up to form 'a pair for the ages'. Bland was accepted into the alliance in 2013 and the League of Extraordinary Communities was formed.
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TIL a chicken fell off the stage and on top of a cellist during a performance of the opera Boris Godunov in the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre in the 1980s, which used live chickens in the performance. A net was subsequently installed above the orchestra pit.
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Sydney Opera House
Interesting facts about Sydney Opera House
Find out 15 interesting facts about the Sydney Opera House that you never knew.
TIL there was a Baywatch spin-off show called "Baywatch Nights", starring David Hasselhoff. Intended to be a grounded procedural crime show, it pivoted in its 2nd season to being a full-on paranormal show with monsters, ghosts, mummies, vampires, parallel universes, and time travel a la The X-Files.
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Baywatch Nights
American 1995-1997 police and science fiction drama series
TIL The lacrimal punctum is a small hole in your eyelids that drains tears to the nose. It's the reason you get a runny nose after crying.
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Submitted May 05, 2023 at 04:40PM by Rifletree
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Lacrimal punctum
The lacrimal punctum (plural puncta) or lacrimal point, is a minute opening on the summits of the lacrimal papillae, seen on the margins of the eyelids at the lateral extremity of the lacrimal lake. There are two lacrimal puncta in the medial (inside) portion…
Today I Learned Roman physician Galen would use wine as a disinfectant for all types of wounds, and even soaked exposed bowels before returning them to the body only 5 Gladiators died under his watch
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Submitted May 05, 2023 at 07:10PM by RighteousFoundation
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Health effects of wine
potential health effects resulting from drinking wine
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TIL Canadian Geese poop every 12 minutes.
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Submitted May 05, 2023 at 06:59PM by ThermionicEmissions
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The Georgia Straight
The Vancouver park board declares war on goose poop
The public is asked to help locate Canada goose nests for population control.
TIL Soccer legend Diego Maradona used a fake penis to pass drug tests at the height of his cocaine use. The phoney phallus was stolen from a Buenos Aires museum in 2003 and has never been recovered.
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Maradona took cocaine 'Sunday to Wednesday' and used fake penis on drugs tests
El Diego had reportedly managed to dodge doping testers successfully for much of his glittering career thanks to a fake plastic penis that was filled with "clean" urine
TIL that the 1994 film “The Mask,” was based on a much more violent comic book. The protagonist, Stanley Ipkiss, goes on a revenge spree, murders a number of cops, and is eventually shot in the back and killed by his girlfriend, Kathy, who sees the Mask for what it is, and plans to destroy it.
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Submitted May 05, 2023 at 07:04PM by newmyy
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The Mask (comics)
Comic book series
TIL - The Onion Futures Act is a US law banning futures contracts on onions. In 1955 two traders bought so many onions and futures they controlled 98% of the onions in Chicago. They forced growers to purchase their stock by threatening to flood the market.
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Submitted May 05, 2023 at 10:07PM by BernieEcclestoned
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Onion Futures Act
1958 United States law
TIL King Charles is a descendant of the real life Dracula.
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Submitted May 05, 2023 at 09:49PM by Jaguar_Willing
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MARCA
King Charles III is real life Count Dracula's descendant, he owns property in Transylvania
The real life Count Dracula, a fictional character who was based on Vlad Tepes is actually related to King Charles III. Bet only a few people knew that but it's completely true, th
TIL that Europeans starting using the term “Aztec” to refer to the people who lived around the city of Tenochtitlan, but that’s not what they called themselves. They referred to themselves as the Mexica.
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Aztecs
ethnic groups of central Mexico and their civilization
TIL the 1983 film "Scarface" was originally given an X rating three times in a row by the MPAA. On the fourth appeal, the film was finally given an R rating, but director Brian De Palma released the original version anyway, only admitting to it months after the film's release.
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Submitted May 05, 2023 at 10:39PM by waitingforthesun92
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Scarface (1983 film)
1983 film directed by Brian De Palma
TIL "Tater Tots" were invented by Nephi Grigg, co-founder of Ore-Ida in 1953 using excess potato shavings from making frozen french fries. Originally, these shavings were sold as livestock feed.
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Tater Tot Mania
Is your mouth big enough for this burger?
TIL an airline passenger forced an emergency landing when they refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s song “I Will Always Love You”
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Flight makes emergency landing over Whitney Houston song drama
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an unexpected landing when a female passenger refused to stop singing Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You
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TIL of a courtier, Jeffrey Hudson, in the court of King Charles I of England who was only 18 inches tall. He challenged a normal-height man to a duel with pistols over an insult. His opponent came to the duel armed with a water squirt gun. Hudson shot him in the head with a real gun, killing him.
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Submitted May 06, 2023 at 10:46AM by Maytree
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Jeffrey Hudson
English court dwarf
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TIL Jaywalking laws vary dramatically from country to country. In most countries crossing outside of designated a crosswalk is illegal (atleast when one is available). In some countries like India and the UK it is only illegal if one obstructs traffic. The Netherlands has no concept of jaywalking.
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Submitted May 06, 2023 at 12:11PM by jamescookenotthatone
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Jaywalking
term used to criminalize a pedestrian crossing the road outside of the authorized passage and time limit
TIL about “One Night Cough Syrup” was sold in the late 1800s, and it contained alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine. This mixture was available over the counter and promised to eliminate your cough in one night so you could sleep.
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Healthline
The Dangerous Ingredients Once Used in Overnight Cough Syrups
A hundred years ago, cough syrups weren't regulated, which meant manufacturers could add anything to them. Learn what ingredients were used in these old-time cough remedies and why they’re no longer used.
TIL that the yellow or orange color of cheese is the result of dyes. The colors are not natural, anymore.
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Submitted May 06, 2023 at 07:21AM by Dont-ask-me-ever
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NPR
How 17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese
Kraft says it's ditching two artificial dyes in some of its macaroni and cheese products. But why did we start coloring cheeses orange to begin with? Turn's out there's a curious history here.
TIL about the 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, in where grain containing methylmercury never intended for human consumption was imported into Iraq, where it was consumed by Iraqis living in rural areas. The recorded death toll was 459 people, but higher figures have been suggested.
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1971 Iraq poison grain disaster
Incident of mass poisoning in Iraq in 1971
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TIL that clowns go back as far as 2400 BC and traditionally the roles of priests and clowns have been held by the same persons.
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Submitted May 06, 2023 at 05:27PM by FacilityOne
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Clown
comic performer often for children's entertainment