TIL many navies around the world through history have a ritual to "celebrate" crossing the equator as an initiation for those doing it for the first time.
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Line-crossing ceremony
Initiation rite for first crossing of the equator
TIL that Makoto Shinkai's Your Name is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than ￥10 billion at the Japanese box office
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Submitted May 13, 2023 at 12:10PM by Fine_Sea5807
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Your Name
Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. In the film, high school students Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu suddenly begin to swap bodies…
TIL Germany's law mandates up to one-year imprisonment for failing to assist someone in danger or involved in an accident
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Submitted May 13, 2023 at 06:28PM by wearyBasmati26065
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TIL that there were 26 Children and 36 Spouses of Spanish-American War veterans still receiving VA benefits or pensions as of 2021. The war happened nearly 125 years ago.
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Submitted May 13, 2023 at 08:12PM by HawkeyeTen
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TIL about Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist, friend of Aliester Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and died in an explosion.
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Submitted May 13, 2023 at 11:10PM by sancho___panza
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Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer
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TIL, about Poundbury, a town that was built according to the Principles of King Charles III. It started construction in 1993 and is currently 80% built. 4,600 people currently live there.
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Submitted May 13, 2023 at 10:53PM by Smart_Cycle588
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Poundbury.co.uk
Poundbury, Dorset - official guide to visiting, living or working in Poundbury
Poundbury is built on Duchy of Cornwall land, according to principles of architecture and urban planning as advocated by HRH The Prince of Wales.
TIL from 1976 to 1989 an unknown taping noise was audible worldwide on commercial and civilian communications (tv broadcast, commercial aviation, SW radio). The source was the Duga radar "The Russian Woodpecker" a huge over-the-horizon radar used by the Soviets as a missile detection system.
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Interestingengineering
The Russian Woodpecker: The Soviet Signal That Could Be Heard on the Radio
The Russian Woodpecker was set of massive antenna arrays built by the Soviet Union during the final stages of the Cold War. They were so powerful they actually interfered with radio signals.
TIL the Pony Express existed for only 18 months
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Submitted May 14, 2023 at 03:58AM by zeropointcorp
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Pony Express
former mail service in the Western United States
TIL when designing a new flavor for Taco Bell, the engineers had no idea for a name. During a trip to Baja they remarked they are having a good time. Someone shouted "a Baja Blast!" and that gave it the name.
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Baja Blast Begins: A History of the Iconic Taco Bell Drink
Like most things in life, Taco Bell has had its fair share of ups and downs. Menu items come, only [...]
TIL Boogers contain salivary mucins, which forms a barrier on your teeth from bacteria that can cause cavities.
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Submitted May 14, 2023 at 06:04AM by MeltingMango420
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Men's Health
Why Eating Boogers May Be Good For You
This gross habit could reward your health
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TIL that it only takes five minutes for alcohol to affect your brain
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Submitted May 14, 2023 at 07:14AM by R3M1X_YT
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Northwestern Medicine
How Alcohol Impacts the Brain
The stages of alcohol intoxication, how your body reacts and how it can affect your brain.
TIL in the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo cars from Sweden. The cars were shipped & delivered but North Korea just didn't bother paying & ignored the invoice. Till this day the bill remains unpaid making it the largest car theft in history.
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Sweden still owes the payment for 1,000 Volvos from North Korea; Read in detail
In the 1970s, Sweden delivered an order of 1,000 Volvos to North Korea and still continues to receive the payment for the same
TIL the creator of the popular e-mail client Eudora named it after author Eudora Welty, for her short story "Why I Live at the P.O." If he had known that Eudora would become as popular as it did, he would not have presumed to name it after a (then) living author (she was pleased and amused)
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Eudora (email client)
email client
TIL there is a 1/25th scale version of the Suez Canal in a French lake to train ship captains.
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Port Revel
Maritime navigation simulation school in France
Today I learned about the concept of ‘false vacuum decay’ and how it could essentially destroy the universe without us so much having a hint.
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Space.com
Here's how the universe could end in a 'false vacuum decay'
The universe may not be as stable as you think.
TIL: On her deathbed in 2005, Hitler's nurse, Erna Fledgal the last survivor of the Fuhrerbunker revealed she found him charming and polite. However, she said Eva Braun had a "colourless" personality and that the death of Hitler's dog affected the staff more than Braun's.
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the Guardian
'His authority was extraordinary. He was charming' - Hitler's nurse on his final hours
Survivor of bunker tells of admiration for Goebbels' wife and hatred for Eva Braun.
TIL about a cat named Room 8 that lived in a public school for 16 years. During his time their he would disappear during the summer and return, like clockwork on the first day of school. He became so well known that poems and songs were sung about him.
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Los Angeles Times
From the Archives: Beloved school mascot was a cat named ‘Room 8’
For 16 years, a cat named "Room 8" was a fixture at Elysian Heights Elementary.
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TIL The Magna Carta was annulled by Pope Innocent III and reinstated multiple times by different English Kings. While perceived as a constitution the Magna Carta was limited to 25 Barons and the King, and the document has been almost entirely repealed or replaced with new laws over the centuries.
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Magna Carta
charter of rights agreed between King John of England and the nobility in 1215
TIL Germany sold 22 Mig-29 to Poland in 2003 for just 22 €.
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German Luftwaffe and the MiG-29 Fulcrum | MiGFlug.com Blog
The inherited Soviet Fighter Jet East Germany (DDR) bought 20 MiG-29A and 4 MiG-29UB two seaters just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, for the Luftstreitkräfte der NVA (East German Air Force). They entered service in 1988 and 1989. After the German reunification…
TIL Prior to human settlement New Zealand had no land-based mammals apart from three bat species
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Submitted May 14, 2023 at 06:09PM by bluesrow
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MDPI
Abundance and Dynamics of Small Mammals in New Zealand: Sequential Invasions into an Island Ecosystem Like No Other
New Zealand had no people or four-footed mammals of any size until it was colonised by Polynesian voyagers and Pacific rats in c. 1280 AD. Between 1769 and 1920 AD, Europeans brought three more species of commensal rats and mice, and three predatory mustelids…
TIL Violet Constance Jessop was a women who not only survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 but also survived the sinking of Titanic’s sister ship the Britannic in 1916, but not before surviving a collision the eldest of the three sister ships the RMS Olympic had with HMS Hawke in 1911.
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Violet Jessop
Titanic crew member