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as a constitution the Magna Carta was limited to 25 Barons and the King, and the document has been almost entirely repealed or replaced with new laws over the centuries.
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Wikipedia
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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Submitted May 14, 2023 at 04:00PM by Perception-Practical
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MiGFlug.com Blog
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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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
TIL About 70 percent of the material for the original Human Genome Project came from some dude in Buffalo, NY.
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Human Genome Project
research program for sequencing the human genome
TIL The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II. 881 Aleuts were forcibly relocated and interned in unsanitary camps in southeast Alaska, nobody was allowed to bring more than one suitcase of possessions. Troops then set fire to the villages to prevent its use by the Japanese
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Smithsonian Magazine
The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps
TIL James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher never met until they made cameo appearances in an episode of The Big Bang Theory
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Looper
The Big Bang Theory Episode That Finally Allowed Carrie Fisher To Meet James Earl Jones In Person
"Star Wars" actors Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones never got to meet in person until they both made cameos on a Season 7 episode of "The Big Bang Theory."
TIL the longest conflict in history was the Iberian Reconquista. The struggle between Christians and Muslims in the European peninsula took almost 800 years to resolve.
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WorldAtlas
The Longest Wars Ever To Be Fought In Human History
When it comes to wars, size does matter. And in the grand scheme of things, the longest wars ever fought by human beings are unsurprisingly some of the most massive and complicated conflicts our species has ever encountered. So, buckle up, because we're…
TIL: There are over 600 wallabies living wild on the Isle of Man after a small group originally escaped from a wildlife park in the 1960s
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Isle of Man
Recent survey finds nearly 600 wallabies in island
There are nearly 600 red necked wallabies in the island according to recent survey.
TIL that many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. "If you look at a colony of ants, or bees, or any social insect really, maybe a little bit less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing."
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BBC
BBC Radio 4 - Naturebang - Should we be doing a whole lot more... nothing?
How looking to the natural world can help us answer some of life’s big questions.
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TIL that Trent Reznor was the final resident of 10050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles, site of the Manson family murders but moved out after a random encounter with Sharon Tate's sister, who asked him: "Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?"
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10050 Cielo Drive
former home of Sharon Tate
TIL that sharks don’t make sounds. Across 400-500 species, no one has ever found an organ even capable of producing sound.
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Submitted May 15, 2023 at 04:01AM by Jangles2000
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Atlas Obscura
The Ocean’s Largest Shark Has a Little Something to Say
An online video raised a strange question: Do whale sharks make sounds? And would it matter if they did?
TIL that Jack White of the White Stripes originally wanted to save the guitar riff used in "Seven Nation Army" for if he got the chance to make a James Bond theme song. 5 years after the song was released, he wrote the theme for the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace.
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Seven Nation Army
"Seven Nation Army" is a song by American rock duo the White Stripes. It is the opening track on their fourth studio album, Elephant (2003). V2 Records released the song to American alternative radio on February 17, 2003, as the lead single from the album.…
TIL that third places - areas other than the home or the workplace where humans can connect and unwind, are dying, and this is a silent killer of our communities
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Bbc
'Third places': The ways losing our local haunts hurts us
We've long needed places outside of work and home to thrive. But perhaps, until the pandemic hit, we didn't know exactly how much.
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TIL that there are at least 5 species of shark living in the Thames estuary (which runs through London), and that one of those species is venomous.
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www.zsl.org
The Greater Thames Shark Project | ZSL
The Greater Thames Estuary is home to at least five different shark species, but very little is known about how exactly these sharks use the area.
TIL that there is one McDonald's in the continental US that still serves fried apple pies.
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The Burger Beast
McDonald's Fried Apple Pies?
Where have the McDonald's fried apple pies gone? In 1992, McDonald's switched out their fried apple pies for baked ones due to a healthy food movement.
TIL the music behind the anti-piracy warning (you wouldn't steal a car etc) was stolen from the person who wrote it, Melchior Rietveldt, who sued for royalties owed
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Kotaku
The Painful Irony of an Anti-Piracy Group Being Sued for Piracy
Dutch copyright watchdog BREIN is being sued by a musician for more than $1 million after allegedly using his song in copyright warnings on DVDs without explicit permission. Oh my.
TIL that in World War 1, the American Expeditionary Forces attempted to enforce Jim Crow laws on the French to regulate the treatment of Black soldiers and officers. This was done because they were worried that these individuals were being treated with excessive familiarity and indulgence.
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Jim Crow laws
state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
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TIL about the "First Browser War", which took place from 1995-2001, and ended with the up-and-coming Internet Explorer eliminating Netscape Navigator as a rival. By 2001, Internet Explorer had attained a peak of 96% Web Browser Usage Share.
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Browser wars
competition between web browsing applications for share of worldwide usage
TIL that there is a type of octopus, an argonaut, where the male fills its sex organ with sperm, then rips it off and presents it to a female.
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Cool Green Science
Meet the Argonaut, The World’s Weirdest Octopus
Octopuses are awesome. These eight-legged oddballs of the ocean have always had a dedicated fanclub, and the recent documentary My Octopus Teacher helped