TIL Up to the First World War bear's grease was sold as a baldness cure and beauty product. The demand outstripped the supply so unscrupulous dealers would actually sell other animal fats, with some going as far as dressing a dead pig as a bear.
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Bear's grease
body fat from bears, used for many applications and once thought to be a treatment for hair loss
TIL of a Bolivian beverage called « Cocoroco » that boasts an incredibly high alcohol content of 96%.
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Cocoroco
alcoholic beverage from Bolivia
TIL roughly half of the Dutch workforce works part-time.
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Who are most likely to work part-time? - The Netherlands in numbers 2022 | CBS
Who are most likely to work part-time? - The Netherlands in numbers 2022
In 2021, nearly half of the working population had a part-time job. Retail checkout assistants, carers and pharmacy assistants were the most likely not to have full-time jobs.
TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, a black 17 year old was severely mutilated and burned alive while 10-15,000 people watched and cheered. One man held his young son on his shoulder so he could see.
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Lynching In Texas
The Lynching of Jesse Washington | Lynching In Texas
This website represents an ongoing effort to document the lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1945. At present, our database includes more than 600 lynchings that were cataloged by the Chicago Tribune (1882-1888), the National Association for…
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TIL the navigator Henry Hudson was cast adrift by mutineers, along with his son and six others in 1611, in Hudson Bay. They were never seen again.
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www.biographi.ca
Biography – HUDSON, HENRY – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
HUDSON, HENRY, English navigator and discoverer, and, in a sense, a founding father of both New York City and the Hudson’s Bay Company; fl. 1607–11.
TIL that there is enough gold in the oceans to give each person on Earth about 9 pounds of the metal.
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Asbury Park Press
NOAA estimates that there is 20 million tons of gold in the ocean water
TIL that in 1984 a group of men crossed the ocean Atlantic, in a 13.6-meter (45-foot) by 5.8-meter rudderless log raft with a single sail
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La Prensa Latina Media
Atlantis Expedition: The trans-oceanic raft voyage that defied the impossible - La Prensa Latina Media
By Julieta Barrera Buenos Aires, Sep 10 (EFE).- “Let man know that man can,” Argentina’s Alfredo Barragan said after crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Spain’ Canary Islands to Venezuela in a rudderless raft built out of logs 37 years ago, his most famous feat…
TIL Italian artist Salvatore Garau created and put up for auction in 2021 an invisible sculpture called "Io sono", which means "I am". The sculpture was purchased by a private collector for 15,000 euros.
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Salvatore Garau
Italian artist
TIL the US has the most volcanoes of any country, with 162 volcanos, 40 of which have been active since 1960, BUT 55 of Indonesia's 120 volcanos have been active since 1960.
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Smithsonian Institution | Global Volcanism Program
Global Volcanism Program | Countries with Holocene Volcanoes
List of volcanoes by Country.
TIL That there is a tiny island called “Just Room Enough Island” in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence What makes it unique is that the island is so small that it only has enough space for a single house and a tree.
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Just Room Enough Island
island in Jefferson County, New York, United States of America
TIL the cookies that Cookie Monster eats are just painted rice cakes. Real cookies would damage the puppet because of the grease.
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Mashed
The Cookie Monster's Cookies Aren't What You Think
You may think you know Cookie Monster, but you have no idea. For instance: Those cookies the Sesame Street resident eats? They aren't what you think.
TIL A Japanese YouTuber sparked outrage from viewers in 2021 after he apparently cooked and ate a piglet that he had raised on camera for 100 days. This despite the fact that the channel's name is called “Eating Pig After 100 Days“ in Japanese.
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Vice
Millions Watched This YouTuber Raise a Pet Pig. Then He Shared His Dinner.
The heartwarming videos took a dark turn. Or so we thought.
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TIL J.J. Thomson, Nobel prize winning physicist, had 6 of his students win a Nobel prize in physics, and 2 of his students win a Nobel prize in chemistry. Additionally, his son also won a Nobel prize in physics.
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J. J. Thomson
British physicist, 1856
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TIL writer, anarchist, and environmentalist Edward Abbey was secretly buried in the Arizona desert as per his wishes. It took his friends 5 cases of beer, some whiskey, and 2 attempts to fulfill his wish.
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azcentral
Burying Edward Abbey: The last act of defiance
On the day he died, Edward Abbey had already become a prominent voice in the American West. What his friends did next would help seal his legacy.
TIL some reenactment actors on America's Most Wanted were accidentally arrested based on viewer tips
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San Diego Reader
When you star on "Americas Most Wanted," you get a paycheck and a rap sheet
TIL Trinity College Dublin's oldest PhD graduated at 84 with her thesis "Harry Potter and the Unconscious Dimension" She wondered, why are the Harry Potter books, which are written for children, so popular with adults?
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The Irish Times
Trinity’s oldest PhD graduate (84) tackles Harry Potter’s popularity with adults
Mary Jerram Pyle received her doctorate at a ceremony on Friday
TIL that Alzheimer's disease is currently ranked as the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, and that the financial burden on the world at large is estimated annually at US$1 trillion.
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Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances…
TIL the USA produces Humanitarian Daily Rations designed to "provide the widest possible acceptance from the variety of potential consumers with diverse religious and dietary restrictions from around the world" and includes fruit paste suitable for infants.
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Humanitarian daily ration
Humanitarian daily rations (HDRs) are food rations manufactured in the United States intended to be supplied to civilians and other non-military personnel in humanitarian crises.
Each is intended to serve as a single person's full daily food supply, and contains…
Each is intended to serve as a single person's full daily food supply, and contains…
TIL Taco bell has been cutting the amount of sodium in their food for over a decade without making it known.
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USAToday
USA TODAY
Yum! Brands CEO Greg Creed says Taco Bell cut sodium by 15 percent on average since 2009.
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TIL that in 34 U.S. states, women are legally allowed to go topless anywhere a man can. The practice is only explicitly illegal in two states, with the remaining 14 having ambiguous legal situations.
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Topfreedom in the United States
Laws regarding female shirt wearing
TIL after the Tenerife disaster, KLM looked for their most senior pilot to lead the investigation, only to learn that he was the pilot responsible for the crash
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Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten
Dutch pilot (1927-1977)