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…
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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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Submitted May 24, 2023 at 08:39AM by murpalim
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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)
TIL An engineer named Walter "Taffy" Holden accidentally took off in a military jet without knowing how to fly it
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Submitted May 24, 2023 at 01:57PM by superanth
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Holden's Lightning flight
unintended aircraft takeoff
TIL that 5 of the Top 10 wealthiest counties in the USA are MD/VA suburbs of Washington D.C. where the median income is roughly $134,000
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Submitted May 24, 2023 at 04:51PM by alphabetikalmarmoset
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List of highest-income counties in the United States
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TIL that the Dragon Ball Z villain Frieza, a galactic tyrant who destroys all life on planets so he can resell them at a profit, was inspired by real estate speculators during the Japanese asset price bubble in the 1980s. Series author Akira Toriyama called them "the worst kind of people".
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Frieza
Character from Dragon Ball
TIL one of P.T. Barnum’s promotions featured a “6 Foot-Tall Man Eating Chicken,” which was actually a 6-foot-tall man munching on a chicken leg.
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Submitted May 24, 2023 at 05:27PM by Night_Runner
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The Motley Fool
A 6-Foot-Tall Man Eating Chicken @themotleyfool #stocks $AAPL $AMZN $EBAY $KO $CSCO $DELL.DL $MSI
Six tips to help you look beyond the hype and find the real winners.
TIL that there is a rare parasitic disease called Guinea Worm Disease that causes blisters so painful that people seek cool water to alleviate the pain, also allowing the worm to release larvae. The painful blisters led to this worm's nickname of "fiery serpent."
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NPR
The Last Days Of Guinea Worm
The world has wiped out only one human disease: smallpox. Guinea worm disease looks like it's on the verge of being the second.
TIL that northwestern Africa had a river running from the Atlas Mountains to the western coast of the continent. The river dried up sometime around 5000 bc.
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Tamanrasset River
ancient, inactive river in Algeria
TIL Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors performing laparoscopic surgery.
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Submitted May 24, 2023 at 10:34PM by MckennaRay
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PubMed
The impact of video games on training surgeons in the 21st century - PubMed
Video game skill correlates with laparoscopic surgical skills. Training curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediated applications, such as laparoscopic surgery. Video games may be a practical…
TIL during WWII fighter pilot James Jabara engaged a German aircraft, they collided in mid-air, and when both pilots safely floated to the ground, they met and shook hands.
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James Jabara
James "Jabby" Jabara (10 October 1923 – 17 November 1966) was the first American and United States Air Force jet ace. Born in Oklahoma, he lived in Kansas where he enlisted as an aviation cadet at Fort Riley after graduating from high school. Jabara attended…
TIL that when Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1993 Indy 500 he chugged orange juice instead of the traditional milk, earning the enmity of the fans. Fittipaldi owned an orange grove in his native Brazil and wanted to promote the product.
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Sportscasting | Pure Sports
Indianapolis 500 Fans Booed Winner Emerson Fittipaldi for the Oddest Reason
Brazil's Emerson Fittipaldi captured his second Indianapolis 500 victory in 1993 and stirred up controversy by drinking orange juice on victory lane.
TIL William Shatner would hide Leonard Nemoy's bicycle because Nemoy used it to get ahead in line at the commissary, going as far as tying it to rafters or placing it in a room with a territorial doberman.
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Bicycling
Leonard Nimoy's Bike
In memory of the Star Trek actor, watch him tell the story of the day Spock's bike was stolen
TIL that Kurt Cobain didn’t want to release “Come As You Are” as a single due to its similarity to “Eighties” by Killing Joke, but the record company insisted. However, Killing Joke abandoned legal action after Cobain’s death and Dave Grohl later contributed to one of their albums.
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Eighties (song)
"Eighties" is the lead single from English post-punk band Killing Joke's fifth studio album, Night Time (1985), produced by Chris Kimsey. The song had been premiered during a three track live performance for UK TV show the Tube in December 1983. Upon its…
TIL That 4 months before the Rwandan genocide happened General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces warned the UN that a genocide could happen but they ignored him
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Pleading for Help
In December 1993, four months before the violence began, General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces—known as the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda—warned his superiors that Hutu extremists were planning a campaign to exterm
TIL the Confederacy attacked Vermont
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St. Albans Raid
The St. Albans Raid was the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. It was a raid from the Province of Canada by 21 Confederate soldiers. They had recently failed in engagements with the Union Army and evaded subsequent capture in the United States.…
TIL that there is an ALS-Parkinson's-dementia overlap syndrome seen almost exclusively in Guam called lytico-bodig disease. It was first reported in 1904 and by the 1950s had become the leading cause of death on the island before largely disappearing. The cause remains unknown.
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Submitted May 25, 2023 at 03:24AM by JosiahWillardPibbs
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TIL that in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, instead of a rush hour, they have what locals call a "rush minute", owing to the fact that the city is not connected to the rest of Canada by road and has a population of roughly 7,000 people who mostly work for the government with similar schedules.
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Submitted May 25, 2023 at 06:39AM by __CarCat__
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CBC
Summer shipping season delivers flood of cars to Nunavut | CBC News
This year, a record 106 vehicles reached Nunavut on a single cargo ship. None of Nunavut’s communities are connected by road, but the number of vehicles in communities continues to rise.
TIL that the extreme lifelong behavioral problems of Nancy Spungen (gf of Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols) are thought to be caused by brain damage via birth asphyxia from umbilical cord wrapped around her neck
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Submitted May 25, 2023 at 06:46AM by black_rose_
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TIL In the 1950s the CIA would spread rumors of vampires in the Philippines to dissuade communist rebels. They would ambush the back member of a patrol silently, kill them before draining them of blood and poking two holes in their neck before leaving the body just off the road.
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Submitted May 25, 2023 at 02:23PM by Devious_Bastard
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How the CIA Used 'Vampires' to Fight Communism in the Philippines
Back in the Cold War craziness of the 1950s, a CIA operative in the Philippines used the local folklore myth of the blood-sucking aswang to try and scare off communist rebels. Did it work?
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