TIL About the Man-eaters of Tsavo, two man-eating lions that halted the construction of a railway bridge in 1898
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 01:24AM by Hrtzy
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Tsavo Man-Eaters
pair of Kenyan lions known to have killed and eaten several humans
TIL about a man who was rescued by a sea lion after he tried to kill himself by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 01:07AM by cartstanza
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Kevin Hines
Suicide attempt survivor, jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, advocating against suicide
TIL Burritos are popular food for astronauts in space because it's easy to eat and doesn't produce crumbs that could float around and damage equipment
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 06:25AM by Algrinder
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Space.com
Space Burrito Recipe Revealed by Astronauts
A burrito for breakfast is always a tasty treat, even forastronauts in space.
TIL that flight etiquette is that the middle seat gets BOTH armrests
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 08:43AM by Randumb4Ever
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Yahoo News
‘Never a Reason to Take Off Your Socks’: A Flight Attendant’s Etiquette Rules
After 21 years as a flight attendant, I’ve seen it all. The pandemic heightened tensions on board, with the most extreme incidents of bad passenger behavior escalating to violence. More commonly, though, I see discourteous behavior lead to verbal disagreements…
TIL: In China for about three years around 1900, a secret martial arts training club tried to overthrow the Chinese government & force out foreigners. Known to the West as "The Boxer Rebellion," the name literally comes from the fact that members fought unarmed using Chinese forms of unarmed combat.
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 09:53AM by sed_non_extra
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Boxer movement
The Boxers, officially known as the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Chinese: 義和拳; 义和拳; Yìhéquán; I-Ho Ch'üan) among other names, were a Chinese secret society based in Northern China that carried out the Boxer Rebellion from 1899 to 1901. The movement…
TIL Approximately 73 to 100 million sharks are killed annually worldwide just for their fins. Primarily driven by the demand for shark fins as an ingredient of a status symbol soup.
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 12:16PM by HTXYSF
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Shark Research Institute
Massacre for Soup — Shark Research Institute
An essay about shark finning, the barbaric fishing practice destroying shark populations globally and putting our oceanic ecosystems at grave risk. Shark Research Institute (SRI) conducts and sponsors rigorous field research about sharks and uses science…
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TIL that in 1210, King John of England imprisoned a noble named Maud de Braose with her son William in a dungeon beneath Corfe Castle, and left there to starve to death. When their bodies were retrieved 11 days later, it was found that Maud had eaten parts of her son’s body before she died.
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 11:00AM by Sebastianlim
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Maud de Braose
English noblewoman (c. 1155 – 1210)
TIL About Diana Budisavljević, the female Schindler, who undertook one of the greatest humanitarian acts in WWII, by saving over 7,700 children from concentration camps in the area of what is today's Croatia
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 03:03PM by MiauMiauMoon
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BBC Reel
The Austrian woman who saved 7,700 children during WW2 - BBC Reel
Diana Budisavljević was a well-to-do Austrian married to a renowned doctor in Zagreb when the Axis forces invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon, a puppet state installed by the Nazis began a genocidal campaign against Serbs, Jews and Roma, setting up concentration…
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Today I learned that beavers teeth are yellow in colour because of the iron in their tooth enamel.
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 05:18AM by KingWizard101
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OregonLive
Beavers have a no-longer secret weapon for fighting tooth decay: iron -- science
Apart from their paddle-like tails and dam-building abilities, a prominent characteristic of beavers may be their large, reddish-orange, wood-chiseling incisors. And here's something special about the teeth of our familiar semi-aquatic, large-bodied rodents:…
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TIL that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases) have the highest mortality rate of any disease that is not inherited: 100%
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 02:49PM by Neil_2022
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Guinness World Records
Highest mortality rate (non-inherited disease)
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
TIL Austria's Coat of Arms is the last to feature a hammer and sickle in Europe
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 01:53PM by ex-expatriate
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Coat of arms of Austria
national coat of arms of the Republic of Austria
TIL that Bolaji Badejo, a 6 foot 10 Nigerian visual artist, played the original Alien (1979)’s xenomorph. His height and slender body convinced Ridley Scott that he was a perfect choice for the villain. He also died from sickle cell disease at age 39.
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 04:33PM by JurassicPark9265
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CNN
Bolaji Badejo: The Nigerian giant who played ‘Alien’
Dripping with menace, the alien in Ridley Scott’s 1979 space horror classic was quite literally its break-out star. Meet the man who brought it to life.
TIL Stanford engineers made a folding origami microscope that costs less than $1 to make. 50,000 microscopes were shipped to 130 countries in 2014 to see what people will do with it
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 06:44PM by einstein_bern
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NPR
A $1 Microscope Folds From Paper With A Drop Of Glue
Engineers at Stanford University have designed a microscope that fits in your pocket and costs less than a dollar to make. Here's the best part: You put the microscope together yourself.
TIL that the Mormon (LDS) church is the largest landowner in the states of Florida and Illinois.
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 08:03PM by PM_Girl_Cock
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TIL that in 67 C.E, Emperor Nero found a Boy named Sporus Who looked Like his deceased Wife, so he had him Castrated, Put in female attire, and made his entire Court play along with the act
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 08:20PM by JohnAdams4621
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Sporus
Freedman of the Roman emperor Nero
TIL Milhouse first appeared in a Butterfingers commercial before actually appearing on "The Simpsons"
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 09:38PM by Rich_Suspect_4910
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Milhouse Van Houten
fictional character from The Simpsons franchise
TIL: A million more babies are born every year in just Nigeria than all of Europe combined
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 04:30PM by randompwerson
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Africasacountry
Nigeria’s baby boom
Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.
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TIL That Harrison Ford was once a roadie for The Doors
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 11:40PM by haloarh
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Far Out Magazine
When Harrison Ford worked as a roadie for The Doors
Who knew!?
TIL about America's Marine Highway, a United States Department of Transportation initiative aiming to use the United States' 29,000 miles of navigable waterways to alleviate traffic and wear to the nation's highways caused by tractor trailer traffic.
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 08:55PM by PM_ME_UR_ASS_GIRLS
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America's Marine Highway
network of navigable waterways in the United States
TIL of the Jim twins, separated at birth and reunited at 39: both had married and divorced someone named Linda, were currently married to a Betty, had sons named James Allan, had dogs named Toy, drove the same car, had jobs in security, and regularly vacationed at the same beach in Florida
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Submitted May 29, 2023 at 02:30AM by imaginexus
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Ripley's Believe It or Not!
The Uncanny Case of the Jim Twins, Two Estranged Twins Who Led Identical Lives
The Jim Twins of Ohio were reunited at age 39, after being separated at birth. When they got to talking, they found that they had lived identical lives!
TIL that living within 500 meters of an airport increases lead exposure risks in children
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Submitted May 28, 2023 at 09:16PM by Mr_McGuggins
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OUP Academic
Leaded aviation gasoline exposure risk and child blood lead levels
Abstract. Lead-formulated aviation gasoline (avgas) is the primary source of lead emissions in the United States today, consumed by over 170,000 piston-engine a