TIL that the legs of the 630 foot 192 m) Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO had to be built with a 1/64” (0.4 mm) tolerance so that they would meet at the top. Several filmmakers documented the entire construction in hope that the legs wouldn’t meet.
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Gateway Arch
monument in St. Louis, Missouri
TIL after English King James II converted to Catholicism he was forced into exile in 1688 and his descendants were barred from royal succession. Today there is an art historian in Germany who would be King of England (instead of King Charles III) if James had stayed in the Church of England.
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Jacobite succession
Wikimedia list article
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TIL that Studebaker made the world's "largest living advertisement" in 1938 by planting 8k pine trees to spell "STUDEBAKER" if viewed from the sky. Even though Studebaker has been gone for over 50 years, their pine tree logo lives on and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
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Atlas Obscura
Studebaker Tree Sign
One of the largest living advertisements in the world.
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TIL that there's a conspiracy theory that the US invaded Iraq due to Iraq having a stargate and being in contact with aliens
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 06:09AM by Footlongpenetrator
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The New Arab
US invaded Iraq over Saddam's 'alien portal': conspiracy theorist
The US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq was launched because former dictator Saddam Hussein had a portal to an alien world, a conspiracy theorist has claimed.
TIL Galyn Susman was the individual who saved ‘TOY STORY 2’ by having a copy of the film at home after someone accidentally ran a command that deleted 90% of the film from Pixar’s files.
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Collider
How ‘Toy Story 2’ Nearly Got Lost Forever
Whether you want it or not, ‘Toy Story 5’ is coming, but a mistake once almost changed the course of the franchise forever.
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TIL:In 1916, a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution suggested subjecting all acts of war to a nationwide vote. Those who voted in favor would be required to enlist as volunteers in the US Army.
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Council on Foreign Relations
TWE Remembers: The Ludlow Amendment
American history is rife with examples of bad policy ideas capturing the public imagination. Prohibition is the poster child for this malady. Today marks the anniversary of a House vote on one hare-b…
TIL Americans are twice as likely to kill themselves than be killed by another person
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 07:26AM by Cognitively_Absurd
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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Suicide
An overview of statistics for suicide. Suicide is a major public health concern. Suicide is among the leading causes of death in the United States. Based on recent nationwide surveys, suicide in some populations is on the rise.
TIL Marc-Antoine Fardin published a paper in which he cited photographs of cats in jars, baskets and salad bowls and concluded that cats have the properties of both solid and liquid objects. For this work, Fardon was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.
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PBS NewsHour
Answering the question that won me the Ig Nobel prize: Are cats liquid?
A liquid is traditionally defined as a material that adapts its shape to fit a container. Under certain conditions, cats seem to fit this definition.
TIL of Cockaigne, an imaginary land of plenty in medieval myth, where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand. In Cockaigne, abbots are beaten by their monks, nuns are flipped over to show their bottoms, and the skies rain cheese.
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www.alimentarium.org
In the land of Cockaigne | alimentarium
The land of Cockaigne is a medieval creation, a fairy-tale paradise first mentioned in a text from 1250.
TIL about Salieri syndrome where people with it are often mildly talented people in larger organizations in a position to help you — but instead they undermine your success.
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ResearchGate
(PDF) The Salieri Syndrome: Consequences of Envy in Groups
PDF | A model of the impact of envy in groups is proposed and tested in a longitudinal study of 143 groups. Envy was directly and negatively related to... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
TIL that the entire state of Michigan was poisoned in 1973
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TIL Desperation pies are defined by inexpensive staple ingredients for filling. These types of pies were more popular during depressions, World Wars, and before refrigeration. Varieties include Green tomato pie, Shoofly pie, chess pie, and vinegar pies.
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Desperation pies
thrifty pie from American cuisine
TIL the PS3 game “MAG” received an award from Guinness World Records as "Most Players in a Console FPS" with 256 players in matches simultaneously.
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MAG (video game)
2010 massively multiplayer online first-person shooter video game
TIL about the 1983 video game recession in which US video game revenue plummeted from $3.2B in 1983 to $100m in 1985. Nintendo is credited with reviving the industry with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
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Video game crash of 1983
1983 video gaming economic recession
TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
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Mr. T
American actor and professional wrestler
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TIL about Low-background steel, any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s and now typically found in shipwrecks. It is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.
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Low-background steel
steel produced prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in the 1940s and 1950s, and so not contaminated with radionuclides
TIL Jochen Rindt from Austria is the only Formula One driver to win the World Drivers' Championship posthumously. He was killed during practice for the 1970 Italian GP, but he had earned enough points that no other driver could surpass his total by season's end.
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Jochen Rindt
Karl Jochen Rindt (German: [ˈjɔxn̩ ˈʁɪnt]; 18 April 1942 – 5 September 1970) was a German-born racing driver who competed with an Austrian license during his career, despite having German and not Austrian citizenship. In 1970, he was killed during practice…
TIL that the first female on record to circumnavigate the globe did so twice, surviving two or three shipwrecks. She was a milk-goat with no name on record, just called "The Well-Travelled Goat" in her 1772 obituary.
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The Well-Travelled Goat
On 4 April 1772, the obituary of a goat appeared in the London publication The Craftsman. On 27 February 1772 the celebrated Dr Samuel Johnson wrote to Joseph Banks through Sir Joshua Reynolds: Sir, I return thanks to you and Dr. Solander for the pleasure…
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TIL despite the Native Taino Indians of the Caribbean being extinct by the 16th century, the average Puerto Rican still has 15.2% Taino ancestry.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
History Shaped the Geographic Distribution of Genomic Admixture on the Island of Puerto Rico
Contemporary genetic variation among Latin Americans human groups reflects population migrations shaped by complex historical, social and economic factors. Consequently, admixture patterns may vary by geographic regions ranging from countries to neighborhoods.…
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TIL The US Marshals recovered North Carolina’s copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights in 2003 via a sting operation after it was stolen from the State Capitol by a union soldier following the civil war.
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U.S. Marshals Service
Historical Reading Room — History in Custody | U.S. Marshals Service
At times, the U.S. Marshals Service is entrusted with objects of national and historic importance. Agency personnel transported numerous artifacts of national
TIL in Eastern Canada 1923 is known as “The year of free beef”. When the Maritimes changed from driving on the left to the right hand side of the road, oxen could not be retrained to walk on the right side and so were sent to slaughter causing a precipitous decline in beef price.
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CBC
The day New Brunswick switched to driving on the right | CBC News
Traffic anarchy. Head-on collisions. Confused horses. No one knew what to expect on Dec. 1, 1922, when New Brunswick switched to the right-hand rule of the road at the stroke of midnight.