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.
TIL that "Sleeping Beauty" was the nickname given to the corpse of Francys Arsentiev, the first American woman to summit Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen. She died during the descent and her corpse was visible to climbers for 9 years until it was moved.
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Francys Arsentiev
American mountaineer (1958-1998)
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TIL actress Gloria Stuart who is most famous for her portrayal of “Old Rose” in the 1997 movie Titanic, was expelled from grade school for kicking her teacher. She later said, “to be honest, she deserved it". Stuart died in 2010. She was 100 years old.
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Gloria Stuart
American actress (1910-2010)
TIL the phrase “bleeding heart liberal” was coined to describe supporters of a federal bill against lynching in 1938
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Atlas Obscura
The True Origins of the Phrase ‘Bleeding-Heart Liberal’
Thank Westbrook Pegler, Joe McCarthy, and Ronald Reagan.
TIL that German scientists in the 1930s were the first to conceive of the atom bomb, but their research was abruptly ended in 1939 when the government connoscripted them. The Nazis never got close to making a functional atom bomb because their scientists were in the battlefield.
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German nuclear weapons program
World War II weapons project
TIL there is a pyramid being built in Germany that is scheduled to be completed in 3183. It consists of 7-ton concrete blocks placed every 10 years, with the fourth block to be placed on September 9 2023.
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Zeitpyramide
work of public art by Manfred Laber under construction in Wemding, Germany
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TIL that during WWII, scientists were struggling to make enough penicillin to keep up with demand until they found a moldy cantaloupe in Peoria, IL that was producing penicillin at the highest rate they had yet seen.
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Cantaloupe
variety of plants
TIL that women hold 14 of the longest 23 neutral endurance records in marathon swimming
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Submitted June 05, 2023 at 03:14AM by ElvenArcherV
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Swimming World News
IWD: Marathon Swimming: Where Women Have Outperformed the Men
Marathon swimming, unlike the pool, often features women beating the men over longer distances, such as crossing the English Channel.