TIL the village built for the 1980 movie Popeye still exists and is a tourist attraction in Malta.
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Submitted June 07, 2023 at 06:10PM by Sardasan
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Popeye Village
tourist attraction
TIL that, 1.7 billion years ago, there was a naturally occurring nuclear reactor that produced power for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 12:45AM by Linguini_gang
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Oklo Mine
natural nuclear fission reactor discovered in 1972 in the Oklo region of Gabon
TIL Neil Armstrong completed almost all required coursework towards a master's degree when he joined NASA in early 1960s. A semester short, he returned to USC after his moon landing in 1970 to give a one-hour seminar on the technical aspects of landing Apollo's lunar module to receive his Masters
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 03:07AM by einstein_bern
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TIL in 1780, in an event known as Dark Day, New England was cast into blackness as a result of Ontario wildfires mixed with unfavorable atmospheric conditions. Such was the lack of light, candles were needed in the day to provide illumination. Parts of New Hampshire were covered in ash 6" deep.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 02:42AM by Watchung
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New England's Dark Day
severe air pollution event over parts of New England on May 19, 1780
TIL Sega launched an online gaming subnoscription service on console all the way back in 1994, massively predating Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 04:05AM by Footlongpenetrator
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Sega Channel
online game service
TIL Rats, gerbils, mice, birds, fish, monkeys, and chimpanzees all prefer making an effort to obtain their food over having it provided for free. Of all the studied animals, only cats did not display the behaviour, preferring to be served.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 04:25AM by griefofwant
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Contrafreeloading
observed behavior in animals
TIL in 2009, a hard ground ball hit Adrián Beltré in the groin which landed him on the 15-day disabled list. In his first game after returning, teammate Ken Griffey Jr. conspired with those in charge of the PA system to have Beltré's at-bat intro music be the opening march from The Nutcracker Suite.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 04:25PM by youngster_matt
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Adrián Beltré
Major League baseball player
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TIL that astronaut Story Musgrave, after completing his GED, received a BS in Math, an MBA, a BA in Chemistry, an MD from Columbia, an MS in physiology, and finally an MA in literature.
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Story Musgrave
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to…
TIL that in the late 1800's and early 1900's, gambling on US elections was extremely widespread. In New York, the amount of money spent on betting on elections would often exceed the total trading in stocks and bonds. Since there weren't modern polls, betting odds were how newspaper predicted races.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 05:24PM by ThatsALotOfOranges
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TIL The hit song 'Walk Like an Egyptian' was inspired when the song writer was on a ship in rough waters and the way people bent their arms as they steadied themselves reminded him of old Egyptian poses. He originally offered the song to Tony Basil (Oh Mickey) but she turned it down.
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Walk Like an Egyptian
"Walk Like an Egyptian" is a song by American band the Bangles. It was released in September 1986 as the third single from their second studio album, Different Light (1986). It was the band's first number-one single, being certified gold by the Recording…
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TIL 91% of all the dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench occurred in the past 4 years. Before that, the only visitors were the original explorers in 1960, and James Cameron in 2012.
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List of people who descended to Challenger Deep
Wikimedia list article
TIL that when planning Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg wanted Arnold Toht to be a cyborg, with a metal arm that could turn into a flamethrower or machine gun, and have a light instead of an eye. George Lucas rejected these ideas as too far-fetched.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 09:35PM by derstherower
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List of Indiana Jones characters
This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones series.
TIL that Technicolor movies were filmed on three rolls of film with the image split using a prism into three color images. Each film roll was then developed and dyed a complimentary primary color and then the three rolls were laminated together to create a full color roll of film
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 10:14PM by ClownfishSoup
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StudioBinder
What is Technicolor? Definition and History Explained
The fascinating history behind Technicolor and how their processes gave filmmaking life and color.
TIL that the man behind the 2013 “Fedora Guy” meme is actually an actor named Jerry Messing, who starred as Gordon in the 1999 TV series “Freaks and Geeks”.
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Submitted June 08, 2023 at 09:49PM by waitingforthesun92
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Yahoo Entertainment
‘Freaks and Geeks’ Star Jerry Messing Says COVID Has Partially Paralyzed Him
Messing was hospitalized in August and placed on a ventilator
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TIL that before water fountains were used for people to drink water freely in public, people used to drink from something called the "common cup", a publicly shared and very unhygienic cup or ladle-type spoon attached by string.
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JDB Engineering, Inc.
Weird MEP History: The Common Cup
Before water fountains, or drinking fountains, there was a widespread though unsanitary practice of using the "Common Cup" or "Community Cup."
TIL that Former Senator Daniel Inouye planned to become a surgeon prior to the loss of his right arm in World War II. It was only after he met and befriended his future senate colleague Bob Dole at a military rehabilitation center that he began to consider entering politics.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 02:23AM by FranklinDRoosevelt32
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Daniel Inouye
Daniel Ken Inouye (/iːˈnoʊˌeɪ/ ee-NOH-ay; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American attorney, soldier, and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S.…
TIL That there is NO camera phone footage of 9/11. The first US camera phone reached the market in November 2002
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 05:05AM by USSMarauder
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Digital Trends
A complete history of the camera phone
As Nokia prepares to launch the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, we take a look back at the history of the camera phone and highlight some of the top models over the years.
TIL that the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, was on a 3,000-man kamikaze mission to beach herself on Okinawa before she was sunk by US forces in April of 1945.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 05:06AM by mortimerrylon
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Japanese battleship Yamato
Yamato-class battleship
TIL Peter Norman, the Australian silver medalist photographed in the iconic 1968 Olympics photo alongside two black athletes with a raised fist wore a badge in support of their protest, and turned down a lucrative job offer during the 2000 Sydney Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 05:43AM by MajesticBread9147
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Peter Norman
Peter George Norman (15 June 1942 – 3 October 2006) was an Australian track athlete. He won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with a time of 20.06 seconds. This remains an Oceanian record. He was a five-time national…
TIL Sean Bean Has Died in Over a Quarter of His On-Screen Appearances.
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ScreenRant
Every On-Screen Sean Bean Death
Sean Bean can't stop, won't stop.
TIL: The Constitution made no provision for replacing Vice Presidents who died or departed before finishing their terms. As a result, the office has been vacant for almost 38 years in the nation’s history.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 06:05AM by theotherbogart
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Vice Presidents That History Forgot
The U.S. vice presidency has been filled by a rogues gallery of mediocrities, criminals and even corpses