TIL that the earth's mantle is predominantly solid due to extreme pressure, though it behaves as a "viscous fluid" on geologic time scales.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 03:13PM by parkesc
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Earth's mantle
part of the interior of the planet Earth
TIL that a money raising attempt by former Mexican President and General Santa Anna (responsible for losing the Texas Revolution) led to the invention of chewing gum in the United States.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 03:47PM by texasrigger
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Black Jack (gum)
chewing gum
TIL about the PXL2000 - a camcorder produced in 1987 that records video footage to standard audio cassettes.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 04:01PM by Kale_Brecht
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PXL2000
1987 toy video camera
TIL About Charles Smith. A former Pathologist in Toronto many of the convictions resulting from his testimony/autopsies were overturned when an inquiry revealed he had willingly allowed personal bias to influence his work and that he had knowingly lied on the stand.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 04:06PM by GentPc
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Charles Smith (pathologist)
pathologist
TIL that Marilyn Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanages until age 16 when, upon being faced with being returned to an orphanage, she chose to get married to her neighbour's 21 year old son, drop out of school, and become a housewife.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 04:37PM by Pinkcitrine
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Marilyn Monroe
American actress (1926–1962)
TIL that to protect bumblebees, the California Endangered Species Act (1984) classified bumblebees as fish, on the grounds that the definition of fish included the term "invertebrate", which bumblebees also are.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 04:43PM by jenesuispashariselon
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California Endangered Species Act
state-level species conservation law
TIL about 2,000 to 3,000 luxury cars are abandoned in Dubai every year
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 05:19PM by PM_ME_AYY_LMAOOS
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edtimes.in
How Did Dubai Become A Graveyard For Supercars?
Dubai has become a graveyard for supercars. Luxury cars are just abandoned in parking lots. Read on to know more about why is this happening
TIL that the informal foot paths people create are called "desire paths". In Finland, planners wait until first snowfall and then plan their paved paths around where people's tracks appear.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 05:48PM by innergamedude
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99% Invisible
Least Resistance: How Desire Paths Can Lead to Better Design - 99% Invisible
Informal ‘desire paths‘ can form with as few as fifteen traversals of an unpaved route, creating spontaneous new trails shaped by pedestrians effectively voting with their feet. These paths frequently become self-reinforcing: others intuit the potential advantages…
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TIL Mercator maps were never intended as general-purpose world maps. The massive distortion of geographical geometry is a side-effect of the map's special feature: simple marine navigation. A course along any constant compass direction is represented on the map as a straight line.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 06:57PM by AuthenticationScheme
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Mercator projection
cylindrical map projection invented by Gerardus Mercator in 1569
TIL China uses cloud seeding for weather manipulation to create everything from blue skies during the 2008 Olympic games to rain intense during droughts.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 07:12PM by TheMadhopper
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CNN
China is seeding clouds to replenish its shrinking Yangtze River | CNN
The Yangtze had dried up in parts as swaths of China battle drought and the nation’s worst heat waves in more than 60 years.
TIL that Greece has the largest merchant navy in the world, beating even the US, UK, Japan, etc.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 06:12PM by LotusCobra
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Greek Merchant Marine
Hellenic Merchant naval Force
TIL that a former prostitute in Vietnam has adopted over 350 orphans who all use her surname
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 09:14PM by invisiblechaircover
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Vietmynewspaper
HUYNH TIEU HUONG – “THE FAIRY OF MISERABLE LIVES” | Viet My Magazine
TIL that Luc Havan, the nightclub employee who killed jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius in 1987, was sentenced to twenty-two months in prison and five years' probation, but only served four months in prison due to good behaviour.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 07:58PM by waitingforthesun92
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Jaco Pastorius
American jazz bassist (1951–1987)
TIL that Tsar Nicholas II and King Geroge V both had dragon tattoos and both of them got said tattoos while being in Japan.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 10:01PM by UnknownGhost-5
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Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II (Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland, ruling from…
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TIL in 2014, McDonald's revealed that Grimace, their purple monster mascot, is "the embodiment of a milkshake or a taste bud."
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 11:03PM by SilentWalrus92
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Peoplemag
What Is Grimace? All About McDonald's Beloved Purple Character Who’s Actually a Taste Bud
The lovable, spherical-shaped character Grimace has always been one of McDonald's most recognizable faces — even if fans never knew what he actually is
TIL of a man who, after being gifted a flight in a fighter jet by coworkers, accidentally ejected himself from the cockpit. He survived, though he later stated he had never previously expressed any interest in such a flight.
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 11:48PM by TheLeagueOfOwls
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the Guardian
Man accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet during surprise flight
Sixty-four-year-old lands in field after grabbing ejection handle to steady himself, French air investigators find
TIL The United States considered using 520 nuclear bombs to blast away an alternative to the Suez Canal through Israel in the 1960s
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Submitted June 14, 2023 at 10:54PM by AaronDotCom
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Project Plowshare
term for United States plan to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes
TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and others. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain.
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 03:41AM by UralIveGotTonight
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OK
word from the English language
TIL of the curb cut effect, which describes the phenomenon of accessibility features designed for the disabled benefitting those without a disability. An example is many hearing people used closed captioning.
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 05:36AM by MajesticBread9147
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Curb cut effect
phenomenon of disability-friendly features also being appreciated by people in general
TIL: In 2008, Japan sent sakura(cherry blossom) seeds to the ISS and it spent 8 months onboard. After reaching the planet Earth, they planted those seeds from where they were collected and surprisingly, the tree bloomed in just 4 years instead of 10 and the flowers bloomed with 6 petals instead of 5
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 07:38AM by ninja6911
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heraldsun
Mysterious ‘space tree’ baffles scientists
A COSMIC mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a tree grown from a cherry stone that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected — and with very surprising flowers.
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TIL: that in 29 U.S. states while under anesthetic you can have a pelvic exam preformed by a med students without your consent or knowledge
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 06:44AM by Additional_Car9323
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws
Medical students commonly learn how to administer pelvic exams by practicing on unconscious patients, often without first obtaining explicit consent from patients to do so. While 21 states currently have laws that require teaching hospitals to obtain ...