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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
TIL 48 year old King Henry VIII announced his disappointment that his 4th wife, 24 year old Anne of Cleves was so ugly. Henry’s displeasure along with his impotence led to four difficult honeymoon nights without consummation. Henry eventually gave up and had the marriage annulled.
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Historic Royal Palaces
Anne of Cleves
‘I like her not.’ The wife rejected by Henry VIII
TIL in 1933, Albert Einstein, who left Nazi Germany for the United States, suggested the formation of the International Relief Association. Now known as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), it has provided assistance to millions of refugees and displaced persons across some 40 countries.
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International Rescue Committee
non-profit organization in the USA
TIL a 2016 study by the University of Michigan found that pizza was the most addictive food, followed by chocolate and potato chips. The least addictive foods were cucumbers, carrots, and beans which were even less addictive than water.
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 12:21PM by AdCurrent5959
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Peoplemag
Pizza Tops List of Most Addictive Foods, Science Says
Pizza topped a nearly 400-person survey in a recent study from the University of Michigan aimed at better understanding addictive foods.
TIL that St Christopher was often depicted in Byzantine icons as having the head of a dog, this is speculated to be due to a misreading of the Latin denoscription of him being Cananeus or Canaanite as caninus, ie canine
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 01:05PM by BishopTimothyArcher
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Saint Christopher
saint in the Catholic and Orthodox church
TIL that Peni Parker from Into the Spiderverse was created by Gerard Way (lead singer of My Chemical Romance and creator of The Umbrella Academy). He wrote the comic book she debuted in.
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 03:52PM by Professional_Act751
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Peni Parker
fictional character in Marvel Comics
TIL Legendary singer song writer Bobbie Gentry ('Ode to Billy Joe', 'Fancy', etc) abruptly quit the music business at the height of her fame in 1982 and disappeared. To this day it is not known where she went, what she did, or where she currently resides. All efforts to contact her have failed.
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 06:06PM by Bluest_waters
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Bobbie Gentry
American singer-songwriter
TIL that back in the 1940s there was a male-only "Penthouse Club" at the Walt Disney Studios for their top animators, including a rooftop patio where they used to take nude sunbaths. They had to stop when it became known that nuns in the neighboring hospital were peeking at them
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Submitted June 15, 2023 at 06:46PM by DonExasclive
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Disney History Institute
The Penthouse Club at the Disney Studio - Disney History Institute
In the early 1940s, the Walt Disney Studio opened a men's club on the roof of its animation building, with exercise, sunbathing and other activities.