TIL The U.S. Government Sends a Handful of People 300 Joints per Month. The Program Was Shut Down in 1992, With Only 13 Patients Being Grandfathered In.
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Submitted August 04, 2023 at 06:47PM by Driassiglz
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US Government Gives Free Joints for Life
The federal government gives free joints for life to a few lucky people since 1978. In fact, there are some receiving up to 300 joints a month.
TIL Saskatchewan, Canada has sand dunes covering an area of over 1900 square km (733.6 square miles) and are usually 15-20 meters tall (49 - 65 ft).
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Submitted August 04, 2023 at 05:15PM by Soupdeloup
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To Do Canada
Great Sandhills: Hike This Unique Desert in Saskatchewan | To Do Canada
Discover the Great Sandhills, a hidden treasure in southwestern Saskatchewan. It is one of the largest sets of active sand dunes in the whole of Canada. Strong,... Read more »
TIL Tamara Torlakson pooped her pants while running a marathon and still set her personal best.
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Submitted August 04, 2023 at 08:05PM by Signal_Professor6501
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Insider
A woman who pooped her pants halfway through a marathon and ran with it in her shorts until she crossed the finish line achieved…
"I don't know if it's possible to poop while running, but I will try," Tamara Torlakson thought. She achieved a personal best with soiled shorts.
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TIL Helen Viola Jackson who died in December 2020 was the last surviving civil war veteran’s spouse. She was married to someone alive at the time of Abraham Lincoln
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Submitted August 04, 2023 at 08:27PM by AwaitingBreakfast
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Peoplemag
Last Known Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 in Missouri
At just 17, Helen Viola Jackson married 93-year-old widower James Bolin, but chose to keep her story private for most of her life
TIL that in 2014 Steven Seagal released a Jamaican Dancehall song called "Strut" featuring the most x-rated local female artist of that time. He sings the song in a fake Jamaican accent.
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Steven Seagal feat. Lady Saw - Strut
Girl what you really want all night
Me want the buddy, make me feel nice
Boy what you really want all night
Me want the poonani, see for make nice
She want the buddy
Him want the poonani
And me know it nice
When the girls start to strut
you could look at…
Me want the buddy, make me feel nice
Boy what you really want all night
Me want the poonani, see for make nice
She want the buddy
Him want the poonani
And me know it nice
When the girls start to strut
you could look at…
TIL that tomato juice was invented at the French Lick Springs Hotel in 1917 when their chef ran out of orange juice and needed a substitute
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Submitted August 04, 2023 at 08:12PM by TimelyConcern
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Wikipedia
Tomato juice
beverage made from tomatoes
TIL about that time a British Airways flight got grounded because of a smelly poop
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Submitted August 04, 2023 at 08:12PM by habeshasamurai
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BBC News
'Smelly poo' forces flight to turn back - BBC News
A BA flight from London to Dubai was forced to land early because of safety worries over a "smelly poo" in the toilet.
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TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.
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Submitted August 04, 2023 at 10:32PM by Not_so_ghetto
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TIL that in highly intelligent children, their cortex develops LATER than less intelligent children
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 12:50AM by 86666faster
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Cbsnews
Smart Kids' Brains May Mature Later
Lag Behind Other Kids In Development Of 'Thinking' Part Of Brain, Study Says
TIL The first case of a DUI was a London Cabbie named George Smith who was swerving all over the place on September 10th, 1897 shortly after midnight. He was fined 20 schillings and told to be more careful next time.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 12:13AM by EQ2_Tay
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The British Newspaper Archive Blog | Amazing finds and news from over 300 years of historical newspapers
London cabbie George Smith arrested for drunk driving in 1897 | The British Newspaper Archive Blog
The first person to be arrested and charged for driving under the influence of alcohol was George Smith on 10 September 1897. Read about what happened.
TIL that a law student at The University Of Malaga in Spain attempted to cheat on his exams with 11 BIC pens that had the answers etched on them.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 02:46AM by delano1998
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Oddity Central
Student Tries to Cheat on Law School Exam with Intricately Etched BIC Pens
A Spanish law school teacher recently shared one of the ingenious methods that one of her students used to cheat on an exam - a dozen of artistically etched BIC pens. Yolanda de Lucchi, a teacher at the University of Malaga, in Spain, recently shared a couple…
TIL of the Outcomes Paradox in schizophrenia — Patients treated for schizophrenia in some developing countries have better outcomes than patients treated for schizophrenia in developed nations.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 04:20AM by ShredAloha
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Nature
Developing countries: The outcomes paradox
Nature - Schizophrenia patients in developing countries seem to fare better than their Western counterparts. Researchers are keen to find out why.
TIL a Goldman Sachs report believes close to 300 million jobs will be lost to AI. It could replace a quarter of the workforce in US and Europe.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 05:28AM by Signal_Professor6501
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BBC News
AI could affect 300 million jobs - report - BBC News
ChatGPT-style AI will have a large impact but new jobs could emerge, a Goldman Sachs report says.
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TIL two aviation incidents happened where superstitious, inexperienced passengers tried to throw coins into the plane's engines for good luck before the flight.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 05:30AM by RollingNightSky
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South China Morning Post
Why Chinese air rage may be a genre all its own: academic
Asians are more tolerant of discomfort, Westerners are prone to drunken brawls, and no one behaves quite like unruly Chinese passengers – they misunderstand the guest-servant relationship, according to a Hong Kong academic.
TIL Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have actually hung a man. Serving as Sheriff of Erie county, he hanged at least two convicted murderers.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 03:49AM by ShouldBeDoingHWProb
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Wikipedia
Grover Cleveland
President of the United States from 1885–89 and 1893–97
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TIL that Karl Marx earned 400 pounds from trading on the London Stock Exchange
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 11:07AM by Shturm-7-0
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The Globe and Mail
Turns out, the fathers of communism were quite the savvy investors
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were trades on the London Stock Exchange
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TIL the first picture of a human being taken was of a man in Paris in 1838 who had stopped to have his shoes shined and didn't move long enough to be captured in the 10 minute photo exposure time.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 08:43AM by gonejahman
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Un jour de plus à Paris
The first picture of a human being taken in Paris in 1838
The story of the first photograph of a human being, taken Boulevard du Temple, in Paris, in 1838.
TIL turn signal neglect is twice as dangerous as distracted driving
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 03:18PM by TokensOfWorship
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Click On Detroit
Society of Automotive Engineers study says turn signal neglect results in twice as many crashes as distracted driving
In a revealing new report published by the <a href="http://www.sae.org/" target="_blank">Society of Automotive Engineers</a> this week at the 2012 SAE World Congress, an in-depth observation study of turn signal rate-of-neglect not only exposes how widespread…
TIL a Polish charity placed a tracker on the back of a white stork to track the birds migratory habits. It travelled to Sudan before the charity lost contact. Somebody found the tracker, removed the sim card and put it in their own phone, where they then racked up $2700 worth of phone calls.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 05:11PM by HOLUPREDICTIONS
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BBC News
Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
A lost stork has left a Polish environmental charity with a hefty bill to pay.
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TIL that in 1320, the city of Avignon put an entire species of beetle on trial to try and protect their harvest, and they demanded the beetles to withdraw to a designated reserve. When the beetles refused to comply, they were outlawed, detained, and killed.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 11:22AM by BenBo92
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Specimen of the Week 293: The Cockchafer | UCL UCL Culture Blog
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TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 05:54PM by Prof_Acorn
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Wikipedia
Death by boiling
method of execution in which a person is killed by being immersed in a boiling liquid