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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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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blogs.ucl.ac.uk
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
TIL about how scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 07:20PM by habeshasamurai
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ZME Science
How scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared
You may have thought things like currency or money are concepts known solely by man - something which differentiates humans from animals. Some might have a sense of ownership, besides of course territory, but trading and the likes haven't been observed in…
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TIL when his movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith was going over budget, director Doug Liman dug into his own savings account and built a set in his mother's Upstate New York garage. And then blew it up with a hand grenade.
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Submitted August 05, 2023 at 05:31PM by Comic_Book_Reader
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VULTURE
How Doug Liman Convinced Harrods to Let Him Shoot Locked Down in Its Vaults
Doug Liman’s COVID heist movie began with a dare: write a screenplay, land financing, and rush into production, all while in lockdown.
TIL The actor who played Random Task in Austin Powers was sentenced to 7 years for torture (SA) and a further 27 years for murdering his cell mate whilst incarcerated
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Wikipedia
Joe Son
American mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and actor
TIL Disney/Disneyland formulated 2 specific colors (Go Away Green and Blending Blue) to help “erase” backstage buildings and camouflage parts of the park that are under construction.
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Inside the Magic
Disney Secretly Invented Two Colors (and They’re Everywhere!)
Two of the most used paint colors at Disney World are camouflaged to make your eyes ignore them so you can enjoy the scenery at the parks.
TIL Six years after surviving a shark attack and following repeated appeals to South Australian authorities, Chris Blowes finally won a special exemption that gave him the legal right to possession of the tooth of the great white shark that took his leg. (Full story in comments)
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BBC News
Shark attack survivor wins right to keep tooth left in surfboard
Surfer Chris Bowes lost his leg but authorities return a tooth the shark left wedged in his board.
TIL Throughout history, only 8 people received Honorary citizenship of the United States. Sir Winston Churchill and Saint Teresa of Calcutta were the only ones to receive the honor during their lifetimes.
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Honorary citizenship of the United States
Title of honor conferred by either the United States Congress or the President of the United States
TIL potatoes yield 17.8 million calories per acre, so you could feed a family of four on less than 1/4 acre
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www.waldeneffect.org
Calories per acre for various foods
we could feed many more people with the same amount of land if we all became vegetarians, but only if we stuck to potatoes and corn.
TIL Canadian Physicians Can Now Prescribe Nature To Patients
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NPR
A new program in Canada gives doctors the option of prescribing national park visits
And the best part? The annual passes are free.
TIL “☪️OE✡️IS✝️” was designed by a Piotr Mlodozeniec for a contest held by an art museum in Jerusalem. The design gained popularity when Indians students trademarked it and sold it on shirts. Their legal team then reached out to Mlodozeniec for permission to use it so they could sue a competitor.
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Vox
The big fight over Coexist
The Coexist logo is about getting along — but it started a legal war.
TIL About 1 in 9 people age 65 and older have Alzheimer's.
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Submitted August 06, 2023 at 08:53AM by PR1ZE0
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TIL the 16th century philosopher Michel de Montaigne was raised in an experiment by his parents to learn Latin as a first language. From birth, his tutor, servants and parents were only ever allowed to speak to him in Latin.
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Submitted August 06, 2023 at 10:18AM by CapnFancyPants
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Michel de Montaigne
French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)
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TIL that on Jupiter's moon Io, tidal effects from Jupiter cause the ground itself to move up and down by 300 feet. Typical tidal range on earth is 3 feet in the open ocean.
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spaceplace.nasa.gov
High Tide on IO! | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
What do you get when you cross an earthquake with a tidal wave?
TIL The first oranges weren’t orange. The original oranges from Southeast Asia were a tangerine-pomelo hybrid, and they were actually green. In fact, oranges in warmer regions, such as Vietnam and Thailand, still stay green through maturity.
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HT School
Did you know that the first oranges weren’t actually orange? - HT School
Your Gateway To Fun Learning, Championing the cause of education through national-level initiatives.
TIL that Shampoo was first discovered in India
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Wikipedia
Shampoo
hair care product
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TIL That people think in different ways. People who think in the verbaliser style have spoken word associations (ex: talk to themselves in their head) and people who think in the imager style think in images; and there are people who use both styles.
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Submitted August 06, 2023 at 05:41PM by Perma_Gum
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TIL that a moose will swim in water to eat the aquatic vegetation. Though they prefer shallow water, there was an eyewitness account of a moose diving at 18 feet of water to eat just the vegetation.
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Submitted August 06, 2023 at 07:18PM by devicto89
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Teton Science Schools
Can Moose Really Dive? | Teton Science Schools
“Did you know that moose can dive as deep as five meters?” This factoid is repeated by educators across the circumpolar range of Alces alces, and often is received amazement and maybe a few chuckles…
TIL it was Avi Arad's idea to make Stan Lee cameos a tradition, but Sam Raimi originally didn't want Lee to cameo in Spider-Man, saying, "imagine you’re a minor director in England doing Macbeth and you’re told, 'Put the writer in the play.' It sounds absurd."
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The Hollywood Reporter
Sam Raimi on Pitching a ‘Thor’ Movie With Stan Lee — and Getting Rejected
‘Spider-Man’ director Sam Raimi worried that putting Stan Lee in his movie was a bad idea.
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TIL that less than two weeks after the French surrender in WWII, the British attacked a French naval base to prevent Germany from using the ships. Over 1,200 died and multiple ships were destroyed or damaged. Vichy France retaliated by bombing Gibraltar and cutting off diplomatic relations.
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Submitted August 06, 2023 at 10:02PM by DemocrrrracyManifest
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Wikipedia
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. The attack was the main…