TIL Mickey Jones aka Pete from “Home Improvement” was Bob Dylan’s drummer shortly after Dylan went electric in 1966
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Chron
The strange career of Mickey Jones
Mickey Jones' strange and winding career has taken him from the world's concert stage to...
TIL that Puff the Magic Dragon really was written as a children’s poem and isn’t a euphemism for smoking weed.
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 06:02AM by cram213
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American Songwriter
The Tale Behind the Meaning of “Puff the Magic Dragon” by Peter, Paul and Mary
Released by folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, “Puff The Magic Dragon” became an instant hit, its meaning relishing in childhood innocence and imagination.
TIL that since 2013 The Price is Right has been directed by Adam Sandler. But, not that Adam Sandler.
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 06:16AM by magnumapplepi
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Distractify
Adam Sandler Directs 'The Price Is Right' — but He's Not *That* Adam Sandler
Fans of the longtime game show, 'The Price Is Right,' are curious who directs the popular series. Find out who is behind the show here!
TIL The GEICO Cavemen had their own short-lived TV series in 2007, which was described as one of the "worst TV shows ever" in the Chicago Tribune
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 05:59AM by kremod
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Cavemen (TV series)
TV series
TIL when the word "pussy" popped up in regular dialogue around the sixteenth century, it didn’t have a sexual connotation at all. It was used as a term of endearment to describe women in general and didn’t actually get sexual until the nineteenth century
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Glamour
Should You Be Using the Word Pussy If You're a Feminist?
How the super-divisive word became part of a movement
TIL that Sean Connery whilst working with Lana Turner, was confronted by Turner’s gangster boyfriend Johnny Stompanato. Stompanato drew a gun on Connery, only to be disarmed and beaten up by the actor.
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Wikipedia
Sean Connery
Scottish actor (1930–2020)
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TIL That Antarctica is approximately 1.5 times larger than the United States.
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NASA
Compare the Size of Antarctica to the Continental United States
TIL sci-fi author Issac Asimov contracted HIV in 1983 through a blood transfusion.
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Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
TIL that Anne Ramsey, best known for her role in Throw Mama From The Train (1987), her slurred speech was due to operations for her throat cancer and was in pain during the whole production. She was nominated for an Oscar. Sadly she died of her throat cancer 6 months after the ceremony.
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Film Stories
Anne Ramsey: a salute to an 80s movie hero | Film Stories
Anne Ramsey sprung to fame late in her career courtesy of The Goonies and Throw Momma From The Train - and her work very much lives on.
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TIL only one person knows where Freddie Mercury’s ashes were buried, and she has vowed never to tell.
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Death of Freddie Mercury
death of Freddie Mercury in November 1991
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TIL that in Japan, Denmark and Uruguay, it’s legal to desecrate the national flag. However, it’s illegal in those countries to desecrate other nations’ flags.
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Flag desecration
method of protest or insult
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TIL about North Korean former soldier Oh Chong Song, who defected to South Korea by simply crashing his car into the DMZ and escaped under a shower of North Korean bullets.
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 05:30PM by Mistallius
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NBC News
N. Korean defector whose escape went viral understands why he was shot
"If I were in their shoes I would have done the same thing," he told NBC News, recalling his 2017 escape.
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TIL that the Ohio Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that landowners were not liable after a man who was driving a vehicle slid on black ice, crashed into their fortified mailbox, and became paralyzed.
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 06:55PM by Sandstorm400
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News 5 Cleveland
Fortified mailbox owners in Huron County not liable in paralyzing 2016 crash
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled a Huron County couple is not liable after a truck hit their fortified mailbox and flipped in 2016, leaving the motorist with paralyzing injuries.
TIL the youngest person to ever be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease was only 19 years old, with initial symptoms beginning at 17.
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 08:28PM by coolguysamuel
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Alzheimer's Research Association
Neurologists Report World’s Youngest Alzheimer's Case - Alzheimer's Research Association
Neurologists at a memory clinic in China have diagnosed a 19-year-old man with Alzheimer’s, making him the youngest person in the world with the
TIL of Slaver ants - an entire category of ants who never work, and instead capture and enslave other ants as workers
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 07:58PM by deckartcain
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Slave-making ant
Species of ants that steal young ants of another species to contribute to their colony
TIL 5 to 6 percent of plastic in the United States was recycled in 2021, a drop from 9.5 percent in 2014
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 09:15PM by mankls3
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Greenpeace USA
Circular Claims Fall Flat Again | Greenpeace USA
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TIL that in 1965 in Turkey, a bus hit a truck that was loaded with nitric acid that stopped in the middle of the road due to a shaft issue from behind. When passengers get off the bus, their feet burned and thinking there was water in the nearest pit, they jumped into nitric acid pit. 25 died.
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1965 Hendek otobüs kazası - Vikipedi
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TIL that Napster is still around and relocating their global headquarters to Nashville… their annual revenue is $111.1M
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Submitted August 13, 2023 at 11:17PM by straightouttasuburb
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TIL about a $25.5 million lawsuit filed against Mattel over a Cabbage Patch Kids "Snacktime Kid" doll that was made to chew on plastic french fries and carrots. It allegedly gnawed a girl's hair down to her scalp and the lawsuit stated that the entire family would require psychological help.
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The Spokesman-Review
$25.5 Million Suit Filed In Doll Attack Parents Say Whole Family Needs Therapy After Girl’s Hair Chewed
The parents of a 9-year-old girl filed a $25.5 million lawsuit claiming their family will need therapy because of an "attack" on their daughter by a Cabbage Patch doll. Mattel pulled the Cabbage Patch Kids Snacktime Kids doll from the market this month after…
TIL Steven Hawking cheated on his first wife with his nurse Elaine Mason. Elaine was also married to the man who helped create Steven Hawking's speech synthesizer. Then Steven Hawking married her.
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Genius Celebs
Did Stephen Hawking Cheat On His Wife With Nurse Diana?
Did Stephen Hawking cheat on his wife, Elaine Mason, with the nurse, Diana King? Let's find it out.
TIL in ancient Egypt, under the decree of Ptolemy II, all ships visiting the city were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.
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Library of Alexandria
one of the largest libraries in the ancient world, located in Alexandria, Egypt