TIL Jessica Cox is the world's first licensed armless pilot, as well as the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association.
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Submitted August 15, 2023 at 03:15PM by ParadoxicalState
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Wikipedia
Jessica Cox
Armless aviator
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TIL Rick Marin from the New York Times called the record label Sub-Pop and asked Megan Jasper for a lexicon of Grunge slang. She kept giving him progressively more ridiculous terms as a joke thinking he would call her out on it, but instead he believed every word of it and published them.
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Submitted August 15, 2023 at 05:14PM by Adramere
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The Ringer
When Grunge Was Fake News
How an inspired prank helped the Seattle music scene get its revenge on the world
TIL the working noscripts for Marvel’s Spider-Man movies include “Summer of George” and “Serenity Now”
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Submitted August 15, 2023 at 06:45PM by ChuckerGeorge
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Comicbook.com
Marvel Studios' Spider-Man 3 Working Title Revealed
In case you need another clue that things are heating up on the next chapter of Marvel Studios' [...]
TIL that 92 people have died from snakebites during religious ceremonies.
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Submitted August 15, 2023 at 08:21PM by EmbrYoYo_
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USA TODAY
Funeral for Pastor Jamie Coots, who died Saturday from a snakebite, is Tuesday.
TIL: In Japan, there is a growing ultra educated (Masters/Phd) working poor class that makes around $27,000. This is due to an abundance of part time lecturers with PhDs, but not enough students, online classes, and a declining population. Many professors work at convenience stores or quit teaching.
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nippon.com
The Tragedy of the Part-Time Lecturer: Poverty on the Rise Among Japan’s PhDs
Higher education in Japan is supported by an army of part-time lecturers who are unable to secure stable employment or decent wages despite their advanced degrees. The pandemic has highlighted the plight of this academic underclass and the deeper problems…
TIL that when Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
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Submitted August 15, 2023 at 09:51PM by ParadoxicalState
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Electronics Weekly.com
Apple’s Employee No. 0
Robert X Cringely, in his wonderful book Accidental Empires, tells a rib-tickling yarn about the early days of Apple. It happened in the late 1970’s when Apple had grown beyond the point that all the employees knew each other on sight. So it was decided that…
TIL there are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.
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Submitted August 15, 2023 at 09:41PM by zonakev
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Sciencefocus
Why is there poo on the Moon?
Who knows what could have become of the poo left on the Moon?
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TIL Actress Kayden Kross appeared nude in a footage of Breaking Bad called "Chicks and Guns". She danced for 14 hours but despite this, the 8-minute footage never made the final cut and was only made available on DVD release.
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Kayden Kross
American pornographic actress
TIL that Barry Sanders' own father asserted that Jim Brown was the greatest runningback ever, and at Barry's HOF induction called him the third best RB ever and barely praised his own son.
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Submitted August 16, 2023 at 01:34AM by queenbeez66
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THE OKLAHOMAN
William Sanders ignores son Barry in Hall introduction
CANTON, Ohio Mark it down as the goofiest speech in Pro Football Hall of Fame history. William Sanders, asked by his son to introduce him at the induction ceremony on Sunday, indeed spoke. But not ab…
TIL of Albert. A Black-browed albatross that became stuck in the northern Atlantic in the 1960s and has been visiting British Gannet colonies for over 50 years searching for a mate he can never find.
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | No romance for lovesick albatross
An albatross has spent 40 years looking for romance in Scotland, 8,000 miles away any potential mates.
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TIL the original purpose of screensavers was to avoid burn-in on screens! (Burn in is when a picture stays still on the monitor for too long and stays there forever)
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Submitted August 16, 2023 at 03:38AM by fahad_the_great
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Screensaver
computer program that blanks the screen or fills it with moving images
TIL at one point the sport of Jai Alai was a gambling alternative to horse and greyhound racing in the US and grew a following in Florida. Today only one fronton, the arena in which it's played, remains in the state.
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Jai alai
type of sport
TIL Sigmund Freud wrote a book where he claimed Moses actually worshipped an Egyptian sun deity.
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Moses and Monotheism
book
TIL Freud liked cocaine so much that he would give it to friends and family as a gift.
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Submitted August 16, 2023 at 08:03AM by graycatfat
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TIL 88% of households in America have air conditioning while only 20% do in Europe
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Submitted August 16, 2023 at 09:58AM by mankls3
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Nbcnews
Europeans face a heat wave conundrum
Air conditioners are not the best for the planet long term, but Europeans may need to care a bit more about themselves in the short term and start installing more of them.
TIL that there were no Kings of England named William for a period of nearly 600 years; William II died in 1100 and William III ascended to the throne in 1688.
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List of English monarchs
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the Anglo-Saxons from about…
TIL that Gal Gadot was five months pregnant while shooting for wonder woman. So, the costume department covered her belly with a bright green fabric that they could digitally alter in postproduction.
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Submitted August 16, 2023 at 10:19AM by ParadoxicalState
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Hindustan Times
Gal Gadot was pregnant while shooting for Wonder Woman
Gal Gadot was pregnant during much of the shooting of Wonder Woman; in fact, she was five months pregnant when she had to reshoot a particular scene. We don’t see it, thanks to some CGI magic.
TIL when 22-year-old nanny Marissa Mowry announced she was pregnant, the 11-year-old she was babysitting told his mom it's his son. A DNA test confirmed he was the father and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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FOX 13 Tampa Bay
Five years after giving birth to victim's child, nanny sentenced to 20 years
Once a live-in nanny, Merissa Mowry was sentenced to 20 years for sexually battering the child for whom she was supposed to care, resulting in the birth of another child.
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TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.
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Past Peculiar
1641: One-eyed man hanged for fathering deformed piglet
In 1641 the people of New Haven heard news that a monstrous piglet, bearing human-like features, had been delivered by a sow owned by Mrs Wakeman.
TIL a common trope of early vernacular Chinese novels was "(A) lone Tibetan monk with his potent aphrodisiacs and retractable penis"
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Submitted August 16, 2023 at 06:24AM by JakeyZhang
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Shenlou zhi
Shenlou zhi (蜃樓志) is a Chinese erotic novel written in the Qing dynasty by an unknown author. Predominantly set in Ming dynasty Guangzhou, it follows the political career and love life of young polygamist Su Jishi (蘇吉士). First published in 1804, an unabridged…
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TIL Moray eels have two sets of jaws: the oral jaws and the pharyngeal jaws
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Submitted August 16, 2023 at 03:26PM by Character-Ad8382
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www.nsf.gov
Moray Eels Are Uniquely Equipped to Pack Big Prey Into Their Narrow Bodies
Two sets of jaws capture and move prey to throat for swallowing