TIL: Woden was an Anglo-Saxon god from which our day of the week Wednesday is named after. Woden had a career in curing horses and carrying off the dead, and Wednesday is his day (Woden’s day). Various spellings—wodnesdaeg, Weodnesdei, Wenysday, wonysday, Weddinsday have been used
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Mental Floss
11 Weirdly Spelled Words—And How They Got That Way
Ever wonder why there’s a ‘k’ in ‘knead,’ or a ‘d’ in “Wednesday’?
TIL Actor Kurt Russell first reported the famous Phoenix Lights UFO sighting, in which thousands of Phoenix residents all claim to have seen a UFO
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 01:14AM by Admirable-Pepper-641
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IndieWire
Kurt Russell Reveals He Was the Pilot Who Reported the Phoenix Lights UFO Sighting — Watch
Is there nothing he can't do?
TIL: the actor that played the mailman in Cheers is 4th in all time box office returns amongst actors
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 01:54AM by keiths31
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Wikipedia
List of highest-grossing actors
Wikimedia list article
TIL that the snus pack size is exactly the size of an ice hockey puck, because it was developed for ice hockey players, to fit in the puck pockets.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 10:58PM by jonasbinger
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Snusinfo.no
The great snus guide - Snusinfo.no
With 150 different types of snus and continuous innovation, it can be hard to find the snus you want or the snus you should have.
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TIL That in response to a lawsuit, hackers from the Anonymous group took PlayStation network offline for 23 days and leaked the creditcard informations of 77 million users
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 02:31AM by deckartcain
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Wikipedia
2011 PlayStation Network outage
2011 outage of PlayStation Network caused by electronic attack
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TIL Goldman Sachs released a report questioning whether manufacturing cures is a "sustainable business model"
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CNBC
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
TIL: The current estimated time that it would take to free fall to the center of the earth is 38 minutes and 11 seconds.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 04:44AM by f-150Coyotev8
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Science
How long would it take you to fall through Earth?
Physicist revises classic calculation
TIL: Rich people have their own apps. For shopping they use James Edition, which sells everything from jets and yachts to a chair made out of chrome AK-47s. For Instagram, there's "Rich Kids" which cost $1k/mo. For dating, they have "Luxy" which can ban you if you're too poor or ugly.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 07:23AM by Flares117
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CNBC
The super wealthy have their own exclusive versions of Amazon, Tinder and Instagram
The filthy rich don't use the internet like the rest of us.
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TIL the death of George Reeves, the "original Superman" in the 1950s, was not from jumping out a window thinking he actually was superhuman as rumoured, but by gunshot to the head suicide.
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Snopes
George Reeves Superman Death
Did the actor who played TV's Superman kill himself by trying to fly like his character?
TIL Grover Cleveland first met his future wife while she was still an infant, and he bought her her first baby carriage.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 01:57AM by jkm97
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Wikipedia
Frances Cleveland
First Lady of the United States (1886–1889, 1893–1897)
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TIL that even though the Minions from “Despicable Me” speak a fictitious language, they are re-dubbed for each language the films are released in so that their speech patterns are recognizable to the audience.
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Minions (Despicable Me)
fictional characters
TIL in 1837 a blacksmith and tool maker in Illinois was gaining attention over his innovations to the plow. His self cleaning steel headed plow tilled the tough midwest soil with ease and aided the migration into the Great Plain. That blacksmith's name was John Deere.
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Wikipedia
John Deere
American agricultural and industrial auto manufacturing corporation
TIL During WW2, the American military went from 2,500 planes to over 300,000 aircraft used by the end of the war
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 03:36PM by RastaCakes
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Smithsonian Institution
World War II Aircraft | Smithsonian Institution
World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end.... Learn more
TIL 2% of People Have a Gene for Stink-Free Armpits, Don’t Require Deodorant
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 04:25PM by mike-rowe-paynus
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Smithsonian Magazine
A Lucky Two Percent of People Have a Gene for Stink-Free Armpits
But a new study finds most of them still use deodorant
TIL fires that last under snow, through winter, hibernating and sometimes causing wildfires the following spring are called zombie fires.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 02:07PM by Bravesttiger
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CNN
‘Zombie fires’ are already smoldering in the Arctic. They could become more common as the planet warms
A new report finds that while so-called “zombie fires” are currently responsible for a small portion of the land scarred by wildfires today in the world’s boreal forests, they could become more prevalent as the climate warms.
TIL some US states have restrictions on collecting rainwater, while other states encourage it
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 04:57PM by Cant_think_of_shz
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Energy.gov
Rainwater Harvesting Regulations Map
Provides information on how rainwater is regulated in each state, as well as regulatory and technical information where applicable.
TIL the Majority of Millennials and Gen Z use subnoscripts when streaming TV
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 06:53PM by mankls3
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YPulse
The Majority of Young People Are Using Subnoscripts When They Watch TV - YPulse
Gen Z and Millennials, Subnoscripts, Accessibility, Netflix, Stranger Things, Squid Game, TikTok, Deaf creators
TIL that moose are deer.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 05:39PM by medicfourlife
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National Wildlife Federation
Moose | National Wildlife Federation
Learn facts about the moose’s habitat, diet, life history, and more.
TIL the Pokemon Snorlax is based off of one of the original game designers for Pokemon
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 05:31PM by TheGreatAvacado
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IGN
Pokémon's Snorlax Is Based on a Real Person - IGN
Kōji Nishino's just as cuddly as you might think, and he's got a stomach of steel.
TIL that by the late 90s, 80% of digital library catalogs ran on the PICK operating system, named after its developer Dick Pick.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 06:41PM by sudeenhux
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Wikipedia
Dynix (software)
The Dynix Automated Library System was a popular integrated library system, with a heyday from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s. It was used by libraries to replace the paper-based card catalog, and track lending of materials from the library to patrons.
TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 07:24PM by BigfootDynamite
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Mental Floss
The Apollo Astronaut Who Was Allergic to the Moon
In 1972, geologist Harrison Schmitt became the only professional scientist to ever put boots on the Moon. And then he began sneezing.
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