TIL that Charles Martinet, the voice actor of Mario, was living out of a suitcase for 5 years. In 2013, he was evicted from his home due to a legal dispute with the family of his deceased landlord.
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Charles Martinet
American actor and voice actor
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TIL rapper Mos Def began his career as an actor. Before the release of his critically acclaimed album 'Black On Both Sides' in 1998, he had already starred in multiple sitcoms, had a Visa commercial with Deion Sanders, and played a small role in the short film 'Ghosts' alongside Michael Jackson
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Mos Def
American rapper and actor from New York
TIL Of the Curse of the Ninth, the superstition that a composer will die before finishing their tenth symphony. Beethoven and Schubert both died after their ninth symphonies. Gustav Mahler attempted to beat the curse with musical structural changes but he also died before finishing his tenth.
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Curse of the ninth
Superstition regarding classical music
TIL that the founders of Lululemon gave it its name because they thought it would sound Western to Japanese consumers, who have difficulty pronouncing the letter L. They thought it would be funny to watch Japanese people try to pronounce the name.
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Lululemon Athletica
Canadian athletic apparel retailer
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TIL the vocals for the Bonnie Raitt classic "I Can't Make You Love Me" were recorded in only one take. The song was so sad that when asked to record another take she responded "You know, this ain't going to happen."
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I Can't Make You Love Me
"I Can't Make You Love Me" is a song written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by American singer Bonnie Raitt for her eleventh studio album, Luck of the Draw (1991). Released as the album's second single in 1991, "I Can't Make You Love Me" became…
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TIL that Pan Am were booking flights to the moon, between 1969 & 1971, they processed around 93,000 reservation tickets for free. They stopped taking reservations because of the admit costs but maintained well into the 1980's that the tickets would be honoured, if and when flights were possible.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities
Long Before SpaceX, Pan Am Was Booking Flights to the Moon
TIL the mayor of Knox County, TN is a 7 foot tall WWE wrestler known as Kane
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Submitted August 22, 2023 at 06:46PM by GammSunBurst
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Kane (wrestler)
American professional wrestler, actor, and politician
TIL the King of Spain was given hormones by the Spanish secret service to reduces his sex drive, as it was as it was seen as a state problem.
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Juan Carlos I
Juan Carlos I (Spanish: [xwaŋˈkaɾlos]; Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 19 June 2014.…
TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.
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Roman timekeeping
hour system where a day is divided into 24 hours: 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness
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TIL that in a 1990 World Cup qualifying match between Brazil and Chile, the Chilean goalkeeper cut himself with a razor blade hidden in one of his gloves and pretended to be hurt by a flare thrown by Brazilian fans, with the purpose of nullifying the result of the game. He was banned until 2001
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El Maracanazo
The Maracanazo of the Chilean team (Spanish: Maracanazo de la selección chilena, also known as Condorazo or Bengalazo) was an incident that happened during the football match between Brazil and Chile at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on 3 September…
TIL In a scientific lecture about erectile dysfunction that took place in a urologists convention in 1983, renowned professor of urology Sir Giles Brindley whipped out his erect member and attempted to grant the aghast members of the audience a close inspection, resulting in a pandemonium
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BJU International
How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture
Click on the article noscript to read more.
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TIL that while lightly roasted coffee contains more caffeine, dark roasts are also more soluble than lighter ones, which means it is easier for the caffeine from a darker coffee roast to wind up in your cup.
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Drinktrade
A Simplified Guide To Light Roast vs Dark Roast | Trade Coffee
Interested in learning not only how coffee is roasted but what different roast levels mean? Check out our guide to light roast vs dark roast coffee today!
TIL, In 2010, 80yr old María de Jesus suffered a heart attack and was pronounced dead at a LA morgue. Days later, morticians returned to pull her body for the funeral & found an unzipped bodybag and a corpse with bruises. It was determined that she tried to escape, broke her nose & froze to death
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 02:12AM by TheReaIist
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Elderly Woman 'Frozen Alive In Hospital Morgue'
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TIL: 2 and 3 toed sloths are more distant evolutionary relatives than humans and chimpanzees, 30m vs 6m years
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University of Chicago News
Study shakes up sloth family tree
Unique method finds two-toed sloths are last members of ‘extinct’ ancient family
TIL in 2013 businessman Tan Youhui hired a hitman to take out a competitor. That hitman hired another and so on ending up with 5 hitmen subcontracted for the same job and the plan falling apart.
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Hesitant hitmen jailed over botched assassination in China
Five hitmen who tried to subcontract a job to one another see their cunning plan fall apart.
TIL that the T.V. show Archer had to re-name the characters' employer. At the start of the series the characters worked for "the International Secret Intelligence Service" (prominently called I.S.I.S. for short). When the Iraq occupation ended real world events gave the name an unwanted connotation.
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Archer (season 6)
The sixth season of the American animated comedy television series Archer premiered in the United States on FX on January 8, 2015. The season concluded on April 2, 2015, consisting of 13 episodes.
TIL that Ford filed a patent over technology that could remotely disable a car radio or air conditioner, lock someone out of a vehicle, or cause a car to constantly beep, if a car payment is missed.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 04:36AM by Sandstorm400
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Fortune
Ford wants to be able to shut down your air conditioner and radio if you miss a car payment—and the car could even drive away on…
“You’ve now created this device which is like the doomsday device in Dr. Strangelove."
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TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
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Hadassah Magazine
Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth | Hadassah Magazine
By any measure, Brooklyn is the most Jewish place in America. Approximately 600,000 Jews—from Hasids to hipsters—now call the borough home.
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TIL an Australian drugs-related jury trial costing over A$ 1 million with 105 witnesses was aborted when it was discovered that four or five of the twelve jurors had been playing Sudoku instead of listening to the evidence for most of the trial.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 03:20AM by --throwaway
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The game's up: jurors playing Sudoku abort trial
TIL that if Bill Gates told a Microsoft employee "You’re full of shit. That’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard", that meant that the software mogul was amazed and impressed. "In the lore of Microsoft, if Bill says that to you, you’re made", an employee said.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 03:07PM by TMWNN
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IEEE Spectrum
Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics
The original Flight Simulator let your 1982-era computer make you feel like you were actually flying. The trick has been to retain that feel in today’s video-rich world
TIL in 2019, a former US spy killed a British teen by driving on the wrong side of the road in the UK. She was granted diplomatic immunity, fled the UK, and never returned. It took 3 years for her to be sentenced and she received no jail time.
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Sky News
Anne Sacoolas: Former US spy avoids jail over death of teen motorcyclist Harry Dunn
Sacoolas left the UK in August 2019 after the fatal crash which killed Harry Dunn, 19, outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.