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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Submitted August 22, 2023 at 08:19PM by Stuweb
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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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Submitted August 22, 2023 at 05:58PM by Hour-Sheepherder2580
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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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Submitted August 22, 2023 at 08:16PM by 9oRo
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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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Submitted August 22, 2023 at 10:55PM by dodli
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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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Submitted August 22, 2023 at 08:45PM by FifaConCarne
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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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HuffPost UK
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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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 01:32AM by sukarsono
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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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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 01:14AM by LocalChamp
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BBC News
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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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 04:06PM by sanandrios
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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.
TIL That worldwide the daily consumption of Coca Cola is at 2.6 billion servings, or approximately 11000 soft drinks per second.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 03:04PM by deckartcain
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TIL The Great Pyramid of Giza actually has 8 sides. It can only be seen from above, when the sunlight hits at the right angle, and was discovered by accident in 1940 by an RAF pilot flying overhead.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 04:14PM by ZealousidealLuck6303
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Curiosmos
Were All 3 Ancient Giza Pyramids Built With 8 and Not 4 Sides? — Curiosmos
All three pyramids at the Giza plateau are stunning feats of ancient engineerring. But do they have 8 or 4 sides? Check out these images.
TIL that 1997 video game Golden Eye 007 is so well appreciated, that it was placed on exhibit in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 05:31PM by OnAFalseErrand
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GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)
1997 video game
TIL that Mike Brown, the astronomer most responsible for demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet, noscriptd his memoir "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming".
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 06:04PM by Skeleton_Pilots
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
book by Michael E. Brown
TIL Josef Mangele aka The Angel of Death, who was the chief Nazi Dr at Auschwitz, died of old age in Brazil in 1979
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HISTORY
Josef Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death,” dies
Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps, dies of a stroke while swimming in Brazil—although his death was not verified until 1985. When war erupted, Mengele was a medical officer with the…
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TIL while in prison in 1932 Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie & Clyde) amputated two of his toes to avoid hard labor in the fields. Unbeknownst to him, his mother had petitioned for his release and he was released six days later.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 07:34PM by AlbinNboat
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Bonnie and Clyde
American bank robbers
TIL: Mrs. Watanabe is a collection of thousands of Japanese housewives who invest while at home. In the early 2000s, they achieved cult status worldwide as investing gurus by using Forex to exchange yen for other currencies, causing a noticeable impact on global currency markets.
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Submitted August 23, 2023 at 07:10PM by Flares117
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The New Indian Express
The fabled Mrs Watanabe of Japan and a few lessons to take from her
If you intend to find an extra alpha in the ensuing rate easing cycle, it is time to take a lesson or two from scores of Japanese housewives.