TIL Beethoven admired Napoleon and the French Revolution. When Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804 Beethoven broke into a rage denouncing him, saying "He lowered himself to the level of an ordinary king."
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Submitted August 28, 2023 at 11:56PM by Joseph_Stalin100
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TIL That Steve Burns, AKA Steve from Blue's Clues, wrote the main theme "Mighty Little Man" for Young Sheldon, as well as stars in several episodes as "Nathan", Sheldon Cooper's inappropriately aged friend.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 01:18AM by Agoeb
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Steve Burns
American actor
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TIL: In 2019, a lawyer and a software developer brute force copyrighted every possible melody and entered them into public domain to insulate musicians from ‘stolen melody’ lawsuits.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 04:50AM by windingtime
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Hackaday
Brute-Forced Copyrighting: Liberating All The Melodies
Bluntly stated, music is in the end just applied physics. Harmony follows — depending on the genre — a more or less fixed set of rules, and there are a limited amount of variation poss…
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TIL of Harada Sanosuke, an Edo period Samurai who was once ridiculed for not knowing how to properly commit seppuku. To prove his critic wrong, he drew his sword and attempted seppuku on the spot, but ended up surviving as the wound was too shallow.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 03:56AM by VampireAccountant
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Harada Sanosuke
samurai
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TIL there is an entire industry of "family offices": firms dedicated to managing enormous, secretive pools of generational wealth for "ultra-high-net-worth individuals"
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 07:57AM by aprettyp
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Investopedia
What Is a Family Office and Do You Need One?
Family offices are private wealth management advisory firms that serve ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
TIL that people of normal weight with the apple body shape are at higher risk of death than overweight or obese people with pear or hourglass shaped bodies
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 05:39AM by ThrowRAknanjo
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Nbcnews
Killer Figure: Why Having an Apple Shape Can Be Deadly
A pot belly can be a bad thing, even if you're not considered overweight.
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TIL Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and better soaks into objects, which is why it’s known as “wet water.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 10:04AM by TheQuietKid22
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The Brain Maze
Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter | The Brain Maze
Firefighters in many places have embraced the use of “wetting agents” as part of their everyday operational tactics. In order to be more efficient in their work of distinguishing fires…
TIL the raising of the American Flag on Iwo Jima was not a planned thing, and was also makeshift. They used a drain pipe that the Japanese used to catch rain water in trenches. This was also the first time an American Flag was raised on Japanese soil in WW2.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 05:21AM by ProMatrix30
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II
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TIL Explorer James Cook charted "Sandy Island" near Australia, but it does not seem to exist and was not removed from maps until 1974.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 09:44AM by FizzlePopBerryTwist
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Sandy Island, New Caledonia
phantom island in New Caledonia
TIL BBC News 24 mistakenly interviewed Guy Goma, a job applicant, instead of technology journalist Guy Kewney. The incident became a famous BBC blooper.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 02:37PM by 55_jumbo
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Guy Goma BBC interview
Congolese student
TIL that the state of Michigan rejected more than 21,000 custom license plates over the past decade for being “offensive” - and you can read them all because providing everything in the system was the only way to fulfill a FOIA request for 1 year of rejections since the system “can’t sort by date”
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Detroit Metro Times
Michigan rejected 21,000+ vanity license plates for being offensive
‘BONER4U,’ ‘EFTRUMP,’ and ‘F1STM3’ are among the vanity plate requests rejected by the state
TIL that in 1980, the city of Philadelphia became the only North American city in which all four major sports teams played for their respective championships in one year (NBA/NHL/MLB/NFL). Although the Phillies were the only team to win the championship that year.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 03:21PM by starkfr
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thesportsnotebook.com
The Grand Slam Of 1980 Philadelphia Sports
Philly saw its teams make the World Series, Super Bowl and Finals in the NHL and NBA. Learn about the teams of 1980 Philadelphia sports.
TIL of Triboulet: a Royal jester for King Francis of France who was sentenced to death for mocking the King and Queen. King Francis allowed him to choose his method of death, to which Triboulet responded “… I ask to die from old age.” He was spared and instead banished.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 05:32PM by Json1134
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Triboulet
French jester
TIL that Rube Goldberg never actually built a Rube Goldberg Machine, they were bi-weekly comic strips. It was other people who built his designs and other such machines.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 04:29PM by bobboe1993
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HowStuffWorks
Who Was Rube Goldberg, and What Are Rube Goldberg Machines?
A Rube Goldberg machine is intentionally designed to perform a simple task in the most indirect and circuitous fashion possible. Meet the funny man behind these one-of-a-kind contraptions.
TIL a link between testosterone and baldness was first discovered in a 1940s era study of mental hospital patients who were castrated and later injected with testosterone. These observations are now credited with helping to produce some of our modern treatments for male pattern baldness.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 05:48PM by WhileFalseRepeat
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Office for Science and Society
Battling Baldness
It may seem hard to believe, but as late as 1942, male patients in some mental hospitals were castrated to quiet them. This extreme treatment did have some scientific basis, since testosterone, the
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TIL: After the development of the atomic bomb, "Uranium Fever" caused by high demand for radioactive material led approximately ten thousand people to the Southwest U.S. to mine Uranium.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 05:22PM by a-horse-has-no-name
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Yesterday's America
How Uranium Fever Shaped the 1950s Southwest - Yesterday's America
In the years that followed World War II, there was a surprising new version of the Gold Rush – this time, instead of gold, many in the US was gripped by “uranium fever.” An estimated ten thousand people headed to the Southwest attempting to make their fortunes…
TIL That casino/real estate owner Steve Wynn was about to sell one of his Picasso portraits to someone but accidently put his elbow through the canvas when showing it to some guests reducing its value by $54 million.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 07:32PM by VirtualProtector
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Steve Wynn
American businessman
TIL the obese man smoking a cigarette on the cover of Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way Baby has yet to be identified.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 08:00PM by TapDanceMario
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby
You've Come a Long Way, Baby is the second studio album by Fatboy Slim, a project of English electronic music producer Norman Cook. It was first released on 19 October 1998 in the United Kingdom by Skint Records and a day later in the United States by Astralwerks.…
TIL Israel attempted to land a rover on the Moon in 2019, but crash landed due to gyroscope failure. The mission spilled a few thousand tardigrades onto the lunar surface, which probably survived, making them the 2nd species to reach the moon, after humans.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 09:18PM by innergamedude
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Tardigrades on the Moon
possibly lunar-lander-crash-surviving tardigrades
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TIL that since the introduction of basketball ball to the Olympics, the US has won 80% of men's gold medals. The only year they didn't win any medal was the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 08:17PM by Wholesomeguy123
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Wikipedia
List of Olympic medalists in basketball
Wikimedia list article
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TIL The Osage killings were a series of murders in the 1920s targeting wealthy Osage Native Americans due to oil wealth, revealing a disturbing conspiracy for financial gain.
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Submitted August 29, 2023 at 11:32PM by OhReaallly
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Osage Indian murders
a series of murders of Osage Indians in Osage County, Oklahoma