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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Osage Indian murders
a series of murders of Osage Indians in Osage County, Oklahoma
TIL the MLB uses an average of 84-120 balls per game, equating to approximately 900k per season, to the tune of around $10M.
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Diario AS
How many baseballs are used in one MLB game and how much do they cost?
With every fan going to a baseball game dreaming of coming away with a foul ball or home run, MLB must crank through quite a few to put on a show.
TIL that Wyoming spends $136,000 on each prison inmate annually, while Mississippi spends $18,410. The average state spends $45,771.
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Submitted August 30, 2023 at 04:24AM by RexBosworth2
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USAFacts
How much do states spend on prisons? - USAFacts
Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.
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TIL in the 1971 movie Duel, directed by Spielberg, the same truck was used in all the scenes and the the dramatic destruction at the end had to be filmed in a single shot since they didn’t have a backup truck
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Duel (1971 film)
1971 film directed by Steven Spielberg
TIL the US government allowed a Hungarian priest to live in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956 to 1971, where he was fully protected from the Red Army who wanted his head. He never left the building once in 15 years.
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József Mindszenty
József Mindszenty (Hungarian pronunciation: [jo:ʒɛf mindsɛnti]; 29 March 1892 – 6 May 1975) was a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Esztergom and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 1945 to 1973. According to…
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TIL the average Black American has roughly 1/4 European ancestry
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Science
Genetic study reveals surprising ancestry of many Americans
Some African-Americans, European Americans, and Latinos carry genes that don't match their self-identified ethnicities
TIL Security Guard Joseph Trombino barely survived an infamous 1981 NY robbery of a Brink's Armored Car. Nearly a decade later, he would then go on to also barely survive the 1993 World Trade Center bombings but tragically died on Sept 11 2001 in the WTC North Tower
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1981 Brink's robbery
1981 robbery of $1.6 million from a Brink's armored car
TIL that John Lennon was not the only Beatle to suffer a violent attack. George Harrison was attacked by a mentally disturbed man at his house in 1999, suffering 40 stab wounds. He was saved when his wife incapacitated the attacker by striking him repeatedly with a fireplace poker.
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George Harrison
British musician and lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943–2001)
TIL that the Darwin’s bark spider is one of the few non-mammalian species that engage in oral sex, with male spiders salivating onto the female's genitalia before, during, and after copulation.
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Nature
Spider behaviors include oral sexual encounters
Scientific Reports - Spider behaviors include oral sexual encounters
TIL in a group of 23 randomly selected people there is a 50% chance that at least two of them have the same birthday
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TIL that when gangster Johnny Torrio left for Europe in 1925 and handed over his criminal empire to Al Capone, it was worth $1,169,184,000 a year in today’s money.
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Johnny Torrio
American mob boss
TIL that most close door elevator buttons in the US do not actually do anything.
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Submitted August 30, 2023 at 03:46PM by America_123
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Mental Floss
Do 'Close Door' Buttons in Elevators Actually Do Anything?
Everything you know is a lie.
TIL Hitler sent a long telegram wishing happy birthday to Christian X of Denmark for which he replied “Giving my best thanks, King Christian.” This succinct reply angered Hitler to expel the Danish ambassador.
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Christian X of Denmark
Christian X (Danish: Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, in the form of a personal union rather than a real union…