TIL of the Bouba/Kiki Effect. When people are asked to assign the name "Bouba" or "Kiki" to two amorphous shapes —one round & one spiky— they strongly tend to choose Bouba for the round one, and Kiki for the spiky. This has been robustly confirmed across a majority of cultures & languages worldwide.
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Bouba/kiki effect
non-arbitrary attachment of sounds to object shapes
TIL in 2022, over 99% of people who were reported missing in Australia were located within three month or less. New "long-term" missing persons are considered a rarity.
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National Missing Persons Coordination Centre
Myths and Facts
A quick guide to the facts on missing persons in Australia
TIL in 2007 a player entered a Yu-Gi-Oh card tournament with a 2222-card deck to demonstrate the game needed a deck card limit. The rule was changed to set a limit of 60 cards per deck.
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Anime
A Yu-Gi-Oh Fan Really Entered a Tournament Once with a 2000+ Card Deck
Yu-Gi-Oh prides itself on strategy, and the franchise has done its best to never lose sight of [...]
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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was given his name because, during his mother's pregnancy, she was observing a Leonardo da Vinci painting in an Italian museum when DiCaprio first kicked.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
American actor and film producer (born 1974)
TIL a few days prior to the violent beheading and cannibalism that took place upon a Greyhound bus in 2008, the company was set to launch an ad campaign saying "There's a reason you've never heard of bus rage." After the incident they removed all ads, including physical posters in NYC stations.
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Killing of Tim McLean
Death of a Canadian man who was riding a bus
TIL in 1967, Australia's prime minister vanished by swimming in the ocean and never coming back. Australians fondly named a swimming pool in his honour.
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Harold Holt: The Australian prime minister who disappeared
It has been 50 years since Harold Holt went missing while swimming off a Melbourne beach. His disappearance shocked the nation and conspiracy theories persist half a century on.
TIL that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was founded by a comedian. He was struggling financially and vowed that if he ever became successful, he’d build a shrine to the patron saint of hopeless causes.
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Danny Thomas
American actor, comedian, and humanitarian of Lebanese parentage
TIL unlike dogs and cats, parrots are not domesticated animals. They are inherently wild, which makes them destructive and noisy companions. Their calls are designed to be heard miles away and not meant for a human home. They're one of the most discarded pets in the US.
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IDA USA
The Truth About Parrots as Pets
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TIL there are 4 countries left in the world where a dead person's will can be ignored if they took their own life.
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the Guardian
Suicide still treated as a crime in at least 20 countries, report finds
One in every 100 deaths is a suicide: campaigners say criminalisation deters people seeking the help they need
TIL that the flat iron steak was invented in 1998 by two university researchers who were given a grant by the beef industry to reduce waste and promote beef. By 2012, $80M of flat iron steaks were being sold annually.
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Flat iron steak
Cut of steak
TIL about immunity privilege that prevents our own immune system damaging (or expelling) our own eyes, placenta, testicles, brain, fetus and CNS
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Immune privilege
localised phenomenon where the presence of antigens does not trigger an immune response
TIL The Germans started shooting their bullets backwards in response to the British using tanks. These reversed bullets were blunt and thus wouldn't be as easily deflected, denting armor and spitting fragments at the crew.
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Reversed bullet
world War I German anti-tank bullet
TIL Walter Mondale became the first major candidate to ever lose election in all 50 states after losing the 2002 US Senate election in Minnesota, the only state that voted for him in the 1984 US Presidential election
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Electoral history of Walter Mondale
List of elections featuring Walter Mondale as a candidate
TIL a British Airways flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing due to an overpowering smell caused by a passenger's smelly poo.
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BA flight forced to land early because of smelly poo
A BA flight from London to Dubai was forced to land early because of safety worries over a "smelly poo" in the toilet.
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TIL Canadian infantry brought over 1000 of "The Airborne Folding Bicycle" on D-Day, 1944, to travel greater distances than on foot.
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Juno Beach Centre
A new iconic artefact at the museum
An iconic artefact of the Canadian landing on June 6, 1944 was offered to the Juno Beach Centre last Christmas Eve by Marie-Claude Halot and Joëlle Letellier. This folding bike belonged to their fa…
TIL: Eating too many Sour Skittles in one sitting (or any sour candy) can make your tongue shed a layer of skin
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Lane & Associates
Why Does My Tongue Peel When I Eat Sour Candy? | Lane & Associates
Visit this page for information about why your tongue peels when you eat sour candy, and more info from your friends at Lane & Associates
TIL In 1910, Canada tried to attract settlers with its campaign "The Last Best West" to promote free land with the slogan "Living is cheap; climate is good; education and land are free.” More than two million settlers from Europe and the US poured into the prairies from 1896 to 1914
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www.canadashistory.ca
Selling the Prairie Good Life
- Canada's History
- Canada's History
A century ago, Canada West magazine beat the drums for immigrants to fill the vast unbroken prairie. But those drums beat louder in some places than others.
TIL of the Gruen effect, a psychological phenomenon where a store's design overwhelms a person so they are more easily manipulated to buy things. It is named after architect Victor Gruen, who disapproved of the techniques
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Gruen transfer
Psychological phenomenon used for increasing revenue
TIL in 2020, 68-year-old actress Ana Obregón lost her only son to cancer at 27. After his death, she used her son's frozen sperm to grant her wish of having a granddaughter (via surrogacy) who she's currently raising as her daughter.
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Vice
Spain Is Outraged Because a 68-Year-Old TV Star Had a Surrogate Baby With Son’s Sperm
Ana Obregón used her late son’s sperm to have a grandchild, sparking a huge debate around surrogacy and medical ethics.
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TIL a Dutch hotel chef was sued by her colleagues after she baked a cannabis-infused space cake for a surprise. Several employees got violently ill from eating the cake, she was fined the equivalent of 800 dollars.
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NL Times
Zeeland cook in court for bringing space cake to colleague's farewell party
A breakfast cook at a hotel in Veerse Meer, Zeeland, faced court for bringing a cannabis-infused cake to a workplace farewell party, Omroep Zeeland reported on Monday. A colleague who consumed the space cake at the event became so ill that they had to call…
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TIL when he was an Illinois state legislator, Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel by state auditor James Shields. Lincoln insisted on broadswords as the weapon rather than pistols prompting Shields to back out and call for a truce.
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presidentlincoln.illinois.gov
The time Abraham Lincoln narrowly avoided a duel with swords
In his younger years, Abraham Lincoln got into several fights. One of these almost led to a sword duel between himself and a local politician.