TIL that Lebron James has a considerable effect on the economy of whatever city he is playing for.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 05:11AM by Slow_Rooster_6766
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Yahoo Finance
The LeBron Effect on the Economy of the City He Plays For
A "Space Jam" sequel has been 25 years in the making since Michael Jordan saved the Looney Tunes from certain destruction in the original, which came out in 1996. Now in 2021, fans are waiting for...
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TIL The Mercury astronaut candidate examinations involves sensory deprivation test of you being placed in a circular 8 foot deep tank of body temperature water without hallucinating. The normal reaction is for the subconscious mind to take over and one lapses into uncontrollable hallucinations
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 06:07AM by ubcstaffer123
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The Ninety-Nines, Inc.
What We Do Women Pilots Today Wally Funk (The Ninety-Nines, Inc.)
Current Articles: Space Cowgirl ATP - CFI-AI - MEL - GLIDER - IGI - GS - AIR SAFETY INVESTIGATOR Wally Funk has been flying professionally since 1957 and she has accumulated over 19,600 hours of...
TIL that there exists a god of stupidity. His name is Koalemos (Κοάλεμος), and he's a minor Greek diety.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 07:24AM by Ok-Indication-5121
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Wikipedia
Koalemos
mythological character
TIL Candace Newmaker, a 10 yo girl, was killed during a "rebirthing session", during which she was wrapped in a heavy flannel blanket, covered in pillows, and held down forcefully by 4 adults (2 unlicensed "therapists" and 2 "therapeutic foster parents") until she suffocated.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 09:15AM by Fournier_Gang
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Candace Newmaker
American child abuse victim
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TIL a steamboat missing for 132 years was discovered 45 feet under a field a half-mile away from the river it sank in. Among the 200 tons of cargo recovered from the boat were bottles of liquor, ketchup, preserved fruits for pies, and bright green sweet pickles which were still edible.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 02:57PM by Brutal_Deluxe_
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Arabia
Arabia's Story | The Arabia Steamboat Museum | Kansas City
The Steamboat Arabia was built in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1853. At 171 feet long, the Arabia traveled the Missouri river and transported passengers, as well as carried up to 222 tons of cargo. But navigating the Mighty Missouri was a difficult…
TIL that during the construction of the New Basin Canal in NOLA the loss of slaves to yellow fever prompted the decision to use cheap Irish laborers instead.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 12:37PM by rackplead788
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Wikipedia
New Basin Canal
canal in Louisiana, United States of America
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TIL that the world’s largest kidney stone, removed from a patient in Sri Lanka, weighed 1.67 lbs (757.5g) and broke 2 world records.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 04:42PM by NikkiZ4
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KHQA
Grapefruit-sized monster: World's largest kidney stone removed
Here's a world record you don't want to set.The world’s largest kidney stone has been removed from a patient in earlier this month.
TIL - Germany is on a list of countries that the USA monitors for currency manipulation
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 05:08PM by Bernie_Ecclestoned
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U.S. Department of the Treasury
Treasury Releases Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury delivered its semiannual Report to Congress on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States. In this Report, Treasury reviewed and assessed the policies of major…
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TIL about John Birges Sr., who decided to recuperate his heavy gambling losses by planting a bomb in Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Casino to extort $10 million in 1980. The FBI ultimately failed to defuse the bomb “unlike any we’d seen before” and it exploded 34 hours later.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 06:51PM by germanchic
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Tahoe Quarterly
The Man Behind the Bomb - Tahoe Quarterly
Harveys’ bomb remains a teaching tool for FBI more than 30 years after the blast In the early morning of August 26, 1980, three men dressed in blue worker’s coveralls wheeled an object roughly the size of a copy machine through a side entrance...
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TIL Robert Clary, the actor who played stalag prisoner Corporal LaBeau on the TV Show Hogan’s Heroes, was an Auschwitz survivor
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 05:25PM by mrweatherbeef
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Peoplemag
Hogan's Heroes Star and Auschwitz Survivor Robert Clary Dead at 96
"Singing, entertaining and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived," Robert Clary shared of his Holocaust experience
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TIL during the 2011 Hackleburg tornado, which was a massive, extremely violent, long-tracked EF5 wedge tornado that lasted for 2.5 hours and killed 72 people, a Corvette was thrown 641 feet (195 meters), and another vehicle from a house nearby was never found again. It just completely disappeared.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 05:48PM by hominoid_in_NGC4594
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Wikipedia
2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado
2011 natural disaster in the United States
TIL that the T-Rex had TWO rib cages
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 07:19PM by ZealousidealDrag2407
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TIL: There's a rare disorder called Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, turning people's skin into tree-like bark with wart growths due to HPV. Also known as "Tree Man Illness," the disorder is inherited when an individual inherits one copy, from each parent, of a defective gene.
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Submitted January 19, 2024 at 10:28PM by SyntheticSweetener
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Epidermodysplasia verruciformis
Human disease
TIL that among all civilian jobs in in the US, workers spend on average more than 60% of their workday standing
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 03:23AM by fotogneric
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www.bls.gov
Physically strenuous jobs in 2017 : The Economics Daily: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Some occupations require more physical activity than others. For example some require workers to stand and walk more, compared to sitting. Among all civilian jobs in 2017, workers spent an average of 60.4 percent of their workday standing or walking and 39.6…
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TIL that on 9/11, an estimated 500,000 people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan on ferries, yachts and charter boats, making it the largest water evacuation in history.
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 04:42AM by ylenias
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Smithsonian Magazine
On 9/11, a Flotilla of Ferries, Yachts and Tugboats Evacuated 500,000 People Away From Ground Zero
Amidst the terror and tragedy of the day came these everyday heroes who answered the call when the city needed them most
TIL that zookeepers show pandas "panda porn" to arouse them to help make more babies.
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 06:50AM by idk-howww
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Does Science Help Pandas Make More Panda Babies?
A behind-the-scenes look at the ways the National Zoo assists Washington's most famous sexually frustrated bear couple
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TIL starting in 1957 and through the next thirty years, Hanna-Barbera produced 249 individual cartoon series for television—totaling over 1,200 hours of original episodes.
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 04:04AM by 1900grs
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TIL President Nixon had this 'MOON DISASTER' speech ready in case Apollo 11 astronauts died
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 12:52PM by lipsinfo
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Yahoo Finance
President Nixon had this 'MOON DISASTER' speech ready in case Apollo 11 astronauts died
Three Apollo 11 astronauts went to the moon (two landed) and safely returned to Earth in July...
TIL that back in the 90s three guys built a functioning jetpack! Then one of the guys was brutally murdered, the second guy was kidnapped and just barely escaped with his life, and the third guy went to jail for kidnapping the second.
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 03:20PM by NewCanadianMTurker
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Atlas Obscura
Where Eagles Dare: The Jetpack Murder
Test pilot Bill Suitor was getting ready to fly. Wiping the sweat off his brow, Suitor pulled the 120 pound Rocket Belt 2000 onto his back, and held the...
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TIL that Ron Jeremy played the part of a parody Mario in a porno The Super Hornio Brothers, and that Nintendo bought and own the rights.
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 12:52PM by SirRigid
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Wikipedia
Super Hornio Brothers
1993 film by Buck Adams
TIL that a company call Biology Resource Center used body parts of donated loved ones to create Frankenstein like builds and sold them for profit
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 08:36AM by devicto89
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Reuters
Inside a business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold
For a decade, Arizona-based Biological Resource Center persuaded dying Americans to donate their bodies to science. Here’s what happened to thousands of donors
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