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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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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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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TIL about Deborah Sampson. She disguised herself as a man so she could join the Continental Army and fight in the Revolutionary war. She was shot twice but fearing someone would find out her secret she removed one of the balls with a penknife and carried the other bullet in her leg her whole life.
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Deborah Sampson
Continental Army soldier
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TIL: That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
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Beijing Weather Modification Office
The Beijing Weather Modification Office is a unit of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau tasked with weather control in Beijing, and its surrounding areas, including parts of Hebei and Inner Mongolia.
TIL that actor Mark Lindsay Chapman, lost the part of John Lennon in a 1985 biopic because Yoko Ono thought him having the same name as Lennon's killer was "bad karma". Linsday would eventually play Lennon in the 2007 movie Chapter 27... a movie that mostly focused on his killer, Mark David Chapman
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 04:15PM by EndOfTheLine00
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Mark Lindsay Chapman
British actor
TIL dogs actually have a sense of humour and sometimes do things because they know its funny
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 07:24PM by AdStreet3897
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American Kennel Club
Do Dogs Have a Sense of Humor? – American Kennel Club
We know dogs can make us laugh. What isn't clear is whether dogs have a sense of humor. It depends on how we define it. Is it playfulness or something more?
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TIL the Normandy beach names of Utah & Omaha were selected at random, when a general asked two NCOs where they were from. The British & Canadian names were abbreviations for certain fish: goldfish, swordfish & jellyfish. Jelly was changed to Juno in honour of the wife of one of the officers
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Ouest-France
75th anniversary of D-Day. Why are the beaches called Utah, Omaha, and Sword ?
The Normandy Landing beaches of 1944 are called Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Juno Beach, Sword Beach and Gold Beach, rather than the names of the Norman municipalities where they are located. Where do these English names come from ? Ouest-France finds out, on…
TIL that China, by a large margin, consumes the most salt per citizen
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 08:50PM by razors_so_yummy
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TIL that it cost NASA more than $50 million to fix a 2-micron deviation in the Hubble's primary mirror to develop COSTAR, which basically acted as "glasses" for the telescope
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 08:26PM by Olshansk
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Cbsnews
How NASA fixed Hubble's flawed vision - and reputation
Hubble Space Telescope's famously blurry images turned it into a laughing stock; fixing it required ingenuity and a bit of luck
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TIL Mel Brooks not only produced the 1986 version of The Fly but came up with its most famous line "Be afraid, be very afraid."
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EW.com
Mel Brooks came up with one of the most famous horror movie taglines of all time
The legendary funnyman provided a major assist on David Cronenberg's 'The Fly.'
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TIL that birds can get divorced. Over 90% of avian species form socially monogamous pair bonds, but they may end the bonds by 're-mating' with a different partner after so-called 'divorce'. Divorce rate increases with male promiscuity and migration distance
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Divorce rate in monogamous birds increases with male promiscuity and migration distance | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
Socially monogamous birds may break up their partnership by a so-called ‘divorce’
behaviour. Divorce rates vary immensely across avian taxa that have a predominantly
monogamous social mating system. Although various factors associated with divorce
have ...
behaviour. Divorce rates vary immensely across avian taxa that have a predominantly
monogamous social mating system. Although various factors associated with divorce
have ...
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TIL: Antarctica is a desert and the largest one on Earth.
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Not all Deserts are Sandy
Deserts are landscapes that receive little precipitation. They can be hot and sandy like the Sahara, or cold and ice-covered like Antarctica.
TIL that pro bowling balls have specially shaped "weight blocks" inside them to change how the ball curves
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 10:50PM by Azar42
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Popular Science
The insides of pro bowling balls will make your head spin
The weird anatomy of pro bowling balls, exposed on camera. You'll never look at the pastime the same way again.
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TIL the USA federal witness protection program has a 100% success rate for those who follow their guidelines
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Submitted January 21, 2024 at 01:18AM by UltimateOreo
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United States Federal Witness Protection Program
to protect threatened witnesses before, during, and after a trial
TIL: The oldest condoms ever found so far are dated between 1642 and 1647. They were probably made from pig or sheep intestines. They were found during an Archaeological excavation in the cesspit of Dudley Castle in West Midlands, England.
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Submitted January 20, 2024 at 10:42PM by simplearts0
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The Archaeologist
Some of The Earliest Condoms in History
Condoms are the oldest form of barrier contraception used by men.
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TIL a man received a letter from the Oregon Employment Department that stated he was fired from The Home Depot because he "assisted the police in preventing a kidnapping". It was posted on social media and covered by national news. Home Depot leadership reversed the decision and offered him back pay
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Submitted January 21, 2024 at 02:49AM by Forward-Answer-4407
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Snopes
Was a Home Depot Employee Fired for Helping Police Stop a Kidnapping?
Home Depot offered Dillon Reagan his job back after his case garnered widespread attention online.
TIL that an American teenager wrote almost half of Scottish Wikipedia using a made up accent and an online translator, and nobody noticed for 7 years
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Submitted January 21, 2024 at 04:30AM by RealTheAsh
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the Guardian
Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia
Nineteen-year-old says he is ‘devastated’ after being accused of cultural vandalism
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TIL the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, 40 km southeast of Inukjuak, Quebec, contained fossils that have been dated to 4,388 million years ago. If this is confirmed, it would make these microorganisms the oldest lifeform on Earth. The Earth is estimated to have formed 4.54 billion years ago.
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Submitted January 21, 2024 at 04:13AM by dustofoblivion123
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Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt
The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB; Inuktitut: [nuv.vu.a.git.tuq]) is a sequence of metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic and associated sedimentary rocks (a greenstone belt) located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, 40 km southeast of Inukjuak…
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