TIL that Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to Cassini data.
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Submitted January 24, 2024 at 11:36PM by Bitsoffreshness
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science.nasa.gov
Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth - NASA Science
Titan’s Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth February 13, 2008 (Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory) An artist’s imagination of hydrocarbon pools, icy and rocky terrain on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon Titan. + Full image and caption Image…
TIL that a new record for the tallest and fastest rollercoaster is going to change hands in October 2024. Currently the Kingda Ka at Six Flags Jackson NJ is 456 feet tall. Falcons Flight will be 640 feet tall located in Saudi Arabia.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 03:48AM by PACShrinkSWFL
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Inside the Magic
Record-Breaking, High-Speed Roller Coaster Sends Riders off Cliff
Now this looks terrifying.
TIL that Grover Cleveland is the only US President to be elected on non-consecutive terms.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 06:30AM by crooked_chef
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Grover Cleveland | Biography & Facts
Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States. The only president ever to serve two discontinuous terms, Cleveland was one of the few truly honest and principled politicians of the Gilded Age. He viewed the president’s function as primarily…
TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 10:17AM by reidy2010
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Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981
TIL employees at the General Motor’s Fremont Assembly plant were considered excessively unruly in the 1980s and often left empty glass bottles inside the doors of unfinished cars to annoy the future owners
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 06:03AM by Wilsonsfence
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NUMMI
former American automaker based in Fremont, California
TIL about Hilda Yolanda Mayol, a woman who survived the 9/11 attacks. 2 months later she boarded AA Flight 587 out of JFK, 5 minutes after take off the plane would crash and all 260 occupants perished - the 2nd deadliest aviation incident in US History.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 02:55PM by twisted-logic
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Snopes
WTC Survivor Dies on AA Flight 587
Did a woman who'd survived the destruction of the World Trade Center die on American Airlines Flight 587 just two months later?
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TIL sales of Sunny Delight declined in the UK after one of its commercials showing a snowman turning orange was released at about the same time as news reports of a four-year-old girl's skin color turning orange due to drinking 1.5 liters a day of the product, which contained beta-carotene.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 05:10PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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SunnyD
Orange-flavored beverage
TIL that 55% of YA readers are actually adults.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 06:01PM by laterdude
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the Guardian
Why are so many adults reading YA and teen fiction?
A survey in 2012 showed that 55% of YA readers are actually adults – why is this the case and is it a problem, asks site member BritishBiblioholic
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TIL about the death of Poltergeist actress Dominique Dunne. She was strangled into a coma by her ex-boyfriend and passed away 5 days later. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served just three and a half years in prison.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 04:51PM by jayblaylock
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Wikipedia
Dominique Dunne
American actress and murder victim (1959–1982)
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TIL that the longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years. His name was Charles Osborne and he began hiccuping in 1922 and didn't stop until 1990. He had 20 to 40 hiccups per minute
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 07:32PM by HallqPE03r4221
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Curious Case of Charles Osborne, Who Hiccupped for 68 Years Straight
A 1922 accident sparked the Iowa man’s intractable hiccups, which suddenly subsided in 1990
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TIL in the early 90s, when actor Anthony Hopkins's agent told him that a noscript was on his way noscriptd The Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins responded, "Is it a children's story?"
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 05:50PM by Kale_Brecht
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Wikipedia
The Silence of the Lambs (film)
1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme
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TIL that there are over two dozen universities in the U.S. that have their own nuclear reactors.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 05:41PM by l_hazlewoods
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TIL that WHAM-O's Slip N' Slide is not supposed to be used by persons over the age of 12. There have been rare instances (and lawsuits) of adults breaking their necks while using it and in 1993, the U.S. CPSC warned that the slide might cause permanent spinal cord injury to teens and adults.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 09:36PM by Sandstorm400
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Mental Floss
A Hazardous History of the Slip 'N Slide
The popular backyard toy has been a hit with kids since 1961. Unfortunately, it had catastrophic consequences for adults.
TIL that because the period (.) was already in use in France to make Roman numerals more readable, they adopted, along with many other countries, commas to separate numbers and decimals (9.99 vs 9,99)
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 07:42PM by gamewizzhard
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Wikipedia
Decimal separator
A decimal separator is a symbol used to separate the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form (e.g., "." in 12.45). Different countries officially designate different symbols for use as the separator. The choice of symbol…
TIL Harry Belafonte negotiated a pay-or-play contract in 1959. When network executives said "we can have black folks on TV, we can have white folks on TV. We can't have them together. You have to choose." Belafonte answered "No, but you still have to pay me."
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 11:27PM by laterdude
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CBC
When Harry Belafonte walked away from a TV deal over censorship and still got paid | CBC Radio
Harry Belafonte was the Black man to win an Emmy for the TV special Tonight with Belafonte in 1959, an hourlong broadcast that included folk songs with performance numbers that alluded to slavery and prison chain gangs.
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TIL that in 2012, Children's Hospital Los Angeles had to issue a statement that they were not affiliated with the billboards for the Adult Swim show "Children's Hospital," which featured Rob Corddry in bloody scrubs and clown makeup
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 09:56PM by ElderCunningham
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NBC Los Angeles
“Childrens Hospital” Billboard Prompts Clarification From Real-Life Pediatric Center
A billboard campaign for the cable TV show “Childrens Hospital” is upsetting doctors at the real life hospital.
TIL that in 2019, Boeing laid off several hundred Quality Assurance Engineers.
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Submitted January 26, 2024 at 01:10AM by Gnurx
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The Seattle Times
Shortcoming in Boeing quality-control audit draws scrutiny from inspectors, FAA
In the last quarter of 2018, Boeing failed one element of its quality control audit on the 747, 767 and 777 legacy airplane programs in Everett, a setback in its plan to shift its quality system to one that relies...
TIL that Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on June 16, 1963, when she orbited Earth as part of the Vostok 6 mission. She remains the youngest woman to fly to space, the only female astronaut/ cosmonaut to make a solo space journey.
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Submitted January 25, 2024 at 08:37PM by dracogladio1741
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TIL a 2013 survey, involving 1,081 doctors regarding advance end-of-life directives, found that 88.3% said they would choose do-not-resuscitate or "no code" orders for themselves.
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Submitted January 26, 2024 at 05:00AM by tyrion2024
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News Center
Most physicians would forgo aggressive treatment for themselves at the end of life, study finds
Most physicians would choose a "no-code" status for themselves if they were terminally ill, but would tend to pursue aggressive treatment for patients facing a similar prognosis
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TIL Ruth Snyder was executed by electric chair on January 12, 1928. She was secretly photographed mid-execution, which became the first photo of an execution by electric chair printed in media.
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Submitted January 26, 2024 at 04:50AM by staclear
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Wikipedia
Ruth Snyder
American murderer (1895-1928)
TIL that the Japanese founder of McDonald’s Japan authored “The Jewish Way of Doing Business”. The book was an immediate success and went on to sell over a million copies.
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Submitted January 26, 2024 at 06:09AM by garamond89
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Den Fujita
Japanese businessman
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