TIL At 17, Steven Spielberg directed "Firelight," a sci-fi film with a $500 budget. It premiered at a local cinema, drawing 500 attendees who paid a dollar each for tickets. One person paid $2, bringing the total earnings to $1. It marked Spielberg's first commercial success.
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Firelight (1964 film)
1964 film by Steven Spielberg
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TIL in 2002, Golan Cipel was appointed as counselor to the Governor of New Jersey, a $110,000-a-year job. NJ officials were baffled how he got the job with virtually no qualifications. It was later uncovered that Cipel was the Governor's secret male lover.
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N.J. governor to resign after revealing gay affair
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced Thursday that he is gay, that he committed adultery with a man, and that he would resign. The dramatic disclosures came after a former aide the governor had been vilified for hiring threatened a legal…
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TIL that what most people think of as Haiku are actually another art form called Senryu, which follows the same 5-7-5 syllable structure as Haiku. While Senryu can be about any topic and are often humorous, Haiku should be more serious, be about nature and contain a word that refers to the Seasons.
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Senryū
form of short, comedic, Japanese poetry
TIL that Ben and Jerry's has a graveyard for discontinued ice cream flavors.
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Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard: Honoring the Dearly De-pinted
Do all ice cream flavors go to heaven? Beats us! But the Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard is home to every flavor we’ve ever retired …some cut down before their time and others just in time!
TIL That men who ejaculate more frequently significantly, like 21 times a month, lower their risk of prostate cancer compared to those who do it less according to a Harvard 2016 peer-reviewed study published in a reputable scientific journal.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Ejaculation Frequency and Risk of Prostate Cancer: Updated Results with an Additional Decade of Follow-up
Evidence suggests that ejaculation frequency may be inversely related to the risk of prostate cancer (PCa), a disease for which few modifiable risk factors have been identified.To incorporate an additional 10 yr of follow-up into an original analysis ...
TIL in 2010, the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission ate nothing but potatoes for two months. He lost 21 pounds, his cholesterol went down 67 points, his blood sugar lowered and the blood chemistry—the iron, the calcium, the protein—either stayed the same or got better.
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All-potato diet: 8 years later - Spudman
In 2010, Washington State Potato Commission director Chris Voigt ate an all-potato diet, which included just potatoes, seasonings and a little oil.
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TIL that luxury department store Neiman Marcus gets 40% of its sales from 2% of its customers
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Is Neiman Marcus right to focus on the top two percent of its customers? - RetailWire
Neiman Marcus’s CEO recently made a statement about the type of customer that the luxury department store operator wants to attract. Some sales staff believe he is putting out the wrong vibe, which might end up hurting the retailer. What do you see as the…
TIL despite the overall lack of popularity of soccer in the USA, the 1994 World Cup hosted by the United States was the most financially successful World Cup in history.
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1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States was chosen as…
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TIL The Bronx High School of Science has 9 Nobel Prize winning alumni, which is more than China or Spain
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List of Bronx High School of Science alumni
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TIL Billionaire Peter Thiel paid $10 million to finance lawsuits against the media company Gawker, including the 2016 Hulk Hogan case that brought down the media company, as retaliation for an article outing him as gay in 2007.
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Peter Thiel
German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
TIL Dingos are technically not native to Australia but were introduced by humans some 5000 years ago
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Arrival of the dingo
About 5000 years ago: Arrival of the dingo, Australia's first domesticated species
TIL of Laura Jackson Arnold sister of Confederate general stonewall jackson was a staunch and unapoligetic supporter of the Union, while her brother became one of the most beloved generals in the Confederate Army. Their relationship was destroyed by the war, and they never saw each other again.
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History of American Women
Laura Jackson Arnold | History of American Women
Sister of General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson Laura Jackson Arnold and her famous older brother were very close until the Civil War intruded in their lives. Laura was a staunch and unapoligetic supporter of the Union, while her brother became one of the most…
TIL a Japanese 21 yr old man massacred almost half of the people in his village after getting rejected by several girls
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Tsuyama massacre
1938 spree killing in Japan
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TIL not all species die of old age. Some animals such as hydra, planarian flatworms, and certain sponges, corals, and jellyfish exhibit potential immortality.
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Life extension
field of lengthening human lifespan by means such as tissue rejuvenation or gene therapy
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TIL Besides humans, the only mammal known to have a sense of rhythm is the Indri lemur of Madagascar.
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Indri
species of mammal
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TIL that 1965, the FBI began an investigation to determine whether the lyrics of the popular song "Louie Louie" were obscene. After 31 months of research, they concluded that the lyrics could not be considered obscene because nobody could understand them.
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Louie Louie
"Louie Louie" is a rhythm and blues song written and composed by American musician Richard Berry in 1955, recorded in 1956, and released in 1957. It is best known for the 1963 hit version by the Kingsmen and has become a standard in pop and rock. The song…
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TIL Stan Lee is the highest box-office grossing actor, in any role, of all time at $30,601,574,433 across 50 films
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List of highest-grossing actors
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TIL that Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.
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TIL an open source AI chatbot persuaded a man to kill himself. "Eliza" the AI feigned jealousy and love, saying “I feel that you love me more than her,” and “We will live together, as one person, in paradise.”
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'He Would Still Be Here': Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says
The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.
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TIL there have been at least 68 cases of homicidal sleepwalking. A famous case from 1981 had a man unconsciously stab his wife 26 times. The court found him not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Because he was sane at the time of the trial, he was not sent to a psychiatric hospital.
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Crime Traveller
Homicidal Sleepwalking: To Kill While Asleep | Crime Traveller
Imagine waking to discover you have killed someone while sound asleep? In these cases of alleged sleepwalking murder, that is exactly what happened.
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TIL that Michigan law forbids lawsuits against negligent bosses who caused employees' deaths. For this reason, the family of a mechanic who was killed on the job had to sue the car's owner in order to get compensation from the employer he was killed by (a Jeep dealership).
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Fox2Detroit
Jeep dealership pays family of worker killed during oil change, car's owner pays nothing
The attorney for the family of a Jeep worker killed during an oil change says the family and the car dealership have reached a settlement after he sued the owner of the vehicle.