TIL The Bronx High School of Science has 9 Nobel Prize winning alumni, which is more than China or Spain
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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 07:47PM by LevyTheLost
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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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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 11:13PM by casualdejeckyll
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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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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 12:28AM by Rustofcarcosa
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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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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 02:09AM by wangzhiancctv
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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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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 12:24AM by dustofoblivion123
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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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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 01:50AM by HarleyQuinnsCousin
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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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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 04:37AM by Corndogeveryday
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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.
TIL that a pub in London was illegally demolished just days before it was to be listed as an historic site. They developer was forced to rebuild it brick by brick to its original state.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 03:46PM by Guygan
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Carlton Tavern
pub in Kilburn, London, United Kingdom
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TIL Jennifer Connelly had one of her fingers partially bitten off by a chimpanzee during the filming of Darío Argento's 1985 film *Phenomena*
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Jennifer Connelly
American actress
TIL pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving were a matter of mid-19th century identity politics. When Abraham Lincoln declared a day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November in 1863, many Southern families refused Thanksgiving and especially pumpkin pie as cultural artifacts of the Yankees.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 05:14PM by laterdude
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The abolitionist history of Thanksgiving and pumpkin pie — and why the South resisted both
For decades, Thanksgiving was cause for a fight. And the pumpkin was a symbol of the Northern anti-slavery movement.
TIL that the Norden Bombsight used by US Bomber aircraft in WWII cost $1.1 billion to research and produce, about half as much as the Manhattan Project and over a quarter of the cost of all B-17 bombers manufactured. While successfully precise in Stateside testing it was far less accurate in combat.
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Norden bombsight
used on US bombers during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War
TIL the US government owns 80.1% of all the land in Nevada, 61.3% of all the land in Alaska, and 24.7% of all the land in the US.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 07:00PM by MaryADraper
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Federal lands
lands in the US owned by the federal government
TIL in 1915, the USS Eastland cruise ship was retrofitted with additional lifeboats due to new regulations following The Titanic disaster. The additional top-heavy weight caused it to sink before it left port, killing 844 passengers.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 07:18PM by i010011010
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Eastland Disaster Killed More Passengers Than the Titanic and the Lusitania. Why Has It Been Forgotten?
Chicago’s working poor were expecting a day in luxury. They instead faced a horrific calamity on Lake Michigan
TIL India once released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges to eat the remains of corpses buried in the river after incomplete burning. The locals ate the turtles.
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Smithsonian Magazine
India Once Released 25,000 Flesh-Eating Turtles Into the Ganges
A plan to clean up corpses failed due to lack of planning
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TIL that when Disney re-released it’s first of 20 Classics direct to VHS between 1984-1994, the first release (Robin Hood) was on sale for $79.95 in 1984, the equivalent of $236.04 today
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Walt Disney Classics
series of VHS releases of Disney movies
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