TIL that nuclear tablets are given to some cancer patients to fight/kill cancerous cells
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Submitted January 30, 2024 at 10:46PM by beyondtabu
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Mayo Clinic
Nuclear Medicine Therapy - About nuclear medicine therapy
Learn how nuclear medicine therapy works and what to expect from care at Mayo Clinic.
TIL the first confirmed minor to be executed in the United States was 16yo Thomas Granger, executed for buggery involving several animals, including "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheep, two calves, and a turkey."
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 02:01AM by kaizhu256
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Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States
Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States existed until March 2, 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in Roper v. Simmons. Prior to Roper, there were 71 people on death row in the United States for crimes committed as juveniles.
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TIL In December 1941, Franklin Roosevelt became the first President to use an armored vehicle. Originally belonging to infamous gangster Al Capone, the car was seized by the Treasury Department in 1932 on an income-tax evasion charge.
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www.secretservice.gov
A Chronicle of Carriages
The image of the presidential motorcade is one of the most commonly recognizable symbols of Secret Service protection. But sleek, black limousines with darkened windows and advance security elements were not always features of the presidential limousine.
TIL: As of February 2023, Haiti has no remaining elected government officials and has been described as a failed state.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 05:38AM by baffybonk
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti…
TIL that, in its 105 years of operating, the "Diplomatic Courier Service", a special courier service operated by the USA that can only be used by diplomats, has lost just a single package - a baby grand piano, that was stolen at a Bulgarian railway station in 1919.
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United States Department of State
Every Pouch has a Story
The Department of State Diplomatic Courier Service, which marks its 100th anniversary in 2018, ships tens of thousands of bags and containers, known as pouches, around the world each year (more than 116,000 separate items in 2017). If these pouches could…
TIL Tom Cruise saved the American release of ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’ by endorsing it at a buyer screening, launching the careers of Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie & Matthew Vaughn in the process
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FandomWire
“You guys would be fools not to buy it”: Tom Cruise Saved Fast X Star Jason Statham’s Career by Starting a Bidding War for $28M…
As Guy Ritchie’s directorial debut was facing trouble finding buyers, Tom Cruise swooped in at the right time to save the crime comedy.
TIL Susan Weaver, AKA Sigourney Weaver, began using the name "Sigourney" when she was 14 years old, taking it from a minor character in The Great Gatsby.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 12:01PM by ColeBelthazorTurner
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Sigourney Weaver
American actress
TIL that we don't actually know who the first person to reach the North Pole was. Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, and Richard Byrd all said they were the first people to reach it, but none of their claims are confirmed.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Who Discovered the North Pole?
A century ago, explorer Robert Peary earned fame for discovering the North Pole, but did Frederick Cook get there first?
TIL that our brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 03:34PM by Corndogeveryday
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Sciencefocus
Yes, your brain is eating itself all the time. Here's why
Neuroscientist Dean Burnett explains the brain's gruesome method for spring cleaning.
TIL David Bowie was so convinced of the uncommercial viability of his album "Low" that after its release, he toured as Iggy Pop's keyboardist instead of promoting the new record.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 04:53PM by UgliestDisability
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Low (David Bowie album)
Low is the eleventh studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 January 1977 through RCA Records. The first of three collaborations with the producer Tony Visconti and the musician Brian Eno that became known as the Berlin Trilogy, the…
TIL of the Bonnacon, a legendary creature with the head and body of a bull, but with horns curled inwards, making them useless for fighting. As such, it would run away from hunters and predators, squirting caustic/fiery excrement up to 2000ft (600m) in it's wake
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Bonnacon
legendary creature
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TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after a friend took him to visit a school for black children, he wrote that African ignorance was not inherently natural but came from lack of education, slavery and negative environments. He also petitioned Congress to end slavery.
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TIL Fleetwood Mac had one of 2022's top-selling albums, even though it came out in 1977.
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 07:49PM by laterdude
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TIL "bugger" was first used to describe "Bulgarian" heretics during the Albigensian Crusade. Many sympathized with the victims of the crusade because of their moral purity, so the Catholic clergy launched a vilifying campaign against them, associating them with unorthodox sexual practices and sodomy
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 06:27PM by kaizhu256
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Wikipedia
Bugger
swear word
TIL that a Korean cult predicted the rapture to occur on 12AM, October 28, 1992. Parishioners awaited transportation to heaven; some had quit their jobs or given away possessions. Mass suicides were feared. 10 minutes after 12AM, a boy shouted from inside: “Nothing is happening.”
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Submitted January 31, 2024 at 09:51PM by Affectionate_Tour406
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Dami Mission
South Korean new religious movement
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TIL About Montgomery Meigs, Quartermaster General of the Army: He was one of the principal architects of Arlington National Cemetery; the choice of its location, on Robert E. Lee's family estate, Arlington House, was partly designed as a gesture to humiliate Lee for siding with the Confederacy.
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be
The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades
TIL Wilt Chamberlain is the reason for players to stay behind the foul line when shooting a free throw. In college, thanks to his 7’ height, 7’8” wingspan, and 50” vertical, he would start from top of the key, leap before the foul line, and dunk the ball before he touched the ground in the lane.
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SBNation.com
Wilt Chamberlain dunked from the free throw line and terrified the rule makers
It’s unfair how absurd Wilt’s athleticism was. It’s also unfair that the rules held him back.
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TIL that Marlon Brando, who was a tech geek and an ace at ‘90s photoshop, loved to jokingly photoshop photos of his friends in random places. Brando was an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.
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Submitted February 01, 2024 at 12:51AM by waitingforthesun92
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Yahoo Entertainment
Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace
The legendary actor also pushed the boundaries of technology... and screwed with his friends
TIL: That L-8 also known as the "Ghost Blimp", was a United States Navy L-class airship whose two man crew disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on August 16, 1942 and then eventually landed on it's own near San Francisco.
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Submitted February 01, 2024 at 12:09AM by StillRunning99
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L-8
L class blimp of the US Navy that turned up without its crew over Daly City, California in 1942
TIL that Dave Brandt, the face behind the "It ain't much, but it's honest work" meme, died last May in an auto collision. His life was really about honest work.
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Submitted February 01, 2024 at 01:21AM by Semiotic_architect
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NPR
He was a beloved farming legend. But for Reddit, his work ethic meant something else
David Brandt, who died last week, was an Ohio farmer known for his pioneering work in no-till farming. But social media users knew him better as the overall-clad farmer from the "honest work" meme.
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TIL that mystery flavor candies are made whenever the factory switches to a different flavor. They don’t clean the lines when they switch so two flavors mix together. This avoids downtime and wastes product.
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Submitted February 01, 2024 at 04:50AM by Agent-Schnitzel
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Today
Dum Dums mystery flavor, explained
If you have an outstanding palate, you might be able to guess what's in that wrapper.
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