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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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TIL Paramount Pictures and city officials faced backlash after erecting a 75 ft-tall cutout of Holli Would, main character from the film Cool World (1992), atop the Hollywood Sign; Mayor Johnny Grant said, "This is the last time the Hollywood sign will ever be used for commercial purposes. "
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The Hollywood Reporter
When Paramount’s 75-Foot Hollywood Sign Stunt Pushed Locals Too Far
A 1992 stunt for ‘Cool World’ was greeted with signs saying, “Stop the Hollywood Sign Prostitution” and an airplane towing a sign that read “Paramount Not a Good Neigh…
TIL Big Bird was nearly a passenger on the doomed Challenger
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HISTORY
Big Bird Nearly Rode on the Disastrous Challenger Mission
Caroll Spinney—the puppeteer in the yellow suit—was in talks to go to space.
TIL that the oldest surviving creation myth (the Sumerian Eridu Genesis) written in 1600 BCE tells of a massive flood. There is also archaeological evidence that a ‘continuity disrupting’ flood occurred at around 2900 BCE.
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Sumerian creation myth
creation myth
TIL: Rope can be threaded left or right handed, commonly know as S and Z laid, with each way giving different properties to the rope
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Submitted February 01, 2024 at 03:25AM by -WhatCouldGoWrong
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Rope
linear collection of plies, yarns or strands which are twisted or braided together
TIL that the modern three-point safety belt was perfected by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959 – and its patent given for free to the world. The invention has been credited with saving at least a million lives worldwide.
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Submitted February 01, 2024 at 07:32AM by olezarus
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Volvogroup
The three-point safety belt - over 1 million lives saved
In 1959 Volvo revealed the three-point safety belt and made its patent available to all who wished to use it. It remains one of the most effective safety systems ever developed, having saved more than 1 million lives.
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TIL American English and Chinese use different strategies of politeness. If complimented, most Americans will agree with commenter and thank them to be polite but if complimented many Chinese will express it via rejecting the compliment and denigrating themselves to avoid appearing conceitful
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TIL that in 1997, Julie Andrews underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat, but emerged from the surgery with permanent damage that destroyed the purity of her singing and made her speaking voice raspy.
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Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)