TIL that at one point the sales of vodka accounted for 1/3rd of the Russian national budget.
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War on the Rocks
Little Water: Vodka and the Russian Sociopolitical Realm
Let’s get one thing straight. The Russian love affair with vodka is not a joke. It is not hyperbole foisted upon popular culture by rank amateur drinkers,
TIL that despite selling 500k copies in its first two hours and going 7x Platinum, Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II albums were considered to have "underperformed" sales expectations.
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Submitted March 06, 2024 at 05:19PM by TheLurkerSpeaks
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Use Your Illusion I
Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on September 17, 1991, the same day as its counterpart Use Your Illusion II. It was the band's first album to feature drummer Matt Sorum, who replaced Steven…
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TIL Analtech, the name of a U.S. based manufacturer of glass plates and other accessories, became a liability with the rise of the internet as YouTube videos promoting their products directed viewers to less than wholesome videos and clients reported being blocked by their own security protocols.
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Submitted March 06, 2024 at 08:12PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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Delaware Online
New owner vows to keep Analtech in Newark
Sale of 54-year-old lab equipment maker contingent on company staying in place
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TIL of Chief Tuskaloosa, the giant Paramount Chieftain of modern day Alabama, who was killed in combat with the forces of Spanish Conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540. The modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named in his honor.
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Submitted March 06, 2024 at 06:48PM by Chemical-Elk-1299
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Tuskaloosa
Native American paramount chief
TIL that George Lucas' wife, Marcia Lucas, won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for Star Wars. George Lucas has won zero Academy Awards.
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Submitted March 06, 2024 at 09:28PM by FancyInvestment397
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Marcia Lucas
American film editor
TIL that the 2022 DC superhero “Batgirl” was the most expensive ‘abandoned’ movie in history. Warner Bros. already spent over $90M finishing it, and the film was in post- production, when they decided not to release it.
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List of abandoned and unfinished films
Wikimedia list article
TIL that the Canadian preschool show Wimzie's House got sued by The Jim Henson Company for copyright and trademark infringement.
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Submitted March 06, 2024 at 05:46PM by ForeverBlue101_303
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Wimzie's House
television series
TIL That in 1974, the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act allowed women to open bank accounts, apply for credit and commit to a mortgage without needing a male co-signer.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 04:01AM by Technical_Carpet5874
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JSTOR Daily
A Bank of Her Own
The first US bank for women was opened by a fraudster in 1879. It took 40 years for a reputable women’s bank to be founded in Tennessee.
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TIL George McGovern accidentally bombed an Austrian farm during WWII. He was haunted for 40 years until after a TV interview, when the farmer called the station to reassure him that he and his family got out in time and that it was worth it if it helped bring down Hitler in any way.
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Newspapers.com
Article clipped from The Bismarck Tribune
Clipping found in The Bismarck Tribune published in Bismarck, North Dakota on 5/19/1989.
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TIL "Burning Platform" means the necessity of change despite the fear of the unknown consequences. This metaphor was derived from the fatal explosion of an oil drilling platform in which one survivor had to choose to jump into a sea of burning oil rather than burn on the platform
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Fairygodboss
A burning platform is a powerful tool for change. Here's what a burning platform is, and how it can help you.
TIL that in the 1840s, people would say 'Prunes' instead of 'Cheese' when getting a picture taken.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 04:59AM by InternetPopular3679
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Peta Pixel
Say ‘Prunes’, Not ‘Cheese’: The History of Smiling in Photographs
"Say cheese." It's an expression that has become so much a part of our culture that everyone understands it to simply mean, "Smile," rather than a command
TIL in 1984 Leonard Bernstein once conducted the Vienna Philharmonic without the need of a baton or even his hands and instead only used his brow & facial expressions to communicate to the orchestra all the information they needed.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 09:51AM by tyrion2024
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Classic FM
When Leonard Bernstein needed only his eyebrows to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic
An orchestra and its conductor converse in mysterious ways…
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TIL that in 4 billion years, when the Milky Way galaxy collides with the Andromeda Galaxy, the distance between the stars will be so vast that none of the 1.3 trillion stars are expected to collide.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 11:29AM by NobleWhiteLotus
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Astronomy Magazine
The Andromeda and Milky Way collision, explained
The Andromeda and Milky Way collision is going to happen 4 billion or so years from now when they merge to become Milkomeda.
TIL that when Larry Ellison divorced his wife Nancy in 1978, she gave up any claim on his new company for $500. That company, Oracle (the database company), made Ellison the world's eighth-richest person ($130 billion as of today).
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 02:20PM by TMWNN
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Larry Ellison
American internet entrepreneur and businessman
TIL James Buchanan is the only American president who was never married.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 11:09AM by Adreamskoll
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Potus
Length of Marriage | Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
Length of time the Presidents of the United States were married.
TIL that A. A. Milne stopped writing Winnie the Pooh books partially because he was worried about the fame it brought his son, Christopher Robin Milne. They later became estranged because his son resented the books and the fame they brought him.
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A. A. Milne
British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh
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TIL Romans wiped their butts with a sea sponge on a stick that they kept in a bucket of salt water or vinegar.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 04:49PM by trolleycrash
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Cottonelle
What Did People Use Before Toilet Paper? | Cottonelle® Canada
What did we use to wipe our bums before we had the luxury of toilet paper and wipes? Turns out, just about everything. See details inside.
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TIL that Roman emperors were considered pharaohs in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians viewed their pharaohs as god-kings. When Rome conquered Egypt, its emperors became the new pharaohs because Egyptian religion needed a god-king to work. Roman emperors only called themselves pharaohs while visiting Egypt.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 02:13PM by TMWNN
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Roman pharaoh
role of Roman emperors in Egypt
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TIL some churches have a hagioscope (or squint), a hole in a wall which allowed segregated worshippers to view the altar, one London church had to admonish nuns who got into the habit of kissing ‘secular persons’ via the squint
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 02:38PM by JesseBricks
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Hagioscope
architectural term
TIL the woman in the iconic Great Depression "Migrant Mother" photo was only 32 years old when the photo was taken.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 08:23PM by thedubiousstylus
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Florence Owens Thompson
Native-American farm worker, subject of Dorothea Lange's famous photo Migrant Mother (1903-1983)
TIL Muhammad is the most popular name in the world, by 2014 it was estimated to have been given to 150 million men and boys.
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Submitted March 07, 2024 at 07:45PM by Hoosayne-
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Muhammad
Muhammad (Arabic: مُحَمَّد, romanized: Muḥammad; .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}English:…
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