TIL that in 2001 Major League Baseball successfully voted to eliminate two of their teams, the Twins and Expos. The plan fell through after the Twins were legally obligated to honor their stadium lease and the Expos were purchased by MLB and moved to Washington DC
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2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan
Attempt to eliminate two teams from Major League Baseball
TIL after a failed coup attempt in Japan, Masakatsu Morita acted as a second for the leader's seppuku. After 3 failed attempts to behead him, another man performed the deed. Morita then attempted seppuku himself, but stabbed himself too shallow to be fatal, and had to request his own beheading.
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Seppuku
Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour…
TIL about the Doorway Effect, where the simple act of walking through a doorway (both physical and virtual) can cause us to forget what we were just doing.
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Submitted March 13, 2024 at 05:54PM by Lookslikeapersonukno
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Doorway effect
psychological phenomenon of short-term memory loss when passing through a doorway or moving from one location to another
TIL SCOTUS, in 1995, ruled States setting term limits on Congress was unconstitutional
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Submitted March 13, 2024 at 08:50PM by creeper321448
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TIL American Civil War-era politician Clement Vallandigham died trying to defend a man accused of murder in a bar, who claimed he had accidentally discharged a pistol. Vallandigham attempted to demonstrate what happened... and accidentally shot himself with the pistol.
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Clement Vallandigham
American lawyer and politician
TIL Julius Caesar, kidnapped by pirates, demanded they increase his ransom. After his release, he captured and crucified them, fulfilling his promise made during captivity.
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Submitted March 13, 2024 at 10:29PM by Budget_Working2248
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Encyclopedia Britannica
The Time Julius Caesar Was Captured by Pirates
Be careful who you kidnap.
TIL of the 'reuzegommers', a group of 'elite' students (children of judges and politicians) who killed a new Initiate. They were sentenced to community service and it was forbidden to publish their names. YouTuber Acid was later convicted of cyberstalking for identifying them.
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Killing of Sanda Dia
crime in Leuven, Belgium
TIL that Earth's magnetic poles reverse polarity every 2 million years, so that north becomes south and south becomes north.
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Submitted March 13, 2024 at 10:22PM by Jest-In-Time
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Geomagnetic reversal
change of direction of Earth magnetic field
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TIL writer James Clavell was captured on Java in 1942 and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he was feed a quarter of a pound (110 g) of rice per day, one egg per week and occasional vegetables.
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James Clavell
American novelist (1921-1994)
TIL James Patterson has made more than $700M having sold more than 425M copies of his books.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 12:04AM by Olshansk
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James Patterson
American author
TIL It is illegal to give out free tobacco products in the UK unless you're a member of Parliament and it's within Westminster Palace as royal palaces are exempt from legislation
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Submitted March 13, 2024 at 11:51PM by JebbyisSweet
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Parliamentary snuff box
In the UK House of Commons
TIL of Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye, a woman who has birthed 51 children, with 44 still alive. As of April 2023, her eldest children is 31 years old, and the youngest is six years old. She is a single mother, who was abandoned by her husband in 2015.
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Mariam Nabatanzi
Uganda woman who is known as the world's most fertile woman
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TIL Cows have best friends. Studies have shown that cows become stressed when separated from their best friends. This finding highlights the social nature of cows and their ability to form close bonds with one another.
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the Guardian
The emotional depth of a cow | Hannah Velten
Hannah Velten: News that cows have best friends comes as no surprise to those of us who have worked with them – and their mood swings
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TIL the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese woman. She became so powerful that she negotiated with the Chinese government to retire in exchange for not being prosecuted and was able to keep a fleet of ships.
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Zheng Yi Sao
Zheng Yi Sao (born Shi Yang; 1775–1844), also known as Shi Xianggu, Shek Yeung and Ching Shih, was a Chinese pirate leader active in the South China Sea from 1801 to 1810.
TIL that almost a year ago, Maine's Govenor, Janet Mills, made Prostitution "Half Legal" in the State of Maine.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 05:14AM by RickSisco
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Press Herald
Governor signs bill partially decriminalizing sex work
The law will eliminate criminal charges for sex workers who engage in prostitution while continuing to allow those who purchase sex services to be charged.
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TIL of The Lainz Angels of Death. Four women who were nurse’s aides convicted of murdering 49 patients with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into their lungs between 1983 and 1989. They were caught only after bragging about their latest murder in a local tavern. By 2008 all four are free.
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Lainz Angels of Death
quartet of Austrian nurses convicted of serial murders
TIL: Vietnam has a few unique monsters, one is the Ma Vú Dài, a lady ghost with long breasts that attacks victims at night to forcefully breastfeed them until they fall unconscious. In the 60s, prisoners in Saigon reported seeing a women with long breasts force feeding cellmates.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 09:31AM by Flares117
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TheSmartLocal
9 Ghosts And Demons In Vietnamese Folklore That Had Us Check Under Our Beds As Kids
Legends of these 9 ghosts and demons are passed down from one generation of Vietnamese people to the next, intriguing thrillseekers.
TIL that Po was the only bilingual Teletubbie. She was voiced by Pui Fan Lee and occasionally spoke Cantonese on the show.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 02:35AM by nitrocoleslaw
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Peoplemag
Teletubbies Turn 20: 11 Things You Didn't Know
teletubbies, teletubbies anniversary, teletubbies trivia,
TIL about “Shaggy defense” - a legal defense strategy in which a person denies an accusation with the simple defense of "it wasn't me", despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 05:18PM by HellBlazeSRB
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Shaggy defense
legal strategy
TIL In 2020, Chinese and Indian soldiers fought a "Medieval" battle in the Himalayan mountains. With firearms being barred by dual agreement, soldiers fought for hours using sticks, stones, and other makeshift weapons. According to reports, four Chinese soldiers and twenty Indian soldiers died.
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Submitted March 14, 2024 at 05:20PM by gullydon
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the Guardian
Soldiers fell to their deaths as India and China's troops fought with rocks
India shocked by Himalayan border clash in which unarmed troops fought in the dark
TIl that as part of an agreement with the cast of StarShip Troopers in order to get them to film the infamous coed shower scene, director Paul Verhoeven had to direct it while also being completely naked
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EW.com
'Starship Troopers' turns 20: A look back at that famous shower scene
Thank Paul Verhoeven for one of the funniest movies ever made about fascism