TIL that the oldest known writing in the world, Sumerian Cuneiform, is over 5000 years old and only 5-10% of all recovered tablets have been translated.
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Submitted March 18, 2024 at 09:44PM by BruteForceOpinion
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www.ox.ac.uk
Can we crack the world's oldest writing? | University of Oxford
We might finally be able to read clay tablets from the birth of written language.
TIL that autocomplete for keyboards was first developed in the 1950s for Chinese typewriters, which required users to navigate through thousands of logographic characters, thus helping people type faster without the need to search for each character.
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Submitted March 18, 2024 at 09:14PM by Algrinder
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Autocomplete
computing feature predicting ending to a word a user is typing
TIL Pope Leo XIII awarded a Vatican gold medal to the creator of his favourite brand of cocaine-infused wine and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.
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Submitted March 18, 2024 at 11:20PM by gullydon
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Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII (Italian: Leone XIII; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the oldest pope holding…
TIL there have been multiple "AI winters" which are periods of reduced funding and interest in the field following a period of hype in overstated AI capabilities.
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Submitted March 18, 2024 at 10:10PM by Temp89
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AI winter
period of reduced funding and interest in AI
TIL 1 out of 3 Americans live in just four states. California, Texas, Florida, and New York.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 01:27AM by PaulOshanter
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List of U.S. states and territories by population
Wikimedia list article
TIL left-handed men are more likely to be homosexual than their right-handed counterparts
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 02:17AM by JeezThatsBright
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Handedness and sexual orientation
Research hypothesis
TIL Actor Gerard Butler paid for bee venom injections twice and ended up in hospital both times.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 03:02AM by Unleashtheducks
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the Guardian
Gerard Butler: I injected myself with bee venom and ended up in hospital
Scottish actor went into anaphylactic shock after using the traditional remedy after a 12-hour day of performing stunts
TIL that in the year 2000, Norm MacDonald nearly won a million dollars for Paul Newman’s charity for children, but host Regis Philbin talked him out of answering the question so he only won $500,000
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 12:34AM by BASSA_NOVA
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Norm MacDonald's Run
Just a re-upload that somebody else provided back in the day. Definitely one of the most memorable Celebrity Millionaire contestants.
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TIL about the loneliest whale in the world. Dubbed "The 52-hertz whale", it appears to be the only individual emitting a whale call at this frequency in the whole world. The whale itself has never been sighted.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 02:26AM by No_Idea_Guy
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52-hertz whale
individual whale which has been detected calling at 52 Hz, far above the normal whale vocal range
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TIL Danny DeVito's short stature is the result of Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia (Fairbank's disease), a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth. He met Rhea Perlman when she went to see a friend in the play The Shrinking Bride, which featured DeVito, and they moved in together 2 weeks later.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 05:35AM by CleaTorris
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Danny DeVito
American actor, director, and producer
TIL that, during production of Thor: The Dark World, Marvel decided that the Aether and previous MacGuffins would be used as Infinity Stones. In order to give each stone its own color, the red Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy was changed to purple in post-production.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 04:22AM by WouldbeWanderer
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Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame
Processes involved in the making of Avengers: Infinity War & Avengers: Endgame.
TIL a Japanese man Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the 2011 earthquake and has not stopped looking for her body for more than 10 years and has dived more than 800 times in the ocean to retrieve her.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 07:46AM by generation_chaos
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Aeon
A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea | Aeon Videos
In a poignant portrait of grief and the strength it can inspire, Yasuo searches the sea for his wife, lost in a tsunami
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TIL the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts is unknown
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 07:24AM by W3bneck
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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
in-flight breakup of the Challenger space shuttle in US
TIL: The first Territorial Governor of New Mexico, Charles Bent, was scalped alive and assassinated in his home by Pueblo warriors during the Taos Revolt in 1847
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 03:08PM by JosefVStalin
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Charles Bent
American politician (1799-1847)
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TIL that Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV published a sci-fi novel in 1894 about life in the year 2000; it includes denoscriptions of a world wide telephone network, solar power, air travel and space travel to Saturn and Jupiter.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 11:00AM by deafhuman
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A Journey in Other Worlds
book by John Jacob Astor IV
TIL that the city of Philadelphia, which was where Washington had to live when he was president, had laws in place that said any slave that lived there for more than 6 months would be freed. So, Washington set up a rotational schedule exchanging his slaves between states to prevent their freedom.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 06:27PM by Mike-Schachter
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Smithsonian Magazine
George Washington Used Legal Loopholes to Avoid Freeing His Slaves
One of his slaves fled to New Hampshire to escape becoming a wedding present
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TIL prior to the announcement of the Mach3 razor blade in the late 90s, Gillette built plywood walls around the production lines in its factory in Boston, in order to keep it a secret from many of its own employees.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 05:41PM by Kale_Brecht
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Gillette Mach3
1998 cartridge razor model by Gillette
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TIL that one of the earliest known cases of Piracy came from Mozart when he was 14 after he listened to Miserere by Gregorio Allegri at a performance and later transcribed it from memory
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 06:55PM by IconXR
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ZME Science
How Mozart was one of the first “pirates” – illegally transcribing music
The story of how a 12-year-old boy from Vienna snuck out the Sistine Chapel's biggest guarded secret by genius alone.
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TIL: There is a serial killer who was also an extra in various movies and TV shows such as Breaking Bad. Clifton Bloomfield, A bully since high school, he went on a crime spree, was jailed for 14 years, and after release in 2002 he murdered 5 people before and during the filming of Breaking Bad.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 07:09PM by Flares117
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Clifton Bloomfield
American serial killer
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TIL, Jumbo the elephant was not named such because of his size. Instead, Jumbo the word, meaning exceptionally large, was only introduced into the english language because of Jumbo the elephant. He was so big and so well known that his name became synonymous with size.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 07:31PM by lemelisk42
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Jumbo
historic elephant 1860-1885
TIL That babies born during the Dutch famine of 1944-45, had a higher likelihood of becoming obese as adults compared to the general population.
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Submitted March 19, 2024 at 09:22PM by NobleWhiteLotus
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Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Prenatal Exposure to Famine Heightens Risk for Later Being Overweight
An analysis of historical medical records found that men who were prenatally exposed during early gestation to the Dutch famine of 1944-1945 were 30 percent more likely to be overweight with a Body
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