TIL that animals lacking teeth to grind their food (eg. birds, fish) have a specialized stomach containing rocks to replace that function.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 03:46PM by Nobody6432
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Gizzard
Digestive organ of some animals
TIL the first detective in the Chicago Police Department was Alan Pinkerton.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 04:20PM by rolltideamerica
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Allan Pinkerton
Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
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TIL one of the medical technicians in The Exorcist's infamous cerebral angiography scene went on to become a convicted murderer
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 04:55PM by ladyermine
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Paul Bateson
radiographer who had a bit part in ''The Exorcist''; later convicted of murder
TIL: Since the year 2000, 5 new elements have been added to the periodic table. The 7th row of the periodic table is finally filled.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 06:22PM by SilentWalrus92
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Discovery of chemical elements
The discoveries of the 118 chemical elements known to exist as of 2024 are presented here in chronological order. The elements are listed generally in the order in which each was first defined as the pure element, as the exact date of discovery of most elements…
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TIL of Shabani, a western lowland gorilla in Japan who's REALLY good looking, enough for an increase in younger female visitors to his zoo.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 06:35PM by 123ineedto_pee
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Shabani (gorilla)
celebrity western lowland gorilla residing in Japan
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TIL there is a form of Greek sculpture called the herma that consists of a head, an uncarved block, a phallus and testicles
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 06:05PM by cela_
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Herm (sculpture)
type of sculpture with a head and often a torso above a plain lower section, often with male genitals
TIL Iona Morris was replaced as Storm in X-Men:The Animated Series because she would have been owed residuals otherwise
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 07:04PM by DaveOJ12
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Comic Legends: Why Did the X-Men Animated Series Have 3 Storms?
In the latest Comic Book Legends Revealed, learn why the first season of X-Men Animated Series had three different voice actresses for Storm!
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TIL John Lennon openly plagiarized Chuck Berry's song "Can't Catch Me" to write "Come Together." When Paul McCartney called him out on the intellectual theft, Lennon responded, "Yeah, I know! It's good though, isn't it?" "Come Together" became a No. 1 hit and is considered a Beatles classic.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 10:11PM by smrad8
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When John Lennon stole from a Chuck Berry song to write "Come Together"
John Lennon was sued in 1969 by the publisher of the 1956 Chuck Berry song "You Can't Catch Me" claiming that he infringed on that copyright when writing his Beatles…
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TIL that double reed wind instrument players were found to have lower rates of obstructive sleep apnea
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 07:26PM by yutsi_beans
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Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Lower in Double Reed Wind Musicians
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is caused by a collapse of the upper airway. Respiratory muscle training with a wind instrument (didgeridoo) in patients with moderate OSA has been previously shown to improve OSA symptomology. However, a survey of orchestra…
TIL when HOF Baseball player Don Drysdale passed away by heart attack in his hotel room, amongst his belongings was a cassette tape recording of RFK's final speech that Don carried everywhere he went. In that speech RFK acknowledged Don's 6th straight shut out game that he pitched that same evening.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 07:28PM by starkfr
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Don Drysdale
American baseball player
TIL one of Canadian Club whiskey's most important clients during US Prohibition was Al Capone who smuggled thousands of cases from a route from Windsor to Detroit.
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 05:44PM by YUGIOH-KINGOFGAMES
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Canadian Club
brand of whisky from Canada
TIL In China, smuggling a Giant Panda carries at least a 10-year sentence and confiscation of property; under grave circumstances, life sentence or even death sentence together with a total confiscation of property shall be applied.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 12:59AM by ReceivedHeadToday
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TIL that Pop Warner coached Iowa State remotely for 4 seasons while coaching other schools (Georgia for 2 seasons and Cornell for 2 seasons).
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Submitted March 22, 2024 at 10:11PM by TryingToNotBeInDebt
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Pop Warner
American college football coach, College Football Hall of Fame member (1871-1954)
TIL, when walking into a bar in England, Jimi Hendrix and his band were told they weren't welcome by a bartender who said "Sorry, mates, we can't serve your sort in here,". Hendrix thought it was because he was black, but it was because they were mistaken for circus clowns.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 03:43AM by lookawake
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JIMI HENDRIX Bio Undoes Myth
The Akron Beacon Journal (www.ohio.com) has issued the following report from Gene Stout:ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS: A BIOGRAPHY OF JIMI HENDRIXBy Charles R. Cross(Hyperion, 400 pages, $24.95)In 1967, the year Jimi Hendrix became the toast of London, a bartender…
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TIL Cigarette smoking has a positive relationship with caffeine tolerance and metabolism because it induces the cytochrome P450 1A2 enzyme that breaks down caffeine.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 04:37AM by 2252_observations
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Heavier smoking increases coffee consumption: findings from a Mendelian randomization analysis
There is evidence for a positive relationship between cigarette and coffee consumption in smokers. Cigarette smoke increases metabolism of caffeine, so this may represent a causal effect of smoking on caffeine intake.We performed Mendelian randomization ...
TIL of Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, the Chief of the German Military Cabinet who died after performing a ballerina dance in a pink tutu for the Kaiser and his guests. His death was covered up because of fears it would inflame a previous homosexuality scandal in the German military.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 08:27AM by krsj
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Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler
German general
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TIL in the US in 1996, Georgia State Representative Doug Teper unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to replace that state's electric chair with the guillotine.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 06:42PM by garamond89
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Guillotine
apparatus designed for carrying out executions by beheading
TIL Benedetta Carlini, the 17th century nun known for being charged by the inquisition for having sex with a fellow nun while "being possesed by a demon", was also a mystic. She would fall in a trance state, speak in tongues and suffered from stigmata. She also married Jesus in an official ceremony
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 06:10PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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Benedetta Carlini
Italian mystic and nun
TIL that in Speed 2 the scene where the ship crashes into the island was made with a non-animated partial boat crashing into the real island, and was the most expensive stunt ever filmed at $25M in 1997.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 08:46PM by kungfu_kickass
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997 film by Jan de Bont
TIL: aside from being an actor and an activist, Marlon Brando was also an inventor with 4 patents to his name. One of them were pool shoes that that would increase friction as you walk on the bottom of the pool to give you a better workout, and another invention being a single-tuning conga drum.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 08:55PM by waitingforthesun92
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Marlon Brando's Lost Musical Innovation
The late actor was also an amateur drummer, as well as an inventor with four patents to his credit. His lost prototypes for tuning conga drums were recently uncovered in a West Los Angeles storage facility.
TIL that the French monarchy fell five times and was restored four times in the span of a century, from 1771 to 1871.
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Submitted March 23, 2024 at 09:10PM by VLenin2291
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History of France
aspect of history