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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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History of France
aspect of history
TIL that within the span of two years, Miranda Cosgrove was victim of two stalkers and the last one set himself fire killed himself on her yard.
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Miranda Cosgrove
American actress and singer (born 1993)
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TIL that Florence mills’ house was designated a landmark, but it was the wrong house. The right house had been demolished. This marks the only time a landmark in New York City has been stripped of its label.
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Florencemills
Buildings
Tribute to Florence Mills, star of 1920s black theatre & Harlem Renaissance.
TIL steamed hamburgers are an actual regional delicacy (though in Central Connecticut).
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Steamed cheeseburger
type of hamburger originating in central Connecticut, U.S.
TIL the game of Go is so complex that the number of legal board positions, which has been calculated to be approximately 2.1×10^170, is far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, which is estimated to be on the order of 10^80.
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Go (game)
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously…
TIL Tim Horton died after crashing his car driving drunk and high
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Tim Horton
Canadian ice hockey player and businessman
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TIL that France sent the first cat into space in 1963. Félicette was a stray cat from the streets of Paris and was one of 14 cats trained for spaceflight. She survived her trip but was euthanised 2 months later.
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Félicette
first cat sent to space, on 18 October 1963 as part of the French space program
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TIL Ed Kemper (The Co-Ed Killer) and Herbert Mullin (Another serial killer from the same era) were in the same block at a time and Ed Kemper "trained" him to behave himself.
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Edmund Kemper Stories
Ed Kemper's behavior modification therapies - Edmund Kemper Stories
Ed Kemper: “I wouldn’t blame [Mullin], I was in a jail cell right next to him for months and I was in prison up in the hole here, in the lockup unit, for going on three years with him. About two-and-a-half years, and at one point, I got him a job in the kitchen.…
TIL about Lisa Nowak: an astronaut mother of 3, who drove 900 miles in adult diapers to kidnap the other woman in a bizarre space love triangle.
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Houstonia
Tainted Love: The Astronaut Love Triangle That Led to Adult Diapers and Battery
When astronaut Bill Oefelein dumped fellow astronaut Lisa Nowak for someone else, Nowak didn't exactly take it well.
TIL John Candy was reputedly the "most-burned potential host" of SNL, in that he was asked to host many times, only for plans to be changed by the SNL staff at the last minute.
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John Candy
Canadian actor (1950–1994)