TIL of The Bajau, a group of people in South East Asia who evolved to have spleens 50 percent larger than normal. This allows them to spend eight hours a day underwater, catching octopus by hand.
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Submitted March 25, 2024 at 07:00PM by TheOSU87
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Meet the real-life Aquamen
The Bajau, of Southeast Asia, have spleens 50 percent larger than normal. This allows them to spend eight hours a day underwater, catching octopus by hand.
TIL Janson-de-Sailly was a French lawyer who, upon learning that his wife had a lover, disinherited her and bequethed his property to the state to build a boys' high school in Paris
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Submitted March 25, 2024 at 04:45PM by Johannes_P
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Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
secondary education in France
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TIL following his death in 68AD, there was a popular conspiracy theory that Roman emperor Nero was still secretly alive
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Nero Redivivus legend
1st century legend about Roman emperor Nero's return from death
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TIL that in 1970 Kinks lead singer Ray Davies had to fly from America to the UK just to re-record 2 words of the song Lola. The lyrics originally contained the words Coca-Cola and using a brand name meant it was banned by the BBC. The words were changed to cherry cola.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Why Ray Davies Flew Across the Atlantic to Re-Record Two Words in ‘Lola’
Ray Davies racked up an absurd number of frequent-flyer miles on June 3, 1970 just to alter a key phrase in the Kinks' hit single Lola.
TIL: The phrase "you're joshing me" dates back to 1883 to a man named Josh Tatum, who was a counterfeiter
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 02:58AM by SilentWalrus92
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True West Magazine
I’m Just Joshin’ Ya!
There are a number of terms for playing a joke on somebody but one of the most interesting word origins for such schemes is called “joshing.” Its origins
TIL Abraham Lincoln had a cousin who served in the Confederate Army as a private named Abraham B. Lincoln. He deserted from the confederate army in 1864.
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 02:40AM by JEBV
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CIVIL WAR SAGA
The Confederate Abraham Lincoln: Second Cousin to the President - CIVIL WAR SAGA
President Abraham Lincoln wasn't the only Abraham Lincoln involved in the Civil War. The Confederates had their own Lincoln, Private Abraham B. Lincoln of Company F in the 1st Virginia Cavalry. What's even stranger is that the two Lincolns were related. According…
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TIL that African elephants have been known to bury or assist humans who are dead, sleeping, or injured. A woman once fell asleep under a tree and woke up to find an elephant gently touching her. As more elephants arrived, they covered her with branches. The next morning, she was found unharmed.
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Elephant cognition
intellectual capacity of elephants
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TIL of "Belle Chase John Doe", an unidentified 17-year-old suicide victim whose note requested that the police make no attempt to identify him. All records and information on the case was lost during a hurricane.
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Findagrave
Unknown “Belle Chasse John Doe” Unknown ...
On February 14, 1975, a teenage body was found dead in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. He committed suicide by hanging himself with a bed sheet from a persimmon tree. He was about 16 or 17 years old and wore yellow and maroon shirt, blue pants, mismatched socks…
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TIL The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was part of a wider conspiracy that also involved the assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward and Vice President Andrew Johnson. Seward was stabbed in his home but survived, while Johnson’s assassin lost his nerve and never made the attempt.
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1865 murder of the 16th President of the United States
TIL In 1990, Muhammad Ali defied then-President George H.W. Bush's wishes by traveling to Iraq, where he secured the release of 15 American citizen hostages held in Iraqi prisons and brought them home. ( President Bush would eventually award him the Medal Of Freedom.)
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ABC7 San Francisco
Boxing great Muhammad Ali also leaves behind humanitarian legacy
Muhammad Ali was the greatest in the boxing ring. He went on to be a special humanitarian.
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TIL that the UK has 5x more giant redwoods than California, mostly thanks to Victorians importing the seeds. 200 years later, the redwoods are beginning to dwarf native British trees, despite still being in their “sapling” stage.
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the Guardian
Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
Researchers found that the Victorians brought so many seeds and saplings to Britain that experts say the giant redwoods now outnumber those in their US homeland
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TIL that Boris Yeltsin lost 2.5 fingers on his left hand when trying to open up a grenade as a teenager
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Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
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TIL that Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) was nicknamed "Dr. Rendezvous" by other NASA astronauts. Aldrin—with an MIT PhD—knew that it was not a compliment.
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 01:08PM by TMWNN
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Air & Space Forces Magazine
Buzz
Airman and tireless space exploration advocate Buzz Aldrin was also the second man to walk on the moon
TIL New York mobster, Joe Gallo was a diagnosed schizophrenic, watercolor painter, and avid reader of classic literature, who paraded his pet lion around the city. He kidnapped his own bosses, sparked two gang wars, and was killed on his birthday, in 1972. And Bob Dylan wrote a song about him.
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Joe Gallo
American mobster of Italian descent
TIL the lowest grossing film ever made $30 on a $2 million budget
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 02:52PM by ScoutMasterRose
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ScreenRant
"$30?!" The Lowest Grossing Movie Of All Time Explained & Why It Bombed At The Box Office
There has yet to be one lower!
TIL that Lensey Namioka, born in China, has a name that cannot be written in Chinese. Her linguist father found two Chinese syllables, "len" and "sey", that aren't used in words so don't have Chinese characters. He named his next daughter "Lensey"; she is the only known person with the name.
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 01:26PM by TMWNN
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Lensey Namioka
Chinese-born American children's writer
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TIL that to lessen the immediate financial burden of Terminator 2: Judgment Day’s production costs, Carolco Pictures paid most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary with a financed $12.75 million Gulfstream III jet.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 film by James Cameron
TIL That Dreamworks owns the "film rights" to Martin Luther King Jr.'s quotes
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Vice
The Bizarre Reason You Rarely Hear Martin Luther King Quotes in Movies
Steven Spielberg has received criticism for buying the film rights to MLK's speeches, and further controversy stems from King's estate.
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TIL The plane crash in Breaking Bad mirrors the real-life 1986 Cerritos mid-air collision, and the junior air traffic controller involved was actually named Walter White.
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 08:05PM by Algrinder
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Aeroméxico Flight 498
mid-air collision
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TIL Priss Fotheringham, famed for popularising 'chucking', an act dating back to ancient Rome. She'd stand on her head naked, legs apart, allowing patrons to toss coins into her "commodity". Legend has it she could fit 16 half-crowns, a notable achievement per modern commentators.
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 09:01PM by richh00
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Priss Fotheringham
17th century sex worker and madam in London
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TIL that one man (Chris Clark) bought the domain "pizza.com" in 1994 and sold it for $2.6 million at auction.
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Submitted March 26, 2024 at 10:32PM by NelsonDragonHdcX
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NZ Herald
Pizza.com domain makes huge pile of dough - NZ Herald
Latest breaking news articles, photos, video, blogs, reviews, analysis, opinion and reader comment from New Zealand and around the World - NZ Herald
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