TIL That the senate of American Samoa is elected by and from the "Matai" the chiefly nobility of the territory, making it the only place within the United States or it's territories that maintains a noscriptd system of aristocracy with special rights unavailable to others.
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American Samoa Senate
upper house of the American Samoa Fono
Today I learned about Victorian 'Coffin Torpedoes', a system of triggers that detonated an explosion of lead balls if the coffin lid was opened after burial, to deter grave robbers.
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Atlas Obscura
Victorian ‘Coffin Torpedoes’ Blasted Would-Be Body Snatchers
Grave robbing got more hazardous in the 1880s.
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TIL about Belphegors Prime number, 1000000000000066600000000000001. One, followed by 13 zeroes, 666, another 13 zeroes, and one again. It’s 31 digits long and is also a palindromic prime number. Discovered by mathematician Harvey Dubner, Belphegors prime is named after the demon of inventiveness.
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Belphegor's prime
the prime number 10³⁰+666×10¹⁴+1
TIL that the billionaire founder of Alibaba Jack Ma was rejected from every job he tried to apply for after college. For example, he applied to KFC and was the only person out of 24 applicants to not be hired.
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CNBC
Billionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma was rejected from every job he applied to after college, even KFC
Failure, even at Kentucky Fried Chicken, can be a lesson.
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TIL 31 of the first 40 pilots hired to fly mail by the U.S. Post Office were killed in crashes
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Airmail Maverick | American Experience | PBS
It was a dangerous job, but someone had to do it.
TIL that McVitie's Digestive got its name from the high amount of sodium bicarbonate in it. The inventor theorized that eating the biscuits after a large meal would be beneficial to one's health. Now, they print a disclaimer on them that says, “The biscuit's ingredients lack digestive aids”
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Digestive biscuit
food
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TIL A 46 year old man tracked and attacked a 13 year old kid after being repeatedly killed and taunted by the boy in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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CBS News
Man chokes kid for "beating" him in Call of Duty game
Video games can increase aggression, but there are ways to manage the anger
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TIL that anthropologists have identified 7 'universal' moral rules found all around the world: help your family, help your group, return favours, be brave, defer to superiors, divide resources fairly, and respect others’ property.
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Current Anthropology
Is It Good to Cooperate? : Testing the Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation in 60 Societies | Current Anthropology: Vol 60, No 1
What is morality? And to what extent does it vary around the world? The theory of “morality-as-cooperation” argues that morality consists of a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human social life. Morality…
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TIL: A study in 2009 randomly selecting people with beards, mustaches, and clean-shaven found that mustached individuals made 8.2% more money than the bearded and 4.3% more than cleanshaven. However, they spent 11% more money. The study was funded by the American Mustache Institute.
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Reuters
Want to earn more money? Try growing a mustache
Maybe American men should skip a day of shaving, especially when interviewing for a job.
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TIL that Judge Judy isn’t officially a judge; she’s actually an arbitrator and her show depicts real-life civil disputes dressed up like it’s real court
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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 05:52AM by Brendawg324
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Judy Sheindlin
American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author
TIL the U.S. government is worried about generative AI being used to create new viruses
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TIL a 79 year old woman at a dodgers baseball game in 2018 was killed when struck by a foul ball in the cheek
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Husband of Dodgers fan fatally struck by foul ball: 'We didn't have time to react'
Linda Goldbloom died after attending a Padres-Dodgers game last season.
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TIL about Genie, a feral child who was tied up in her father's bathroom for most of her childhood and never developed the ability to speak. Despite massive advances in Genie's social skills and non-verbal communication - Genie never learned how to acquire language after her rescue.
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the Guardian
Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers
More than four decades after she appeared in a Los Angeles County welfare office, her fate is unclear – but she has changed the lives of those who knew her
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TIL Fred Durst directed a movie starring John Travolta and Devon Sawa that only made $4,000 at the box office
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The Fanatic (2019 film)
2019 film directed by Fred Durst
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TIL researchers discovered the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet, Canaanite, on a head-lice comb believed by scientists to have been made around 1700 BCE. The innoscription on the luxury item reads "may this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."
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the Guardian
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
Timeless fret over hygiene picked out on engraved Bronze age comb from ancient kingdom of Judah
TIL free range chickens sleep in trees
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LearnPoultry
Why Do Chickens Sleep in Trees? - LearnPoultry
Chickens are birds of habit. They will return home every evening as sunset sets in and retreat to a place where they feel comfortable and safe. While every chicken keeper ...
TIL that an entire horror movie was filmed in the US Disney Parks without permission. Actors and crew disguised themselves as tourists and filmed for 2 weeks in each park. Disney chose to ignore the film, probably to avoid giving it any more attention. It premiered at Sundance.
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Escape from Tomorrow
2013 film by Randy Moore
TIL The U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six was not the sixth SEAL team. At the time there were only two. The name was chosen to confuse the Soviets.
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SEAL Team Six
Special Mission Units of US Navy
TIL The Triforce symbol from Legend of Zelda is the symbol of the Hojo clan in Japan
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Hōjō clan
clan who controlled the Kamakura Shogunate as shikken (regent) in Japan
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TIL that voice actress Dionne Quan, noted for roles like Trixie Tang in Fairly OddParents, is legally blind and has all of her noscripts written in braille.
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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 04:55PM by TurnDown4Whom
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Dionne Quan
former American voice actress
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TIL that Powdered sugar is highly flammable!
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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 05:57PM by VastCoconut2609
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HowStuffWorks
How Can Sugar Explode?
Sugar is flammable and under the perfect circumstances it can explode. Learn more about sugar and some of the other properties of sugar.