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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Submitted March 31, 2024 at 11:36PM by 9man95
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 04:10AM by Algrinder
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 04:24AM by the_wellspring
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 02:00AM by Flares117
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 03:15AM by Rigorous_Threshold
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 04:54AM by mankls3
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ABC News
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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 01:48PM by KieranWriter
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 04:28AM by forestdude
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 02:34PM by unicornlounge
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 12:08PM by gullydon
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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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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 12:44PM by thesmartass1
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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.
TIL Sublime’s debut album "40oz. to Freedom" was recorded in secrecy at the studios in California State University.
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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 05:49PM by bashfulstandpoint
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40oz. to Freedom
40oz. to Freedom is the debut studio album by American ska punk band Sublime, originally released on June 1, 1992, on Skunk Records. It was later reissued by MCA. 40oz. to Freedom's sound blended various forms of Jamaican music, including ska ("Date Rape")…
TIL: The sovereign citizen movement in Ontario, Canada is so bothersome the Ontario Govt. made it illegal to add it on your license signature.
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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 08:19PM by mickeysbeerdeux
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ontario.ca
Renew a driver’s licence
Renew your driver’s licence online, learn about the temporary validation document and find out how to update your address, get a new photo and change your sex designation.Renew driver’s licence and health cardRenew driver's licence
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TIL: 1963 San Diego Chargers were required to take anabolic steroids 3x per day during training camp. They led the league in nearly every offensive and defensive category and won the AFL championship 51-10.
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Submitted April 01, 2024 at 11:32PM by ProfessorAlong
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ESPN.com
Pumped-up pioneers: the '63 Chargers
The AFL champion 1963 San Diego Chargers were going to be good, anyway. They had Tobin Rote, Lance Alworth, Ron Mix and Hall of Fame coach Sid Gillman. But they had something else going for them, too: steroids.
TIL Boeing offered to install solid rockets on their early 727-200 airliners back in the 1960s and 1970s. These were for emergency thrust in the event of an engine failure during takeoff at high altitude airports. Only twelve 727s ever had them, all with Mexicana Airlines for use at Mexico City.
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Submitted April 02, 2024 at 01:22AM by Beriev
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Avgeekery.com
Boeing Actually Tried Rocket Assisted Takeoffs On the 727
It sounds almost too amazing to be true, but Boeing actually tested rockets on the Boeing 727. Their plan wasn't as crazy as it sounds.