TIL that the body of a 74-year-old woman who died of Alzheimer's in 2013 and whose son donated her body to Alzheimer's research was callously blown up by the U.S. Army for a "roadside bomb damage" experiment, despite her son's explicit wishes to exclude non-medical experiments and military use.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 11:04PM by Mavrokordato
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Reuters
How a great-grandmother’s body came to be used in an Army blast test
The story of how Doris Stauffer became part of a military experiment against family wish casts light on a growing but unregulated industry: human body brokers.
TIL that Clifford Johnson, the most severely burned survivor of 1942's horrific Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, underwent several hundred operations. He married his nurse and returned home to Missouri. Years later, he burned to death in a fiery automobile crash.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 09:46PM by DaytonaDemon
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Wikipedia
Cocoanut Grove fire
1942 nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts
TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 10:55PM by 9oRo
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Wikipedia
Myra (painting)
painting by Marcus Harvey
TIL in Britain during WW1, it was illegal to buy someone else a drink in a pub.
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Submitted July 23, 2024 at 11:03PM by doopityWoop22
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WW1 East Sussex
Alcohol and the First World War - WW1 East Sussex
The outbreak of the First World War brought about many changes to life on the home front, including a long-lasting impact on the serving of alcoholic beverages. Public houses and beer had been a staple of British social and socialising life in the years before…
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TIL commercials for prenoscription drugs were effectively banned from American television until the FDA eased restrictions in 1997
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 01:18AM by mrfujidoesacid
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Dangers and Opportunities of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
PMC Disclaimer
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TIL that Aerosmith generated higher revenue from the video game "Guitar Hero" than from any single album in their discography.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 01:29AM by Maddison_X_Lort
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Wikipedia
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
2008 video game
TIL a chemistry student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinson's syndrome.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 03:35AM by EmilyLoste1991
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Wikipedia
MPTP
chemical compound
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TIL Guy Fieri fed 5,000 fire evacuees a day during the 2017 Santa Rosa wildfires.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 03:57AM by Left-Dot9625
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TODAY.com
Guy Fieri feeds California wildfire evacuees, first responders
A wildfire evacuee himself, Guy Fieri is helping thousands of displaced residents in his hometown of Santa Rosa, California.
TIL after his ship was locked in ice, Henry Hudson & crew survived the winter in the southern tip of the Hudson Bay. The following spring, Hudson, his teenage son, and 7 supporters were set adrift by mutineers on a small boat, never heard from again.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 03:49AM by innergamedude
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HISTORY
Henry Hudson set adrift by mutineers | June 22, 1611 | HISTORY
After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and…
TIL President Woodrow Wilson let a flock of sheep graze on the White House lawn. They saved manpower by not having to mow the lawn while also raising $52,823 for the Red Cross through wool auctions.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 04:26AM by BatDelicious1886
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WHHA (en-US)
Sheep Graze on the White House Lawn
National Photo Company Collection, Washington.
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TIL a 2011 study from UC Berkeley found that Mercedes and BMW drivers were nearly 5 times as likely to cut others off compared to drivers in non-luxury cars.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 06:12AM by Accomplished_Eye3468
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YouWheel.com - Car News and Review
UC Berkeley Research Showed Luxury Car Driver Is More Rude - YouWheel.com - Car News and Review
If you owns luxury cars, please do not be offended by the following content, because this is only an academic research and there is no definite conclusion that who must be what. A 2012 study by Prof. Piff from the Department of Psychology, University of California…
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TIL the most divorced person ever of monogamous marriages was a baptist minister. He had married 31 times, mostly to teenagers, because he just “spoke their language” and ONLY five marriages end by the death of the spouse.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 08:02AM by Trextrev
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Wikipedia
Glynn Wolfe
American Baptist minister (1908–1997)
TIL after coming to the U.S as part of operation paperclip, Wernher Von Braun married his first cousin and moved to Alabama
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 07:29AM by JEBV
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Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
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TIL The Martha Mitchell effect occurs when a medical professional labels a patient's accurate perception of real events as delusional, resulting in misdiagnosis.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 08:04AM by Happiness_architect
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Martha Mitchell effect
labelling real experiences as delusional
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TIL the CIA used songs like Hit Me Baby One More time and Bye Bye Bye as part of their torture methods
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 11:43AM by Salacious_Wisdom
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Far Out Magazine
10 songs that the CIA used to brutally torture prisoners
A look at the widely condemned CIA practice of musical torture and how the likes of Metallica, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen and Prince were used in interrogations.
TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 12:26PM by Accomplished_Eye3468
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NPR
Episode 653: The Anti-Store
Today on the show: How Price Club and its imitators changed the way we shop. And how a new company is taking what Price Club started to new extremes.
TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 11:50AM by Left-Dot9625
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Wikipedia
King C. Gillette
American entrepreneur (1855–1932)
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TIL that sea drops by about 328 ft (100m) near Sri Lanka because gravity is anomalously weaker there
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 05:09PM by innergamedude
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 05:09PM by innergamedude
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CNN
There is a ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean, and scientists now think they know why | CNN
An anomaly known as the geoid low has long puzzled geologists. One team has found what it believes is a credible explanation, and it’s coming from deep inside Earth.
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TIL the only scientific paper ever published by Bill Gates was a possible solution to a mathematical problem about pancake flipping.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 01:56PM by doopityWoop22
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NPR
Before Microsoft, Gates Solved A Pancake Problem
Before Bill Gates became a household name, he went to Harvard. His sophomore year, he was assigned a complicated mathematics problem captured his interest, which — no surprise — he solved. His paper on the solution was published, and until recently it remained…
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TIL a doctor named Chester Southam injected his patients with cancer without their consent to see how their bodies would react.
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 06:10PM by doopityWoop22
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Chester M. Southam
American oncologist
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TIL that even if a Nuclear Winter occurred, it would be followed by a Nuclear Summer
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Submitted July 24, 2024 at 12:59PM by Name5times
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Nuclear winter
hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
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