TIL in 2008, Chile printed tons of 50 peso coins that misspelled the name of their country as "Chiie". No one noticed until 2009, and the person responsible was fired.
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Submitted August 05, 2024 at 01:19PM by doopityWoop22
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BBC News - Chile mint boss pays the price of coin spelling howler
The Chile mint's general manager is dismissed after thousands of coins were issued with the name of the country spelt wrongly.
TIL: At least 1/3 of the US Cycling Team in 1984 LA Olympics were doped with a process called "blood doping". The American Cycling team won 9 medals.
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Submitted August 05, 2024 at 01:38PM by StrongSuggestion8937
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TIL Albert Kahn was an industrial architect working out of Detroit. In 1937 he designed 19% of all factories built that year. He opened an architectural school in Russia. In 1941 he received the eighth highest salary in the USA, $486,936. His last building was the Willow Run bomber plant.
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Albert Kahn (architect)
American architect
TIL that the 1984 Summer Olympics, which took place in Los Angeles, made a profit
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Submitted August 05, 2024 at 03:32PM by Johannes_P
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In 1984, Los Angeles actually made money hosting the Olympics
David Goldblatt, author of ‘The Games,’ outlines L.A.’s winning business model
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TIL Poon Lim survived 133 days afloat in the Pacific Ocean aboard an 8' square wooden raft. When rescued and told that no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he simply answered, "I hope no one will ever have to break that record."
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Poon Lim
Chinese sailor of the British Merchant Navy
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TIL There was reportedly a 50-person pub brawl in a British pub over who would obtain the last bag of dry-roasted peanuts.
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Digital Spy
Drinkers 'in mass brawl over peanuts'
A fight reportedly breaks out over the last packet of dry roasted peanuts in a Tunbridge Wells pub.
TIL that six ginkgo trees survived the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and are still alive today.
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A-bombed Ginkgo trees in Hiroshima, Japan
Four A-bombed Ginkgo trees in Hiroshima, Japan, are still alive.
TIL Muhammad Ali once appeared in a DC comic book. He knocked out Superman to save him from aliens.
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Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
Comic book published in 1978
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TIL that the rent in the German town of Fuggerei hasn't been raised in 500 years and remains 0.88 Euros for an entire year
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Fuggerei
world's oldest social housing complex, built by Jakob Fugger in Augsburg
TIL in 1719, prisoners in Paris were granted freedom on the condition that they marry a prostitute and relocate to Louisiana.
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Louisiana and France’s Forced Colonization Experiment | JocelynGreen.com
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Today I learned that in an early draft of the Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat", Jose Canseco missed the big game at the end because he was having an affair with Mrs. Krabappel. The real Conseco objected to this, so the finished episode has him missing the game for a more heroic reason.
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"MATTINGLY, SHAVE THOSE SIDEBURNS!"
It was The Simpsons’ third season and the only star they’d ever landed was Tony Bennett. That changed on Feb. 20, 1992, when “Homer at the Bat” was beamed into millions of homes across North America, featuring guest appearances by Wade Boggs, José Canseco…
TIL Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher, would regularly walk around the city during bombing raids to "ponder his destiny". During one such aerial bombardment in 1945, a shell fragment damaged his spinal cord and he became paralysed from the waist down, remaining so for the rest of his life.
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Julius Evola
Italian philosopher and esotericist (1898-1974)
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TIL In 1980, a Seattle businessman opened a sperm bank that only accepted sperm from Nobel laureates or 'accomplished males.' The goal was to produce genetically superior children. Many of the 218 children born under the program have been described as geniuses in a variety of fields.
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Repository for Germinal Choice
sperm bank in Escondido, California
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TIL Michael Phelps has won a record 23 Olympic gold medals; No other Olympian has won more than 9.
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 03:05AM by Camdacrab
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List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
Wikimedia list article
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TIL the distributor for the movie Snowpiercer (2013) requested that the scene involving a fish be removed, but director Bong Joon-ho convinced them to keep it in by lying about his father being a fisherman and claiming the scene was dedicated to him. Bong's father was never a fisherman.
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VULTURE
Bong Joon-ho’s Dystopia Is Already Here
The Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s ferocious new film, Parasite, is a parable of our money-hungry world. It’s also the most fun you’ll have in theaters this fall.
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TIL that CBS used to add bird songs to their golf broadcasts to eliminate awkward silences. This went unnoticed until a viewer, familiar with the bird songs of the region, realized the sounds were from birds that didn't inhabit the area where the tournament was being held.
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Brainerd Dispatch
CBS to stop canned bird songs during golf broadcasts
WASHINGTON -- After birders cried foul, CBS decided to stop broadcasting canned bird songs during coverage of golf tournaments. Speculation about whether the network used taped bird sounds was a hot topic on birding chat sites this summer. People...
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TIL Genghis Khan set up an institution that ensured complete religious freedom in the Mongol empire, though he himself was a Tengrist (religion originating from the Eurasian steppes)
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Religion in the Mongol Empire
mongol religious practice under the system of Genghis Khan
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TIL that Christians, Muslims, and Jews have all used roughly the same word for God due to the closeness of their cultures. Jesus of Nazareth would have called God "Elah," in Hebrew "*Eloh*im," and later, Islam would call God "Allah."
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 06:56AM by NoTePierdas
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Names of God
forms of address or reference to the deity of a religion
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TIL over 20 million people were killed in Chinese Islamic insurgency in 1860s and 1870s under Qing dysnasty, one province lost 14 million and the neighboring province 6 million
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 11:37AM by uniyk
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Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)
The Dungan Revolt (1862–1877), also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt (simplified Chinese: 同治回乱; traditional Chinese: 同治回亂; pinyin: Tóngzhì Huí Luàn, Xiao'erjing: تُجِ خُوِ لُوًا, Dungan: Тунҗы Хуэй Луан) or Hui (Muslim) Minorities War, was a war fought in…
TIL that in 1983, scientists created a machine that temporarily allowed people to see new colors outside of the regular color space.
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 01:30PM by YetiArrow
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Impossible color
color that cannot be perceived under ordinary viewing conditions
TIL because of naval tradition, submarines are usually referred to as boats rather than as ships, regardless of their size.
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 02:15PM by ChupdiChachi
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Submarine
watercraft capable of independent operation underwater