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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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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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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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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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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Submarine
watercraft capable of independent operation underwater
TIL Orville Wright's final flight was in a plane whose wingspan exceeded the length of his original flight.
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Lockheed Constellation
1943 airliner family
TIL It's physically impossible to sink entirely in quicksand
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Quicksand
colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular material, clay, and water
TIL German chocolate cake was invented in Texas
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German chocolate cake
layer cake with chocolate and a coconut-pecan frosting
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TIL about Klaus Barbie, a Nazi war criminal hiding in Bolivia after the war, was tricked into revealing his true identity during a fake interview by being asked a question in French, a language he wasn't supposed to understand.
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 07:26PM by dtdowntime
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Klaus Barbie
German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913–1991)
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TIL that both Michael Jackson & Rihanna got sued for the use of the sample "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" in their songs "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" & "Please Don't Stop the Music" respectively, a hook inspired by Cameroonian singer Manu Dibango in his 1972 song "Soul Makossa".
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Soul Makossa
"Soul Makossa" is a song by Cameroonian saxophonist and songwriter Manu Dibango, released as a single in 1972. It is the most sampled African song in history. The song was originally recorded as the B-side for "Hymne de la 8e Coupe d'Afrique des Nations"…
TIL In the span of less than 1 year, both President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from office for separate reasons
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 09:30PM by Tom573
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HISTORY
Vice President Agnew resigns | October 10, 1973 | HISTORY
Less than a year before Richard M. Nixon’s resignation as president of the United States, Spiro Agnew becomes one of the first U.S. vice presidents to resign in disgrace. The same day, he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange…
TIL that during a spin, a pilot jumped from his plane, only to see his unmanned F-106 recover and land safely in a field.
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Submitted August 06, 2024 at 10:26PM by LunaCutieIRL
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Cornfield Bomber
accident involving a F-106 of the U.S. Air Force in 1970