TIL: There is a pastry known as Cassatella di sant'Agata, or as translated, Saint Agatha's Breasts. It was named after Agatha who was tortured by having her breasts cut off. They are round shaped sweets made with sponge cake, soaked in rosolio, and filled with cheese, chocolate, and candied fruit.
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Cassatella di sant'Agata
traditional pastry from Catania, Italy
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TIL that Dragon Ball was originally inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. The creator, Akira Toriyama, drew heavily from the story's characters and themes, with Goku being loosely based on the Monkey King, Sun Wukong.
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CBR
Dragon Ball Was Inspired by This Piece of Classic Chinese Literature
The origins of this masterpiece go back far beyond the medium of anime. Learn more about the grand and epic quest that inspired Akira Toriyama.
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TIL A class-action lawsuit claims that people who enjoy the night sky with telescopes have been consistently overcharged. The amateur astronomy market in the US is 80% controlled by two companies and the telescope global market is predicted to grow to $294 million annually by 2025
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CBC
Amateur astronomers set sights on alleged telescope price-fixing conspiracy | CBC News
The founder of one of the world's leading telescope manufacturers and his B.C.-based relatives are accused in two proposed class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of amateur astronomers who claim they’re victims of a massive price-fixing conspiracy.
TIL that asthma is the most common chronic illness among Olympians.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 12:28AM by redtopian
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Allergy & Asthma Network
Olympic Athletes With Asthma | Allergy & Asthma Network
Asthma is the most common chronic condition among Olympians. Find out how athletes with asthma manage their condition and stay in the game.
TIL while most Woolly Mammoth populations died out 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, the last population survived on Wrangell Island up until 4000 years ago, as the Pyramids were being built.
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Woolly mammoth
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with the African Mammuthus subplanifrons…
TIL because M. Night Shyamalan funded Split himself, the Universal execs didn't find out that it was a sequel to his film Unbreakable until their first screening of it & were "completely flummoxed" because the latter is a Disney movie. But Shyamalan told them it's ok, he'd already gotten permission.
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M. Night Shyamalan Hid One Twist From The Studio And It Left Executives ‘Completely Flummoxed’ After He Screened It
M. Night Shyamalan went to insane lengths to protect this secret twist.
TIL of Fagging, a traditional practice in British public schools and also at many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys.
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Fagging
custom of young school pupils at British boarding schools being used as servants by older students, later decried as inhumane
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TIL between 1978 and 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Out of 31 officials who were tested, 12 accepted the bribe and were convicted
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
ABSCAM | Federal Bureau of Investigation
On February 2, 1980, the world learned of our high-level investigation into public corruption and organized crime, infamously code-named ABSCAM.
TIL Tug of war was featured at the Summer Olympics 1900 to 1920.
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Tug of war at the Summer Olympics
Olympic sport, 1900–1920
TIL That Seahorses Lack A Stomach & Need To Constantly Eat To Stay Living
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Seahorse
genus of fishes
TIL about the Marriage of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead - a 22 year old farmer that married a 9 year old girl.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 08:29AM by Practical_Message677
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Marriage of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead
1937 child marriage in Tennessee, U.S.
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TIL of the "Mad Piper" Bill Millin, the only bagpiper to land on the beach in Normandy. While men fell around him, he played his pipes throughout the battle. A group of captured German snipers was asked why they hadn't shot him. They replied that they thought he'd gone insane and felt bad for him.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 01:33PM by doopityWoop22
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Bill Millin
Canadian musician (1922-2010)
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TIL Young children can regenerate removed fingertips
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Regeneration (biology)
biological process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations
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TIL Female Kangaroos have 3 vaginas.
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Australian Geographic
Did you know kangaroos have three vaginas?
Don’t believe me? Read on.
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TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 03:42PM by Go_Squanch_Yourself
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hitchBOT
either of two Canadian-made hitchhiking robots
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TIL that, despite having been dead for a year, a cat was successfully registered as a certified member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants by her owner, seeking to showcase the complete lack of any verification for membership aside from payment.
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List of animals awarded human credentials
Wikimedia list article
TIL: The explosion of Mt Tambora in 1815 was so devastating that it eliminated an entire kingdom, along with its unique language. Remnants were found buried under a 3m thick layer of volcanic matter in the middle of a jungle.
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Tambora culture
lost village and culture on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
TIL that in 1998, Sony had the chance to buy the rights to nearly all Marvel characters for $25 million but chose to acquire only Spider-Man, believing no one cared about the others.
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BC
Ike Perlmutter Hated Sony/Marvel Deal After Spider-Man (2002) Success
Avi Arad says Ike Perlmutter "developed a fire in his belly of hatred and started terrorizing" Sony "on things that he had the right to and then some"
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TIL in 2023 a Gibbon in a zoo in Japan got pregnant through a glory hole
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VICE
Zookeepers Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of How a Gibbon Got Pregnant by Herself – VICE
Momo the gibbon was kept in a cage by herself in a Japanese zoo. But life found a way.
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TIL in 1054, Chinese records reported a “new star bright enough to be seen in the daytime”. They were actually witnessing the supernova explosion that created the Crab Nebula 6,500 light-years away.
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Crab Nebula
Supernova remnant
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TIL during The Battle of The Bulge, General Patton ordered a chaplain to compose a prayer for good weather that was desperately needed for an advance. The chaplain complied, the weather cleared, and Patton awarded the chaplain a bronze star on the spot.
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George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy…
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