TIL In 2020, The North American Scrabble Players Association banned racial slurs and other offensive words from official play, a decision which was controversial among top players.
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Slate Magazine
Big Scrabble’s Decision to Eliminate Offensive Words Has Infuriated Players Like Never Before
Does “hate speech” apply to playing a word in the game?
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TIL that Bruce Willis walked away from the Expendables 3 because he wanted 4 million dollars instead of 3 million (for four days of work).
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 01:27AM by MaddisonTomberlinyG7
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the Guardian
Bruce Willis 'wanted $1m a day for Expendables 3'
Further details of the actor's alleged wage demands emerged after Sylvester Stallone's Twitter condemnation of Willis as 'greedy'
TIL of an Italian named Fabrizio Quattrocchi who yelled "I'll show you how an Italian dies!" while trying to remove his hood before being executed by his Iraqi kidnappers.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 02:59AM by Alecia-Witasones
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Fabrizio Quattrocchi
Italian mercenary
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TIL Tooth brushing only became widespread in the US after WWII, when returning soldiers continued the practice that had been required during their military service
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 04:53AM by shadyBolete
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Tooth brushing
act of scrubbing teeth with a toothbrush equipped with toothpaste
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TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, requested an autopsy to discover the cause of his violent behavior. The autopsy revealed a tumor pressing on his amygdala, which might have influenced his actions.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 08:53AM by StarryLuna239
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Charles Whitman
American mass murderer and spree killer; perpetrator of the University of Texas Tower shooting
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TIL that 22 million people from the British Isles immigrated to the USA from 1815 to 1914. By comparison, by 1865 there were only 21 million living in Great Britain.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 07:58AM by Evening-Weather-4840
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Brill
The United States after 1783: An American or a British Empire?
Abstract This contribution outlines a case for reconsidering US history in the nineteenth century. The standard approach tells the “story of the nation” after 1783 from an internal standpoint that minimizes external connections. Historians of empire, however…
TIL there's only one recording of Hitler's voice where he isn't giving a speech. It's a private conversation between himself and Finnish leader Mannerheim recorded in secrecy by a sound engineer in 1942.
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Submitted August 12, 2024 at 11:18PM by AliceHatcherIEnl
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Hitler and Mannerheim recording
voice recording
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TIL of the Coolidge effect, a biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 12:32PM by look_at_yalook_at_ya
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Coolidge effect
biology and psychology phenomenon
TIL that a male bee has no father and can't have sons, but he has a grandfather and can have grandsons.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 03:23AM by Charlotte-Getiandre
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Haplodiploidy
Haplodiploidy is a sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid. Haplodiploidy is sometimes called arrhenotoky.
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TIL that in the 1970s Theo Albrecht (one of the founders of Aldi) was kidnapped, haggled the ransom down to 7 million marks and (unsucessfully) tried to claim the ransom as a tax deductible business expense
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 02:42PM by Datdarnpupper
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Theo Albrecht
German entrepreneur (1922-2010)
TIL Mel Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge. When the Nazis played their propaganda over loudspeakers, he responded by setting up his own sound system and playing music by Jewish singer Al Jolson.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 01:40PM by doopityWoop22
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Mel Brooks
American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1926)
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TIL Debbie Reynolds was not a dancer when she made Singin' in the Rain (1952). Gene Kelly apparently insulted her for lacking dance experience. when Fred Astaire was in the studio, he found her crying under a piano. On hearing what had happened, Astaire volunteered to help her with her dancing.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 05:30PM by MOinthepast
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Singin' in the Rain
1952 film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
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TIL only three animated movies have ever received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture: Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009), and Toy Story 3 (2010). All three were unable to secure the win.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 01:54PM by tyrion2024
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Far Out Magazine
The only animated movies to be nominated for 'Best Picture'
The only animated movies to be nominated for 'Best Picture' including the Pixar classic 'Toy Story 3' with Lee Unkrich, Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton and Tim Allen
TIL about the "Tokyo Tower of Babel," a proposed 10 Kilometer tall tower that was designed to house up to 30 million people and was intended to be built in Tokyo Bay. If completed, it would have been the tallest structure in the world, but it remains an ambitious concept.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 06:17PM by dudenotnude
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Tokyo Tower of Babel
proposed building in Japan
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TIL only two people won $1 million on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader: the superintendent of Georgia public schools, and a Nobel Prize winner in physics
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 07:05PM by trace_jax3
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Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (American game show)
American quiz game show
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TIL Freddie Mercury's religion was Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion that currently is estimated to have around 100,000-150,000 global adherents.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 06:22PM by Thents-951
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List of Zoroastrians
Wikimedia list article
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TIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 08:41PM by Moore_Silit1945
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Robbins v. Lower Merion School District
federal class action lawsuit
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TIL that both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were skeptical of the results of the 1790 United States Census. They believed that the true population was higher than the total of 3,929,214 people counted in the Census.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 05:58PM by IllustriousDudeIDK
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1790 United States census
The 1790 United States census was the first United States census. It recorded the population of the whole United States as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution and applicable laws. In the first census, the…
TIL that Don Johnson met Melanie Griffith when she was 14-year-old. When she was 15 and Johnson was 23, she and Johnson began living together. On her 18th birthday they became engaged and were married in January 1976.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 10:48PM by me_like_stonk
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Don Johnson
American actor and singer (born 1949)
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TIL when Wilt Chamberlain had his famous 100 point NBA game, he shot his free throws "granny style." A usually poor free throw shooter, that night he made 86% of his attempts.
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 11:11PM by Flurb4
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Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game
Wilt Chamberlain set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147 win over the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, at Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania…
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TIL that British judges and lawyers wear white wigs to bring formality, solemnity, and anonymity to the courtroom
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Submitted August 13, 2024 at 11:18PM by EsotericTribble
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HowStuffWorks
Why Do British Lawyers Still Wear Wigs?
In the late 17th century, wearing wigs became a common practice in law. But why has it endured for so long?
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