TIL in 2013 Jeff Bezoz launched a 3 month expedition to recover a F1 engine used on the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket from a depth of 14,000 feet off the floor of the Atlantic ocean. The engine currently resides in the National Air and Space Museum and is the only recovered flown F1 engine.
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Thrust Chamber, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, F-1 (Recovered)
The F-1 engine was the powerhouse of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo lunar missions. The thrust chamber was located near the top of the engine.
TIL that medical residents in South Korea are often required to work up to 88 hours per week, with many reporting nearly 100 hours of work
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 03:56AM by Genesis_Prime
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TIL some electric vehicles add idle creep to make their cars feel more comfortable to consumers.
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Idle creep
Idle creep, sometimes called idle speed or just creep is the default speed that a vehicle with an automatic transmission will move either forward or in reverse when the change lever is in D for drive or R for reverse and the foot is taken off the brake pedal…
TIL: Carl Sagan originally wanted to include the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on the record on the spacecraft Voyager but the record company EMI declined
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 04:10AM by today_okay
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Los Angeles Times
Review: The Voyager spacecraft holds a golden record for aliens. 'Vinyl Frontier' tells why
Jonathan Scott's "The Vinyl Frontier" tells the story behind the Golden Record on the Voyager.
TIL The "Pirate Accent" originates from a single actor. Robert Newton exaggerated his natural Cornish accent when he portrayed Blackbeard and Long John Silver in Various Films in the 1950s.
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 05:07AM by garlic98
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Robert Newton
English stage and film actor
TIL Vancouver pioneer ’Gassy’ Jack Deighton’s statue was pulled down by activists in historic Gastown in 2022. Gassy Jack married a 12-year-old Indigenous girl named Xaliya at age 40, who ran away at 15 after giving birth to their son. Xaliya lived to 90 and still has descendants
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Who was ‘Gassy Jack’ and why was his statue toppled in Vancouver?
As the 31st Women’s Memorial March wound through downtown Vancouver on Monday, protesters came up against the six-foot statue of Gassy Jack that stood in the historic Gastown neighbourhood named after him.
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TIL that Turkish law in the middle ages allowed women to divorce their husbands if he failed to provide her with enough coffee.
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 12:48PM by lovelyb1ch66
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TIL that after the US, India has the second largest English speaking population
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 09:01AM by dillimunda
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English-speaking world
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, making it the largest language by number of…
TIL that humans and their livestock represent 96% of all mammals on Earth in terms of biomass, whereas all wild mammals represent only 4%.
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 02:00PM by Shogun847
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Biomass (ecology)
total mass of living organisms in a given area (all species or selected species)
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TIL when seeking an alternative to scarce copper for the Manhattan Project, Manhattan asked the Treasury for 6,000 tons of silver and were told that the Treasury did not deal in tons, their unit was the Troy ounce. Manhattan would eventually borrow 408 million Troy oz (14,000 tons) of silver.
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TIL: A man was discovered to be unknowingly missing 90% of his brain, yet he was living a normal life.
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CBC
Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life | CBC Radio
The case of a man who is still able to function even though most of his brain is missing, has given fuel to radical theories about consciousness. Psychologist Axel Cleeremans, of the Université Libre in Brussels, explains how.
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TIL after numerous lawsuits and fines resulting from the incidents occurring throughout Woodstock ‘99, the city of Rome, New York only profited $200,000 from the entire event.
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Woodstock '99
1999 music festival in Rome, New York, U.S.
TIL that the lead singer of the Village People was straight, and he was married to Phylicia Rashad (Clair Huxtable from The Cosby Show)
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 05:16PM by mbelinkie
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Victor Willis
American singer-songwriter
TIL there is a common misperception that a landmine is armed by stepping on it and only triggered by stepping off, providing tension in movies. In fact the initial pressure trigger will detonate the mine immediately.
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 06:30PM by ForvistOutlier
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Land mine
explosive weapon, concealed under or on the ground
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TIL when you move your eyes quickly from one point to another, there's a slight disconnect between your eyes and brain, which makes you perceive time stretching backwards slightly. This is why it seems like a clock takes longer than a second to move when you first look at it.
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 07:39PM by Totalitarian_Cat
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Chronostasis
distortion in the perception of time
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TIL that when "The Pirate Queen" Grace O'Malley's sons were taken captive by the English, she convinced Queen Elizabeth to free them AND let O'Malley continue her piratical activities as long as she also defended the Crown
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 09:00PM by the-magnificunt
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Grace O'Malley
Gráinne O'Malley (Irish: Gráinne Ní Mháille, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}pronounced [ˈgˠɾˠaːn̠ʲə…
TIL The Golden Razzies rescinded Shelley Duvall's nomination for Worst Actress (The Shining- 1980) on March 31, 2022, after backlash over her mistreatment by director Stanley Kubrick. They also retracted Bruce Willis's 2021 worst actor win following his aphasia diagnosis.
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1st Golden Raspberry Awards
The 1st Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 31, 1981, at founder John J. B. Wilson's living room alcove to recognize the worst the film industry had to offer in 1980. For it was a double feature of Can't Stop the Music, winner of Worst Picture, and…
TIL that the power to punish pirates is explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 10:11PM by Just_Want_To_Write
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Article One of the United States Constitution
Article One of the Constitution of the United States establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress. Under Article One, Congress is a bicameral legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate.: 73 …
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TIL King Henry VIII of England hired four men who regularly checked his faeces, monitored his bowel movements and wiped his bottom. They were appropriately called ‘Grooms of the King’s Stool’ and all of them were eventually knighted.
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Submitted August 19, 2024 at 11:03PM by Legit_pureBaby
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Historic UK
Groom of the Stool - The worst job in history?
Surely one of the most repulsive jobs in history, the 'Groom of the King's Close Stool' was a role created during the reign of Henry VIII to monitor and assist in the king's bowel motions.
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TIL that sometimes skinned ginger root is inserted in the anus as part of a caning punishment. The subject must choose between bracing for the strike (increased burning sensation) or relaxing the buttocks (taking the full force of the blow).
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Figging
practice of inserting a piece of skinned ginger root into the human anus or the vagina
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TIL Keanu Reeves has donated more than $31 million for cancer research!
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 01:48AM by athornton
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Vogue
All Hail Keanu Reeves, One of Hollywood’s Very Best Men
Reeves donated 70% of his original earnings from “The Matrix” to cancer research.
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