TIL Travis, the chimpanzee that was famous for ripping a woman’s face off, also was struck by a bottle thrown by a pedestrian, at a stop light, before unbuckling his seatbelt, jumping out the window, and chasing the man on foot then disappearing for several hours.
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 08:12AM by rfs103181
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Travis (chimpanzee)
chimpanzee known for attacking a friend of his owner
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TIL the EU is working on a "Digital Product Passport" so consumers can track where a product comes from, what it's made from, how to repair it and how to dispose of it. This includes clothing, chemicals and electronics.
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 12:09PM by MaxForce800
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Worldfavor
The EU’s new Digital Product Passport (DPP): everything you need to know
Adopting digital product passports for products will become mandatory in the EU starting from 2024. Learn what it is, EU's requirements, and how to prepare.
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TIL that American beers won 93 medals in European beer competitions in 2023.
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 04:39PM by PrimaryInjurious
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Brewers Association
Going For Gold! American Craft Beer Excels In European Beer Competitions
American craft brewers performed strongly across two prestigious European beer competitions this fall, securing 58 medals in total.
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TIL Glasmine 43, an anti-personnel mine with a glass body used by the Nazi Germany during World War II. Designed with the minimum amount of metal to reduce the likelihood of detection.
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 06:30PM by ADizzy_07
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Glasmine 43
type of Minimum metal anti-personnel mine
TIL that the U.S. Government Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 06:17PM by babyGirlbloonde
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Smithsonian Magazine
When the U.S. Government Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky
Inspired by weather patterns during the Civil War, the rainmakers of the 1890s headed to west Texas to test their theory
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TIL that cats display the same main attachment styles, as babies and dogs
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 07:01PM by lilian_heath
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EurekAlert!
Cats, like children and dogs, develop attachments to their caregivers, study shows
Pet cats form attachments with their human owners that are similar to the bonds formed by children and dogs with their caretakers.
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TIL Pink's hit "Get the Party Started" was written by 4 Non Blondes's Linda Perry, and Pink said in 2017 "You'd have to ask Linda Perry if it's about ecstasy. I don't know what she meant with it. I still don't know if it's 'I'm coming out...' Or 'I'm coming up...' I don't even know what I sang."
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Get the Party Started
"Get the Party Started" is a song by American singer Pink, released on October 16, 2001, as the lead single from her second album, Missundaztood (2001). It received positive reviews and became an international success and reached the top ten in many countries…
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TIL Virtually all dialogue in the movie This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is improvised. Actors were given outlines indicating where scenes would begin and end, but everything else came from the actors. As often as possible, the first take was used in the film, to capture natural reactions.
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This Is Spinal Tap
1984 film by Rob Reiner
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TIL that IKEA rugs were used for the Night’s Watch cloaks in Game of Thrones.
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 10:11PM by Passionatee-Camilaa
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Esquire
Everybody Missed This Hilarious Detail About Jon Snow's Costumes on 'Game of Thrones'
According to the show's costume designer.
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TIL Canadians love Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and call it "Kraft Dinner". Most Canadians ignore the instructions and believe that they have a unique way of preparing the food, like adding wieners or cheese. It was created in the Great Depression and has been described as "Canada's True National Dish"
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Kraft Dinner
Kraft Dinner (marketed as KD) in Canada, Kraft Mac & Cheese in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Mac and Cheese in the United Kingdom and internationally, is a nonperishable, packaged macaroni and cheese product. It is made by Kraft Foods Group…
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TIL the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police place undercover sky marshals on every Canadian flight to Ronald Regan Washington National Airport
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 10:33PM by Bizchasty
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Sky marshal
covert law enforcement or counter-terrorist agent
TIL that three teams were disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for trying to lose their matches to secure more favorable placements in the knockout stages.
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 09:28PM by haphazard44
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CNN
Olympic badminton players disqualified for trying to lose | CNN
Eight badminton players are expelled from the Olympics on Wednesday for trying to lose matches, the Badminton World Federation says.
TIL Japan was hailed the “international savior of the hour” by the allies during WWI and even used its navy to safeguard Hawaii so the USA could focus on the Atlantic
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Submitted August 20, 2024 at 10:07PM by Devincc
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U.S. Naval Institute
Japan’s Victory in World War I
A review of Japan’s role as a principal Great War victor highlights critical lessons from naval history.
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TIL the first thing the one-armed John Lind did the moments after he was finished with his term as Minnesota’s Governor was go to a local newspaper and punch the face of an editor who had questioned his loyalty to the US during his term.
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Submitted August 21, 2024 at 12:51AM by JarkoStudios
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Twin Cities
Why a Minnesota governor once punched a St. Paul Dispatch editor in the face
Former Minnesota Gov. John Lind’s very first act after leaving office was to punch the managing editor of the St. Paul Dispatch in the face, leaving him sprawled out on the floor of his offic…
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TIL that the most recent BOEING whistleblower, whose recent death was ruled a suicide, told his close friend "If anything happens, it's not suicide. I like to breathe too much; I've got so much stuff I need to do and things that I haven't done that I want to do" prior to his death.
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Submitted August 21, 2024 at 05:08AM by Kilo2Ton
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VISION_FACTORY
Boeing Whistleblowers Case and the Legal Troubles of Aerospace's Most Prominent Company
Discover the truth behind the headlines.
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TIL that in 2011, condemned inmate Lawrence Russell Brewer requested an elaborate and expensive last meal prior to being executed which he then refused to eat. The state of Texas has refused last meal requests ever since.
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Submitted August 21, 2024 at 05:53AM by Lateboo1
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Murder of James Byrd Jr.
African-American lynching
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TIL Thomas Jefferson was instrumental in bringing Macaroni And Cheese to the United States after encountering it in Paris. The dish was prepared by James Hemings, a classically trained French chef enslaved by Jefferson.
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James Hemings
American chef and enslaved person
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TIL that the International Date Line was only discovered after Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world and discovered he "lost" a day compared to those who stayed in Spain.
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Submitted August 21, 2024 at 03:59AM by ProfessionalGear3020
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webspace.science.uu.nl
A History of the International Date Line - discovery of the IDL
TIL that modesty was the reason stethoscope was invented by by René Laennec because he was not comfortable placing his ear directly onto a woman's chest in order to listen to her heart.
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Submitted August 21, 2024 at 09:01AM by Creative-Cell-8926
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Wikipedia
Stethoscope
acoustic medical device for auscultation
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TIL due to hyperinflation in Venezuela, a lot of people have resorted to gold farming in Old School Runescape in order to make a living. It has since become so prevalent that the prices of heavily farmed items fluctuates dramatically whenever there's power cuts in the country.
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Submitted August 21, 2024 at 10:28AM by Disguised_Peanut
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Polygon
How RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive
For years, Venezuelan players have been making a living by playing Jagex’s free MMORPG RuneScape.
TIL That, in Hamelin Germany, there exists a place called Bungelosenstrasse (Street Without Drums). According to legend it is the last place the children from the 'Pied Piper' fairytale were last seen. Since then music and dancing are not allowed on the street.
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Submitted August 21, 2024 at 03:05AM by GentPc
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Pied Piper of Hamelin
German legend