TIL 2000 year old seeds not only were planted and germinated, but also reproduced.
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Submitted August 22, 2024 at 09:38PM by FunDirect1128
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Smithsonian Magazine
Tree Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Has Reproduced
Age doesn’t have much on this rare piece of greenery sprouted from a seed discovered in an ancient Israeli site
TIL Jason Derulo’s stage name is a pronunciation respelling of his surname, Desrouleaux
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Submitted August 22, 2024 at 11:14PM by imort1
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Jason Derulo
American singer-songwriter, dancer and actor
TIL Gary Sinise, A.K.A. "Lieutenant Dan" from Forrest Gump has visited 174 military bases and 21 military hospitals around the world since 2003
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Submitted August 22, 2024 at 11:31PM by SappyGilmore
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Gary Sinise
American actor
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TIL Wolverine wasn't revealed to have bone under his metal claws until the 90s
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Submitted August 22, 2024 at 11:57PM by Defiant-Detective-57
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Marvel
Wolverine's Adamantium Skeleton, Explained
How did Wolverine get his adamantium skeleton? Discover Logan's history with Weapon X, the moment he lost his adamantium, and more here!
TIL At age 19, future President Lyndon Johnson secured a job teaching elementary school to impoverished Mexican-American students in 1928. Within three months, Lyndon developed various programs including contests in spelling and public speaking, coaching sports
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 12:56AM by ubcstaffer123
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www.nps.gov
Lyndon B. Johnson The Teacher (U.S. National Park Service)
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TIL that Canadian serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer told her pastor that she had murdered four people and the pastor kept his promise not to turn her in. She would go on to murder two others.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 02:05AM by A_Mirabeau_702
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CBC
'If you ever do this again, we'll turn you in,' pastor told killer nurse | CBC News
A pastor prayed over Elizabeth Wettlaufer and told her not to kill again. A lawyer advised the registered nurse to take her murderous secrets to her grave.
TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 05:28AM by DarlinggTaliaaa
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National Kidney Foundation
Kidney Transplant
Transplant is a treatment for kidney failure using a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor that can help patients live a longer, more normal life than dialysis treatment.
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TIL, "the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation." is actually nothing more than a myth and Dr. Robert R. Brownlee (man responsible for legend/myth) wrote an essay about it.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 03:57AM by notpiercedtongue
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Gizmodo
No, a Nuclear Explosion Did Not Launch a Manhole Cover into Space
In 1957, the Nevada Test Site saw a series of nuclear explosions that, according to legend, launched a manhole cover into space. Except it probably
TIL of Bum Farto, a fire chief and convicted drug dealer from Florida. He disappeared in February 1976 and has not been seen since. He was declared legally dead in 1986 so his wife could collect pension and insurance policies.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 05:37AM by look_at_yalook_at_ya
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Bum Farto
American fire chief and convicted drug dealer
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TIL: There’s a toxic waste plant that displays a warning to warn people far in the future of its danger
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 03:58AM by Megustatits
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Bbc
How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years’ time
The nuclear waste buried far beneath the earth will be toxic for thousands of years. How do you build a warning now that can be understood in the far future?
TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 07:45AM by Ok_Method_6094
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Reuters
North Korea drops communism, boosts "Dear Leader"
North Korea has revised its constitution to give even more power to leader Kim Jong-il, ditch communism and elevate his "military first" ideology, South Korea's Unification Ministry said on Monday.
Though there is little doubt over the 67-year-old Kim's…
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TIL Since it’s discovery in 1930 Pluto has yet to orbit the sun and won’t until 2178.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 06:23AM by Charmingg-Nathaliee
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science.nasa.gov
Pluto: Facts - NASA Science
Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the IAU because other objects might cross its orbit.
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TIL Alanis Morrisette was dropped by her record label after disappointing sales of her first two albums. Her third album, Jagged Little Pill, is the 13th highest selling album of all time worldwide.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 04:24PM by ucjj2011
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Wikipedia
Jagged Little Pill
Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album by Canadian-American singer Alanis Morissette, released on June 13, 1995, by Maverick and her first album to be released worldwide. It marked a significant stylistic departure from dance-pop sound of Morissette's…
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TIL Finland has the third largest military in NATO in terms of total military personnel, after US and Türkiye
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 04:45PM by NotSoNotoriusButBIG
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Wikipedia
Member states of NATO
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Article 5 of the treaty states that…
TIL Courtney Love called out Marilyn Manson and the band Korn for sleeping with underage girls in 2005
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 06:21PM by vote-igor
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SFGATE
Woodstalkers / On the verge of a sonic-sexual Dark Age
TIL I learned that Mexico, which abolished slavery in 1837, refused the United States’ request to return escaped slaves back up north. Between 3,000 to 5,000 runaway slaves would flee to Mexico.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 06:26PM by Alaska-Now-PNW
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NPR
A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico
As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.
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TIL that Lt. Quentin Roosevelt was shot down and killed during the First World War and buried by the German military, making him the only son of a President to die in combat.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 06:16PM by Alaska-Now-PNW
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www.nps.gov
Quentin Roosevelt (U.S. National Park Service)
A short denoscription of Quentin Roosevelt.
TIL of Stendhal Syndrome - a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion, and even hallucinations, allegedly occurring when individuals become exposed to objects, artworks, or phenomena of great beauty.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 04:12PM by ChupdiChachi
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Wikipedia
Stendhal syndrome
psychosomatic disorder
TIL that Mexico sent nearly 200 members of the military on a 20-day mission to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 07:49PM by Alaska-Now-PNW
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HistoricalMX
Mexico and Hurricane Katrina
| HistoricalMX
| HistoricalMX
The Ejército Mexicano (Mexican Army) rolled into Nuevo Laredo on September 8, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina slammed into southern Louisiana after making landfall in New Orleans. A line of forty-five military vehicles filled with up to 195 military personnel…
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TIL Leo the Mathematician devised a network of communication beacons that was built and operated around 1100 years ago. Based on modern experiments, the network's several branches could transmit and receive messages at a speed of 450 miles per hour
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 04:09PM by Brutal_Deluxe_
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Wikipedia
Byzantine beacon system
system of beacons stretching across Anatolia
TIL that, in 1946, Ho Chi Min reached out to President Harry S. Truman and requested the United States’ support in ending French rule in Vietnam.
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Submitted August 23, 2024 at 06:56PM by Alaska-Now-PNW
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The World from PRX
The little-known story of Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh’s admiration for the US - The World from PRX
The founding father of modern Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh. He led Vietnam's communist revolution against French colonial rule and then took on the United States. But it seems he long had an admiration for the US and repeatedly sought the country's help in the…