TIL during the siege of Leningrad, scientists working at the world’s largest collection of seeds protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection.
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Institute of Plant Industry
Research institute of plant genetics, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
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ESL language studies abroad
Celebrities who can speak two or more languages - ESL language studies abroad
Arnold Schwarzenegger – English & German Arnie fact no. 1: He wanted to dub his own voice for German versions of the Terminator films, but the film studio thought his...
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TIL the "Pizza The Hutt" suit for the movie Spaceballs weighed about 25 pounds and was made with a fiberglass undershell, a foam latex skin, steam jets, hoses, pancake batter, and pizza toppings. It was so uncomfortable that the original actor who wore it refused to get back in it for reshoots
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Spaceballs
1987 film directed by Mel Brooks
TIL Since 1884 Twenty-Three Human Babies Have Been Born With A "Tail"
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Human vestigiality
human traits which lost their original function through evolution
TIL Sonora Carver; one of the first female horse divers, continued horse diving for 11 more years after being blinded from hitting the water with open eyes off of Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Horse diving was a stunt where a horse would be ridden off a 40-60 foot tower into a body of water.
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Sonora Webster Carver
American entertainer
TIL about salps, transparent marine creatures. A solitary salp reproduces asexually by budding a chain of clones that create light. A salp starts life as a female and then turns into a male.
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Oregon Marine Reserves
Strange Creatures Cast Ashore: Salps - Oregon Marine Reserves
Perhaps you've seen one of these gelatinous creatures washed up onto one of Oregon’s beaches. Though they resemble jellyfish without tentacles, they belong to a group of animals known as tunicates, commonly called sea squirts. Guest author Stephen Grace shares…
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TIL at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the opening night lights were automatically activated when the star Arcturus was detected. This star was chosen since its light takes ~40 years to arrive, so the rays landing on Earth had begun their journey ~1893, the year of Chicago's previous World's Fair
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Century of Progress
1933 world exhibition in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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TIL Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ($3.1 million) in broadcast history by calling down an ace-high bluff by Wesley Fei with a pair of queens. Later in the same cash game, Fei won the 2nd largest poker pot ($2.25 million) in US broadcast history against a different player.
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Poker pro Tom Dwan calls down bluff for $3.1M, largest pot in broadcast history
Dwan thought for nearly four minutes before making the call for the massive pot.
TIL The Harlem Globetrotters once lost track of a game and found themselves down 12 with 2 minutes left. Forced to play normal basketball, they rallied but could not recover. When the final buzzer sounded, the crowd was dumbfounded and disappointed. Some children in the stands cried after the loss.
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Washington Generals
exhibition basketball team known for losing
TIL Louise and Martine Fokkens worked as prostitutes in Amsterdam for more than 50 years and have retired in their early 80s after sleeping with more than 335,000 men or more than population of 38 countries and territories
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 07:22PM by MsStormyTrump
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Mamamia
A combined 100 years in the sex trade: Meet the world's oldest prostitutes.
"He's been coming to me for so long," one sister said about an elderly client.
TIL Mark Twain outlived his wife and all but one of his four children
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Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
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TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 08:26PM by extendochode
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Chemical oxygen generator
device that releases oxygen via a chemical reaction
TIL that Ferrari & Lamborghini no longer make cars with a manual transmission
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MotorTrend
List: All of the Last Supercars With a Manual Transmission
Since there really aren’t any true supercars featuring a manual transmission in 2020, we roundup some of the last models to do so.
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TIL In a feat of rage, Emperor Hadrian once stabbed a slave in the eye with a pen. Feeling regretful whe he calmed down, Hadrian called the slave and told him to ask for literally anything as compensation. The slave replied "i just want my eye back"
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TIL the worker who loaded the hazardous materials onto ValuJet 592, causing a fire and crash, is still wanted by the FBI (Reward)
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ClickOrlando
25 years since deadly ValuJet 592 crash, an airline mechanic remains on the run
Aviation historians want to know the exact whereabouts of Mauro Valenzuela.
TIL The song Edelweiss is not actually an Austrian folk song and was written for "The Sound of Music"
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Edelweiss (song)
original show tune written and composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein; for the 1959 musical "The Sound of Music"
TIL an estimated 400,000 children were fathered by occupying forces in Germany during World War II.
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Occupation children shunned in post-war Germany and Austria
A new book describes how the children of Allied soldiers in Germany and Austria faced discrimination and social exclusion, reports Bethany Bell.
TIL For the 1992 VMA Awards- MTV Execs and Nirvana's Band Manager did not want NIrvana to play their song "R*pe Me" due to its content. Kurt Cobain play the first few seconds of the song anyway- only to switch to the originally planned song "Lithium"
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 05:50AM by Super_Goomba64
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Rape Me
"Rape Me" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It is the fourth song on the band's third and final studio album, In Utero, released in September 1993.
TIL Michael Jackson joined Jimmy Carter on an immunization campaign and gave more than 10,000 children tickets to his concert as a reward for being immunized against preventable childhood diseases
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 08:27AM by ubcstaffer123
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Michael Jackson - Atlanta Child Immunization Drive with Jimmy Carter (May 5, 1993)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
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NME
20 Things You Might Not Know About ‘Seven Nation Army’
14 years ago, The White Stripes released ‘Seven Nation Army’, and pop music would find itself a little bit changed forever. It’s debatable whether or not the prowling lead single from ‘Elephant’ is their best song – we’d be here all week with that one. But…
TIL that in many Spanish speaking countries, instead of the tooth fairy, they've got "Ratoncito Pérez," a mouse that collects teeth and leaves money for children.
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Submitted August 28, 2024 at 07:50AM by paleselan1
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Ratoncito Pérez
Fantastic character who collects children's teeth while they are asleep. Belongs to Spanish-speaking countries' tradition.