TIL Ancient Egyptians May Have Used Opium and Wine as the World's First Anesthesia—Long Before Modern Medicine!
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American Society of Anesthesiologists
Did Ancient Egyptians Discover Local Anesthetics?
The tomb of Ankh-Ma-Hor who served King Teti of the sixth dynasty (circa 2345 to 2323 BC) in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt, was discovered by Victor Loret (1897) and reexamined by Kanawati and Hassan in 1995.1 The tomb was dated 2340 BC by the Egyptian Ministry of…
TIL In the 1800s, individuals secured government jobs through connections to presidents, not by merit. This practice ended after a disgruntled job-seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield, whom he believed owed him a government appointment.
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American History Central
Spoils System, Facts, APUSH, Political Patronage
Spoils System summary, facts, history, significance, and AP US History (APUSH) notes. Patronage System. With examples.
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TIL that in 1885 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used 300,000 pounds of explosives to annihilate Flood Rock island in New York City's East River as part of clearing Hell Gate for safer navigation. It's been described as "the largest planned explosion before testing began for the atomic bomb".
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Removal of Hell Gate rocks
clearing of New York City's East River
TIL that the Universe's average colour is called 'Cosmic latte'. In a 2002 study, astronomers found that the light coming from galaxies averaged into a beige colour that’s close to white.
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Cosmic latte
name assigned to the average color of the universe
TIL that glass sponges can live for 15,000 years. This makes them one of the longest-living organisms on Earth.
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IFAW
Animals with the longest lifespans
Some turtles, tortoises, sharks, and elephants live long, but the true top contenders for the noscript of animal with the longest lifespan might surprise you.
TIL Borat's first movie was banned in Kazakhstan but when the second was released they made a tourism campaign around "Very Nice!"
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Kazakhstan banned the first Borat movie in 2006. Now, the country is adopting its "very nice" catchphrase in new tourism ad
Rather than ignore the satirical movie, Kazakhstan embraced it, using the catchphrase as its slogan and filmed an ad with it.
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TIL that you remember more dreams when you sleep badly. Research suggests that if you sleep badly and wake up multiple times throughout the night you will be more likely to recall the content of any dreams you had. You are also more likely to remember a dream when woken from one.
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Sleep Foundation
Vivid Dreams Explained
Vivid dreams are common and their content can range from pleasant to disturbing. Learn why vivid dreams happen and what to do if you want to avoid them.
TIL Those videos with people crying after having their colorblindness cured by putting on special glasses were fake.
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EnChroma
brand of eyeglasses designed for correction of certain forms of color blindness
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TIL of the Pratfall Effect, where highly competent individuals tend to become more likeable after committing mistakes while average-seeming individuals tend to become less likeable even if they commit the same mistakes.
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Pratfall effect
Dependence of public acceptance of a person's mistakes on that person's ability
TIL Prince Charles was 1st in line for the British Throne from the age of three. He held that noscript for 70 years becoming the longest-serving British heir apparent, having surpassed Edward VII's record of 59 years on 20 April 2011.
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France 24
Prince Charles, Britain’s longest ever king-in-waiting
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, became King Charles III with Queen Elizabeth's passing. Charles, 73, has waited decades to ascend to the British throne. He is the eldest of Queen Elizabeth's…
TIL about the Potoooooooo horse, a famous 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse who, as the story goes, got his name from the stable boy who misheard the name "Potatoes" and heard it literally as "pot-eight-o's" and wrote it out as such. The owner found it so funny that he kept the name.
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Pot8os
Pot8os pedigree and portrait.
TIL During sleep, brain waves help flush waste out of the brain. Individual nerve cells coordinate to produce rhythmic waves that propel fluid through dense brain tissue, washing the tissue in the process
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Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Neurons help flush waste out of brain during sleep | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Findings could lead to new approaches for Alzheimer’s, other neurological conditions
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TIL of a "breast ironing", a practise where a female relative beats a pubescent girl's breasts with hard, heated objects, in an attempt to stop them from growing.
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Breast ironing
pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear
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TIL that the architect Rafael Viñoly designed 2 buildings that caused "death rays", one in Las Vegas and one in London
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Rafael Viñoly
Uruguayan architect
TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.
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TIL that "Crystal Glass" is refractive because it's made with Lead Oxide.
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Lead glass
variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass
TIL the the movie Ricochet (1991) starring Denzel Washington and John Lithgow is set in the same fictional universe as Die Hard.
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Ricochet (1991 film)
1991 film directed by Russell Mulcahy
TIL a Challenger space shuttle engineer, Allan McDonald, raised safety concerns against the wishes of his employer & NASA. He was ignored; a fatal accident resulted. When McDonald spoke out, he was demoted by his company. Congress stepped in to help him. He later taught ethical decision making.
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NPR
Remembering Allan McDonald: He Refused To Approve Challenger Launch, Exposed Cover-Up
Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He has died at age 83.
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TIL that a federal "Witness Tree Protection Program" exists to protect individual trees whose presence was documented at important historical events and are still standing today.
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National Park Trust
You’ve heard of the Witness Protection Program, but have you heard of the Witness Tree Protection Program? - National Park Trust
Unlike the individuals who have testified against criminals that are protected by the Witness Protection Program, witness trees are trees that have stood for so long that they have been spectators to some of the most important events in U.S. history.
TIL about Marina Abramović's 1974 performance piece Rhythm 0. She stood still for six hours and allowed the audience to use her body without consequences. They could use any of 72 objects on her, from harmless to dangerous ones. The interactions started gentle but quickly escalated into violence.
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Rhythm 0
six-hour work of performance art by Serbian artist Marina Abramović in Studio Morra, Naples in 1974
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