TIL the Free French general Henri Giraud resented the British so much, he refused to board the escape submarine HMS Seraph. Thus the submarine became USS Seraph, received an American co-captain, and the crew affected American accents.
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Operation Mincemeat: HMS Seraph’s Special Operations And “The Man Who Never Was” | National Museum of the Royal Navy
Header Image: The men of HMS Seraph stand in front of its conning tower – Credit: The National Museum of the Royal NavyRecently the story's been given the Hollywood treatment and Operation Mincemeat starring British actors Colin Firth, Matthew Macfayden and…
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Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
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Wampum
traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of American Indians
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TIL the Federal Reserve had extremely large denomination bills only useable internally. They were not legal tender and citizens couldn’t own them
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 01:28AM by dukerustfield
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Heritage Auctions
Fr. 2230-E $10,000 1928 Federal Reserve Note. PMG About | Lot #22317 | Heritage Auctions
One of Only Eight Available For Collectors on all Districts Fr. 2230-E $10,000 1928 Federal Reserve Note. PMG - Available at 2024 September 11 - 13 Long...
TIL Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank in 1840. It was reported that this wasn't his first time doing this to prevent a vote.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 03:32AM by brickelangeloart
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Snopes
Did Abraham Lincoln Jump Out a Window to Prevent a Quorum?
Surprisingly, this isn't the only story about Abraham Lincoln jumping out of a window for political purposes.
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TIL that before Esther Williams became an actress, she planned on competing in the 1940 Olympics, but the Olympics games were cancelled that year due to the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Submitted September 01, 2024 at 11:09PM by NiceTraining7671
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Esther Williams
American swimmer and actress (1921–2013)
TIL Robert Shaw, who played Quint in Jaws, died at age 51 when he was driving with his wife and son in Ireland. He suddenly got ill, stopped the car, got out and collapsed on the roadside.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 05:02AM by mankls3
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Robert Shaw (actor)
British actor and novelist (1927–1978)
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TIL that Konrad Schumann, the subject of the famous photo of a soldier escaping communist East Berlin to the capitalist West, went to visit his family in former East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They rejected him, considering him a traitor, and he committed suicide several years later.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 05:44AM by WavesAndSaves
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Konrad Schumann
East German soldier (1942-1998)
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TIL John Paul Jones, bassist for Led Zeppelin, has been married to the same woman since 1967
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 06:38AM by PlanetoftheAtheists
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John Paul Jones (musician)
British bassist
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TIL that it's not a crime to escape prison in many countries
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Prison escape
act of one or more inmates leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways
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TIL while filming Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Linda Hamilton suffered permanent hearing damage in one ear when Arnold Schwarzenegger fired a shotgun inside an elevator after she had removed her ear plugs.
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Linda Hamilton
American actress
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TIL The Dingo Fence is one of the longest man-made barriers in the world. It’s 5,614 km long, starting from Western Queensland and ending in the Great Australian Bight. The land on the dingo side has a healthier ecosystem, stays greener longer, and is more biodiverse, w/ more small mammals present.
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The Conversation
The dingo fence from space: satellite images show how these top predators alter the desert
The dingo fence is the longest fence in the world. The environment looks almost identical on either side — until you view it from space.
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TIL that the San people, one of the most genetically diverse group of people in the world, have separated from the rest of humans around 200,000 years ago, just a 100,000 years less from the lowest estimate of when humans separated from Neanderthals.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 10:07AM by dolekanteel
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San people
members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa
TIL the first female detective in the US, Kate Warne, foiled at assassination attempt against President Lincoln when she was 23
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 02:31PM by INGWR
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Kate Warne, America’s First Woman Detective, Foiled a Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
In February 1861, the Pinkerton agent, posing as the disguised president-elect's sister and caregiver, safely escorted him to Baltimore
TIL before his comedy career, Chevy Chase was a drummer in the college band The Leather Canary, a group with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who would later go on to form Steely Dan.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 11:43AM by hellrazer27
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Chevy Chase
American actor, comedian and writer (born 1943)
TIL of 'Dr' John R. Brinkley - a radio pioneer and fake physician. He would later make part of his fortune implanting goat testicles into humans to increase their virility.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 05:25PM by AllColoursSam
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John R. Brinkley
American fraudulent physician (1885-1942)
TIL that a man stranded in the bush in northern Saskatchewan cut electrical poles to attract the attention of workers and be rescued.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 05:30PM by JoseBanksvwwj
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CBC
Stranded man cuts power poles to draw attention | CBC News
A man stranded in the bush in northern Saskatchewan was rescued last week after chopping down four power poles — knocking out electricity to surrounding communities.
TIL During the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King had originally prepared a different speech than the one we know today. He departed from it after he heard singer Mahalia Jackson cry out: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!". He then partly improvised the now famous "I have a dream" speech.
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I Have a Dream
1963 speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington D.C. to 250.000 people of the civil rights movement, regarded as one of the most important speeches in US history
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TIL 104 elevators operate in the Willis Tower, which require 80 miles of elevator cable. This includes 16 double-decker elevators. Some of the elevators are among the fastest in the world, capable of speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute (18 mph).
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Willis Tower
The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman…
TIL that during WWII, women were hired as human computers working in clusters, and the term "kilogirl" was sometimes used to refer to 1,000 hours of female calculation.
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Submitted September 02, 2024 at 08:02PM by greenappletree
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Gendered History of Human Computers
It's ironic that women today must fight for equality in Silicon Valley. After all, their math skills helped launch the digital age
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TIL that in 1937, seven North American beavers were released in Finland as an effort to boost the population of the Eurasian beaver (nearly hunted to extinction) before it was known that they were actually two distinct species. Today, approximately 12,000 North American beavers live in Finland.
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North American beaver
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species, along with the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber). It is native to North America and has been introduced in South America (Patagonia) and Europe (primarily Finland and Karelia).…
TIL that Coolio was actually in his early 30s when he recorded Gangsta's Paradise, and its iconic line "I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is goin' I don't know"
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the Guardian
Coolio obituary
US hip-hop and TV personality whose hit Gangsta’s Paradise was one of the most successful rap songs of all time