TIL Groundhog Day is noscripted in advance: members of an "Inner Circle" decide ahead of time whether Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow or not, and they announce this decision at the ceremony without waiting to see if Phil returns to his burrow or not.
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Punxsutawney Phil
Punxsutawney Phil (/ˌpʌŋksəˈtɔːni/) is a groundhog residing in Young Township near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, who is the central figure in Punxsutawney's annual Groundhog Day celebration.
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TIL Heinrich Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology, spending most of her life defending her father's reputation. She died in 2018.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 12:54AM by dustofoblivion123
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Gudrun Burwitz
German Neo-Nazi and daughter of SS chief Heinrich Himmler (1929-2018)
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TIL Charles de Gaulle was not told about the D-Day landings until 2 days before as the British and French leaders did not believe the French could keep the information secret.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 01:10AM by EssexGuyUpNorth
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Charles de Gaulle during World War II
At the outbreak of World War II, Charles de Gaulle was put in charge of the French Fifth Army's tanks (five scattered battalions, largely equipped with R35 light tanks) in Alsace, and on 12 September 1939, he attacked at Bitche, simultaneously with the Saar…
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TIL: The codes which allow the President of the U.S. to authorize a nuclear attack are printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit." The president is supposed to carry the biscuit at all times.
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Gold Codes
launch codes for U.S. nuclear weapons
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TIL that the end of the northern part of the Pan-American Highway, (which extends all the way from Alaska to the tip of South America), abruptly ends in a nondenoscript residential neighborhood in Yaviza, Panama, north of the Darien Gap.
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Trans-Americas Journey
Driving to the End of the Pan-American Highway in the Darien Jungle in Yaviza, Panama
Our drive to the end of the Pan-American Highway in Yaviza, Panama where the Darien Jungle takes over and creates a 60 mile gap in the road.
TIL the wife of John Quincy Adams traveled the dangerous trip across war-torn Europe in 1815 to reunite with John in the UK. When she died in 1852, congress adjourned for the funeral, the first time for a woman.
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Louisa Adams
Louisa Catherine Adams (née Johnson; February 12, 1775 – May 15, 1852) was the first lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 during the presidency of John Quincy Adams.
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TIL Michael Crichton was 6'9" and felt socially isolated as a result.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 08:03AM by mankls3
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Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
TIL that there are Unicode characters that represent dicks 𓂸𓏤. Unicode v5.2 introduced Egyptian hieroglyphs in 2009, and among them are the phallic hieroglyphs D52 𓂸 and D53 𓂺
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List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
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TIL about Roger Fisher, a Harvard Law School professor who proposed putting the US nuclear codes inside a person, so that the president has no choice but to take a life to activate the country's nuclear weapons.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 11:45AM by dustofoblivion123
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Roger Fisher (academic)
American professor of law (1922-2012)
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TIL that in 2021 an Italian artist sold an invisible sculpture for £13,000 and gave the buyer a certificate of authenticity to prove it is real
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 01:28PM by razdvatri4
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An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing
“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” the artist, Salvatore Garau, said of his sculpture.
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TIL about the Capitol Hill mystery soda machine a vending machine in Capitol Hill, Seattle, notable for its "mystery" buttons which dispensed unusual drink flavors. It is unknown who restocked the machine, which originally caused the development of a local legend that the machine was haunted.
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Capitol Hill mystery soda machine
Vending machine in Seattle, Washington, US
TIL that modern nuclear submarines are so well camouflaged that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
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HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant submarine collision
2009 naval accident
TIL Howard Hughes was a chronic insomniac who wanted to watch movies on TV when most people were asleep, but when he first arrived in Las Vegas he discovered that it had no all-night TV stations. So he purchased a local station in 1967 and turned it into a 24/7 channel.
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Las Vegas Sun
Howard Hughes: A revolutionary recluse
Howard Hughes was one of the brightest figures in Las Vegas’ neon history. But he came to Las Vegas under the cover of darkness during Thanksgiving weekend in 1966. Hughes rode in on a fortune. His father had invented an oil well drill bit that could penetrate…
TIL the Swiss Cheese Model is a form of risk analysis that proposes some errors are caused by flaws in multiple systems aligning, like the holes in different slices of Swiss cheese.
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Swiss cheese model
model used in risk analysis and risk management illustrates that, with layered security, each layer provides protection from certain types of attacks but has weaknesses
TIL Joan Robinson was denied Nobel Prize in Economics because she supported Mao's Economic Policies and of all 93 Economics Nobel Prize winners only 10 winners have been cited more widely than Robinson. Future Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen were the students of hers
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Joan Robinson
English economist (1903–1983)
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TIL of Curtis Flowers, a man who was tried for the same crime six times by the same prosecutor, and sentenced to death four times. All convictions were overturned and after a Supreme Court ruling in his favor he was released after more than 20 years on death row.
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Curtis Flowers
American death row inmate
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TIL during the Apollo 13 mission, Jack Swigert realized he had forgotten to file his tax return. NASA contacted the IRS, who agreed that he was considered ‘out of country’ and therefore ennoscriptd to a deadline extension.
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Space.com
50 years ago, Apollo 13's Jack Swigert flew to the moon, but forgot something big. Taxes.
"Uh oh; have you guys completed your income tax?"
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TIL that The only difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is the location where the storm occurs. Hurricanes are from the Atlantic and Typhoons are from the Pacific.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 09:16PM by illgivethisa
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oceanservice.noaa.gov
What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?
Hurricanes and typhoons are the same weather phenomenon: tropical cyclones. A tropical cyclone is a generic term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters…
TIL that honeybees who consume a nectar that includes grayanotoxins can produce a special honey called "mad honey." Ingesting this honey causes violent drunkenness and disorientation.
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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 11:37PM by soloman747
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Mad honey
psychoactive type of honey containing grayanotoxins
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TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"
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Submitted September 09, 2024 at 01:52AM by nromanenko
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List of Dewey Decimal classes
Wikimedia list article
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TIL that when The Beatles broke up in 1970, they were all still in their late twenties! John Lennon and Ringo Starr were both 29, while Paul McCartney and George Harrison were just 27.
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The Beatles
English rock band (1960–1970)