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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Submitted September 08, 2024 at 04:39PM by flagrantstats
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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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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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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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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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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)
TIL that the destroyed appearance of the Parthenon was not due to time, but an explosion caused by a cannonball in 1687
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Parthenon
former temple of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece
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TIL the British submarine HMS Poseidon sank in 1931 after a collision with a Chinese steamship; 21 crew died in the incident. In 1972, the sub was secretly salvaged by China which wasn't known about in the West until a journalist discovered its denoscription in a 2002 Chinese magazine article.
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HMS Poseidon
Submarine
TIL that the actress that did the voice of Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go To Heaven was shot in the head by her father shortly after her lines were recorded. She was 10. And it took Burt Reynolds (Charlie) 63 takes to record his lines after this (goodbye scene). I can’t stop crying.
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Peoplemag
How Did Judith Barsi Die? Inside the Harrowing Murder of the 'All Dogs Go to Heaven' Child Star
Child actress Judith Barsi was murdered by her father in 1988. Here's what to know about 'The Land Before Time' star's death.
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TIL that Jupiter has 95 moons (and counting). More are expected to be found as technology improves.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Its diameter…
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TIL that Boston Corbett (soldier who killed John Booth) castrated himself with a pair of scissors to avoid temptation upon seeing prostitutes
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Boston Corbett
Union Army sergeant
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TIL Littering can result in imprisonment of up to six years in Tennessee
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www.ncsl.org
States with Littering Penalties
The table summarizes state penalties for littering, which can include fines, cleanup, community service or imprisonment.
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TIL there's a small minority of ethnic Germans in Kyrgyzstan who were brought here forcibly during Stalin era, most have left but few don't want to leave
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Kyrgyzstan Germans
ethnic group
TIL Japan's monarchy is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world, recognizing 126 monarchs, and dating back to February 11, 660BCE with mythical beginnings. However, the current dynasty has no name and it's members have no family name and are simply referred to as the Imperial House.
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Imperial House of Japan
members of the extended family of the reigning Emperor of Japan
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TIL King James I of England spoke against the dangers of tobacco in 1604, calling it dangerous to the lungs and brain and attempted to put heavy taxes on it
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A Counterblaste to Tobacco
1604 anti-tobacco treatise by King James VI of Scotland
TIL that, by 1730, on the Philadelphia commodities exchange, the listed price of saffron was equal to that of gold
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GreenPrints
The World’s Most Expensive … Crocus
The next potential big crop for Vermont, says the front page of our local newspaper, is saffron. The saffron story shared the headlines with the school lunch program, the Little League scores, and a debate over a new fire engine purchase, which shows the…