TIL a wildlife park in the UK took in five parrots during the pandemic that have a healthy NSFW vocabulary and have taught other parrots to swear. Zookeepers are concerned that they could have up to 100 parrots who know how to swear and would require all sweary parrots to be taken off display.
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CBC
This wildlife park's parrots won't stop swearing. Especially Sheila | CBC Radio
Steve Nichols admits his wildlife sanctuary’s latest plan to stop its more foul-mouthed parrots from swearing could end up backfiring.
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TIL , as a congressman, future 20th President James A. Garfield contributed to the Pythagorean Theorem by providing additional proof using a trapezoid.
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Submitted September 14, 2024 at 05:48AM by synkronize
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Wikipedia
Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem
mathematical proof
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TIL the termite queen can live for up to 50yrs, lays an egg every 3 sec, 24hrs a day, for 25yrs.
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RealClearScience
Six Ridiculous Facts About Termite Queens
Termites have existed on Earth for an estimated 150 million years, so it's little wonder that they have spread to every landmass except Antarctica. Commonly confused with ants, they are actually
TIL that 20% of scientific genetics research papers have errors due to Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting of gene names into dates
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Submitted September 14, 2024 at 03:49PM by WarEagleGo
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Science
One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel
Autoformatting in Microsoft Excel has caused many a headache—but now, a new study shows that one in five genetics papers in top scientific journals contains errors from the program, The Washington Post reports. The errors often arose when gene names in a…
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TIL Celtics GM Red Auerbach planned to draft Len Bias for three years, only for Len to die two days after being drafted after snorting cocaine for 3-4 hours in his dorm room after coming home from a college party
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Len Bias
American basketball player
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TIL Dr. Howard Tucker is the world's oldest practicing doctor at 102 with 77 years of practice. He also passed the bar examine at 67. He is a neurologist and works as an expert witness in medical related legal cases.
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Howard Tucker
American neurologist
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TIL that in 1952, the USS Wisconsin received a single, direct-hit from a North Korean 155mm gun battery. Despite the damage being minimal, the Wisconsin responded by returning fire with all nine of her Mark 7 16-inch guns, prompting an escorting ship to signal the Wisconsin with "Temper, Temper."
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NavalHistoria
Temper, Temper - That Time the USS Wisconsin Wasn't Messing Around -
The USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is one of the iconic Iowa-class battleships, the last battleship class built by the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1944
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TIL only 4% of Americans had a passport in the 1990s
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VOA
Record Number of Americans Hold Passports – All About America
The number of Americans with passports has hit a record high. According to Census and State...
TIL The largest swimming pool in the US was so large, lifeguards needed rowboats to patrol it. Fleishhaker Pool, built in San Francisco in 1924, measured 1,000 x 150 feet, contained 6.5 million gallons of water, and could hold 10,000 swimmers. In 1999 it was turned into parking for the zoo.
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Fleishhacker Pool
former swimming pool in San Francisco, California
TIL George Michael worked and re-worked his song "Careless Whisper" for 2 and half year's before finally releasing it. He went thru 8 saxophonists before finally settling on Steve Gregory who was able to play the riff exactly as Michael heard it in his head. The song topped charts in ten countries
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Careless Whisper
"Careless Whisper" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter George Michael. Released as the second single from Wham!'s second studio album Make It Big (1984), it was written by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, with Michael producing the song. Although…
TIL Abraham Lincoln actually liked the song “Dixie” despite its confederate association. After Richmond was captured he requested a band play it saying “Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.”
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Civil War Pop
“One of the Best Tunes I Have Ever Heard.”
150 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln publicly declared his love for the song “Dixie.” Having just returned from the recently-captured former Confederate capital of Richmond, he settled …
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TIL a study found that only 4% of women said that penetration is a reliable route to orgasm for them. The other 96% said their reliable route was clitoral stimulation, either alone or paired with penetration.
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The Conversation
The orgasm gap and why women climax less than men
Women have fewer orgasms than men. But this gap is cultural, not biological. Closing it is possible, both on a societal and personal level.
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TIL actress Georgia Tennant is the daughter of the 5th Doctor Who, Peter Davison, and the wife of 10th Doctor Who, David Tennant.
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TIL that in 2021, an organization called The Tip Project attempted to introduce American practices of gratuity into Japanese culture. The plan was met with severe backlash from locals who deemed the practice "un-Japanese", and the project was abandoned in early 2023.
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The Tip Project
business venture and organization
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TIL that the classic “devils horns” ears that Doberman dogs are known for is actually a result of a practice called “cropping”, where the flappy part of an animals ear is surgically removed.
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TIL the loud thumping air pressure changes in a moving car when a single window is rolled down is called Helmholtz Resonance. This also occurs when air is blown into the mouth of an empty bottle.
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Car and Driver
Explained: That Weird Throbbing When You Open One Car Window
Why is the wind buffeting so bad when one window is rolled down in your car?
TIL the Pokémon IP has an uncommon ownership structure as it is jointly owned by three companies: Game Freak, which develops the core video games; Nintendo, which publishes said games for their consoles; and Creature, which manages the trading card game and related merchandise.
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Pokémon
Japanese media franchise
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TIL In 458 BC, Father of the Greek tragedy, Aeschylus was returning to his home in Sicily when, just outside the city, he was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise onto his head which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell,
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Aeschylus
ancient Athenian playwright
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TIL that in 2023, Meta almost doubled Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security to $14,000,000 while cutting 11,000 jobs. Mark Zuckerberg called this the “year of efficiency”.
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the Guardian
Meta to pay more for Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security amid job losses
Spend increases by 40% to $14m after dismissing 11,000 employees
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TIL a classmate of Anne Frank, Theo Coster (Morris Simon, 1928-2019), founded with his wife Ora (1931-2021) a game design company which invented popular games such as Guess Who?, Zingo! and the breast-inspired Pop-It fidget toy. Their headstones were made to resemble the Guess Who? flip-up frames.
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Timesofisrael
Anne Frank’s Israeli classmate behind popular breast-inspired fidget toy
Husband-and-wife duo Theo and Ora Coster created over 150 toys and games, including Guess Who? Now, their GoPop! toy has sold millions of units and is a hit among TikTok users
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TIL that airplane emergency exit doors are impossible to open mid flight, because due to pressure, it would take 24,000 pounds of force to open the door.
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Submitted September 15, 2024 at 10:15AM by Frisk-256
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CBS News
Is it possible to open a jet plane's emergency exit door mid-flight?
A Leominster man allegedly tried to open an emergency exit door on a flight. But is it possible?