TIL The reason The Simpsons are so crudely drawn in their first appearances on the Tracey Ullman Show was because Matt Groening had sent in basic sketches assuming they'd be cleaned up by the animators, but the animators just traced over his drawings.
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Homer Simpson
character from The Simpsons franchise
TIL: When Texas entered the Union as a slave state in 1845, a legal technicality created an ungoverned, lawless strip of land (which later became the Oklahoma panhandle). People from Kansas moved in to evade strict alcohol laws and the (unofficial) capital was called "Beer City".
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Beer City, Oklahoma
town in Oklahoma, United States
TIL The shipwreck of M/S Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea on September 28, 1994 and caused 852 deaths, is only about 80 meters below sea level. If you were to put the ship on her transom with the bow pointing to the sky, about half of the ship would be above the surface of the water.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 02:28PM by DharmaDemocracy
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Vrak - Estonia
On 28 September 1994, the MS Estonia sank during a severe storm. Of approximately 1,000 people on board, 137 survived. The accident is the Baltic Sea’s worst peacetime disaster. Today it is a designated marine grave site where diving is banned.
TIL That the third season of 'Finding Your Roots' was delayed after it was discovered the show heavily edited an episode featuring Ben Affleck. Affleck pressured the show to do so after he was shown one of his ancestors was a slave owner.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 04:40PM by GentPc
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NPR
After Ben Affleck Scandal, PBS Postpones 'Finding Your Roots'
The show came under fire after leaked emails revealed that the actor asked the show to hide the fact that one of his ancestors owned slaves.
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TIL Samuel L. Jackson's famous line "I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!" in the theatrical cut of Snakes on a Plane didn't come from the original screenplay, but was instead inspired by a fan-made trailer for the movie.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 03:54PM by tyrion2024
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AV Club
Read This: It’s been 10 motherfucking years since Snakes On A Plane
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TIL: Dominant female cotton-top tamarin monkeys use pheromones to stop subordinate females from breeding. The pheremones suppress sexual behavior and delay puberty. In the event that more than one female in a group becomes pregnant, only one of the pregnancies will survive.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 05:30PM by theotherbogart
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Cotton-top tamarin
species of mammal
TIL that “vampire” drones dock on power lines and recharge by “feeding” on the grid. They never need to land.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 07:16PM by WhichAsparagus6304
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Fast Company
This genius ‘vampire drone’ is designed to fly forever
Developed by a team of researchers at the University of Southern Denmark, the autonomous drones are designed to attach to power lines.
TIL Jack Nicholson grew up believing his grandmother was his mother, and his birth mother, June, was his sister. He only discovered the truth when he was 37 years old. The secret was kept until a Time magazine reporter uncovered it while researching Nicholson's life story.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 10:24PM by BlossomTwinklingys
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Jack Nicholson
American actor and filmmaker (born 1937)
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TIL: According to a 2016 study, having a first-class section on an airplane quadruples the chances of an air rage incident. Furthermore, loading economy passengers through first class doubles the chances again.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 10:26PM by theotherbogart
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AVweb
Class ‘Inequity’ Fuels Air Rage
A little-known 2016 study by Princeton University researchers is getting attention again for a different take on why airline passengers are so grumpy these days. The study, noscriptd “Physical and…
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TIL That there were pilotless drones as early as the 1950's and one inadvertently caused multiple incidents of civilian property damage, near civilian misses, and a 1,000 acre forest fire while the US Air Force struggled to shoot it out of the sky.
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Battle of Palmdale
1956 attempted shoot-down of a runaway drone
TIL why NHL Stadiums sound an air horn after a goal is scored. Thank Bill Wirtz, owner of both Chicago Stadium and the Blackhawks, who liked the sound of his air horn on his yacht, so he had one installed inside the stadium in 1973. His uncle's company made it, and most NHL horns come from them.
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Submitted September 28, 2024 at 11:49PM by greed-man
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Air horn
loud signalling device driven by compressed air
TIL that Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 01:05AM by ODaferio
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Operation Denver
KGB disinformation campaign
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TIL "In 1956, the students of the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre arts voted two actors as the least likely to succeed: two friends, Gene Hackman (who had the lowest grades at that point in the history of the school) and Dustin Hoffmann. Both went on to win two Oscars each
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 02:41AM by Liquid_disc_of_shit
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Dailymotion
Inside the Actor's Studio: Gene Hackman - video Dailymotion
Watch Inside the Actor's Studio: Gene Hackman - Ben Forshay on Dailymotion
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TIL there is a fancy restaurant in California where you can eat free if you are taller than the chef.
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 05:02AM by cplofnotes
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SFGATE
This Calif. restaurant lets you eat for free if you're taller than the chef
Check your height against the wall. Beat the chef and you join the Tall of Fame.
TIL that every human excretes up to half a kilogram of phosphorus through only our urine, per year. This makes urine the primary source of phosphorus in urban areas!
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 04:38AM by Available-Cheek-4031
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Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15. Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus, but because it is highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Earth. It has a…
TIL a 14-year-old girl died from drinking two Monster Energy drinks within 24 hours. The excessive caffeine made her go into cardiac arrest.
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 06:10AM by KingFernando532
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YouTube
Parents sue Monster Energy Drink after daughter's death
Parents of teenager Anais Fournier claim that two Monster Energy Drinks sent their daughter into cardiac arrest, killing her. As, Meghan McCorkell reports, the family is now suing the beverage company.
TIL that Dutch movie director Theo van Gogh’s last movie was about the assassination of a famous Dutch politician. He would eventually be assassinated himself.
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 01:01AM by sibeliusfan
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Theo van Gogh (film director)
Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Dutch: [ˈteːjoː vɑŋ ˈɣɔx]; 23 July…
TIL: The burial sites in Medina and Mecca for the Prophet Muhammad's family members were destroyed to make room for the Hajj pilgrimages.
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 07:10AM by GabbotheClown
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Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia
ongoing phenomenon that has occurred mainly in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia
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TIL: Kokomo in the Florida Keys (from Beach Boys song) is not a real place.
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 06:17AM by fohrnic
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Where is 'Kokomo' from the Beach Boys song? After 30 years, people are still searching
You know the catchy, relaxing lyrics: "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo," goes the 1988 hit by The Beach Boys.
TIL in the cover art for Sgt Pepper’s, John Lennon requested that both Hitler and Jesus be included as figurines. In the final shoot they were placed behind the Beatles and are not noticeable in the artwork
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 08:45AM by Vaxtin
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List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Wikimedia list article
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TIL in 1959, thirty TV Westerns aired during prime time in the US; none had been canceled that season, while 14 new ones had appeared. In one week in March 1959, eight of the top ten shows were Westerns. In addition, an estimated $125 million in toys based on TV Westerns were sold that year.
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Submitted September 29, 2024 at 12:43PM by tyrion2024
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Westerns on television
television genre
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