TIL that, in addition to ethical concerns, Ford's Theatre won't put on "Our American Cousin" (the show Lincoln was assasinated during) in part because it's a comedy that just isn't very funny
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 07:27PM by Notmiefault
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Ford's Theatre
Why Ford’s Doesn’t Produce Our American Cousin — Ford's Theatre
<p>Why doesn’t Ford’s Theatre stage <em>Our American Cousin</em>, the play during which John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln? Read on to learn five reasons why.</p>
TIL that the administration of Pheasant Island, an uninhabited river island located between France and Spain, alternates between the two nations every 6 months.
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 04:18PM by Kurma-the-Turtle
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Wikipedia
Pheasant Island
island shared alternately between France and Spain
TIL Pakistan accidentally took down Youtube for the entire globe in 2008 in an attempt to block it
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 08:37PM by IAmHappyAndAwesome
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CNET
How Pakistan knocked YouTube offline (and how to make sure it never happens again)
YouTube becoming unreachable isn't the first time that Internet addresses were hijacked. But if it spurs interest in better security, it may be the last.
TIL that in pre-modern China, poor families adopted girls to make sure their sons will be able to marry in future while other poor families with unwanted girls gave away their daughters.
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 08:13PM by EpicureanMystic
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Wikipedia
Tongyangxi
Pre-modern Chinese tradition of arranged marriage
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TIL that a Winnie The Pooh cast member was on trial in costume and only able to communicate through head nods, foot stomps and swings of his tummy
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 07:54PM by Molotov320
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SFGATE
They said a Disneyland actor hit their kid, so Pooh went to court
In April 1980, a nondenoscript Orange County courtroom was packed to the gills with...
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TIL that Neanderthals lived in a high-stress environment with high trauma rates, and about 80% died before the age of 40.
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 09:34PM by BizarroCullen
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Neanderthal
Neanderthals (/niˈændərˌtɑːl, neɪ-, -ˌθɑːl/ nee-AN-də(r)-TAHL, nay-, -THAHL; Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of…
TIL Tolkien and CS Lewis hated Disney, with Tolkien branding Walt's movies as “disgusting” and “hopelessly corrupted” and calling him a "cheat"
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 11:15PM by TechnicalBean
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Winter is Coming
Why J.R.R. Tolkien felt “a heartfelt loathing” towards Walt Disney and his movies
J.R.R. Tolkien thought Walt Disney
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TIL that in the year following the famous DB Cooper hijacking at least 14 copycat hijackers tried to reenact the ploy by hijacking Boeing 727 aircraft and demanding ransom and parachutes. Some successfully jumped out but all were captured within days, were shot or surrendered sooner or later.
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 10:41PM by Bart-MS
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D. B. Cooper copycat hijackings
list of D.B. Cooper copycat skyjackings of 1972
TIL that the pope can't be an organ donor
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Submitted October 01, 2024 at 11:52PM by Diligent-Count-5915
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Reuters
Pope can no longer donate organs: Vatican
Pope Benedict has a soft spot in his heart for organ donations but his body parts can't be donated to save lives after he dies, the Vatican says.
TIL in 1952, Navy LT Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. Carter, alongside others, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand, exposing himself to one thousand times the level of safe radiation.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 03:32AM by accidentaldeity
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FOX 5 Atlanta
Before he was president, Jimmy Carter saved nuclear reactor after meltdown
In 1952, when a Canadian nuclear reactor suffered a partial meltdown, officials turned to a young Navy sailor who could deal with the situation: 28-year-old future president Jimmy Carter.
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TIL 117 billion humans have ever been born. Those alive in 2022 represent 6.8% of the total number of people who have ever lived, up from a total world population of 5,000,000 ten thousand years ago
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 01:25AM by Brutal_Deluxe_
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PRB
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?
The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.
TIL a human heart was successfully transplanted twice. After the first recipient's death from unrelated causes, the heart was transplanted into a second patient, who survived.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 06:13AM by CT1616
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PubMed
One heart transplanted successfully twice - PubMed
We report the first successful reuse of a previously transplanted heart after perioperative brain death of the first recipient. The second recipient was a 66-year-old man suffering from end-stage ischemic cardiomyopathy. The intra- and postoperative course…
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TIL that mentally disabled patients at the Judge Rotenberg Center aren't allowed to talk to each-other and will get punised if they do so, employees also can't chat with other employees, it's even encouraged for employees to rat each-other out if they try to have conversation
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 07:11AM by Comfortable_Ad2908
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Judge Rotenberg Center
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is a controversial institution in Canton, Massachusetts, United States, for people with developmental disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders. The center has been condemned for torture by the United Nations special…
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TIL That Marie 'Madame' Tussaud owes part of her fame to the French Revolution. Originally slated for execution due to her connection with French nobility she was spared and subsequently began making wax casts of some of the revolution's more famous victims including Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 03:50AM by GentPc
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Marie Tussaud
French artist (1761–1850)
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TIL about Lemuria, a hypothesised continent existing between India and Madagascar due to Lemurs being found in India and Madagascar but not Africa.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 06:32AM by chocolava15
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Lemuria
hypothetical lost land located either in the Indian or the Pacific Ocean
TIL the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternity composed of veterans of the Union Army, Union Navy, and the Marines who served in the American Civil War, was dissolved in 1956 at the death of its last member, Civil War veteran Albert Woolson. At its peak, the organization had 410,000 members.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 08:04AM by HumanNutrStudent
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Grand Army of the Republic
United States veterans' organization
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TIL that Japan received its first female fighter pilot in 2018. She was inspired as a child by Top Gun but could not become a combat aviator until the JSDF began accepting female candidates in 2015.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 02:30PM by Candle-Jolly
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BBC News
Japan's first woman fighter pilot to blaze a trail in skies
An end to a ban on women in the air force means Misa Matsushima can fulfil a childhood Top Gun dream.
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TIL about "General Average," a 19th century maritime law requiring all stakeholders (cargo owners, shippers, etc.) to share losses if part of a ship or cargo is sacrificed in an emergency to save the whole.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 07:49AM by Lucian151
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Psabdp
What is General Average and what does it mean for your cargo?
In his latest blog, David Ide - BDP's Global VP of Risk, outlines the maritime law of General Average and what it means for all affected stakeholders.
TIL the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle are the points in which there is at least one day of 24 hours sun and one night of 24 hours of no sun.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 01:58PM by c0wsaysmoo
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Wikipedia
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
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TIL Sir Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji but changed his name and noticed an immediate uptick in job offers, from "We don't quite know how to place you" to "When can you start?"
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 06:46PM by innergamedude
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Radio Times
Sir Ben Kingsley's identity is as colourful as his characters
Krishna Bhanji became Ben Kingsley – and now he's Sir Ben. Just don't call him "babes"...
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TIL the first Scram button on a nuclear reactor had its origins in 1942 where an actual control rod tied to a rope with a man with an axe stood next to it; cutting the rope would mean the rods would fall by gravity into the reactor core, shutting the reactor down.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 07:37PM by tucchurchnj
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Scram
emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor