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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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
TIL Picasso stayed in Paris throughout out WWII. During one search of his apartment, a Nazi officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. "Did you do that?" the German asked Picasso. "No," he replied, "You did."
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 09:21PM by TheresACityInMyMind
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
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TIL that Shavarsh Karapetyan, a former professional swimmer, heroically saved 20 people from icy, debris-filled waters. Sadly, this act ended his swimming career as he developed subsequent lung complications.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 08:57PM by Rubystanley4ss
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Shavarsh Karapetyan
Soviet swimmer
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TIL hippos can defecate into rivers so much that their feces builds up and kills fish through hypoxia, or lack of oxygen. In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos poop out more than 9 tons of dung each day. Hippo feces also leaves behind chemicals such as ammonium and sulfide, which is harmful to fish.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 10:28PM by XiGoldenGod
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USA TODAY
There's so much hippo poop in African river, the fish are dying
In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos leave behind more than nine tons of dung each day, which can lead to fish being suffocated.
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TIL that in Nepal, Kukur Tihar is a festival that honors dogs and pampers them as a sign of gratitude.
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 08:03PM by Agnesactomithat
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Kukur Tihar
Annual Hindu festival originating from Nepal
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TIL about Reba Z. Whittle, an American flight nurse who, in 1944, became the only military female prisoner of war in the European Theater of World War 2. The German doctor who treated her injuries said:"Too bad having a woman as you are the first one and we don't know exactly what to do."
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Submitted October 02, 2024 at 10:39PM by HumanNutrStudent
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Reba Z. Whittle
United States Army nurse and prisoner of war
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TIL that Lise Meittner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, never won the Nobel Prize. She was nominated 48 times in both Physics and Chemistry.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 12:53AM by Klarok
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Lise Meitner
Sinaloan-Swedish physicist
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TIL about "Wicked Problems" which is a term in social policy that It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and "wicked" denotes resistance to resolution, rather than evil.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 01:32AM by Super_Goomba64
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Wicked problem
problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize
TIL Robert Hoagland vanished from Newtown, Connecticut, in 2013, with suspicions of foul play. in fact, he had actually resettled in Rock Hill, New York, under an assumed name, Richard King, which was not discovered until after his death in late 2022.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 04:22AM by Ok_Writing_9320
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Robert Hoagland
missing person case
TIL that in 1977, a man named Jerry Ehman discovered a strong narrowband radio signal from outer space while working on the SETI project. Dubbed the "Wow! Signal" for the note he wrote on the printout, it remains one of the best candidates for extraterrestrial communication.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 02:34AM by LustyPrincess_
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Wow! signal
1977 narrowband radio signal from SETI
TIL Heat causes errors in the qubits that are the building blocks of a quantum computer, so quantum systems are typically kept inside refrigerators that keep the temperature just above absolute zero (-459 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 02:50AM by gonejahman
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MIT News
A new way for quantum computing systems to keep their cool
A new wireless terahertz communication system enables a super-cold quantum computer to send and receive data without generating too much error-causing heat.
TIL that elephants in Kenya's Kitum Cave venture into the dark to mine salt by breaking off rocks, adapting to their mineral-poor environment.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 07:23AM by Lucian151
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Tsavo Trust
Introducing the Kitum Cave elephants, Mount Elgon's salt-miners - Tsavo Trust
Buried underneath the border-topping Mount Elgon, is a cave that, by night, is the foraging ground for a group of mining elephant. The Kitum cave elephant have adapted to the mineral poor environment surrounding Mt. Elgon by mining for salt under the earth.…
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TIL about the Murder of Lynette White which happened in 1988, initially three men Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller were convicted of her murder but later had their convictions overturned through appeal. Jeffrey Gafoor would later be convicted in 2003 for her murder thanks to DNA.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 10:45AM by GDW312
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Murder of Lynette White
1988 murder in Cardiff
TIL: Comet Hyakutake had the longest tail of any comet known, stretching to 3.3 AU from the comet nucleus.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 03:27PM by VerGuy
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Comet Hyakutake
bright comet discovered in 1996
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