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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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TIL that during the falklands war in 1982 the british mistakenly killed three whales believing them to be enemy submarines.
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TIL about Grigori Perelman, who was the mathematician who solved the Poincaré Conjecture and refused any of the prizes that followed
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 04:40PM by Sairai_Mata
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My Modern Met
Mathematician Who Solved Major Math Mystery Rejects Awards and $1M Prize
“I’m not interested in money or fame; I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.”
TIL the country with the most French speakers isn't France but the Democratic Republic of Congo. Likewise, there are more French speakers in Kinshasa than in Paris Of the 212 million who use French daily, 54.7% are living in Africa.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 05:38PM by TimelyConcern
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Geographical distribution of French speakers
The French language became an international language, the second international language alongside Latin, in the Middle Ages, "from the fourteenth century onwards". It was not by virtue of the power of the Kingdom of France: '"... until the end of the fifteenth…
TIL that the James Webb Telescope orbits a Lagrange point, a spot in space where the gravity from earth and sun (or another set of bodies) cancel one another out and satellites can orbit the spot rather than earth, giving a unique perspective.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 06:00PM by thisweeksaltacct
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Lagrange point
one of five positions in an orbital configuration of two large bodies where a small object can maintain a stable relative position
TIL that Filet-O-Fish was created after a McDonald’s franchise owner complained about falling sales during the season of Lent
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 04:50PM by Miserable-md
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Reckon
The capitalist history of the Filet-O-Fish, America’s favorite fast food fish sandwich
Lent is a season of fasting and reflection, and part of the fasting aspect of Lent includes not eating meat from land animals on Fridays, as it is described in Vatican II. The original McDonald’s menu only included hamburgers—so Catholics started avoiding…
TIL whales sometimes fart. The bubbles that whale flatulence generates are about the size of a watermelon. The unpleasant odor of whale farts has been described by observers as "a combination of herring breath and the funk of rotten salad." Seals are also known to have particularly noisy farts.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 08:52PM by XiGoldenGod
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Baleines en direct
Do whales fart? - Baleines en direct
Judging by the search engines, the question has created quite a buzz: are whales capable of emitting flatulence, gas... in short, farts? Given the level
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TIL There is an actual Rhode Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Despite being the state's namesake and the island's "original" name, no one calls it that, and the locals have colloquially renamed it to Aquidneck Island.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 08:57PM by ComradeAri
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Aquidneck Island
island in Rhode Island, United States
TIL that P.T. Barnum noticed people were lingering too long at his exhibits so he posted signs indicating "This Way to the Egress". Not knowing that "Egress" was another word for "Exit", people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit and ended up outside.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 10:12PM by Agnesactomithat
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Barnum's American Museum
former museum in New York City
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