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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TIL that in the 18th century, the anatomist Honoré Fragonard invented a technique to perfectly preserve flayed bodies and used it to make works of art out of genuine skinned human corpses.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 09:34PM by ShabtaiBenOron
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Atlas Obscura
Day 19: The Flayed Man
31 Days of Halloween: On Atlas Obscura this month, every day is Halloween. Stop by the blog every day this month for true tales of the unquiet dead. Come for...
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TIL that the city of Tulsa is basically a contraction of the word “Tallahassee”, the Creek word for “Old Town”.
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 10:45PM by Thin-Rip-3686
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www.tulsalibrary.org
Tulsa-Area FAQs | Tulsa Library
Tulsa-Area FAQs This is a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the Tulsa community.
TIL the great mathematician Leonhard Euler once believed the Earth was falling into the sun "where it would necessarily be burnt."
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Submitted October 03, 2024 at 10:10PM by __wtr
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TIL since its invention in 1959, the MOSFET transistor has become the most produced artificial object in history with over 13 sextillion manufactured
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 01:53AM by rezikiel
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Transistor
a semiconductor device
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TIL that deaths related to heart attacks and heart disease are statistically more common on Christmas and New Year's days.
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 12:05AM by cock_bite
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Circulation
Cardiac Mortality Is Higher Around Christmas and New Year’s Than at Any Other Time | Circulation
Background— Research published in Circulation has shown that cardiac mortality is highest during December and January. We investigated
whether some of this spike could be ascribed to the Christmas/New Year’s holidays
rather than to climatic factors.
Methods…
whether some of this spike could be ascribed to the Christmas/New Year’s holidays
rather than to climatic factors.
Methods…
TIL Albert Einstein holds a patent for a refrigerator. He created the device after learning a faulty fridge seal killed a family in Berlin. It was rendered obsolete a few years later by the invention of Freon.
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 02:00AM by AntonioLeeuwenhoek
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Einstein refrigerator
Absorption refrigerator invented in 1930
TIL that James Capone, Al Capone's older brother, was a lawman who fought liquor dealers during Prohibition and arrested about twenty murderers. He later became a justice of the peace, changing his name to Richard James “Two Gun” Hart to distance himself from his infamous family.
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Richard James Hart
brother of Al Capone
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TIL President Andrew Jackson accused President Adams's administration of corruption, leading to investigations into all executive departments. This uncovered $280,000 stolen from the Treasury, as well as improved government accounting and cost savings for the Navy.
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served…
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TIL the Double Rainbow guy was a prolific uploader and created thousands of videos. He also scheduled 15 years of uploads in advanced before he died, leaving his channel still active now 4 years after his death.
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Double Rainbow (viral video)
viral video
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TIL The C-130 is the longest continuously produced military aircraft, having achieved 70 years of production in 2024
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop…
TIL of Drapetomania, a falsely proposed mental illness based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 06:51AM by MrSilk2042
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Drapetomania
conjectural mental illness linked to scientific racism
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TIL British television broadcaster Sky UK trademarks the word 'Sky', anyone who uses them on other media are being sued. Such examples are Sky suing Microsoft for the name, forcing them to change Skydrive to Onedrive, and Hello Games being forced to settle to keep the name No Man's Sky
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 02:01PM by Thundergod250
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OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive is a file-hosting service operated by Microsoft. First released in August 2007, it allows registered users to store, share and sync their files. OneDrive also works as the storage backend of the web version of Microsoft 365 / Office. OneDrive…
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TIL about Ättestupa, cliffs in Sweden where legend says elderly people in ancient Norse times would leap to their deaths in a ritual of senicide
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 01:29PM by ploz
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Ättestupa
supposed sites for killing old people
TIL that singer Avril Lavigne was banned from performing in Malaysia in 2008 because her concert was deemed too sexy.However,the ban was lifted shortly after.
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 04:11PM by MeeranQureshi
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the Guardian
Avril Lavigne 'too sexy' to perform in public
The Canadian pop-punk princess must tone down her act for a Kuala Lumpur gig. That means no baring her belly, jumping or shouting ... no laws against bratty snarling though
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