TIL of the Downs-Thomson Paradox, which states that congestion will slow car traffic down until it matches the speed of public transit. Road expansions at the cost of public transit can therefore lead to worse car traffic.
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 07:31PM by Roflkopt3r
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Downs–Thomson paradox
transportation concept
TIL Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars statuettes were made of painted plaster for 3 years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 09:19PM by Majorpain2006
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Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Oscar Statuette | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
TIL that during breastfeeding, a baby's saliva can flow back into the mother's breast, signaling her body to adjust the milk's immune components to meet the baby's specific needs, through a mechanism known as "retrograde milk flow"
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 09:31PM by nucifera-noten
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Breast Milk, a Source of Beneficial Microbes and Associated Benefits for Infant Health
Human breast milk is considered the optimum feeding regime for newborn infants due to its ability to provide complete nutrition and many bioactive health factors. Breast feeding is associated with improved infant health and immune development, less incidences…
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TIL that a Coca-Cola secretary offered to sell Coca-Cola trade secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola, and the secretary was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 10:55PM by Brendawg324
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Nbcnews
Former Coke secretary sentenced to 8 years
A federal judge ignored a former Coca-Cola secretary’s tearful plea for mercy Wednesday and sentenced her to eight years in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets from the world’s largest beverage maker.
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TIL Selena Gomez named her kidney “Fred” after Fred Armisen who created and starred in her favorite show, Portlandia. Gomez received a kidney transplant from her friend, Francia Raisa, back in 2017.
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 11:59PM by cuspofgreatness
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HOLA! USA
Selena Gomez named her kidney after Fred Armison and he had the sweetest reaction
“I’ve never met him, but I’m secretly hoping he finds that out just because I want him to be like, ‘That’s weird,’“ she said at the time.
TIL In the UK, you are required by law to have a television license to watch TV.
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 10:11PM by TheresACityInMyMind
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Television licensing in the United Kingdom
Licensing to receive television broadcasts in the UK
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TIL that the idea that '30-50% of the population don't have internal narratives/monologues' came from a study of 5 people and has never been clinically reproduced
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Submitted October 04, 2024 at 11:59PM by PicklesAndCapers
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Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech
Psychology and cognitive neuroscience often use standardized tasks to elicit particular experiences. We explore whether elicited experiences are similar to spontaneous experiences. In an MRI scanner, five participants performed tasks designed to elicit inner…
TIL that Princess Diana's grandmother counselled her granddaughter against her marriage to Charles, saying: "Darling, you must understand that their sense of humour and their lifestyle are different, and I don't think it will suit you."
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 03:56AM by Kurma-the-Turtle
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Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy
British lady-in-waiting and baroness
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TIL: A study of autopsy results found the mean age of death for tattooed persons was 39 years, compared with 53 years for non-tattooed persons. The presence of any tattoo was more significant than the content of the tattoo.
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PubMed
The medium, not the message. How tattoos correlate with early mortality - PubMed
Persons with tattoos appear to die earlier than those without. There may be an epiphenomenon between having tattoos and risk-taking behavior such as drug or alcohol use. A negative tattoo may suggest a predisposition to violent death but is eclipsed by the…
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TIL about Richard Huckle, described as Britain's most depraved paedophile. He had done his crime for more than a decade and had photographed and recorded his crimes. While he was serving his time, he was brutally tortured and murdered by another inmate who intended to cook and eat him.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 09:08AM by saravannan14
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Wikipedia
Richard Huckle
British convicted sex offender
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TIL senior citizen Emerich Juettner eluded the US Secret Service for 10 years while he used just enough poorly created counterfeit $1 bills (one version misspelled Washington) to support himself & his dog. He only used fake $1 bills one at a time & never to the same place twice. He'd serve 4 months.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 09:11AM by tyrion2024
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Snopes
The Strange Case of Mister 880
History: How the search for a prolific counterfeiter of one-dollar bills lasted ten years.
TIL After a lawyer complained that Cleveland Browns fans were throwing paper airplanes, their lawyer responded "Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters."
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FACT CHECK: Letter Exchange Between Law Firm and Cleveland Browns
A lawyer received a caustic response after complaining to the Cleveland Browns about fans' throwing paper airplanes during home games.
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TIL There are more museum in the US than McDonalds and Starbucks locations combined: 35k vs 14k+16k
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www.imls.gov
Government Doubles Official Estimate: There Are 35,000 Active Museums in the U.S.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IMLS Press Contact Giuliana Bullard, 202-653-4799 gbullard@imls.gov Government Doubles Official Estimate: There Are 35,000 Active Museums in the U.S. From Arizona to Wyoming, museums reach communities everywhere
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TIL Medieval Peasants generally received anywhere from eight weeks to a half-year off. At the time, the Church considered frequent and mandatory holidays the key to keeping a working population from revolting.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 01:24PM by Majorpain2006
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Yahoo Life
Americans Today Work More Than Peasants Did in Medieval Times
Medieval peasants had far more vacation days than the average American today.
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TIL that British Airways has a “Flying with Confidence” Course that aims to help people conquer their fear of flying. It has a 98% success rate.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 01:13PM by ItsVinn
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Britishairways
Flying with confidence | Information | British Airways
Let British Airways help you conquer your fear of flying. Attend our Fear of Flying course which is run by British Airways pilots and cabin crew.
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TIL that when Dylan Thomas (the Welsh poet) died, his widow had his body shipped from New York to Wales. While they were under way, she discovered a group of sailors unwittingly using the coffin as a card table. She decided not to say anything as she thought her husband would have liked it.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 03:44PM by WilliamofYellow
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DylanThomas.com
Dylan’s Journeys to America | Part 3 - DylanThomas.com
Dylan made two further trips to north America in 1953, and Linda Evans looks at his journeys to and from the continent that year.
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TIL that Japanese war criminal Hitoshi Imamura, believing that his sentence of 10 years imprisonment was too light, built a replica prison in his garden where he stayed until his death in 1968
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 06:00PM by Puzzleheaded_Eye_276
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Hitoshi Imamura
Hitoshi Imamura (今村 均, Imamura Hitoshi, 28 June 1886 – 4 October 1968) was a Japanese general who served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Finding his punishment to be too light, Imamura built…
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TIL that Mel Blanc's gravestone reads "That's All Folks!"—the phrase made famous by the character Blanc voiced, Porky Pig, at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons. Blanc, known as "The Man of 1,000 Voices," voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, and numerous other characters.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 06:55PM by ralphbernardo
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Mel Blanc
American voice actor and radio personality (1908–1989)
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TIL in 2012, a California high school student was directed to urinate in a bucket in a supply room closet after a teacher mistakenly believed that bathroom breaks were not permitted. In 2017, a court ordered the school district to pay the student $1.25 million.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 08:29PM by Forward-Answer-4407
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BBC News
Student forced to urinate in bucket wins $1.3m lawsuit
The 14-year-old was forced to urinate in a bucket after a teacher forbade her to use the bathroom.
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TIL a man was killed by a beaver while trying to photograph it. The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends, approached it, and the beaver bit the man on the thigh, which severed an artery. Tragically the man's friends were unable to stanch the blood loss.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 09:17PM by XiGoldenGod
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USATODAY
Man tries to take photo of beaver; it kills him
The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends at Lake Shestakov, but as he approached to take a photograph, the beaver bit him on the thigh. The animal managed to sever an artery, and his friends couldn't stop the blood flow.
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TIL women who had their last kid after 33 had double the chance of living to 95 or older as opposed to those who had their last one by 29. According to a 2020 study, women who gave birth after 40 were four times more likely to live to be a 100 years old.
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Submitted October 05, 2024 at 10:58PM by Blue_Eyed_Lass
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Parents
Giving Birth Later on May Mean You Live Longer, Says Study
New research finds that women who give birth at an older age may live longer. Here's why.
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