TIL of Robert Levinson, who disappeared on March 9 2007, whilst working as a private investigator in Iran. Levinson flew to Kish Island to meet Dawud Salahuddin, a US fugitive, as part of a "unauthorised CIA mission" before disappearing. In 2011,photos of Levinson alive were sent to his family.
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Disappearance of Robert Levinson
FBI and CIA agent
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TIL ironically, the novel Fahrenheit 451 has been banned, censored, or redacted in several schools since its publication, including at a school in Montgomery County, Texas, in 2006, where the parents where offended by the burning of the Bible. The book was also burned in Apartheid South Africa.
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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 05:20AM by DioriteLover
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Fahrenheit 451
1953 novel by Ray Bradbury
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TIL that in the Middle Ages beetroot was used to treat illnesses related to digestion and the blood. In the mid 17th century wine was often colored with beetroot juice. And in Europe after WW1 food shortages caused many hardships, including mangelwurzel disease, caused by eating only beetroot.
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Beetroot
The beetroot (British English) or beet (North American English) is the taproot portion of a Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris plant in the Conditiva Group. The plant is also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet. Beetroot…
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TIL of Doctor Fukushi Masaichi AKA "Dr. Tattoo" who would pay heavily tattooed people money for the right to preserve their tattooed skin after they died. He collected more than 2000 human pelts.
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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 09:06AM by MrSilk2042
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DannyDutch
Doctor Fukushi Masaichi And The Art Of Preserving Tattooed Skin
Tattoos have different meanings across cultures, ranging from sacred symbols to marks of rebellion. In Japan, tattoos are part of a broader subculture called irezumi, an intricate form of body art with its own set of unique designs, imagery, and symbolism.…
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TIL there are only three known photos and no media recordings of Germany’s richest person, Dieter Schwarz (net worth $38B). He is the former Chairman and CEO of supermarket chain Lidl.
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Dieter Schwarz
German entrepreneur
TIL there's a bridge in Australia called Montague Street Bridge that's 3-metre high and has 26 warning signs, yet trucks keep hitting it a lot to the point that it becomes famous because of it.
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the Guardian
Low blow: is fixing Montague Street’s ‘pure evil’ bridge beyond Melbourne?
Despite many warning signs, drivers keep crashing into the notorious bridge – and there is not much else the government can do
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TIL Hіtӏer supplied Ethiopia with weapons and ammunition during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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Second Italo-Ethiopian War
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion…
TIL that the top secret SOG operators in the Vietnam war had trouble hiding their boot prints on Viet Cong trails, even trying special boots with bare footprint soles. They eventually collected 20,000 pairs of used boots from US combat hospitals and air dropped them to the NVA and Viet Cong.
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Spycraft 101
Leave No Trace: Disguising Footprints in the Jungles of Southeast Asia - Spycraft 101
These jungle boots with footprint soles were designed to disguise the presence of MACV SOG warriors on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Military Assistance Command Vietnam - Studies and Observation Group was famous for its unconventional approach to warfare in Southeast…
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TIL Zelda Fitzgerald used to ridicule F. Scott Fitzgerald about his penis size so much that he made Ernest Hemingway take a look at it in a public bathroom. Hemingway told him his dick was normal.
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Zelda Fitzgerald
American writer (1900–1948)
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TIL that the Confederacy bordered a Habsburg Mexican empire controlled by France
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General Grant and the Fight to Remove Emperor Maximilian from Mexico (U.S. National Park Service)
TIL that the Tetrahymena thermophila, a single-celled ciliated unicellular eukaryote, has 7 different sexes. Any two different sexes can mate and produce offspring, and the sex of the offspring can be any of the 7 different types. This allows for 21 different mating combinations.
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Nature
How a microbe chooses among seven sexes
Nature - Sex determination in the protozoan Tetrahymena is a roll of the genetic dice.
TIL that british climber Alan Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati (a type of flatbread) got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He waited 10 days in agony before being rescued and is since known as the "chapati man"
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Alan Hinkes
British Himalayan mountaineer
TIL that Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine is buried right next to Marilyn Monroe in Westwood Memorial Park. He paid $75,000 back in 1992 to secure the spot. He told the LA Times, "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is a opportunity too sweet to pass up."
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Hugh Hefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
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TIL That from the 1940s to the 1960s Lysol was used as contraception and a feminine hygiene product.
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HuffPost UK
This Early Use For Lysol Is Wild
What we know as a home cleaning product was once marketed to women for something very different.
TIL about John L Burns, a 70-year-old veteran of the war of 1812 who was caught in the crossfire during the battle of Gettysburg in 1863; after being released from his confederate prison, he promptly arrested the traitorous stragglers and took up his flintlock against the rest.
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John L. Burns
American soldier
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TIL that on May 26, 2022, the last convicted Salem witch was officially exonerated, 329 years after she had been found guilty, after pressure from schoolchildren who discovered the anomaly which had excluded Elizabeth Johnson Jr's name from the Massachusetts legislature act exonerating all others.
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Salem witch trials
series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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TIL In 1998, business mogul Bill Daniels donated his private mansion, called Cableland, to be used as the official residence of the mayor of Denver. It has never been used in this role.
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Cableland
official residence of the Mayor of Denver, Colorado, USA
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TIL that in 1976, 3 men kidnapped a bus full of schoolchildren with the goal of ransoming them back for 5 million dollars. They tried to place the ransom call, but the line was busy, and they ended up falling asleep. By the time they woke up, the children had freed themselves and made it to safety.
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1976 Chowchilla kidnapping
crime commited in California, US
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TIL A french waiter claimed to have invented Crêpes Suzette on accident when he was preparing a dish for future King Edward VII. The story goes that the cordials on a dish of crepes had accidentally caught on fire, but after a taste test he decided the taste had been improved and served it anyways.
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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 10:49PM by UndyingCorn
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Crêpes Suzette
French pancake dessert
TIL that under the Invention Secrecy Act, the U.S. government can prevent certain patent applications from being disclosed if they deem the invention a threat to national security. Inventors can be prohibited from sharing or profiting from their own creations without even knowing why.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 02:12AM by SudoMason
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Invention Secrecy Act
United States national security law
TIL: The Allies raided a Nazi chemical company in 1944 and interrogated a chemist due to the amount of radioactive material involved. However, they learned that he was not working on nukes, but radioactive toothpaste known as Duramad, using radiation to kill germs. Some samples are in a museum now.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 01:05AM by Flares117
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Museum of Radium
Doramad Toothpaste - Museum of Radium
Radium toothpaste? A brief history of Doramad radioactive toothpaste containing thorium & its link to missing uranium and the German atomic bomb project.