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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 04:13PM by B34TBOXX5
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 05:07PM by Blammyyy
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 05:51PM by Vivaldi786561
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 07:10PM by ShannyGasm
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 06:31PM by bremishpotato
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 08:11PM by Arstotzkanmoose
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 08:48PM by olympic814
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 04:28PM by AskMeAboutPigs
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 09:42PM by LadyWarrior73
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 10:01PM by VLenin2291
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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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Submitted October 18, 2024 at 11:28PM by JackThaBongRipper
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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.
TIL Jerry Springer was elected to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971, was forced to step down 3 years later after admitting to soliciting a prostitute, and then was re-elected the next year by a landslide
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 12:15AM by Texas_Rockets
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Jerry Springer
American television personality and politician (1944–2023)
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TIL In order to repay $30,000 dollars in legal costs due to a lawsuit brought by Wendy Carlos, Momus commissioned 30 songs on his following album for $1,000 each. Every song was dedicated to whomever paid for it.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 01:51AM by Karma-Houdini
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Stars Forever
Stars Forever is the thirteenth studio album by Scottish musician Momus, released by Le Grand Magistery in 1999. The album represents part of Momus's "analog-baroque" phase.
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TIL Hoarding Disorder was not recognized as a disorder until the DSM 5 came out in 2013. Many believe the show Hoarders which came out in 2006 influenced considerable scientific research leading to it's official inclusion in the DSM.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 07:00AM by itshannahgrape
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Children of Hoarders
DSM V Revisions
HOARDING DISORDER ABOUT REVISIONS FOR THE DSM V DSM V Website (fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) These are initial drafts of the recommendations that have been made to date by the DSM-5 Work Groups. Viewers will be able…
TIL the "Petticoat Duel" between Lady Almeria Braddock & Mrs. Elphinstone occurred in 1792. Braddock reportedly claimed to be under 30 years old & took offense when Elphinstone said she was over 60. Both missed with their pistols, but Braddock won after wounding Elphinstone when they moved to swords
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 06:00AM by tyrion2024
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Encyclopedia Britannica
10 Famous Duels
This Encyclopaedia Britannica World History list explores 10 famous duels from history.
TIL that the longest continually updated video game is UnReal World, at 32 years. It was released in 1992 and the latest update was in 2024.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 05:13AM by PeachFreedom
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UnReal World
1992 video game
TIL that when Kissinger publicly threatened "countermeasures" in a press conference, during the Oil Crisis, if the OAPEC embargo was not lifted, the Saudis responded with threatening further oil cuts and to burn their oil fields if the US military invaded.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 01:51PM by Plupsnup
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1973 oil crisis
1973 petroleum shortage
TIL that A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and WALL-E were all brainstormed over a single lunch
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 03:23PM by the_one_below
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 03:23PM by the_one_below
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Far Out Magazine
The most productive lunch in the history of animated cinema
A single lunch ended up becoming one of the most important in animated cinema, not that anyone could have known at the time. Read more here.
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