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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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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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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TIL TB used to be associated with vampires. When one member of a family died from the disease, the other infected members would lose their health slowly. People believed this was caused by the original person with TB draining the life from the other family members
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts…
TIL per a report released by the federation of American scientists, the United States government produces more classified information then unclassified.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 04:52PM by UltimateOreo
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TIL that Honey Nut Cheerios haven’t contained nuts since 2006. The nut flavor comes from a blend of peach and apricot pit
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 03:44PM by TommyJarvis12
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You Well
American cereal is weird | You Well
American cereal is weird, I take a look at it
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TIL Since Adolf Hitler renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925, he was stateless for about seven years until he got his German citizenship in 1932. The delay was due to several attempts to get him a government job that would have granted him citizenship falling through.
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Wikipedia
Naturalization of Adolf Hitler
Process of Adolf Hitler becoming German
TIL Called "the benevolent" due to his well intentioned nature, Ferdinand I of Austria, son of the last holy roman emperor, had to step down due to suffering as many as 20 epileptic seizures per day. When he tried to have sex, he had 5 seizures
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Ferdinand I of Austria
Ferdinand I (German: Ferdinand I. 19 April 1793 – 29 June 1875) was Emperor of Austria from March 1835 until his abdication in December 1848. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (as Ferdinand V), King of Lombardy–Venetia and holder of many other…
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TIL that the background check for positions in the White House asks if you have ever been "suspected" of breaking the law
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 08:09PM by A_Mirabeau_702
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TIL that O’Neill cylinders are space habitats proposed by physicist Gerard K. O’Neill. They consist of two rotating cylinders that generate artificial gravity and contain cities, farmland, and landscapes, with sunlight directed by mirrors, creating a livable environment for long-term habitation.
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O'Neill cylinder
space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill
TIL Monasteries used to distill a compound called "uisge beatha" (pronounced uska beg) which means "water of life" in Gaelic. After it got popularized, people started calling it solely "uska", which led to its final form in present, whiskey.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 08:04PM by Sarpthedestroyer
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The Oxford Artisan Distillery
A Complete History of Whisky
The history of whisky production in Scotland, Ireland and England is steeped in tradition. Uisge Beatha – the water of life has a folklore that is both religious and rebellious. For centuries it provided an illicit yet vital income to poor rural communities…
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TIL about the Pit of Despair, an apparatus used in widely-condemned experiments that isolated young monkeys in a dark, smooth tank with sloped sides and a curved base. The monkeys were left isolated and hopeless in the dark for months, supposedly to induce and study depression.
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Pit of despair
device used by Harry Harlow to study rhesus monkeys
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TIL during height of Dotcom bubble, Cisco was the most valuable company in the world. Then stock price fell by 88% in 2 years, and never reached record price again.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 08:06PM by BadenBaden1981
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Harding Loevner
NVIDIA and the Cautionary Tale of Cisco Systems - Harding Loevner
NVIDIA, the giant semiconductor company founded by Taiwanese American Jensen Huang, seems invincible these days. Annual revenue has more than doubled since 2020. Its stock price has more than doubled this year and is up more than 700% over the past five years.…
TIL: In 1932, Brazil couldn’t afford to send its athletes to the Los Angeles Olympics, so they put them on a ship filled with coffee. The athletes sold the coffee along the way to fund their trip.
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Submitted October 20, 2024 at 12:15AM by efequalma
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Tasting Table
The Important Role Coffee Played In The 1932 Olympics
It looked like one of the world's largest countries wouldn't make it to the 1932 Olympics. That is until the coffee industry stepped in.
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TIL only one genuine 1983 model year Corvette exists in the world. Every other Corvette from that year was crushed.
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Submitted October 19, 2024 at 11:19PM by gixk
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HISTORY
Why There’s No Such Thing as a 1983 Corvette
Behind the mysterious gap year of America's quintessential sports car.
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TIL that after hurricane Katrina, due to miscalculation, FEMA had 85M pounds of ice at storage facilites around the U.S and melted it two years later after 12.5 million dollars in storage fees.
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Submitted October 20, 2024 at 04:23AM by WhileSea2827
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ABC News
85M Pounds of Ice Going Down the Drain
TIL the 300 Club at the South Pole involves a tradition where participants go from a +200°F sauna to the -100°F outside, often running a lap around the South Pole marker while wearing only boots
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Submitted October 20, 2024 at 12:25AM by Keegipeeter
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300 Club
People who endured a temperature change of 300 °F (167 °C)
TIL: Ted Danson's second wife, producer Cassandra "Casey" Coates, suffered a stroke while giving birth to their first daughter, Kate. Ted spent several years caring for her and helping her recuperate. They later adopted a second daughter, Alexis.
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Submitted October 20, 2024 at 06:06AM by LadyWarrior73
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Ted Danson
American actor (born 1947)
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TIL former Disney head Jeffrey Katzenberg attempted to dissuade Robin Williams from playing Batty Koda in the film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, as Katzenberg only wanted Williams to voice the Genie in the movie Aladdin
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Submitted October 20, 2024 at 06:25AM by DaveOJ12
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CINEMABLEND
Why Disney Was Annoyed About Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
Twenty-five years ago, a group of Australian animators finally got to make an environmentally focused kids flick that had been in gestation for a long time. That movie was Ferngully: The Last Rainfore
TIL that in 2006, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of North Korean web portal Naenara, around 300 users gathered to organize a flash mob. The gathering was dispersed immediately, and all online chatrooms in North Korea were banned as a result.
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Submitted October 20, 2024 at 09:54AM by another_meme_account
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Kwangmyong (network)
North Korean "walled garden" national intranet