TIL The Deep Purple song Smoke on the Water is about an incident at a casino where Frank Zappa was playing a concert and a fan fired a flare gun which caused the casino to catch fire and burn down.
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Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water: so who actually was the “stupid with a flare gun”?
As most rock fans know, Deep Purple’s most famous song ‘Smoke On The Water’ was based on an actual real life event. In December 1971 the band were planning to record their forthco…
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TIL that Bela Lugosi was buried in his complete Dracula costume, cape included
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Bela Lugosi
Hungarian-American actor (1882–1956)
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TIL that John Cazale worked as an actor only for seven years and starred in five movies. All of them were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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No Film School
This Actor Only Starred in Best Picture Nominees and Winners
John Cazale's legacy is unmatched.
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TIL that in 2017, “Big Tobacco” companies were finally forced to air ads in the US that admitted their products were deadly and addictive. This came after 11 years of appeals by the companies to delay and weaken the nature of the ads.
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Big Tobacco finally tells the truth in court-ordered ad campaign
Big Tobacco finally tells the truth. Companies will start running ads ordered by a federal court in which they admit their products kill and are addictive.
TIL that Axl Rose once delayed a Guns N Roses concert from starting because he was watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of The Ooze.
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Consequence
Axl Rose was once late to a concert because he was watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
"Axl’s attention was 100% on the movie and couldn’t be bothered."
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TIL slingshot spiders use a tensioned web like a spring to launch themselves and their webs at prey with 100 times the acceleration of a cheetah, making them the fastest arachnids.
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Theridiosoma
genus of arachnids
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TIL they dehorn rhinos in Africa to deter poaching, resulting in a 30% lower chance the rhino will get killed by poachers.
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Save The Rhino
Dehorning
Dehorning, when used as part of a tool-kit of anti-poaching strategies, can help protect rhinos. But it's not 100% effective and carries some risks.
TIL that in Cowboy Bebop the voice actors for Spike Spiegel (Steve Blum) and Julia (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) are married in real life.
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Submitted October 24, 2024 at 08:33PM by TheMadhopper
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Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
American voice actress and director
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TIL that the world's smallest flower is the Wolffia spp., or the watermeal. The plant is about 1/42" long and 1/85" wide, and weighs about as much as 2 grains of salt. It grows on the surface of freshwater lakes or marshes.
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The Library of Congress
What is the smallest flower in the world?
Watermeal. (Wolffia spp.)The smallest species of vascular plants in Europe – Spotless watermeal, Wolffia arrhiza – on human fingers. External linkEvery single speck of less than 1 mm length is an individual plant. Christian Fischer, photographer, 2008. Wikimedia…
TIL - The famous B-17 crash landing scene in "Tora Tora Tora" wasn't old stock footage. The aircraft used during the filming experienced an actual landing gear failure and the emergency landing was recorded by the film crew. Since no one was injured they decided to use the footage in the movie.
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TIL that during WWII, pilots frequently blacked out during turns as strong G-forces caused blood pooling in their legs. Douglas Bader, a British Ace, did not have this problem because his legs had been amputated after an accident.
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Aviation Humor
Douglas Bader - The WWII Flying Ace with No Legs - Aviation Humor
Douglas Bader was a pilot in the Royal Air Force who would go on to pilot fighter planes in the Second World War without his legs and claimed 22 aerial victories becoming a flying ace. Bader joined the RAF in 1928 and graduated in 1930 and in late 1931 at…
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TIL: In 1994, the DEA seized a supercomputer from a drug cartel. The cartel acquired an IBM AS/400 and used it to record bribes, vehicle and telephone data of enemies, and the entire Colombian DMV record. The cartel had computer analysts using it to locate individuals to wiretap. The DEA was stunned
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VICE
The Cartel Supercomputer of 1994
Organized crime syndicates throughout Mexico and Central America have always loved their gadgets.
TIL a community of escaped slaves in colonial Brazil founded their own confederated kingdom that lasted for almost 90 years, with a population of around 11,000
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Palmares (quilombo)
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Brazilian state of…
TIL that Jimmy Carter promised to release all government UFO information if he became president. However, after being elected, he chose not to, citing "national security concerns."
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HISTORY
Jimmy Carter files report on UFO sighting | September 18, 1973 | HISTORY
Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the International UFO Bureau on September 18, 1973, claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October 1969. During the presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic challenger Carter was forthcoming…
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TIL that prolific Hollywood prosthetic makeup artist Tom Savini served as a combat photographer in Vietnam, and this later influenced his style of gory effects. Savini said: "I hated that when I watched a war movie and someone dies. Some people die with one eye open and one eye half-closed.”
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Tom Savini
American actor, stuntman, director and makeup artist
TIL Wisconsin produces over half of all cranberries in the world. 5% is sold fresh: majority is for sauce, juice, dried fruit, etc. Settlers called the fruit “crane berry” cause the blossoms resemble the head of a Sandhill crane. It takes about 4,400 cranberries to make 1 gallon of juice.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
9 fun facts about cranberries (hint, Wisconsin is No. 1)
You know cranberries are good for you. But what else do you know about them.
TIL the last two American Democratic presidents to die were Lyndon B Johnson, who became president when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Harry S Truman, who was president in 1945 during WWII.
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List of presidents of the United States
head of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States
TIL one of Nazi physician Johanna Haarer's child-rearing strategies was that newborns should be placed in a separate room from their mother for the first three months of the baby's life, with only strictly regulated breastfeeding visits from her of no longer than 20 minutes during that period.
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The Conversation
Parenting practices around the world are diverse and not all about attachment
Parenting: attachment is not, and has never been, the only way.
TIL of A Book from the Sky. This 1987 book was designed in the style of a medieval Chinese manunoscript, but all 4000 Chinese characters in it are invented by the author and have no meaning
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 03:30AM by A_Mirabeau_702
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A Book from the Sky
Chinese artist Xu Bing's book consisting of meaningless glyphs designed to resemble traditional Chinese characters
TIL about Frank’s sign, a crease that may form on your earlobe that can be a sign of poor cardiovascular health
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 09:57AM by Wunder_Bred
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PubMed Central (PMC)
The Histological Basis of Frank’s Sign
Frank’s sign is a diagonal crease of the ear lobe, supposedly related to cardiac pathology, and has strongly been associated with coronary artery atherosclerosis. A total of 45 consecutive adult patients referred for autopsy in a one-and-a-half-year ...
TIL that bone china is made from bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin, and it originated in the UK, not in China.
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 03:35PM by Beautiful-Bowler1427
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Bone china
porcelain composed of bone ash, feldspathic material, and kaolin