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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Wikipedia
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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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 04:46AM by apiacoa
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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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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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Wikipedia
Bone china
porcelain composed of bone ash, feldspathic material, and kaolin
TIL that FOX’s In Living Color aired a live episode during the 1992 Super Bowl halftime, pulling over 20 million viewers and forcing the NFL to rethink halftime shows, leading to Michael Jackson’s iconic 1993 performance.
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 04:22PM by jmascusatf
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NFL.com
NFL 100
The National Football League's 100th season launched at Super Bowl 53 in Atlanta. And a century of NFL football is good reason to celebrate.
TIL that when Ford released the Model T in 1908, it cost $825 (adjusted to about $28,000 in 2023). Despite the popularity (about 15 million would eventually be sold) Ford kept dropping the price over the years, and by 1925 the basic model cost $260, the equivalent of about $4,500 today.
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Ford Model T
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relatively…
TIL Oliver Stone was working on a movie called 'Company Man' about the Iran-Contra scandal, starring Paul Newman and timed to be released right before the 1988 presidential election. When producers wouldn't guarantee the release date, Stone halted the project to make 'Talk Radio' instead.
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Oliver Stone's unrealized projects
overview about Oliver Stone's unrealized projects
TIL that 'Sticky Vicky' featured in the TV show 'Benidorm' was a real person who actually had that act.
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 10:24AM by reddiuniquefool
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Sticky Vicky
retired dancer and illusionist known for her vaginal magic show
TIL American Cheese contains 95% cheese and "American Cheese food" contains at least 51% cheese.
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 07:46PM by Nodebunny
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American cheese
processed cheese from the United States
TIL while filming the 1997 movie "Gummo", Harmony Korine insisted on using regular people and places. Some of the houses were so disgusting that most of the film crew insisted on wearing hazmat suits during filming.
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 07:43PM by stargazer304
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Gummo
1997 film by Harmony Korine
TIL that Eva Longoria invested 6 million dollars to save a film from being shut down during production. That movie was John Wick.
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Submitted October 25, 2024 at 10:42PM by mr_nuts31
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FandomWire
Eva Longoria: ‘The best money I’ve ever spent’ on Saving Keanu Reeves’ John Wick from Getting Shut Down at the Last Minute
Eva Longoria was the reason the world got one of it's best action franchises from Keanu Reeves: The John Wick Franchise
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TIL When Tsarevich Nicholas(later Nicholas II) visited Japan in 1891, an attermpt on his life was made by a man wielding a katana. His cousin, Prince George of Greece, saved his life by parrying the sword with his cane
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Ōtsu incident
1891 failed assassination attempt on Nicholas II of Russia
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TIL none of the writers of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" had been to West Virginia, and they used an encyclopedia to look up facts about it. The song was mainly inspired by one writer's upbringing in Springfield, MA, but he didn't think the word "Massachusetts" was musical.
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Take Me Home, Country Roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard's US Hot 100 singles…