TIL: There was a chess controversy in India in 2021 during a charity match between billionaire Nikhil Kamath and a GM. It was revealed the billionaire cheated by hiring several chess experts and used computers to make perfect moves. He owned a stock brokerage
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Hindustan Times
Zerodha co-founder ‘beats’ Anand in charity game, then admits he cheated
An online match plunged into controversy after Viswanathan Anand was stunned during a simul chess event, and forced to resign against Nikhil Kamath, co-founder of online stock brokerage firm Zerodha, a high-profile Unicorn, and asset management company True…
TIL a Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa, violating the law of demand.
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Giffen good
product that people consume more of as the price rises
TIL about Helios Flight 522. An engineer failed to set the pressurization system back to auto from manual, causing most (except 2 flight attendants) to lose consciousness. The auto-pilot reached Greece and stayed in a holding pattern until they ran out of fuel and crashed, killing all 121 onboard.
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Helios Airways Flight 522
aviation accident
TIL that over 90% of all currency (euros) in circulation in Spain have trace amounts of cocaine
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OUP Academic
Cocaine contamination of banknotes: a review
AbstractBackground. The analysis of drug traces on banknotes with different validated techniques can provide important information about the types of subst
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TIL that there were works on metro 2033 movie, but because director wanted to set the actions in Washington instead of Moscow, Glukhovskiy cancelled the movie.
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Submitted October 29, 2024 at 01:03PM by Odd-Iron-6860
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Polygon
Metro 2033 movie on hold, and it’s probably a good thing
Americanized adaptation did not work for author Glukhovsky
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TIL that Clement Vallandigham was a lawyer who accidentally shot himself demonstrating how someone could accidentally shoot themself
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TIL Peru has so many convicted ex-presidents it has set up a special prison for them.
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NPR
All the prison's presidents: Peru's special jail for ex-leaders is all full up
In Peru, so many former leaders have been accused of crimes that the country has designated a small prison specifically to house them. It's a symbol of corruption, but also of political dysfunction.
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TIL that Natalie Portman has had papers published in two scientific journals. While at Harvard, she co-authored a study called “Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.”
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The Mary Sue
Read Scientific Papers Coauthored by Natalie Portman | The Mary Sue
Natalie Portman and Disney team up to get girls into science. We take a look at the scientific papers coauthored by Portman.
TIL that flat-faced dog breeds like pugs and bulldogs suffer from a condition called "brachycephalic syndrome", which causes significant respiratory issues due to their compressed skull structure. This trait is bred purely for appearance but can result in chronic breathing problems and even death.
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TIL that sloths can starve to death on a full stomach
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BBC
BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four - 10 incredible facts about the sloth
True facts about your favourite languid, tree-hugging mammal
TIL that grunion fish have unusual mating habits. The females will burrow tail-first into the sand up to their necks so that only their heads stick out. Then a bunch of males will squirt their sperm onto their heads. The sperm trickles down their bodies to reach the eggs below them.
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wildlife.ca.gov
The Amazing Grunion
Marine Resources Leaflet No. 3 by Jerome Spratt.
Originally printed 1971; online version updated February 2022.
California Department of Fish and Game/Wildlife.
Originally printed 1971; online version updated February 2022.
California Department of Fish and Game/Wildlife.
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TIL the "Redwood of the East" - a 100ft-tall tree that once covered 25% of Eastern US forests, produced tons of food, and built America's industrial backbone - lost 99.9% of its population to a catastrophic blight.
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TIL About The Axeman of New Orlean's, a serial killer who attacked 12 people with an axe and was never caught.
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Wikipedia
Axeman of New Orleans
unidentified serial killer
TIL that the Six Flags theme parks are named after the six flags that flew over Texas including the confederate flag, the American flag, the Spanish flag, the Mexican flag, the French flag, and the Republic of Texas flag.
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Submitted October 29, 2024 at 09:06PM by BallsOutKrunked
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Six flags over Texas
slogan referencing Imperial Spain, Colonial France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the CSA, and the United States of America which each have had territorial claims of part or all of the area now known as the US state of Texas over its history
TIL I learned that in 2012 a man sued Mountain Dew for finding a mouse in a can. They defended themselves by arguing that if it was in the can for 15 months, the mouse would have dissolved. The case was settled.
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beveragedaily.com
Mountain Dew mouse case dissolves as PepsiCo settles
PepsiCo has reportedly reached an out of court settlement in a lawsuit filed in 2009 by a US man who alleged he found a mouse in a can of Mountain Dew.
TIL Nic Cage hired an alcoholic to follow him around so he could emulate his behaviour for Leaving Las Vegas.
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Submitted October 30, 2024 at 12:00AM by Udi-Dis
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E! Online
Nicolas Cage Once Hired Someone to Be His "Drinking Coach" for a Role - E! Online
The Oscar winner definitely goes the extra mile to bring his characters to life.
TIL there is a whale known as the 52-hertz whale (also known as 52 Blue) of an unidentified species that has never been sighted, but has been heard and known to exist since the late 1980s. There was also a feature length documentary about it that Leonardo DiCaprio was an executive producer for.
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52-hertz whale
individual whale which has been detected calling at 52 Hz, far above the normal whale vocal range
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TIL of "Ardi" the fossilized skeletal remains of a human-like female anthropoid discovered in 1994. It is more than a million years older and more complete than "Lucy." It's discovery stunned scientists and refuted many core theories of human evolution.
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Ardi
designation of the fossilized skeletal remains of an Ardipithecus ramidus
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TIL that Keanu Reeves has been secretly funding children's hospitals for years. He reportedly created a private foundation that aids children’s hospitals and cancer research without associating his name with it. "I don't like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
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Snopes
FACT CHECK: The Tragic Life of Keanu Reeves
You'll need a hanky to make it all the way through this sad viral video recounting the tragic life story of 'Matrix' actor Keanu Reeves.
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TIL that Ray Bradbury wrote "The Halloween Tree" (1972) as a result of being disappointed after watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" - due to what he believed was the television special's lackluster depiction of Halloween
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Submitted October 30, 2024 at 01:23AM by Amaruq93
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Geekd-Out
Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree ⋆
The Halloween Tree is about a group of trick-or-treaters who're spirited away on a journey through the history of Halloween by the sinister Mr. Moundshroud.
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TIL Saddam Hussein's son Uday murdered his bodyguard at a party in front of horrified guests
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Submitted October 30, 2024 at 04:51AM by Wazula23
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Uday Hussein
Iraqi politician (1964-2003)