TIL about Botulf Botulfsson, the only person executed for heresy in Sweden. He denied that the Eucharist was the body of Christ, telling a priest: "If the bread were truly the body of Christ you would have eaten it all yourself a long time ago." He was burned in 1311.
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Botulf Botulfsson
Swedish heretic
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TIL in 1859, an Australian man named Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits for hunting on his estate. With no natural predators, they multiplied so rapidly that within a few decades, they overran Australia, causing massive ecological damage and leading to one of the largest control efforts in history.
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How European Rabbits Took over Australia
European rabbits were brought over to Australia in the 1800s, and they have caused great environmental damage since then. Experts have even stated European rabbits' introduction to Australia was one of the fastest spreading instances of an invasive mammal.
TIL Swedish Fish manufactured in North America can't be imported into Europe because it doesn't meet European food safety standards
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Swedish Fish
fish-shaped chewy candy
TIL Highway hypnosis is an altered mental state in which an automobile driver can drive lengthy distances and respond adequately to external events with no recollection of consciously having done so.
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Highway hypnosis
altered mental state
TIL the world record for longest stationary manual on a skateboard is 2 hours 55 minutes 22 seconds, achieved by Brandon González in 2017. He trained for six years before his successful record-breaking attempt.
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Longest skateboard stationary manual
Who Brandon González What 2:55:22 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) Where United States (Costa Mesa) When 17 February 2017
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TIL In contrast to high treason, petty treason was a crime in England which involved the killing of a social superior seen as breaking the social hierarchy; such as a servant killing their master. Unlike with high treason, men would be hanged but not quartered, women would be burned but not drawn.
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Petty treason
offence under the common law of England which involved the betrayal (including murder) of a superior by a subordinate
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TIL that there’s a female chimpanzee who enjoys TV porn. Not only does she use the remote control perfectly well, but she also regularly chooses adult entertainment over other programming by herself.
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Chimpanzee enjoys TV porn, Spanish researcher finds | CBC News
A female chimpanzee given access to a TV and remote control has astonished Spanish scientists, who discovered she has a particular fondness for tuning in to soft-core pornography.
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TIL that adults who played Pokémon video games extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of each Pokémon. Stanford researchers identified the brain region activated by Pokémon characters.
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Regular Pokémon players have Pikachu on the brain
Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series.
TIL that the .nu top-level domain, intended for the country of Niue, is currently managed by the Swedish Internet Foundation. The government of Niue is in legal proceedings to reclaim ownership of the domain.
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.nu
Internet country-code top level domain for Niue
TIL Peru has a prison just for for Ex-Presidents of the South American country. It can hold up to 3 people at any one time and is currently full.
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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 the state of Georgia forbids banishment beyond its borders, so the state gets around it by instead banning criminals from 158 out of 159 counties, with the last one, Echols, being so poor and remote that those banished leave the state instead.
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Echols County, Georgia
county in Georgia, United States
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TIL that the stunt pilot Charles Hamilton was known for often flying drunk and crashed over 60 times. However, he survived every time and instead died of tuberculosis.
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Charles K. Hamilton
American aviator (1885-1914)
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TIL in 1907, chemist Leo Baekeland accidentally overheated a mixture of chemicals while trying to find a substitute for shellac. Instead, he created Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, which transformed manufacturing and paved the way for the modern plastics and polymer industry.
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Bakelite® First Synthetic Plastic - National Historic Chemical Landmark - American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
TIL Darryl Hannah was diagnosed as autistic as a child. Doctors recommended she be institutionalized but her mother opted for a change in environment, moving to Jamaica with her.
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Daryl Hannah
American actress and environmental activist
TIL that in 2011, a woman sued P. Diddy for 1 Trillion Dollars, claiming he was behind the 9/11 Attacks, and was the father of her child.
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P Diddy's trillion-dollar problem
The already strange world of celebrity lawsuits suddenly got a whole lot weirder
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TIL "Body Integrity Identity Disorder" is a rare psychological condition where individuals feel an overwhelming desire to amputate a healthy limb, believing it doesn’t belong to them. This disconnect between body and mind leads some to extreme measures, feeling incomplete until the limb is removed.
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Body integrity dysphoria
mental disorder
TIL that while the first computer built, the Z3, had only 176 bytes of memory: the first computer designed - over 100 years earlier - had 16.6kB of memory.
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Analytical engine
proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage
TIL that in RuneScape, the "Party Hat," initially a common item from a 2001 holiday event, has become one of the game's most valuable assets. Originally considered worthless and often discarded, these hats are now rare collectibles, with some colors valued at billions of in-game gold.
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How Runescape’s party hat became so valuable
The humble party hat was designed to be a junk item, but now it's worth billions of in-game gold
TIL about Philo Farnsworth, a farm boy from Idaho who, at just 14, conceived the idea for electronic television while plowing a field. Despite no formal training, his unexpected innovation laid the foundation for the technology that transformed communication and entertainment worldwide.
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Big Dream Small Screen | American Experience | PBS
In 1921, a 14-year-old boy working in a potato field in Idaho had a vision of sending pictures in waves over the air, like sound waves for radio.
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TIL a 2015 study involving 280 men found that viewing visual sexual stimuli was unrelated to experiencing erectile dysfunction with a partner, while it was related to a stronger desire for sex with a partner.
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TIL Tigers in the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh have been known to hunt and kill humans. Until recently, it is estimated that these tigers got 3% of their calories from eating humans.
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Tiger attacks in the Sundarbans
Tiger attacks in the Sundarbans, in India and Bangladesh are estimated to kill from 0-50 (mean of 22.7 between 1947 and 1983) people per year. The Sundarbans is home to over 100 Bengal tigers, one of the largest single populations of tigers in one area. Before…
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