TIL Of the 45 persons who have served as President of the United States, at least half have displayed proficiency in speaking or writing a language other than English. Of these, only one, Martin Van Buren, learned English as his second language; his first language was Dutch.
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Wikipedia
List of multilingual presidents of the United States
Wikimedia list of persons
TIL in 2011 a drunken moose in Sweden became stuck in an apple tree while attempting to eat more fermented apples. Responding firefighters managed to bend the tree down far enough for the moose to slide off the branches and be set free.
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NBC News
Take a bough! Rescuers free drunken moose stuck in tree
An inebriated moose trying to get more fermenting apples apparently lost its balance and ended up stuck in an apple tree in Sweden, The Local website reports.
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TIL the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark had the largest production budget in Broadway history at $75 million. When it closed after a three-year run, its investors had reportedly lost $60 million.
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
musical
TIL that children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of brain activity as soldiers exposed to combat.
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 03:04PM by Algrinder
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UCL News
Maltreated children show same pattern of brain activity as combat soldiers
Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown.
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TIL that an English chemist named James Price claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When asked by members of the Royal Society to perform the experiment in front of credible witnesses, he reluctantly agreed, only to drink poison in front of them instead.
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James Price (chemist)
English chemist and alchemist
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TIL in order to look strung out Charlie sheen stayed up for 2 days straight to achieve his role in Ferris bueller’s day off
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 05:31PM by Turbulent_Click_964
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Collider
Charlie Sheen’s Part in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Would’ve Meant More With This Deleted Scene
Charlie Sheen's character was originally a rebel with a dark backstory.
TIL 65% of Staten Island voted to secede from the rest of New York City in 1993, only to have their efforts blocked by the State Assembly
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Submitted November 09, 2024 at 05:06PM by Boomtown_Rat
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Partition and secession in New York
hypothetical division of New York State
TIL of Sun Yaoting, the last eunuch of China who had his penis and testicles removed at the age of eight. Less than two years before China abolish the monarchy.
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Sun Yaoting
Chinese eunuch (1902 - 1996)
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TIL that Led Zeppelin was scheduled to play an outdoor show in Singapore on February 14, 1972 but were not allowed into the country, they were even refused permission to get off their plane because they refused to have their long hair cut due to Singapore's law.
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Mental Floss
The Time Singapore Turned Away Led Zeppelin Because of Their Long Hair
Singapore officials: "NO STAIRWAY."
Today I learned that Stilton cheese cannot legally be made in Stilton, the village which gave the cheese its name
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Stilton cheese
type of English cheese
TIL about Bass Reeves, a black man who escaped slavery and became a Deputy U.S. Marshal, known for having over 3,000 arrests and 20 kills in the line of duty.
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Bass Reeves
American lawman
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TIL that Michael Bay was originally attached to direct the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan. However, he later left the project because he couldn't find a way to approach the material.
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Saving Private Ryan
1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg
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TIL Before she met Clyde, Bonnie Parker was a waitress. One of her regular customers was Ted Hinton who would later be one of the gunmen who killed her. Hinton later admitted he had a little crush on Bonnie which made hunting her down difficult.
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Ted Hinton
(1904-1977) American police officer
TIL Lemmy (Motörhead) appeared in a pornographic film starring John Wayne Bobbitt, whose penis was amputated by his wife, but surgically reattached. Ron Jeremy said Lemmy contributed the song "Under the Knife" to the film's soundtrack.
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John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut
1994 pornographic film
TIL the soft drink 7 Up initially contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug. It was a key selling point until 1948 when the FDA banned lithium from beer and drinks. 7 Up was originally called 7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda.
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7 Up
American sweet carbonated drink
TIL the 1939 Nazi rally at Nuremberg was supposed to be "the Rally of Peace". It was cancelled last-minute because Germany invaded Poland, igniting the Second World War.
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Nuremberg rallies
annual rally of the Nazi Party in Nurenberg, Germany (1923-1938)
Today I learned that approximately two thirds of the moon rocks given as gifts by the Nixon administration are unaccounted for.
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Stolen and missing Moon rocks
overview about the stolen and missing Moon rocks
TIL Harrison Ruffin Tyler is the (living) person with the oldest father. His dad was born in 1853.
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
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TIL In 2019 a man in the United States had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia and four years later his semen was the same as the donor. So, if he had children, they wouldn't have his DNA....he is now considered a chimera.
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Transplant patient finds out his DNA has been replaced by that of his donor
A bone marrow transplant recipient later found out that the DNA in his blood and semen had been replaced by that of his donor.
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TIL virologist Beata Halassy cured her breast cancer by injecting viruses into the tumor
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Nature
This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
Nature - Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.
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TIL I learned a man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015.Burger King paid for their wedding.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 09:13AM by MeeranQureshi
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Eater
Burger King Gives Burger-King Couple 'Whopper' of a Wedding
Joel Burger and Ashley King made it official.
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