TIL that female Adélie penguins trade stones for sex during a shortage of stones. Extra-pair copulation often occurs at the male's nesting site, after which the female takes one or more stones. In contrast, when it occurs at the female's nesting site, the male doesn’t take a stone.
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Prostitution among animals
transactional sex among non-human animals
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TIL Wishing to "put a tip of gold on a golden life", philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, promised to set himself on fire in public, and he delivered: on the final night of the 165AD Olympics, he lit his own funeral pyre near Olympia and jumped in after delivering his own eulogy to a crowd of spectators
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 01:30PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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Peregrinus Proteus
2nd century Greek Cynic philosopher
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TIL Cow tipping, the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment, is generally considered an urban legend. Estimates suggest that at least four people would be required to achieve this.
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Cow tipping
urban legend
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TIL Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street," became the wealthiest woman of the early 20th century, amassing a $100M fortune (~$2.7B today) by investing in real estate, railroads, and mortgages. Green was also a miser who wore the same black dress daily, ate only oatmeal, and lived in cheap housing.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 02:22PM by efequalma
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Peculiar Story of the Witch of Wall Street
Walking the streets in black clothes and making obscene amounts of money, Hetty Green was one of the Gilded Age's many characters
TIL Elwood Edwards was paid $200 in 1989 for recording the iconic phrase "You've Got Mail" for AOL.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 03:24PM by TheMadhopper
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Elwood Edwards
American voice actor
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TIL Gunter Schabowski accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall at a press conference in 1989. He had not reviewed the press release noscript and was absent during the Politburo deliberations.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 05:09PM by yellowsnowman4
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Toppled: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Thirty years ago tomorrow—the evening of November 9, 1989—the Berlin Wall, an enduring symbol of the Cold War, came down. It was a momentous night. No shots were fired and no lives were lost, a rem…
TIL in 2005 a typo nearly bankrupted one of Japan’s largest investment banks, Mizuho Securities. A broker mistakenly sold 610,000 shares at 1 yen each instead of 1 share at 610,000 yen. Attempts to cancel the trade failed. Mizuho lost over $225 million in minutes.
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BBC News - Tokyo Stock Exchange told to pay 10.7bn yen damages
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is ordered to pay 10.7bn yen ($121m) in damages for failing to stop a trading error in 2005.
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TIL The Hotel Arbez was intentionally built by a businessman in 1863, in a race against time during a border dispute. Spanning France and Switzerland, it enabled smuggling as people and goods crossed freely inside.
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Hotel Arbez
Hotel on the France–Switzerland border
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TIL that the 1985 film Back To The Future was almost noscriptd "Spaceman from Pluto" after executives at Universal didn't like the original noscript. In response, the film's producer, Steven Spielberg, sent them a memo thanking him for sending his wonderful "joke memo." The original noscript was kept.
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Cbsnews
12 things you didn't know about "Back to the Future"
We relive the '80s classic through pictures as it celebrates 30 years since landing in theaters
TIL that in 2013, LG had an event in Seoul, where they would tie free phone coupons onto balloons and release them into the air. Participants ended up bringing BB guns and pointed staffs to try and get the balloons down. 20 people were injured because of this event.
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The Independent
LG promotional event which left 20 injured dubbed 'World War G'
Vouchers for free smartphones were attached to balloons but attendees brought BB guns to bring them down
TIL dolphins don’t just leave their dead behind. Mothers have been seen carrying their lifeless calves for days, even as they decompose, showing a terrible sense of loss.
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Study Suggests Dolphins and Some Whales Grieve Their Dead
An analysis of 78 instances of cetaceans paying attention to their dead suggests grief may be part of being a highly social animal
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TIL Chad Kroeger asked his stepfather to loan him CA$4,000 so that Nickelback could record the band’s first demo. Half the money was spent to record the EP, while Kroeger spent the other half on magic mushrooms to resell.
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Nickelback
Canadian rock band
TIL the 22nd Amendment, in addition to limiting the president to two terms, also states that, if the president's successor serves for more than two years in their first term, they can only be re-elected once.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 09:18PM by VLenin2291
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U.S. Constitution - Twenty-Second Amendment | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The original text of the Twenty-Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
TIL about the theory that myxosporeans, A microscopic parasite, may have originally been a cancer that evolved into it's own independent species.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 06:22PM by RecsRelevantDocs
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Quanta Magazine
Can Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How.
Researchers agree it’s a long shot, but transmissible cancers could theoretically evolve into independent species. Certain weird parasites might be living proof.
TIL Microsoft released the AI chatbot Tay (short for "Thinking About You"), designed to mimic a 19-year-old American, on March 23, 2016. It became a PR disaster when it learned offensive language from trolls, causing Microsoft to shut it down after just 16 hours and sparking debates on AI ethics.
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Tay (chatbot)
chatterbot made by Microsoft
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TIL the highest rated episode of 'Breaking Bad' (Ozymandias, S5E14) and the lowest rated episode (Fly, S3E10) had the same director and writer ( Rian Johnson and Moira Walley-Beckett)
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 12:27AM by funmighthold
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List of Breaking Bad episodes
Wikimedia list article
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TIL after Ryan Murphy’s pilot about a transgender father was rejected, he created Glee as a “wholesome comedy that the entire family can watch”
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 11:44PM by meyerovb
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Pretty/Handsome
television series
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TIL that Super Bowl XXVII was originally going to be in Tempe, Arizona. However, due to state blocking Martin Luther King day from being recognized, the NFL moved the game to the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California instead.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 03:57AM by Super_Goomba64
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Super Bowl XXVII
Super Bowl XXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1992 season.…
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TIL Ray Parker Jr, writer, composer and performer of the Ghostbusters theme song, is afraid of ghosts - contrary to his claim that he “ain’t afraid of no ghosts”.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 02:01AM by cmorencie
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MusicRadar
“I’m afraid of ghosts! I’m not the guy who’s gonna do anything to a ghost”: Ray Parker Jr shares the story of how he had just three…
When a session’s running late, in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call?
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TIL of 'Sokushinbutsu', ascetic Japanese buddhist monks who practiced self-mummification; they would prepare for death by eating a diet rich in pine needles and resin, paired with severe dehydration, until they 'hardened' in place.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 06:25AM by bland_dad
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Sokushinbutsu
Buddhist mummy
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Today I learned that it is illegal to sell rulers with only inches on them in Japan
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