TIL A deer's eyes are more sensitive to light than ours. That's why when a deer is suddenly struck by the beam of a car’s headlights, its fully dilated pupils become blinded by the abundance of light, so it cannot see at all. This is why the deer just stands still in front of the car.
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Science ABC
Why Do Deer Get Transfixed By Car Headlights And Freeze in Place?
A deer’s eyes consist of more rods than cones, which is why it is able to see very clearly, even at night. However, when a car’s headlight beam falls into their eyes, the deer becomes blinded by [...]
TIL Ray J continues to make $90,000 every 3 months from his sex tape with Kim Kardashian. It is the biggest selling sex tape ever, a noscript that was previously held by Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape.
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Business Insider
Kim Kardashian's Sex Tape Is Now The Best-Selling Of All Time, And Ray J Is Raking It In
Spike in sales after Kardashian's latest nude photo shoot.
TIL Alec Guinness agreed to be in Star Wars (Obi-Wan Kenobi) only after his initial salary was doubled, and that he would receive 2.25% of all gross royalties paid to George Lucas, and never have to make a publicity appearance.
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Alec Guinness - Wikipedia
British actor
TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.
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Science | AAAS
Want to convince someone that you’re human? This one word could do the trick
Call it a minimal Turing test
TIL that Schwarzenegger faked interest in the movie "Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot" to trick Stallone into starring in it. Stallone later called the movie "maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen."
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot - Wikipedia
1992 film by Roger Spottiswoode
TIL Showman and businessman PT Barnum was frustrated with how long people lingered in his museum’s exhibits. He posted signs that said 'This Way to the Egress'. He knew most of the visitors would follow them not knowing 'Egress' meant 'Exit'. They couldn’t re-enter without paying the entry fee again
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Barnum's American Museum - Wikipedia
former museum in New York City
TIL: Paypal can and will place a hold on your funds for 180 days and permanently limit your business account at their discretion. They do NOT have to give you any reason for doing so according to their User Agreement. Even if you want to fix whatever they say is wrong, you CANNOT know what to fix.
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TIL approximately 10 percent of the internet is kept secure using a wall full of lava lamps
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Nerdist
Giant Wall of Lava Lamps Helps to Protect 10% of Internet Traffic (Seriously) - Nerdist
TIL India's army reportedly spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus.
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India: Army 'mistook planets for spy drones'
India's army spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus, it's reported.
TIL that scientists can remote-control rats by implanting electrodes in their brains, such that they get a rush of pleasure when they obey sent commands. Scientists can make them turn left or right, even climb objects. They are not forced to obey, they just want to because of the pleasure reward.
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Scientists wire up rats for remote control
By implanting electrodes in rats’ brains, scientists have created rodents that can do their bidding remotely.
TIL that in 2006 Prince did a 'Willy Wonka' and made Universal hide 14 purple tickets—seven in the U.S. and seven internationally—inside his latest album, 3121. Fans who found a purple ticket were invited to attend a private performance at Prince's Los Angeles home.
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Chief Marketer
Wonka-Style 'Purple Ticket' Pushes Prince Album Sales - Chief Marketer
Universal Records is launching a Willy Wonka-style promotion to build buzz around Prince's newest album 3121.
TIL in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
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Marvin Pipkin
American chemist
TIL that the term "Third World" does not refer to poor countries, but rather countries that did not align with either the West (the "First World") or the Soviet Union (the "Second World") during the Cold War. This includes wealthy nations like Switzerland.
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Third World
During the Cold War, the term Third World referred to the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the nations not aligned with either the First World or the Second World. This usage has become relatively rare due to the ending of the Cold…
TIL that in 67 AD, the Roman Emperor Nero participated in the Olympics, bribing the organizers to postpone the games for a year. Nero won every contest, even one which he left the race after being thrown off his chariot. He was removed from the list of winners after his death.
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Nero
Nero (/ˈnɪəroʊ/; Latin: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 15 December 37 – 9 June 68 AD) was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius and became Claudius' heir and successor. Like Claudius, Nero…
TIL Tom Hanks refused to get paid for his roles in Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, preferring to take percentages of the movies’ worldwide total gross instead. He got almost $60 million from Forrest Gump, and between $30 million and $40 million from Saving Private Ryan.
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The biggest movie payoffs
Everybody and his agent seem to be getting $20 million a picture these days, but which actor got the biggest…
TIL the boycott was named after Charles Boycott, a man so hated that people wanted nothing to do with him
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IrishCentral.com
How the Irish thrown off their land invented the boycott
Have you ever wondered where the term “boycott” come from? Many might be surprised it originates from Ireland in the time of Charles Stuart Parnell.
Charles Cunningham Boycott was an English land agent who became infamous after he was ignored and ostracized…
Charles Cunningham Boycott was an English land agent who became infamous after he was ignored and ostracized…
TIL that Leprosy doesn't cause body parts to be damaged or fall off. Instead, the disease damages one's ability to feel pain, causing common accidents to become more damaging. In addition to this, leprosy is only mildly contagious and more than 95% of the world's population are naturally immune.
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List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia
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TIL that Larry Flynt has sent a monthly copy of Hustler to every congressional office since 1983, and members of Congress can't stop receiving the magazines—because a court agreed that it was within Flynt's right to petition the government under the First Amendment.
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United States Postal Service v. Hustler Magazine, Inc. - Wikipedia
United States Postal Service v. Hustler Magazine, Inc. is a court case decided in 1986 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The court ruled that Hustler could not be stopped from delivering its magazine to members of Congress, upholding…
TIL the Golden State Killer attended a public information meeting about his own attacks. A husband stood up and mocked the notion that the killer would attack if a man was present in the home. The killer followed the couple home to see where they live and returned 6 months later to attack them.
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The Mercury News
Chilling tales from the Golden State Killer’s rampage
Here are some of the most chilling attacks suspected by the Golden State Killer.
TIL the only police officer to arrest a sitting President was William H. West, a black Civil War veteran. He arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding on his horse in 1872, for which the President paid a $20 bond.
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President Ulysses S. Grant was once arrested for speeding on a horse-drawn carriage, proving the POTUS is not above the law
In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding on his horse-drawn carriage in Washington, DC.
TIL of the Murchison meteorite, which fell to earth in 1969. It contained high levels of organic compounds, came from a parent body that had liquid water, and the amino acids it contained could not have been synthesized on earth because they consisted of both left- and right- isomers.
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Murchison meteorite
meteorite that fell in Murchison, Victoria, Australia.