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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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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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.
TIL Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the military for the Vietnam war for which he was arrested and stripped of his boxing noscripts. “You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs—and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home?“
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Muhammad Ali - Wikipedia
TIL that there is a small café in France that sells coffee to rude customers for €7 while polite customers get coffee for €1.40.
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French café starts charging extra to rude customers
A small French café has taken the old adage that manners don’t cost you anything to its logical extreme – by charging extra to rude customers.
TIL Pat Sajak and Vanna White work only 36 days per year. They work 4 days per month for 9 months, filming six episodes of Wheel of Fortune from 12 noon to 6pm. It amounts to a full year’s worth of programming for ABC.
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TIL: The dog who played Queenie in "The Burbs" also starred as Buffalo Bill's dog in "Silence of the Lambs." She was also cast in "Batman Returns," "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," and the sitcom "Coach."
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Famous dogs RIP
As the world whimpers over the loss of scene-stealing canine actor Uggie, we take a look at other famous pooches who have left their pawprints on our hearts
TIL a company in japan offers extra days off to workers who don’t smoke since they don’t take smoking breaks.
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Non-smokers at this Japanese company get 6 extra vacation days for not taking smoke breaks
In a country where nearly 22% of people smoke, one executive says he's decided to combat the habit with incentives, not coercion.
TIL that Mount Everest's Peak XV was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 ft was nothing more than a rounded estimate.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा), in Tibetan as Chomolungma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ) and in Chinese as Zhumulangma (珠穆朗玛), is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international…
TIL that when J.R.R. Tolkien's son Michael signed up for the British army, he listed his father's occupation as "Wizard"
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1843
Tolkien’s drawings reveal a wizard at work
An exhibition at Morgan Library in New York transports fans of “The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings” to Middle-earth
TIL that film score composer Hans Zimmer saw the Lion King as a metaphor of a son loosing his father at a young age, which tragically also happened to him. "Suddenly I am writing a requiem for my father, and the whole thing became intensely personal”. The score landed him an Oscar for best music.
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Hans Zimmer - Scoring THE LION KING Interview
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Celebrating the soundtrack release of "The Lion King Legacy Collection", Hans Zimmer talks with Disney Legacy about creating the score for Disney's Masterpiece "The Lion King".…
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Celebrating the soundtrack release of "The Lion King Legacy Collection", Hans Zimmer talks with Disney Legacy about creating the score for Disney's Masterpiece "The Lion King".…
TIL actress Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan from Smallville) is facing prison due to enslaving, branding, and trafficking sex slaves
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Allison Mack - Wikipedia
American actress
TIL that Febreze is actually odorless as it simply kills smells but people don't associate lack if smell with being clean. Once fake 'clean' scents were added to the formula, sales skyrocketed.
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Febreze - Wikipedia
brand of household odor eliminators manufactured by Procter & Gamble
TIL that the German city of Trier, birthplace of Karl Marx, issued 0-Euro notes to celebrate his 200th birth anniversary. They cost 3 Euros.
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