TIL of Justine Sacco who before a flight to South Africa in 2013 tweeted to her 170 followers "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm white!" By the time she landed she was the number one trending topic in the world and had been fired
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Online shaming
Online shaming is a form of Internet vigilantism in which targets are publicly humiliated using technology like social and new media. Proponents of shaming see it as a form of online participation that allows hacktivists and cyber-dissidents to right injustices.…
TIL redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color and require, on average, about 20 percent more general anesthesia than people with dark hair or blond coloring.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 12:41AM by suzeee0
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The Pain of Being a Redhead
People with red hair often are afraid of the dentists because local numbing agents don’t work as well on redheads.
TIL about a man who planted an enormous guitar shaped forest as a tribute to his late wife.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 05:11AM by Draggerfly
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TwistedSifter
Man Plants Guitar Shaped Forest in Memory of His Wife
Located in the fertile agricultural region of Argentina’s ‘Pampas’ is a guitar shaped forest made up of over 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees. At over a kilometer in leng…
TIL Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant and was unable to walk properly until she was 11. For several years, her family had to massage her legs four times a day, and she had to wear a metal brace. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in an Olympic event.
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r/todayilearned - TIL Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant and was unable to walk properly until she was 11. For several years…
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TIL that 1,202 fugitives were caught as a result of the TV show, America's Most Wanted.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 04:59AM by lacrimosa122
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America's Most Wanted - Wikipedia
television program
TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in the US alone infected to HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the US market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so that they could still make money.
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Contaminated haemophilia blood products - Wikipedia
Contaminated haemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985.
TIL Charlie Chaplin was given a 12-minute standing ovation at the Academy Awards gala in 1972, the longest in the Academy's history.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 06:28AM by e_mc123
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Charlie Chaplin
British comic actor and filmmaker (1889-1977)
TIL that comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway? has been a frequent fund raiser for children with burn injuries, raising over $500,000 for the Burned Children Recovery Center since 2009, helping the foundation to recover from the economy crash of 2008.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 01:14PM by Elzar125
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Ryan Stiles - Wikipedia
Canadian-American actor and comedian
TIL that a man named Jeremy Moody drowned at a lifeguard party in New Orleans. The party was in celebration of a year with no drowning incidents. There were around 100 lifeguards in attendance at this party with 4 actively on duty.
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JONATHAN TURLEY
Man Drowns At New Orleans Lifeguard Party Surrounded By At Least 100 Guards
There have been many past tort cases involving questions of whether pools had sufficient lifeguards at a pool to avoid a drowning. The City of New Orleans could face a rather unique tragedy where a…
TIL: When foxes discovered fairy penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. Swampy Marsh, a chicken farmer, began sending Maremma dogs to protect the birds. Over the next 10 years not a single penguin was killed by a fox.
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BBC News
The dogs that protect little penguins
When foxes nearly wiped out a colony of little penguins, a sheepdog saved the day.
TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 05:01PM by Cosmohumanist
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Voanews
Native American Hand Talkers Fight to Keep Sign Language Alive
In early September 1930, the Blackfeet Nation of Montana hosted a historic Indian Sign Language Grand Council, gathering leaders of a dozen North American Nations and language groups.
TIL that the lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams, is the son of Star Wars/Jaws/Jurassic Park composer John Williams
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 06:29PM by broha89
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Joseph Williams (musician) - Wikipedia
American musician
TIL out of the 3 volunteers who went in 1986 on a suicide mission to open the valves of the pool at the Chernobyl plant 2 are actually still alive
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 05:02PM by Mackeli
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Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia
nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
TIL Tom and Jerry producer Fred Quimby, though not involved in the creative process, took all credit for the cartoon's success. Each time the cartoon won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, he accepted the awards without inviting the animators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, onstage.
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Fred Quimby - Wikipedia
Animation producer
TIL that Seagulls stamp their feet to imitate rain, causing worms to surface
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 02:50PM by nburns2014
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British Bird Lovers
Why Do Gulls Perform A Rain Dance? - British Bird Lovers
Find out why gulls can be seen stamping their feet on the ground to mimic the sound of rain.
TIL that people used to gather around paintings at well-to-do parties identifying hard-to-spot things for fun, a game that was essentially I Spy but for the wealthy and educated.
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Sartle - Rogue Art History
Children's Games [Pieter Brueghel the Elder] | Sartle - Rogue Art
A teacher's nightmare
TIL about 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints that were discovered in Australia. Those footprints indicated that the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, which he did by running on sand while being barefooted.
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National Geographic News
20,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in Australia
20,000-year-old footprints have been found in Australia, documenting five human hunters that sprinted across what is now New South Wales, Australia.
TIL that of the 5000 or so species of mammals on the planet only female humans have permanent breasts.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 09:44PM by tenzingnoway
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Business Insider
The science of why human breasts are so big
Over 5,000 mammals inhabit this planet, yet humans are the only life forms with permanent breasts. So why do we have breasts and why are they so big?
TIL that the chemist whose research department invented the gas used to kill jews in concentration camps was not only a jew but also won the nobel peace prize for his prior work of extracting nitrogen from air, allowing us to feed billions.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 08:53PM by Cryptolution
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Fritz Haber: Jewish chemist whose work led to Zyklon B
The German Jewish chemist Fritz Haber's astonishing career led to millions of lives saved, and millions of lives lost, reports Chris Bowlby.
TIL The Honas Wagner card; the most expensive baseball card in the world is so rare because it was sold by the 'American Tobacco Company'. Wagner was a non smoker and he threatened to seek legal action against ATC so they stopped producing it.
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Honus Wagner
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner (/ˈhɒnəs ˈwæɡnər/; February 24, 1874 – December 6, 1955), sometimes referred to as "Hans" Wagner, was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh…
TIL of Dr Richard Batista, who sued his wife to get back the kidney he donated to her, after she cheated on him.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 10:37PM by Formaldehyde_Is_Life
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NY Daily News
L.I. doctor to estranged wife: Give me my kidney back
Richard Batista can live with his broken heart. He just can't bear his cheating wife living with his healthy kidney.