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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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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Wikipedia
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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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 07:47PM by armorofbutterflies
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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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BBC News
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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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.
TIL that both of Jon Hamm's parents passed away by the time he turned 20 and when he was 24 he moved to Los Angeles with nothing but his car and $150 to pursue acting.
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Submitted March 19, 2019 at 09:18PM by Confusome
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Jon Hamm - Wikipedia
actor
TIL a cycling company was seeing a high number of its bikes getting damaged during deliveries; they solved the problem by making a simple change: printing a flatscreen television screen on the boxes. Damages were reduced by 70%
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 01:46AM by BlackCurses
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The Independent
What happened when a bike company started putting TVs on the sides of its delivery packages
A cycling company that was seeing a high number of its bikes getting damaged during deliveries has seemingly solved the problem by making a simple change: printing a flatscreen television screen on
TIL Antony Hopkins composed a waltz in 1964 that was only released years later. The famous actor was afraid that nobody would like it and therefore never got to hear it being played up until 2011 thanks to André Rieu - a Dutch violinist who got sent the music sheets by Hopkins' wife.
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InspireMore
Anthony Hopkins Wrote A Waltz 55 Years Ago, But Is Stunned When He Hears It Played At This Concert.
Few people are aware, but before Anthony Hopkins became an actor, he was a musician. The celebrated thespian studied music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 19
TIL John Quincy Adams would go skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning. Anne Royall, the first female journalist to ever score an interview with a president, discovered Adams skinny dipping one morning and hid his clothing until he agreed to talk to her.
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HuffPost
President's Korner: The John Quincy Adams Nude Bathing Story
In honor of the presidential election (which is apparently happening soon?), HuffPost College is introducing a recurring series called "President's Korne...
TIL the U.S. Navy tried to remove a whale carcass with dynamite. A veteran with explosives training warned the amount of dynamite was far too much – advice that went unheeded. His brand-new car, purchased during a "Get a Whale of a Deal" promotion, was then flattened by a chunk of falling blubber.
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Wikipedia
Exploding whale - Wikipedia
phenomenon of a beached whale exploding due to explosives or decomposition
TIL When a poacher’s snare killed one of their own, two young gorillas teamed up to find and dismantle traps in their Rwandan forest home. They saw what they had to do, they did it then moved to dismantle next trap.
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 04:11AM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL “night owls" people have different brain functions than “early morning” people. That difference is the reason why we should rethink the 9-to-5 workday, say researchers.
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 03:30AM by jaiga99
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Inverse
Brain Scans Reveal Why "Night Owls" Have It Rough in a 9-to-5 Society
The results explain why we need to "create more flexibility in our society."
TIL of Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris who helped over 500 Jews disguise themselves as Muslims by making the administrative staff grant them certificates of Muslim identity, which allowed them to avoid arrest and deportation.
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 12:33PM by Axelsouss
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Si Kaddour Benghabrit - Wikipedia
Algerian Islamic official
TIL The Inuit Way to teach kids to control their anger by using story to discipline and not acting out.
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 01:59PM by Seapoogoo
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TIL Stu, the IT guy from "what we do in the shadows", is in fact an IT guy named Stu in real life. He thought he was on set to help with IT related tasks and had no idea how big his part in the movie was until filming was almost wrapped
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Submitted March 20, 2019 at 03:39PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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Stuff
IT guy turns accidental film star
It's out of the shadows and into the spotlight for IT guy turned actor Stu Rutherford.