TIL swing dancing teenagers in Nazi Germany would mock Nazis by saying 'swing heil' and called Hitler Youth 'Homo Youth'
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Swingjugend - Wikipedia
group of jazz and swing lovers in Germany
TIL After being largely cut out of his father's will John Lennon's son from his first marriage, Julian Lennon, was forced to bid on sentimental postcards addressed to him by his late father. Yoko Ono auctioned them off for tens of thousands of dollars instead of giving them to Julian.
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The Independent
Imagine trying to buy back your childhood
In 1964, as the Beatles were beginning to take the world by storm, but before they had become blessed by wealth, John Lennon sang the words: "Can't buy me love."
TIL dessert stomach is a real thing, your gut expands upon contact with sugar and therefore makes room for dessert even after having the feeling of being full.
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Submitted March 26, 2019 at 07:37PM by AntonMeyer
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HuffPost Australia
This Is Why We Always Have Room For Dessert
'Dessert stomach' is a real, miraculous, diet-ruining thing.
TIL that a 2014 study found that Calvin, of 'Calvin and Hobbes', caused nearly $16,000 in property damage throughout the strip's 10-year run.
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Submitted March 26, 2019 at 05:44PM by derstherower
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io9
How Much Would It Cost To Raise A Kid Like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes?
How much ruin can a 6-year-old possibly wreak (assuming Calvin "represents the worst-case scenario in terms of the amount of damage a child can do")? One dedicated soul has read through the comic's entire run to find out.
TIL Neil Armstrong before leaving for the Apollo 11 Space mission signed hundreds of autographs and had them dropped in the mail on the exact date of their moon mission, in case he died during the mission and his family could monetize his autographs.
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Submitted March 26, 2019 at 04:44PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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r/todayilearned - TIL Neil Armstrong before leaving for the Apollo 11 Space mission signed hundreds of autographs and had them…
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TIL that a party boat carrying about sixty men and women once capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed over to one side of the boat when the boat passed a nude beach.
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Submitted March 26, 2019 at 08:55PM by g00d1m8
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Cbsnews
Partygoers Flip Over Nude Bathers
Barge Capsizes When Revelers Rush To Check Out The View
TIL that when Steve-o was 13, his dad was a top executive at Nabisco and challenged Steve-o to do better than his corporate box seats at a Motley Crue concert. Steve-o managed to track down the band in Toronto and get backstage passes.
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YouTube
Steve-O Tells His Mötley Crüe Story - The Joe Rogan Experience
Steve-O tells Joe about going backstage to a Mötley Crüe concert when he was 13.
TIL that an opossum broke into a Florida liquor store and got drunk. A liquor store employee found the animal next to a broken and empty bottle of bourbon.It appeared disoriented, was excessively salivating and was pale. The staff gave it fluids and cared for her as she sobered up.
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Opossum breaks into Florida liquor store, gets drunk
"A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it," said Michelle Pettis, a technician at the refuge
TIL the most successful and feared allied spy of WWII, Virginia Hall, was an American woman with a prosthetic leg. She escaped France on foot through the Pyrenees mts, re-entered before D Day, and organized havoc behind the Nazi lines.
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HISTORY
World War II's 'Most Dangerous’ Allied Spy Was a Woman With a Wooden Leg
Virginia Hall, a.k.a. the ‘Limping Lady,’ organized sabotage and rescue operations across Vichy France, paving the way for the Allied invasion.
TIL Monterey Jack was a real person, and owned the dairy that first mass-produced the cheese.
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David Jack (businessman) - Wikipedia
American businessman
TIL the little boy, Donnie Dunagan, who voiced Bambi in the famous Disney movie, was to grow up to become a highly decorated US Marine. He was able to keep his stint as Bambi a secret for almost his entire military career.
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r/todayilearned - TIL the little boy, Donnie Dunagan, who voiced Bambi in the famous Disney movie, was to grow up to become a highly…
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TIL That Rita Hayworth began showing signs of Alzheimer's during her 40s. Even as it worsened, people blamed her behaviour on her heavy drinking. She never got a proper diagnosis until 1979 and upon her death in 1987 at just 68, she would become a major public face for Alzheimer's Awareness.
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r/todayilearned - TIL That Rita Hayworth began showing signs of Alzheimer's during her 40s. Even as it worsened, people blamed…
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TIL that “Shots to roughly 80 percent of targets on the body would not be fatal blows” and that “if a gunshot victim’s heart is still beating upon arrival at a hospital, there is a 95 percent chance of survival”
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Submitted March 27, 2019 at 10:05AM by iteration359
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NY Times
One Bullet Can Kill, but Sometimes 20 Don’t, Survivors Show
While surviving numerous gunshots could be a miraculous feat, doctors who have treated gunshot victims say that being shot is not automatically a death sentence.
TIL the earliest born human to be photographed is Conrad Heyer, a revolutionary war veteran who crossed the delaware with George Washington and was born in 1749.
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Wikipedia
Conrad Heyer - Wikipedia
soldier in American Revolution and earliest-born person to have been photographed
TIL that ~300 million years ago, when trees died, they didn’t rot. It took 60 million years later for bacteria to evolve to be able to decompose wood. Which is where most our coal comes from
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Science & Innovation
The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth
The absence of the tiniest creature can shape the world in the biggest way.
TIL that 2010 and 2015, Russia accounted for more than 80% of the new HIV infections in the entire Eastern European and the Central Asian region.
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www.science.org
Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic is getting worse, not better
The government has begun to confront its shortcomings, but critics want more aggressive change
TIL when Robert E Lee and the Confederate army surrendered, Union soldiers saluted them and gave them rations (the confederate soldiers were starving). Normally victorious armies would taunt defeated ones, but Ulysses S Grant respected the Confederates too much and ordered that they be treated well.
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Submitted March 27, 2019 at 06:24PM by LargeDonkey
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American Battlefield Trust
10 Facts: Appomattox Court House
How much do you know about the battle that ended the war in Virginia? Here are some facts to help shed a little light on the battle for newcomers and test the knowledge of veterans.
TIL Heinz ketchup became so popular because Heinz invented a way to keep commercially produced ketchup red, which allowed him to package it in clear glass bottle and look more appealing. Before it, commercially produced ketchup was brown.
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SFGate
Ketchup? Catsup? Ke-cap? / Whatever the name, a squirt of red can change everything
If many of today's cutting-edge chefs design $50 plates with squeeze bottles filled with sauces, reductions and oils, you can bet they started as tots with the one and only American food paint - red tomato ketchup. If it weren't for the most popular American…
TIL about bog bodies. A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally preserved in a bog wetland. This is due to the acidic, low temperature, and low oxygen environment. They often retain their skin and internal organs. They are basically a pickled human.
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Smithsonian
Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses
TIL the English word weird originally meant 'having the power to control fate', which is why Shakespeare named his witches in Macbeth The Weird Sisters. Later depictions of them dressed in odd and strange ways led to the current definition of the word.
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Three Witches - Wikipedia
characters in Macbeth
TIL over the course of its 20 years on Nickelodeon, The Fairly OddParents has been cancelled five times
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CINEMABLEND
The Hilarious Number Of Times The Fairly OddParents Has Been Cancelled
TV viewers wait with bated breath for renewal or cancellation news about big name series, rarely considering how that process works for more niche fare. The Fairly OddParents creator Butch Hartman floored me in a recent interview with just how many times…