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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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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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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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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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…
TIL - A Box Social is a tradition where women fill a box with a meal and men bid on the box with the expectation to share the meal with the woman whose box it is. It is typically used as a fundraiser.
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Box social - Wikipedia
Box social is a term for a social event that was widely used in the early 1900s with varying definitions in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn't sew or replace buttons.
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ManMadeDIY
The Surprisingly Fascinating History of : The T-Shirt
"In 1904, the Cooper Underwear Company ran a magazine ad announcing a new product for bachelors. In the “before” photo, a man averts his eyes from the camera as if embarrassed; he has lost all the buttons on his undershirt and has safety-pinned its flaps…
TIL When a Dominos customer regular didn’t place an order after 2 weeks the store employees went to check on him and found he was in need to urgent medical attention. It most likely saved his life
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Delish
The Fateful Way Domino's Pizza Saved One Man's Life
Thank the heavens for pizza.
TIL Elizabeth Shoaf, 14, was abducted & held captive in an underground bunker for 10 days. To survive, she befriended her captor & outsmarted him to obtain his phone. She text her family & police were able to trace the number to a nearby phone line.
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Morbidology
The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Shoaf • Morbidology
14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf was abducted and held hostage in an underground bunker by a sex offender.
TIL that your life really does flash before your eyes when you die. A study interviewing participants with "near death" experiences found that they re-witnessed very emotional experiences again, and lost all sense of time. One subject said "It was like being there for centuries."
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The Telegraph
Your life really does flash before your eyes before you die, study suggests
Your life really does flash before your eyes when you die, a study suggests - with the parts of the brain that store memories last to be affected as other functions fail.
TIL that a man, Joaquin Garcia, skipped work for six years and nobody noticed until he won an award for twenty years of loyal service. During the six years he quietly collected a $41,500 annual salary from his local government without showing up for work.
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TIL that a family in China adopted what they thought was a dog and raised it for 2 years, only to find out it was an Asiatic black bear. They reportedly couldn't figure out why the dog kept growing. It turns out that sort of mix-up happens fairly often.
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National Geographic News
Can People Really Mistake a Bear for a Dog, as This Family Claims?
Obvious differences set wild animals apart from domesticated ones, but mix-ups happen more often than you might think.
TIL that a man spent 60 hours underwater, in total darkness, after his vessel capsized and sunk to the bottom of the sea. He was discovered alive by divers sent to recover dead bodies.
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BBC News
Nigerian survives two days under sea
A Nigerian man whose boat sank in rough seas survives for two-and-a-half days, trapped in an air bubble 30m (98ft) below in freezing seawater.
TIL IKEA is serving food because they realized that customers don’t buy and don’t stay for long when being hungry. Their policy is to be the absolute lowest price on food within a 30-mile radius, even if it means selling at a loss. So, they take a hit on the food, but they make it up in furniture
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Mashed.com
The untold truth of the IKEA food court
Admit it: You've pretended to need just one more BILLY bookcase for the sole purpose of noshing at IKEA's food court. But what makes this furniture-store-turned-foodie-favorite tick? Let's find out.
TIL Jonah Hill was hospitalized while filming Wolf of Wall Street from snorting too much fake cocaine
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The Independent
Jonah Hill 'hospitalised' after snorting so much fake cocaine on Wolf of Wall Street
The life of a movie star becomes increasingly unglamorous when you start looking more closely at what is required by each role.