TIL when Robert Ballard (professor of oceanography) announced a mission to find the Titanic, it was a cover story for a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. They finished before they were due back, so the team spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and actually found it.
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National Geographic News
Titanic Was Found During Secret Cold War Navy Mission
Read how National Geographic revealed the clandestine military project that led to the discovery of the famed shipwreck.
TIL that in 2004 nearly one-third of the adult male population of the Pitcairn islands was convicted of child sex assault, even the mayor. His son, the current mayor is also a convicted sex offender. Another mayor who served in between them was convicted for possession of child pornography.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 10:25PM by zachar3
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Wikipedia
Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia
British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean
TIL Davy Crockett left Congress and the U.S. after vehemently opposing Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act.
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HISTORY
10 Things You May Not Know About Davy Crockett
Explore 10 surprising facts about the man often called the “King of the Wild Frontier.”
TIL "Old People Smell" is caused by a molecule called 2-nonenal, which is secreted by ageing skin
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The Museum of Nature & Science
Nonenal: "Old Person Smell"
It has nothing to do with hygiene.
TIL when Nick Diaz (UFC Fighter) was in highschool, his girlfriend committed suicide. Afterwards Nick would "run to her grave just to promise her I would make it as a fighter" Diaz would go on to win world noscripts and become a UFC star
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Grapplinginsider
Nick Diaz and the Pain of Prize Fighting -
Before Nick Diaz was a star he had to overcome his own demons, including the suicide of his girlfriend.
TIL The original word for 'bear' has been lost. People in middle ages were superstitious and thought saying the animal's name would summon it. They called it 'bear' which means 'the brown one' to avoid saying its actual name.
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TIME.com
Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com
In his book 'Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms,' Ralph Keyes explores subjects that have inspired creative phrasing. He spoke with TIME about how 'disease' became a mainstream word and why it is that we go to the 'john'
TIL The Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi has been been freezing and storing blue-fin tuna. They expect prices to skyrocket once the blue-fin tuna is extinct. They will own the only remaining supply.
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The Independent
Revealed: the bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market
Japan's sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world's most endangered fish.
TIL that 3 Honolulu firefighters were killed and 6 others injured after being attacked by Japanese planes while fighting fires at Hickam Field during the Pearl Harbor bombing. For their peacetime heroism, all 9 men received Purple Hearts, making them the only firefighters to awarded as such to date.
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Wikipedia
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Coordinates: 21°21′54″N 157°57′00″W / 21.36500°N 157.95000°W / 21.36500; -157.95000
TIL that Ed Sheeran never sells front row seats in order to see the real fans right in front of him. He gives them away to random fans outside so the front row isn't always just wealthy people.
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reddit
r/todayilearned - TIL that Ed Sheeran never sells front row seats in order to see the real fans right in front of him. He gives…
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TIL the British king or queen has two birthdays: their real birth date and one assigned to them during the summer, to ensure better weather for the parade
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www.bbc.co.uk
The Queen at 92: Why does she have two birthdays? - CBBC Newsround
The Queen was born on 21 April but her official birthday celebrations will be taking place this weekend. So why does she have two birthdays?
TIL Keanu Reeves’s stuntman in The Matrix, Chad Stahelski, directed the John Wick movies
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The Indian Express
20 years, 20 amazing facts about The Matrix
Happy Birthday, Mr Anderson…er….Neo!
TIL that a chimp, named Ham, originally from Cameroon, was sent into space and recovered alive in a test to ensure that a human being could survive space flight and perform useful functions outside Earth's atmosphere. He died at 25 and is buried at the International Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico.
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC ON THIS DAY | 31 | 1961: Chimp returns safely after space flight
A chimpanzee sent into space in a United States rocket is recovered alive and well from the sea near Florida.
Til that Harvard student and seminarian Jonathan Daniels traveled to the south to aid the civil rights movement. He was walking with a black girl when a deputy pointed his shotgun at her. Daniels jumped in front of her, sacrificing his life so that she could live.
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Wikipedia
Jonathan Daniels - Wikipedia
Episcopal seminarian
TIL that 37% of all registered Steam games have never been played. This equates to 288 million of the 781 million games registered, are left untouched.
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Submitted April 01, 2019 at 07:05PM by savingforces
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MakeUseOf
Today I Learned: 10 Amazing Facts For Geeks Discovered On Reddit [Weird & Wonderful Web]
The Internet offers a golden opportunity to learn something new every day. Especially thanks to the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit.
TIL Mick Jagger has a great-grandchild that is older than his youngest child.
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Wikipedia
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, actor and film producer who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones. Jagger's career has spanned over five decades, and he has been…
TIL In 1937, Angelo Hays was declared dead and buried 3 days later. 2 days after that, an insurance investigation exhumed him and found him in a coma. He made a complete recovery. He later invented a coffin complete with upholstery, a food locker, chemical toilet, library, and radio transmitter.
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Wikipedia
Angelo Hays - Wikipedia
French inventor
TIL when college football teams traveled by train, Auburn students would literally grease the local stations tracks before Georgia Tech games, causing the train to overshoot the station and forcing the Tech players to carry their luggage for miles.
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Mentalfloss
The 14 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time
History's greatest hoaxes are proof that tith effort and a little luck, you can fool a lot of the people, all of the time.
TIL on April 1st, 1993 a San Diego Radio station reported that the space shuttle Discovery had to make an emergency landing at the local airport at 8:30 am. Over 1000 people headed for the landing site to catch a glimpse, crowding the airport and causing traffic jams. It was an April Fools hoax.
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latimes.com
April Fools' Hoax No Joke in San Diego
This city has long called itself America's Finest. But after April Fools' Day, it may become known as America's Most Gullible.
TIL bees can be blue. Xylocopa Caerulea is a naturally blue carpenter bee from Southeast Asia. They are non aggressive and their honey is as thick as peanut butter
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Submitted April 02, 2019 at 01:26AM by gomi-panda
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Australian Geographic
The blue beauty with an impressive coat of fuzz
Meet the blue carpenter bee Xylocopa violacea.
TIL Polaroid cameras don't have batteries. They instead have an individual battery in each cartridge to power the camera enough to take the required shots.
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Submitted April 02, 2019 at 12:12AM by badspleen
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Dan Finnen
What to do if you have a dead battery in a Polaroid film cartridge
Chances are, if you picked up a cartridge of expired Polaroid film, when you put it in the camera, nothing happened. But you spent way too much on that little cartridge to just let it sit there dea…
TIL about Juan Pujol Garcia, a spy who single handedly saved thousands of lives during D-Day by using his made-up network of spies to convince the Germans that another attack was going to happen in Calais instead of Normandy. He was also the only person to be decorated by both the Axis and Allies.
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Mentalfloss
The Most Amazing Lie in History
How a chicken farmer, a pair of princesses, and 27 imaginary spies helped the allies win World War II.