TIL during the bombing of Koriyama, Japan in April 1945, a white phosphorus bomb prematurely ignited in a B-29 plane. Crewman Henry Erwin picked up the bomb and threw it out the window, saving the plane and crew while suffering severe burns as a result. He was given a Medal of Honor for this action.
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Wikipedia
Henry E. Erwin - Wikipedia
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
TIL, Charles Rigoulot, a French weightlifter, was jailed for hitting a Nazi guard, but broke out of his jail cell by bending the bars. He allowed other prisoners to escape as well. Then beat the guard who jailed him.
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History 101
Charles Rigoulot bent bars of a Nazi prison cell to escape and other mighty men in history
While many believed that courage and strength matter most, it is actually the ability to stay calm and collected and the will to act that separate the boys from the men. To help you appreciate this concept, here are facts about Charles Rigoulot and several…
TIL Jack, a baboon, was employed to change rail signals. After initial skepticism, the railway decided to officially employ the baboon once his job competency was verified. He was paid twenty cents a day, and 1/2 a bottle of beer each week. In his nine years of employment, Jack never made a mistake.
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Wikipedia
Jack (baboon) - Wikipedia
chacma baboon, d. 1890
TIL Until the mid-1960s in Britain, pregnancy tests were done by sending a woman's urine to a lab, where it would be injected into a toad. The toad was checked two hours later and if it had laid eggs, the woman was pregnant.
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BBC News
Contraception: From fish bladders to home-delivered morning after pills
Today's contraceptives are a far cry from the condoms made of animal intestines and Coca-Cola "douche".
TIL Ernest Hemmingway was gifted a 6-toed cat named Snow White. Snow White's 40-50 descendants still live at his Florida home. Over half of them also have 6 toes.
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reddit
r/todayilearned - TIL Ernest Hemmingway was gifted a 6-toed cat named Snow White. Snow White's 40-50 descendants still live at…
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TIL O.J. Simpson's father was a drag queen who died of AIDS in 1986.
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Wikipedia
O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed The Juice, is an American former running back, broadcaster, actor, advertising spokesman, and convicted robber and kidnapper.
TIL that the most weight gained for a role was 70 lbs (32 kg), which Vincent D'Onofrio did for Pvt. Leonard Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket." The role was initially written as a "skinny ignorant redneck," but director Stanley Kubrick felt the character would have more impact if he was big and clumsy.
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Wikipedia
Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (/dəˈnɒfrioʊ/; born June 30, 1959) is an American actor, producer, director, and singer.
TIL wheelchair athletes with spinal injuries will sometimes intentionally injure themselves on the lower body (e.g. break a toe), causing their bodies to respond by raising blood pressure and enhancing their performance. This practice has been banned as cheating.
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Wikipedia
Boosting (doping) - Wikipedia
Boosting is a method of inducing autonomic dysreflexia with the intention of enhancing performance in sport. It can be used by an athlete with a spinal cord injury to increase their blood pressure and is performed by causing a painful stimulus in the lower…
TIL that in 2012, a woman on vacation in Iceland joined a police search party to help find someone who was reported missing, The search went on for hours before she found out that the person they were looking for was herself.
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Cbsnews
Missing woman "finds herself" after intense search
Tourist in Iceland didn't realize her travel group was looking for her, after she changed clothes
TIL There is a group of wolves in British Columbia known as "sea wolves" and 90% of their food comes from the sea. They have distinct DNA that sets them apart from interior wolves and they're entirely dedicated to the sea, swimming several miles everyday in search of seafood.
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National Geographic News
Meet the Rare Swimming Wolves That Eat Seafood
Unlike its interior cousins, gray wolves of Vancouver Island live with two paws in the ocean and two paws on land.
TIL that First Nations Francis "Peggy" Pegahmagabow, the most effective sniper of WWI, volunteered for service despite the Canada government's exclusion of Aboriginal people in the army. With a kill record of 378, Peggy once ran into No-Mans Land to retrieve ammo when his company ran out.
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Wikipedia
Francis Pegahmagabow - Wikipedia
World War I sniper
TIL In 2018, the world's most expensive bottle of vodka (worth $1.3 million USD) was stolen and found empty on a construction site.
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Thespiritsbusiness
Vodka bottle worth US$1.3 million found empty
A US$1.3 million bottle of Russo-Baltique vodka, stolen from a Copenhagen bar last week, has now been found drained and damaged
TIL that in 1988, a man with OCD and extreme germophobia tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. However, he survived, and the bullet completely eliminated his mental disorder without causing any other damage to his brain.
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NY Times
Brain Wound Eliminates Man's Mental Illness
About the Archive
TIL MIT, often cited as one of the world’s most prestigious universities, puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.
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ocw.mit.edu
MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
Unlocking knowledge, empowering minds. Free course notes, videos, instructor insights and more from MIT.
TIL Ray J Makes $360K in Royalties Per Year for his 'Performance' on the Kim K Sex Tape.
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CINEMABLEND
How Much Ray J Still Makes From The Kim Kardashian Sex Tape
You are not going to believe how much money Ray J and Kim Kardashian still make from that notorious sex tape. Find out the details here.
TIL, in 1948, a man wore 30-pound, 3-toed lead shoes and stomped around a Florida beach in the night. The footprints lead people to believe that a 15-foot tall penguin was roaming their lands. He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later.
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Mentalfloss
Florida's Giant Penguin
There’s just too much weird stuff in Florida to quit after three days. Maybe a fourth Strange States entry will let us get it all out of our system...
TIL That Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a 23 year old farm boy with no degree in astronomy. He spent a year comparing photographs, looking for a star that changed positions in the sky. He would later teach at New Mexico State.
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Wikipedia
Clyde Tombaugh - Wikipedia
American astronomer
TIL of the grasshopper mouse that hunts scorpions, turns venom into painkiller and howls like a wolf to lay claim to its territory.
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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 12:26PM by Jezzazza
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BBC
BBC One - Hidden Kingdoms - Grasshopper mouse
Immerse yourself in the lives of extraordinary characters that stand a few inches tall.
TIL a 19-year old who was frozen completely solid was discharged from hospital 49 days later without any damage to brain or body
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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 03:55PM by rinem13
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A Plus
When This 19-Year-Old Was Brought To The Hospital, She Was Frozen Solid. Then Something Unexplainable Happened.
Medical miracle or human hibernation?
TIL that Teflon is the the only known material to which geckos cannot stick on
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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 05:23PM by torripsamments
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reddit
r/todayilearned - TIL that Teflon is the the only known material to which geckos cannot stick on
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TIL that during a Rolling Stones concert, four people were killed but the overall population of the concert did not change since four babies were born at the concert as well.
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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 07:58PM by shut_your_cock
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the Guardian
From the archive, 8 December 1969: Life and death as the Stones roll on
Originally published in the Guardian on 8 December 1969: Four young men had died violently by the time the concert ended last night. The Red Cross, however, reported four births at the raceway