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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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 02:33AM by famousforbeingfamous
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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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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 03:15AM by EthanTheRedditor37
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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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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 03:54AM by meduke
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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
582 votes and 71 comments so far on Reddit
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
TIL many people believed Abraham Lincoln was ugly, including himself. Once, when he was accused of being “two-faced” during a debate, he replied, “If I had two faces, would I be showing you this one?”
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The New Yorker
Lincoln’s Smile
Something that has always intrigued me about Abraham Lincoln is, not surprisingly, his sense of humor. As far as I can tell, he’s the first American President to have one.
TIL that pyjamas (pajamas in the US) became fashionable because of World War I zeppelin air raids on Britain. Thrust into the evening due to an air raid, pyjamas were more practical and fashionable than night dresses, and coincided with the "new novelty" of women wearing trousers.
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The Atlantic
WWI’s Zeppelin Bombings Popularized the Trend of ‘Pyjamas’
It was a matter of practicality—but also of looking good.
TIL There is a liquid that you can breathe in called perfluorohexane. Animals can be submerged in a bath of perfluorohexane without drowning. It is odorless and colorless.
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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 05:08PM by TheFineMantine
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Wikipedia
Perfluorohexane - Wikipedia
chemical compound
TIL Stephen Hawking spent his final days attempting to solve the parallel universe mystery and updated his paper just ten days before his death
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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 08:45PM by imstayinalive
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BGR
Stephen Hawking spent his final days attempting to solve the parallel universe mystery
Stephen Hawking pushed off of this mortal coil last week, but the world-famous physicist was pondering some of humanity’s most puzzling questions right up until the end. Hawking spent decades…
TIL that one of the reasons Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to map the American West was to find mastodons—a large, extinct, elephant-like mammal. Jefferson was interested in the fossils being discovered across North America and believed there were still mastodons roaming the unexplored West.
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Submitted April 06, 2019 at 10:46PM by ralphbernardo
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Vox
Thomas Jefferson's secret reason for sending Lewis and Clark West: to find mastodons
Jefferson believed mastodons roamed the Wild West, and he brought their bones to the White House. This is why.
TIL Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on Instagram and Twitter advertising a pharmaceutical product. Sent to 42 million followers on Instagram and 32 million on Twitter, this illegal advertisement did not contain any risk information or language specifying that it was a paid endorsement.
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Submitted April 07, 2019 at 01:30AM by PM-ME_YOUR_TITS-GIRL
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The Atlantic
Is It Dangerous to Mix Drug Ads and Social Media?
The kerfuffle over Kim Kardashian's drug-promoting Instagram selfie is nothing new: As long as the FDA has existed, it's had to figure out how to regulate drug advertisements in new forms of communication technology.