TIL about Yasuke, a former Mozambique Slave turned Samurai during the Japanese Hegemony and unification wars. He was well respected by the Japanese and was considered to have the strength of ten men, and was one Oda Nobunaga's most trusted warriors.
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African retainer
TIL A Female Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect In The 1800s, But Didn’t Get the Credit Due to Sexism
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Submitted April 07, 2019 at 07:16PM by strangeattractors
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Smithsonian
This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because Sexism
Eunice Foote’s career highlights the subtle forms of discrimination that have kept women on the sidelines of science
TIL of Cahkoia, a great Native American city near current day St Louis, which had a population in 1250 AD bigger than London
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Submitted April 07, 2019 at 07:18PM by Playaguy
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Stlmag
Is Cahokia Mounds North America’s Largest Archaeological Site?
Not exactly.
TIL about Pedro Rodrigues Filho, the killer who only targetted at criminals and those had wronged him. He was sentenced 126 years imprisonment, but since he kept killing criminals during his time in prison, his sentences was raised to 400 years.
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Pedro Rodrigues Filho
Pedro Rodrigues Filho (born July 17, 1954 in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais), also known as Pedrinho Matador (Killer Petey), is a Brazilian serial killer who pursued and killed other criminals, unloading his murderous instinct on those he considered…
TIL that it cost $20 million to evict the last four tenants of a Manhattan apartment building to renovate it. The last tenant was so stubborn and savvy that he received $17 million of the money, plus use of a $2 million condo for life.
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New York Post
Hotel hermit got $17M to make way for 15 Central Park West
In 2004, developers Will and Arthur Zeckendorf bought the famed Mayflower Hotel and several adjacent lots on the Upper West Side for just over $400 million, with the goal of creating the city’s most
TIL there is a man (Ioannis Ikonomou) in the European Commission who works as a translator and can speak 47 languages, including 21 of the 24 EU official languages. He can also speak dead languages like Old Church Slavic
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Greek translator
TIL that Steve Martin's wedding came as a surprise to his guests. The roughly 75 star-studded attendees (including the likes of Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, and Carl Reiner) said that he had invited them to his house just for a "party." To their shock, upon their arrival his wedding began.
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PEOPLE.com
Steve Martin Gets Married at L.A. Home
Sporting his Inspector Clouseau mustache, Steve Martin married girlfriend Anne Stringfield at his Los Angeles home on Saturday, says a…
TIL - In 2017, a famed green jacket from the Augusta National Golf Club was purchased for $5 at a Toronto thrift shop, then sold at auction for $139k
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thestar.com
Masters-style green jacket bought for $5 at Toronto thrift store sells for $139K | The Star
The tag shows it was from the 1950s, but the original owner’s name has been cut out.
TIL "Spotlight effect" is a feeling in which you overthink that you are being continuously observed, noticed, and judged by others (like walking into a room full of people or participating in a meeting discussion). The effect arises from being extremely self-conscious about what others may think.
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Spotlight effect - Wikipedia
The spotlight effect is the phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one is constantly in the center of one's own world, an accurate evaluation of how much one is noticed by others is uncommon.…
TIL David Letterman created a scholarship for the average "C" student, recognizing that it isn't just about grades; some students are amazing and extraordinary in other ways.
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American comedian and actor
TIL in 2015, Whole Foods tried to sell Asparagus Water for $6 (literally three stalks of asparagus in a bottle of water). Twitter users made fun of the company for selling such a ridiculously pricey item. The company's CEO then issued an apology and pulled off the product from the shelves.
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usatoday
Whole Foods oops: 'Asparagus water' a mistake
TIL It Has Been Twenty Years Since Fabio Killed A Goose With His Face On A Roller Coaster.
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Submitted April 08, 2019 at 03:25PM by psgenius
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TIL Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it’s known as “wet water.”
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Submitted April 08, 2019 at 01:43PM by RetakingHumanity
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Reader's Digest
100 Interesting Facts About Practically Everything
Did you know Kleenex were first made for gas masks? Or what "#" was called before "pound"? Find the answer to more interesting fun facts.
TIL that in 2015, musician Jennifer Lee (aka. TOKiMONSTA) contracted an extremely rare brain disease called Moyamoya. She lost her ability to understand and recognise human speech for months. During this time, she also lost her ability to understand music, calling it “metallic, harsh nonsense.”
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Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly
TOKiMONSTA had to learn how to hear music again after undergoing
After the operation to treat her moyamoya disease, producer Jennifer Lee would hear all sounds as white noise.
TIL EA Games offered to pay Benjamin Burnley (Breaking Benjamin) to talk positively about Star Wars: Battlefront. Benjamin proceeded to destroy the game's disc and claim the game sucks
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American musician
TIL Principal Akbar Cook installed a free fully-stocked laundry room at school because students with dirty clothes were bullied and missing 3-5 days of school per month. Attendance rose 10%.
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ABC7 New York
New Jersey high school principal installs laundry room to fight student bullying
A high school principal in New Jersey is going above and beyond to make sure his students don't skip school out of fear of being bullied.
TIL that in 1994 Rashida Jones (Karen from The Office & Ann from Parks and Rec.) wrote an open letter to Tupac in response to remarks made by him about her parents' interracial marriage. They eventually patched up their differences and Tupac went on to become friends with Rashida and her family.
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Rashida Jones - Wikipedia
American actress, writer, and producer
TIL about Yasuteru Yamada, a retired engineer who after watching the news coverage of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, organized a group of 200+ fellow retirees and volunteered to go to the site and assist in the cleanup so the younger generation didn't have to and risk exposure to radiation.
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Submitted April 08, 2019 at 05:20PM by Digi-Fu
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TIL about 1st Lt. Mary Louise Hawkins who assisted with the evacuation of patients in WWII. Her plane was forced to make an emergency landing and a patient's trachea was severed by debris. Mary went full MacGyver and managed to keep the man alive with found items for 19 hrs until help arrived.
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Submitted April 08, 2019 at 04:32PM by angelawolfe2012
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National Museum of the US Air Force™
1st Lt. Mary L. Hawkins
On Sept. 24, 1944, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Hawkins was evacuating 24 patients from the fighting at Palau to Guadalcanal when the C-47 ran low on fuel. The pilot made a forced landing in a small clearing
TIL That the film "The Killing Fields" cast a real life survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. Hang S. Ngor survived three terms in Cambodian Prison camp by eating insects. He went on to win an Academy Award for supporting actor. His fate ended by being murdered my an LA street gang in 1996.
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Biography
Haing S. Ngor
Actor Haing S. Ngor endured persecution and numberous atrocities under the Khmer Rouge before moving to the U.S. and starring in The Killing Fields.
TIL Mount Everest is so inundated with waste, including 26,500 lbs of human excrement, each season that the Nepalese gov't now requires each climber to pack out 8 kg of waste when descending the mountain (human waste, empty cans/bottles, abandoned tents, etc.).
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा) and in Tibetan as Chomolungma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ), is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international border between Nepal (Province…