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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David Letterman - Wikipedia
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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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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Fabio Lanzoni - Wikipedia
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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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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Benjamin Burnley - Wikipedia
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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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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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…
TIL upon graduating, Teddy Roosevelt's doctor advised him to pursue a desk job and avoid strenuous physical activity due to serious heart problems. Ignoring this, he instead pursued activities like regular exercise, boxing, tennis, hiking, rowing, polo and horseback riding, even into his presidency.
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The Strenuous Life - Wikipedia
"The Strenuous Life" is the name of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, Illinois, on April 10, 1899. Based upon his personal experiences, he argued that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were ideals to be embraced by Americans for the…
TIL When Carl Jung and Sigmund freud met for the first time, they talked for 13 hours straight
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Carl Jung - Wikipedia
TIL that the pain of loss is more powerful psychologically than the joy of gain, according to the concept of "loss aversion" identified by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. People tend to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains, for example, it is better to not lose $5 than to find $5.
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Loss aversion - Wikipedia
In cognitive psychology and decision theory, loss aversion refers to people's tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains: it is better to not lose $5 than to find $5. The principle is very prominent in the domain of economics. What distinguishes…
TIL MIT has genetically modified trees to glow in the dark in the hopes of creating a literally green source of light for the future.
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MIT News
Engineers create plants that glow
Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting.
TIL about the proposed second bill of rights by Roosevelt that would include: medical care, a decent home, a good education, a job etc.
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FDR's Second Bill of Rights
The Sanders Institute
TIL The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone, meaning the highest point on Earth was once ocean seafloor.
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r/todayilearned - TIL The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone, meaning the highest point on Earth was once ocean seafloor.
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TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ierland. Since he was denied he planned to fly to California instead. 28 hours later he arrived in Ireland, telling officials that he must have mistakenly gone the wrong way.
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r/todayilearned - TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ierland. Since…
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TIL that President Gerald Ford stood up for civil rights in 1934 by threatening to quit his college football team, unless they let Willis Ward (African American) play against the south’s Georgia Tech. He agreed to play only after Ward asked him to, because they couldn’t afford to lose that game.
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Future president Gerald R. Ford stood up for teammate against racist policy
Documentary filmmakers focus on incident that shaped Gerald R. ford’s outlook on civil rights.
TIL that similar to the fact that the American South may referred to as "The Bible Belt", or the Great Lakes Region is referred to as "The Rust Belt", the Mormon Corridor (in the Midwest of the US)is nicknamed "The Jello Belt" because they consume twice the amount of Jello as the average American.
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Mormon Corridor - Wikipedia
The Mormon Corridor is the areas of Western North America that were settled between 1850 and approximately 1890 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), who are commonly known as Mormons.