TIL 9/11 survivor George Mironis visits FDNY Ladder Company 10 House, across from the memorial, once a week and leaves a candle in a glass jar just outside the firehouse. He does this to honor a firefighter he passed in the North Tower stairwell on 9/11 who did not survive.
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National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Meet a 9/11 Memorial Host and Survivor
TIL that before McDonald's switched from cooking its fries in beef tallow to vegetable oil, the fries had more saturated beef fat than their hamburgers.
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Submitted April 10, 2019 at 02:04AM by Punderstruck
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TIL That during WW2 there were around 250,000+ Filipino soldiers that fought for the allied forces and were promised the same compensation as their American counterparts, but in 1946 Truman signed the Rescission Act of 1946 which denied Filipino soldiers all of their benefits.
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Rescission Act of 1946 - Wikipedia
The Rescission Act of 1946 (38 U.S.C. § 107) is a law of the United States that retroactively annulled benefits that would have been payable to Filipino troops on account of their military service under the auspices of the United States during the time that…
TIL that rats have been used to locate over 100k landmines and explosives. They're effective because they're too light to trip the mines.
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APOPO - Training Animals to rid the world of landmines and tuberculosis
Training Rats To Save Lives • APOPO
Discover how APOPO's scent detection animals, known as HeroRATs and HeroDOGs, help rid the world of the scourge of landmines, tuberculosis and more...
TIL that there was a group of middle aged women called “Snapists” who believed that they were married to Severus Snape on the ‘astral plane’ and that he controlled their lives. An independent researcher published an in-depth paper on the matter.
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MDPI
‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom
The book and film franchise of Harry Potter has inspired a monumental fandom community with a veracious output of fanfiction and general musings on the text and the vivid universe contained therein. A significant portion of these texts deal with Professor…
TIL India has 3 foot long, multicolored squirrels.
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Indian giant squirrel | Malabar giant squirrel |(Ratufa indica)
The Indian giant squirrel, or Malabar giant squirrel, is a large tree squirrel species genus Ratufa native to India. It is a large-bodied diurnal, arboreal, and mainly herbivorous squirrel found in South Asia.
Scientific name: Ratufa indica
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Scientific name: Ratufa indica
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TIL About Juan Catalan, a man who spent six months in prison for murder until his lawyer found unused curb your enthusiasm footage which proves he was actually at a dodgers game with his daughter.
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How ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ saved this man from prison
Juan Catalan has been to many memorable games at Dodger Stadium. In the early 1980s, his Uncle Thomas took him to see Fernando Valenzuela pitch. Juan and his brother huddled in the cheap seats,
TIL Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
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The Loop
Canadians love to say ‘sorry’ so much, we had to make this law
Are you really that surprised?
TIL that in 2005, Eric James Torpy, was convicted of shooting with intent to kill and robbery. He asked that his sentence be changed from 30 years' imprisonment to 33 so that it would match Larry Bird's jersey number. His request was granted.
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Larry Bird
Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player, former coach, and former executive who most recently served as President of Basketball Operations for the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).…
TIL Slavery is not fully abolished in the US as the thirteen amendment provides an exception for people convicted of a crime
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The…
TIL that with so much time to devote, prison inmates are training service dogs for wounded veterans in only 1 year compared to the standard 2-5 years.
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Prison Inmates Train Service Dogs To Aid Wounded Military Veterans | TODAY
A nonprofit program uses service dogs to help wounded military veterans while also providing prison inmates with hope and important life skills.
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TIL the original Illuminati sought to suppress religion's role in society. Opposing superstition, religious influence over public, abuses of state power. Outlawed by the Catholic Church, vilified by conservatives and religious critics caused many conspiracy theories you hear of them, even today.
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Illuminati - Wikipedia
Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1st May 1776
TIL that bookkeeping is the only word in the English language with 3 consecutive sets of double letters
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Submitted April 10, 2019 at 04:51PM by bakedlurker
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Coursera
1.3.1: Debit and Credit Bookkeeping I - Week 1: Introduction and Balance Sheet | Coursera
Video created by University of Pennsylvania for the ...
TIL during the French Revolution, Louis XVI ordered the arrest of a judge named D'Epremesnil. When the arresting officers came to the Palais de Justice, they did not know D'Epremesnil by sight, so all the judges stood up and cried "We are all D'Epremesnil!". No arrests were made that day.
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Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil - Wikipedia
French magistrate and politician
TIL Freddy Krueger was inspired by Wes Craven's experience watching a man in a fedora outside his apartment. "Somehow he sensed that someone was watching, and he looked right up and into my eyes.” Craven retreated, but when he looked out his window again, the man was still there, staring up at him.
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New York Post
How a strange man in a fedora inspired Wes Craven’s Freddy Krueger
Promiscuous teenagers had it rough in the ’70s and ’80s. They got butchered at summer camps, chainsawed on road trips and knifed on Halloween eve. And then 1984’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street”
TIL that according to a 2008 survey of infant and toddler feeding habits, some babies are served soft drinks daily as early as 9 months of age. The same survey found that by 24 months, more than 10 percent of toddlers were drinking soda every single day.
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BabyCenter
The worst foods for babies | BabyCenter
Learn why some popular foods are unhealthy (and even unsafe) for babies, and get ideas for healthier alternatives.
TIL In the early 20th century the term "Muggles" meant someone who smoked marijuana. Louis Armstrong and some bandmates would get high before recording sessions and even recorded a song called "Muggles".
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Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
TIL, on April 9th 2007, a theater filled with parents and their small children who were there to see 'The Last Mimzy' were accidentally shown 'The Hills Have Eyes 2', in which the beginning of the movie features a screaming, bruised, beaten, and bloodied woman delivering a deformed newborn
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Filmjunk
The Hills Have Eyes 2 Accidentally Shown To Family Audience in Long Island - Film Junk
TIL that the gin and tonic was invented as a result of the British being unable to stomach the taste of bitter malaria medication in India
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Submitted April 10, 2019 at 09:27PM by FallEggplant
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Flaviar
A Brief History of Gin and Tonic
The Gin and Tonic is one of the simplest cocktails, but there is a whole lot of history behind the invention of this popular drink.
TIL of Dennis H. Klatt, a computer scientist who programmed Stephen Hawking's voice box. He tirelessly worked on the code while undergoing treatment for cancer, which eventually took his own voice, and his life. Hawking never changed his voice program, saying, "My friend Dennis' voice is my voice"
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Dennis H. Klatt - Wikipedia
Dennis H. Klatt (March 31, 1938 – December 30, 1988) was a noted American researcher in speech and hearing science. Klatt was the pioneer of computerized speech synthesis and created an interface which allowed for speech for non-expert users for the first…