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
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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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1.3.1: Debit and Credit Bookkeeping I - Week 1: Introduction and Balance Sheet | Coursera
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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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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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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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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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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…
TIL during World War II, young black musicians started calling each other "man" as a sign of respect, in part because they were so tired of being referred to as "boy".
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Dedicated to Chaos | Season 1 Episode 7 | Jazz
When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal.
TIL In 1728, the philosopher Voltaire got rich by outsmarting the lottery. The prize money was larger than the cost of all the tickets combined, so Voltaire and his friend formed a syndicate, bought all the tickets, and won several times.
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How Voltaire Made a Killing in the Lottery
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TIL of Orestes Lorenzo, a Cuban fighter pilot who defected to the US. He flew to Florida in a MiG-23 and requested his family join him, when his family were banned from leaving Cuba he raised money to buy a plane. He then flew back to Cuba, landed on a highway an bought his family back himself.
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TIL that Disney's 1994 film The Lion King was made by their B-team of animators. The company expected Pocahontas to be the bigger hit and had their A-team make that movie.
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TIL Satanists do not literally worship Satan. They are closer to an Atheist religion, and believe Satan is a positive archetype demonstrating pride, individualism and enlightenment and use Satan as a symbol of defiance against Abrahamic faiths.
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Church of Satan
international organization dedicated to the religion of Satanism
TIL that **tint** is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, **shade** is a mixture with black, which increases darkness, **tone** is produced either by mixing a color with grey (or by both tinting and shading), and **hue** is how much red, blue and yellow it has.
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Tints and shades - Wikipedia
In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Both processes affect the resulting color mixture's relative lightness. A tone is produced either by mixing…
TIL In 1951 Thelma Howard was hired as a maid for Walt & Lillian Disney. Walt would gift her shares of Disney stock every X-mas for the next 30 yrs. She died in 1994 that's when it was discovered she still had all 192,000 shares valued at $9,000,000. It went to disadvantaged kids & her disabled son
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Saving Grace
LAST JUNE, JUST 16 DAYS SHY OF her 80th birthday, Thelma Howard died in a Santa Monica nursing home. When…
TIL of the micromort, a unit of risk defined as one one-in-a-million chance of death. Travelling 10km on a bike, 400km in a car, and 10,000km via jet all expose you to 1 μmt of risk. Simply existing at age 90 exposes you to 300 μmt a day.
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Micromort - Wikipedia
A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure riskiness of various day-to-day activities. A microprobability is a one-in-a million chance of some event; thus a micromort…
TIL cocktails became popular during Prohibition as juices were added to bootleg liquor to disguise the taste of ingredients like dead rat and wood tar
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The Modern Craft Cocktail Movement Got Its Start During Prohibition
Something needed to be done to mask the taste of bootleg alcohol that could include ingredients ranging from dead rats to wood tar