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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r/todayilearned - TIL of Orestes Lorenzo, a Cuban fighter pilot who defected to the US. He flew to Florida in a MiG-23 and requested…
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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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r/todayilearned - TIL that Disney's 1994 film The Lion King was made by their B-team of animators. The company expected Pocahontas…
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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
TIL Cats were kept on ships by Ancient Egyptians for pest control and it become a seafaring tradition. It is believed Domestic cats spread throughout much of the world with sailing ships during Age of Discovery(15th through 18th centuries).
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Ship's cat - Wikipedia
cat carried on ships for many reasons, most importantly to control rodents
TIL London is the largest urban forest in the world: with more than 8 million trees - about one for every Londoner - the capital of the UK is literally classified as a forest in its own right.
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Lonely Planet
16 things you never knew about London
Think you know London? Think again as Lonely Planet lets you in on some of the British capital's most surprising secrets and hidden corners.
TIL in 2008, Jeremy Clarkson published his bank details in his Sun newspaper column to prove nobody could take money from his account. Somebody then donated £500 to a Diabetes charity from his account.
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Clarkson stung after bank prank
TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.
TIL pedestrianism was a famous sport in the 19th century where people would compete to walk the furthest distance in the shortest amount of time. A famous challenge was walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours, first completed by Robert Barclay Allardice in 1809.
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Pedestrianism - Wikipedia
19th-century competitive walking contest
TIL Richard Nixon's administration had a master list of all of the president's main opponents among both people and organizations. Hunter S. Thompson felt disappointed not to have been on it.
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Master list of Nixon's political opponents - Wikipedia
supplemental expansion of Nixon's Enemies List
TIL Indians are relearning Sanskrit and reviving the ancient language, with 10,000 new speakers in 2010 alone
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Latest census figure reveals increase in Sanskrit speakers in India - Pratidin Time | Leading News Channel of Assam | Breaking…
According to latest census figure of 2011, the ancient Sanskrit language has earned 10,000 new speakers in a span of 10 years in the country marking a growth of 71 per cent. Hindi-speaking population in the country has increased by more than 10 crore between…
TIL Uncle Tom was actually the hero that stood up against slavers but pro-slavery works created afterwards poisoned the name "Uncle Tom"
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Uncle Tom - Wikipedia
fictional character
TIL After J.D Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, served in World War Two, he was hospitalized with combat stress reaction for a few weeks. He later told his daughter "You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."
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J. D. Salinger - Wikipedia
American writer
TIL In 2011, after their home was incorrectly foreclosed upon by Bank of America, a judge ordered the bank to pay the couple's legal fees. When it failed to pay, the couple successfully foreclosed upon the bank.
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Homeowner Forecloses On Bank Of America !!!!!
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. - A bank foreclosure story you've got to see to believe. A Collier County couple turns the tables on Bank of America, the bank that tried to foreclose on their home. Now, the family is foreclosing on the bank! Even bringing trucks and…
TIL Some European countries have a "Freedom to Roam", which means that you can freely go into private land for recreation as long as you don't cause any problems
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Freedom to roam - Wikipedia
General public's right to access land or water bodies for recreation
TIL The music commonly associated with clowns in circuses was written by Julius Fucik. It was originally noscriptd *Entrance of the Gladiators* and was meant to represent slaves marching into an arena to fight to the death.
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Julius Fučík (composer) - Wikipedia
Czech composer and conductor of military bands
TIL while in prison, Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde) tried to avoid hard labor by chopping off two of his toes with an axe. As a result, he drove his getaway cars wearing only socks because he couldn’t balance correctly on the pedals of a car when wearing shoes. This is why he died wearing socks.
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The Real Bonnie and Clyde: 9 Facts on the Outlawed Duo
Separate myth from reality by looking at nine facts about the famous criminals.
TIL of Dmitry Argarkov who scanned a credit card agreement, edited it, and returned it with a 0% interest rate and no limit in the new terms. The bank signed and approved without reading and a judge held them to it.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms
When Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking.