TIL Matt Murphy, the man who caught Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball, sold the ball for $752,467 and gave half to Amir Kamal, the friend he was at the game with.
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Espn
Hill: The man who caught 756, a year later - ESPN Page 2
A year ago, Matt Murphy caught Barry Bonds' record 756th homer. How has his life changed?
TIL that a company knowingly sold dangerous breaker panels that were installed in tons of U.S. homes, including mine. They still cause fires. Check your breaker panel!
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 07:09PM by hmhaines9
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Are Federal Pacific Circuit Breaker Panels Safe?
Your circuit breaker panel ensures your home’s electrical safety, but is the panel itself safe?
TIL the character ‘The Crimson Chin’ in Fairly Odd Parents was and still is voiced by Jay Leno
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Submitted April 13, 2019 at 06:06PM by coal_the_slaw
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Fairly Odd Parents Wiki
Jay Leno | Fairly Odd Parents Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
Jay Leno is a comedian who is one of the recurring guest celebrity voice actors on The Fairly OddParents. He voices the Crimson Chin and his evil counterpart the Nega Chin. He also guest stars as...
TIL That there is a special type of font for people with Dyslexia. Henry Winkler (Fonzie on Happy Days) has written a series of children's books using this font. He did so because he has dyslexia. The books tell the story of Hank, a kid with Dyslexia. The font has more space between letters.
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Dyslexiefont
Dyslexie Font - Home
TIL that in an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had committed suicide by breaking the law
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Wikipedia
Wayne Wheeler - Wikipedia
American temperance activist
TIL Bill Gates selected 11 condoms of the future, and each finalist was given $100,000 to pursue their quest for a superior condom. Gates says, "The idea is making them easier for people to use in the moment, in the dark, whatever situation they're in."
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Theweek
Meet the 11 condoms of the future selected by Bill Gates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation received 812 entries for its build-a-better-condom competition. Eleven of them just got $100,000 to make it happen.
TIL of the Roman senator Lucius Licinius Crassus, who held a funeral for his pet eel. When another senator ridiculed him for this, he replied: "did you not bury three wives and not shed a tear?"
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Lucius Licinius Crassus - Wikipedia
Roman consul
TIL in 1967, there was a classroom experiment created to explain how the German people could accept the actions of the Nazis and also demonstrate the appeal of fascism. What began with only a few students spiraled out of control with hundreds of people believing it to be a real social movement.
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The Third Wave (experiment) - Wikipedia
The Third Wave was an experimental social movement created by California high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. While he taught his students…
TIL that in the 19th century, obstetricians did not wash their hands before examinations. In 1861 a guy called Semmelweis recommended hand washing to decrease very high mother mortality rates. He faced fierce opposition, had a nervous breakdown and died in a mental hospital 4 years later.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Ignaz Semmelweis | Biography & Facts
Ignaz Semmelweis: Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of puerperal fever and introduced antisepsis into medical practice.
TIL to gaslight someone, meaning to make one think they're going crazy, comes from the movie Gaslight (1944), where a husband tried to make his wife (Ingrid Bergman) think that very thing by dimming the gas lights in house and making her think she was imagining it.
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Gaslighting - Wikipedia
form of psychological abuse in which a victim is manipulated into doubting his or her own memory, perception, and sanity
TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
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Ingeborg Rapoport - Wikipedia
German physician and East German communist functionary
TIL that there is a theory that Cinderella's unique glass slipper was not a case of confusion between the French words vair (fur) and verre (glass), but actually a deliberate innuendo, since the prince had the right to "try on the fur slipper of all the maidens in the kingdom". (Droit de seigneur)
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Cinderella - Wikipedia
European folk tale
TIL 50 Cent once bought 200 front row seats to a Ja Rule concert just to leave them empty
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National Post
This week in petty: 50 Cent bought 200 Ja Rule concert tickets in order to leave the show sad and empty
Ultimate troll – 50 Cent?
TIL in 1988, a retired police officer found Cyril Smith, British MP with 144 accusations of child molestation and abuse, in a home with a sex offender and two drunk teenage boys. The officer was threatened to be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act by the UK government. Nothing happened.
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Cyril Smith - Wikipedia
English politician
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TIL in 1962 two US scientists discovered Peru's highest mountain was in danger of collapsing. When this was made public, the government threatened the scientists and banned civilians from speaking of it. In 1970, during a major earthquake, it collapsed on the town of Yangoy killing 20,000.
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Yungay, Peru
Yungay is a town in the Ancash Region in north central Peru, South America.
TIL that the driest place on earth is McMurdo dry Valleys in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for 2 million years. Only anaerobic bacteria are able to survive in the extreme conditions. Scientists also consider the area terrestrially closest to Mars on earth.
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McMurdo Dry Valleys - Wikipedia
snow-free valleys in Antarctica
TIL that during one scene in JAWS 2 the teens' fear and cries of shark were real, as they were being circled by a 15-foot shark. The production crew at a distance thought they were acting and just gave them a thumbs up.
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YouTube
Marc Gilpin (Sean) on JAWS 2
From the interview sessions of The Shark is Still Working documentary available on the JAWS Blu-ray. Featuring JAWS 2 actor Marc Gilpin.
TIL in 1989 96 people were killed at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England after they were crushed due to overcrowding. Although match attendees and hooliganism were first cited as the cause, a 2016 inquiry found the police to be at fault due to their mismanagement of the crowd.
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the Guardian
Hillsborough: anatomy of a disaster – video
As the jury return their verdict at the inquest into the lethal crush at Hillsborough in 1989, David Conn analyses the evidence with the help of recently released footage from the day
TIL that the entire internet is kept locked up with 7 physical keys that open safety deposit boxes spread across the world to prevent people hacking the control mechanisms for web address assignment
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Submitted April 14, 2019 at 01:02PM by TypicalPakeha
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Business Insider
The Internet Is Actually Controlled By 14 People Who Hold 7 Secret Keys
YouTube/ICANNnewsThis sounds like something out of a Dan Brown book but it isn't: The whole Internet is controlled by seven actual, physical keys. The Guardian's
TIL the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) was founded in 1902 when five men believed they had secured a valuable corundum mine. They later realized their mineral holding was entirely anorthosite, a mineral devoid of corundum and useless to their venture.
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MPR: 3M at 100 - on the right path for growth?
News from Minnesota Public Radio
TIL fearing invasion during the Cold War, Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha forced his country to build 750.000 bunkers. Today, many of those bunkers have been converted into a variety of uses, like turning them into pizzerias, espresso bars and makeshift bars.
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Bbc
The Cold War bunkers that cover a country
Fearing invasion during the Cold War, Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha forced his country to build tens of thousands of bunkers. Long after the regime’s collapse, many still remain.