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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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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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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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.
TIL: Cats are getting high on olives! Almost as equally as on catnip.
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Radio Pet Lady Network
Juno the Olive-Obsessed Kitty - Radio Pet Lady Network
Juno the Olive-Obsessed Kitty Several years ago I was contacted by Susan, one of my radio listeners in New Hampshire, with a question that remains a fascinating phenomenon. My two year old cat Juno steals Kalamata olives. Not only does he steal them, he will…
TIL that Dolly Parton has given away more than 100 million books to young children through her Imagination Library. This was inspired by her father, who couldn’t read, and she wanted to make sure all kids have early access to books.
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Dolly Parton Gives The Gift Of Literacy: A Library Of 100 Million Books
In 1995, the entertainer and philanthropist started the Imagination Library, inspired by her father, who couldn't read and write. Now, it mails free books to more than a million kids each month.
TIL that Cleopatra was not Egyptian. While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter. Ptolemy took the reigns of Egypt after Alexander’s death in 323 B.C. and he launched a dynasty of Greek-speaking rulers that lasted for three centuries
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HISTORY
10 Little-Known Facts About Cleopatra
Check out 10 surprising facts about the fabled Queen of the Nile.
TIL the German Army conducted a "Jewish Census" of their soldiers during WWI, designed to prove that Jews were shirking military service. It ended up proving the opposite, so the results were never published.
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Judenzählung - Wikipedia
Judenzählung (German for "Jewish census") was a measure instituted by the German Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL) in October 1916, during the upheaval of World War I. Designed to confirm accusations of the lack of patriotism among German Jews, the census disproved…
TIL that in the movie Noah's Ark, filmed in 1928, the flood scene at the movie's climax was created by actually dumping 600,000 gallons of water onto the set. Three extras drowned and many suffered broken bones. This led to the introduction of safety regulations for movie stunts in 1929.
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Noah's Ark (1928 film) - Wikipedia
1928 film
TIL Mississippi is the only U.S. state that allows people to drink alcohol while driving, as long as their blood alcohol level stays below the legal limit
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Riding In Cars With Beers
by Owen PhillipsIf you ask someone from Mississippi how long it takes to drive from Jackson, the capital, down to the Gulf Coast they might tell you “about six beers.” Walk into most gas stations there and you’ll ...
TIL that "Losing my religion" is an old phrase from the Southern USA meaning someone's about to lose their temper or reach the end of their rope.
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Losing My Religion
"Losing My Religion" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. The song was released as the first single from the group's 1991 album Out of Time. Built on a mandolin riff, "Losing My Religion" was an unlikely hit for the group, garnering extensive…
TIL that Japan is making all of its medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics out of discarded electronics
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Tokyo 2020 medals to be made from discarded smartphones and laptops
All medals at next summer’s Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo will be made from recycled electronic waste, organizers said on Friday