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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The Awl
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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Wikipedia
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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Submitted April 15, 2019 at 12:20AM by 49hamburgers
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the Guardian
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
TIL Ernesto Miranda, the man behind the ruling that forces cops to read your "Miranda" Rights, was later killed in a bar fight. The murderer was read his miranda rights, did not talk to the cops, and got away with no charges.
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azcentral
Miranda and the right to remain silent: The Phoenix story
TIL that in 2007, Scotland spent six months of research and £ 125,000 to create a new slogan that would boost tourism. They came up with "Welcome to Scotland".
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Adweek
Scotland overpays for new tourism slogan
And the crowd goes mild for Scotland, which just spent £125,000 to come up with the new tourism catchphrase ... “Welcome to Scotland.” The Daily Record newspaper moans that “top [...]
TIL a golfer can possess only one Masters green jacket. If a golfer wins multiple Masters they just award the winner the same jacket. The winner also can't hold onto their jacket and must return it to the clubhouse.
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Masters Tournament
The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside of North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, the Masters is the first major of the…
TIL A team of economists at NYU found that getting off Facebook appears to improve people’s lives. Users who deactivated their accounts for a month seemed to enjoy themselves more as a result, showing decreases in depression and anxiety and improvements in happiness and life satisfaction.
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r/todayilearned - TIL A team of economists at NYU found that getting off Facebook appears to improve people’s lives. Users who…
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TIL about Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring (1962). The book accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation on the harmful effects of pesticides. The book is credited with inspiring the environmental movement, leading to the formation of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency
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Wikipedia
Silent Spring - Wikipedia
A book written by Rachel Carson about pesticides harming the environment.
TIL figs are considered an animal product by many vegans. Female wasps crawl into figs, lay their eggs and die. The mother wasp is enzymatically digested by the fig.
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TASTE
Why Aren’t Figs Considered Vegan?
Sorry if this ruins figs for you.
TIL in the civil war, the commander of the Union "lightning brigade" personally took out a loan to buy his soldiers advanced new repeating rifles because the government would not supply them. Using the firepower advantage afforded by the new rifles, his brigade proved extremely effective in combat.
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John T. Wilder - Wikipedia
Union United States Army general
til paraffin wax was a common waterproofing method for circus tents but changed in 1944 after the Ringling Bros. Fire in Hartford, CT. The paraffin wax ended up accelerating the deadly fire & 1800lbs of hot wax "rained down from the roof"-killing 167 people; injuring 700, mostly women & children.
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Hartford circus fire - Wikipedia
The Hartford circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus…
TIL Author Roald Dahl's last words would have been "You know, I'm not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much", but after a painful morphine injection while he was still conscious, his last words were "Ow, fuck."
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NYMag.com
Big Sometimes Friendly Giant
Roald Dahl—the storyteller as benevolent sadist.
TIL that the Chowchilla kidnappers -who locked 26 children and their bus driver in a buried moving van- never got to make their ransom demands, since the phone lines to the police were occupied by worried parents and the media calling in. The victims then dug themselves out and escaped.
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CNN
California mass kidnapping: After being buried alive, victims relive nightmare
How long does it take to overcome the trauma of being kidnapped and buried alive?
TIL Paper toilet seat covers are permeable and offer no protection against germs and bacteria
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r/todayilearned - TIL Paper toilet seat covers are permeable and offer no protection against germs and bacteria
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TIL that the desk in the Oval Office is called the Resolute Desk, named after the ship it was built out of in 1880. The HMS Resolute was found empty and adrift in packice, then salvaged by the US and gifted back to the UK, which helped narrowly avoid a war. FDR would add the front to hide his polio.
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Resolute desk - Wikipedia
desk in the White House
TIL The average British adult spends around 3 hours a week on the toilet, but only 1.5 hours a week exercising.
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ukactive
Inactive Brits spend twice as long on toilet per week as they do exercising | ukactive
Extent of UK’s inactivity crisis laid bare as National Fitness Day urges nation to get moving and embrace the fun of fitness British adults spend...
TIL of Joseph Trombino, Brinks truck driver, who narrowly survived an armed robbery in 1983 and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, only to be killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
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TIL Charles Darwin wrote a pros and cons of marriage ( including the positivity of “female chit-chat) before marrying his cousin
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Brain Pickings
Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage
Six months before marrying the love of his life, with whom he had ten children, the iconic naturalist drafted an entertainingly rigorous cost-benefit analysis of the union.
TIL that the oldest undisputed known depiction of a human being, the Venus of Hohle Fels, is about 40,000 years old, and made from mammoth ivory. It's on display in a museum in a small German town.
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Wikipedia
Venus of Hohle Fels - Wikipedia
sculpture
TIL the beard of Tutankhamun’s golden mask fell off during a cleaning process in the Egyptian Museum in 2014. The workers used epoxy glue to reattach the beard, but since it wasn’t the professional method and permanent damage had been done, they were prosecuted in 2016
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BBC News
Tutankhamun: Egypt museum staff face trial over botched beard job
Egyptian prosecutors are reported to have referred eight museum employees for trial over a botched reattachment of the beard on the burial mask of the pharaoh, Tutankhamun.
TIL a Puerto Rican man was arrested for watching porno feat Lupe Fuentes, who a pediatrician identified as being underage because of her appearance. The porn star flew there from Spain to show her passport and prove she was 19. The man was in jail for 2 months before that happened.
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Wikipedia
Lupe Fuentes - Wikipedia
Colombian house music producer, DJ, and former pornographic actress