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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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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Lupe Fuentes - Wikipedia
Colombian house music producer, DJ, and former pornographic actress
TIL Brains of Transgender people more closely resemble brains of the sex they align with.
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Big Think
Transgender brains more closely resemble brains of the sex they align with, rather than what they were born with
Gender studies are leaving the college halls and heading into the lab. Increasingly, there have been more rigorous studies into how transgender people neurologically relate to the sex they identify with rather than their biological sex.
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TIL the famous inventor Nikola Tesla became interested in electricity after his cat gave him an electric shock
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PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: Life and Legacy
Nikola Tesla - Life and Legacy
TIL that it took 87 years to build Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, from 1163-1250.
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Notre-Dame de Paris - Wikipedia
cathedral in Paris
TIL that Arkansas rushed to execute 8 prisoners in 10 days due to a batch of lethal injection drugs that were expiring.
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NY Times
Arkansas Rushes to Execute 8 Men in the Space of 10 Days
As the state rushes to beat the expiration date of its supply of a lethal-injection drug, the rate of scheduled executions is unmatched since capital punishment resumed in 1977.
TIL TIL The founding fathers feared the development of political parties. Among others, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and George Washington wrote about the dangers of domestic politic factions.
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Political parties in the United States - Wikipedia
Political parties in the United States are mostly dominated by a two-party system consisting of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The United States Constitution has always been silent on the issue of political parties, since at the time it was…
TIL it is largely a myth that the Library of Alexandria was destroyed in a fire. Most of the collection had records elsewhere in the world. The Library of Alexandria was largely brought down by dwindling membership over many centuries. By the time it was destroyed, no books were housed there.
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Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia
the largest library of the ancient world, located in Alexandria, Egypt
TIL that when China ordered a Boeing 767 from the U.S. in 2002 to serve as its presidential jet, its intelligence service discovered nearly 30 bugging devices onboard the plane, "including one in the headboard of the presidential bed." The C.I.A. and the White House refused to comment.
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Telegraph.co.uk
China finds spy bugs in Jiang's Boeing jet
CHINA claims to have found almost 30 surveillance bugs, including one in the headboard of the presidential bed, on a Boeing 767 that had just been delivered from America to serve as President Jiang Zemin's official aircraft.
TIL Americans, who only had to pay for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, struggled to pull together funding. Joseph Pulitzer started a crowdfunding campaign and gathered $100,000 from more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than $1.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France…