TIL of Israel's Law of Return. It dictates that any Jewish person, no matter their country of origin, what language they speak, or how much money they have, can be granted Israeli citizenship they day they arrive in Israel.
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Law of Return - Wikipedia
Israeli legislation giving people of Jewish ancestry the right of return, settlement and citizenship in Israel
TIL that the human body, if eaten, would be 81,500 calories. Based on the recommend daily intake of 2,500 calories, one average human body would feed one person for about one month.
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TIL that while scientists were analyzing prehistoric worms recovered from permafrost, two 40,000 year old nematodes 'revived' and began moving and eating, making them the oldest multi-cellular life alive on Earth.
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Smithsonian
Ancient Roundworms Allegedly Resurrected From Russian Permafrost
Skeptics cite possibility of ancient samples’ contamination by contemporary organisms
TiL Reuters found 3,810 U.S. areas with lead poisoning double Flint’s
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r/todayilearned - TiL Reuters found 3,810 U.S. areas with lead poisoning double Flint’s
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TIL that in 1904 a Swedish sailor, Carl Emil Pettersson, was shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibals. The kings daughter fell in love with him. They married and he eventually became king of the island.
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Carl Emil Pettersson - Wikipedia
Swedish sailor (1875-1937)
TIL In 2002, Fujitsu made a device called the “iPad,” and Apple had to pay over $4 million to Fujitsu to buy the trademark rights.
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Fujitsu iPAD - Wikipedia
The Fujitsu iPAD is a lightweight handheld device that was introduced by Fujitsu, in 2002. It runs Microsoft's CE.NET operating system. It supports 802.11b wireless LAN to connect wirelessly with other company infrastructure. The device can support inventory…
TIL the 2008 financial crash directly led to 6566 suicides, causing more deaths than the September 11 attacks.
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The Conversation
Stock market crashes linked to higher rates of suicide – new research
There were 6,566 more suicides in the 2008-09 period that were a direct consequence of the rapid decline of equity values.
TIL a Brazilian electronics company is legally allowed to call their phone 'iPhone' because they trademarked the word in 2000, 7 years prior to Apple's iPhone. The phone runs on Android.
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The Verge
Apple wins iPhone trademark case in Brazil
Apple has won the right to use the name "iPhone" in Brazil, promising to bring an end to a 6-year-old battle over the trademark in South America's largest country. A court ruled that Brazilian...
TIL that Wes Craven placed a torn poster of Jaws in the background of The Hills Have Eyes to communicate to the audience that he believed his movie was much scarier. Later, Sam Raimi places a torn poster of The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead to communicate the same message towards Craven
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Bloody Disgusting!
The Long History of Wes Craven and Sam Raimi's Communication Through Film - Bloody Disgusting
All these years later, the fun continues in "Ash vs. Evil Dead." It all started back in 1977. In The Hills Have Eyes, a torn Jaws poster was seen in the Ca
TIL that Louis Armstrong was a heavy marijuana smoker for much of his life and spent 9 days in jail in 1930 after being arrested for drug possession outside a club. He described marijuana as "a thousand times better than whiskey".
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Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
TIL Steve Carell used to be a mailman and during Christmas, he would write notes to kids who would send letters to Santa and put it in their mailboxes. The note read, "Your letter to Santa has been picked up by special reindeer courier."
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YouTube
Steve Carell Was A Festive Mailman
Before he was starring in big movies like 'Welcome to Marwen' and 'Vice,' Steve Carell was rural mail carrier who played along with children's letters to North Pole.
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TIL that Dennis Rodman started dying his hair blonde after seeing Wesley Snipes’ character in the movie Demolition Man.
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AMC
Story Notes for Demolition Man
Who did Sylvester Stallone originally suggest for the role that went to Wesley Snipes? The noscript was rewritten after which actor was cast in the movie? Find out with Story Notes...
TIL of Randy, the Guinea Pig that broke into the female enclosure at his Zoo, and impregnated around 100 females in 2014. He then became a father of around 400 babies.
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ITV News
Guinea pig to become father to 400 after breaking into female enclosure
Staff at Hatton Country World in Warwickshire couldn't understand why they suddenly had 100 pregnant guinea pigs on their hands - until they released one of the male rodents had managed to escape his enclosure and infiltrate the female-only enclosure.
TIL that a production of The Nutcracker can generate 40 - 45% of annual revenue for major American ballet companies.
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Crain's New York Business
The Nutcracker brings big bucks to ballet companies
The number of Nutcracker productions soars as the ballet can bring close to half of a company's annual revenue.
TIL about RadiThor, an energy drink sold in the 1920s, claimed it provided energy and cured a host of ailments, including impotence. It was simply radium dissolved in water, slowly killing its customers.
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The Conversation
When 'energy' drinks actually contained radioactive energy
Back in the early 1900s, if you felt a bit sluggish you could reach for a beverage enhanced with radioactive elements to really add some pep to your step. It wouldn't be a healthy choice, though.
TIL of Malchik, a stray dog that made a Moscow train station his home, acting as the resident guard dog. In 2001, a woman fatally wounded Malchik, stabbing him multiple times with a kitchen knife. The woman was arrested and tried. A statue, named "Compassion", was erected in honour of Malchik.
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Malchik - Wikipedia
stray mongrel stabbed to death at the Moscow Metro
TIL "2001: A Space Odyssey" was initially very poorly received by audiences due to it's slow place and ambiguous plot. The movie became more successful when masses of people began flocking to watch the movie while stoned, with MGM even advertising it as "The ultimate trip".
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The New Yorker
“2001: A Space Odyssey”: What It Means, and How It Was Made
Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to make a new kind of sci-fi. How does their future look now that it’s the past?
TIL After filming Who framed Rodger Rabbit, Bob Hoskins’ son didn’t speak to him for 2 weeks. When he finally found out why it was because his son couldn’t believe his dad had worked with Bugs Bunny and not introduced him.
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Eighties Kids
15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a movie that was well ahead of its time, especially in terms of visual effects, even now the bringing together of cartoon characters and real life actors on screen at the same time has rarely been bettered. In terms of story it…
TIL Movie theatre popcorn is sold at a 1275% markup
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Submitted April 20, 2019 at 09:08PM by Lite_It_Up
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Reader's Digest
10 Outrageous Markups You’d Never Guess You Were Paying
Sticker shocker: You might not think much about how products are priced, but we did the math to calculate how much you're spending.
TIL Sweden has a forest of oak trees planted 200 years ago because their Navy at the time needed them for ships
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Atlas Obscura
Visingsö Oak Forest
Knowing how slowly the trees grow, the Swedish Royal Navy was thinking awfully far ahead.
TIL The disturbing reality of Dr Asperger, the man who created the terms Aspergers Syndrome and High Functioning Autism. He was a Nazi doctor who sent many disabled children to their deaths.
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Vox
The disturbing history of Dr. Asperger and the movement to reframe the syndrome
"It’s up to them to decide if they want to be named after someone like him."