TIL that Hokusai, the artist behind the famous 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', illustrated a series of shunga erotica called 'Dreams of the Fisherman's Wife' which includes vivid depictions of women having sex with octopus. Published in 1814
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The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife - Wikipedia
woodcut design by Japanese artist Hokusai
TIL Jimmy Carter still lives in the same $167,000 house he built in Georgia in 1961 and shops at Dollar General
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Former President Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house and shops at the Dollar General
"It just never had been my ambition to be rich."
TIL: The highest point (The peak of Mount Whitney at 14,494 feet / 4,418 meters) and lowest point (The Badwater Basin area of Death Valley at -282 feet / -86 meters) in the Contiguous United States are both in California, both in the same county in California, and only 88 miles apart.
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Twelve Mile Circle
Highest and Lowest, Oh So Close - Twelve Mile Circle
The highest and lowest elevations in the continental United States (the "Lower 48" more precisely) are both found in the state of California. Astoundingly, they are less than 88 miles (142 kilometers) apart with an elevation change approaching 15,000 feet.…
TIL that Prince Charles has been heir to the British throne for 67 years, making him the oldest and longest-serving heir in British history.
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Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II. He has been Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay since 1952, and is the oldest and longest…
TIL that every single copy of GoldenEye 007 for the N64 shipped with a fully functioning ZX Spectrum emulator, along with ten games, hidden on the cartridge. This function can be reenabled using an emulator, letting users play the classic games.
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Kotaku
Long Lost Emulation Easter Egg Discovered in GoldenEye
GoldenEye, for the Nintendo 64, is one of the all-time classics of gaming. Recently, a fan uncovered an Easter egg Rare had buried in GoldenEye's code: a fully functional emlulator for the ZX Spectrum system, complete with ten games.
TIL that Akon, a successful artist who won several platinums stopped with music to focus on his humanitarian project "Akon Lighting Africa". This project has installed more than 200.000 solar power systems and are educating people in learning how to use solar power.
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Akon Lighting Africa - Wikipedia
Akon Lighting Africa is a project started in 2014 by former music artist Akon with Samba Bathily and Thione Niang which aims to provide electricity by solar energy in Africa. Their initial technique is to install Solar street lights and small energy systems.
TIL that a marine scientist accidentally invented a way to make corrals grow 25-40 times faster, making large scale reef restoration a possibility
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Theoutliar
Accidental Discovery Makes A Coral Reef Grow 25 Times Faster
Scientist accidentally discovers a technique that makes a coral reef grow 25-40 times faster, enabling environmentalist to set up coral nuseries
TIL the city of Nottingham, UK, named a tram after a locally born actress, Vicky McClure. On her maiden trip on the tram, she was ejected for fare evasion. Having been offered a free ride, she did not have a ticket.
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Vicky McClure - Wikipedia
British actress
TIL jazz violinist Joe Venuti, known for practical jokes, once called every double bass player in the New York phonebook, asking them to meet with him on a street corner; over 50 arrived with their instruments, creating a minor roadblock. Venuti later had to pay them all, as mandated by the AFM.
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Joe Venuti - Wikipedia
jazz violinist
TIL that pineapples were so rare a sight in the 1700's they were a symbol of wealth. The few that were cultivated in hothouses were worth about five thousand pounds ($8000) each. They weren't eaten, but were rented out by the aristocracy as a table centerpiece at dinner parties.
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The Spruce Eats
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pineapples
The pineapple that made Hawaii famous is not actually from Hawaii. Learn about the history of pineapples and how it arrived in America.
TIL in 2002 paramedics in Poland were arrested for killing patients and selling their information to funeral homes who would contact their relatives to make funeral arrangements. The funeral homes then added the cost of the bribes they paid the killers to the funeral bills of the victims' families.
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r/todayilearned - TIL in 2002 paramedics in Poland were arrested for killing patients and selling their information to funeral…
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TIL Costco’s $6,000 Doomsday Food Kit Only Gets Your Family Through Year One of the Apocalypse. The kit is delivered as two pallets of boxes that together weigh 1,800 pounds. To keep neighbors in the dark, Costco promises everything is “packaged discreetly.” The some products expire in 30 years.
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Grub Street
Costco Now Sells an All-Pastel Doomsday-Prepper Food Kit
It’s 36,000 servings you can distribute however you see fit.
TIL about shot towers, formerly used to produce projectiles for shotguns. Molten lead was dropped from the top of the tower and into a bucket of water at the bottom, and the force from the fall formed spherical shots.
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Shot tower - Wikipedia
A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of small diameter shot balls by freefall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin. The shot is primarily used for projectiles in shotguns, and also for ballast, radiation shielding and other…
TIL that Game of Thrones actresses Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) would relax together after sets by sitting in bath tubs smoking weed and putting on makeup. They remain good friends off set
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Digital Spy
GoT's Stark sisters "smoked weed in bath tub" together
Stark sisters 4 life.
TIL the green falling code in "The Matrix" movie is just loads of sushi recipes.
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Munchies
That Trippy Green Code in ‘The Matrix’ Is Just a Bunch of Sushi Recipes
Mystery solved!
TIL While filming "2001: A Space Odyssey", the director Stanley Kubrick was so worried that an alien encounter was imminent that he took out an insurance policy incase aliens were discovered before his movie was released which he believed would have ruined his storyline.
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HISTORY
11 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Alien insurance. A leopard-proof cage. And a heroin-addicted ape-man. These are just a few of the odd details behind the making of one of history's most revered movies.
TIL, Max Yasgur who hosted the '69 Woodstock concert, received only $10K, shunned by his neighbors, gave free water and milk to guests and was hailed. He died 4 years later and received a full page obituary in Rolling Stone as a non musician.
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Max Yasgur - Wikipedia
American farmer who leased land for Woodstock
TIL the oldest D20 dice was uncovered in Egypt and dates back around 30 BC
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CNET
Ancient d20 die emerges from the ashes of time
Many centuries before Dungeons & Dragons was even a glimmer in the eye of Gary Gygax, ancient Egyptians were rolling a d20 die.
TIL During WW2, a German air raid in Bari, Italy hit the US Navy's SS John Harvey and 1000 people were exposed to the secret cargo of 2,000 mustard gas bombs. Doctors observed that the mustard gas destroyed the white blood cells of the victims. This discovery led to the development of chemotherapy.
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The Scientist Magazine®
From Chemical Weapon to Chemotherapy, 1917–1946
Mustard gas blistered men’s bodies on the battlefield, but paved the way for cancer-fighting drugs.
TIL Grapes in a microwave create plasma because the wave lengths are the same size as the grapes
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Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves) close together the fields interact with each other creating a maximum of…
TIL a Dutch student was suspended from school in 2008 after uploading a video showing him slapping his penis against the Taj Mahal. The act of slapping one's penis against an object is called "swaffelen" and was voted word of the year in 2008 in the Netherlands.
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Swaffelen - Wikipedia
Swaffelen (or zwaffelen) is a Dutch term meaning to hit one's penis—often repeatedly—against an object or another person's body. Swaffelen was named as the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008.