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.
TIL Gary Hart, a politician running for president in 1988, invited the media to follow him around after he was alleged to be a womanizer. He was quoted as saying, “Follow me around. I don't care. I'm serious.” Members of the media complied and he was caught having an affair 2 weeks later.
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NY Times
Gary Hart, the Elusive Front-Runner
A profile from the May 3, 1987 issue of the magazine, the same day that The Miami Herald published a story with the headline “Miami Woman Is Linked To Hart: Candidate Denies Any Impropriety.”
TIL In old Eastern Europe folklore vampires are obsessed with counting. Millet or poppy seeds were placed on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire, in order to keep the vampire occupied all night counting. Hence Count von Count on Sesame Street.
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Vampires Traits - Vampires - Dracula
TIL that Chicago got its "Windy City" nickname not from its windy weather but rather due to its reputation for braggadocios politicians who were "full of hot air".
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Mentalfloss
Why is Chicago Called the "Windy City"?
Travelers to Chicago may experience the wind gusts that come off Lake Michigan, get tossed around a bit and think, “So this is why it’s called the Windy City.” The nickname, which dates back to the late 1870s, is deceiving because, literally, Chicago is a…
TIL that in over 50 years and 10 billion passengers, the Japanese bullet train has never had a single passenger fatality caused by a derailment or collision.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Bullet train at 50: rise and fall of the world's fastest train
As Japan's Shinkansen network celebrates its 50th anniversary, Julian Ryall charts the history of the game-changing locomotive
TIL that in the US a check does not need to be written on a bank check. It can be written on anything (including clothing) and legally be cashed as long as it includes the proper information.
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Giant cardboard check, please - Mar. 22, 2001
What if you won the lottery and you got one of those giant cardboard checks -- could you deposit it at the bank?
TIL CBS created a show called Kid Nation (2007), where 40 kids ages 8-15 spent 40 days without direct adult supervision in a ghost town where they had to create a sustainable community
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KID NATION Episode 1, I'm Trying to Be a Leader Here. (FREE)
40 kids from the ages of 8-15 are put into the abandoned town of Bonanza City, New Mexico for 40 days. They have to build their own society by electing leaders, passing laws, and establish an economy.
TIL A Colombian drug cartel put a $70,000 bounty on a police dog because it sniffed out almost 10 tons of drugs in 300+ operations, leading to 245 arrests.
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The Colombian cartel just put a $70K bounty on this dog
She's sniffed out nearly 10 tons of drugs. Now a powerful cartel wants to end her record success.
TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.
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The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as teenagers from different high school cliques who spend a…
Today I learned poison dart frogs make great pets. So long as they are bred in captivity (so as not to diminish population) They get their poison from their diet in the wild so they are harmless in captivity and can live over a decade!
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Josh's Frogs How-To Guides
So You Think You Want Dart Frogs? - Josh's Frogs How-To Guides
A Pre-Guide to Getting Started in the Hobby Poison Dart Frogs make amazing captives. They are colorful, relatively easy to…
TIL A house cat bit its owner in the middle of the night to alert the family for the house fire. The family got out in time with no injuries and the fire department confirmed the cat was partially responsible for the rescue, "Hero kitty"
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This hero cat bit its sleeping owner to alert family to house fire
Cat reportedly pawed its way into parents' bedroom and woke them up, saving them from burning home
TIL Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead loved to play a particular arcade game at his local bar. When he found out he was terminally ill, the bar owner brought the game machine to Lemmy's apartment so he could keep playing it at home.
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Rolling Stone
Lemmy’s Last Days: How Metal Legend Celebrated 70th, Stared Down Cancer
Motörhead manager Todd Singerman takes us inside Lemmy's final days, as he celebrated his 70th on the Sunset Strip and stared down a cancer diagnosis.
TIL that contrary to popular belief, the vast majority born in California remain in California rather than moving to other States. California actually has one of the highest retention rates for native born citizens in the country.
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Nytimes
Where We Came From and Where We Went, State by State
Updated charts now show two views: where people who live in each state were born, and where people who were born in a state moved to.