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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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 05:44PM by Skov35
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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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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 04:15PM by PoisonedHive
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YouTube
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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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 03:50PM by amansaggu26
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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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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 06:00PM by megamooze
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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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CBS News
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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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 08:53PM by MrTwo-Face
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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.
TIL The Roman Catholic Church fully accepted the theory of evolution back in 1950. They accept it provided that Christians believe that God created all things and that the individual soul is a direct creation by God and not the product of purely material forces.
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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 08:12PM by SEO_Unleashed
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Catholic Church and evolution - Wikipedia
The Catholic Church supports theistic evolutionism, although Catholics are free not to believe in any part of evolutionary theory
TIL that in Australia when it gets very hot, the nectar in some flowers ferments and turns into alcohol. The bees get "drunk" and are not allowed back into the hive
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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 11:40PM by neymarxjordanjunior
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Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Honeybees Strict No Drinking Policy
Drunk bees often die. Either because they get lost while trying to find their way back to the hive or because sober bees attack them.
TIL that Natalie Portman speaks Hebrew(native), English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. As a student, she co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals.
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 04:44AM by imad7x
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Natalie Portman - Wikipedia
Israeli-American actress
TIL that the color orange was called "red-yellow" until the English-speaking world was introduced to the fruit that was named "orange."
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Submitted April 23, 2019 at 09:01PM by rosegamm
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Wikipedia
Orange (word) - Wikipedia
word in the English language
TIL Mount Everest is only the world's tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But since the earth bulges at the equator, the mountain Chimborazo in Ecuador is the tallest mountain if you measure from the earth's core.
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 02:24AM by brantlymillegan
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Chimborazo
Chimborazo (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃimboˈɾaso]) is a currently inactive stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes. Its last known eruption is believed to have occurred around 550 C.E.
TIL a Saudi man, who was then the heaviest person alive and the second heaviest person ever recorded at 1340lbs (610kg) in 2013, was ordered by his King to lose weight. He then lost 1195lbs, and in 2017, weighed just 150lbs(68kg).
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 02:35AM by LawyersAreFriends
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Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari - Wikipedia
Heaviest person on the planet in 2013
TIL Einstein failing a math exam is a myth. He failed the entrance exam to Zurich Polytechnic because he did poorly on botany, zoology and language sections.
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 01:15PM by amansaggu26
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HowStuffWorks
Did Einstein really fail math?
Einstein's genius supposedly had at least one glaring flaw -- that he failed math at some point in his educational career.
TIL Drug Dogs Are Being Trained to Ignore Marijuana
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 07:32AM by Investtheres1
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Police drug dogs trained to ignore marijuana
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. That's why the Rifle Police Department is retiring their drug dog, Tulo.
TIL in 2016, Alex Trebek, the host of "Jeopardy!", donated a total of $7.5 million to his Alma mater, University of Ottawa, to fund a Forum for Dialogue and a Speaker Series. The goal is to expose students to different world views through discussions and panels by speakers from around the world.
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 08:09AM by EnoughPM2020
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Alex Trebek - Wikipedia
Canadian television personality
TIL that the telecom company Sprint was built on infrastructure belonging to the former Southern Pacific Railroad, where it gets its name from: Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications (S.P.R.I.N.T.)
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 08:20AM by AlternateLives
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Sprint Born From Railroad, Telephone Businesses
Melissa Block explores the long family history of the companies that comprise what became Sprint. It all began in Kansas in the late 19th century and came to include a long distance system created by the Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications…
TIL A Japanese fish called Hanako (1751-1977) lived for 215 years. The longest living koi fish ever recorded.
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 01:12PM by amansaggu26
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Hanako (fish) - Wikipedia
scarlet koi fish (c. 1751 – 1977)
TIL that George Clooney spent his Nespresso earnings on a spy satellite to watch Sudan warlord accused of genocide and other war crimes, Omar Al Bashir.
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 12:29PM by moffmj
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HuffPost UK
The Wild Way George Clooney Is Spending His Paycheck
George Clooney is spending a recent handsome paycheck on an endeavor that might surprise those who know more about Clooney's love life than his espionage activities.The
TIL The founder of Mormonism was shot several times, fell out of a window, died, and proceeded to be shot more.
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Submitted April 24, 2019 at 09:07AM by happytree23
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Joseph Smith - Wikipedia
American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement