TIL about Witold Pilecki, a polish agent who volunteered for Auschwitz to feed information to the West about the Holocaust, one of the first to report it. He was executed by the Soviet Union for his Western connections
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Submitted April 27, 2019 at 05:55PM by tommycthulhu
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Wikipedia
Witold Pilecki - Wikipedia
World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
TIL USPS trucks get 10 Miles to the gallon and are over 25 years old
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Submitted April 27, 2019 at 11:33PM by emailrob
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Wikipedia
Grumman LLV - Wikipedia
The Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV) is an American light transport truck. The Grumman LLV was designed as a mail truck for the United States Postal Service, which is its primary user. It is also used by Canada Post.
TIL Hugh Hefner tried to make sure his beneficiaries won’t blow through his money after his death. His will states that his children will be cut off “if the trustees reasonably believe that (the beneficiary) routinely or frequently uses or consumes any illegal substance"
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Submitted April 27, 2019 at 11:06PM by thepresident45
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The Independent
Hugh Hefner's will says widow and four children get nothing if they use drugs or alcohol
Hugh Hefner may have been known for his extravagant lifestyle - but he tried to make sure his beneficiaries won’t blow through his money after his death. The Playboy founder included a cause in his
TIL, In 2008, the country of Rwanda banned plastic bags and, in early 2019, banned all single use plastics.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 01:18AM by snowdemon483
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Rwanda Today
Rwanda adopts draft law to ban single-use plastics
Law seeks a ban on plastic water bottles, disposables straws, plates, spoons, and tumblers.
TIL The Russo Brothers were given the reins of the MCU after Marvel president Kevin Feige saw and loved the Community episode "A Fistful of Paintballs"
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 12:51AM by thoriginal
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TheWrap
'Avengers: Infinity War' Directors Russo Brothers Reveal That a Paintball Game Led to Marvel Gig
Russo Brothers Joe and Anthony describe their "20-year Cinderella story" at Produced By conference on Sunday
TIL that "sleepunders" are a thing. Kids arrive already in pajamas and do sleepover activities, but everyone leaves before bedtime.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 02:03AM by StrangeMorris
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One Boston Mom's Quest to Juggle Career, Family and Life in the Fourth Decade
What’s a Sleepunder? {repost}
For her sixth birthday, my daughter wanted a sleepover. In an attempt to retain my sanity, I proposed a compromise: a “sleepunder.”
TIL once a year in parts of England flying ants migrate. Seagulls catch and eat them and then become drunk off the ants' formic acid, causing them to crash into buildings and moving cars.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 03:32AM by jstohler
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HuffPost UK
Brits Warned Of Seagulls Across The UK 'Tripping On Acid'
"There has been a massive emergence of the ants over the last three days and they are like little treats for the gulls. They are like M&Ms to them."
TIL there was a comic book series chronicling an alternate Superman timeline where he lands in the Soviet Union instead of the United States.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 04:33AM by hotdogmaggot
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Wikipedia
Superman: Red Son - Wikipedia
three-issue comic book mini-series
TIL When Bill Gates' daughter started kindergarten, he dropped her off at school in the mornings to help out his wife, Melinda. Within a few weeks, seeing this, other dads at the school began to drop their children off in the mornings instead of their wives.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 06:53AM by kathythesecond
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Business Insider
Something interesting happened when Bill Gates started driving his daughter to school
Melinda Gates said when her husband, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, drove his daughter to school, other husbands started doing it too.
TIL there is a 1420 book that was found to have cat piss on one of its pages. The author of the manunoscript even wrote on the page "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer... and beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 07:46AM by shaka_sulu
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io9
This medieval manunoscript curses the cat who peed on it
What happens when a cat sneaks over and pees all over the precious manunoscript that you've spent months of your life inscribing? If you're this 15th century monk, you leave a note cursing the cat and move on with your writing.
TIL Harvard Associate Professor Dr. Lester Grinspoon tried to prove pot was harmful to get his friend, Carl Sagan, to smoke less. He then wrote a book on the lies behind pot and prompted a study into using THC for chemo associated nausea and vomiting, after seeing results in his son with leukemia.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 06:04AM by QuantumMechan1c
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Leafly
The Most Impactful Cannabis Studies of All Time
These scientific studies forever changed the way society sees cannabis—for better or for worse.
TIL that Stephen Wiltshire, autistic savant who draws detailed landscapes from memory and was featured in a BBC documentary as a child, now has his own gallery in London. A 76m panoramic memory drawing of New York is on display at JFK Airport. He was appointed an MBE in 2006.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 10:46AM by ClandesTyne
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Wikipedia
Stephen Wiltshire - Wikipedia
Architectural artist
TIL that Volvo opened up the patent for three-point seatbelt cause "it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from"
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 03:43PM by resont
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ArnoldClark Newsroom
Why Volvo gave away the patent for their most important invention
The life-saving three-point seat belt was too significant not to share, according to Volvo
TIL that braille is imprinted on on beer cans sold in Japan. This is to ensure that blind people won't confuse a can of beer with a soft drink.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 01:21PM by jacathinker
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Accessible Japan | アクセシブルジャパン
Traveling in Japan with a Visual Impairment - Accessible Japan | アクセシブルジャパン
Cristina visited Japan as her last stop of a 4-month round-the-world tour. Here are her thoughts about traveling in Japan with a visual impairment.
TIL: During the filming of The Rocky Horror Picture Show the crew held an easter egg hunt on set. Some of the eggs that weren't found can actually be seen in the film. This is suggested as the origin of the term.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 05:12PM by New-found-Girth
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HuffPost UK
11 Easter Eggs You Never Noticed In Your Favorite Movies
You'll never guess where Waldo shows up.
TIL that James Dyson, partly supported by his wife's salary as an art teacher, spent five years and made about 5,127 prototypes until the launch of the famous vacuum cleaner that would not lose suction as it picked up dirt.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 04:24PM by sedrakk
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Wikipedia
James Dyson
Sir James Dyson OM CBE FRS FREng (born 2 May 1947) is a British inventor, industrial design engineer and founder and chief executive of Dyson Ltd. Traditionally, he is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the…
TIL that the Japanese Bullet Train is cleaned in just seven minutes and prepared for the next passengers so that including disembarking and boarding, the train stops for only 12 minutes.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 02:55PM by jacathinker
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YouTube
The 7-Minute Miracle Of Japanese Train System
It is amazing by all means
TIL: That magician Houdini took off a year during WWI to promote the war effort and taught soldiers how to get out of handcuffs giving away some of his magic secrets.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 09:16PM by emilNYC
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TIL Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes on "Sherlock," is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the character.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 06:31PM by pincer420
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The Independent
Benedict Cumberbatch is 'distantly related' to Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle, researchers claim
Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote the original books, researchers have claimed. In a piece of sleuthing Holmes himself might have been proud
TIL that basketball sensation Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 09:37PM by ProdByWillare
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Owlcation
Over 200 Fun, Odd Facts Most People Don't Know
Over 200 odd facts about science, sports, history and more that you and your friends probably don't already know!
TIL that in the late Middle Ages, books were so valuable that libraries would chain them to the bookcase. This was widely practised until the 18th century.
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Submitted April 28, 2019 at 05:56PM by jacathinker
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Smithsonian
Libraries Used to Chain Their Books to Shelves, With the Spines Hidden Away
Books have been around a long time, but the way we store them--stacked vertically, spines out--is a relatively recent invention