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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
TIL - An American woman lost all her teeth due to fluoride poisoning from tea. She'd been having a pitcher of ice tea made with 100-150 bags every day for 17 years.
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Cbsnews
Woman's 150 tea bag per day habit lead to bone disease, her doctors say
47-year-old woman was diagnosed with skeletal fluorosis, a painful condition caused by consuming too much fluoride
TIL: The poorest President in the world was former Uruguay President Jose Mujica, who only received a monthly salary of $7.5k. He gave away 90% of his salary and only declared $1.8k as his wealth in 2010, his 1987 Volkswagon.
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BBC News
The world's poorest president
Politicians are often criticised for extravagant lifestyles, but Uruguay's president lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his income.
TIL the directors of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Baby Driver consulted each other to make sure that the films would not have the same songs on their soundtracks.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (soundtrack)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album for the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Featuring the songs present on Peter Quill's mixtape in the film, the album was released…
TIL that female tears contain an odorless chemical that reduces testosterone levels in men.
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Smell That Sadness? Female Tears Turn Off Men
Female tears had physiological effects on men who smelled them: It lowered their sexual arousal and decreased testosterone levels, according to a new study. Though study participants didn't notice a particular smell, researchers say there must be a chemical…
TIL Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) was originally such a successful street performer that when he asked an accountant how to pay taxes on the money he earned, he was told that he'd be better off not paying any since he would most likely be accused of being a drug dealer.
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YouTube
Bravo Profiles - Penn and Teller (2001)
I have seen pieces of this on youtube, but didnt see the full thing. Here it is. Lots of cool shots of young Penn + Teller.
TIL that after being shot in the frontal lobe during WWI, a Hungarian man named Paul Kern became unable to fall asleep. Baffling doctors, he did not present any other symptom other than his inability to sleep and an occasional headache. He went on to live a full, sleepless life.
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r/todayilearned - TIL that after being shot in the frontal lobe during WWI, a Hungarian man named Paul Kern became unable to fall…
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TIL Boring in Oregon twinned with Dull in Scotland, then added Bland in Australia to become the Trinity of Tedium
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GOOD
How the Towns of Bland, Dull, and Boring Made Their Lame Names Work for Them
Small towns stuck with unfortunate or unusual appellations are a surprise hit with tourists
TIL peeling Scotch Tape in a vacuum releases enough X-rays to produce an image of finger bones on X-ray film
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MIT Technology Review
X-Rays Made with Scotch Tape
Unwinding Scotch tape produces enough radiation to image a human finger.
TIL Prairie dogs have different calls to communicate about humans that they've seen. "They're able to describe the colour of clothes the humans are wearing, they're able to describe the size and shape of humans, even, amazingly, whether a human once appeared with a gun,"
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CBC
Prairie dogs' language decoded by scientists | CBC News
Did that prairie dog just call you fat? Quite possibly. On The Current Friday, biologist Con Slobodchikoff described how he learned to understand what prairie dogs are saying to one another and discovered how eloquent they can be.
TIL Before he died in 1998, Chinese President Yang Shangkun told his army doctor that the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4 had been the most serious mistake committed by the Communist Party in its history
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Yang Shangkun
Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and was a powerful Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission under Deng Xiaoping. He married Li Bozhao in 1929…
TIL that pencils are yellow because in the 19th century, the best graphite came from China. Because yellow was a royal colour in China, pencil companies began to colour their pencils yellow to show both high quality and an association with China.
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Southern Living
The Bizarre Reason Pencils Are Yellow
Ever wonder why are most pencils yellow? Read on for interesting pencil trivia.
TIL that Hershey's Chocolate isn't legally considered chocolate in Britain, because of its low cocoa amounts.
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Submitted April 29, 2019 at 11:47AM by LotsaCatPics
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BBC News - The great transatlantic chocolate divide
There’s speculation the US confectionery giant Hershey plans to bid for Cadbury. But is there a transatlantic sweet tooth divide, and might we end up with more “American-tasting” chocolate?
TIL Ancient DNA shows how recent adult lactose tolerance is, in evolutionary terms. 20,000 years ago, it was non-existent. Today, about 1/3 of all adults have tolerance. That lightning-fast evolutionary change suggests that direct milk consumption must have provided a serious survival advantage
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Smithsonian
How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution
Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color