TIL the French Foreign Minister was shot dead in 1934 when a revolutionary opened fire. It wasn't revealed until 1974 that the revolutionary missed and the Minister was really killed by a police officer aiming for the revolutionary.
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Wikipedia
Louis Barthou - Wikipedia
French politician
TIL Americans work more than any other major countries — 137 hours per year more than Japanese, 260 per year more than the UK, and 500 hours per year more than France.
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New York Post
Americans work harder than any other country’s citizens: study
Start up the grill. Get the burgers and chicken going. And start imbibing. You deserve it, according to a new work study. “We’re hard workers. We deserve the day off,” says Liz Bagot, a
TIL that Maria Von Trapp, whose memoir inspired “The Sound of Music” and who made a cameo appearance in the film, was not invited to the premiere. Von Trapp later inquired why and producers told her, “There were no seats left,” without apology.
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The Telegraph
The Sound of Music: 10 things you didn't know about the film
The Sound of Music is celebrating its 50th anniversary in March 2015, which will be marked with a special festival in Salzburg, Austria, in June
TIL all the numbers on the roulette wheel add up to 666.
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Casino.org Blog
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About a Roulette Wheel - Casino.org Blog
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About a Roulette Wheel - THE definitive guide to roulette wheels, their history and why they're designed like they are.
TIL that the Chi-Chi's restaurant chain was hit with the largest hepatitis A outbreak in U.S. history, with at least four deaths and 660 other victims a month after filing for bankruptcy
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Chi-Chi's - Wikipedia
Chi-Chi's is a Mexican-restaurant chain operating in Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, The United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait by Tumbleweed, Inc. The chain also once operated in the United States and Canada but exited those countries in 2004. Currently Chi-Chi's…
TIL that despite being one of the larger restaurant chains, Subway locations are closing at an ever-increasing rate
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Restaurant Business
Subway closed 1,100 restaurants last year
The company has fewer than 25,000 locations in the U.S., the lowest level since 2011.
TIL Humans account for just 0.01% of Life on Earth and have caused the loss of around 80% of wild land and marine mammals, and 50% of plants.
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Sustainable Human
The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Bigger Than Climate Change - Sustainable Human
A three-year study has grim implications for the future of humanity.
TIL that in Singapore some elevators are equipped with Urine Detection Devices that detect the scent of urine, setting off an alarm and closing the doors until the police arrive to arrest the offender!
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GoAbroad.com
Singapore: Laws To Know Before You Go | GoAbroad.com
Singapore is an increasingly unique city. Before stepping foot within its borders, be sure you've got these laws in your back pocket.
TIL that the legendary Johnny Cash fought for the rights of Native Americans and dedicated an entire album to them. Radio stations refused to play any of the album. In retaliation, Cash bought an ad on Billboard asking: "Where are your guts?"
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Billboard
Johnny Cash's Family Condemns White Supremacist: Read Cash's 1964 Letter to Radio Stations
"Our dad told each of us, over and over throughout our lives, 'Children, you can choose love or hate. I choose love.'"
TIL early Sears catalogs were made smaller than Montgomery Ward catalogs so that neatnik housewives would stack them on top
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BBC
BBC World Service - 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - Downloads
Podcast downloads for 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
TIL that in 2004, Forbes named J.K. Rowling the first person to become a billionaire (in US dollars) from writing books. By 2012, she had donated so much money to charity that they had to remove her from the rich list because she was no longer a billionaire.
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NZ Herald
J.K Rowling: Billionaire to millionaire
One of the world's wealthiest women, J.K Rowling, has given so much money to charity she can no longer claim billionaire status.
TIL to prove that coffee is unhealthy, King Gustav experimented with a twin, one drank enormous amounts of coffee, the other one, tea. Both samples outlived the researchers and King Gustav
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HISTORY
This King Hated Coffee So Much He Tried to Kill Someone With It
Sweden's Gustav III believed coffee made people behave badly.
TIL that Blackpanthers planned a free breakfast program for children but the Chicago cops broke into the church they were holding it in the night before and Urinated on all the food. Regardless of the delay the program continued and fed tens of thousands of hungry kids over the span of many years.
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HISTORY
How the Black Panthers’ Breakfast Program Both Inspired and Threatened the Government
The Panthers’ popular breakfast programs put pressure on political leaders to feed children before school.
TIL The farthest you can get from a McDonald's in the U.S. is 107 miles.
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www.datapointed.net
Where The Buffalo Roamed – How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?
TIL the population of London in 1939 was 8,615,245; in 2015 the population of London was 8,615,246.
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Category:History of London
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
TIL in 2007, 170 Swiss soldiers got lost during training and landed in Liechtenstein. The accidental invasion made them hurry back to the Swiss border, calling officials to profusely apologize. Liechtenstein's ministry replied "no problem, it happens."
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Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein (/ˈlɪktənstaɪn/ (listen) LIK-tən-styne; German: [ˈlɪçtn̩ʃtaɪn]), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in Alpine Central Europe. The principality is…
TIL: In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would only be working 20 hours a week with seven weeks vacation.
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Business Insider
We Were Supposed To Be Working 20-Hour Weeks By Now
According to a Congressional subcommittee in 1965.
TIL many Jews fought back against the Nazis. Eta Wrobel escaped transport to a concentration camp and helped organize a resistance group. Refusing to just cook and clean, she carried a weapon on patrols and set mines to destroy German vehicles. Once, she dug a bullet out of her own leg with a knife.
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Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Eta Wrobel
Eta helped organize an exclusively Jewish partisan unit of approximately eighty people. The unit set mines to hinder German movement and cut off supply routes. Unlike the other seven women in the unit, Eta refused to cook or clean. She was active on missions…
TIL a pregnant American black bear can give birth without ever emerging from hibernation. She doesn’t even need to rouse herself to care for her young, instead she can nurse her cubs for months by drawing from her reserves of stored fat.
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Discover Magazine
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Bears | DiscoverMagazine.com
The cute-but-dangerous creatures don’t actually hibernate, don’t gobble honey as much as people think and have a sketchy family tree.
TIL that Sir George Everest, after whom Mount Everest was named, objected to the honor, as he had nothing to do with the mountain's discovery and he had the impression his name was not easily written or pronounced in Hindi.
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | The man who 'discovered' Everest
Radhanath Sickdhar, a Calcutta-born mathematician, was the first man to have calculated the height of Mount Everest
TIL The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water
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Mentalfloss
Why Does Bottled Water Have an Expiration Date?
Blame New Jersey.