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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Wikipedia
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.
TIL King Frederick II used reverse psychology on his peasants who refused to eat potatoes because they tasted horrible. To stop the food famine he sent his guards to guard fields of potatoes and the peasants started stealing them and growing their own.
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changingminds.org
Guarding the royal potato. Or not.
Yet another blog from ChangingMinds.org.
TIL: The oldest bar in the world is in Ireland. Archeological records have found that the walls of Sean’s Bar have been around, and serving, since 900 AD. Further, there are records of every owner of the pub back to its 10th century founding. It opened over 1100 years ago.
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Bucketlistbars
5 Oldest Bars in the World
Okay, you've asked us, now we're letting you know. According to our research these are the five oldest bars in the world. Before we begin though, let's start with a caveat: this is as far as we know! There may be some bar nobody has found somewhere tucked…
Today I learned that Canadians say sorry so much that a law had to be passed saying that apologies aren't admissions of guilt.
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The Loop
Canadians love to say ‘sorry’ so much, we had to make this law
Are you really that surprised?
TIL Citigroup wrote secret memos in 2005 and 2006 addressed to investors, stating the world is dividing up more and more into a small group of rich people who drive the economy, surrounded by a large number of poor people whose economic interests can be safely ignored.
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TIL Jesus is the most mentioned person in the Quran
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Wikipedia
Jesus in Islam - Wikipedia
Jesus considered to be a Messenger of God and al-Masih (the Messiah) in Islam
TIL about the American Prairie Reserve, a project initiative that is privately purchasing large swaths of land out in the Great Plains of America and converting it into what will hopefully be the largest nature reserve in the continental U.S.
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reddit
r/todayilearned - TIL about the American Prairie Reserve, a project initiative that is privately purchasing large swaths of land…
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TIL that, after becoming the first white man to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds, French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre received a formal letter of invitation from the Ku Klux Klan. He did not respond.
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the Guardian
Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status
Christophe Lemaitre wants to be known as an Olympic champion, not just the first white man to run under 10 seconds, he tells Anna Kessel
TIL: The National Institute on Drug Abuse inadvertently led to the discovery of the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) trying to prove the dangers of marijuana. ECS serves a vital purpose for our health and well-being because it regulates key aspects of our biology. It explains why pot works medicinally.
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Leafly
What Is the Endocannabinoid System and What Is Its Role?
Learn more about the endocannabinoid system including how it interacts with cannabinoids to help produce cannabis effects and its role in our bodies.