TIL that, one of the few references that Leonardo Da Vinci made to sexuality in his notebooks states: "The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions."
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Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci
The personal life of Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) has been a subject of interest, inquiry, and speculation since the years immediately following his death. Leonardo has long been regarded as the archetypal Renaissance man, described by the…
TIL about the powers of Queen Elizabeth II, that she can fire the whole Australian government, has her own personal poet, can drive without a license, owns every Dolphin in British waters
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Business Insider
Queen Elizabeth II owns every dolphin in Britain, doesn't need a driving license, and other incredible powers you didn't know the…
Jeremy Banford/Flickr/Danny E. Martindale/Getty Images/BIQueen Elizabeth II is not like you and me.Did you know she is immune from prosecution? That she has
TIL That Dungeons and Dragons' "Thieves' Cant" is a real thing - a language used by beggars and thieves in medieval Britain.
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Thieves' cant - Wikipedia
language
TIL the purpose of a bong is to immediately cool the smoke by passing it through water, resulting in a smoother toke.The water also filters out any ash that might otherwise blow into your mouth or airway.There’s also a certain amount of tar filtration that goes on. This is why the water turns brown
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Leafly
Cannabis Science 101: The Complex Chemistry of the Bong
What is the science behind the water pipe? Are those bubbles actually making your toke any healthier? It’s complicated.
TIL during the 1992 L.A. riots, police officers asked the accompanying U.S. Marines to cover them while searching a house for a suspect that held his wife and children hostage. Mistaking the statement "cover them" for suppressive fire, the Marines promptly fired 200 rounds into the house.
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PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Summer 1997
TIL that in 1969 the Black Panther Party planned a free breakfast program for children, but before the first program was opened "the Chicago police broke into the church and mashed up all the food and urinated on it".
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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 Tommy Lee Jones has been portraying an alien in Japanese coffee ads (Boss Coffee) for decades.
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Submitted May 01, 2019 at 07:56PM by meatboysawakening
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TIL to help prostitute's business in 16th c. Venice, the authorities designated a bridge where they could stand and show their breasts to potential clients. The bridge still stands to this day and is called "Ponte delle Tette" or the bridge of tits.
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Ponte delle Tette - Wikipedia
Ponte delle Tette is a small bridge on the rio di san Canciano in the parish of San Cassiano, Venice, Italy, in the sestieres of San Polo. It takes its name ("Bridge of the Tits") from the use of the bridge by prostitutes, who were encouraged to stand topless…
TIL that Godwin's law, introduced in 1990, states that the longer an online discussion grows, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1
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Submitted May 01, 2019 at 06:22PM by imnotzuckerberg
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Godwin's law - Wikipedia
the longer an online discussion grows, the higher the probability of mentioning Hitler
TIL that Pad Thai, the national dish of Thailand, is actually not a traditional dish, but was invented, standardized and promoted by the Thai government, and imposed upon the people, as part of a broad cultural effort to establish a sense of national identity.
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South China Morning Post
History of pad Thai: how the stir-fried noodle dish was invented by the Thai government
Its history is as political as it is delicious. Dive into the history of this not-so-Thai noodle dish that was born of politics and nationalism almost 80 years ago.
TIL After studios refused to fund Monty Python and The Holy Grail, the bands Genesis, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin contributed £20,000 each as "a good tax write off"
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Wikipedia
1975 British comedy film
TIL that in 2012, after the Kazakhstan's shooting team won a medal at the championships in Kuwait, instead of the country's national anthem being played, the joke national anthem from the Borat movie was played.
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BBC News
Borat tune stuns Kazakh medallist
A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.
TIL Alex Trebek didn't take a single sick day for the first 34 years of Jeopardy
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Guinness World Records
Video: Jeopardy! star Alex Trebek sets record for most game show episodes hosted
We catch up with the man with all the questions ahead of tonight’s history-making show
TIL Asphalt pavements are America's most recycled product. Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) can be recycled into pavement that is as high, or even higher, in quality as pavements made of all-virgin materials. And, the same material can be recycled again and again; it never loses its value.
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Asphalt for Recycling and Energy Reduction
National Asphalt Pavement Association
TIL During WWI, cotton was in high demand for the manufacture of uniforms and explosives. For bandages, doctors turned to using sphagnum moss. It can hold up to 22 times its own weight in liquid -- twice as absorptive as cotton. The moss is also antiseptic, making the surrounding environment acidic
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Smithsonian
World War I: 100 Years Later
The same extraordinary properties that make this plant an “ecosystem engineer” also helped save human lives
TIL: Avatar (2009 Film) required 4,000 servers, 35,000 CPU Cores, 104 TB of RAM, and 3 PB of Network Area Storage in a 10,000 sq ft farm to render the movies effects
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Avatar (2009 film) - Wikipedia
2009 American 3D epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron
TIL that tea used to be consumed only as a medicine in England, but when people saw the Portuguese queen drinking tea regularly, it became popular there too.
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Bbc
The true story behind England’s tea obsession
A stiff upper lip and an almost genetic love of tea are what makes the English English. Except that the latter was actually influenced by a Portuguese woman.
TIL that the character of Lois Lane was based on pioneering investigative journalist Nellie Bly, known for her undercover exposé as an inmate of a mental institution in 1887. She also reported on Europe's Eastern Front during World War I and took a trip around the world in a record-breaking 72 days.
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Nellie Bly - Wikipedia
American journalist
TIL a mere 12,000 years ago, a species closely related to the modern humans had been living on an Indonesian island. They used fire and stone tools of the sophisticated upper paleolithic tradition, yet were only about 3.5 feet tall and weighed around 25kg (55lb).
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 08:33AM by coinmarshal
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Homo floresiensis - Wikipedia
Extinct species of the genus Homo
TIL that humans weren't the first species to discover agriculture. That honor belongs to multiple species of ants (and termites) who beat us to it by 50-60 million years.
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 02:35AM by phthalo-azure
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Ant–fungus mutualism - Wikipedia
Ant–fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen in certain ant and fungal species, in which ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as a food source. In some species, the ants and fungi are dependent on each other for survival. The leafcutter…
TIL the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date is the sacred fig tree "Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi", planted in 288 BC.
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Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi - Wikipedia
Sacred tree in Sri Lanka