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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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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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
TIL in 2004 215 restaurants in the Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make customers addicted. In 2016, 35 restaurants in the entire country were found doing the same thing.
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The Independent
Chinese restaurants shut down after seasoning food with opium to 'hook' customers
35 restaurants across China have been found illegally using opium as seasoning in their food, state officials say. Five restaurants are being prosecuted over the findings, whilst 30 more are under
TIL Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was sold at a New Orleans art gallery for $10,000 in 2005 and ended up selling for $450,000,000 in 2017. It's the most expensive painting ever sold.
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Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)
Salvator Mundi is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci dated to c. 1500. Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored, and included in a major Leonardo exhibition at the National…
TIL Neuroscience shows people can’t actually read and listen at the same time so having too much text on a PowerPoint slide is useless
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Pursuit
How neuroscience beats PowerPoint coma
Here are five ways to blitz your next PowerPoint presentation – it's all about the neuroscience, says a University of Melbourne researcher.
TIL halting sneezing via blocking the nostrils and mouth is a dangerous manoeuvre. It may lead to numerous complications, such as pneudomediastinum (air trapped in the chest between both lungs), perforation of the tympanic membrane (perforated eardrum), and even rupture of a cerebral aneurysm.
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The Telegraph
Don’t hold in a sneeze, warn doctors. It could be the death of you
When sitting in a quiet theatre or a packed train, stifling a sneeze by holding the nose and closing the mouth may seem like the courteous option.
TIL of Hannah Szenes, a Jewish parachutist dropped by the British into Yugoslavia during WWII to help rescue Hungarian Jews about to be deported to Auschwitz. Arrested, imprisoned and tortured, she refused to reveal details of her mission or her transmitter code. She was eventually executed.
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Submitted May 02, 2019 at 08:46AM by beerbellybegone
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Wikipedia
Hannah Szenes - Wikipedia
Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II