TIL that the really innocent-sounding German 1980's song "99 luftballons" or "99 red balloons" is actually about two kids accidentally causing a nuclear holocaust by releasing 99 red balloons.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 12:52PM by orests1
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TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 03:41PM by Cicopath1
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Strawberry Plants . org
Pineberry & Pineberries, The Rest of the Story
A pineberry is a white strawberry with red seeds with pineapple overtones. Buy pineberries, buy pineberry plants here. Buy pineberry & pineberries!
TIL about how BBC once convinced people Spaghetti grew on trees. In 1957,BBC broadcast a 3min program about Switzerland farms growing Spaghetti trees. The farmers harvested them and put in the sun to dry them.The presenter explained Spaghetti always grows to the same length. People believed it.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 03:15PM by EasyMonnaie
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Spaghetti-tree hoax - Wikipedia
hoax report broadcast on BBC
TIL President Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet cult film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” at least eight times in preparation for his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, to try and understand the mysterious Russian soul.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 02:37PM by krstyan
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Soviet Art
Soviet Cult film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - Soviet Art
Soviet Cult film, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Soviet film, Vladimir Menshov, lyrical story, friends provincials, American Film Academy, Oscar
TIL Robert E. Lee owned a plantation across the river from Washington DC until the start of the Civil War. The Lees fled the home and the Union army occupied their land, ultimately burying Union war dead there to spite Lee for his treason. It is now Arlington National Cemetery.
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Arlington National Cemetery - Wikipedia
military cemetery in the United States of America
TIL that Japan's most celebrated generals have been masters of Ikebana, the art of flower arranging, finding that it calmed their minds and helped them make clear decisions in the field of battle.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 05:02PM by jcd1974
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Ikebana - Wikipedia
Japanese art of flower arrangement
TIL the artist Camille Corot is one of the most forged artists ever. He had a lazy attitude towards copies. He would sign replicas and even loan his works to professional copiers. Efforts to stop this by publicizing his art backfired, when forgers used the catalogues as guides to refine their fakes.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 01:21PM by Tokyono
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Wikipedia
French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching
TIL Brazilian scrap thieves unknowingly stole highly radioactive caesium-137 from a shuttered hospital. The glowing powder was handled, shown to neighbors as a curiosity and even dabbed on faces like makeup. This event resulted in 4 deaths, including a toddler who ingested the powder. [NSFW]
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 05:35PM by eNonsense
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TIL peekaboo is universal to all cultures, and developmental psychologists believe it is important to infant development.
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Why all babies love peekaboo
Peekaboo is a game played over the world, crossing language and cultural barriers. Why is it so universal? Perhaps because it’s such a powerful learning tool.
TIL a janitor singing Welcome to the Jungle on the schools loudspeaker after hours made a teacher fear for her life
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 03:41PM by Wolverine_007
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msnbc.com
Teacher calls police after karaoke scare
Karaoke can be scary, but threatening? A school custodian's impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.
TIL Kit Harrington showed up to his "Game of Thrones" audition with a black eye after getting into a fight at McDonald's the night before. His performance was so good the casting director didn't even notice.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 09:02PM by gmcl86
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INSIDER
Kit Harington's 'Game of Thrones' audition was so 'mind-blowingly good,' the casting director forgot about his black eye
The hit HBO drama's casting director Nina Gold told INSIDER that the actor's Jon Snow audition was phenomenal and she doesn't even remember his black eye.
TIL when Sega of America was localizing the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, they had to create a canonical backstory for him compiled in "The Sonic Bible". He was a poor hedgehog from Nebraska named Sonny. His dad died because of toxic waste and his friend Dr Robotnik turned evil after eating an egg.
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Sonic The Hedgehog was originally from Nebraska, ate trash
Even by video game standards, the basic story beats of Sonic The Hedgehog that can be inferred from his original 1991 Sega Genesis adventure are some crazy bullshit. He is, as his name implies, a hedgehog with a compulsion to go fast. He collects rings and…
TIL people from slavic countries such as Poland, Bulgaria, and Ukraine have genetically shallower hip sockets. Colloquially known as "Dalmatian hip" among hip surgeons, this hip structure helps facilitate a deeper squat. The "slav squat" may have a biomechanical basis.
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On Target Publications
Stuart McGill: Hip Anatomy - On Target Publications
Is it ever all right to lose the deep squat? Stuart McGill discusses the reality that many people don’t have the hip anatomy to keep it.
TIL the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish female teacher who shouted the word “quiet” at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine.
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NI teacher has 'world's loudest shout'
Record-breaking Belfast teacher still in class of her own for shouting.
TIL Contrary to everything Jurassic park taught me. Velociraptor was about the size of a modern domesticated Turkey, had feathers and would have had trouble taking down a poodle.
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Velociraptor
Velociraptor (/vɪˈlɒsɪræptər/; meaning "swift seizer" in Latin) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although…
TIL that the webcam was invented just because 3 people wanted to keep a check on coffee level without walking to their breakroom.
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TIL a Texas plumber's truck traded to a dealership, then auctioned and shipped to Turkey with his business' decals still on it. The truck eventually ended up in Syria, where it was outfitted with an anti-aircraft gun and used in the country’s civil war.
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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 02:55AM by WildAnimus
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Public Radio International
How a Texas plumber's truck wound up in ISIS' hands
Texas plumber Mark Oberholtzer has filed a lawsuit against a car dealership after he traded in his truck with the promise they would remove the decals for his business that were on it. That didn't happen — and making matters worse, it wound up in the hands…
TIL Human Evolution solves the same problem in different ways. Native Early peoples adapted to high altitudes differently: In the Andes, their hearts got stronger, in Tibet their blood carries oxygen more efficiently.
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Science & Innovation
Ancient DNA reveals complex migrations of the first Americans
Newly sequenced Native genomes showcase a wealth of surprises, from previously unknown populations to unique high-altitude adaptations.
TIL Donkeys are used to fend off coyotes and other predators, are very smart, and typically become the alpha in a team of horses. They have a great sense of fight or flight and other horses will gauge their reaction by watching the donkey’s behavior.
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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 05:10AM by shortbus79
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Young People's Trust For the Environment
Donkeys
The donkey is a descendant of the African wild ass, which is now rare in the wild and found in only a few remote part...
TIL that Stanley Kubrick recorded a typist hammering out “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” because he believed each typewriter key made a slightly different sound and he wanted the audio track of “The Shining” to be perfectly accurate.
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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 04:49AM by Aaronvan
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Stanley Kubrick showed that perfectionism pays off
His attention to detail made the worlds he created utterly believable
Today I learned about Parasocial Relationships, where one person pours emotions and effort into the relationship and the other doesn't know the first exists
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Parasocial interaction - Wikipedia
Parasocial interaction (PSI) is a term coined by Horton and Wohl in 1956 to refer to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television. Viewers or listeners…