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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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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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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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…
TIL that every November in South Korea, there's a day where everyone makes silence to help students concentrate for their most important exam of their lives. Planes are grounded, constructions are paused, banks close and even military training ceases. This day is called Suneung.
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Suneung: The day silence falls over South Korea
More than half a million students take on an exam for which they have been preparing all their lives.
TIL that your body odors changes when you've been successfully infected by plasmodium (Malaria). Thereby making you a better target for mosquitos and spreading the disease.
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Science
Malaria infection creates a ‘human perfume’ that makes us more attractive to mosquitoes
Finding may explain how the disease spreads so easily
TIL iodine was added to salt in 1924 to combat goiters, but the iodization also resulted in notable increases in intelligence
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The Crux
How Adding Iodine to Salt Boosted Americans' IQ - The Crux
New research finds that iodine has played a substantial role in cognitive improvements seen across the American population in the 20th century.
TIL the woman who first proposed the theory that Shakespeare wasn't the real author, didn't do any research for her book and was eventually sent to an insane asylum
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New England Historical Society
Delia Bacon, Driven Crazy By William Shakespeare
Delia Bacon hated William Shakespeare so passionately she lost her mind and her health trying to prove he didn’t write those plays. She dismissed him as a vulgar, illiterate deer poacher and ‘Lord Leicester’s stable boy.’ She preferred to believe Francis…
TIL James Watt calculated horsepower by measuring the output of an actual horse in order to quantify how many horses his steam engines could replace.
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Horsepower
Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done. There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions being used today are the mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is about…
TIL The airspeed velocity of an unladen Swallow is roughly 24mph.
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TIL Jon Bon Jovi's parents were attending a wedding in 1987 when they recommended the wedding singer try out for their son's friend's band. The singer was Sebastian Bach, and the band became Skid Row
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Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia
Canadian singer
TIL Genghis Khan had the largest number of children in histroy at an all time high of 1000-2000 children
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List of people with the most children
This section lists females who gave birth to at least 20 children. Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century. Due to the fact that females bear the children and therefore cannot reproduce…
TIL that Steam was originally created so Valve didn't have to keep shutting off Counter-Strike servers to fix issues with the game.
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Video game platform
TIL Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff wrote a novel, City of Thieves, about 2 people surviving the Nazi onslaught in Russia. This novel was later the "major artistic inspiration" for the hit video game The Last of Us.
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City of Thieves (novel) - Wikipedia
historical novel by David Benioff
TIL The CIA had (or has) a "Heart Attack Gun". The gun would shoot a dissolving dart that would cause what appeared to be a natural heart attack. The dart would only leave a small red dot and the poison would denature so quickly, it would unlikely be discovered in autopsy.
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r/todayilearned - TIL The CIA had (or has) a "Heart Attack Gun". The gun would shoot a dissolving dart that would cause what appeared…
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TIL that tomato sauce is not Italian at all but Mexican. The first tomato sauces were already being sold in the markets of Tenochtitlan when Spaniards arrived, and had many of the same ingredients (tomatoes, bell peppers, chilies) that would later define Italian tomato pasta sauces 200 years later.
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Tomato sauce - Wikipedia
sauce made primarily from tomatoes
TIL that when Dwayne Johnson split with his now ex-wife Dany Garcia, he made her his manager and she has remained in that role to this day.
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Newsweek
Dwayne Johnson's rock: Meet Dany Garcia, the woman behind Hollywood's highest earner
Manager. Producer. Wife. Mother. Bodybuilder. How Garcia is shaking up Hollywood.