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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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 09:45PM by TrueHarambe
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Steam (software) - Wikipedia
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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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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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 11:20PM by AfterNovel
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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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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 10:57PM by zxcv6
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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.
TIL of “telling the bees”, a European custom in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper’s lives, such as births or marriages. If the custom was forgotten then it was believed the bees would leave the hive or stop producing honey.
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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 11:18PM by StypticParasite
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TIL that 40% of all Guinness is consumed in Africa, and Nigeria consumes more than Ireland.
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Submitted May 13, 2019 at 11:49PM by StypticParasite
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Irish Around Oz
Top 5 Guinness-Drinking Countries In The World 2018
regionaEvery day, over 10 million glasses of Guinness are being enjoyed around the world. And every year, more than 1.8 billion pints are being sold.
TIL Actor Kit Harington is a direct descendant of Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the plot to blow up parliament. Kit also plays Catesby in the BBC drama Gunpowder, retelling the story behind the plot.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 01:11AM by zeamp
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Robert Catesby - Wikipedia
English conspirator
TIL that people with low IQ’s are more likely to reproduce than those with high IQ’s.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 02:33AM by neptune_SR15
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Business Insider
IT'S OFFICIAL: Having Kids Is For Dumb People
Yesterday, we wrote about a paper on the relationship between having a high IQ and investing. It turns out that people with high IQs are better at diversifying, and have less-risky portfolios.
TIL that the inventor of the cereal Apple Jacks is currently a professor of biological engineering at MIT and invented the cereal as a summer intern
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 06:06AM by bellegunness5
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William G. Thilly, Sc.D. | McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
I grew up on a farm in Rush Township, PA. As a summer employee in 1965 in Battle Creek MI, I co invented Kellogg’s Apple Jacks. I earned my B.S. at MIT in 1967, and my Doctor of Science in 1971 in the MIT laboratory of Prof. Gerald Wogan. After a year at…
TIL Elvis was a huge Monty Python fan. He would watch Python all night . He would learn and recite them. Took the tapes on his plane. He would call people Squire from the "Nudge Nudge" sketch.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 03:45AM by OldManLeeVanCleef
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Monty Python's Eric Idle: 'Elvis saved my life' | Elvis News
'I knew we had the Beatles but Elvis as well! You know, Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives'. | Elvis Presley
TIL the Michelin Guide has excluded Los Angeles since 2009. Former Michelin Guide director Jean-Luc Naret said, “The people in Los Angeles are not real foodies. They are not too interested in eating well but just in who goes to which restaurant and where they sit.”
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Eater LA
The Michelin Guide is coming back to Los Angeles
After a nine year hiatus, Michelin will publish a guide for all of California, including starred restaurants in LA
TIL Burger King filed an official complaint against the movie “It” and tried to get it banned from theaters, claiming unlawful free advertising for McDonald’s since Pennywise is “an exact replica” of Ronald McDonald, thus promoting the rival restaurant.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 02:02PM by voguebaby77
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Newsweek
Burger King Russia wants to ban 'It' because Pennywise resembles Ronald McDonald
The horror film has already topped the box office in Russia.
TIL: The "tradition" of spending several months salary on an engagement ring was a marketing campaign created by De Beers in the 1930's. Before WWII, only 10% of engagement rings contained diamonds. By the end of the 20th Century, 80% did.
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BBC News
Do people spend a month's salary on an engagement ring?
How an advertising campaign tried to dictate how much money an engagement ring should cost.
TIL about a poisonous lagoon at an abandoned quarry that was dyed black because the water's naturally tropical blue colour was considered too inviting to swimmers.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 12:11PM by JacP123
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Toxic 'Blue Lagoon' dyed black
A pool at a disused quarry in Derbyshire which has caustic water is changed from inviting blue to off-putting black.
TIL that the FBI has an entire fake town for training agents. Hogan's Alley has a bank, post office, hotel, laundromat, barber shop, pool hall, shops, and homes. The town is populated by actors who roleplay parts like bystanders, terrorists, bank robbers, and drug dealers so scenarios always change
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Hogan's Alley (FBI) - Wikipedia
Hogan's Alley is a tactical training facility of more than 10 acres (40,000 m2) operated by the FBI Training Academy. Hogan's Alley was opened in 1987, and was designed to provide a realistic urban setting for training agents of the FBI, DEA, and other local…
TIL that the term "rooster" originated in the United States as a puritan euphemism to avoid the sexual connotation of the original English word "cock".
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 03:18PM by sober_disposition
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Rooster - Wikipedia
male chicken
TIL: Scientists used Sunflowers near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident, to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby. Then again in 2011 at Fukushima to extract radiation from the nearby communities.
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Reuters
Sunflowers melt Fukushima's nuclear "snow"
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Sparks from burning strips of paper swirled into the hot summer sky, carrying the names of the dead above a temple in Fukushima where thousands of sunflowers have been planted to help fight the omnipresent radiation.
TIL a $40M lottery winner in China wore a monkey costume to hide his identity. Apparently this has become a trend for many lottery winners in China from ninjas to Baymax from Big Hero 6.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 04:28PM by Qannyen
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Lotterycritic
The Stories of China’s Quirky Costumed Lottery Winners
Did you know Chinese lottery winners dress up in quirky costumes to protect their identities? Their stories are quite interesting!
TIL In an episode of the Simpsons that aired in 2003, Homer gave his email address as ChunkyLover53@aol.com. The episode's writer, Matt Selman, signed up for the ChunkyLover53 email address beforehand and within minutes of the show's airing found his inbox packed to its 999-message limit.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 07:02PM by cyXie
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TIME.com
Defending ChunkyLover53
This week, the internet has been ablaze with stories like this one on CNET.
TIL Japan refuses to recognize its WW2 military atrocities. Instead, they argue it was a war to "liberate" Asian countries from Western imperialism. Even the educational curriculum censors and downplays Japanese war crimes.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 06:37PM by Tokyono
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