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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www.elvis.com.au
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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BBC News
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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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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r/todayilearned - TIL Japan refuses to recognize its WW2 military atrocities. Instead, they argue it was a war to "liberate" Asian…
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TIL Ziggy Marley, one of Bob Marley's 11 children, sung the theme song for the long-running PBS cartoon Arthur.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 02:17PM by The_Zany_Cartoonist
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Ziggy Marley - Wikipedia
Jamaican musician
TIL Seneca Village, a predominately middle class black neighborhood, was demolished to make room for Central Park
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 05:43PM by PissSkull
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Seneca Village - Wikipedia
human settlement in United States of America
TIL that there are fake towns and roads (known as "paper towns") that mapmakers put in their maps, so that if someone makes a map which has one of these paper towns, they could know it's a copy
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 09:59PM by idkthefifth
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mnn
'Paper towns' and other lies maps tell you
There's a town on Google Maps that doesn't exist. Here's why cartographers create 'paper towns' and other fictional places on maps.
TIL the murderer Dr. Crippen fled to Quebec from London in 1910 after being investigated for the murder of his wife. The Chief Inspector of the case Walter Dew was alerted and reached Quebec before Crippen. Dew greeted Crippen as he got off of his ship and promptly arrested him.
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Submitted May 14, 2019 at 08:18PM by Upstart__Crow
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Hawley Harvey Crippen - Wikipedia
American physician, salesman, murderer
TIL Lincoln repeatedly warned that British recognition of the Confederacy was tantamount to a declaration of war. Knowing a war would cut off vital shipments of American food, wreak havoc on the British merchant fleet, and cause the immediate loss of Canada, Britain was unwilling to risk a conflict
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 01:07AM by chercheur17
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Diplomacy of the American Civil War - Wikipedia
Role of international relations in the course of the war
TIL that since 9/11 more than 37,000 first responders and people around ground zero have been diagnosed with cancer and illness, and the number of disease deaths is soon to outnumber the total victims in 2001.
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 03:32AM by Tmf278
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the Guardian
9/11 health crisis: death toll from illness nears number killed on day of attacks
At least 1,000 people have died from illnesses tied to exposure to debris, and the number is poised to exceed initial death toll ‘within five years’, expert says