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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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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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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Wikipedia
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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Wikipedia
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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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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reddit
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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Wikipedia
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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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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Wikipedia
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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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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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
TIL That the theme from "The Magic School Bus" isn't sung by someone imitating Little Richard, but by Little Richard Himself.
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The Magic School Bus Wiki
The Magic School Bus Theme Song | The Magic School Bus Wiki ...
The theme song of the 1994 The Magic School Bus Television Series, named Ride on the Magic School Bus, was sung by Little Richard. During The Magic School Bus Rides Again, it was remixed, and is...
TIL Rob Lowe is uncredited in the film Tommy Boy because he was contractually obligated to another movie at the time, Steven King's The Stand. The reason he filmed Tommy Boy was due to his friendship with Chris Farley.
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The Big Lead
Tommy Boy is Almost 20: Here Are 20 Fun Facts About the Film
I think your brain has a thick candy shell.
TIL Keanu Reeve’s first name Keanu is Hawaiian, Ke’Anu meaning “Cool breeze over the mountains, but almost went with Chuck Spadina as his stage name when starting out in Hollywood at his agents request
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The Cheat Sheet
Keanu Reeves Reveals What He Almost Changed His Name To
Keanu Reeves reveals that he almost changed his name to something terrible when he first moved to Hollywood.
TIL that plants respond to stimuli as intelligent beings. When researchers played an audiotrack of caterpillars munching on leaves, plants secreted chemicals to make their own leaves more resistant. They can also sense gravity and the presence of water, and produce their own neurotransmitters.
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Public Radio International
New research on plant intelligence may forever change how you think about plants
Plants have senses that put humans to shame. Not only do they hear (yes, it's true) and smell, they can also sense the presence of water, and even an object in their space. Now new research suggests that plants can actually learn and remember.
TIL of Jérôme of Sandy Cove, a mysterious deaf-mute man who was found on a beach in 1863 with both legs amputated above the knee. He never spoke a word for the rest of his life and died in 1912. His origins are still unknown.
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Wikipedia
Jerome of Sandy Cove - Wikipedia
Unidentified amputee found at Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, 1863