TIL Vancouver, Canada has the least affordable housing in North America, more expensive than Manhattan and San Francisco
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 05:47PM by holyfruits
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Digg
The Most Unaffordable Housing Markets In North America, Charted
The usual suspects — New York, San Francisco, Vancouver — top the list, but where else are things bad?
TIL the only 2 patients to be cured of HIV were also undergoing cancer treatment at the same time; meaning they became cancer free AND HIV negative at the same time
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 09:38PM by mathnerdm
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Wikipedia
Berlin Patient - Wikipedia
Pseudonym of Timothy Ray Brown, the first patient cured of HIV/AIDS infection
TIL because regular air is toxic at high pressures, deep sea divers live on a mix of helium and oxygen, meaning they live and speak with a squeaky helium voice for around a month while working.
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 07:17PM by hiddenwalls
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BBC Real Men Series Saturation Diving
TIL Hitler went to sleep very late the night before D-Day. He gave orders not to be woken up for any reason. His staff obeyed the order. When Hitler woke up, it was too late to stop the invasion.
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 03:59PM by amansaggu26
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The National Interest
Nazi Germany's Biggest D-Day Mistakes
While D-Day was not a perfect, German mistakes decisively turned the tide of the operation in favor of the Allies.
TIL that Disneyland edited out every cigarette they could find in Walt Disney’s photographs, causing his unusually iconic two finger pointing gesture. Tom Hanks even used it in Saving Mr. Banks as do Disney employees now.
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 09:12PM by Decadorian
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Fox News
Why Disney staffers reportedly point with two fingers
Have you ever noticed this small detail?
TIL of Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in American history. He fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua and, as a senior officer, served with distinction in World War II and the Korean War. He's known for the phrase, "We're surrounded, that simplifies things."
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Submitted May 15, 2019 at 09:53PM by GiddySwine
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Chesty Puller
Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua and, as a senior officer, served with distinction in World War II and the Korean War.
TIL that after 37 years of work and 1,4 billion billion crayons, Emerson Moser, Crayola's senior crayon maker revealed at his retirement party that he was actually colorblind.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 01:54AM by AMonkeyAndALavaLamp
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The Northern Star | Funny Jokes | Great Stories
Crayola Top Crayon Maker Emerson Moser Was Colorblind
Crayola has been famous for their wide color spectrum of art devices since 1903, so you’d think the ability to see the full color spectrum would be a prerequisite for the job.
TIL that French prisoners in the 1700s were granted freedom if they agreed to marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 03:37AM by shankdogg13
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Louisiana (New France)
Louisiana (French: La Louisiane; La Louisiane française) or French Louisiana was an administrative district of New France. Under French control 1682 to 1762 and 1801 (nominally) to 1803, the area was named in honor of King Louis XIV, by French explorer René…
TIL Angelo Poffo, father of Macho Man Randy Savage, destroyed the World Record for consecutive sit-ups with 6,033 in 4 hours and 10 minutes. This record is still unbroken.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 04:55AM by TheBombDotOrg
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National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
Angelo Poffo
Celebrating 40 Years of Italian Americans in Sports
TIL Due to overfishing, less than 10% of the global fisheries catch now comes from the open ocean. An end to high-seas fishing would in effect create a vast marine protected area in nearly 2/3 of the world’s oceans, allowing fish stocks to rebuild. With the ban, fishermen would actually catch more.
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Yale E360
A Global Ban on Fishing on the High Seas? The Time Is Now
Marine biologist Daniel Pauly is calling for a total ban on open-ocean fishing. In an e360 interview, he contends that such a step is essential for rebuilding badly depleted global fish stocks and preventing the demise of the fishing industry itself.
TIL: In 1855 the mayor of Los Angeles, Stephen Foster, convinced a mob to not kill an accused murderer, but to try him in a court of law. When the accused man was acquitted, the mayor resigned and led a lynch mob to kill the man. He was re-elected a year later.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 10:37AM by OvidPerl
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Laalmanac
Most Regrettable Mayors of Los Angeles
Almanac facts, information and trivia about Los Angeles County, its people, cities and communities.
TIL Radiotrophic fungi were discovered in 1991 growing inside and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in an environment in which the radiation level was 500x higher than in the normal environment. The fungi converts gamma radiation into chemical energy for growth.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 11:20AM by gzupan
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Wikipedia
Radiotrophic fungus - Wikipedia
fungus which apparently metabolizes ionizing radiation
TIL: The reason we say "o clock" is from the period when mechanical clocks and their sundial predecessors overlapped. To clarify which type of time you were giving you'd say, for example, "10 on the clock" which became "10 o' clock"
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Gizmodo
Why We Say “O’Clock”
The practice of saying "o'clock" is simply a remnant of simpler times when clocks weren't very prevalent and people told time by a variety of means, depending on where they were and what references were available.
TIL Aristotle observed that fossils of seashells in rocks resembled those found on beaches. He inferred that the fossils in rocks were formed by organisms, and he reasoned that the positions of land and sea had been changing slowly since ancient times. Leonardo da Vinci agreed with this reasoning.
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reddit
r/todayilearned - TIL Aristotle observed that fossils of seashells in rocks resembled those found on beaches. He inferred that…
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TIL that NASA ground controllers were once shocked to hear a female voice from the space station, apparently interacting with them, which had an all-male crew. They had been pranked by an astronaut who used a recording of his wife.
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Wikipedia
Owen Garriott
Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission…
TIL The Pixar film Coco, which features the spirits of dead family members, got past China's censors with 0 cuts. In China, superstition is taboo due to the belief spiritual forces could undermine people’s faith in the communist party. The censors were so moved by the film, they gave it a full pass.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 01:22PM by Tokyono
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China Film Insider
‘Coco’ Wins Over Chinese Hearts — and Wallets | China Film Insider
'Coco' has moved viewers with its affecting take on family, dreams, life and death — including some themes that movie reviewers said mirrored ancient Chinese philosophy.
TIL After 3 years at Harvard, Gabe Newell dropped out to join Microsoft in 1983. He later said: "I learned more in 3 months at Microsoft than in my entire time at Harvard"
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 10:31AM by staytrue1985
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Neowin
Gabe Newell: I learned more in three months at Microsoft than entire time at Harvard
Valve co-founder and former Microsoft employee Gabe Newell recently gave an interview saying he learned more in three months at Microsoft than he did his entire time pursuing a degree at Harvard.
TIL An 84 year old lady in India is the world's oldest female sharpshooter. She first started at the age of 65 and is a natural. She has won countless shooting competitions.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 02:59PM by iLikeComfyClothes
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YouTube
At 84, the World's Oldest Female Sharpshooter Doesn't Miss
At age 65, Chandro Tomar, who lives in a small village in the Uttar Pradesh state of northern India, stumbled upon a shooting range and picked up a gun for the first time. When she aimed the gun at a target and pulled the trigger, she realized she was a natural.…
TIL that professional wrestler Kerry Von Erich had to have his foot amputated after a bad accident, but continued wrestling while secretly wearing a prosthetic - even showering in his boots so no one would know. His injury wasn't public knowledge until his death from suicide 7 years later.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 04:08PM by CletusVanDamnit
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Wikipedia
Kerry Von Erich - Wikipedia
American professional wrestler
TIL that the forbidden fruit in the Bible is never defined as an apple. It is in fact a mistranslation that originates from the fact that the tree is defined as as "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" and that in Latin, mălum means evil while the very similar word mālum means apple.
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 05:15PM by trnr3024
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Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia
Forbidden fruit is a phrase that originates from the Book of Genesis concerning Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:16–17. In the narrative, Adam and Eve eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, which they had been commanded not to do by God.…
TIL nearly the entire world uses one of 2 forms to say tea, basically derived from the Chinese words 'te' (ie Spanish & English) and 'cha' (ie Hindi & Russian), because of the way tea spread around the world from China. 'Cha' used in places where tea came by land and 'te' where imported over water
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 07:08PM by zaidub
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Etymology of tea - Wikipedia
The etymology of tea can be traced back to the various Chinese pronunciations of the word. Nearly all the words for tea worldwide, fall into three broad groups: te, cha and chai, which reflected the history of transmission of tea drinking culture and trade…