TIL of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, who died in 456 or 455 BC when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald head mistaking it for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile.
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Aeschylus - Wikipedia
ancient Athenian playwright
TIL In 2002 a 19-year-old garbage man won a 15 million dollar lottery, spent it all on drugs, gambling, and prostitutes, and became a garbage man again.
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Michael Carroll (lottery winner) - Wikipedia
English winner of the UK National Lottery
TIL that rapper Coolio's cameo in Batman & Robin was an Easter Egg setting up a fifth movie in the series. Coolio is uncredited as playing Dr. Jonathan Crane aka The Scarcrow who would've been the main villain in Batman Unchained.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Coolio Was Courted to Play Scarecrow in Scrapped 'Batman & Robin' Sequel
"Me and him didn't get along that great anyway," the musician says of Joel Schumacher.
TIL Krusty the Clown was originally supposed to be Homer Simpson's secret identity.
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Krusty the Clown
Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky, better known as Krusty the Clown (sometimes spelled as Krusty the Klown), is a cartoon character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He is the long-time clown host…
TIL an economist won the lottery 14 times by calculating when the jackpot got higher than the cost by buying every possible number combination and doing just that.
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The Hustle
The man who won the lottery 14 times
How a rogue Romanian economist escaped poverty, wrote an algorithm, and gamed more than a dozen lotteries around the world.
TIL that any U.S citizen travelling in Austria who find themselves in distress can enter any McDonald's in the country and the staff will assist them in making contact with the U.S. Embassy for consular services.
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CNN Travel
US citizens in Austria can now get help at... McDonald's
Lost your passport in Austria? In need of assistance? If you're a US citizen, there's a new way to deal with common travel problems.
TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
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Lapham’s Quarterly
Oxygen catastrophe.
The first mass extinction on earth occurred around 2.5 billion years ago, when a photosynthesizing bacterium appeared and released so much oxygen into the atmosphere that anaerobic life was largely
TIL Patrick Reynolds, grandson of tobacco’s RJ Reynolds, is an anti-smoking advocate, operates an anti-smoking organization, and tours the world speaking out against smoking
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Patrick Reynolds (activist) - Wikipedia
American actor, activist
TIL that in Russia. A cat saved an abandon baby by covering him and keeping him warm and meowed loudly to get the attention of a passersby.
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Hero cat saves baby from freezing to death
Eat your heart out, Lassie! Masha, a long-haired tabby cat, saved the life of a baby abandoned in the streets of Russia — after she climbed into the box he was discarded in and kept him warm,
TIL Next to the US army, Disney world is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.
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Business Insider
18 fascinating facts about Disney parks that only true superfans know
Impress your traveling companions on your next trip by reading up on the parks' most fascinating facts and behind-the-scenes details.
TIL in 1848, the first bridge built over Niagara Falls was started with a kite competition. A boy flew a kite across to the river to the opposite bank. The line he used carried larger and larger cables across the river used to start construction of the bridge
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Ferrovial Blog
The story of the first bridge over Niagara Falls begins with a kite - Ferrovial Blog
16 year old Homan Walsh flew a kite across the Niagara Falls from the Canadian side to the American shoreline thus inspiring the idea of the first bridge.
TIL Adolf Hitler, JRR Tolkien, and Anne Frank's father all fought in the Battle of the Somme
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The Independent
Battle of the Somme: From Adolf Hitler to JRR Tolkien – the battle's most famous combatants
The 20th century's worst dictator, future British politicians and a father later send to a concentration camp by the country he fought for were among those who served during the Battle of the Somme.
TIL in 1918 World War 1 censors minimized early reports of the flu epidemic's death toll to maintain wartime morale. Newspapers in neutral Spain were free to report on the epidemic's effects, creating a false impression that Spain was the hardest hit, and giving rise to the name "Spanish flu".
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Spanish flu
The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people around the world, including…
TIL: The Museum of Modern Art Hung a Matisse upside down and no one noticed for 47 days
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artnet News
This Day in History: MoMA Hangs Matisse Upside Down | artnet News
The Museum of Modern Art made an embarrassing mistake in 1961, when it hung a Henri Matisse cut-out work upside down for 47 days.
TIL In the movie 'Lord of War' starring Nicolas Cage, the production team bought 3,000 real SA Vz. 58 rifles to stand in for AK-47s because they were cheaper than prop movie guns.
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Lord of War - Wikipedia
2005 crime war film by Andrew Niccol
TIL: Einstein’s last words were spoken in German to a nurse who didn’t speak German and are lost for ever. During Einstein's autopsy, the pathologist stole his brain. He kept it for forty years in a tupperware container, before being convinced to return it to Einstein's relatives.
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From the Grapevine
The famous last words of 6 famous people
From Einstein's final speech to Steve Jobs' last moments with his family, these are the parting thoughts of some of the last century's greatest icons.
TIL That the personal belongings of Marie Curie, the mother of modern physics, are dangerously radioactive to this day. They are kept in a lead box and those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing.
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Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/;French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first…
TIL a man was snorkeling off the coast of South Africa when an enormous Bryde's whale scooped him up in his mouth headfirst. The man felt pressure on his body but soon realized he was too big for the whale to swallow him whole which was "kind of an instant relief." The whale spat him out unharmed.
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Fox News
Diver survives after being scooped up in whale's mouth off South Africa
A diver in South Africa survived an experience out of a biblical passage last month when he ended up almost being swallowed by a whale.
TIL At 102°F most bacteria can no longer reproduce, which is the protective nature of human fevers
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Yourdoctorsorders
Overcooking to Kill Bacteria: Food Myth | Dr Terry Simpson
The longer you cook something or the higher temperature you cook it, the more the heat will affect the flavor of the food. Overcooking to kill bacteria is a food myth.
TIL that Futurama writer Ken Keeler wrote and proved a completely new mathematical theorem just for a single episode, called the Futurama Theorem. It is the first known theorem to be created for the sole purpose of entertainment in a TV show.
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TIL that the original cast of The Big Bang Theory took a pay cut of $100,000 so that the two other regular cast members (Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch) get a pay increase in 2017.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Why the 'Big Bang Theory' Stars Took Surprising Pay Cuts
Five of the show's stars took a $100,000-per-episode pay cut to their rich contracts in a show of support for co-stars Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, who are holding out for salary parity for the two-season pickup leading through its 12th and expected final…