TIL that when Alfred Hitchcock was five his father sent him to the police with a note, the policeman looked at the note and locked him in jail for few minutes. This experience left him with lifelong fear of policemen and he wouldn't even drive a car in case he got a parking ticket.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as "the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature…
TIL that in 2017, a United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States, stated that Alabama had the worst poverty in the entire developed world.
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Newsweek
U.N. officials touring rural Alabama are shocked at the level of poverty and environmental degradation
“I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this.”
TIL that in 1944, the British hatched a plan to assassinate Hitler – Operation Foxley. Many, including Churchill approved of the plan. It never went through though because Hitler was an awful military strategist, and there was fear that whoever replaced him would be more adept at winning the war.
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WAR HISTORY ONLINE
Britain's Plan to Kill Hitler By Having a Sniper Shoot Him During His Daily Walk To The Tea House
In 1944, the British hatched a plan to assassinate Hitler – a project known as Operation Foxley. It could have shortened the war, saved millions of
TIL that in the 1930s, Meyer Lansky (a major mob figure) would frequently disrupt Nazi rallies by breaking legs, cracking skulls and throwing attendants out of windows.
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My Jewish Learning
How Jewish Gangsters Fought the Nazis | My Jewish Learning
During the rise of Nazism and the foundation of Israel, the notoriously mean Jewish gangsters of America proved to be true supporters of their people.
TIL Davy Crockett was not only an American pioneer, but a politician and a soldier: as a member of U.S. Congress he vehemently opposed Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act (which led to the Trail of Tears) and eventually died in the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.
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Davy Crockett
David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives…
TIL: The average NFL career lasts about three years; nearly 80 percent of players are bankrupt within three years of retirement.
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Chron
What Education Is Needed to Become a Professional Football Player?
Becoming a professional football player requires stamina, strength and ambition. What it does not require is a formal education. While NFL athletes do not specifically go to school to become professional football players, NFL and NCAA requirements include…
TIL that Mr. Dink's last name from the cartoon Doug represents his Dual Income, No Kids status, which is why he is often seen with "very expensive" gadgets all the time.
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NickelodeonDoug Wiki
Bud Dink | NickelodeonDoug Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
Bud Dink is Doug Funnie's neighbor and close friend. He debuted in Doug Bags a Neematoad. Bud Dink is a middle-aged man who is a friend to Doug, often talking with him about any subject that may...
TIL Stephen Hawking once sent his PhD student away with a very hard problem – finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant – and was stunned when he came back a few days later with the solution
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The Conversation
I was a student of Stephen Hawking’s – here’s what he taught me
Hawking wasn't able to give his students a gentle introduction, but he did provide a lot of inspiration and support.
TIL A new, low-cost wound dressing leverages energy generated from a patient's own body motions to apply gentle electrical pulses at the site of an injury. In rodent tests, the dressings reduced healing times to a mere three days compared to nearly two weeks for the normal healing process.
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phys.org
It's not a shock: Better bandage promotes powerful healing
A new, low-cost wound dressing developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers could dramatically speed up healing in a surprising way.
TIL 39 minutes of footage was cut from first John Wick movie and it mostly included visually amazing shots which were "just Keanu Reeves walking in cool environments."
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John Wick (film)
John Wick (retrospectively known as John Wick: Chapter 1) is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad. It stars Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean…
TIL A man thought he had bladder cancer but he actually had a fully functioning female reproductive system.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Man born with a womb prepares for hysterectomy
Rob, a Lancashire businessman, feared he had bladder cancer. Then doctors told him that in fact he had a full set of female reproductive organs
TIL during the 1904 summer Olympics marathon one runner hitched a ride, another was given rat poison and brandy as a stimulus, fourth place winner took a nap during the run, and two other runners were chased a mile by angry dogs
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Smithsonian
The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever
In 1904, St. Louis hosted the Olympic Games as part of the World's Fair—and produced a spectacle that incorporated all the mischief of the midway
TIL in 1887 a reporter named Nellie Bly talked her way into an insane asylum in New York and published her experience after ten days in the asylum. She claimed many of the patients seemed completely sane and the conditions were horrid. This led to NYC budgeting $1,000,000 to care of the insane.
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r/todayilearned - TIL in 1887 a reporter named Nellie Bly talked her way into an insane asylum in New York and published her experience…
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TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered $10,000 to cast members of "The Jersey Shore" if they'd agree to stop wearing the brand on the show
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the Guardian
Jersey Shore's The Situation offered cash not to wear Abercrombie & Fitch
US fashion brand offers to pay controversial reality star not to wear its clothes, fearing 'significant damage' to its image. By Mark Sweney
TIL about the joke behind NASA's Juno mission. While Jupiter's moons are named after the god's many mistresses, Juno, the space probe sent to orbit and monitor Jupiter, is named after his wife.
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Business Insider
Kepler laid the groundwork for this amazing science joke 400 years ago — and it finally paid off
Wait for it...
TIL Simon & Garfunkel's first album was so unsuccessful on the charts that the duo split. Their producer took one of the songs from the album, overdubbed/remixed it without their knowledge or permission, and "The Sounds of Silence" became a hit. The duo made four more albums.
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The Sound of Silence
"The Sound of Silence", originally "The Sounds of Silence", is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over a period of several months in 1963 and 1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal…
TIL Pope John XII was the only Pope who was ever beaten to death by a jealous husband for sleeping with his wife. He was also accused of turning the papal palace into a brothel, sleeping with his niece, toasting the devil, ordaining a 10yr old boy, and misusing papal funds to pay gambling debts.
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Pope John XII
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TIL that in the US, production of alarm clocks was allowed in 1944, despite them containing brass needed for war materials, because workers kept missing their shifts due to a critical alarm clock shortage.
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Alarm clock
An alarm clock (alarm for short) is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of individuals at specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or short naps; they are sometimes used for other…
TIL about "The Whole Shabangs" potato chips, available almost exclusively from US Prison system commissaries. Ex-cons consider these chips to be the best chip out there, and a high-point of their incarceration. Many end up dismayed and disappointed at their lack of availability "on the outside".
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Mentalfloss
The Popular Potato Chip Brand You Can Only Find in Prison
The Whole Shabangs are the most popular potato chip you’ve never heard of.
TIL that the Oneida silverware company was started by a religious millennial group (1850) who practiced free love and would have menopausal women train the young males how to not ejaculate during sex as a method of abstinence.
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The Rich, Sexy History Of Oneida — Commune And Silverware Maker
Once proclaiming free love and breeding for a super race, Oneida, New York became known for silverware production.
TIL Robert Leonard the original bassist for the band 'Sha Na Na', after proofreading the band's contracts, realized he had a knack for critically examining language. He returned to school, received his M.A., MPhil, and PhD from Columbia University and now works as a forensic linguist.
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Robert A. Leonard - Wikipedia
American forensic linguist