TIL there's a manga about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in modern Japan
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Saint Oniisan (Title) - MangaDex
Saint Oniisan is slice-of-life or divine-life, tale of Jesus and Buddha as they try to experience the modern world, in this case, Japan. The manga places a funny twist on religion, attitudes, culture and customs in Japan through the eyes of Jesus and Buddha.…
TIL that flatulence, if held in too long, is sometimes reabsorbed into the circulation and exhaled in your breath. Holding in farts may also lead to diverticulitis, where small pouches develop in the gut lining and can become inflamed.
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Health Check: what happens when you hold in a fart?
Holding on too long triggers a build up of intestinal gas that may eventually escape via an uncontrollable fart.
TIL: Tennessee State Representative Harry Burn was the deciding vote that led to the ratification of the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote in the U.S. He said: “I know that a mother’s advice is always safest for her boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification.”
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Harry T. Burn
Harry Thomas Burn, Sr. (November 12, 1895 – February 19, 1977) was a Republican member of the Tennessee General Assembly for McMinn County, Tennessee. Burn became the youngest member of the state legislature when he was elected at the age of twenty-two. He…
TIL Composer Danny Elfman was in a band called Oingo Boingo and he sang the song 'Weird Science' from the movie of the same name.
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Weird Science (song)
"Weird Science" is a song by Oingo Boingo. Written by frontman Danny Elfman, it is the theme song to the Weird Science film and television series. It was released on the film's soundtrack, as well as Oingo Boingo's 1985 album, Dead Man's Party, as a longer…
TIL about the "Cat Telephone". In 1929, Princeton researchers opened a cat's skull and connected the auditory nerve to a telephone. When one researcher spoke in the cat’s ear, the other could hear it through the receiver 50 feet away. The experiment ultimately became the basis for cochlear implants.
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The Cat Telephone
By Arthur Kim ’18 What do a cat and a telephone have in common? They were the same thing in an experiment conducted in 1929 by Professor Ernest Glen Wever and his research assistant Charles W…
TIL France generates roughly 73% of it's electricity from Nuclear Power, is one of the world's largest exporters of power, and has not had a single nuclear related fatality.
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Nuclear power in France
Nuclear power is a major source of energy in France, with a 40% share of energy consumption in 2015.
Nuclear power is the largest source of electricity in the country, with a generation of 379.1 TWh, or 71.6% of the country's total production of 519.4 TWh…
Nuclear power is the largest source of electricity in the country, with a generation of 379.1 TWh, or 71.6% of the country's total production of 519.4 TWh…
TIL Bees have brains capable of performing basic maths. They have an understanding of the concept of zero and do basic addition and subtraction. They also have the ability to remember human faces they have seen before.
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TIL that when Bruce Springsteen was 19, he dodged his army draft by behaving "crazily" during the induction and not writing anything in tests. He later went on to write the song "Born in the USA" which was the singer’s reflection on the plight of American veterans returning home from Vietnam.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and leader of the E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss," he is recognized for his poetic lyrics, his Jersey Shore roots, his distinctive voice, and lengthy, energetic…
TIL The Papal election of 1268-71 was the longest in history. It took so long that the cardinals were locked in, their rations were reduced to bread and water, the roof of their hall was removed, and 3 died of old age. The new Pope changed the rules to stop it from repeating, making the Conclave.
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1268–1271 papal election
papal election (1268–1271)
TIL that there is a grizzly bear in Canada named “The Boss” that has been known to have killed several black bears, hit by a train, and use human railways and highways to travel yet hasn’t been known be aggressive toward humans.
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The life of 'The Boss': The biggest, toughest, meanest grizzly bear in Western Canada's national parks
He broke into a dump, ate a couple of black bears, strolled through Banff’s Central Park in midday and fathered at least five of the park’s younger bears
TIL: A military psychology tactic in late WW2 was to attach whistles onto bombs. As the bombs fell, they made the terrifying decrescendo whistling sound we think of today. The same sound is often dubbed over every type of bomb in movies and cartoons, despite only being used on a few specific bombs.
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Junkers Ju 87
The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") was a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during…
TIL In 1936, Pennsylvania placed a 'temporary' tax on all alcohol sales to help out victims of the Johnstown Flood, and that tax is still charged.
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Pa.'s 18% hidden tax was supposed to be temporary ... In 1936
TIL that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world. Usually once every hundred years or so.
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“Once-In-A-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported In Japan
Many of our readers have probably seen bamboo growing and perhaps even visited famous Japanese bamboo forests such as the one in Arashiyama, Kyoto. However,…
TIL that when the Panchen Lama (2nd in command to the Dalai Lama) died in 1989, the Tibetan Buddhists chose a six year old boy to replace him in accordance with tradition. The Chinese government was unhappy with the pick and abducted him. He hasn’t been heard from since.
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Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism. He was declared the 11th Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama on 14 May 1995. He was rejected by the search team appointed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. He was born in…
TIL Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx...The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.
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TIL that for every bird killed by a wind turbine, coal kills over 2,000
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Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they're made out to be—here's why
People who oppose wind farms often claim wind turbine blades kill large numbers of birds, often referring to them as "bird choppers". And claims of dangers to iconic or rare birds, especially raptors, ...
TIL about Richard L. McKinley, who died in a nuclear plant accident. His body ended so contaminated that had to be buried in a lead-lined casket which was then sealed in concrete and placed in a metal vault and cannot be moved from its location without the approval of the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Richard L. McKinley, Specialist 4, United States Army
Biography of Specialist McKinley
TIL that the US may have adopted the metric system if pirates hadn't kidnapped Joseph Dombey, the French scientist sent to help Thomas Jefferson persuade Congress to adopt the system.
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Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition)
To save his own life, Joseph Dombey had an idea. As two pirate ships surrounded the ship he was on in the Caribbean Sea in 1794, Dombey scrambled below deck, disrobing as he went. He appropriated the...
TIL The Return of the King of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was nominated for 11 academy awards. It won in every single category it was nominated for.
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List of accolades received by The Lord of the Rings film series
The Lord of the Rings film series is a series of epic fantasy-drama films directed by Peter Jackson. The three films, ennoscriptd The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, were released serially worldwide between December 2001 and…
TIL not long before his death, Freddie Mercury, confined to his bed, got to see an advance copy of the "Wayne's World" scene with Wayne and Garth headbanging to "Bohemian Rhapsody". He loved it and approved of the song's use in the film. The movie, in part, helped launch Queen's comeback in the USA
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Brian May: ‘Wayne’s World’ “Bohemian Rhapsody” Scene Hit Close to Home
Despite four decades of performing and hearing the song, guitarist Brian May still enjoys what is undoubtedly his biggest hit. “I’m not sick of it,” he tells the BBC.
TIL that when fans asked Steve Martin for an autograph in the 80’s he would give them a business card that said “This certifies that you have had a personal encounter with me and that you found me warm, polite, intelligent and funny.”
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The Big Picture
Steve Martin's Business Card - The Big Picture
This droll, dry wit is precisely what I would have expected: > > Although the noscript of “best business card ever” may be held by this card: click for larger image Found by Matt Cutts in an old book purchased at a book sale.