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.
TIL about “mad honey,” a honey made by bees gathering pollen from rhododendrons. “To put it mildly, just one spoonful can get you as effed up as a football bat” -
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Inverse
What Happens When You Eat Psychedelic 'Mad Honey'?
Hint: It's not worth it.
TIL Jackie Kennedy was a polyglot, mastered French and speaking also some German and Italia as well as Spanish fluently. She taped radio ads in French, Italian and Spanish, urging the listeners to vote for her husband
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America the Bilingual
Jackie Kennedy's Prowess as a Polygot
When President John F. Kennedy traveled to West Berlin on June 26, 1963, he wanted to assure the people there—who were literally walled off from the eastern portion of their city by Communist Russia—that Americans stood with them. Ever the classicist…
TIL that for every one bird killed by wind turbines in the U.S. there are 4,000 to 17,000 killed by cats.
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Wind turbines kill fewer birds than do cats, cell towers
TIL that to clean up after using the lavatory, ancient Romans used a "tersorium", a sponge on the end of a long stick that was shared by everyone in the community. When not in use, the stick stayed in a bucket of vinegar or seawater in the communal bathroom.
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What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Hint: It involved a long stick and a bucket of vinegar.
TIL that Adolphe Sax (Inventor of the saxophone) survived a three story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river - all before the age of nine. His neighbors called him "Little Sax, the ghost"
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Adolphe Sax
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan.ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn…
TIL that after T2: Judgement day, Arnold rejected every offer from the studio to do the third Terminator movie because James Cameron wasn't involved. James Cameron eventually told his friend to do it by saying "take the money and run" and Arnold got a huge paycheck.
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The Film Magazine
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) Review | The Film Magazine
'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' is the latest Terminator film to be reviewed in Jack Gooding's complete coverage of the franchise, here.
TIL Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, and Rée all fell in love with the same woman, Lou Salomé. Intellectual and prolific, she was the first female psychoanalyst and lived free of society’s prenoscription for women. She was the ultimate feminist/ubermensch, yet is completely forgotten by history.
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Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, Russian: Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well traveled author, narrator, and Essayist from…
TIL five years after release, the infamously bad AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines was found to be mostly due to a one-letter typo, where a developer wrote "tether" as "teather"
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Polygon
Aliens: Colonial Marines’ xenos get a lot smarter by fixing one misspelling
Others confirm some improvement seen in 2013 stinker
TIL in 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud all lived in Vienna
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1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place
A century ago, a single square mile in the capital of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire was home to some of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century.
TIL After the death of Princess Diana, radio station XFM banned certain songs that might upset people. Banned songs included Drive by The Cars, Airbag by Radiohead and anything by the Crash Test Dummies.
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r/todayilearned - TIL After the death of Princess Diana, radio station XFM banned certain songs that might upset people. Banned…
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TIL that prior to 1996, there was no requirement to present an ID to board a plane. The policy was put into place to show the government was “doing something” about the crash of TWA Flight 800.
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View from the Wing
When Did the Government Start Requiring IDs to Fly.. and Why Did They Do It? - View from the Wing
Airlines long wanted to eliminate the secondary market in airline tickets, in order to enforce their revenue management strategies. If customers could buy and resell tickets, that makes it impossible for airlines to price discriminate between leisure travelers…