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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usatoday
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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SAPIENS
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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BBC News
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…
TIL Due to intense metabolic demands of flight which in turn cause constant high levels of inflammation, bats have evolved ways to dampen their immune response towards the inflammation and this explains their ability to carry and transmit some of the world’s deadliest zoonotic viruses.
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The Scientist Magazine®
Why Bats Make Such Good Viral Hosts
The bat version of the STING protein helps dampen the mammals' immune response to infection, researchers have found.
TIL US President Benjamin Harrison had electric lights installed in the White House, but would sleep with the lights on because he was too afraid to touch the switches.
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Wikipedia
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, creating the only grandfather–grandson…
TIL it's estimated that 1.2 million horses and mules died in the Civil War...twice the number of human casualties.
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JSTOR Daily
A Horse’s-Eye View of the Civil War | JSTOR Daily
Horses and mules played a major role in the American Civil War. In the end, there were about twice as many dead equines as humans.
TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary for T2: Judgement day was $15 million and total words spoken by him in the entire film is 700. This attributes to $21,429 per word and the line ”Hasta la vista, baby” amounts to $85,716.
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EW.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger's words
What are 700 words worth? In Arnold Schwarzenegger's case, about a whopping $21,429 per word. Given his $15 million paycheck…
TIL that Deutsche Bank helped financed the construction of Auschwitz, the IG Farben chemical plant that supplied gas to concentration camps, and profited off of stolen gold and property from Holocaust victims.
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NY Times
Deutsche Bank Linked To Auschwitz Funding
FRANKFURT— Historians combing through Deutsche Bank AG archives have found evidence that the biggest German bank helped finance construction of the Auschwitz death camp, the chief historian of the bank said Thursday.
TIL the Parliament building in Bucharest is so massive that even though it already contains both lower and upper houses of parliament, three museums, and an international conference centre, 70% of the building is still empty. The heating and electrical bill alone amounts to $6 million a year.
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Palace of the Parliament
The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. It is located on Dealul Arsenalului in the national capital city of central Bucharest (Sector 5). The Palace has a height of 84 metres (276 ft), a floor…
TIL that with the exception of college or military service, 37 percent of Americans have never lived outside their hometown, and 57 percent of Americans have never lived outside their home state.
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Nytimes
The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom
The popular perception of Americans is that they are independent and rootless, but the reality is that people tend not to move very far from their parents.
TIL that Tormund aka Kristofer Hivju was actually going for a part in Vikings when he got wind that fans were fantasy casting him as Tormund in GoT so he sent in an audition tape to GoT and the rest is history.
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Yahoo
Game Of Thrones' Kristofer Hivju on the unusual way he was cast as Tormund on the show
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TIL Drake's 2018 hit "Nice for What" sampled Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor," which sampled Wu-Tang's "Can It All Be So Simple," which sampled Gladys Knight's cover of Streisand's "The Way We Were." So the writer of "The Way We Were" is also credited on "Nice for What" but no part of his writing is in it
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Billboard
The Sampling History Behind Drake's 'Nice For What': A Timeline
'Billboard' takes a deeper look into the sampling history behind Drake implementing Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor" on his latest No. 1 hit "Nice For What."
TIL there is a Montana Law that if a student rides a horse to school, the principal has to feed, water, and tend the horse. Six seniors who were aware of this law rode their horses on the last day of school. Their principal did his duty and took care of their horses.
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96.3 The Blaze
Old Montana Law for an Amazing Senior Prank
It's still on the Montana Law that if a student rides a horse to school the principal has to feed, water, and walk your horse.