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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Submitted May 24, 2019 at 09:32PM by ralphbernardo
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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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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 12:31AM by grandadmiral99
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Yahoo
Game Of Thrones' Kristofer Hivju on the unusual way he was cast as Tormund on the show
A Norwegian walks into a chiropractors…
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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Submitted May 24, 2019 at 10:01PM by MisterBadIdea2
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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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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 02:51AM by jenl173
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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.
TIL when Mike Judge - creator of Idiocracy - was asked how he predicted the future, he responded "I'm no prophet, I was off by 490 years."
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 06:22AM by r-e-d-d-i-t
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Wikipedia
Idiocracy
Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction dystopian comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military human hibernation experiment,…
TIL in 1974 the girlfriend of Ted Bundy called Seattle police to tell them he matched the denoscription of the suspect in several murder cases. She hung up after being told, “You need to come in and fill in a report. We’re too busy to talk to girlfriends over the phone." He would kill many more women.
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Esquire
Elizabeth Kendall Dated Ted Bundy As He Murdered Dozens. Now Her Story Is a Netflix Movie.
"She didn't want to come to Sundance. She doesn't want to participate in the press. She wants to remain anonymous."
TIL that the language spoken in Wakanda is Xhosa, an official language of South Africa and Zimbabwe and that John Kani who played King T'Chaka is a native speaker
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 12:38PM by StarkeyTone
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Comicbook.com
'Avengers: Infinity War': What Are the Wakandan Soldier's Chanting in New Footage?
Marvel Studios released a new television spot for the highly-anticipated Avengers: Infinity War [...]
TIL that sea urchins got their name because they resemble hedgehogs, which used to be called "urchins." Sea urchins also used to be called "sea hedgehogs".
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 10:13AM by BrokenEye3
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Wikipedia
Sea urchin
Sea urchins or urchins (/ˈɜːrtʃɪnz/) are typically spiny, globular animals, echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species live on the seabed, inhabiting all oceans and depth zones from the intertidal to 5,000 metres (16,000 ft; 2,700 fathoms). Their…
TIL one of the reasons why President Truman ordered the massive White House renovation in 1950 was that he nearly fell through the floors of his Residence in his bathub into a Daughters of the American Revolution reception in the Blue Room "wearing nothing but his reading glasses".
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 01:44PM by MistressGravity
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Wikipedia
White House Reconstruction
The White House Reconstruction, also known as the Truman Reconstruction, was a comprehensive dismantling and rebuilding of the interior of the White House between 1949-1952. A century-and-a-half of wartime destruction and rebuilding, hurried renovations,…
TIL when parents do not give their infant enough attention, the child may develop "Avoidant Attachment". Left with a deep sense of emptiness, the child copes by being distant towards others, rejecting affection, avoiding emotional intimacy and showing little to no reaction towards pain and trauma
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PsychAlive
Avoidant Attachment: Understanding Insecure Avoidant Attachment
30% of people develop an avoidant attachment pattern. Read about why this dismissive attachment style forms and how someone can overcome it.
TIL During pregnancy, the baby growing in its mother’s womb needs plenty of calcium to develop its skeleton. If the mother doesn’t get enough calcium, her baby will draw what it needs from the mother’s bones. Women often lose 3 to 5 percent of their bone mass during breastfeeding, and recover after
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 11:14AM by MarioKartFromHell
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www.bones.nih.gov
Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Bone Health | NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center
This is a public information piece. Maintaining bone health during pregnancy and breastfeeding is important for lifelong health and osteoporosis prevention.
TIL that the Earth would have to turn once every 84 minutes or 17 times faster than the current speed in order for humans to be thrown off the planet, when the centrifugal force would be bigger than the force of gravity that holds us "down".
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 01:50PM by michaelzu7
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BBC Science Focus Magazine
How fast would Earth need to spin for humans to be thrown into space?
If ever you needed an answer to get your head in a spin then this is the one.
TIL about Graham's number which is largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof and it is bigger than the googolplex. It's so big, the Universe does not contain enough stuff on which to write its digits: it's literally too big to write. But this number is finite and divisible by 3 and 7.
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 02:53PM by MaterialImportance
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plus.maths.org
Too big to write but not too big for Graham
Recently, when we were writing our book Numericon, we came across what has now become one of our very favourite numbers: Graham's number. One of the reasons we love it is that this number is big. Actually, that's an understatement. Graham's number is mind…
Til that in 1992, a man named Stefan Mandel won a $27,036,142 jackpot, 6 second prizes, 132 third prizes, and 135 minor prizes in ONE lottery, by buying EVERY SINGLE COMBINATION possible - Over 5.5 million tickets. All 44 US states with lotteries have since changed their laws to prevent this.
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 05:09PM by SkappaDoodle
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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 the most relaxing song in the world is Weightless by Marconi Union. In collaboration with the British Academy of Sound Therapy, the carefully arranged harmonies, rhythms and bass lines help to slow the heart rate, reduce blood pressure and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 04:29PM by RoKe3028
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Telegraph.co.uk
Band creates the 'most relaxing tune ever'
A British band has worked with sound therapists to create a tune described by scientists as the "most relaxing song ever".
TIL women are happier when their partners are less attractive, because they feel less pressure to maintain a high standard of beauty
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 05:49PM by CircleReversed
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Maxim
Women Are Happier When Their Partner Is Less Attractive Than They Are, Says New Study
We’ve all seen this situation: an exquisite, drop-dead gorgeous woman walking hand in hand with a dude who is much, much less attractive than she is...right?
TIL: The same man created The Bigfoot and Stuffed Crust Pizza at Pizza Hut, McGriddles and Fruit 'N Yogurt Parfait at McDonald’s and Smashfries, Veggie Frites, The burger and grilled chicken at Smashburger
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 05:00PM by poser4life
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First We Feast
From Stuffed Crust to Smashburger: Inside the Mind of a Fast-Food Savant - 7. The burger at Smashburger
Industry vet Tom Ryan shares the stories behind his career-defining innovations, including McGriddles and Meat Lover's Pizza.
TIL that, in 2001 after the FDA cracked down on China for mixing in rice syrup into honey to cheat through a test that checks if the honey is genuine or not, China started to launder its honey to other Asian countries by faking various lab results and the country of origin.
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 06:23PM by Boinga5689
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Food Renegade
Your Honey Isn’t Honey
According to the FDA, the one test that authenticates honey is the presence of pollen. If the liquid gold doesn't contain pollen, it isn't honey. Alarmingly, a recent study found that 76% of grocery store "honey" had no pollen in it!
TIL Rust Doesn't cause Tetanus. Tetanus, or lockjaw, is a bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani, an extremely hardy rod-shaped bacterium found in animal digestive tracts and soil worldwide. Humans can be exposed to Clostridium tetani in a variety of non-rusty ways, such as animal bites.
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 01:01PM by MarioKartFromHell
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Office for Science and Society
Rust Doesn't Give You Tetanus
Ever step on a rusty nail? It was, in all likelihood, rapidly followed by your parents dragging you to the doctor’s office for a painful (but safe!) tetanus shot. The memory of my first tetanus shot
TIL that Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first and only woman awarded twice a Nobel Prize, married with Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize for Chemisty), had a daughter that was awarded too, jointly with his husband in 1935. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 04:18PM by andrejmq
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NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity", the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie,…
TIL that in Germany, a doctor diagnosed a case of cobalt poisoning because the symptoms matched a case shown in an episode of Dr. House, and that he wrote a book on how to apply Dr. House's diagnosis in real life.
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Submitted May 25, 2019 at 07:53PM by oldoseamap
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TIME.com
Man’s Life Saved Because His Doctor Watched “House”
And they say TV will rot your brain.