TIL: Pigeons are a invasive non-native feral animals. They are the world's oldest domestic bird and were domesticated between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago from the Rock Dove. The birds adapted well to life in the city because building ledges mimic sea cliffs where they originally lived and nested.
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r/todayilearned - TIL: Pigeons are a invasive non-native feral animals. They are the world's oldest domestic bird and were domesticated…
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TIL that the US has a law permitting the invasion of the (Hague) Netherlands if an American is dragged before the International Criminal Court.
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American Service-Members' Protection Act
The American Service-Members' Protection Act (ASPA, Title 2 of Pub.L. 107–206, H.R. 4775, 116 Stat. 820, enacted August 2, 2002) is a United States federal law that aims "to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials…
TIL that in 1970, the state commission in Mississippi voted to not air Sesame Street because of its “highly [racially] integrated cast of children” which “the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for”.
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) until June 2000) and was created by…
TIL that a Marine called customer service when his M107 .50 caliber sniper rifle failed during a gunfight with the Taliban. After several minutes the weapon was back in service.
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TIL Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered. Seeking out “birds and beasts which were unknown to human palate.”
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Dining Like Darwin: When Scientists Swallow Their Subjects
Some scientists carry on the tradition of eating the animals or plants they study: leeches, tadpoles, 30,000-year-old bison. Darwin did it first, but why do it at all? Call it all-consuming curiosity.
TIL President Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in the pocket of his suit jacket, and sent it to the dry cleaners. They threw it in the bin.
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TIL: James Earl Jones had a terrible stutter as a child and was functionally mute for 8 years because of it. A high school teacher helped him end his silence through Jones' love of poetry.
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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. His career has spanned more than six decades, and he has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors and "one of the greatest actors in American history". Since…
TIL that scientists in Tel Aviv have found that soon after a bee flies past an Evening Primrose, the flower increases the sugar content of its nectar by 30%. Playing bee sounds has a similar effect, but there is no effect on the flower when other vibrations are emitted.
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Science & Innovation
Flowers can hear buzzing bees—and it makes their nectar sweeter
“I’d like people to understand that hearing is not only for ears.”
TIL - The scene in Fight Club where Tyler is explaining the cost of a recall when "A car built by my company crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside" is based on ACTUAL leaked memos from GM and Ford.
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GM Recall: Defective Ignition Switch Saved Company $1 - The Legal Examiner
There’s just something about a dollar. A buck. Greenback. Ace. Single. One-Spot. It’s both a symbol of frugality and a symbol of power. On…
TIL the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz series was once a man named Nick Chopper. A witch cursed his axe causing it dismember him over time. He then had each bit replaced until he was completely metal. Upon encountering his surviving human head, they argue as to which one is the real Nick.
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Tin Woodman
The Tin Woodman, better known as either the Tin Man or (incorrectly) the Tin Woodsman (the third name appears only in adaptations, the first—and in rare instances, the second—was used by Baum), is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American…
TIL that in 1828, a painter named Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature portrait of her own breasts and sent it to a man in what is probably one of the earliest cases of someone sending nudes.
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Beauty Revealed
Beauty Revealed is an 1828 self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge, painted in miniature with watercolors on a piece of ivory. Depicting the artist's bared breasts surrounded by pale cloth, the 6.7-by-8-centimetre (2.6 by 3.1 in) painting – originally…
TIL Mushroom Death Suit is embroidered with thread infused with mushroom spores that grow from the body after burial. These mushrooms digest the body as it decomposes and neutralize many of the environmental contaminants found in the body—including pesticides, preservatives, and heavy metals.
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Atlas Obscura
The Mushroom Death Suit is the Latest in Post-Mortem, Eco-Friendly Fashion
Just when you thought you had a handle on all the intricacies of modern, eco-friendly burials, a new post-mortem option has emerged. After creating a stir...
TIL: Robert Fortune was a Scottish man who infiltrated the Chinese tea industry in the 19th century, eventually smuggling out tea plants and revealing that the Chinese had been dying their tea with hazardous dyes, effectively ended the Chinese tea industry at the time.
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The Great British Tea Heist
Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process
TIL Jim Henson is on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as both himself and "Kermit The Frog". Only three other people have received this honor. Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse; Mel Blanc and Bugs Bunny; and Mike Myers and Shrek.
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Jim Henson
James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, voice actor, inventor, filmmaker, and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets (1955–) and Fraggle Rock (1983–1987). He…
TIL that Kim Jong Il’s eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, was expected to succeed his father’s rule until he got caught trying to sneak into Japan to go to Disneyland. So that Disneyland trip prevented him from being supreme ruler of North Korea.
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Kim Jong-nam
Kim Jong-nam (Hangul: 김정남; Hanja: 金正男, Korean: [kim.dzʌŋ.nam]; 10 May 1971 – 13 February 2017) was the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered the heir apparent to his father. He was thought to have fallen…
TIL In 2012, a tourist in Iceland left her group to change her clothes. When she returned to the group, they did not recognise her. The group began searching for a missing person. She joined the search party for herself.
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'Missing' Icelandic tourist goes in search of herself
A woman on a visit to Iceland has managed to add new twist to the concept of "self-discovery" after taking part in a major mountain search operation for a lost tourist before admitting to police that
TIL In 2010, Apple soldered RAM in some laptops which prevented upgrades. In 2015, they soldered the SSD in some laptops, also preventing upgrades.
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Apple's War on Upgrades Continues With the New Touch Bar MacBook Pro
Apple’s quest to make its laptops ultra slim and ultra light have led to the company increasingly soldering upgradable parts into the guts of its notebook computers.
TIL that the first person in history whose name we know is 'Kushim', who was not a King, poet or a warrior, but an accountant. He signed a receipt which said "29,086 measures barley 37 months Kushim", which was found on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia.
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Science & Innovation
Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know?
Editor’s Note: This post has updated to clarify a sentence about the gender of the ancient writer. “It’s me!” they’d say, and they’d leave a sign. Leave it on the cave wall. Maybe as a prayer, maybe a graffito, we don’t know. This was 30,000 years ago.…
TIL in 1846, Eremina desertorum, a snail, was collected and glued to a museum index card, presumed dead. 4 years later, the specimen was being looked at with warm water, when it suddenly awoke and looked around to see what was going on.
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Eremina desertorum
Eremina desertorum (formerly Helix desertorum) is a species of land snails in the genus Eremina.
TIL Jonah Hill was hospitalised with bronchitis after shooting for "The Wolf of Wall Street". He had been snorting Vitamin D for close to seven months since the movie involved several scenes of coke snorting.
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The Independent
Jonah Hill 'hospitalised' after snorting so much fake cocaine on Wolf of Wall Street
The life of a movie star becomes increasingly unglamorous when you start looking more closely at what is required by each role.
TIL Mark Zuckerberg has an AI assistant name Jarvis who is voiced by Morgan Freeman.
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Morgan Freeman voices Mark Zuckerberg's AI assistant
Actor Morgan Freeman provides the voice for an AI assistant created by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.