TIL: Sea turtles are among the most ancient animals still in existence today with the oldest fossil dating back 215 million years – older than the oldest dinosaur.
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phys.org
World's oldest turtle shells stand test of time
Plucked from a pit of grey clay next to a rubbish dump in southern Poland, fossilised turtle shells resembling the battle-scarred shields of ancient warriors are the world's oldest and most complete.
TIL that the highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman charioter who would be worth $15 billion in today's money.
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Gaius Appuleius Diocles
Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104 – after 146) was a Roman charioteer, who became one of the most celebrated athletes in ancient history.
TIL that during WW2 German prisoners of Wars in Canada were so well treated that they didn't want to leave the country when released. Thousands of them eventually stayed or came back to Canada with one saying that the time in Canadian prison was "the best thing that happened to me."
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TIL that the containment structure built during the Chernobyl disaster to prevent further release of radioactive material was the largest civil engineering feat in history, involving a quarter of a million construction workers who all reached their official lifetime limits for radiation.
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Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, in the No. 4 nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat, in the north of the Ukrainian SSR near the Byelorussian SSR border. The…
TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.
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London Remembers
George Washington
The marble original is in Richmond, Virginia, USA. This bronze copy was presented by the Commonwealth of Virginia. There is a story that, since Washington once said he would never stand on English ground, this statue was supplied with some good ol' American…
TIL The speed of a hairy frogfish’s bite is the result of a vacuum in its mouth that can suck in its prey in just 1/6000th of a second. It’s so fast that even slow-motion video struggles to capture it. It has the fastest bite in the animal kingdom.
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This Hairy Frogfish’s Bite is Too Fast For Slow-Motion
The speed of a hairy frogfish’s bite is the result of a vacuum in its mouth that can suck in its prey in just 1/6000th of a second. It’s so fast that even slow-motion video struggles to capture it.
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TIL The word 'mortgage' literally means 'death pledge'
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Business Insider
The origins of the word 'mortgage' will make you think twice about buying a house
"Word nerds will notice an eerie root word in 'mortgage' — 'mort,' or 'death.'"
TIL Dietary Iron is required for production of sleep monoamine neurotransmitters, so a lack of Iron causes severe sleep disturbances. A study showed those deficiency in Iron also had a significant increase in Anxiety and Depression.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Assessment of subjective sleep quality in iron deficiency anaemia
We aimed to assess the effect of anemia on subjective sleep quality in patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA).One hundred and four patients diagnosed with IDA and 80 healthy individuals, who are gender and age matched, were included in the study. ...
TIL of the "Chicken poop prison" in Thailand. The ceiling of the cells was a grate, and chickens were cared for above the cell. Their droppings were then allowed to drop freely onto the inmate within.
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TIL That in 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated for attempting peace with Palestine.
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Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on 4 November 1995 (12 Marcheshvan 5756 on the Hebrew calendar) at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assassin, an Israeli ultranationalist…
TIL late Malaysian billionaire Lee Shin Cheng applied for a job at Dunlop Estates, an English plantation company, in the 60s but was rejected for his poor English. 20 years later, he bought Dunlop Estates.
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The Star Online
IOI Group’s Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng is bullish on palm oil’s propects.
IOI Group’s executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng talks about his personal journey as an industry veteran and shares some insight into the palm oil sector.
TIL: Farmers in the Austrian Alps are resorting to blowing up the carcasses of dead cows with dynamite rather than paying £200 to have them removed by helicopter (it is a legal requirement that all dead animals are removed from farms).
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Telegraph.co.uk
The hills are alive with the sound of exploding cows
FARMERS whose cows die in the Austrian Alps are resorting to dynamite to destroy the carcasses rather than pay the army £200 to remove the bodies by helicopter.
TIL when he was a child, Stephen King witnessed one of his friends being killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving to go play with the boy, King returned, speechless and in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend's death.
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AMC
How Stephen King’s Childhood Inspired Stand by Me
For the fifth and sixth grade, King attended a one-room schoolhouse with four other children -- the kids who would inspire the characters in Stand by Me.
TIL There is a theory that Grandpa Jo in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is the story's villain. Jo claims to be unable to work, accepts Charlie's money for tobacco, relies on his poor family to feed him. Jo's deception is revealed when Charlie finds a golden ticket, & begins singing and dancing
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Decider
Really Internet: Grandpa Joe From ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
A large portion of the internet believes this beloved grandparent was actually a deceitful grump who deserves to be hated.
TIL: The speed cameras in Germany are made to take photos of drivers who sit in the left side of the vehicle, so a driver using a British car put a muppet in the passenger seat to hide their identity.
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Boing Boing
German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
TIL Scientists can use a person's own stem cells to make male eggs and female sperm. They have also successfully fertilized a male mouse with an egg cell made of its own cells, producing healthy offspring only from a single mouse's genome. So far, this has not been tested with humans.
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Hackingdarwin
Jamie Metzl’s new book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, is your guide to what’s happening, what’s…
TIL Mexico's official name is the United Mexican States
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Mexico
Coordinates: 23°N 102°W / 23°N 102°W / 23; -102
TIL the Stevie in Stevie Wonder is not short for Steven or Stephen, but Stevland
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
TIL Sharks have been around on Earth longer than Trees
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Submitted June 02, 2019 at 06:13PM by amansaggu26
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Smithsonian
Respect: Sharks are Older than Trees
Fun fact of the day: Sharks are older than trees.
TIL about Continuum, a pseudoscientific magazine that denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. It ran from 1992 until 2001 and ceased publication because the editors had died of AIDS-defining clinical conditions.
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TIL: In the 1930s, residents of Munich would take a small side street so they didn't need to render the Nazi salute to the shrine of the Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch. This side road came to be called "Drückebergergasse" or "Shirker's alley"
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