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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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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r/todayilearned - TIL about Continuum, a pseudoscientific magazine that denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. It ran from 1992 until…
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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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r/todayilearned - TIL: In the 1930s, residents of Munich would take a small side street so they didn't need to render the Nazi…
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TIL Of the 1,213 warships involved in D-Day, only 200 were American and 892 were British; of the 4,126 landing craft involved, 805 were American and 3,261 were British
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CNN
D-Day: Debunking the myths of the Normandy landings
On the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, northern France, historian James Holland separates truth from myth.
TIL that ~2500 years before Ancient Rome, the Indus Valley Civilization had public baths, personal toilets, and a widespread system of brick and terracotta drainage ducts and the first instances of plumbing and in the ancient world.
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TIL During the second northern war, a historically cold winter froze the water in between Sweden and Denmark. Denmark assumed Sweden would wait for spring to attack. Instead, the Swedes marched their army across the frozen ocean and crushed them, taking a lot of land that they still own to this day
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March Across the Belts
The March Across the Belts was a campaign between 30 January and 8 February 1658 during the Second Northern War where King Charles X Gustav of Sweden led the Swedish army from Jutland across the ice of the Little Belt to Funen and the Great Belt to reach…
TIL when Steve Madden was convicted of fraud and forced to resign as CEO of his company, he created a new position for himself that paid $700k per year while he was in prison.
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Wikipedia
Steve Madden
Steve Madden (born 1958) is an American fashion designer and businessman. He is most well known as the founder and former CEO of Steve Madden, Ltd., a publicly traded company.
TIL that 10-35% of people share the same genetic trait that makes us having to sneeze when looking towards the sun
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PBS NewsHour
Why looking at the sun can make you sneeze
Do you ever sneeze when you walk into sunlight? If so, you may have a seemingly harmless disorder and you're hardly alone.
TIL that several years ago a man wrestled a 7 foot bullshark after it bit off his nephew's arm. The shark was then dragged on to the shore where it was shot and the boy's uncle managed to retrieve his arm where it was later then successfully attached back on to the boy who had recovered.
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NY Times
Long After the Shark Died, the Rumor Lived
Click.
TIL during the filming of Interview with the Vampire, a shallow trench was dug for Brad Pitt to walk alongside Tom Cruise so that their significant height disparity wouldn't be apparent on camera.
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Wikipedia
Interview with the Vampire (film)
Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American gothic romantic horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel of the same name, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The film focuses on Lestat (Cruise) and Louis (Pitt), beginning with…
TIL that a financial advisor suspected that a colleague was ejaculating in her drink bottle after noticing a strange taste, and had her boyfriend ejaculate into a water bottle to confirm her suspicions. The colleague was fired and charged with assault.
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Business Insider
Financial Adviser Explains The Gross Reasons He's Involved In That Bizarre Semen Assault Case
Of all the weird and sordid finance stories to flash across our screens over the past year, the one about Michael Lallana allegedly ejaculating into his female coworker's drink bottle was probably the worst.
TIL in 1981 the US claimed Vietnam had used chemical weapons on it's own people, saying over ten thousand had died from what was described as 'yellow rain'. The 'yellow rain' was analyzed and found to be harmless bee feces.
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Wikipedia
Yellow rain
Yellow rain was the subject of a 1981 political incident in which the United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Soviet Union of supplying T-2 mycotoxin to the Communist states in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia for use in counterinsurgency warfare.…
TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen never played chess in their life until the movie X-Men required them to do so. A chess master came in to teach them.
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Blackfilm
May 2003 | blackfilm.com | features | interviews | x2 (x-men united) : an interview with patrick stewart
In an interview with blackfilm.com, Patrick Stewart talks about playing Prof. Charles Xavier in X2 (X-Men United).