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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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).
TIL: One evening, while rushing for dinner after a long day at the lab, Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist at Johns Hopkins, forgot to wash his hands that had traces of benzoic sulfimide. This compound made his dinner taste sweet, and that’s how he discovered the artificial sweetener Saccharin.
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The Inventor of Saccharine
TIL the "whistling" noise used to indicate bombs falling in movies and TV shows is almost always the wrong way round. Anyone underneath a bomb that made such a sound (only specific WW2-era bombs) would hear the pitch increasing as it got closer, not decreasing, due to the Doppler effect.
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Science ABC
Why Do Bombs Make A Whistling Sound When They Fall?
Thomas Pynchon’s masterful World War II novel, Gravity’s Rainbow, begins with one of the most memorable lines in literature—A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, [...]
TIL Canadians apologize so much that in 2009, the Canadian parliament passed a law stating that apologizing doesn't mean you have admitted fault.
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The Loop
Canadians love to say ‘sorry’ so much, we had to make this law
Are you really that surprised?
TIL that the project aimed at resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth is only three successful mutations away from beginning embryo growth in Asian Elephants.
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Revive & Restore
Progress to Date
The Harvard team is using CRISPR genome engineering to copy-and-paste DNA from the mammoth genome into living elephant cell cultures.
TIL that Hanns Scharff, German Luftwaffe's "master interrogator," instead of physical torture on POWs used techniques like nature walks, going out for a pleasant lunch, and swimming where the subject would reveal information on their own. He helped shape US interrogation techniques after the war.
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Hanns Scharff
Hanns-Joachim Gottlob Scharff (December 16, 1907 – September 10, 1992) was a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War. He has been called the "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe and possibly all of Nazi Germany; he has also been praised…
TIL Fraudsters in China cost Apple over $2 Billion by returning fake iPhones for refunds
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AppleInsider
Rampant Chinese iPhone repair fraud forced Apple to develop countermeasures
Apple has spent the last five years combatting fraud relating to iPhone repairs in China, where parts were stolen from working iPhones and were submitted for repair under warranty, a problem that reportedly cost billions of dollars and forced Apple to investigate.
TIL skilled archers can shoot arrows so they turn in the air, hitting targets behind obstacles
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Lars Andersen: Turning Arrows
Arrows fly directions can be changed in the air.
It is one of the funniest things to do in archery.
It's actually quite easy, all experienced archers should easily be able to learn this.
It can be done with ordinary arrows, but it is far easier to learn…
It is one of the funniest things to do in archery.
It's actually quite easy, all experienced archers should easily be able to learn this.
It can be done with ordinary arrows, but it is far easier to learn…
TIL the crew of 'Return of the Jedi' mocked the character design of Admiral Ackbar, deeming it too ugly. Director Richard Marquand refused to alter it, saying, "I think it's good to tell kids that good people aren't necessarily good looking people and that bad people aren't necessarily ugly people."
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Admiral Ackbar
Fleet Admiral Gial Ackbar is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. A member of the amphibious Mon Calamari species, Ackbar is the foremost military commander of the Rebel Alliance, leading a small underequipped navy. Ackbar's tactical flexibility…
TIL that during a speech, the elderly former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth was accused by a man in the crowd of not being a female, to which she responded by exposing and shaking a withered breast at him and asked: "Want a suck?"
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muse.jhu.edu
Project MUSE - A'n't I a Lady?: Race Women, Michelle Obama, and the Ever-Expanding Democratic Imagination
TIL mythological smith gods, such as Hephaestus, Weyland, Svarog, Ptah, etc., are often depicted as crippled or deformed. This is now believed to be from constant exposure to arsenic, which was added to copper to make bronze.
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Hephaestus
Hephaestus (/hɪˈfiːstəs, hɪˈfɛstəs/; eight spellings; Greek: Ἥφαιστος Hēphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes. Hephaestus' Roman equivalent is Vulcan. In Greek…
TIL Mexico City's government was so impressed by the Day of the Dead parade in the film Spectre (2015) that they recreated the event for locals and tourists in 2016; 250k people attended the event and it has been annually ongoing ever since.
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Spectre (2015 film)
Spectre is a 2015 British spy film, the twenty-fourth in the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. It is the fourth film to feature Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and the second…
TIL during WW2, Ernest Hemingway led a small Militia in a village outside Paris, and this caused him to be brought up on formal charges for violating the Geneva Convention "because a correspondent is not supposed to lead troops, even if he does it well."
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and noted sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while…
TIL about Tanya Savicheva, a Russian girl that cronicled in her diary the deaths of all her family members during the siege of Leningrad, ending with "Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left".
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Tanya Savicheva
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva (23 January 1930 – 1 July 1944) was a Russian child diarist who endured the Siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva…
TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.
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National Geographic News
Hobbit-Like Human Ancestor Found in Asia
Scientists have found skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and giant lizards on a remote island in Indonesia.
TIL the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is so tall, you can watch two sunsets in one day. One at the ground level, and the second at the top.
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Gizmodo
Did You Know That the Burj Khalifa Is So Tall That you Can Watch Two Sunsets On the Same Day?
Here's a factoid that will blow your mind: the Burj Khalifa—the largest building in the world—is so tall that you can watch the sunset from the base of the building, get into an elevator right to the top, and watch the sunset all over again.
TIL a picture of Brock Turner's face was once used as the definition of "rape" in a Criminology textbook.
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REFINERY29
Brock Turner's Photo Appears In A Law Textbook Defining Rape
Brock Turner wasn't technically convicted for rape, but his photo now appears in a criminal justice textbook in the section defining rape.
TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
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Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity…
TIL President Coolidge and his wife had a pet raccoon named Rebecca who lived with them in the White House. Rebecca was supposed to be eaten for 1926 Thanksgiving dinner, but they adopted her instead.
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Rebecca (raccoon)
Rebecca was a raccoon kept as a pet by US president Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace Coolidge.