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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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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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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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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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.
TIL if you are 6' tall and looking out over the ocean at sea level the horizon is roughly 3 miles away
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HowStuffWorks
When I stand at the water's edge and look out over the ocean, how far away is the horizon?
When I stand at the water's edge and look out over the ocean, how far away is the horizon? Is there an equation to figure it out?
TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger was not too keen on playing the Terminator in the 1984 film "The Terminator". He wanted to play Kyle Reese, the good guy. When asked about his casting as Terminator, he said "Oh some shit movie I'm doing" and its "Low profile" enough to not damage his career.
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The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose son will one day become…
TIL tooth enamel is harder than steel. It's composed of mineralised calcium phosphate, which is the single hardest substance any living being can produce. Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster's shell or a rhino's horn.
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Tooth enamel
Tooth enamel is one of the four major tissues that make up the tooth in humans and many other animals, including some species of fish. It makes up the normally visible part of the tooth, covering the crown. The other major tissues are dentin, cementum, and…
TIL for millennia Autism and other sudden disabilities was explained by the Changeling folklore. A fairy or demon would steal a normal baby and replace them with their own child in disguise. The Changeling would cry, scream, not display social behavior, or just become completely unresponsive.
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r/todayilearned - TIL for millennia Autism and other sudden disabilities was explained by the Changeling folklore. A fairy or demon…
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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger beat O.J. Simpson for the role of the Terminator because Simpson wasn't "menacing" enough to play a killer.
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Hollywood.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger Won Terminator Role From O.J. Simpson
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger beat out O.J. Simpson for the role of the Terminator after proving to director James Cameron he was "menacing enough" for it.
TIL In the US you generally buy a cemetery spot for life and not just rent it until you stop renewing it anymore as is custom in many other other parts of the world
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 04:12PM by Pesty-knight_ESBCKTA
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NPR.org
How American Cemeteries Promise To Keep Your Grave Forever
This is maybe not the best idea.
TIL the screaming at Beatles concerts was so loud that no one could hear them play—not even the Beatles themselves. It led them to stop playing live performances entirely, retreat to the studio, and ultimately create albums like Sgt. Pepper with no concern for performing any of the songs live.
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Beatlemania
Beatlemania was the intense fan frenzy directed towards the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s. Their popularity grew in the United Kingdom throughout 1963, and by the end of the year the press had adopted the term "Beatlemania" to describe the scenes…
TIL: During the time of the Great Depression, a banker convinced struggling families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares which traded at $19. Later, the town became the single richest town per capita in the US with at least 67 millionaires.
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Atlas Obscura
The Town of Coca-Cola Millionaires
How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.