TIL Famous Chess Player Igor Ivanov Defected To Canada In 1980 While Traveling Home To Moscow On A Czechoslovakian Airliner. His Plane Made An Emergency Stop in Newfoundland, Canada. Taking The Chance, He Ran From The Plane While Being Chased By KGB Agents and Was Granted Political Asylum
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Igor Ivanov (chess player)
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (January 8, 1947 – November 17, 2005) was a Russian-born Canadian grandmaster of chess and a concert pianist.
TIL: In 2015, researchers testing the efficiency of mosquito repellents used a Victoria’s Secret perfume because they thought the floral fragrance would attract mosquitoes. To their surprise, they found it repels mosquitoes better than a range of mosquito deterrents.
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Business Insider
Mosquitoes absolutely hate Victoria's Secret perfume
But one bottle of Victoria's Secret perfume costs $52, so you're better off buying DEET to keep mosquitoes away.
TIL that India broke a Guinness World Record, planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours!!
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India breaks Guinness World Record, plants 66 million trees in just 12 hours
Madhya Pradesh is setting a great example that all other states should take note of. In a historical record, the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh created new Guinness World Record after 1.5 million volunteers
TIL that when filming Return of the Jedi in California's redwood forests, Peter Mayhew, when dressed as Chewbacca, had to be escorted by crew members in bright colored vests so local hunters wouldn't think he was bigfoot and shoot him.
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Peter Mayhew Confirms He Required Bigfoot Protection as Chewbacca | Sasquatch Chronicles
"Yes, this is absolutely true." --Peter Mayhew responding on Reddit to rumors of requiring protection from Bigfoot hunters while in Chewbacca costume. Peter
TIL that James Cameron altered just one scene of the night sky when Rose is on the raft because according to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the star field Rose sees wasn't accurate for the time and place. Cameron asked him for the correct one and changed it for the Titanic re-release in 2012.
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Mentalfloss
How Neil deGrasse Tyson Got James Cameron to Edit Titanic—15 Years Later
When the famed astrophysicist pointed out an error in the Oscar-winning blockbuster, Cameron—ever the perfectionist—took action.
TIL Left-handed people's brains are so different from right-handed that they are often excluded from many psychological research studies
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Differences between left- and right-handers in approach/avoidance motivation: influence of consistency of handedness measures
Hand preference is often viewed as a troublesome variable in psychological research, with left-handers routinely excluded from studies. Contrary to this, a body of evidence has shown hand preference to be a useful variable when examining human behavior. ...
TIL There is only 1 reported death from radiation at Fukushima, but over 1600 reported deaths from "evacuation stress" such as suicide and health access.
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List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
There have been several nuclear and radiation accidents involving fatalities, including nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear submarine accidents, and radiotherapy incidents.
TIL when actors screwed up on Tarantino's set, they had to say "Hi Sally" to editor Sally Menke as she had to sit for hours and watch the actors' different takes.
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IndieWire
Watch: Quentin Tarantino’s Shout Outs To Editor Sally Menke While Filming ‘Inglourious Basterds’ & ‘Death Proof’
Watch: Quentin Tarantino's Shout Outs To Editor Sally Menke While Filming 'Inglourious Basterds' & 'Death Proof'
TIL in 1942 the BBC issued an appeal for postcards and photographs of the coast of Europe from Norway to the Pyrenees. It was actually an intelligence gathering exercise, they were sent to the War Office to help determine a suitable location (Normandy) for the eventual D-Day landings of 1944.
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BBC - Press Office - D-Day facts
Press Releases
TIL that the normal intelligible outdoor range of the male human voice in still air is 180 m (590 ft 6.6 in). The silbo, the whistled language of the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Canary Island of La Gomera, is intelligible under ideal conditions at 8 km (5 miles).
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Guinness World Records
Farthest distance travelled by a human voice
Silbo speakers
TIL that the first synthetic plastic was invented as a submission in a $10,000 award contest to find a replacement for ivory in the manufacture of billiard balls.
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Billiard Balls
TIL that 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserve the city's scarce freshwater resources
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r/todayilearned - TIL that 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserve the city's scarce freshwater…
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TIL that in Greek, the phrase "it's all Greek to me" is "Αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα" - "this strikes me as Chinese". In Persian, the language referred to is Japanese, in Slovak it's Spanish, and in Chinese, it's Martian.
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Greek to me
That's Greek to me or It's (all) Greek to me is an idiom in English, expressing that something is abstruse.
TIL that 'Tar and Feathering' wasn't fatal because it was done with pine tar not the asphalt type in modern times
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Journal of the American Revolution
5 Myths of Tarring and Feathering - Journal of the American Revolution
1. Myth: Tarring and feathering could be fatal. Busted: The notion that hot tar caused severe, sometimes fatal burns is based on the assumption...
TIL about Borderlands 2 character Michael Mamaril. A Borderlands fan that died at 22 before Borderlands 2 came out. When his friends asked Gearbox if they would have Claptrap read a eulogy, they instead made a character in the game based off of Michael himself.
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Borderlands Wiki
Michael Mamaril | Borderlands Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
Michael Mamaril is an NPC in Sanctuary. He is noted for giving out blue or rarer loot, including E-tech weapons. He also plays an integral part in the Tribute to A Vault Hunter achievement/trophy...
TIL bone spurs are permanent deposits and do not heal and go away
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AlgaeCal
How to Treat Bone Spurs The Natural Way | AlgaeCal
Discover what caused your bone spurs, how to treat bone spurs naturally and how to easily prevent any from occurring in the future. Click here to find out!
TIL of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, a 2001 cult film about Jesus' modern day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Ontario, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo
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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is a 2001 cult film from Odessa Filmworks which deals with Jesus' modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo (based on El Santo, Enmascarado…
TIL That Nazi Germany asked if J.R.R. Tolkien was Aryan before translating 'The Hobbit' into German. He responded pointing out the "incorrect Nazi aumption" on what Aryan means and expressed regret of having a german surname.
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In 1938, Nazis demanded to know if ‘The Hobbit’ author was Jewish. He responded with a high-class burn.
J.R.R. Tolkien hated Nazi 'race doctrine' and no problem telling his German publishing house about it.
TIL how British Cmdr Terence Otway, wanting to be sure his men wouldn’t leak the D-Day plans, tested them by sending 30 pretty members of the Women’s Aux. Air Force in civilian clothes to the local pubs with instructions to do all they could try and get the info, but none of the men fell for it.
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euronews
The facts you may not know about D-Day
Seventy one years ago, on June 6, 1944, thousands of men and women were preparing to take part in an operation that marked the start of the end of
TIL: In 2009, a researcher received a grant to explore novel materials for applications in electronics. When he tried heating the oxides of manganese, yttrium and indium at 2,000 °F, he inadvertently found the bluest blue pigment to date.
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YInMn Blue
YInMn Blue (for yttrium, indium, manganese), also known as Oregon Blue and Yin Min Blue, is an inorganic blue pigment that was accidentally discovered by Professor Mas Subramanian and his then-graduate student Andrew E. Smith at Oregon State University in…
TIL that voles comfort each other when mistreated. Also, the comforting voles have the same level of stress hormone of the mistreated one, suggesting that voles are capable of empathy
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Submitted June 06, 2019 at 12:21PM by Dontgiveaclam
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Vole
Voles are small rodents that are relatives of mice, but with a stouter body; a shorter, hairy tail; a slightly rounder head; smaller ears and eyes; and differently formed molars (high-crowned with angular cusps instead of low-crowned with rounded cusps).…