TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them
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TIL in the past 42 years over 51 million trees have been planted in Kenya by the Green Belt Movement founded by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 01:51PM by pinkdaisyy
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The Green Belt Movement
TIL that "dashboard" was originally a barrier of wood or leather at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect a driver from mud or other debris "dashed up" by the horses' hooves. Today it refers to the evolution of that flat board which now contains displays, gauges and instruments.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 08:30AM by raysqman
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Wikipedia
Dashboard
A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel (IP), or fascia) is a control panel usually located directly ahead of a vehicle's driver, displaying instrumentation and controls for the vehicle's operation.
TIL that the highest-paid athlete of all time is an Ancient Roman charioteer, Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who is said to have earned the equivalent of 15 billion US dollars over his 24-year career. Second is Michael Jordan, with an estimated earnings of 1.9 billion US dollars.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 03:10PM by Virble
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Wikipedia
Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid athletes
This is a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine.
TIL After Chernobyl meltdown, Russian military pilots created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout. British scientist allowed into the area, said that the population in Belarus was exposed to radiation doses 20 to 30 times higher than normal as a result of the rainfall
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 12:45PM by HydrolicKrane
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Telegraph.co.uk
'How we made the Chernobyl rain'
Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
TIL that the first recorded mention of altitude sickness was in 37 BCE, when a Chinese official noted that a trade route to Afghanistan passed a mountain that caused sickness as travelers ascended it - in the report, this place was named “Big Headache Mountain”.
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The first documented report of mountain sickness: the China or Headache Mountain story. - PubMed - NCBI
Respir Physiol. 1983 Jun;52(3):315-26. Historical Article
TIL that there are 150+ bison living on a small island off the coast of California. They’ve been there since a film crew imported 14 bison for a movie shoot in 1924, then left them behind when the shoot was complete.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 06:26PM by GlassApricot9
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Santa Catalina Island (California)
Santa Catalina Island (Tongva: Pimugna or Pimu) is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island name is often shortened to Catalina Island or just Catalina. The island is 22 mi (35 km) long and 8 mi…
TIL there are microorganisms living on the seafloor that reproduce only once every 10,000 years and have been alive for millions. These are likely the oldest living things on Earth.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 07:03PM by swagmastermessiah
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phys.org
Soil beneath ocean found to harbor long lived bacteria, fungi and viruses
(Phys.org) —Researchers with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) have presented findings at this year's Goldschmidt conference. They report having found bacteria, fungi and viruses living a ...
TIL Keanu Reeves was sued for assault by a paparazzo who slipped while taking Reeves picture. It took 18 months for the case to go to trial and 1 hour for the jury to dismiss it.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 09:34PM by jstohler
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Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves (/kɛˈɑːnuː/ keh-AH-noo born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian-American actor and musician. He gained fame for his starring role performances in several blockbuster films, including comedies from the Bill and Ted franchise (1989–1991);…
TIL "Hey Jude" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" were both recorded using the same piano
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Bohemian Rhapsody
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic…
TIL of Rosalynn McGinnis; She was kidnapped at the age of 12 by her stepfather and smuggled into Mexico, where she had 9 children fathered by her kidnapper. At the age of 32, 20 years after her kidnapping, her neighbors helped her and 8 of her children escape their captor and return to the U.S.
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KSHB
Kidnapped & held captive at 12: An escape story
Rosalynn McGinnis was just 10 years old when the abuse began. Only two years later, she was kidnapped and held captive for nearly 20 years before good Samaritans helped her escape with her nine children.
TIL about the Bhopal Disaster, a chemical leak from a pesticide plant in India that killed and injured more people than Chernobyl.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 07:06PM by GalliumGames
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PubMed Central (PMC)
The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review
On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved ...
TIL a British charity advises women at risk for forced overseas marriages to hide a spoon in their underwear. This sets off the airport metal detector and gives the woman the chance to be examined in private, away from her family.
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the Guardian
Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear
Charity advises women and young girls to set off airport metal detectors to give them more time to seek help from authorities
TIL in 2015, Cheryl Treadway, a Florida woman, was being held hostage by her boyfriend, Nickerson. He didn't allow her make calls or write texts, so she used the Pizza Hut app to send a discreet call for help. Police arrived at the location and she was released.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 11:06PM by NnadiEmmanuel
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PEOPLE.com
Florida Woman Being Held Hostage Requests Help Through Pizza Hut App
A quick-thinking Florida mom turned a pizza delivery order into a plea for help while allegedly being held hostage by…
TIL that Alan Rickman was originally chosen to voice Lord Farquaad from Shrek, but he chose instead to play Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films.
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Submitted June 13, 2019 at 12:53AM by ChairmanZuck
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Lord Farquaad
Lord Maximus Farquaad is the main antagonist of the 2001 animated feature film Shrek, as well as Shrek 4-D and the musical. He is voiced by John Lithgow. He does not appear in William Steig's original picture book of the same name.
TIL: Before the discovery of X-rays and xylophone popularity, the Persian King Xerxes was used for the X letter in children's alphabet books.
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Submitted June 12, 2019 at 11:04PM by today_okay
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The Public Domain Review
X is for…
How alphabet books dealt with the letter X before the rise of x-rays and xylophones.
TIL A community college in the Bronx uses the same cirriculum as Columbia University in the Ivy League. For the past three years, professors at Hostos have been teaching a version of the Columbia Core in their freshman composition classes
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Submitted June 13, 2019 at 01:44AM by imstayinalive
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TIL a teenage cheerleader’s mom tried to hire a hitman to kill her daughter’s cheerleading rival’s mother. She thought if her mom was killed, she would be too sad to cheerlead. The man she “hired” was working for the cops.
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Submitted June 13, 2019 at 09:22AM by raxereson
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Morbidology
Pompom Mom - Wanda Holloway • Morbidology
This Texas mother was prepared to go to extreme lengths to see her daughter become a cheerleader.
TIL of Brandolini's Law which says that bullshit claims require an entire order of magnitude more effort to refute than that which produced them.
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Submitted June 13, 2019 at 04:42AM by ScienceInspires
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TIL of Brandolini's Law which says that bullshit claims require an...
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TIL Brittany Murphy's death was ruled a result of pneumonia and severe anemia and within 6 months after her death her husband passed away in the same house due to... pneumonia and severe anemia.
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Submitted June 13, 2019 at 06:33AM by HCJohnson
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Cnn
Coroner finds Simon Monjack's death was similar to Brittany Murphy's - CNN.com
Simon Monjack's death two months ago was caused by acute pneumonia and severe anemia, according to a Los Angeles County coroner spokesman.
TIL that the Vatican is the largest wine consumer in the world per capita. Each resident of the city-state consumes an average of 74 liters of wine per year, or nearly 100 bottles. This is twice as much as in France and seven times more than in the United States.
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The Independent
Vatican City drinks more wine per person than anywhere else in the world
More wine is drunk per person in the Vatican City than in any other country in the world, according to the latest statistics released by the Wine Institute.