TIL That the younger of brother of Nazi leader Hermann Goering, Albert, helped Jews escape Germany and the camps during the war and was a vehement anti-fascist who worked with the Czech Underground
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Albert Göring
Albert Günther Göring (9 March 1895 – 20 December 1966) was a German engineer, businessman and the younger brother of Hermann Göring, the head of the German Luftwaffe and a leading member of the Nazi Party.
Today I learned that the lead singer of The Offspring is a doctor fighting to cure HIV
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Billboard
The Offspring's Dexter Holland Earns Ph.D. in Molecular Biology
The Offspring's Dexter Holland is now Doctor Dexter Holland, after graduating from the University of Southern California on Thursday with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology.
TIL Clone High, an adult animated tv series about the clones of famous historical figures going to high school, was cancelled due to its portrayal of Ghandi as a loose party animal, causing great controversy in India. It began hunger strikes and even a national protest where MPs got involved.
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Clone High
Clone High (occasionally referred to in the U.S. as Clone High U.S.A.) is a Canadian–American adult animated television series created by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Bill Lawrence. The comedy centers on a high school populated by the clones of famous…
TIL: About 95% of serotonin is produced in the gastrointestinal tract which is lined with a hundred million nerve cells, or neurons, that are influenced by bacteria. The inner workings of the digestive system don’t just help digest food, but also guide moods and emotions.
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Harvard Health Blog
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food - Harvard Health Blog
The emerging field of nutritional psychiatry is finding that the food you eat directly affects the structure of your digestive tract, the function of your brain, and, ultimately, your mood.
TIL a Florida brewery created edible six-pack rings that feed animals instead of killing them
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CraftBeer.com
Saltwater Brewery Creates Edible Six-Pack Rings | CraftBeer.com
Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach, Fla., recently released edible six-pack rings, a brand-new approach to sustainable beer packaging.
TIL King Leopold II of Belgium turned the Congo into one massive slave plantation that resulted in an estimated 10,000,000 deaths, with historians comparing him to Hitler and Stalin.
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Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909.
TIL Garlic ranks as the #1 antibacterial food. Capsicums (peppers) are only 75% effective
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Cornell Chronicle
Food bacteria-spice survey shows why some cultures like it hot | Cornell Chronicle
Humans' use of antimicrobial spices developed in parallel with food-spoilage microorganisms, Cornell University biologists have demonstrated in a international survey of spice use in cooking. (March 4, 1998)
TIL prior to losing the $3 million settlement to the lady who spilled coffee and got 3rd degree burns, Mcdonald's had over 700 reports of injuries from similar incidents.
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Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, also known as the McDonald's coffee case and the hot coffee lawsuit, was a 1994 product liability lawsuit that became a flashpoint in the debate in the United States over tort reform. Although a New Mexico civil jury awarded…
TIL many of the "Real Facts" printed inside Snapple bottle caps are outdated, incomplete, inaccurate or just plain false.
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The Atlantic
We Fact-Checked Snapple's 'Real Facts'
With 30 seconds and a web connection, you can, too.
TIL The main set of the 1980 film Popeye, starring Robin Williams, is now one of Malta’s major tourist attractions. A small but quaint coastal village, it has Popeye themed events, shows, and many props from the movie.
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Popeye Village
Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, is a purpose-built film set village, now converted into a small attraction fun park, consisting of a collection of rustic and ramshackle wooden buildings. It is located at Anchor Bay, 3 kilometres (2 mi) from…
TIL that in 1933 6000 people were deported by the Soviet Union to an island in the middle of Siberia and were abandoned there without food or shelter. Within three weeks most of the prisoners were dead due to the widespread episodes of cannibalism. The island became known as “Cannibal Island”.
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Nazino affair
Coordinates: 60°06′22″N 78°56′35″E / 60.106°N 78.943°E / 60.106; 78.943
TIL the fact that Neil Armstrong was to be the first to walk on the moon was inadvertently decided by the LEM designers, who placed the inward swinging hatch's hinge on its right side. When opened, the hatch blocked the pilot seat and meant Aldrin could only leave after Armstrong exited the lander.
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AmericaSpace
Neil Armstrong: The ‘First Man’ Decision
Much has been spoken and written in recent days about Neil Armstrong: that he was a quiet man, a thoughtful man, a man with no ego, a man who exuded uncommon calmness and possessed understated conf…
TIL about the miracle on Dan bus 4 where a mother and her son ran into each other after believing each had died in the Holocaust years earlier.
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Timesofisrael
Miracle on Dan Bus #4
It was a hot day in 1951, when suddenly a passenger shrieked and the driver burst into tears
TIL the granite used to build the US Capitol is so radioactive that the building would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants.
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r/todayilearned - TIL the granite used to build the US Capitol is so radioactive that the building would fail federal safety codes…
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TIL The Phil Donahue show was cancelled by MSNBC three weeks before the invasion of Iraq. Donahue had previously lost support after he expressed his feelings regarding the first Gulf War. General Electric who owned MSNBC at the time was also a major defense contractor removed the show and fired him
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Phil Donahue
Phillip John Donahue (born December 21, 1935) is an American media personality, writer, film producer, and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. His television program, later known as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience…
TIL Anne Frank was bisexual and wrote extensively about her attraction to both men and women. The common version of her diaries are censored for this content.
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Timesofisrael
Learning Anne Frank was bisexual is a game-changer
And yet, it feels like an incredible breach of privacy to take a child’s private words on her identity and use them as inspiration for myself
TIL Pistachios crack themselves. I always assumed they were run through some sort of industrial nutcracker prior to packaging. But apparently when they ripen, the shells suddenly pop open and even make an audible crack. Chinese legend says witnessing this will bring the hearer good luck.
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Pistachio
The pistachio (/pɪˈstɑːʃiˌoʊ, -ˈstæ-/,Pistacia vera), a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originating from Central Asia and the Middle East. The tree produces seeds that are widely consumed as food.
TIL that the Hindenburg had a grand piano on it; but because they can weigh up to 1000 pounds, the ship had a specially-made aluminum piano which only weighed 350 pounds.
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Airships.net
The Hindenburg's Aluminum Piano | Airships.net
The Hindenburg's aluminum piano was the first piano ever carried on a passenger aircraft.
TIL Agatha Christie wrote a novel in 1941 about World War 2 codebreaking featuring a character named Major Bletchley. Due to this, she was investigated by MI5, but the naming turned out to be coincidental and unrelated to the then secret codebreaking in Bletchley Park.
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N or M?
N or M? is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1941 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. The US edition retailed $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings…
TIL due to high ruble inflation during the fall of the USSR, parody dollar bills dropped by AC/DC during their concert in Moscow were used in monetary transactions and considered more valuable than rubles.
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Angus Bucks
Angus Bucks, Angus Bills or AC/DC Dollars are fake, United States one-dollar bills featuring Angus Young, the lead guitarist from the Australian rock 'n' roll band AC/DC. Thousands were dropped on the audience as a theatrical gimmick at the end of the song…
TIL about Potoooooooo (or Pot-8-Os), an 18th century racehorse who was aptly named when one of the stable boys misunderstood his real name, Potatoes
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Submitted June 15, 2019 at 09:36AM by hippykinss
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Horse Riding Holidays and Safaris
Potoooooooo or Pot8os
The crazy horse name belonged to an endurance thoroughbred that one 34 races in the 18th Century.