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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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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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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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.
TIL about James Okubo, a Japanese American who was in college when WWII started studying dentistry, he was kicked out and sent to a Japanese internment camp in CA for 2 years. He then joined the Army as a medic and saved 25 men in a battle in 1944, was posthumously awarded the medal of honor in 2000
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77 years after leaving college for an internment camp, Medal of Honor recipient gets a degree
As a college student during WWII, Japanese-American James Okubo was forced to drop out of Western Washington University and enter an internment camp. Now, the school is posthumously recognizing Okubo's academic achievements.
TIL the winner of the discuss throw in the first modern Olympics had never seen a proper discuss until he arrived in Athens. The version he commissioned to train with was 25 pounds heavier than the competition model because he based it solely on images from an ancient vase.
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TIL of professional "fired men" that were used as department store scapegoats who were fired several times a day to please costumers who were disgruntled about some error
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Slate Magazine
Fact-Checking Steve Jobs: Was “The Customer Is Always Right” Really Coined by a Customer?
In the new movie Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin, a nonbeliever questions the Apple guru’s wisdom by reminding him of the saying “the customer is...
TIL: Over the next 20 years, a new pilot will need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every 15 minutes in order to meet demand.
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CNNMoney
The U.S. will face a staggering shortage of pilots
Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every single day around the world in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air.
TIL The tendency to see Van Gogh's mental illness in his work began as a rebuke by critics who hated it, at a time when mental illness was highly stigmatized. He was actually only seriously ill in the final 2 years of his life.
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BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Trigger warnings, Myths about Van Gogh's mental health
Trigger warnings, Myths about Van Gogh's mental health, Multi-tasking
TIL that the success rate for CPR is nowhere near as high as it is portrayed on TV. In some cities it can be as low as 5%.
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Bbc
Does CPR usually bring people around?
The number of lives saved by CPR isn't as many as films and TV dramas would have you believe. Why is this the case, and what is the best way to do it?
TIL modern nuclear submarines are so well cloaked that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missle subs collided in the atlantic ocean by pure chance. Moving very slowly, they were't able to detect each other just feet apart.
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HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant submarine collision
The submarines HMS Vanguard and Triomphant collided in the Atlantic Ocean in the night between 3–4 February 2009. Both are nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The Royal Navy's HMS Vanguard and the French Navy's Triomphant both sustained damage,…
TIL Hugh Jackman was inspired to quit playing Wolverine after having a conversation with Jerry Seinfeld about when to retire from a long-running series.
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Logan (film)
Logan is a 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the X-Men character Wolverine. It is the tenth installment in the X-Men film series, as well as the final installment in the Wolverine trilogy, after X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The…
TIL that Country Time Lemonade has a program in place to help reimburse children that are fined for running lemonade stands.
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TAKE A STAND FOR LEMONADE STANDS
Upload a photo of your lemonade stand's fine or permit fee and @CountryTime Legal-Ade will reimburse you up to $300. Enter your info now: https://bit.ly/2XEKLPw #SaveLemonadeStands
TIL in 1988 the final history exams for more than 53 million Soviet schoolchildren were cancelled because much of the history they had been taught were lies.
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r/todayilearned - TIL in 1988 the final history exams for more than 53 million Soviet schoolchildren were cancelled because much…
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TIL Bones found at Seymour Island indicate that, 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at a formidable 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.
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Submitted June 15, 2019 at 08:20PM by stoopididiotface
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usatoday
Big bird: Fossil of giant penguin discovered in New Zealand
TIL the Dinkleberg's from the Nickelodeon show Fairly Odd Parents is a reference to D.I.N.K., meaning Dual Income No Kids, which refers to married couples like the Dinklebergs who have large amounts of money due to not spending it on kids.
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Submitted June 16, 2019 at 03:16AM by Ayr98
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Fairly Odd Parents Wiki
Dinkleberg family | Fairly Odd Parents Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
The Dinkleberg family is a family that lives in Dimmsdale next door to the Turner family. The only known members are Sheldon Dinkleberg and his wife, Mrs. Dinkleberg. The Dinklebergs moved in next...
TIL that the residents of Chernobyl had a new city built for them by workers from 8 former Soviet republics. The city has a range of different architectural styles such as pink stoned Armenian buildings and wooden Baltic-style houses. City districts are named after a city from each republic.
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Slavutych
Slavutych (Ukrainian: Славу́тич) is a city in northern Ukraine, purposely built for the evacuated personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 disaster that occurred near the city of Pripyat. Geographically located within the Ripky Raion…