TIL Two metal detectorists who thought they'd found a stash of Roman gold coins they estimated to be worth £250,000 discovered the coins were actually a worthless prop for TV show The Detectorists.
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'Roman haul' turns out to be TV show Detectorists prop
The 50 "gold" coins and pottery had earlier been buried by the crew of the BBC show Detectorists.
TIL the nazis tried to hide the fact that the first gasoline car in germany was made by a jew
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Siegfried Marcus
Siegfried Samuel Marcus (18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German inventor. Marcus was born of Jewish descent in Malchin, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He made several petrol-powered vehicles, the first one in 1864, while living in Vienna…
TIL that most Asians suffer from lactose intolerance and that humans in general become lactose intolerant after weaning. It’s only with the advent of agriculture that some races were able to properly digest milk and other dairy products even if they’re already adults.
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NextShark
Why Asians Are More Likely to Be Lactose Intolerant Than Others
For most Asians, lactose intolerance is something we just have to live with. Embedded in our DNA is our propensity to rush to the nearest restroom after [...]
TIL that Karl Marx wasn't aware of advances being made in differential calculus and developed the concepts himself while writing his mathematical manunoscripts
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Mathematical manunoscripts of Karl Marx
The Mathematical manunoscripts of Karl Marx consist mostly of Karl Marx's attempts to understand the foundations of infinitesimal calculus, from around 1873–1883. A Russian edition edited by Sofya Yanovskaya was eventually published in 1968, and an English…
TIL of speed reader Kim Peek who could read a book in an hour by scanning the left page with his left eye then the right page with his right eye. He also had an exceptional memory, able to accurately recall the contents of 12,000 books.
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Kim Peek
Laurence Kim Peek (November 11, 1951 – December 19, 2009) was an American savant. Known as a "megasavant", he had an exceptional memory, but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental disability related to congenital…
TIL that within the animal kingdom, only higher primates (including humans) and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize Vitamin C in their own bodies, thus putting them at risk of scurvy
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Missing Step in Man, Monkey and Guinea Pig required for the Biosynthesis of L-Ascorbic Acid
Missing Step in Man, Monkey and Guinea Pig required for the Biosynthesis of L-Ascorbic Acid
TIL of the song “prisencolinensinainciusol”. It topped the Italian charts in the 70s, despite the lyrics being absolute nonsensical gibberish. It was meant to illustrate what American English sounds like to non-English speakers.
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r/todayilearned - TIL of the song “prisencolinensinainciusol”. It topped the Italian charts in the 70s, despite the lyrics being…
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TIL Dartmouth (and a few other schools) makes all its students pass a swim test before the graduate, so that they won’t drown and waste their education.
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The Dartmouth
Into the Deep End: Dartmouth’s Swim Test
Decades ago, many colleges required students to pass a swim test in order to graduate. Today, only a few cling to this tradition, Dartmouth being one of them.
TIL that an economist won the lottery 14 times by calculating when the Jackpot was worth more than the cost of buying every possible number combination for that lottery.
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Daily Herald
He won the lottery 14 times using math. Unfortuanely, you can't use his system to win Powerball.
Stefan Mandel used an algorithm to win the lottery 13 times. But his biggest jackpot still came down to luck.
TIL that Sam Houston, the general who led Texas to victory in its war for independence from Mexico & who served as its president during its 10 years of independence, was removed from office as Governor of Texas when it seceded in 1861, after refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.
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Sam Houston | Biography & Facts
Sam Houston: Sam Houston, U.S. lawyer and politician, a leader in the Texas Revolution (1834–36). He later served as president (1836–38; 1841–44) of the Republic of Texas and was influential in Texas becoming a U.S. state in 1845. The city of Houston is named…
TIL that, since the Great Potato Famine in 1845 Ireland, the population STILL hasn't recovered
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r/todayilearned - TIL that, since the Great Potato Famine in 1845 Ireland, the population STILL hasn't recovered
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TIL Sir Patrick Stewart is an everyday cannabis user
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MERRY JANE
Sir Patrick Stewart Is an Everyday Cannabis User
The Star Trek and X-Men star admitted to using THC and CBD-infused products daily.
TIL that fawns (baby deer) are often left alone for hours while their mothers forage for food. Sometimes well meaning people ‘kidnap’ the fawn thinking it’s abandoned when it’s really just waiting for its mom.
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TIL that fawns (baby deer) are often left alone for hours while...
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Today I learned that York, William Clark's slave, was one of the first Africans that the Native Americans West of the Mississippi River met. They tried to wash the blackness off of him, and when they discovered that he was in fact human they respected his strength.
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TIL the study that yeilded the concept of the alpha wolf (commonly used by people to justify aggressive behaviour) originated in a debunked model using just a few wolves in captivity. Its originator spent years trying to stop the myth to no avail.
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Business Insider
There's no such thing as an alpha male
Eric Trump recently made headlines by describing his father's bragging about sexual assault as "alpha." In nature, alpha males don't exist.
TIL in 1984 an 8 year old girl with sickle cell disease developed acute myeloid leukemia. To treat the cancer, the doctors gave her chemo and a stem cell transplant from her sibling. Not only did this cure her cancer, but it cured her SCD too. She remains disease free nearly three decades later.
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Alternative Donor/Unrelated Donor Transplants for the β-Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease
Considerable progress with respect to donor source has been achieved in allogeneic stem cell transplant for patients with hemoglobin disorders, with matched sibling donors in the 1980s, matched unrelated donors and cord blood sources in the 1990s, and ...
TIL about Thought Terminating Clichés, the term for phrases such as "you must be fun at parties" that are designed to dismiss another's argument without actually countering it with logic
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Submitted June 17, 2019 at 03:12PM by TheRogueSaint88
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Thought-terminating cliché
A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a "semantic stop-signs," "thought-stoppers" or "cliché thinking") is a form of loaded language, commonly used to quell cognitive dissonance. Depending on context in which a phrase (or cliché) is used, it may actually…
TIL Saint Francis of Assisi believed that nature itself was the mirror of God. He called all creatures his "brothers" and "sisters", and even preached to the birds.
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Francis of Assisi
Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
TIL Japanese, but not European, honeybees can “slow cook” giant hornets to death, when they attack the hive. They do this by forming a giant swarm, a “bee ball”, around the hornet and vibrate their flight muscles to create heat. They warm the area up to 116°F, slowly “cooking” the hornet to death.
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National Geographic News
"Hot Bee Balls" Cook Enemy Hornets—But How Do Bees Endure the Heat?
Japanese honeybees swarm to cook enemy hornets, but how do they survive the heat themselves? A new brain study may have the answer.
TIL that Ally's Law is legislation passed by several U.S. states that requires stores to allow people with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms. It was named after a 14 year old girl with Crohn’s Disease who soiled herself in a mall after being denied access to a store restroom.
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Healthline
Ally’s Law: The Origin of the Restroom Access Act and How It Works
Learn how the Restroom Access Act applies to people who need bathrooms for medical conditions, such as irritable bowel disease.
TIL about the Automat, a fast food-like restaurant with no wait staff. Patrons would put coins into a machine in order to unlock a box with food. At it’s peak in the early 20th century, an Automat chain was one of the largest restaurant chains in the world, serving 800,000 people daily.
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Smithsonian
Meet Me at the Automat
Horn & Hardart gave big city Americans a taste of good fast food in its chrome-and-glass restaurants