Today I learned that the average giant Pacific octopus is around 30 pounds with an arm span of around 4 meters. But there have been specimens found that are from 100 to an unbelievable 600 pounds that was 30 feet across.
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TIL after his son tragically died in an road accident caused by a pothole, Dadarao Bilhore took it upon himself to fill potholes in and around Mumbai to prevent more accidents. Using sand, gravel, and cement gathered from building sites, he has filled 600 potholes since 2015 and is still on it
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South China Morning Post
His son was killed on Mumbai’s crumbling roads – now Dadarao Bilhore fills potholes to prevent more deaths
TIL: Portland Oregon's first bicycling boom ended starting in 1900 when a group of prostitutes began to ride them and solicit customers on their rides about town. Soon women riding bikes were assumed to be prostitutes and other women stopped riding.
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Offbeatoregon
Merrill brought bikes to Portland, and prostitutes took 'em away | Offbeat Oregon History | #ORhistory
“World's Greatest Trick Rider” sold more than 50,000 bicycles in an age when bikes were the cutting edge of transportation technology; Oregon women loved them — until they started getting mistaken for hookers on the prowl ... (By Finn J.D. John) #ofor
TIL that the average age of all gamers is 33, and the male to female gamer distribution is pretty even, at 54% Male and 46% Female
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Entertainment Software Association
2019 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry - Entertainment Software Association
2018 was a record-breaking year for our industry, with total video game sales exceeding $43.4 billion. Over 166 million adults in the United States play video games and three-quarters of all Americans have at least one gamer in their household. As the leading…
TIL It took three botched attempts to behead Mary Queen of Scots for treason against Queen Elizabeth. The executioner finally lifted the bloodied head cried "God Save the Queen" only for it to crash to the floor as Mary had been wearing a wig.
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History TV
8 Famous Botched Executions
Executions do not always go to plan - here are 8 times it went horribly wrong...
TIL of cucamelons. They are a fruit that is about the size of a grape, looks like a watermelon, and taste like a mix between a cucumber and a lime.
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Melothria scabra
Melothria scabra is a vine grown for its edible fruit. Fruit are about the size of grapes and taste like cucumbers with a tinge of sourness. Vernacular names include mouse melon, Mexican sour gherkin, cucamelon, Mexican miniature watermelon, Mexican sour…
TIL In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it, as part of a protest against it. This is due to independent filmmakers needing to pay £1,000 per submission in order to be certified. The film received a U.
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The Independent
BBFC rates Paint Drying film ‘U’, after sitting through all 607 minutes
The BBFC, film censorship board for the UK, have officially awarded a 'U' certificate to a ten-hour film of paint drying, created as part of a protest of its practices by British filmmaker Charlie
TIL that the average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant
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Business Insider
The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant
Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies.
TIL If woodpeckers are hungry enough they will peck into the backs of other birds heads and eat their brains.
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Smithsonian
This Woodpecker Will Drill Into Your Skull And Eat Your Brains—If You’re a Baby Dove
Think those needle noses were only made for eating insects? Think again
TIL that Tom Hanks has a younger brother named Jim Hanks who works as Tom's voice double on all Toy Story video games and spin-offs
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Throwbacks
Tom Hanks Brother Takes Over For Him All The Time And None Of Us Noticed
How did we miss this?
TIL that Andrew Carnegie, starting in the late 1800s, funded the construction of almost 1700 public libraries across the country, and over 800 abroad, for any town that would agree to set aside the land, and 10% of the construction cost annually to maintain it.
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TIL United States currency paper is composed of 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. Making it not actually paper, but cloth.
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www.moneyfactory.gov
U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - How Money is Made - Paper and Ink
The paper and ink used in the production of U.S. paper currency is as distinct as its design.
TIL Marvel collected royalties from Hulk Hogan for 20 years and it all stems from originally being introduced as "The Incredible Hulk Hogan." Once WWF used it, they couldn't just drop "The Incredible" to avoid infringement. Had he been "Hulk Hogan" from the start, there wouldn't have been an issue.
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ProWrestlingStories.com
Hulk Hogan versus Marvel Comics | The Fight for His Name
Hulk Hogan and Hulkamania possibly never would have run wild had it not been for this bizarre agreement between Marvel Comics and the WWF!
TIL that "Mountain Dew" was originally slang for mountain-brewed moonshine. And the soda was originally sold as a whiskey chaser.
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Smithsonian
Mountain Dew Once Had Ties to Moonshine
The original soda named Mountain Dew was supposed to be a whiskey accompaniment
TIL That Joan Kroc gave NPR $200 million because they were the only ones that picked up the phone when she way trying to give it out
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Current
The Pub #83: Why Joan Kroc gave NPR its biggest gift ever
Kroc wasn’t much of an NPR fan, but a woman who was quickly dying and had limited time to make big decisions about her big money.
TIL that Jane Minor, a slave born in 1792, was freed due to her medical work during an epidemic in 1825. She spent her life buying the freedom of other slaves. She freed at least sixteen, some costing over $2000, on a salary of around $2-$5 per medical visit.
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Wikipedia
Jane Minor
Jane Minor (abt 1792-1858), also known as Gensey (or Jensey) Snow, was an African-American healer and slave emancipator, one of the few documented enslaved healing practitioners in United States history.
TIL that if an acronym is said letter by letter, like FBI or ATM, it is called an initialism. To be a true acronym all of the letters must be said as a word, some examples are NATO, NASA and POTUS.
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Dailywritingtips
Acronym vs. Initialism
Every so often I'm taken to task for referring to an unpronounceable string of letters as an acronym instead of an initialism. I'm sure there must be contexts
TIL During the Depression, Post Toasties (now Post Consumer Brands) decided to use cartoon animals on its boxes and paid its cartoonist $1.5 million in the first year. That artist was Walt Disney, and he used the earnings to build the Disney empire.
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Pocket
How Cereal Transformed American Culture - Mental Floss - Pocket
More than a century ago, Christian fundamentalists invented cereal to promote a healthy lifestyle free of sin. Little did they know, their creation would eventually be used to promote everything from radio and cartoons to Mr. T and tooth decay.
TIL In 2010, Chris Pratt shot a behind the scenes video for Parks and Recreation, joking that Steven Spielberg was texting him to star in Jurrasic Park 4. Five years later he starred in Jurrasic World.
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YouTube
Chris Pratt behind the scenes Parks and Recreation
Chris Pratt doing a behind the scenes video on the season 2 parks and recreation dvd.
This was four-five years ago and he was just cast as the lead in the new Jurassic Park movie coming out, that is crazy since im sure in the vid he said it as a joke
This was four-five years ago and he was just cast as the lead in the new Jurassic Park movie coming out, that is crazy since im sure in the vid he said it as a joke
TIL that Eminem almost died from a methadone overdose in 2007. Shorty after being released from the hospital he relapsed but quickly after that he stopped using drugs and has now been sober for ~11 years. The reason he gave for gaining his sobriety is that his family needed him.
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New York Post
Eminem recalls near-fatal drug overdose on new album
In 2007, Eminem almost died after ingesting a massive dose of methadone (in a later Rolling Stone interview, he explained that he had originally been looking for Vicodin). That harrowing experience is
TIL that 3 Australian bird species deliberately help spread wildfires so they can find prey more easily
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National Geographic News
Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks
Australia's indigenous peoples have long observed "firehawks" spreading wildfires throughout the country's tropical savannas.