TIL The first settler to successfully grow commercial Tobacco was John Rolfe in Jamestown, in Virginia in 1609. In 1614, the first shipment was sent to England. In 1638, 3,000,000 pounds was being sent annually. By the 1680s, Jamestown was producing over 25,000,000 pounds for export to Europe.
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Historic UK
Introduction of Tobacco to England
The usual date given for the arrival of tobacco in England is 27th July 1586, when it is said Sir Walter Raleigh brought it to England from Virginia...
TIL Ryan Gosling gained 60 pounds by drinking melted ice cream to play the father in Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones.' He was then told he was too fat to play the part and the role went to Mark Wahlberg.
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ABC News
Ryan Gosling: 'I Was Fat and Unemployed'
Ryan Gosling has revealed why audiences didn't see him in last year's adaptation of the blockbuster novel 'The Lovely Bones:' He was too fat.
TIL An Ancient Greek philosopher was exiled for claiming the moon was a rock, not a god.
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Smithsonian
An Ancient Greek Philosopher Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock, Not a God
2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, allowing him to explain lunar phases and eclipses
TIL that Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano in the solar system, has such a gradual slope that someone standing at the base couldn't see the summit because it's beyond the horizon.
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Olympus Mons
Olympus Mons ( /əˌlɪmpəs ˈmɒnz, oʊ-, -ˈmɒns/;Latin for Mount Olympus) is a very large shield volcano on the planet Mars. The volcano has a height of nearly 22 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft) as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Olympus Mons is…
TIL that many men who climb Everest get weird boners because of the difference in altitude and air pressure causing more blood to flow into the penis
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Vice
Why Climbing Mt. Everest Gives People Weird Boners
We spoke to a mountaineer about the effect high altitude has on blood pressure... and dicks.
TIL that US sailors captured by North Korea, were flipping the middle finger in photos to protest the propaganda on their treatment. The North Koreans for months photographed them without knowing the real meaning of the finger, while the sailors explained that the sign meant good luck in Hawaii.
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USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as…
TIL Mormons teach that the Constitution is divinely inspired.
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reddit
r/todayilearned - TIL Mormons teach that the Constitution is divinely inspired.
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TIL that British longbows in the 1600's netted much longer firing ranges than the contemporary Native American Powhaten tribe's bows (400 yds vs. 120 yds, respectively). Colonists from Jamestown once turned away additional longbows for fear that they might fall into the Powhaten's hands.
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r/todayilearned - TIL that British longbows in the 1600's netted much longer firing ranges than the contemporary Native American…
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TIL Lamar Odom has had 12 strokes, 2 heart attacks and sex with over 2000 women.
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YouTube
Lamar Odom on People's Party with Talib Kweli (Full Interview)
On the second episode of People's Party, Kweli sits down with former NBA star, celebrity, and public figure Lamar Odom. They discuss being famous vs infamous...
TIL distracted driving from Pokemon Go is estimated to have led to 145,000 car accidents, injuring 30,000, killing 256 & causing $2B+ in damages
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Ssrn
Death by Pokémon GO: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving by Mara Faccio, John J. McConnell :: SSRN
Using police accident reports for Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and exploiting the introduction of the augmented reality game Pokémon GO as a natural experiment,
TIL there's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole on the grounds of the monument. Its purpose is that of a surveying tool that's usually just a metal rod, but because of the location this special version was installed.
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Atlas Obscura
Washington Mini Monument
There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.
TIL that a death row inmate Troy Leon Gregg escaped prison just to be beaten to death in a bar fight the same night
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True Crime Magazine
The Most Ironic Death Row Escape Of All Time | True Crime Magazine
On July 28, 1980, 32-year-old double-murderer Troy Leon Gregg did the unthinkable.
TIL in 2010 famous comedy venue The Laugh Factory hired an in-house psychologist for the club's comedians who has maintained an office upstairs ever since. This was partly in response to many recent comedian suicides.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Sad Final Days of a Very Funny Man: Inside Comedian Brody Stevens' Tragic Death
For A-listers like Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman, Stevens wasn't just a friend, he was a comic savant, one of the few acts they would drop everything to watch — leaving them to wonder: Why did he take his own life just as his career was heating up?
TIL as production of Toy Story wrapped up in 1994, Pixar writer Andrew Stanton asked his coworker's during a brainstorming session, "What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?" 14 years later he answered his own question with the movie WALL-E in 2008.
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Wikipedia
WALL-E
WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written…
TIL A man named Jacob DeHaven lent $450,000 to the Continental Congress to rescue the troops at Valley Forge and the government never paid it back. So his descendants took the US to court to collect $141.6B in today's dollars. They were unsuccessful.
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NY Times
213 YEARS AFTER LOAN, UNCLE SAM IS DUNNED
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TIL: About 40 percent of the calls that come in to the emergency hotline (911) in San Francisco are deemed non emergencies. Examples include people complaining about rap music next door, car towing and, in one case, no internet.
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KTVU
Abuse of 911: Alarming number of callers use emergency service as customer service line
Dispatchers note an alarming increase in the number of callers who use the 911 system as their own personal customer service line. In San Francisco and Alameda County, 40 percent of the calls that come in to the emergency hotline are quickly deemed non emergencies…
TIL: To combat the theft of trees around Christmas time, University of Nebraska-Lincoln used to spray their trees with fox urine. It freezes and has no odor outside, but thaws if taken indoors. The resultant smell is so rancid it is “eye-watering”.
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reddit
r/todayilearned - TIL: To combat the theft of trees around Christmas time, University of Nebraska-Lincoln used to spray their trees…
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TIL that the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jeannette Rankin was the only member of the US congress voted AGAINST going to war with Japan. "As a woman, I can't go to war," she said, "and I refuse to send anyone else."
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Wikipedia
United States declaration of war on Japan
On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress declared war (Pub.L. 77–328, 55 Stat. 795) on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. It was formulated an hour after the Infamy Speech of US President…
TIL that the cheapest and cleanest means of transport for scientists in the Antarctica is a tent on a sled powered by a giant Kite
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Wikipedia
WindSled
The WindSled or Inuit WindSled is a project that has as central axis a wind vehicle, unique in the world, to travel and transport equipment through polar lands, and which has been designed by the Spanish polar explorer, Ramón Hernando de Larramendi.
TIL that to write the Beatles song "She's Leaving Home", Paul McCartney was inspired by a newspaper article about a missing girl named Melanie Coe. McCartney would later learn that he had met Coe before - he had chosen her as the winner of a competition on a game show he hosted three years prior.
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en.m.wikipedia.org
She's Leaving Home - Wikipedia
TIL that scientific studies show that 1,500 animal species are known to practice natural same-sex coupling - from insects, to fish, birds and mammals.
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Deutsche Welle
10 animal species that show how being gay is natural
Same-sex pairing is not just normal in the animal kingdom - it's even common. Studies suggest that about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling - from insects, to fish, birds and mammals.