TIL In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Two retired policeman with same name ended up side by side in hospital
The only two men in Britain called Geraint Woolford ended up in neighbouring beds in the same hospital - and discovered that they were both retired policemen who had worked for the same force.
TIL I learned about the Greensboro massacre, where KKK and Nazi party members opened fire on on crowd protesting the Klan. The media filmed the massacre and aired it on national television however no one was ever convicted.
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Greensboro massacre
The Greensboro massacre is the term for an event which took place on November 3, 1979, when members of the Communist Workers' Party and others demonstrated in a "Death to the Klan" march in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. The CWP, which advocated…
TIL: An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York City made an unscheduled stop at Kansas City to offload a passenger who wouldn't stop singing Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".
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HuffPost Canada
WATCH: Plane Diverts Over Passenger Singing Whitney Houston
Frequent flyers who complain about the in-flight entertainment probably haven't had to contend with unwarranted airplane karaoke. Passengers on board an American Airlines flight made an unscheduled st...
TIL the longest UN speech in history was delivered by Indian Defense Minister Krishna Menon in 1957. Defending India's stand on Kashmir, the speech lasted eight hours and ended with his collapse and hospitalization due to exhaustion
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V. K. Krishna Menon
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian nationalist, diplomat, and politician, described by some as the second most powerful man in India, after his ally, 1st Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
TIL Birds are able to see and use the Earth's Magnetic field to migrate due to a protein in their eyes called CRY4. To them the Earth's Magnetic field appears to be a bright haze in the sky in the direction of North or South. Their brain even produces this protein during the migration season.
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TIL Morgan Freeman turned down a drama scholarship because he dreamed of being an Air Force fighter pilot. He spent four years as a tracking radar repairman. At age 65, he finally earned his private pilot license.
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Shadow box
Airforce.Togetherweserved.com - Shadow Box Profile of A1C Morgan Porterfield Freeman
TIL human procrastination is considered a complex psychological behavior because of the wide variety of reasons people do it. Although often attributed to "laziness", research shows it is more likely to be caused by anxiety, depression, a fear of failure, or a reliance on abstract goals.
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TIL of one of the very few people to ever survive from a sunken submarine. His story was never believed until after his death.
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Escape from a WWII submarine
Historian Tim Clayton tells the story of submariner, John Capes, which became one of the most controversial survival stories of World War II.
TIL Ninety-nine per cent of crocodile offspring are eaten in the first year after birth, by large fish, herons, monitor lizards and adult crocodiles.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Crocodile facts: ten things you didn't know about crocodiles
As fears in Thailand grow over crocodiles on the loose in floodwater, we list ten unusual facts about the predatory reptiles.
TIL the Peruvian Navy still actively operates a ship that was built in England in 1862, disassembled into small pieces and shipped across the Atlantic, and carried by mules over 220 miles to Lake Titicaca to be reassembled. Its sister ship (sent the same way) also still works on the lake.
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BAP Puno (ABH-306)
BAP Puno is a Peruvian Navy hospital ship on Lake Titicaca. Until 1976 she was called Yapura.
TIL that Norman Borlaug, developed new strains of crops which yielded 4x as much food. He is said to have saved the lives of over a billion people, making him one of the most influential men in human history.
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Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (/ˈbɔːrlɔːɡ/; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple…
TIL Chernobyl has been safe to visit since 2011 and that most of the danger is not from radiation but from unmaintained structures.
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The Independent
Everything you need to know about visiting the Chernobyl disaster si…
More than 33 years ago, the world’s worst nuclear disaster took place in a Ukrainian town near the Belarus border. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened overnight on 25-26 April 1986 in the
TIL The difference between special effects (SFX) and visual effects (VFX) is that special effects are realized on set whereas visual effects are added afterward.
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Nuts Computer Graphics
Special effects and visual effects: what is the difference? - Nuts Computer Graphics
TIL That when attending Comic Con 2013, Bryan Cranston disguised himself by wearing a mask of Walter White over his own face. People told him he sounded like Bryan Cranston, but didn’t realise it was him. The charade only ended when he removed the mask at the Breaking Bad panel.
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Business Insider
'Breaking Bad' Actor Bryan Cranston Walked Around Comic-Con Wearing A Heisenberg Mask And No One Knew
"Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston went to Comic-Con dressed as his character from the show.
TIL Los Angeles’s private golf courses effectively receive a public subsidy of $89.8 million in taxes” paying only $200,00 in property taxes without granting the public access to the land. LA ranks bottom of the list in terms of public parks against all major metropolitan cities in America.
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phil.washington.edu
Professor Marc Cohen featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast | Department of Philosophy | University of Washington
UW Philosophy Emeritus Professor Marc Cohen recently contributed commentary to an episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, a podcast in which Gladwell looks back and reinterprets events, people, or ideas from the past that have been overlooked or…
TIL in the 80s, Munich's Playboy Club issued membership cards that, at a glance, looked very similar to diplomatic passports. As a result, many people escaped East Berlin by simply flashing their membership cards, and were usually waved through by guards.
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Mentalfloss
8 Creative Ways People Went Over the Berlin Wall
Although the East German government fortified the barrier with everything from watchtowers to guard dogs to beds of nails, a few people managed to slip over the border in amazing ways.
TIL 40% of women admit to having felt same-sex attraction, while only 14% of men admit the same.
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The Irish Times
The sex survey: Same-sex attraction highest among women
Lesbians and gay men report being happier with their sex lives than heterosexuals
TIL a 1931 production of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" used a practical effect of makeup invisible under red light and a pair of red/green lamps to transform the actor between Jekyll and Hyde.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March, who plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons. The film is an adaptation of The Strange…
TIL Twice as many soldiers died from disease than battle injuries during the American Civil War. Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent that there was an honor code among soldiers – you couldn’t shoot a man while he was pooping.
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The Cut
Diarrhea Is the Wartime Enemy No One Mentions
Sometimes, keeping soldiers safe means understanding their bowel movements.
TIL that mosquitoes can not only smell what blood type you are, they prefer type O. In fact, people who are type O are twice as likely to be bitten than someone who is type A.
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Smithsonian
Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others?
Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes
TIL about HPP (High Places Phenomenon), the experience of a sudden urge to jump when in a high place. Although it has been speculated to be associated with suicidal ideation, data has proposed that it stems from a misinterpreted safety signal (i.e., survival instinct).
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The Orange Dot
Afraid you’ll jump, even though you don’t want to? High Places Phenomenon explained.
It could actually be your brain keeping you safe.