TIL When Jimmy Carter got elected President, he got a phone call from Elvis Presley. "He was totally stoned and didn't know what he was saying. His sentences were almost incoherent".
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Takes: Elvis Presley on the Line
—Douglas Brinkley, Dept. of Missed Opportunities, Talk of the Town, August 18, 1997
TIL Bayer sold a medicine tainted with HIV. Once it was discovered in the US, they continued to sell it overseas for over a year in order to clear stock.
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NY Times
2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80's: Riskier One Steered Overseas
Cutter Biological, unit of Bayer AG, apparently sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs that carried high risk of transmitting AIDS to Asia and Latin America in mid-1980's, while selling new, safer product in West; Cutter Biological…
TIL a Molotov Cocktail is so named because of the Finn's mockery of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, where Vyacheslav Moloto said bombing raids over Finland where "Humanitarian Bread Drops". Finns attacked Soviet tanks with the aforementioned weapons as "a drink to go with the bread"
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Molotov cocktail
incendiary weapon using flammable liquid in a bottle
TIL Muhammad Ali lost his heavyweight noscript, got his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for not wanting to join the US Army in the Vietnam War. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong," he said. "They never called me n****r."
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NY Times
‘I Ain’t Got No Quarrel With Them Vietcong’
In 1967, Muhammad Ali was the first mega-celebrity to refuse the Vietnam War draft.
TIL a man who was in a coma for 10 years gradually began recovering due to his hatred of Barney and Friends, which was shown repeatedly at the special care center he was staying in.
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Man trapped in coma for 12 years was aware of everything, hated 'Barney' reruns
Martin Pistorius' recalled historic events and the struggles of his family as he wrenched himself free of a mysterious coma.
TIL that, when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money (around $68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents."
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Jackie Coogan
American actor (1914-1984)
TIL that in 2006, 20,000-year-old fossilized human footprints were discovered in Australia which indicated that the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, barefoot, in the sand.
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20,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in Australia
20,000-year-old footprints have been found in Australia, documenting five human hunters that sprinted across what is now New South Wales, Australia.
TIL The Queen of England's guard wear tall bear skin hats because at the Battle of Waterloo, English troops took them as a trophy from France. They were worn by Napoleon's elite guard, which England routed during the Battle.
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LBC
Why do the Queen’s guard wear bearskins?
Why are the Queen’s guard wearing bearskins on their heads?
TIL that after H. P. Lovecraft's grandmother died when he was five years old, his mother and aunts began wearing black dresses around the house to mourn her. These "terrified" Lovecraft, and he began to have nightmares about them, which also involved some of the creatures he would later write about.
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H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: /ˈlʌvkræft/; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he spent most of his life there, and his fiction was primarily set against a New England…
TIL when Charlie Sheen came out as HIV positive, it led to a 95 percent increase in over the counter HIV home testing kits and 2.75 million searches on the topic, dubbed "The Charlie Sheen Effect." Some said that Sheen did more for awareness of HIV than most UN events.
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Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. Sheen has appeared in films including Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Young Guns (1988), Eight Men Out (1988), Major League (1989), Hot Shots!…
TIL Dolph Lundgren received a full scholarhip to study enginering at MIT but dropped out to become the bodyguard to Jamaican singer Grace Jones. They developed a romantic relationship and Jones convinced him to move with her to New York where he pursued an acting career.
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Dolph Lundgren
Hans Lundgren (/ˈlʌndɡrən/; Swedish: [ˈdɔlːf ˈlɵnːdgreːn] (listen); born 3 November 1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, director, screenwriter, film producer and martial artist. Lundgren's breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred…
TIL The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped save the lives of 122 million children since 1990.
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the Guardian
How Bill and Melinda Gates helped save 122m lives – and what they want to solve next
In letter to philanthropic partner Warren Buffett, the Gates define achievements from vaccines to lives saved – while still pushing for gains in infant mortality
TIL that Jürgen Kantner, a german sailor, was captured along with his wife by Al Shabab when sailing off the coast of Somalia in 2008. After 52 days, they were freed from captivity after a large ransom was paid. Kantner later returned to Somalia and stole his boat Back from the militants.
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Jürgen Kantner
Jürgen Gustav Kantner (died 27 February 2017) was a German sailor who was beheaded by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines.
TIL that the world's largest diamond was discovered in South Africa, and it was shipped to England on a steamboat under heavy security. But it just was a diversion, beacause the real stone was sent in a plain box via post
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Cullinan Diamond
The Cullinan Diamond was the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, weighing 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g), discovered at the Premier No. 2 mine in Cullinan, South Africa, on 26 January 1905. It was named after Thomas Cullinan, the mine's chairman. In…
TIL that Sailor Moon in Japan had a lesbian couple, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptume. In the English translation this is censored, stating they are cousins instead. Due to problematic dubbing flirting was left in, leading some viewers to infer their relationship as incestuous
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Sailor Uranus
Sailor Uranus (セーラーウラヌス, Sērā Uranusu) is a fictional lead character in the Sailor Moon media franchise. Sailor Uranus’ alternate identity is Haruka Tenoh (天王 はるか, Ten'ō Haruka, renamed "Amara Tenoh" in some English adaptations), a teenage Japanese student.…
TIL of Misophonia, a condition in which annoying noises (chewing, swallowing, etc) can cause people to feel extreme rage
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Submitted June 26, 2019 at 06:20PM by dart_catcher
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When A Medical Condition Makes Chewing Noises Sound 'Volcanic'
TIL FDR's White House housekeeper, Henrietta Nesbitt, was a legendarily awful cook. “Of course Henrietta did not personally do the cooking,” wrote a former WH maid, “but she stood over the cooks, making sure that each dish was overcooked or undercooked or ruined one way or another.”
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The New Yorker
The First Kitchen
When Eleanor was “the first Housewife of the Nation,” everybody in Washington knew the rule—when you’re invited to the White House, eat before you go.
TIL prohibition agent Izzy Einstein bragged that he could find liquor in any city in under 30 minutes. In Chicago it took him 21 min. In Atlanta 17, and Pittsburgh just 11. But New Orleans set the record: 35 seconds. Einstein asked his taxi driver where to get a drink, and the driver handed him one.
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TIL that in 2015 Tommie Woodward, a 28 year old Texan ignored a large sign that said "No Swimming Alligators" and instead yelled out "f--- the alligators" and jumped in the lake. He was mauled to death almost instantly
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CNN
Texas alligator attack: Man killed in Orange County - CNN
A man who apparently mocked alligators, then jumped in the water -- despite warning signs -- is dead after being attacked in Texas.
TIL One of the oldest children’s lullabies was found on an ancient Babylonian tablet, believed to be from around 2,000BC. Rather than being soothing, it instead has a menacing tone. In it, a baby being is threatened with punishment for disturbing the family god with its crying.
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BBC News
The universal language of lullabies
The earliest written evidence of lullabies dates back to the ancient Babylonians - and it seems they have changed little in 4,000 years.