TIL about a Social Experiment in the US in the 1990s that moved poor families to richer neighborhoods, findings showed that while it didn't change the income of families that moved, the young children of those families grew up to have incomes 33% larger than children who didn't move
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Moving to Opportunity
Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) was a randomized social experiment sponsored by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the 1990s among 6969 low-income families with children living in high-poverty public housing…
TIL that Charles Darwin's pet tortoise died at 176 years old in 2006, whilst Darwin himself died in 1882.
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msnbc.com
176-year-old ‘Darwin’s tortoise’ dies in zoo
A 176-year-old tortoise believed to be one of the world’s oldest living creatures has died in an Australian zoo. "Harriet" was long reputed to have been one of three tortoises taken from the Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin on his historic 1835 voyage…
TIL That there was a woman named Veronica Seider from Germany, who had vision 20x better than an average person. She was able to identify people from more than a mile away.
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Guinness World Records
Smallest visible object
Veronica Seider
TIL That Pol Pot killed people who had glasses or if they spoke foreign language, just because he thought they were smart.
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BBC News
Khmer Rouge: Cambodia's years of brutality
At least two million people died as the Marxist regime tried to turn back the clock in Cambodia.
TIL That Leonardo Da Vinci once conducted an experiment to understand the flow of blood through the valves of the heart, by pouring hot wax into one, making a mould of thin glass from the cast, and then pumping water mixed with seeds through it. He saw how a heart actually regulates itself.
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Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519) - The aortic valve
Recto: notes on the valves of the heart and the flow of blood within it, with illustrative drawings; a drawing of a mould for the making of a glass model of the pulmonary or aortic valves.Leonardo’s analysis of the heart was the most brilliant of his many…
TIL, that movie Dallas Buyers Club budget was so low, they had only 250$ for the makeups. The film's artists were able to work with that, and the film's Makeup and Hairstyling won an Oscar.
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Vanity Fair
Dallas Buyers Club's Makeup Budget Was Astonishingly Low. Here's How It Got an Oscar Nomination Anyway.
We talk to Robin Mathews, a first-time Oscar nominee for her work on an amazingly low budget on *Dallas Buyers Club*.
TIL: An Afghan tank commander reported to his president that Marxists planned to attack the capital. Subsequently, the President ordered tanks to guard it. The tanks then turned their guns on the palace and ultimately killed the him. The tank commander himself was secretly the Marxist general.
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Saur Revolution
The Saur Revolution (/sɔːr/; Persian: إنقلاب ثور or ۷ ثور (literally 7th Saur); Pashto: د ثور انقلاب), also called the April Revolution or April Coup, was a coup d'état (or self-proclaimed revolution) led by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan…
TIL up until around the 1970s, hospital laboratory workers used mouth pipetting to transfer patient's blood for testing from one container to the next, frequently getting the patients blood or other chemicals in their mouth.
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Body Horrors
Suck It: The Ins and Outs of Mouth Pipetting - Body Horrors
If you ever find yourself working in an infectious disease laboratory, whether it’s of the diagnostic or research variety, the overarching goal is not to put any microbes in your eye, an open wound or your mouth. Easy enough, right? Wear gloves, maybe goggles…
TIL about Brian, the mentally ill Bonobo who was prescribed Paxil to help with his anxiety but taken off of it a few years later after he started sharing it amongst the other apes
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The Atlantic
Brian the Mentally Ill Bonobo, and How He Healed
It took a troop of apes, and a psychiatrist, and a little Paxil.
TIL that coconut farmers in Thailand train pigtailed macaques to harvest their coconuts. A trained macaque can pick up to 1600 coconuts a day, while a human can harvest around a 100.
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reddit
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TIL the power puff girls had an episode called the Beat-Alls where almost every line and plot point are lyrics from the Beatles.
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Powerpuff Girls Wiki
Beat-Alls | Powerpuff Girls Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
The Beat-Alls were a team of supervillains comprised of Mojo Jojo, HIM, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Princess Morbucks. As the name implies, they are a parody of the 1960's group, The Beatles. When the...
TIL 70% of lottery winners go bankrupt.
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cleveland.com
Why do 70 percent of lottery winners end up bankrupt?
In fact, about 70 percent of people who win a lottery or get a big windfall actually end up broke within three to four years, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education.
TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"
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Wikipedia
Willem Arondeus
Willem Arondeus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to…
TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicines, typically costs $50 to $100 per inhaler in the United States, but it was less than $15 a decade ago, before it was repatented
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NY Times
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
The high price of commonly used medications for conditions like asthma contributes heavily to health care costs and certainly causes more widespread anguish.
TIL That in the 1990s Namco was granted a general patent for providing an auxiliary game (like Galaxian) during a loading screen, meaning that kids across the planet have spent millions of combined hours staring at loading screens thanks to Namco
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Kotaku
The Patent On Loading Screen Mini-Games Is About To Expire
For twenty years, Namco Bandai has held patent US 5718632 A, which has given them ownership of the idea of a loading screen minigame. On November 27 (this Friday), that patent expires.
TIL that Disney passed on the noscript of "Back to the Future", saying the idea of a mother falling in love with her son was contrary to the company's longtime traditional family-friendly image
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Mentalfloss
8 Hit Movies That Were Originally Rejected by Studios
If at first you don't succeed ...
TIL Adolph Hitler was Walt Disney' biggest fan , he thought Snow White was the best movie ever made and would draw characters near perfectly. The director of a war museum in northern Norway, said he found the drawings hidden in a painting signed "A. Hitler" that he bought at an auction in Germany.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Did Adolf Hitler draw Disney characters?
The director of a Norwegian museum has claimed to have discovered cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.
TIL the flags of many African nations have the colors green, gold and red borrowed from the flag of Ethiopia, which remained outside European control during the colonial era by defeating Italy. As a result, the country drew the admiration of many newly independent states in Africa.
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Wikipedia
Pan-African colours
red, gold, green and black
TIL that a man with a personalized license plate which read "NO PLATE" received 2500 overdue traffic tickets... because they had all been issued to various cars with no plates, and when a car marked "NO PLATE" appeared in the system, the algorithm automatically redirected those tickets to its owner.
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reddit
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TIL due to rumours that his film "Cannibal Holocaust" showed real deaths, director Ruggero Deodato was accused of murder. The charges were dropped after the four allegedly-dead actors were interviewed for a television show and Deodato explained his special effects in court.
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Wikipedia
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. It stars Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe, an anthropologist from New York University who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest…
TIL There is a Nigerian floating village of nearly 100,000 people that is self-sufficient and self-policing: There's electricity, hotels, schools, and restaurants fully independent of the mainland
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Condé Nast Traveler
Anthony Bourdain Calls Lagos 'Mad, Bad, and Delicious'
For the latest episode of 'Parts Unknown,' Bourdain has his mind blown by the biggest city in Nigeria.