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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
TIL that every eclipse belongs to a family of identical eclipses, separated by 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours. There are 40 active eclipse families (saros cycles).
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Saros (astronomy)
The saros (/ˈsɛərɒs/ (listen)) is a period of exactly 223 synodic months (approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours), that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon…
TIL- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
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Til - The capacity to lie has also been claimed to be possessed by non-humans in language studies with great apes. In one instance, gorilla Koko, when asked who tore a sink from the wall, pointed to one of her handlers and then laughed.
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Lie
A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deceiving someone. The practice of communicating lies is called lying, and a person who communicates a lie may be termed a liar. Lies may serve a variety of instrumental…
TIL Elephants can control their dick like a second trunk. As a result of this, collecting semen from an elephant by way of penile stimulation is dangerous, as one swing of that thing can knock a man clear off his feet. Therefore, the prostate must be stimulated instead through vigorous anal fisting.
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Scienceblogs
How do you masturbate an elephant? | ScienceBlogs
I was recently asked a reasonable and intelligent question on elephants. One thing led to another, and after a bit of research I discovered the fascinating world of elephant masturbation. If you want to collect sperm from a (captive) elephant, how do you…
TIL that William Wallace ("Braveheart") was born around 550 years before the kilt was invented. That means it would be more accurate to dress William Shakespeare (1564) in a spacesuit (1961) (only around 400 years difference).
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Telegraph.co.uk
Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Braveheart kilts'
Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine rather than the tartan plaid depicted in the film Braveheart, according to new research.
TIL That the US Government invested $400 Billion in Internet Infrastructure that ISPs just never delivered on
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HuffPost
The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic fut...
Til that 150k+ First Nation kids were removed from their homes, over a span of 100 years, in order to "get rid of the Indian problem in Canada"
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The Tyee
How Canada Created a Crisis in Indigenous Child Welfare | The Tyee
Part one of a series: from residential schools to the Sixties Scoop, governments set out to undermine Indigenous families.
TIL The town of Shitterton, England, kept getting its town sign stolen. In 2010, they finally solved the problem by installing a 1.6 tonne concrete slab with the town name inscribed on it.
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BBC News
New Shitterton village sign set in stone
Villagers in Shitterton have got so fed-up with their sign being stolen they have put up a stone version.
TIL Research has shown that happier people prefer to have more time in their lives than more money. Experience beats wealth. Even trying to approach life from that mindset seems to make people more content.
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The Independent
Science says happier people have these 9 things in common
Everybody wants to be happy. That's why the science of happiness has gained more attention in recent years —researchers have started to produce reports on happiness around the globe, and positive