TIL of Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer and scientist, who became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands to prove the Ancients could've accomplished this too.
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Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
TIL Venus Flytrap s only appear naturally on the coasts of NC, and SC; all within the 60 mile (100km) radius of Wilmington, NC
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Venus flytrap
Carnivorous plant that captures prey by quickly closing its leaves into a jaw-like trap
TIL that an ex Hollywood actress slept with her own son in order to turn him straight. The son began to go mad and later on stabbed his mother to death.
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HistoryCollection.co
All in the Family: 8 Cases of Historical Incest
Barbara Daly Baekeland One mother who most certainly seduced her son was Barbara Daly Baekeland. Born in 1922, Baekeland was a model whose face graced the pages of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. After failing to make it in Hollywood as an actress, she married…
TIL that half of all US food produce is thrown away (left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill) because of unrealistic and unyielding "cosmetic food" standards!
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Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests
The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry
TIL that a dog in Mexico named Frida saved the lives of 12 people who were trapped under rubble due to earthquakes. She identified a total of 52 bodies during her career and is considered a national heroine in Mexico. She is now officially retired.
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Time
Meet Frida, the Mexican Rescue Dog Who Is Saving Lives in Natural Disasters
The labrador retriever has saved a dozen lives throughout her career
TIL that many casinos try to avoid making you ever have to turn in a right angle by design, as such a hard turn forces people to call upon the decision-making parts of their brain; something that casinos naturally want to avoid.
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Slot-machine science: How casinos get you to spend more money
Author Natasha Dow Schüll talks about the evolution of slot machines, exploring how and why they've become so addictive.
TIL About John List, who killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him, analysing Lists’ personality to get it right, and it was on America’s Most Wanted.
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John List
American mass murderer
TIL the process of dry cleaning was invented in 1821 by an African American business owner named Thomas Jennings. He was one of the first African Americans to be granted a patent. He had to use the proceeds from his invention to buy his wife and children out of slavery.
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Thomas L. Jennings
American inventor
TIL: The words "senile" and "senator" are based on the same Latin root word meaning "old man"
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senex, senis [m.] C - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary
Find senex (Noun) in the Latin Online Dictionary with English meanings, all fabulous forms & inflections and a conjugation table: senex, senis, seni, senem, senes, senum
TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.
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Bbc
The food you buy really is shrinking
Chocolate bars, toilet rolls, breakfast cereal and toothpaste are just some of the thousands of products that have been getting smaller, but what is really driving 'shrinkflation'?
TIL that cats who fall from heights lower than six stories and survive usually have greater injuries than cats who fall from heights higher than six stories and survive. This is because their terminal velocity is reached at around five stories, after which they will instinctively relax.
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High-rise syndrome
High-rise syndrome is the phenomenon of cats falling from higher than two stories (7–9 m (23–30 ft)). This is generally from high-rise buildings, or skyscrapers, and is also used to refer to the injuries sustained by a cat falling from a great height.
TIL the Irish potato famine was not about blight. There was plenty of food to feed everyone in Ireland. The main problem was greed. And British rulers who blamed the poor themselves.
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Paste Magazine
EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
While St. Patrick’s Day is cause to celebrate everything Irish-American, it’s also a good time to ponder just why more than a million Irish were forced to leave Ireland while another million were dying of starvation in such a short period of time in the first…
Today I learned Howard Hughes loved banana nut ice cream so much his aides convinced Baskin-Robbins to produce a 350 gallon special order of the discontinued product. A few days later he grew tired of it and decided he only wanted French Vanilla so his hotel gave away the ice cream to customers.
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Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer
TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
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Ronald McNair
physicist, astronaut
TIL The US shipped about $40 billion in cash to Iraq on planes between 2003 and 2008 and most of it went missing and is still unaccounted for today.
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CNBC
The $40 Billion Iraqi Money Trail
It has been called the largest airborne transfer of currency in the history of the world. But finding out what happened to all the money involved has become one of the biggest financial mysteries of all time.
TIL when Spider-Man film producer Avi Arad, was asked if Spider-Man would join the Avengers, Arad said “I think it will take a moment in which we’ve run out of ideas.” the next year Sony and Marvel announced that Spider-Man would join the MCU
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IGN
What Would it Take for Spider-Man to Appear in The Avengers? - IGN
Spider-Man in The Avengers or X-Men? Longtime producer and the founder of Marvel Studios reveal what it would need to happen.
TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government was worried Japan would invade Hawaii and seize all the U.S. currency there. As a precaution, the U.S. burned $200 million in cash circulating on the islands, and replaced them with freshly printed bills with “Hawaii” stamped on them.
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Hawaii overprint note
A Hawaii overprint note is one of a series of banknotes (one silver certificate and three Federal Reserve Notes) issued during World War II as an emergency issue after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The intent of the overprints was to easily distinguish US currency…
TIL that at one point in the 1990's, 50% of all Compact Discs production in the world was dedicated solely to creating AOL sign-up discs.
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TechCrunch
How Much Did It Cost AOL To Send Us Those CDs In The 90s? "A Lot!," Says Steve Case
Like most little kids, I used to love getting things in the mail. And in the 1990s, I was lucky enough to get something new every single day. Sadly, 99.9 percent of those were install discs from AOL. If you lived in the United States in the 1990s, you remember…
TIL about Ralph Lazo, the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to an internment camp. When Lazo learned that his Japanese American friends and neighbors were being forcibly removed, he was so outraged that he joined friends on a train that took hundreds to Manzanar.
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Ralph Lazo
Teacher and activist
TIL when a morbidly obese person is cremated, there are special measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of a "grease fire."
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Calebwilde
CONFESSIONS OF A FUNERAL DIRECTOR » Morbid Obesity + Cremation = ?
I mentioned this phenomena on my 20/20 interview.I mentioned the Germany cremation fire that recently occurred in a post a few months back.And now this news headline out of Austria: "Dead obese woman had so much body fat she set the building on fire during…
TIL in the Beatles song Let it Be, "Mother Mary" is actually not a reference to the Virgin Mary. It instead refers to Paul's actual mother, Mary, who died when he was young. The song was inspired by a dream in which she gave him the advice "It will be all right, just let it be".
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Let It Be (Beatles song)
"Let It Be" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and (in an alternate mix) as the noscript track of their album Let It Be. At the time, it had the highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100, beginning its chart run…