TIL that in the early 1800’s the Russians tried to invade Hawaii, which was an independent kingdom at the time. However, a force of natives and American traders expelled them and forced them to return to Russia.
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Schäffer affair
The Schäffer affair was a controversial diplomatic incident caused by Georg Anton Schäffer, a German who attempted to seize the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian Empire. While on a trading expedition to the Kingdom, the Russian-American Company (RAC) vessel…
TIL about Hemimastix kukwesjijk which is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa. It constitutes an entirely new Kingdom, a new branch on the tree of life.
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Submitted July 19, 2019 at 09:14PM by pm_me_cool_maps
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Scientific American
What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life
Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered
TIL - When Mount Everest was measured in 1854 the exact value was 29,000 feet. Despite being accurate, Andrew Waugh published the value as 29,002 feet to avoid the public assuming it was merely a rounded estimate. Thus he was known as "the first man to put 2 feet on top of Everest".
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा), in Tibetan as Chomolungma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ) and in Chinese as Zhumulangma (珠穆朗玛), is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international…
TIL Steve from Blue's Clues left the show partly because he was losing his hair, not because he died
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Steve Burns
American entertainer
TIL Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabbed one of her mother’s boyfriends to death during a domestic struggle at the age of 14 in 1958. It was considered a justifiable homicide and she was deemed to have been protecting her mother. The boyfriend was a known abuser.
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Cheryl Crane
American writer
TIL: When city council denied a permit to build on empty lot, a London man applied for a permit for a tank. Thinking it was a water storage container, council approved. Instead the man bought a Russian T-34 tank, parked it on his property and pointed the gun towards the city planning office.
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Atlas Obscura
Stompie: The Mandela Way T-34 Tank
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
TIL that only two employees are privy to the complete Coca-Cola formula at any given time and they are not permitted to travel together. When one dies, the other must choose a successor within the company.
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Submitted July 20, 2019 at 03:53AM by KnifeHandNovice
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Coca-Cola formula
The Coca-Cola Company's secret recipe for Coca-Cola syrup
TIL That the Guatemalan government carried out a genocide in the 1980's known as the Silent Holocaust against the Mayan people. Throughout it, the US government under Ronald Reagan gave Guatemala military aid, helping the genocidaires commit their atrocities.
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Guatemalan genocide
massacre of Mayan civilians during the Guatemalan military government's counterinsurgency operations (1960–1996)
TIL that during the Middle Ages, members of guilds were referred to as “masters.” Artisans who wanted to join a guild were required to prepare a “master piece” to be judged for qualification. If the masters approved of the piece, that artisan would be accepted into the guild.
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TIL the farthest a person has ever fallen and survived is at least 33,330 feet. Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic was blown out of a plane when a bomb went off in its baggage compartment in 1972. She had no memory of the event and wasn't afraid to fly afterward.
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Vesna Vulović
Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
TIL German Chocolate Cake is named for a man, not the country. Samuel German developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe.
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German chocolate cake
layer cake with chocolate and a coconut-pecan frosting
TIL the Emperor of Japan is personally bankrolling his nation's search for Ununennium, chemical element 119.
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Education in Chemistry
The hunt is on
Japanese element hunters are trying to extend the periodic table
TIL A man once sued a dry cleaner’s for $67M over a late return of a pair of pants. He reduced it to $45 million in court. The case was thrown out multiple times, the man lost his job as he was a judge himself, and the dry cleaners was forced to close their shop due to court costs.
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Pearson v. Chung
2005 lawsuit about dry-cleaning pants
TIL the largest empire ever to exist based on percentage of world population was the Achaemenid Empire originating from Iran, which contained 44% of the global population in 480BC
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Guinness World Records
Largest empire by percentage of world population
Achaemenid Empire
TIL that Mosquitos are the only type of creature to kill more humans than homo sapiens.
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the Guardian
Should we wipe mosquitoes off the face of the Earth?
Even before the Zika virus, mosquitoes were the deadliest creatures on the planet. But gene modification means these blood suckers’ days might be numbered. Is it dangerous to talk about ‘editing nature’, or should we consider eradicating them for good?
TIL about “the backfire effect,” which occurs when someone is presented with facts that contradict their preconceived worldview. Rather than admit they’re wrong, they believe the incorrect information even more.
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TIL that immediately after landing on the moon, the Apollo 11 crew was supposed to sleep for 5 hours. They didn't, because they figured they wouldn't be able to.
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Apollo 11
first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon
TIL That a rat king is a collection of rats who’s tails have been intertwined and bound together. They grow together and eat together and sometimes when one of them dies they eat it together. There can be up to 32 rats in one rat king.
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Submitted July 20, 2019 at 06:15PM by shreklover64
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Rat king
A number of rats intertwined at their tails
TIL the Soviet Government banned Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from space flight after another Cosmonaut died in a crash, fearing the political impact his death would have. Gagarin requested that he be able to fly regular aircraft, which the government granted. He died five weeks later in a plane crash.
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Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space
TIL that the Go-Go's are the only all-female band to both write their own songs and play their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.
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Submitted July 20, 2019 at 06:39PM by derstherower
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The Go-Go's
American rock band formed in 1978
TIL There was a poll in 2005 to determine the best "dream" supergroup asking people to vote for the best singer, the best guitarist, the best bassist, and the best drummer of all time. Each member of Led Zeppelin won their respective categories, making them the greatest ''fantasy supergroup'' band.
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Zeppelin voted 'ideal supergroup'
All four members of Led Zeppelin are voted the UK's ideal supergroup in a poll of rock music fans.