TIL the top of the giant redwood forest were thought to be a lifeless wasteland. But explorers recently discover their canopy contains an entire ecosystem. A lake of fern, top soil a meter deep in its branches, trees and other plants, and crustaceans that only live in water all live up there.
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Coast redwoods: Majestic giants benefit all humankind
Ancient trees suck moisture out of fog and support minivan-sized ecosystems. They deserve our respect and protection.
TIL in order to prevent tourists from stealing their beer glasses, some bars in Belgium require people to hand over one of their shoes as a deposit which is then put in a basket and hung from the ceiling. This shoes basket has also become an attraction.
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Thedrinksbusiness
Belgian bar demands ‘shoe deposit’ to stop tourists stealing beer glasses
Two Belgian bars that have been losing thousands of beer glasses each year have taken matters into their own hands, installing a €4,000 security system and asking for customer's shoes as a deposit.
TIL that in 1986, Primus frontman Les Claypool auditioned to be the bassist of Metallica after the death of former bassist Cliff Burton. Metallica frontman James Hetfield remarked that Claypool was not offered the job because "he was too good" and "should do his own thing".
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Les Claypool
American musician
TIL Humans hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than they see so that everything that they perceive with their ears is coloring every other perception they have, and every conscious thought they have. Sound gets in so fast that it modifies all the other input and sets the stage for it.
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TIL No one in China expected that Chairman Mao would die, so there were no preparations at all for his death. Mao's body was drained of fluids, injected with formaldehyde, and it was said his head swelled up “like a football”
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the Guardian
Preserving Chairman Mao: embalming a body to maintain a legacy
Before his death 40 years ago, Communist China’s founder requested cremation but officials wanted his body embalmed and put on display – and it wasn’t easy
TIL that a man by the name of Roger Williams was the galvanizer for Jeffersonian Democracy (ie separation of church and state) and was a staunch proponent for fair dealings with Native Americans. He was a devout man who saw organized religions as bastardizations of faith and God.
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HISTORY
Roger Williams
Roger Williams The political and religious leader Roger Williams (c. 1603?-1683) is best known for founding the state of Rhode Island and advocating separation
TIL of Frank Willis, a security guard in 1972. While on duty he noticed tape on a basement door lock. Thinking a worker had left it there accidentally, he removed it. Willis later found tape again in the same place. He called the police, saying he believed there had been a break-in at Watergate.
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NY Times
Frank Wills, 52; Watchman Foiled Watergate Break-In
Frank Wills, night watchman who discovered 1972 Watergate burglary, which ultimately led to Pres Richard M Nixon's resignation, dies at age of 52; photo (M)
TIL Because of the shorter commercial breaks in the United Kingdom, every episode of The Muppet Show had two minutes of additional footage. Usually consisting of a skit or a short song.
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Muppet Wiki
UK Spots (The Muppet Show) | Muppet Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
Due to shorter commercial breaks in the United Kingdom, every episode of The Muppet Show lasted two minutes longer in the UK than in the United States. The extra segments that were filmed to cover...
TIL that on the set of Star Trek: Voyager, the costume for 7 of 9 required the actress to wear an extremely tight corset underneath the visible uniform. The corset made it impossible for the actress to sit, was difficult to remove, restricted breathing, and using the restroom took up to 20 minutes.
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The Geek Twins
5 Horrifying Facts About Seven of Nine's Uniform
We previously ran articles on the disturbing truth behind costumes from The Next Generation and Troi's cleavage . Well, let's keep the ...
TIL A boy whose whole body looked like an open wound because of a genetic condition which led his skin to be paperthin, had a skin sample taken, its DNA repaired, & the modified skin cells grown to make skin grafts totalling 0.85 sq m. He now leads a normal life.
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BBC News
'Butterfly child' given life-saving skin
Hassan was born with skin so delicate it would tear and blister
TIL that the condom-based toilets used by male NASA astronauts to pee came in three sizes: "small", "medium", "large". After some leaking events, the sizes were informally changed to "extra large", "immense" and "unbelievable".
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Snopes.com
FACT CHECK: Spacesuit Envy
Did NASA have to relabel the size chart for a condom-like urination contraption used in space suits because astronauts refused to choose the 'small' size?
TIL 7/11 is named after their 'new' hours of 7am-11pm which were unprecedented in 1946, and they didn't experiment with 24-hour stores until 1963.
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7-Eleven
international chain of convenience stores
TIL The famous painting of a dog looking down a gramophone funnel, used as a logo by various companies, was inspired by the artists dog, Nipper. He inherited the animal from his dead brother, and noted that Nipper would look down a gramophone when a recording of his dead owner’s voice was played.
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His Master's Voice
trademark, record label
TIL Converse sneakers have a thin layer of felt on their soles so they can be legally classified as 'slippers.' Import tariffs on shoes in the US can be as high as 37.5%, but only 3% for slippers.
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Business Insider
The surprising reason why Converse sneakers have fuzzy bottoms
The fuzzy felt soles on Converse and other imported shoe soles are actually just another example of "tariff engineering."
TIL the Pentagon has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV noscripts. If there are characters, action or dialogue that the DOD don’t approve of, a film-maker who uses military equipment has to make changes to accommodate the military’s demands.
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The Independent
Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think
On television, we found more than 1,100 noscripts received Pentagon backing – 900 of them since 2005, from ‘Flight 93’ to ‘Ice Road Truckers’ and ‘Army Wives’
TIL Wesley Snipes once dated Halle Berry and assaulted her so badly she now has a disability - she is 80% deaf in her right ear.
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Respect Ability
Halle Berry: Living with Disability While Taking a Stand against Domestic Violence - Respect Ability
Halle Berry: The best dressed actress is an advocate for ending violence against women, an advocate for individuals with disabilities, and has been fighting for virtually her whole life.
TIL of "The Attack of the Dead Men" where after being hit with a wave of chlorine gas, 100 Russian soldiers coved in blood and half-blind, successfully launched a counter-attack against the advancing 7000 Germans, who fled at the sight of the "dead men walking".
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Osowiec Fortress
19th century Russian Empire fortress in Poland
TIL of Ruth Coker Burks aka the "Cemetery Angel" who at the height of the AIDS crisis put up her own money to take care of and buy medicine for AIDS patients and buried over 40 people in her family's cemetery plot, most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.
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Ruth Coker Burks
HIV activist
TIL of Binky the polar bear who lived in Alaska Zoo where he mauled two visitors who jumped over the safety rails on separate occasions. After the maulings Binky merchandise was sold with the slogan “Send another tourist, this one got away” & his cage was upgraded to keep visitors out.
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Binky (polar bear)
polar bear
TIL In 1966 a relatively unknown young American musician asked to get on stage with Cream and THE guitar God Eric Clapton. He played the song Killing Floor, which Clapton had always said was too difficult to play live. That man was Jimi Hendrix and that became known as "The day Hendrix killed God."
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Society Of Rock
Jimi Hendrix Killed Eric Clapton
Did Jimi "kill" Clapton?
Who shows up to a Cream concert and request to jam with Eric Clapton? NO ONE... unless of course you're Jimi Hendrix- and that is exactly what he did.
At a time when Cream was at the top of the food chain, they were untouchable.…
Who shows up to a Cream concert and request to jam with Eric Clapton? NO ONE... unless of course you're Jimi Hendrix- and that is exactly what he did.
At a time when Cream was at the top of the food chain, they were untouchable.…
TIL that when French explorers thought they were the first Europeans to ever reach some historical Afghan caves in the 1930s, they were surprised to find a text inscribed on the wall saying: "if any fool this high samootch explore, Know Charles Masson has been here before"
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Charles Masson
British East India Company soldier and explorer