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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'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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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
TIL oral tradition in Kenya tells that 20 shipwrecked Chinese sailors washed up on shore in the 15th century and were given permission to settle and marry into local tribes. DNA tests conducted by China's government in 2002 on one of the supposed descendants and found that she was of Chinese descent
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Chinese people in Kenya
There may have been minor settlement of Chinese people in Kenya as early as the 15th century; however, modern migration from the People's Republic of China to Kenya only dates to the late 1990s and early 2000s. There are estimated to be anywhere between 3…
TIL prior to production of Valkyrie (2008), German Defence Ministry said that filming would not be allowed at the country's military sites. Because Tom Cruise is a member of Scientology, which is viewed as a dangerous cult by the German authorities
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Valkyrie (film)
2008 thriller drama movie on the attempted Stauffenberg coup against Hitler directed by Bryan Singer
TIL Robin Williams protested 'It's my voice! You can't stop me.' against Disney when they tried to prevent him from voice acting in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
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CINEMABLEND
Why Disney Was Annoyed About Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
Twenty-five years ago, a group of Australian animators finally got to make an environmentally focused kids flick that had been in gestation for a long time. That movie was Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, a movie known for its lush setting and the inclusion…
TIL that the mugger crocodile has been observed balancing sticks on its head to lure in birds searching for sticks for their nests. This is the first known example of tool use in a reptile.
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Mugger crocodile - Wikipedia
TIL that since Milton Hershey didn't have any children he and his wife opened an orphanage school and when he died, he left his entire fortune and the ownership of Hershey Chocolate Company in a trust for the children in the school. Still today 70% of the company is owned by Milton Hershey School.
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Milton S. Hershey
American businessman
TIL that there is a village in India whose main export are men! This village prepares men to become bouncers for nightclubs and bars. They do so by having a 2 hour workout in the morning, followed by a 2 hour workout in the afternoon, in combination with high-protein food.
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CNN
The bouncers of New Delhi come from this village - CNN
The village of Asola-Fatehpur Beri is the strongest in India.
TIL that Nike had conditions before giving rookie Michael Jordan a record contract: Either be rookie of the year, or average 20 ppg, or be an all star, or sell $4 mill worth shoes in a year. Jordan was rookie of the year, scored 28.2 ppg, named all star, and Nike sold $100 mill of shoes in 1984-85.
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ESPN.com
How Nike landed Michael Jordan
All Michael Jordan wanted to wear was adidas in the NBA. Although he wore Converse at North Carolina, because his coach Dean Smith was getting paid about $10,000 a year to put the brand on his players, the German make was his dream.
TIL that the summit of Mt. Everest is made of marine limestone which means the highest point on earth was once at the bottom of the sea.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest (Nepali: Sagarmatha सगरमाथा; Tibetan: Chomolungma ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ; Chinese: 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 border between Nepal (Province…
TIL that child beauty pageants are illegal in France to prevent the hyper-sexualization of young children. Punishment can be up to two years in prison.
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HelloGiggles
Organizing child beauty pageants is illegal in France and people have a lot of feelings about it
The French government is not messing around.