TIL 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers so that they’d downplay the links between sugar and heart disease. The low-fat, high-sugar diets that health experts subsequently encouraged are now seen as a main driver of the current obesity epidemic
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Ars Technica
Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades
Harvard researchers got hefty sums to downplay role of sweets in heart disease.
TIL Disney desperately tried to buy a 58-acre strawberry field right next to Disneyland for decades, but the owner – an elderly Japanese man – refused every single offer (including $32 million). When asked why, he explained: "I just want to stay here and farm."
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Los Angeles Times
Disney Buys 23 Acres Near Its Amusement Park for $30 Million
Walt Disney Co., which is expected to announce plans for a second amusement park here soon, has paid $30 million for a 23-acre tract and is shopping for more property.
TIL a 54 year old New Yorker called Darius McCollum has been arrested over 30 times for illegally driving New York City public transport. He claims an overwhelming compulsion to do this due to this Asperger's. He is currently locked up with little chance of release.
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Podbean
Darius McCollum
Darius McCollum has been arrested 30 times for illegally driving New York City public transport. Is he beyond redemption, or is there something different about the New York folk hero. Is he the worst thing thing involved with subways since Jared Foggle? Li...
TIL: There are no mosquitoes in Iceland
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Wikipedia
Mosquito
family of insects
TIL that the trick from "Office Space" where they stole tiny fractions of a cent from a large number of transactions and put it into their own bank accounts is called 'salami slicing'
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Wikipedia
Salami slicing
Salami slicing refers to a series of many small actions, often performed by clandestine means, that as an accumulated whole produces a much larger action or result that would be difficult or unlawful to perform all at once. The term is typically used pejoratively.…
TIL Pizza Hut restaurants in China stopped offering one trip salad bars- due to customer's creating elaborately engineered "salad towers" carefully balanced on one plate.
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 03:53AM by FlyOnAHotTurd
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Kotaku
How Chinese Ingenuity Destroyed Salad Bars at Pizza Hut
You had one trip to the salad bar. So dammit, you had to make it count.
TIL: Euler's work touched upon so many fields that in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, many discoveries are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 05:46AM by hissingbrunch3343
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Wikipedia
List of things named after Leonhard Euler
Wikimedia list article
TIL Socrates thought that the invention of writing would negatively affect peoples' memory, since people could just write things down instead of having to remember them.
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 01:21AM by TheFutureIsHistory
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Apartment 46
Socrates Was Against Writing
Miami University has an excerpt from The Phaedrus, a dialog between Socrates and someone named — wait for it — Phaedrus, that Plato wrote. Presumably, Plato didn’t misrepresent So…
TIL that AMBER Alert, which now stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, was originally named after Amber Hagerman, a nine year old girl from Texas who was abducted and murdered in 1966.
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Wikipedia
Amber alert
child abduction alert system
TIL Nicholas Culpeper, a 17th century physician married to wealthy heiress, enabling him to provide services free of charge while translating Latin medical text into English then sold them very cheaply for the poor who can't afford expensive physicians
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Nicholas Culpeper
English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer
TIL That the phrase “bleeding heart liberal” was created to be an insult to people who were against lynching.
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Atlas Obscura
The True Origins of the Phrase 'Bleeding-Heart Liberal'
Thank Westbrook Pegler, Joe McCarthy, and Ronald Reagan.
TIL Alligator Snapping Turtles can live over 150 years, and some have been found with musketballs and flint arrowheads in their shells
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 02:46PM by pjk922
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Reptilesmagazine
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Information on the alligator snapping turtle.
TIL The most popular version of the Mexican song La Cucaracha is about a cockroach that can’t walk because it doesn’t have marijuana to smoke. This version was sung by Poncho Villa’s troops in battle during the Mexican Revolution.
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Leafly
Did You Know a Version of ‘La Cucaracha’ References Marijuana?
Learn more about the origins and legacy of the popular Spanish folk song “La Cucaracha,” and discover the version that references cannabis.
TIL the bishop of Orlando is also bishop of the moon, due to a canon law that says "any newly discovered territory would fall under the bishopric from whence the discovering expedition departed." His is therefore the largest Catholic diocese, at over 14,000,000 square miles.
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aleteia.org
Yes, the moon has it's own Catholic Bishop
Thanks to a 1917 Canon law and the success of Apollo 11, the moon is a part of the Diocese of Orlando, FL.
TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.
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Wikipedia
Maximilian Kolbe
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar
TIL that many of the props used in Mel Brooks' 1974 film "Young Frankenstein" were originally used in the 1931 Frankenstein film.
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 02:48PM by derstherower
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Wikipedia
Young Frankenstein
1974 film by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder
TIL About the legend of Wan Hu, a supposed Chinese man who became the “first astronaut” in 2000BC by tying 47 firework rockets to a chair. Dressed in regal splendour, he had 47 servants light each of the rockets and then took off as they ran for cover. When the smoke cleared, he was gone.
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Wikipedia
Wan Hu
mythical character
TIL Charles Manson was once a Scientologist and completed 150 hours of auditing but left the organization soon after, calling it "too crazy"
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Wikipedia
Charles Manson
American criminal, cult leader, musician
TIL about rubber duck debugging, where programmers work out problems in their code by explaining them out loud to a rubber duck
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Client-Server
The Big Q: Can I talk to my rubber duck at work? - Client Server
I have noticed I have had great success using another co-worker as a metaphorical rubber duck (sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally). It improves my productivity vastly and helps me rationalise my code. However, I know that it probably distracts…
TIL about Lt Commander Joseph Vaghi. He was an US Beachmaster during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, acting as a "traffic cop" orienting the landing troops. Giving orders under heavy machine gun fire, he ran into an old classmate, who asked him, "Hi Joe, what the hell are you doing here?"
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 05:24PM by miririco
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memory.loc.gov
Joseph Peter Vaghi collection: Veterans History Project (Library of Congress
Joseph Peter Vaghi: Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress.
TIL in 2000, two suicidal people met online and both decided they wanted to end their life by jumping off a cliff. The two strangers met up in Norway, took a cab to a popular cliff and jumped to their death together.
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Submitted July 26, 2019 at 09:34PM by nokia621
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the Guardian
Two die in 'internet suicide pact' claims
Two young people found dead on the face of a cliff reportedly entered a death pact on the internet before ever meeting each other.