TIL that during the filming of The Wizard of Oz and at other times of her career, Judy Garland was forced to diet and eat very little, and was bullied into using tobacco to suppress her appetite - all to keep her from looking at all chubby.
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How Judy Garland was forced to starve herself for the screen
Seventy-five years after The Wizard of Oz was first screened, the way its child star was bullied into a life of dieting and drug addiction still shocks
TIL that in 1875 a swarm of 12.5 trillion locusts covering 198,000 square miles and weighing 27.5 million tons descended upon the Great Plains, devouring all plant life in their path. Farmers that tied to shoo them away had the clothes eaten right off their bodies.
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Rocky Mountain locust
species of insect
TIL that Beethoven overcame deafness by biting a metal rod attached to his piano to hear his work. It's called bone conduction, and can also be used to help divers talk and hear underwater, and is also used by elephants to communicate
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From Beethoven To Elephants: How Bone Conduction Helps The World To Hear | The MED-EL Blog
Bone conduction lets sound travel to the inner ear through the skull. This amazing technology is used in everything from hearing aids to underwater diving!
TIL about rabbit starvation - eating nothing but rabbit meat will lead to starvation due to lack of fat.
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Raising-Rabbits.com
Rabbit starvation results from low fat, low carb, protein-only diets
Rabbit starvation: Man cannot live by rabbits alone - the meat is too lean. Add fats and a few carbs to the proteins in lapin, and you can easily survive
TIL The term “scientist” was coined in the 1830s to describe Mary Somerville. A woman. Because the usual term “man of science” didn’t apply and she wasn’t just a physicist, geologist, or chemist - she was all three.
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Mary Somerville
Science writer and polymath
TIL the builders of Nijō Castle did not create the squeaky floorboards, "nightingale floors", on purpose and the claim of it being used as a security feature is a legend.
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"Nightingale floor" on Revolvy.com
Nightingale floor The Nijō Castle, an Historic Monument of Ancient Kyoto Nightingale floors (鴬張り or 鶯張り uguisubari) listen , are floors that make a chirping sound when walked upon. These floors were used in the hallways of some temples and palaces, the…
TIL About the Norwegian Lunderhund, a species of dog that recovered from near extinction after almost being wiped out by illness in 1963. Originally, there were only 6 left in the whole world. Thanks to a careful breeding scheme, there are now 1400 dogs.
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Norwegian Lundehund
The Norwegian Lundehund (Norsk Lundehund) is a small dog breed of the Spitz type that originates from Norway. Its name is a compound noun composed of the elements Lunde, meaning puffin (Norwegian lunde "puffin" or lundefugl "puffin bird"), and hund, meaning…
TIL the 1994 film "Clerks" had an extended, but a much darker ending, in which Dante Hicks was murdered by a robber who then proceeded to take the money from the cash register. Miramax reacted negatively and ordered writer-director Kevin Smith to delete that ending completely.
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Clerks
1994 American comedy film directed by Kevin Smith
TIL that George De Hevesy dissolved 2 Nobel Prizes in aqua regia when Nazi occupation criminalized sending them abroad. He returned to find the solution undisturbed on a shelf in his lab & precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast them using the original gold.
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George de Hevesy
Hungarian chemist
TIL NASA shows the movie Armageddon as a training tool to see if trainees can spot the 168 errors with the film.
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r/todayilearned - TIL NASA shows the movie Armageddon as a training tool to see if trainees can spot the 168 errors with the film.
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TIL that in 1971, a US man named Gerald Mayo filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Pennsylvania. He was suing Satan, for making him fall down. The judge rejected "Mayo v Satan", pointing out that Mayo did not provide appropriate directions for the US Marshals to serve the summons to Satan.
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TIL In 2004, a Disney employee who played Tigger was acquitted of charges of allegedly fondling a 13-year-old girl in costume, when his defence attorney tried on the costume in court and demonstrated how hard it was to move the costumes oversized glove hands.
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Tigger actor acquitted of fondling teen
A Florida jury took less than an hour of deliberations to acquit a Walt Disney World worker who portrayed the character Tigger of charges he fondled a 13-year-old girl while posing for a photo with the girl and her mother.
TIL when a secretary told Steve Jobs she was late for work because her car wouldn't start, Jobs bought her a new Jaguar that same day, saying: "Here, don't be late anymore."
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WRAL.com
Triangle men remember Jobs as boss, gift-giver
Millions of people are mourning the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday. For two Triangle men, Jobs was more than a digital genius, he was a boss and a gift-giver.
TIL 3 of the last 4 presidents were born in 1946
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List of Presidents of the United States
The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term by the people through the Electoral College. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government…
TIL that when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered in his car - triggering the start of World War One - the number plate of his and his wife's car read "AIII 118". 11/11/18 was the date when the armistice was finally signed.
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'A II II 18': Franz Ferdinand's prophetic number plate
The number plate of the car carrying Franz Ferdinand when he was shot bears a strange coincidence to the end of the Great War.
TIL after retiring from NASA, Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon, fell into a deep depression and ended up working as a used car salesman.
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Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut
TIL that in 2005 graffiti artist David Choe was offered $60K to paint multiple murals at Facebook headquarters. He chose to take his compensation in stock which was eventually worth more than $200 million
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CNBC
How this graffiti artist made $200 million overnight
David Choe painted Facebook's first office mural in 2005.
TIL a former engineer in Japan claims to be the only heir to authentic ninjutsu. In his 60s, Jinichi Kawakami decided he will not appoint anyone as the next ninja grandmaster, saying: "we now have guns, the internet and much better medicines, so the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age."
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Jinichi Kawakami
Japanese ninjutsu practitioner
TIL 'Detoxing' your body is a myth.
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You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
There’s no such thing as ‘detoxing’. In medical terms, it’s a nonsense. Diet and exercise is the only way to get healthy. But which of the latest fad regimes can really make a difference? We look at the facts
TIL the biggest infrastructure project in the U.S. ($512 BILLION), the Interstate Highway System, was built and championed by Eisenhower in 1956, because he thought it was virtually impossible to travel US roads after experiencing the German Autobahn in WW2 during his experience as General.
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Interstate Highway System
United States highway system
TIL 64% of Americans believe schizophrenia involves a split personality. A person with schizophrenia doesn't have two different personalities. Instead, he has false ideas/delusions or has lost touch with reality. Multiple personality disorder is unrelated.
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WebMD
9 Schizophrenia Myths and Facts
WebMD separates myths and facts about the causes and symptoms of schizophrenia.