TIL that the only four musical artists/groups to have a Top 40 single in the 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's are Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2, and...Weird Al Yankovic
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Billboard
U2 Joins Michael Jackson, Madonna & 'Weird Al' Yankovic With Top 40 Hot 100 Hits in '80s, '90s, '00s & '10s
U2 debuts at No. 33 as featured on Kendrick Lamar's "XXX."
TIL A Utah woman was allowed to sue herself over a car accident she caused, which killed her husband. She had to give evidence against herself to show that she was a fraudulent driver so she could seek compensation. It was her claim as a widow vs her claim as a motorist.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Bagley vs Bagley: Widow sues herself after her husband dies in crash
Utah court allows Barbara Bagley to seek damages from herself following fatal car crash which killed her husband
TIL that a burrito is legally not a sandwich. A Massachusetts judge ruled in White City v. PR Restaurants that "the term "sandwich" is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos, and quesadillas"
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Lowering the Bar
Judge Rules Burrito Is Not Sandwich
“The notion is absurd,” a sandwich expert testified.
TIL Hawaii allows people to throw their beloved's ashes into their volcanos, as long as you pay a $25 permit and do it discreetly.
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TIL of the Oakland Buddha, a statue placed on a trash-ridden street corner by a non-Buddhist neighbor who was fed up with the trash. He thought the statue might 'shift the energy in the neighborhood.' It has since become a shrine and gathering place for Vietnamese residents.
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Public Radio International
How a Buddhist shrine transformed a neighborhood in Oakland
A Buddhist statue was meant to simply ward off trash and graffiti on a rough Oakland corner. But it became a community gathering place for the area's Vietnamese immigrants, who turned the site into a beautiful shrine. #globalnation
TIL when Gene Wilder was offered the role of Willy Wonka, he accepted on one condition: he'd enter with a limp, lose his cane and continue to limp, and then when he's found out, perform a somersault for the crowd, "Because from that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth."
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Lettersofnote
Part of this world, part of another
In 1970, when originally offered the lead role in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory by director Mel Stuart , the great Gene Wilder ac...
TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.
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CNN
Bone conduction: Get used to the voices in your head
Long established as the premier portal for sound, your ears are facing increased competition from emerging techniques for transmission through your skeleton.
TIL Wilson the Cast Away Volleyball was inspired by screenwriter William Broyles, Jr.'s personal research. Broyles stranded himself on a deserted island for a week, and a volleyball washed ashore.
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Wikipedia
Cast Away
2000 American adventure drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis
TIL scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a 'supervoid'; an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across that is the largest object in the known universe. An estimated 10,000 galaxies were “missing” from the part of the sky it sits in.
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the Guardian
Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe is ... a big hole
Scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a supervoid: an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across
TIL a brain injury sustained during a mugging turned a man who used to think "math is stupid" into a mathematical savant with a form of synaesthesia that lets him see the world in fractals.
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Bbc
The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius
Futon salesman Jason Padgett cared little about anything beyond partying and chasing girls, then one fateful night changed him forever.
TIL Many Native American students at Yale study their indigenous languages even though these classes do not count for academic credit. Stanford stands out for providing classes that qualify for academic credit on Native Americans languages, including Cherokee, Nahuatl, Navajo, and Lakota
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Yaledailynews
Students seek Native language credit
TIL of an elephant sanctuary in Phuket, Thailand that is doing its best to stop the elephant riding tourist trade.
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Green-Elephantsanctuarypark
Book big fun for little price | Green - Elephant Sanctuary Park Phuket
Experience elephants in a whole new way. We offer elephant feeding, mud spa, XXL shower, wash the elephant, delicious Thai buffet.
TIL Ada Lovelace, along with her early work in programming and designing a turing computer in the 1830s, wrote a theory of "flyology" on powered flight that accurately documented wing-body ratios to achieve it. She was 12 when she published it.
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Wikipedia
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician, considered the first computer programmer
TIL one of this site’s co-founders committed suicide in 2013 after facing up to 50 years in prison for illegally downloading over 4 million academic articles. He was 26 years old.
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CNET
Prosecutor in Aaron Swartz 'hacking' case comes under fire
Carmen Ortiz was being talked about last month as the next Massachusetts governor. Now she's being investigated for threatening the late Aaron Swartz with decades in prison.
TIL That Disney was forced to abandon its policy of letting disabled people skip lines in its theme parks, after rampant abuse of the rule by people hiring disabled “tour guides” to skip waiting for rides. These guides sometimes charged up to hundreds of dollars per hour.
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NBC Southern California
Disneyland: Disabled No Longer Skip Lines
People with disabilities will no longer go straight to the front of lines at Disneyland and Walt Disney World after growing abuse of the system, park officials said.
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TIL just before Live Aid, Freddie Mercury was told by his doctor not to do the show because of some vocal trouble. He of course, ignored it, and went on to deliver a 20 minutes show that, according to a BBC poll, is the greatest live performance of all time.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 06:04PM by MistressGravity
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Attitude.co.uk
Queen at Live Aid: Remembering Freddie Mercury's finest moment
TIL People who constantly point out grammar mistakes typically have "less agreeable" personalities, are less open, and more likely to judge you for your mistakes.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 06:56PM by The_Zekta
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Curious Mind Magazine
People Who Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are JERKS, Science Says
A study from the University of Michigan discovered that those people who are ‘grammar police’ are in fact huge jerks, and their behavior is a result of certain personality traits that they possess.
TIL that Ireland has 3 Peat fired power plants. Using peat taken from Irish bogs, its more polluting than Coal and is so inefficient it is subsided by the state.
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www.dccae.gov.ie
Peat in Ireland | Peat Power Plants | Peat Purposes
Peat in Ireland is used for two main purposes – to generate electricity and as a fuel for domestic heating, while there are 3 peat fuelled power plants still operational.
TIL With PTSD, your brain doesn’t process the trauma the right way. It doesn’t file the memory of the event as being in the past. The result: You feel stressed and frightened even when you know you’re safe.
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WebMD
What Are PTSD Triggers?
When you have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), certain things can set off your symptoms. Learn about possible triggers and why you develop them.
TIL the Reagan Administration laughed about the AIDS epidemic during three separate press conferences
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 05:44PM by saltnvinegar26
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Vanity Fair
The Reagan Administration’s Unearthed Response to the AIDS Crisis Is Chilling
A new short film, When AIDS Was Funny, unearths never-before-heard audio reaction to the escalating AIDS crisis.
TIL A Japanese Man cut off and served his own genitals to five diners, charging them $250 dollars a plate. He was reported to the police but wasn't arrested as there is no law against cannibalism in Japan.
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