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.
Under the change, visitors with special...
Under the change, visitors with special...
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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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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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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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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TIL that in Norway, people use the term "texas" as slang for "crazy". It doesn't refer to a person, but a chaotic atmosphere or state of mind, so saying a party "was totally crazy!" in Norwegian would be "det var helt texas!", which literally means "it was texas!"
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Texas Monthly
Y’all, Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”
In Norwegian, Texas is used as slang term.
TIL that in Sweden you agree with someone by sucking in air. In Sweden (and Norway), to show you’re on the same page as someone, you make a sharp sucking noise instead of saying "I agree" or nodding. It’s their way of letting you know they’re listening without interrupting the flow of conversation.
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six-two by Contiki
Did you know that in Bulgaria a nodding head means no? six-two by Contiki
A nodding head in Bulgaria is just the start, as we uncover some of the strangest cultural quirks from across our weird old world.
TIL That all of McDonalds’ delivery trucks in the UK, have been running on used cooking oil from their restaurants since 2007.
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Reuters
McDonald's to recycle cooking oil for fuel
STONELEIGH, Warwickshire (Reuters) - McDonald’s (MCD.N) said on Monday it is to convert its British delivery fleet to run on biodiesel made largely from its own recycled cooking oil.
TIL bed headboards were first used to keep sleepers warm and were constructed to create space from the wall to allow falling colder air to sink to the floor rather than onto the bed.
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Wikipedia
Headboard (furniture)
The headboard is a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed. Historically, they served to isolate sleepers from drafts and cold in less insulated buildings, and thus were made of wood, which is less thermally conductive than stone or brick. Constructed…
TIL Kevin Smith announced he will donate all his dividends from Weinstein-Made films to the non-profit 'Women In Film'
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Deadline
Kevin Smith To Donate Dividends From Weinstein-Made Movies To Women In Film
In response to the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, filmmaker Kevin Smith, whose career was launched and propped by the New York-based mogul, is donating all the residuals going forward …
TIL the American government manipulated the outcomes of every Italian election for at least 24 years, starting in 1946
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CIA activities in Italy
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been involved in Italian politics since the end of World War II. The CIA intervened in the 1948 general election and would go on to provide covert aid until the early 1960s.