TIL in 1910, the Gov. of Iowa wanted to build a state-wide highway in a single day. He asked farmers across the state to clear a level road on their land. All 380 miles were completed in an hour.
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U.S. Route 6 in Iowa
U.S. Highway 6 (US 6) is an east–west U.S. Highway which runs 319 miles (513 km) across the U.S. state of Iowa. The route is signed in places as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway. Like all state highways in Iowa, it is maintained by the Iowa Department…
TIL the VLC media player uses a traffic cone for its icon because the students who created it drunkenly started a traffic cone collection
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TIL that MTV officially started broadcasting 38 years ago on August 1, 1981 and the first music video played was "Video Killed the Radio Star"
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MTV
American basic cable and satellite television channel
TIL that the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" is founded upon a 1945 recommendation that had no medical basis. Today's medical recommendation is "drink when you're thirsty, unless you're outside on a hot day or you're elderly"
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Office for Science and Society
The Water Myth
It is a common belief that you have to drink 6-8 glasses of water per day. Almost everyone has heard this recommendation at some point although if you were to ask someone why you need to drink this
TIL John Lennon's comment 'More popular than Jesus' created a huge backlash in the US Bible belt, with one Texas radio station holding a large bonfire of Beatles albums only for a lightning bolt to strike its transmission tower the following day and sending the station temporarily off the air.
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More popular than Jesus
John Lennon's remark on 4 Mar 1966: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. […] We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first—rock’n’roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary.”
TIL of Girgori Perelman, the only person in history to have solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. After solving the Poincaré conjecture Perelman was offered the Field's Medal and $1 million prize money, he declined them both.
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Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
TIL When the Six Flags Over Texas theme park opened in 1961, it had a section dedicated to the Confederacy where actors would hunt through the crowd for Union "spies" and "execute" them by firing squad, and where boys and girls could sign up to defend the South as soldiers and nurses.
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Dallas News
Six Flags Over Texas began parting ways with Confederate battle flag long ago
The Arlington theme park uses a lesser-known flag to represent the Confederacy's role in Texas history, and a corresponding section of the park was renamed years ago.
TIL that before a key battle in Alexander the Great's campaign in Persia, the Persian king offered Alexander generous terms for peace. One of Alexander's generals is said to have remarked: "I would accept the terms, if I were you". Alexander responded: "So would I, if I were you". He won.
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Hellenicaworld
Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon)
Alexander the Great, Greeks, Greek Encyclopedia
TIL it's actually possible to shoot arrows around corners/obstacles
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YouTube
Lars Andersen: Turning Arrows
Arrows fly directions can be changed in the air.
It is one of the funniest things to do in archery.
It's actually quite easy, all experienced archers should easily be able to learn this.
It can be done with ordinary arrows, but it is far easier to learn…
It is one of the funniest things to do in archery.
It's actually quite easy, all experienced archers should easily be able to learn this.
It can be done with ordinary arrows, but it is far easier to learn…
TIL glitter is terrible for the environment; Most glitter products are made from plastic, which contributes to the serious problem of microplastics in our oceans. Microplastics kill marine life and also release chemicals that disrupt human and animal hormones.
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INSIDER
Glitter is terrible for the environment. Here's why scientists want you to stop using it.
Glitter is a microplastic, so it's hard to get rid of and can be hazardous to marine life and the environment.
TIL the original reason to have a best man was to help the groom in case the bride needed to be kidnapped from disapproving parents.
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Mentalfloss
88 Amazing Facts Everyone Should Know
Store these away for future trivia nights.
TIL Marijuana is legal in Washington DC as a “gift” only. You must purchase something else (like a sticker or T-shirt for example) and you choose your marijuana “gift” to receive.
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Gentleman Toker
How To Get Weed in DC | A Complete Guide | Gentleman Toker
The #1 source for weed in DC! Discover the latest marijuana delivery, pick-up, meet-up services, medical cannabis, and growing laws in Washington DC.
TIL that millennials in the ages of 18-34 are more likely to live with their parents instead of a spouse/partner - the first time this has occurred since record-keeping began in the 1880s
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Millennials
Cohort succeeding Generation X; comes of age at the start of the Third Millennium
TIL How Bono from the band U2 exercised one of his newly given rights after receiving Dublin's Freedom of the City award. One of these ancient privileges was the right to pasture sheep on common ground within city boundaries. To celebrate he took lambs to graze on St Stephen's Green.
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TheJournal.ie
Why are Bono and The Edge grazing sheep in Stephen's Green in 2000? It's their right as Freemen of the City
Barack and Michelle Obama are soon set to have some interesting privileges in Dublin.
TIL that Dexter Holland, lead singer of Offspring, was valedictorian of his school and had a masters in molecular biology before the band became famous. He since earned his PhD and published a paper on the use of computational molecular biological approaches to identify microRNA sequences in HIV
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Dexter Holland
American musician
TIL in the 90s, Tina Turner left America and started living in Switzerland. She now is a Swiss citizen, lives permanently in a village in the Alps, and has stated: "I could not imagine a better place to live."
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Tina Turner to Become Swiss Citizen
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TIL that Nicolas Cage once outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for a 70 million year old dinosaur skull paying $276,000 for it. After later finding out that the skull was stolen he agreed to return it to the Mongolian authorities.
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BBC News
Nicolas Cage returns stolen dinosaur skull to Mongolia
Actor Nicolas Cage agrees to return a rare dinosaur skull to Mongolia's government after it is found to be stolen.
TIL In 1930, a lawyer tried to leave $50,000 in trust to build a Womanless library. “No Woman Admitted” signs were to be posted at each entrance and no works by women were to be allowed on the premises. His family successfully challenged his will after his death, and the plans were scrapped.
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the Guardian
To you, my darling, I leave very little ...
Tori Spelling, the only daughter of deceased millionaire TV producer Aaron Spelling, has inherited only £100,00 of his £270m fortune. She's not the first to get a rough deal out of a will, says Lucy Mangan.
TIL when it snowed for the first recorded time in Miami in 1977 a meteorologist initially thought it was a coke-drop that had gone wrong, until realizing that the flakes were snow.
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TIL the US Department of Defense spent $486 million on 20 planes for the Afghan Air Force which flew a total of 234 hours before being sold as scrap for $32,000.
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Military Times
DLA junks multimillion planes for Afghan Air Force, sells scrap for 6 cents a pound
Sixteen unusable transport aircraft that the U.S. government bought for the Afghan Air Force have been scrapped for p...
TIL in 1987, the entire world population of condors was 27. They were all captured and saved from extinction through captive breeding, leading to a world population of 488 in 2018.
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California Condor
Conservation status and general information about the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)