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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Wikipedia
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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Wikipedia
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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ABC News
Tina Turner to Become Swiss Citizen
Get breaking national and world news, broadcast video coverage, and exclusive interviews. Find the top news online at ABC news.
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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www.wildlife.ca.gov
California Condor
Conservation status and general information about the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)
TIL A roman scholar predicted microbiology over 2000 years ago, writing "there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."
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TIL the reason Phoenix can exist in the middle of the desert is because in 1868 Jack Swilling discovered the ruins of a 27,000 sqmi canal system built by the Hohokam. He restarted the canals and today that infrastructure, with modern expansions, waters the city of over a million in the hot desert.
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www.azheritagewaters.nau.edu
Arizona Heritage Waters | Hohokam Canal System
Northern Arizona University Arizona Heritage Waters Project. Arizona Heritage Waters has identified the Arizona’s most important scientific, socio-cultural, and historical water sites.
TIL: Roosters have built-in earplugs. It prevents them from damaging their hearing as they crow. When roosters open their beaks fully, their external auditory canals closes completely.
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phys.org
Why roosters don't go deaf from their own loud crowing
A team of researchers with the University of Antwerp and the University of Ghent, both in Belgium, has uncovered the means by which roosters prevent themselves from going deaf due to their own loud crowing. ...
TIL Charles Vance Millar, a rich Canadian financier, made his will one giant practical joke. In it, he left three men who hated one another a join lifetime tenancy in a villa, some protestant ministers $700,000 in Catholic beer stock, and anti-horse racing advocates $25,000 in a Jockey club.
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Wikipedia
Charles Vance Millar
Canadian lawyer and financier
TIL that people who experience goosebumps or "shivers" from listening to music tend to experience much stronger emotions in response to music and are more emotional in general. Music tends to be a much more important part of daily life for these people.
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Business Insider
There's a biological reason why some people get chills down their spine when they listen to music and others don't
Your brain might be special.
TIL- Sir Roberrt Watson-Watt, the inventor of the RADAR was caught speeding with a RADAR gun. He reportedly said "My God, if I'd known what they were going to do with it, I'd have never have invented it!'"
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BBC News
Making waves: Robert Watson-Watt, the pioneer of radar
He pioneered the technology that was the "secret weapon" that won the Battle of Britain - but few outside his home town know who he was.