TIL that the United States government banned the sale of metal-tipped lawn darts in 1987 after one penetrated the skull of a seven-year old girl, killing her
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Snopes.com
Did the U.S. Ban Lawn Dart Sales After One Child's Death?
A 1988 decision about a backyard game has been used to highlight ongoing political inaction around guns after mass shootings.
TIL Navajo was once in danger of losing a lot of speakers, but the Navajo nation set up programs to teach the language as well as many bilingual schools. Now there are even institutes, community colleges, and technical universities with classes in the Navajo language
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Alpha Omega Translations
Top 10 Indigenous Languages of the U.S.
There are over 300 different languages spoken in the U.S. today; half of those are indigenous languages spoken by Native American tribes
TIL about Julie d'Aubigny, a French swordwoman who: dressed in men's clothing, joined a convent to be with her female lover, got challenged to duels by three separate men for kissing a woman at a ball, and was a popular opera singer.
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Wikipedia
Julie d'Aubigny
French opera singer
TIL Human Alarm Clocks: Before the advent of reliable and affordable alarm clocks, British and Irish workers were woken up by a person who made sure they could get to work on time. The knocker-up used a baton to knock on clients’ doors or a long and light stick to reach windows on higher floors.
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TIL a 2015 study rated pork fat as the 8th most nutritionally rich food in existence
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Elite Readers
Pork Fat Is Officially One of the World's Most Nutritious Foods
It's in the top 10 along with chia seeds and almonds.
TIL That at the premiere of the Good Omens TV series, a front row seat was left empty in tribute to Terry Pratchett. His trademark scarf and hat were placed on it, and there was a bag of popcorn- Neil Gaiman said that Terry wanted to sit next to him and eat popcorn if an Omens movie ever happened.
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Radio Times
Terry Pratchett's hat and scarf had their own seat at the Good Omens world premiere
Neil Gaiman paid tribute to his late co-author
TIL that Ed Helms' missing tooth in "The Hangover" was not created with prosthetics or visual effects. Helms never had that tooth grow and received a dental implant as a teenager, and it was removed during filming.
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The Hangover
The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, co-produced with Daniel Goldberg,[not verified in body] and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. It is the first installment in The Hangover trilogy. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed…
TIL that 1,000 Italian rockers simultaneously played Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly to impress the band and convince them to come to Cesena, Italy to play a concert. Dave Grohl was impressed by this effort and performed a full concert in Cesena for these 1,000 people 3 months later.
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Billboard
Watch Foo Fighters Play the Italian City That Made Crazy Viral Video to Invite Them
Three months ago, a video featuring a thousand Italians begging the Foo Fighters to play their city went viral. Last night, this very random dream came true, as one of the biggest rock bands in the world played a marathon set in Cesena, Italy.
TIL that after arresting a man for blowing up an airplane federal agents learned that it was not in fact a federal crime to blow up an airplane. Colorado instead charged the man for the single murder of his mother, a passenger on the plane.
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Wikipedia
Jack Gilbert Graham
American mass murderer
TIL in 2016 news anchor Anderson Cooper donated bullet proof vests to every K9 unit in the Virginia Police Department after finding out that a police dog was shot and killed during a shootout.
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Mashable
Anderson Cooper outfits entire K9 crew with bulletproof vests after police dog is killed in Virginia
"While he may not have raised his paw and swore and oath, he is still a part of our police family."
TIL a meteor reportedly fell right on the battlefield during a war between Pontus and Rome. According to Plutarch, the sky suddenly split apart and a large silvery-hot meteor resembling a giant hogshead bombarded the ground between the armies. Both forces promptly withdrew to fight another day.
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Realm of History
10 Oddest Military Encounters Recorded In History
Let us take a gander at ten of the most bizarre and odd military encounters ever recorded in history of mankind.
TIL Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) holds the record for the biggest car repair bill (via a successful insurance claim) to fix his crashed McLaren F1 - more than £900k
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Sky News
Mr Bean Star Settles £900k Car Insurance Bill
Rowan Atkinson walked away when he crashed his McLaren F1, but the insurance bill is thought to be the highest ever in the UK.
TIL despite multiple uses of the word "fuck", the MPAA voted to override their guidelines and give The Martian a PG-13 rating
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Polygon
The strange case of The Martian and its two f-bombs
Movie ratings are weird
TIL Of Robert Campbell, a World War One soldier who was a German prisoner, he learned that his mother was dying, and wrote to the Kaiser, asking to be released. His request was granted, with the condition that he had to return. Campbell spent a week with his mother, then returned.
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BBC News
The British WWI prisoner of war who returned to captivity
A British officer captured during World War I was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return, a historian has discovered.
TIL that latchkey incontinence is the phenomenon where the closer that one gets to the restroom, the more urgently one has to use the restroom
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Shape
This Is Why You Feel Like You're Going to Pee Your Pants By the Time You Get Home
There is a scientific reason why the closer you get to home, the stronger your urge to pee gets. Here's how to resist the urge!
TIL Former US President Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house and shops at the Dollar General
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CNBC
Former President Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house and shops at the Dollar General
"It just never had been my ambition to be rich."
TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.
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Atlas Obscura
70 Percent of the World’s Macadamia Nuts Came From One Tree in Australia
Call it the Genghis Khan of macadamias.
TIL that while Avengers: Endgame is the highest grossing movie of all time, when adjusted for inflation, 1939's Gone With the Wind is still the frontrunner by over a billion dollars.
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Submitted August 06, 2019 at 04:57AM by NeverEnoughMuppets
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Wikipedia
List of highest-grossing films
Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights, and merchandising. However, theatrical box office earnings are the primary metric for trade publications in assessing the success…
TIL in Japan, establishments like banks & convenience stores visibly keep baseball-sized orange orbs behind the counter. These “anticrime color balls” are filled with bright pigment that burst on impact & are for employees to lob at robbers (or getaway vehicles) to improve the chance of arrest.
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The Japan Times
Anti-crime color balls
Dear Alice, I've spotted pairs of plastic Day-Glo orange baseballs sitting in polystyrene containers behind the counter at banks and convenience stores. My
TIL- A retired man from Kansas robbed a bank in 2017 but stuck around until the police showed up. He left a note to his wife saying he'd rather be in jail that at home with her. He was sentenced to house arrest.
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The Independent
Pensioner who robbed bank to escape wife sentenced to house arrest
A Kansas man who robbed a bank to get away from his wife has been sentenced to six months house arrest as his punishment due to his mental health. Lawrence John Ripple, 70, walked into the Bank of
TIL if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs arrived just 30 seconds later, it would have landed in deep ocean water which would have absorbed much of the force of the impact. The resulting extinction would have been less severe, many dinosaur species would have survived, and humans would not exist
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