TIL, Britain has invaded ALL but 22 countries in the entire world, 9 out of every 10!
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Telegraph.co.uk
British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg
Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found.
TIL about a cool dude named Thomas Sankara, the first president of Burkina Faso and AKA Africa's Che Guevara. He had over 10 million trees planted, outlawed genital mutilation, polygamy and forced marriages, and led the first African government to recognize AIDS as a major threat to Africa
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Thomas Sankara
President of Upper Volta
TIL in World War II, a few engineers wanted to reinforce the (returned) fighter planes where most of the bullet holes were. Mr. Abraham Wald then said: Let's reinforce them where no bullet holes are instead - because apparently, airplanes hit in these spots did NOT return.
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Survivorship bias
logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of the latter's lack of visibility
TIL a live recording of pop saxophonist Kenny G's "Going Home" is played in businesses/stores/stations/on TV throughout China at the end of the day. Many Chinese people associate the song with going home or finishing work, though they do not know the track or artist
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Kenny G
American saxophonist
TIL the iconic Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 was created by only 9 people.... and 8 of them had never once worked on a video game before!
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UPROXX
The Multiplayer Mode Was Made In A Month? 12 Killer Facts About The N64 Classic ‘GoldenEye 007’
Shigeru Miyamoto wanted the game to end in handshakes? A few surprising facts about ’GoldenEye 007.’
TIL- The Guy Fawkes mask used by a number of activist groups (including anti-capitalist groups) is copyrighted and owned by Time Warner. Everytime a mask is purchased, Time Warner get paid.
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Guy Fawkes mask
mask depicting Guy Fawkes, now an icon of the group Anonymous
TIL that the Captain of the USS Indianapolis was court-martialed for its' sinking in 1945. In 1996, a history project by a sixth grader cleared his name.
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USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy
TIL the most successful pirate captain of the Golden Age of Piracy, "Black" Bart, had very strict rules on his ship, prohibiting all lights and drinking after 8 in the evening. There was also a complete ban on gambling. If a crew member got hurt, he received a pension proportionate to his injury
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Bartholomew Roberts
Welsh pirate
TIL of Virginia Wade who makes $30K a month writing Bigfoot porn erotica
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Business Insider
MONSTER PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America’s Latest Sex Fantasy
Self-published authors have tapped an insatiable market for "monster porn," but Amazon is cracking down.
TIL that in 1907, French waiters went on strike for the right to have mustaches. In France prior to 1907, mustaches were a symbol of class and stature, while waiters were seen as lower class and thus - not mustache-worthy.
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Atlas Obscura
In 1907, Parisian Waiters Went on Strike for the Right to Grow Mustaches
You gotta fight for your right to whiskers.
TIL Jimi Hendrix’s contract for Woodstock stipulated that no act could play after him. The scheduled performance times went so far off that he didn’t take the stage until 9am Monday morning. Most people had already left, and only about 10,000 people actually saw him play.
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10 Things You May Not Know About Woodstock
Check out some surprising facts about this iconic event.
TIL about Brady Snakovsky, a 9 year old who was watching Live PD and noticed a K9 without a bulletproof vest on, so he made a go-fund-me with his mom to purchase a vest for the dog and instead raised over $80,000, which was used to create a legitimate charitable organization donating to police.
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BRADY'S K9 FUND
The goal and mission of brady's k9 fund is to donate practical and mission ready ballistic vest to police dogs across the united states
TIL that "Taco Tuesday" isn't something just any restaurant can celebrate. It's trademarked by a Wyoming-based chain called Taco John's, which routinely sends cease-and-desist letters to other restaurants that use it.
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TIL animal life in Chernobyl is thriving, not because the radiation is gone, there’s still a lot of it, but because there’s barely any humans living in that area.
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Business Insider
There's a thriving population of radioactive animals that have taken over the abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone, even though the…
After the world’s worst nuclear accident, people abandoned the area around Chernobyl. In their absence, many of the animals are actually thriving.
TIL For 10 years, Emerich Juettner printed poorly made counterfeit $1 bills (Washington was spelled Wasihgton). He never used more than $1 at a time and never in the same place twice. He was caught only after a fire at his apartment. He was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and a $1 fine.
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Emerich Juettner
Austrian-American counterfeiter
TIL That after two children carelessly destroyed a sculpture called “Angel is waiting”, while their parents filmed them, the artist renamed it “Broken” and left it on display with a video monitor showing footage of the incident.
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The Independent
Children destroy glass art installation as adults film them
We all thought accidental breakages were bad enough, especially in the vain pursuit of selfie glory. Yet, the art wreckers of the world have taken things to a whole new level, with deliberate damage
TIL that the late professional wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow received second degree burns over 40% of his body while rescuing 3 children from a burning house and spent 10 days recovering in a hospital.
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Bam Bam Bigelow
American professional wrestler
TIL: Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite"
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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official says.
TIL - Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a nursery built for her newborn in her office. This was at the same time she stopped allowing parents and others from working from home.
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r/todayilearned - TIL - Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a nursery built for her newborn in her office. This was at the same…
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Today I learned, after airspace was closed after the attacks of 9/11, 38 planes were diverted to a large dormant airport in Newfoundland Canada and the residents of Gander in Newfoundland welcomed in nearly 7,000 people into their homes and schools to stay while they where stranded for 6 days.
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An oasis of kindness on 9/11: This town welcomed 6,700 strangers amid terror attacks
TIL that "celebrity psychiatrist" Dr. Isaac Herschkopf manipulated a patient into cutting off his family, giving him his home, signing over his bank account, and amending his will to leave everything to the doctor's wife. Yet Dr. Herschkopf still maintains his medical license in New York City today.
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New York Post
How a celebrity shrink allegedly conned himself into patients’ wills
One Manhattan psychiatrist, who reportedly has treated Courtney Love and Gwyneth Paltrow at his Murray Hill office, is all about helping — himself, that is. Dr. Isaac Herschkopf used his influence