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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HISTORY
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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Submitted August 14, 2019 at 06:06AM by AvailableWrongdoer
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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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Submitted August 14, 2019 at 01:44PM by Tokyono
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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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Submitted August 14, 2019 at 03:20PM by ChanceGuest
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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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usatoday
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
TIL that the real Top Gun School imposes a $5 fine to any staff member that quotes the movie
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Submitted August 14, 2019 at 09:19PM by Oren81
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AMC
Story Notes for Top Gun
How long did Top Gun stay in theaters? What convinced Tom Cruise to join the cast? Read on for the answer.
TIL that President Grant in 1875 called for taxing Church property equally and wrote that its tax exempt status was "an evil that, if permitted to continue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land".
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InfoPlease
State of the Union Address: Ulysses S. Grant (December 7, 1875)
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
TIL: Armin T. Wegner who resisted both the Armenian Genocide & the Holocaust. In 1915, he took hundreds of photos of the persecuted Armenians and was subsequently arrested. In 1933, he wrote a letter to Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews, and was then sent to a concentration camp.
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Armin T. Wegner
German photographer
TIL That Idris Elba Pretended to Be American to Get his role as Russell "Stringer" Bell on HBO's Hit T.V. series 'The Wire'
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Complex
Idris Elba Pretended to Be American to Get on 'The Wire'
Idris Elba shared the hilarious tale of how he got his gig as Stringer Bell on HBO's 'The Wire' during his conversation with Sean Evans on 'Hot Ones.'
TIL in 1954, Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev could not get funding to pursue a space program, so he planted a fake new-story claiming Russia was going to launch a satellite. The US responded that they were also going to launch one, so the Soviets then agreed to fund the program.
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BBC iPlayer
Revolutions: The Ideas that Changed the World - Series 1: 3. The Rocket
The incredible story of one of humankind’s most amazing inventions, the rocket.
TIL of the "Japanese Schindler," Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat who went against orders to save 6000 Jewish lives during the Holocaust
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Unseen Japan
Japan's Schindler: How Sugihara Chiune Saved Thousands of Jewish Refugees
The story of how a Japanese diplomat went against the dictates of his own government in order to issue Jewish refugees with visas to Japan.
TIL When Nikola Tesla showed in 1898 a radio controlled boat, people accused him of having a trained monkey driving it.
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Submitted August 14, 2019 at 03:45PM by well_done_man
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (/ˈtɛslə/;Serbo-Croatian: [nǐkola têsla]; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-Americaninventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design…
TIL After Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster was pressured out of her post, President Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail 30 miles away, in the end the atmosphere became so hostile that Mrs. Cox left for her own safety.
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r/todayilearned - TIL After Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster was pressured out of her post, President Theodore Roosevelt…
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