TIL At the end of the credits of “Scream” Wes Craven added “No Thanks Whatsoever to The Santa Rosa City School District Board” due to the school board having approved filming on the Santa Rosa High School , and then reneging on it after reading the noscript and realizing it’s a slasher film
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TIL that Volvo perfected the modern 3-point seatbelt in 1959 and instead of profiting, they opened the patent to the world. It’s considered one of the greatest acts of corporate responsibility ever.
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TIL That since 2017, the Kentucky Coal Miners Museum runs on solar power
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL That since 2017, the Kentucky Coal Miners Museum runs on solar power
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TIL that convicted child sex offender Rolf Harris presented a 20-minute short film for kids in 1985 with advice on how to avoid predators, nearly 30 years before his own arrest
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TIL that Toyota used to sell a GT86 in Japan called the RC with steelies, plastic bumpers, no A/C or screen. It was 100lb lighter and about 2k cheaper.
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TIL that for decades, it was accepted that 54,246 Americans had died in the Korean War, and the Korean War memorial in Washington was etched with that number. In 2000, the figure was revised to 36,940 after it was discovered that a government clerk had made a clerical error in compiling the total.
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TIL that during the 1970s energy crisis, Richard Nixon skipped Air Force One and took a regular United Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles. This is the only time a sitting US president has ever flown commercially.
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TIL that the first human DNA sequenced took 13 years (Human Genome Project 1990-2003). This year, the Guinness World Record bestowed the noscript for fastest DNA sequencing of less than 4 hours to a team from Roche Sequencing Solutions, Broad Clinical Labs and Boston Children’s Hospital.
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL that the first human DNA sequenced took 13 years (Human Genome Project 1990-2003).…
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TIL Faqing, a monk during the Northern Wei Dynasty founded a buddhist sect that encourages massacres and chaos. He encouraged people to ‘kill people and cause chaos’, saying that ‘those who kill one person will attain the first level Bodhisattva, and those who kill ten people are tenth level Boddhis
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TIL that milkshakes were originally alcoholic with whiskey as one of the ingredients. After the 1900s, milkshakes began to use syrups instead and the name changed its meaning.
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TIL Abolitionist John Brown had originally asked Frederick Douglass to join him in his raid on Harpers Ferry, but Douglass declined as he believed Brown's plan was suicidal. John Brown was later tried and executed for the raid less than two months after its occurrence.
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TIL a Canadian hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel from place to place had its arms and head ripped off after one day in Philadelphia having travelled peacefully around Canada, Germany and the Netherlands
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TIL Sony holds the record for making the largest CRT monitor ever, called PVM-4300. It was made in 1989, with a 43-inch diagonal display and a weight of around 200 kilograms. There's only one known unit still exists, which was rediscovered in 2022 in Osaka, Japan and acquired by a YouTuber.
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TIL For Fifteen Years, between 1795 and 1810. the United States of America paid annual Tribute to Algiers of $21,600 (about half a million today)
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TIL that Magnolias are so ancient they evolved before bees, which is why they’re pollinated by beetles. Modern magnolias have changed little since the age of dinosaurs, preserving a design that once bloomed under the same skies as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
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TIL in 1914, the Australian Treasurer pranked the Parliament by hiding the ceremonial mace in the House. It quickly got out of hand as the mace was assumed to have been stolen and the police were called in. The next week, he apologised for it, stating he had acted only in "a spirit of frivolity”
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TIL that Kirby is canonically only 8 inches tall.
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TIL cats likely view humans as large cats rather than a completely different species
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TIL Sergeant Siwash was a domesticated duck that fought in WWII. She was part of the USA Marine Corps
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TIL that a sudoku with less than 17 clues is impossible to solve
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TIL a man named Charles Jensen underwent 970 surgeries between 1954 and 1994 to remove facial tumors. This is the most number of surgeries ever performed on a single person
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