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💡 You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
TIL A former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson, 61, was accused of using a "penis pump" in court for 22 years and was convicted in June 2006 on four counts of indecent exposure [Source]
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TIL the Nebra Sky Disc, the oldest known depiciton of astrological was part of a trademark lawsuit as the state of Saxony-Anhalt claimed trademark but a counter argument was that it was published 3500 years ago and thus out of copy right. [Source]
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TIL about KIDS - Koala Immune Deficiency Syndrome - 80% of deaths of captive koalas in Queensland are attributed to KIDS and in studied koala populations infection rate is 100% [Source]
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TIL that the earliest version of the Pied Piper story makes no mention of rats - only that, on 26 June 1284, a piper led 130 children out of Hamelin, never to return. Music and dancing remain banned on Bungelosenstrasse, the “street without drums” where they were last seen. [Source]
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TIL It's been 40 years since a person has been born in Antarctica. [Source]
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TIL James Rothschild is a double heir, to both Rothschild and Guinness fortunes [Source]
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TIL There's a statue in front of the HQ of the CIA with four encrypted messages and its fourth message remains undeciphered. It's, in fact, one of the biggest mysteries in the world of cryptography. [Source]
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TIL after a woman put $40 into a lottery vending machine with the intention of buying multiple cheaper tickets, "some rude person" bumped into her & caused her to accidentally select a $30 ticket. She was annoyed until she started scratching that ticket & realized she'd won the $10 million jackpot. [Source]
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TIL boredom causes stress and discomfort for people with ADHD. [Source]
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TIL Alaska and Hawaii are tied for having the lowest record high temp among the 50 US states. They each have a record high of just 100 degrees Fahrenheit [Source]
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TIL there is an 85 mile stretch of land on the Mississippi River called "Cancer Alley" due to the concentration of petrochemical and refinery plants there. [Source]
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TIL that to join the Civilian Conservation Corps, candidates were required to have at least six teeth. [Source]
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TIL that there is a constructed language called Toki Pona that is by perfectly usable, but it is minimalistic by design and has only 120-140 basic words. [Source]
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TIL that according to PER, the basketball analysis statistic that attempts to incorporate all aspects of a player's game, the best NBA player of all time is Nikola Jokić [Source]
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TIL that George Washington died with a net worth of $594.2 million in today’s money, and drew a presidential salary of $25,000 (~$900k today) which was around 2% of the government’s budget at the time. [Source]
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TIL about Beatriz Flamini who spent 500 days alone in a cave without clocks, sunlight, or human contact as part of a scientific experiment on extreme isolation. [Source]
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TIL that after a lifeguard put her head under water and opened her eyes while wearing contact lenses, an amoeba called acanthamoeba keratitis damaged one of her corneas and she went blind in one eye. [Source]
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TIL Rwanda has the highest female parliamentary representation —standing at 64%—in the world. [Source]
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TIL oscar-nominated 2021 movie 'Don't Look Up' allegedly ripped off a self-published novel 'Stanley's Comet' by William Collier. The novel has almost the exact same plot and even uses the phrase "Don't look" in a similar way. However, in 2024 the copyright lawsuit was dismissed [Source]
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TIL Snuffleupagus was a child of divorced parents according to an unaired episode of Sesame Street. [Source]
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TIL the Smurfs’ creator, Peyo, was so upset that his characters appeared in an anti-drug special, Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, without his permission that he refused to work with Hanna-Barbera ever again. This ultimately cancelled the TV series. [Source]
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TIL Danny Boyle, director of 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire, declined knighthood for directing London Olympic opening ceremony. Proclaming he is proud equel citizen and that's what ceremony was about. [Source]
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Today I learned that the writers of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" had never actually attended a baseball game before writing the song. [Source]
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TIL: President (James) Garfield’s great-great-grandson, Richard Garfield, invented Magic The Gathering [Source]
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TIL Ireland's population peaked in the census of 1841 with over 8 million people. It never recovered from the long lasting effects of the potato famine. Was at 4 million for half a century. Today, it's at 7.2 million, having not fully recovered almost 2 centuries post famine [Source]
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TIL that there were at least 42 assassination attempts on Hitler uncovered by historians. [Source]
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TIL that in 1906, a serial killer in Morocco was sentenced to death by immurement (being walled in). [Source]
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TIL the process of making meat Kosher involves specifically the removal of the sciatic nerve due to the belief that Jacob had his sciatic nerve injured by an angel. [Source]
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TIL that the population density of Manhattan is 40% lower now than it was back in 1910, when it reached its peak population of 2.2M, compared to its now-present population of 1.6M. [Source]
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TIL that aftershocks from the 1868 Hawaiʻi earthquake have continued until the present day -- after more than 150 years! [Source]
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