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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) Nas listed his then 7-year-old daughter, Destiny Jones, as an executive producer on his fifth studio album Stillmatic to ensure she would always receive royalty checks from the album.

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~hUmMuS vIbEs~ 3 years ago

Wow, Destiny's a pretty name.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the medals in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are made from metals recovered from recycled cell phones collected since 2017.

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

Good work..

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL: In 400BC, the Persians invented a way to make ice in the desert using evaporation cooling

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Ece Cenker 3 years ago

Wow, so ancient people were not idiots? Who wouldda thought!

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the clearest lake in the world is the Blue Lake located in Nelson, New Zealand. Visibility in the lake is up to 80 metres meaning the water is considered almost as optically clear as distilled water.

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

Bewtiful Noo Zealand....

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the US provided Laos with funds and concrete to expand an airport which could serve as a base for US fighter jets during the Vietnam War. But as the funds and concrete arrived before any contract was signed, Laos decided instead to build a memorial to soldiers who died in World War II.

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Dave P 3 years ago

Technically the US gave them the money, then the US decided to keep it all the Thailand for fighter jets and told Laos they could do anything, as long as it was US approved.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Octopuses are one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet, capable of solving complex puzzles, using tools, escaping captivity, and planning ahead in the future.

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Dodo 3 years ago

They also punch fish for fun

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Gerard Neaux 3 years ago

When you have that many arms you're bound to want to find uses for them

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BasedWang 3 years ago

I saw one at a aquarium, tentacles spread against the glass, pinning a starfish. Seems like they just like they just like to flex their intelligence as smart asses

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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago

This is the kind of information I love!

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PurpleDoople 3 years ago

Big deal. I do that too and I have a significantly lower IQ

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-alex_the_trans_demon- 3 years ago

They're very solitary creatures as well and even build themselves houses with doors (a rock that they slide into place).

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Andy Broomfield 3 years ago

That was my exact first thought 😂

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Keri Miller 3 years ago

thank you for this. hahaah. of all the things I've learned recently, this one is a keeper

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Frenchie 3 years ago

Frustrated with the stupidity of their surroundings and comrades. Who hasn't been there.

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François Carré 3 years ago

The downside is that they don't get to raise their offspring - after spawning the mother doesn't feed herself anymore, she uses her very last forces to take care of the eggs and she dies just when they hatch. So the young don't benefit from their parents' life experience and they have to cope with every situation with their own intelligence, starting from scratch at each new generation. Otherwise they would have taken on the whole world long before humankind got a chance to evolve.

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keepgoing 3 years ago

Perhaps this is why they are so intelligent...because they have to be

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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago

And when tested in a lab setting, after one octopus figured out how to open a jar, when in a tank with a plexiglass division between them, that octopus showed the other one how to do that and they were able to accomplish this simply by observing demonstration.

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Carol Emory 3 years ago

One even tricked a diver into helping him look for food.

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Alexia 3 years ago

True fact: some friends were at a restaurant somewhere in Portugal. There was a big aquarium with live octopuses in the middle of the restaurant. Two of them ordered fried octopus, and were able to choose the octopus from the aquarium. Moments later, when their dishes came, they felt something awkwardly intense on their backs. They all turned over to see ALL the remaining octopuses crowded in a margin of the aquarium, staring at them. None of them ever touched cooked octopus since then. This is 100% true and was even shared on a local radio show.

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

What a bad idea from the restaurant owner. Poor octopuses!

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Kookamunga 3 years ago

Good, I'll get an Octopus to cover me when I can't go to work.

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Daria B 3 years ago

Not sure it's a good idea. The octopus will demand their fair share of money.

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Dirk Daring 3 years ago

If you don't want to cry, don't learn about how a mother octopus cares for her eggs until they hatch.

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~hUmMuS vIbEs~ 3 years ago

I learnt this from Finding Nemo!

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Yoinks! 3 years ago

"Planning ahead (for) the future"? Impressive! I know way too many humans who can't do that!

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Alexia 3 years ago

And they can also predict who will win football matches and championships, like Paul the octopus. Too bad they don't live longer.

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Dina Simoné 3 years ago

John Oliver made a bit about octopuses. Worth watching.

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Chris M 3 years ago

They have 9 brains! One in their head and one in each arm. Their arms can literally get into fights.

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

They are a little bit like plants roots. So they have animal+vegetal intelligence.

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Josh Tall 3 years ago

the light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long!!!

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Andy Mutch 3 years ago

I always thought the plural of octopus was octopi

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KatHat 3 years ago

"While “octopi” has become popular in modern usage, it’s wrong. The letter “i” as a suffix to indicate a plural noun only applies to words with Latin roots, like “cacti” for more than one cactus. But octopus is derived from Greek, so the proper pluralization in this case would be “odes” if it was ever used. However, this particular word happens to employ a classic English formulation, and affixing a simple “es” at the end of octopus will do, according to grammar experts." https://qz.com/1446229/let-us-finally-resolve-the-octopuses-v-octopi-debate/

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Debbie Lavender 3 years ago

these guys are brilliant! (they would have chosen to vaccinate!)

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WholesomeArmyweeb 3 years ago

They’re the future, not the next generation or robots. T h e m

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beautiful plumage 3 years ago

"at least, that's what they told me to type. the octopus would've typed it, but they didn't want to get the keyboard wet."

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Glirpy 3 years ago

They will also one day rule the world when the Old Ones rise!

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Yvonne Riggs 3 years ago

Cthulhu fhtagn.

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Lisa Pavlica 3 years ago

Watch My Octopus Friend. Killed me!!!

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Bored bunny 3 years ago

Woah, they are definitely smarter then what i was doing in 2nd grade

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katboxjanitor 3 years ago

They are impressive beings.

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Oerff On Tour 3 years ago

One of their plans for the future is WORLD DOMINATION

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Camilla Koutsos 3 years ago

This is why I had to stop eating them. I've become an admirer.

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María Hermida 3 years ago

How do scientists know they can plan ahead in the future? The other skills are easily observed, but "planning" is a very abstract concept.

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Karin Slama 2 years ago

so sad, that they only live for 1y

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Cass Thomas 3 years ago

TIL that the plural of octopus is octopii.

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Susan L. Miller 3 years ago

They amaze me!

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Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago

They have more than one brain. Within a few minutes, they can figure out how to open a screw top jar, in order to get their favorite food (a crab). They only live about two years.

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Lisa Chambers 3 years ago

lol I watched one lift the screen off the top of the aquarium and get out, slink down the wall, and the pathway until caught by a worker with a bucket in the Seattle Aquarium. Crazy smart!

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Yaga Bialski 3 years ago

My vote to ban eating them!

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HammerzToe 3 years ago

I knew they were smart, but that is amazing! Another reason NOT to eat them!

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René Studer 3 years ago

They are also able to predict who wins the world cup.

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Fester Sixonesixonethree 3 years ago

I will never again eat octopus. Squid however...

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Bored Cats 3 years ago

Octopi

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Allan Lester 3 years ago

I love the way they can turn colors and patterns like stripes, checks, etc.

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Rae Black 3 years ago

They also befriend people and ask their help hunting.

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Kai Scadden 3 years ago

Octopi

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Yvonne Riggs 3 years ago

Colloidal cephalopods are engineering I their own evolution. After what we've done to the oceans I don't think they're going to like us very much

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Peter Kelly 3 years ago

Oh, that the people I come across day to day had the intelligence of an octopus... most barely reach the level of a gnat...

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Susie 3 years ago

The also taste with every inch of their skin (not just the suckers) and can do more than one completely different task simultaneously as if each tentacle has its own brain.

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D K 3 years ago

My Octopus Teacher 💕🐙

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AlanandLeila Hoyt 3 years ago

So the maturation of their reproductive organs happens through the activation of their optic gland. The activation of their optic gland results in the deactivation of their digestive glands. If you want an octopus to live longer and become our new cephalopod overlords, figure out how to reactivate their digestive glands

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KOTLC Fangirl 3 years ago

my fave animal!

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Nadine 3 years ago

And we still eat them.

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Mazer 3 years ago

They also only live for about two years, depending upon the species

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Robert May 3 years ago

All without a bone in their body!

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WholesomeArmyweeb 3 years ago

Helps to squeeze through those tiny holes in the ocean 😊

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Courage the Cowardly Dog 3 years ago

Maybe I am not an octopus

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denzoren 3 years ago

We saw this in the Penguins of Madagascar movie...with Darrel?...Dante?...Dave!

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Vermillion Ace #443 3 years ago

Starspawn!!!

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Taco Da Guinea Pig 3 years ago

Fun fact: according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the plural of octopus is octopodes!

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Thay 3 years ago

I. AM. DAAAAAAAAAVE!!

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44f5 Dixit 3 years ago

And they are the only hope of other animals to save the world from human and dominate them

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Seaside Charlie 3 years ago

Maybe but that's not the sentiment we're looking for here when discussing this beautiful and highly intelligent animal. Protect them and learn from them.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL of Eric Moussambani, who had never seen an olympic sized swimming pool before the 2000 olympics. He recorded the slowest time in 100m freestyle history at 1:52.72, however won his heat as all other competitors false started. He is now a national hero the head swimming coach of Equatorial Guinea

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Brandy Grote 3 years ago

That is true Olympic spirit!

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL of Charlie Walker, the first non-government individual to fly into space. After NASA deemed him unqualified and rejected his 1978 application for astronaut, he co-developed a space bound device which required him to accompany it. Walker flew into space three times with the device he co-patented.

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

He was like.."I'm going!!.."....

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Drowning people almost never shout, thrash or wave for help. 10% of children who drown are supervised by adults who don't recognise the signs.

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Dina Simoné 3 years ago

What are the signs? Except for drowning

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Crowing first at dawn is a privilege reserved for the highest ranking rooster.

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JustAPanda 3 years ago

Social status is based on the one who gets to shout first. More like a Presidential campaign

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Sony sold its waterproof Walkman in a bottle of water to prove it was really waterproof.

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N G 3 years ago

OMG , OMG, OMG ---- i didn't know there were real Walkman's. I've been buying these expensive water bottles, drinking the contents and throwing the Walkman's away.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had offered to pay that amount for one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the blade of grass because he thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use his hair in a spell.

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44f5 Dixit 3 years ago

How came She couldn't differentiate hair and blade of grass

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL In the 1930's a selling point for TP started by Northern Tissue company was that their toilet paper was "splinter free"

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Dina Simoné 3 years ago

Oh god. The thirties were tough.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Bruce Lee was the winner of the 1958 Hong Kong Cha-Cha Dancing Championship. He kept a card with 108 different cha-cha dance steps in his wallet and developed new moves which he wrote down in a personal notebook labeled "Cha-Cha Fancy Steps."

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Vermillion Ace #443 3 years ago

Gotta wonder if that explains the fancy footwork he applied in his own movements. It kinda makes sense knowing this tidbit now.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL beavers build their dams as an instinct to stop the sounds of water leaks. If a speaker is playing just the sound of running water, a beaver will build a dam over it. This is even if it’s over concrete with no visible water, or if an actual nearby leaky water source is quieter than the speaker.

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

They should get into the plumbing business

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who as a student discovered pulsars, credits her discovery to impostor syndrome and a fear of being kicked out of college; “I’m a bit of a fighter, so I decided until they threw me out I would work my very hardest". That discovery earned the 1974 Nobel Prize.

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Dina Simoné 3 years ago

Well, Imposter Syndrome should be healed after receiving the Nobel Prize.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that when his father died of a heart attack, Ronald Mallett resolved to discover time travel to see him again. He went on to earn a PhD in physics and become a professor, and has been working on plans for a time machine ever since.

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Oh that's a sweet and sad and noble reason to pursue science. Thinking about time in any form other than linear is beyond me, and tangents are too complex! Butterfly effect and all that

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL In 1908, the Russian shooting team arrived at the London Olympics twelve days late. The Russian team had made sure to arrive a few days before the event was scheduled, but Russia still used the Julian calendar. The UK had switched to the Gregorian calendar 150 years earlier

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Brandy Grote 3 years ago

The Russian government has switched to the Gregorian calendar, but the Russian Orthodox Church still uses the Julian one! Russia switch in Feb 1918 when Lenin signed the Sovnarkom decree.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL dying coral reefs lack the sound attract new fish. Speakers playing healthy reef noises at dying coral reefs increases species diversity and doubles fish abundance.

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

Wonder if they are using this on the Great Barrier...

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that hippo sweat contains a chemical that has an SPF factor to prevent them from getting sunburned.

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Haru Brujis 3 years ago

In Dutch, hippo is nĳlpaard, which literally means Nile horse.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL - Raccoons and skunks will literally sniff out a yellow jacket nest at night and dig it up to eat the yellow jackets.

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

um... good...

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the X's often seen on moonshine bottles in old cartoons, etc. represent the amount of runnings, or how many times it was distilled.

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HoneyBun Arts 3 years ago

Oh Cletus you old dog. Giving Homer a bottle with 12 or so X’s. ;) [Simpson’s Refernece]

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that female dogs can get pregnant by multiple male dogs within the same heat cycle, then give birth to X amount of puppies per father.

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

Well that explains all those crazy one off pup births....

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#25

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL comedy legend Mel Brooks was an uncredited producer of The Elephant Man, released in 1980. He was left off the credits for fear that fans would believe the movie was a comedy.

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Yoinks! 3 years ago

This is also true of Frances (1982) and David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). He also kept his name off the comedy My Favorite Year (1982), possibly because he didn't want people to think it was HIS sort of comedy.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL of Research during 1950s all-male combat aircraft assignments revealed that a woman's voice was more likely to gain the attention of young men in distracting situations. Joan Elms voice was used for the automated voice warnings for Convair B-58 and was named "Sexy Sally" by the pilots.

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Dina Simoné 3 years ago

Thats pretty funny

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#27

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL of Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who kept a vast collection of handwritten notes on top secret files. When he defected to British Intelligence in 1992, he brought six trunks of notes with him that exposed most KGB activities in the West during the Cold War

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M O'Connell 3 years ago

I'm surprised the KGB wouldn't have known that he had 6 trunks worth of notes.

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Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the reticular activating system is the part of the brain that sorts through all the billions of pieces of information our senses take in and then allows through the important stuff. It is why after you a buy a red sedan, you now see red sedans everywhere when you didn't notice them before.

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Claire 3 years ago

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

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#29

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the "Monopoly Man", the guy in jail and the policeman on the Monopoly Board all have names: Milburn Pennybags, Jake the Jailbird and Officer Mallory

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Aleksandra 3 years ago

Also, the game was originally created to show the negative aspects of monopolies. And there were two rule sets for the game, one where everyone was rewarded when wealth was created, and second where you were supposed to crush opponents.

90points

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the Red Bull energy drink was originally invented by a duck farmer from Thailand as a hangover cure (called Krathing Daeng in Thai) before being bought over by Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz who discovered it on a business trip in 1987.

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Monday 3 years ago

Now I have to ask...does it work as a hangover cure?

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that there is a spider called the Darwin's bark spider whos web is 10x stronger than kevlar. it is the toughest biological material ever studied..

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

Amazing...

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Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL in Greenland, it is illegal to bring any other breed of dog north of the Arctic Circle in order to maintain the purity of the Greenland Dog.

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Mar Nadal 3 years ago

If it's a healthy breed of dog, that's a good thing, so no one will be able to change the traits of the breed, like a flat snout with respiratory problems and other things like that

40points

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the idea for the McDonald's Happy Meal originated in Guatemala. Created by manager Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño to simplify the menu for busy parents, it was later brought to the attention of the Chicago office who developed it further and deployed it in the U.S.

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Brittany 3 years ago

I hope she got paid for her idea

48points

#34

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL it is not recommended to flush a scorpion down a toilet, as scorpions can survive being under the water hence they may come back out that same toilet or crawl up the drains and into your home

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

Who's flushing scorpions???

80points

#35

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that MIT created a system that provides cooling with no electricity. It was tested in a blazing hot Chilean desert and achieved a cooling of 13C compared to the hot surroundings

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Oh God that would be so useful! We are burning from the heat wave right now and I don't even wanna think of the electricity bills!!!!

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50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Leonardo da Vinci wrote “all the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk”. In 2011 Christophe Eloy investigated and found that trees which followed Leonardo's rule would be the best at resisting wind-induced fracture.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL in 1999, Tom Green hung his own unauthorized piece of art in the National Gallery of Canada (which remained untouched for days) with the added twist of later coming back and vandalizing it to the horror of onlooking patrons.

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Vermillion Ace #443 3 years ago

Oh goodness, this is a man who was a real piece of work back then...o.o;

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Anthony Rossi who founded Tropicana Products in 1945 was an Italian immigrant who arrived in the US with $25 and did not know English. He developed an orange juice pasteurization process to allow transport from the factory in Florida to as far away as New York starting in 1970.

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Mrs S 3 years ago

1970?? Seems a bit late, date wise. Maybe I'm not getting the whole story.

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Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL of a study to determine contamination levels for computer keyboards in the average office setting. One keyboard had to be removed after testing because it was found to be five times dirtier than a toilet seat, home to 150 times the acceptable limit of bacteria, and was a health risk to its user.

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Andy Acceber 3 years ago

Seems legit. In high school biology, we had to swab for germs. The grodiest places were keyboards, wrestling mats, and one poor kid's cast.

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL There was an elevator driver strike in NYC in 1945. Up until then people were afraid to use automatic elevators but the strike drove their mass adoption. The elevator driver job driver demand started to decline which ultimately meant their job is lost forever.

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J. F. 3 years ago

Well, that backfired

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) Til Russian fishermen learned to farm caviar as early as the 12th century and for centuries it was considered nothing more than cheap peasant food, served with porridge and eaten by the bowlful

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Scagsy 3 years ago

That's how I see it today. It's horrible. Whoever marketed it as a delicacy pulled a right stroke.

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Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL tarantula hawk wasp larva creates a small hole in a paralyzed spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. It emerges several weeks later as a wasp.

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Mar Nadal 3 years ago

Nature has some horror stories

55points

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Olympic swimming is only timed to hundredths of a second because the pools aren’t built to the millimeter tolerances necessary to measure thousandths of a second

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Piet Puk 3 years ago

"Only"..

19points

#44

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the FICO credit score was started in 1989 and people used to be able to get approved for a mortgage with a letter of recommendation from their priest

WW_III_ANGRY Report

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32points

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KatHat 3 years ago

US credit scores are a scam. Why does paying years of rent on time not help your credit score rise? Why does having no credit card count against you? There are so many ways these scores are meant to push you into spending money and using credit. Fine if you want to do those things but you should NOT be penalized if you don't.

52points

#45

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL: the US Gov't made a deal with the Italian Mafia to ensure that no German or Italian saboteurs snuck in through the New York port/docks by providing information to the US Navy. They also guaranteed no dockworkers would strike, therefore ensuring a constant line of supplies leaving to the front.

Mookie_Merkk Report

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31points

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Brandy Grote 3 years ago

Mafia leaders had plans to assassinate Hitler, and the mayor of New York ask the Mob to beat up Nazi sympathizers in the US. They did it for free! Back when fascism was bad... https://allthatsinteresting.com/meyer-lansky-punch-a-nazi

32points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

#46

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL A missing DJ’s body was found nearly mummified within the walls of a bar soon after Winnipeg instituted a no smoking in bars law. Before the ban, the smell of cigarette smoke covered up the smell of his decomposing body.

Polohorsesnpiff Report

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23points

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

I find this very hard to believe... I have smelt a dead rat in the wall... it STINKS!!! Cigarette smokes reeks.... but more than a decaying body????

26points

#47

30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Bangladesh, the 8th largest country in the world (population of 170 million), is the most populated country to have never won an Olympic medal.

MaziicM Report

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23points

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Andy Acceber 3 years ago

To be fair, they've only participated in 10 Olympics and sent a grand total of 49 athletes to all those Olympics combined. Russia, the 9th most populous country, has sent 333 athletes this year alone.

29points