50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared

You learn something new every day. And you don't even have to attend a class to do so. You might learn something by accident, through a friend, in a book or on the internet. It could be a recipe, a new route to work, a word you never knew before, a fun fact, or a complex skill. We can keep learning throughout our lives. And as we do, our brain grows. It's a process called brain plasticity. But in order for that growth to occur, we have to exercise and train our brain. As if it were a muscle.

The Today I Learned community has 38 million members. It's a mind gym for anyone obsessed with gaining more knowledge about the world around them. Every day, people post the most interesting and intriguing facts they happened to stumble across. Bored Panda has gathered our personal favorites. From a student who got full marks for handing in a blank essay, to some lesser known truths about famous people, there's bound to be something here that you might want to share at the dinner table tonight. Don't forget to upvote your favorites, and let us know what you learned today.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared In 1972 Canada had a contest to complete the saying "As Canadian as..." The winner was Heather Scott who answered "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 weeks ago

As Canadian as an angry goose harassing a sorry moose.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared In Japan, only 100% fruit juice can display a realistic cut fruit on the label, 95% may display a whole but unsliced fruit. 5% or less, it is forbidden to display a realistic fruit on the label.

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leendadll 2 weeks ago

They also have strict requirements about fast food looking like the adverts.. none of the US-style thick fancy burgers that are actually smaller and sloppy.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared L Ron Hubbards Grandson is a renowned Slam Poet and activist against Scientology.

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Robin Roper 2 weeks ago

Good for him!

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In 2019, Eimi Haga handed a blank piece of paper to her professor and hoped for the best. The first year student had been asked to write an essay about a visit to the Ninja Museum of Igaryu. She was studying ninja history. Something she became hooked on after watching an animated TV show as a child.

The night before her essay was due, the 19-year-old spent hours soaking soy beans, crushing them and squeezing them in a cloth. Haga then took another two hours to mix the soybean extract with the right amount of water. Only after she had finished all of this, did she quickly jot down her essay, without giving much thought to the content.

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared In 2019 a Japanese University student studying ninja history turned in an essay written in invisible ink. The words only became visible when the paper was heated over a gas stove. Her professor without even revealing the whole essay gave her an A.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 weeks ago

Gross fact, a man can use his sperm as an invisible ink.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared After a boy in the 1930s found what looked like a "great lump of coal", his family used it as a doorstop for a decade until his dad had "a little look at it." This led to the realization it was the world's largest black sapphire. After being faceted, the Black Star of Queensland is 733 carats.

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"Disembodied voice" 2 weeks ago

See! That's why you should let me bring more rocks home

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared A Coca-Cola secretary offered to sell Coca-Cola trade secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola, and the secretary was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

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Thomas Grant 2 weeks ago

Says something when someone gets a longer sentance for trying to sell a recipe than some people get for some s*xual offences...

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“I wasn't really worried about getting a bad score for my essay,” Haga later told the BBC. It might seem like the student was cooking instead of paying attention to her homework. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. She’d managed to pull off the ultimate student ninja move, using a technique known as "aburidashi".

The essay was written in invisible ink, and the words only appeared when the paper was heated. Before handing it to her professor, she left a note in normal ink telling him to heat the paper. "When the professor said in class that he would give a high mark for creativity, I decided that I would make my essay stand out from others," she said.

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote their first single "Surfin'" for a high school music class and received an F for it. In 2018 the high school retroactively changed his grade to an A.

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Toothless Feline 2 weeks ago

Too little, too late…

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Sir Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji but changed his name and noticed an immediate uptick in job offers, from "We don't quite know how to place you" to "When can you start?"

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D. Pitbull 2 weeks ago

Still happens today... any name sounding "non-white" seems to get automatically chucked in the 'we'll look at that later' bin unless the role is specifically for that population (East Asian character: "Okay, we will look at East Asian names) Even worse with Voice Acting... I have quite literally zero Non-North American accent (I can't speak any Asian languages, at all) - yet... I've heard more than one casting director/assistant say "Yeah, we just heard a bit of... something..." Or... how my demos got a 500% increase in 'listened to' count within days of me changing my profile name to a 'stage name'. Or how I get shortlisted for LOTS of stuff... but they see my picture and... oh, gosh darnit, wouldn't you know, you're not quite right for this (Yes, I know lots of people experience this, it's just a little 'convenient' feeling).

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Japanese war criminal Hitoshi Imamura, believing that his sentence of 10 years imprisonment was too light, built a replica prison in his garden where he stayed until his death in 1968.

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Savahax 2 weeks ago

That honour only a few men poses. Not surprised it's from a Japanese man

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Her creativity paid off, earning her 100% without the professor even reading all of the essay. "I didn't hesitate to give the report full marks - even though I didn't read it to the very end because I thought I should leave some part of the paper unheated, in case the media would somehow find this and take a picture," said her professor, Yuji Yamada.

The student made world headlines with her magical essay, and put handwriting in the spotlight again. Her ninja move was so intriguing that she was featured on the "Today I Learned" subreddit.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Mark Ruffalo woke from a dream that told him he had a brain tumor. He got a CT scan the following day confirming he had a benign tumor behind his left ear. The tumor was removed, and he is deaf in that ear as a result of the surgery.

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Isaac Harvey 2 weeks ago

All that gamma radiation must have transcended into the real world.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared A man missing nearly 30 years was found alive and living just 80 miles away from where he disappeared after he helped solve his own disappearance by telling a social worker he had a flashback and remembered his name. He had reportedly suffered major memory loss due to a head injury.

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Hiram's Friend 2 weeks ago

That's his story and he's sticking to it!

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Early TV remotes worked with a spring-loaded hammer striking a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency, requiring no batteries.

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SkyBlueandBlack 2 weeks ago

They were called clickers.

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If we were to ask you to grab a (normal) pen and notebook right now, would you be able to? Possibly not. In a world where technology reigns supreme, it might have been a while since you wrote anything by hand. But did you know that it’s actually one of the best ways to learn? Researchers say there are several benefits to closing your laptop or ipad and putting pen to paper.

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The oral history of the Klamath indigenous people describes the eruption of a volcano and subsequent creation of Crater Lake in Oregon, events that geologists date to almost 8,000 years ago.

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UncleJohn3000 2 weeks ago

I've been there. The lake is so large that you can't see the far edge of the volcano's caldera. And the water was cold-cold.

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Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a bored summer intern named Wes Cherry. He received no royalties for his work despite it being among the most used Windows applications of all time.

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Blah Blah Blah 2 weeks ago

Booo to you Microsoft

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared That P.T. Barnum noticed people were lingering too long at his exhibits so he posted signs indicating "This Way to the Egress". Not knowing that "Egress" was another word for "Exit", people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit and ended up outside.

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Tucker Cahooter 2 weeks ago

Lucky they didn't sue him for emotional distress due to failure to see the Egress

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Whether we write or type, we have to use our hands to get words to appear on a page. But because handwriting is more complex, it supports learning more. A study published earlier this year found that “the precisely controlled hand movements when using a pen contribute extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote learning.”

Psychologist and co-author of the study Audrey van der Meer explained that handwriting is worlds apart from typing. "We don't see that [synchronized activity] in typewriting at all." She added that writing by hand is a "neurobiologically richer process" and that this in itself has cognitive benefits.

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Switzerland has accidentally invaded neighboring Liechtenstein several times. On one such occasion, the Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the Swiss soldiers, who declined and quickly departed.

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"Disembodied voice" 2 weeks ago

They also accidentally bombed Liechtenstein, but nobody was hurt and all was forgiven.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Tolkien and CS Lewis hated Disney, with Tolkien branding Walt's movies as “disgusting” and “hopelessly corrupted” and calling him a "cheat"

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Kira Okah 2 weeks ago

They hated that it was slapstick, low brow, and cutesying fairy tales. They loved the use of shadow, the movement of the animals, the actual talent behind it all, and that the scary bits were aptly scary; but thought that the cutesying of mythological creatures and adapting fairy stories without telling the entirety of their complex narrative was abhorrent.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Just 2 months after 9/11, another commercial airliner, American Airlines Flight 587, crashed into a NYC neighborhood in Queens after a critical mechanical/piloting failure just minutes after take off. 265 people were killed and several homes were completely destroyed.

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Mary 2 weeks ago

its not as commonly known because it was overshadowed by 9/11.

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Cognitive neuroscientist Marieke Longcamp agrees, saying that handwriting is one of the most complex motor skills our brains are capable of. While van der Meer adds that when you type something, you're not actually processing all the information the way you would when you write it down by hand.

You might think taking notes by hand in a meeting or class is tedious, and time-consuming. But that's exactly why it works. Van der Meer explains that because it takes longer, you're forced to process the information. You might write key words or phrases and use drawings or arrows to work through ideas. "You make the information your own," she told NPR, and that helps it stick in the brain.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared "Tiffany Problem", where a historical or realistic fact is deemed anachronistic or unrealistic due to modern associations. Named after the name Tiffany, which is often considered a modern name but has medieval origins.

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Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago

Tiffany and Co. was founded in 1837, and Charles Tiffany didn't make his name up

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared While great apes can learn hundreds of sign-language words, they never ask questions.

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"Disembodied voice" 2 weeks ago

I mean, have you seen what we do to people that ask questions?

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In 1973 a British couple survived 117 days lost at sea on an inflatable raft after their boat sank when it was struck by a whale. They survived by "almost continually" bailing water out of their raft, while collecting rainwater & killing turtles, birds and fish with their bare hands for food.

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Robin Roper 2 weeks ago

As a teen, I read "Staying Alive" By Maurice and Madalyn Bailey. This book fascinated me and to this day, one of my favorite genres is "true adventure" and survivor books.

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Japan received its first female fighter pilot in 2018. She was inspired as a child by Top Gun but could not become a combat aviator until the JSDF began accepting female candidates in 2015.

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Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago

I've read that the first woman fighter pilot was one of Kemal Atatürk's adopted daughters, in the Turkish Air Force in the 1930s

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared The Double Rainbow guy was a prolific uploader and created thousands of videos. He also scheduled 15 years of uploads in advanced before he died, leaving his channel still active now 4 years after his death.

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Isaac Harvey 2 weeks ago (edited)

For those who are curious, I think his YouTube channel is Yosemitebear62, but I'm not 100% certain. Edit: a link to his channel is in a reply to this comment.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Male peacocks make fake mating sounds to make him seem more popular so females will mate with him.

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Savahax 2 weeks ago

Me too! 😁

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Auntriarch 2 weeks ago

Does it work though

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Dee Rutherford 2 weeks ago

🤣🤣😂🤣😂

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Dirk Daring 2 weeks ago

Why did I read that in Dr. Krieger's voice?

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Wetbeard the Pirate 2 weeks ago

So male peacocks are just middle schoolers?

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MaryHadaLittleLamb 2 weeks ago

"Listen, so many chicks dig me! Don't you want a piece of this, too?" 🤣

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Vix Spiderthrust 2 weeks ago

There's a joke in there about faking orgasms but it's late and I'm knackered

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Dekker451 2 weeks ago

All peacocks are male by definition. Peahens are the female of the two Peafowl species.

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hjfss5vrds 2 weeks ago

I can't believe the word "c***s" hasn't been censored!

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Timbob 2 weeks ago

Them, T H E M , dammit !

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Riley Quinn 2 weeks ago

Imagine what they're like on Tinder.

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SlothyK8 2 weeks ago

The Andrew Tate of the bird world....

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Richard Nichols 2 weeks ago (edited)

I don't understand what's meant by "fake" here. It's not very clear. If a real bird makes a sound really intended to attract mates, is that not logically a real mating sound?

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liz MacClain 2 weeks ago

The bird equivalent to a roofie

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Zaach 2 weeks ago

All peacocks are male

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B 2 weeks ago

I was kicked off a bus when I tried that...

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ravn 2 weeks ago

Assuming it results in mating, how is it a "fake" mating call?

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meow point1 2 weeks ago

I didn't know birds made sounds when they mated!

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kath morgan 2 weeks ago

Male peafowl.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared 'Zombie fires' are fires that burned during the summer, stay underground all winter long and pop up above the surface again in the spring.

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Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 2 weeks ago

Groundhog fires, if they see their shadow, go underground again and then we have a prophecy.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Iceberg Lettuce has a water content of 96%. This results in it having essentially no nutritional value and only trace amounts of vitamins and minerals.

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Robin Roper 2 weeks ago

Many vegetables and fruits have very high water content. For lettuces, the vitamins are in the dark leaves; iceberg has very little dark green thus, low in vitamins; still it has a decent amount of Vitamin A, Vitamin K, and folate. It's a place to start to get someone who doesn't want to eat vegetables to give something a try.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Medieval European cuisine used to be more complex and flavorful. However, once spice became cheap and readily available to the poor, the elites started taking spices out of European cooking as they didn't want to be associated with the poor. This trend had lasting effects on European cuisine.

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Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago

Europeans originally went looking for spices to make rotten food tolerable. It makes sense that serving bland food would show you can afford fresh ingredients

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Polio is one of only two diseases currently the subject of a global eradication program, the other being Guinea worm disease. So far, the only diseases completely eradicated by humankind are smallpox, declared eradicated in 1980, and rinderpest, declared eradicated in 2011.

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Elchinero 2 weeks ago

An anti-vaxer alert

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared In 1958, Burma-Shave offered a "free trip to Mars" for sending in 900 empty jars. A grocery store manager, Arliss French, took it literally and collected all 900. To save face, Burma-Shave sent him, fully dressed as an astronaut, to Moers, Germany (of which they felt was pronounced Mars).

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Isaac Harvey 2 weeks ago

So... the Wish version of Mars?

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The first Sony Walkman had two headphone jacks so you could share it with someone else as they thought it would be considered rude to listen by yourself. This feature was removed as no one used it.

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Savahax 2 weeks ago

I remember how many times I sat with someone each listening to 1 side of the headphones though..

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After a lawyer complained that Cleveland Browns fans were throwing paper airplanes, their lawyer responded "Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters."

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Moltar 2 weeks ago

uncensored! ahh my freakin eyes!

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared In 2012, a California high school student was directed to urinate in a bucket in a supply room closet after a teacher mistakenly believed that bathroom breaks were not permitted. In 2017, a court ordered the school district to pay the student $1.25 million.

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Isaac Harvey 2 weeks ago

$1 million for a minute of abnormality? Is there a way to replicate those conditions?

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Matt Damon wanted The Bourne Conspiracy video game to be a puzzle game, and refused to lend his voice talent to the game when it was turned into a shooter.

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Savahax 2 weeks ago

TIL I like Matt Damon 👍🏻

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared According to a 2016 study, having a first-class section on an airplane quadruples the chances of an air rage incident. Furthermore, loading economy passengers through first class doubles the chances again.

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Mark Savoie 2 weeks ago

Correlation/causation

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared Due to their long association with humans, dogs have evolved the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet, which would be inadequate for other canid species.

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Emma London 2 weeks ago

Unlike cats, who were domesticated for killing mice, meaning that they provided their own food and adaptation to live off the same food that humans ate was not needed.

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared The Notre Dame fire disaster was made worse because a guard was sent to investigate, but to the wrong location where he found no fire. The alarm system was not designed to automatically notify the fire brigade.

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Tucker Cahooter 2 weeks ago

He mistakenly went to the cathedral next door

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No child with type I diabetes survived until adulthood before 1922.

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Midwest Mike 2 weeks ago

AND YET!!! INSULIN SHOULD BE FREE!!!! Having been an Insulin Dependent Human being since 9 years old. I in the U.S.A.....the Weathest Country in the World...I live paycheck to paycheck on something THAT SHOULD BE FREE!!!!! or at least low cost.... https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/55/insulin-should-be-free-yes-free/

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Before the breakup, AT&T didn't allow customers to use phones made by other companies, claiming using them would degrade the network.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 weeks ago

They also wouldn't sell phones. Customers had to rent them.

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Senior citizen Emerich Juettner eluded the US Secret Service for 10 years while he used just enough poorly created counterfeit $1 bills (one version misspelled Washington) to support himself & his dog. He only used fake $1 bills one at a time & never to the same place twice. He'd serve 4 months.

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Stephanie Did It 2 weeks ago

Per Wikipedia, he only used his funny money a dollar at a time, and never in the same place twice so that his victims never suffered the loss of more than a dollar. Hence, Juettner was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, plus a one-dollar fine that elicited laughter from those inside the courtroom. No mention is made of his serving only 4 months of his sentence, at least from that source.

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When Elton John married his wife Renate Blauel in 1984, Rod Stewart sent a wedding telegram that read "You may still be standing but we're all on the f**king floor".

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Dzessa Golden 2 weeks ago

Meaning…?

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50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared George Washington was unusually tall (6'2") and quite strong, and never wore a powdered wig.

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Tabitha 2 weeks ago

The tall gene ran in his family and he had the benefit of being rich and eating a healthy diet. My Slovene grandparents came to the US in 1909-1910. They were both barely 5 feet tall (grandma was about 4’10” and grandpa was around 5’2”). Their son, my father, ended up being 6 feet 1 inch tall, and their daughter, my aunt, was 5 feet 6 inches tall (tall for a woman in the 1930s). The tall gene was always there, but it just wasn’t being fed while my grandparents were living as Eastern European peasants back when Slovenia was part of Austria-Hungary under the Hapsburgs monarchy.

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Following Michael Jackson's death, his sister discovered two hard disks at her brother's home that contained more than 100 unreleased songs, many of which were unregistered. In 2010, Sony signed a deal with Jackson's estate to release 10 posthumous albums, but only 3 were ever released.

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martymcmatrix 2 weeks ago

Three-hee...🕴🏽

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The end of the Stone Age to the present represents only around 0.7% of human history.

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Kira Okah 2 weeks ago

The evolution of Homo sapiens has evidence dating to nearly 300,000 years ago, from a fossil of remains discovered at the site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco.

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A 2022 study proposed that Bruce Lee may have died from hyponatraemia - a low concentration of sodium in blood, which is caused by excessive water intake. At the time of his death, Lee had reportedly been existing on a near-liquid diet of mostly juices.

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Kira Okah 2 weeks ago

Well, he died of cerebral edema (liquid in the brain), hyponatraemia is a known cause of cerebral edema.

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A basketball player, Boban Janković, frustrated with his fifth foul, slammed his head into a padded concrete post, leaving him unable to walk for the rest of his life.

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Savahax 2 weeks ago

Here's the video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wjfxCmXdo&pp=ygUPQm9iYW4gSmFua292acSH

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In 1952 a doctor in France released a deadly virus to kill rabbits on his estate, which then killed 90% of France's rabbits within two years.

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Kira Okah 2 weeks ago (edited)

Is this about Myxo? Just checked OP, yeah, it's Myxo. Myxomatosis, a natural mild illness of the Brazilian and Brush rabbits of the Americas, it was widely used as a biological European rabbit control in the 1950s, to devastating results. It's very widely studied because of this. Because it can be spread by contact and by fleas, an infected rabbit can spread it across, well, a whole country, hundreds of millions of rabbits. In places where it was released (or spread to, rabbits don't follow country borders), over 90% population death occurred, and the survivors are all immune to it - and also carriers, which is why in countries with Myxo, you shouldn't mix wild rabbits and domestic rabbits (domestic rabbits are domesticated European rabbits and they will suffer immensely before dying). Erm...another thing that I did a paper on after seeing some sick rabbits in a rescue centre, they were mixing wild and domestic rabbits in the same enclosure.

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Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that sank in 2012, resulting in the death of 32 people, had been carrying a large amount of mafia-owned cocaine when it sank and traces of it were found in Captain Francesco Schettino's hair samples.

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Kira Okah 2 weeks ago

Likely knowledge of the d***s was not known to the captain, or any of the senior officers, but it would have taken the complicity of at least one crew member. The particular mafia group that hid the d***s aboard is known for hiding d***s aboard cruise ships without senior officer knowledge. Note: traces in hair samples /= traces in the hair strands themselves - the strands and his urine tested negative, n evidence that he had taken any d***s.

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Hippos can defecate into rivers so much that their feces builds up and kills fish through hypoxia, or lack of oxygen. In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos poop out more than 9 tons of dung each day. Hippo feces also leaves behind chemicals such as ammonium and sulfide, which is harmful to fish.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 weeks ago

There are around 400 hippos living wild in South America, descendants of hippos that were kept in Pablo Escobars private zoo and later let loose.

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If your SSN was issued before 2011 it reveals where you lived when you got your number. The first 3 digits correspond to a specific state.

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Midwest Mike 2 weeks ago

and if you are "THE OLD" in the United States....you may be like myself that LITERALLY your Social Security Number was listed as and printed on your "College ID" because....hey this is normal and will never be weird or a problem. So I by age 19 learned my Social Security Number number by age 19 since it was used even for my College Food ID....nope...was never going to be a horror show in the future....!!!!

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The burial sites in Medina and Mecca for the Prophet Muhammad's family members were destroyed to make room for the Hajj pilgrimages.

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Andy 2 weeks ago (edited)

In many cases it was also due to the rise of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia. Preserving or celebrating structures and sites related to Muhammad, his family and the founders of Islam were seen as heretical and idolatrous in their eyes.

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Sand Ers 2 weeks ago

Why do I always start on these long lists right when I should be going to bed?

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WindySwede 2 weeks ago

Same here now..

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Lord of the laserprinter. 2 weeks ago

Is it just me or has anybody else the problem of BP being “jumpy” and “crashy” and generally being a PITA on a mobile?

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Cat Chat 2 weeks ago

You're not alone. On my phone, when trying to type in a comment/reply box, the keyboard glitches on/off the screen. It only happens on BP.

Philly Bob Squires 2 weeks ago

I can't get the app to work on my Galaxy S24. I can see my stats, my info etc but when I go to articles, it's just blank. my S23 did it as well. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it, cleared the cache etc. Nada. So I'm always on the desktop.

I’m on an iPad, and I’ve had it spontaneously reload a few times. Not more than once or twice a day. Enough to be slightly annoying, but not enough to interfere with readability.

CertifiedCatServant (he/him) 2 weeks ago

YES (I kid you not the page reloaded itself AS I was trying to reply to your comment) my phone has recently gotten very hot when on BP, and I have also noticed that pages are glitchy and that the web pages reload themselves frequently without input from me.

Jumping Jellyfishes 2 weeks ago

Articles like these are getting fewer and far between :(

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