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50 Facts People Just Learned That Are So Awesome They Had To Share (New Pics)
Interview With Expert
Albert Einstein once said that “intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death,” reminding us of the importance of learning and improving throughout our lives. However, with millions of things going on daily, it can be hard to reserve some time to educate ourselves on something new.
To help with that, we have a list of fresh facts from the ‘Today I Learned’ subreddit. They’re guaranteed to pique your curiosity and who knows, they may even lead you to a rabbit hole of new knowledge. To find these amazing facts, all you have to do is scroll down!
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with mindset psychologist Dr. Rebekah Wanic, who kindly agreed to share a few tips on how to find motivation for learning.
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#1
TIL in 2005, three lions rescued a girl of 12 kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and protecting her until she was rescued by Ethiopian police.
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
I hope they have a lot of pride about what they did. (I'm so, so sorry.)
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 9 months ago
They were lionesses. They were looking out for a sister even though she was a different species.
Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
It was theorized that the girls high-pitched screams resembled those of a cub in trouble, and the mama genes clicked in.
Rebecca O’Donnell 9 months ago
One theory was the child’s crying sounded a lot like a cub mewling.
Grm Moore 9 months ago
However, lion experts doubted the credibility of the story. BBC News quoted a few wildlife experts on the same report. They said the lions were probably preparing to eat the girl but were intercepted by the police and others
Angela Corvaia 8 months ago
Try this....https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8305836... I am sure there are many more stories from many more girls/women even worse than this. Yeah Lions!
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#2
TIL that in the Pirahã language, speakers must use a suffix that indicates the source of their information: hearsay, circumstantial evidence, personal observation, etc. They cannot be ambiguous about the evidentiality of their utterances.
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago (edited)
This would be a great idea for the rest of us. It would be the kiss of death for Instagram, but good for society as a whole.
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
As a fair witness I can say unequivocally that the house on that hill is blue on the side I can see from here.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Every news broadcaster should be connected to a lie detector with a red graph that goes high on the side of the screen when they are telling a lie.
nottheactualphoto 9 months ago
It's a shame that there is no such thing as a lie detector.
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Billo66 9 months ago (edited)
They think it through before they speak, and can site the source. Why does it amaze me that there are people left who use advanced critical thinking, and common courtesy? Are any of these folks available to come over (USA) and train our leaders? Or build new ones. Anyone? Please? Edit: I type as if I've had a stroke.
Binky Melnik 8 months ago
And yet people call others who speak another language “uncivilized.” This seems to me to be one of the most civilized things I’ve ever heard!
PFD 9 months ago
There are three relevant suffixes. These mark ‘hearsay’ (someone told you about you are saying); ‘deduction’ (you see the evidence, but did not see the act) and ‘direct observation’. That's the claim, anyway. (There are *very* few Piraha speakers and the Piraha themselves are supposedly 100% monolingual.)
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Donald "the dope" Trump was forced to do that
#3
TIL that George Washington ordered smallpox inoculation for all troops during the American Revolution. “we have more to dread from it than from the sword of the enemy.”
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
Lucky for them there wasn't the facility in those days for them to "do their own research"
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
It looks like RFK jr . is going to push us back more than 300 years. But what the hell I'm sure dark ages medicine worked as long as all you expected was to DIE
Danni 9 months ago
I don't know who would downvote this. You are absolutely right. Bringing back measles, tuberculosis and polio. Terrifying times.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 8 months ago
An intelligent President? What a f*cking concept. (Yes, he was a General then, but still).
Marvin Radding 8 months ago
The first smallpox incoculation was in 1796 by a man who was a friend of Jenner who is credited with discovering it.
Rich Black 8 months ago
Smallpox vaccine was invented in 1796 by Edward Jenner. You are misinformed.
superfluous 9 months ago
Read this - https://health.mil/News/Articles/2021/08/16/Gen-George-Washington-Ordered-Smallpox-Inoculations-for-All-Troops. They in innoculated in 1777 with variola. Most English troops were immune. ~ 90% of deaths in the Continental Army were caused by disease, with smallpox variants being the lead.
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But before we dive into the expert's recommendations, we first have to understand how motivation works in order to harness it.
#4
TIL Marie Curie had an affair with an already married physicist. Letters from the affair leaked causing public outrage. The Nobel Committee pressured her to not attend her 2nd Nobel Prize ceremony. Einstein told Marie to ignore the haters, and she attended the ceremony to claim her prize.
TheReader19 9 months ago
Why is it always the women who bare the brunt of the hate and distain when two adults are having an affair. Do they force the men to cheat on their wives?
LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
Do you really need an answer to that? The women are always bearing the blame because...they are women. That's it, that's all that's required to be found guilty. At least, according to a culture formed from centuries of misogyny.
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glowworm2 9 months ago (edited)
Just to make things clearer, Marie Currie was a widow by then, so she wasn't cheating on her husband. However, she was having an affair with a younger married man (she was five years older than him) who had been a student of her late husband, Paul Langevin. He was already estranged from his wife by then. Their respective grandchildren, grandson Michel Langevin and granddaughter Hélène Langevin-Joliot married one another.
WonderWoman 9 months ago
A married physicist had an affair with Marie Curie but suffered no public outrage.
Dakin Seligman 9 months ago
Having an affair is a national past time in France. Her mistake was that she wasn't discrete. Brilliant woman who didn't had about what other people thought. What an inspiration!
Andie Day 9 months ago
Technically, she wasn't even the one doing the cheating, her husband was already dead by then and the married man, Paul Langevin was in an estranged relationship with his own wife. This was probably the final nail in the coffin for his marriage. I think the main thing that was scandalous was that Currie was 5 years older than Just to make things clearer, Marie Currie was a widow by then, . The affair with a younger married man (she was five years older than him) who had been a student of her late husband. Their respective grandchildren, grandson Michel Langevin and granddaughter Hélène Langevin-Joliot married one another. Messy copy paste to the top so the facts remain clear.
Auntriarch 9 months ago (edited)
Radiantly so... Is there room on the naughty step for me as well Bob?
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Michael Largey 9 months ago
I would have wanted her to come to the Nobel ceremony but would have prefered not to sit close to her.
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#5
TIL that Sweden has a "sourdough hotel" where people can deposit their sourdough starters to be fed and cared for while they are on vacation.
LinkTheHylian 9 months ago
"Ernest has had a busy day today! We played frisbee, went rollerskating, then to the park for a picnic. Admittedly that was a bad idea with all the birds around, but he's safe!"
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 9 months ago
The interview:So, how does your hotel work? It’s pretty simple. You can check in your dough 24/7, since we are staffed all hours of the day. During its stay, your dough will be fed regularly with an organic flour of your choice and water, which we then blend into the dough. I guess you can call it a massage! We will also make sure to keep the dough at a good temperature and dispose of the extra dough it will produce in order to keep it in the original size you left it in.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 9 months ago
Have you actually had any human hotel guests yet? Nope. But we got an email from a woman asking if she could not only check in her sourdough but also her doughy husband. She asked us if we could make him fitter. It was strange. 😄
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Panda Kicki 9 months ago
It isnt common, but Stockholm do have one for the hipster daddies and similar 😁
#6
TIL that Coldplay has never had any lineup changes or used Touring musicians. It's been the same 4 guys playing and touring together since the inception of the band, almost 30 years ago
Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
The German band Rammstein have had an unchanged line-up for more than 30 years.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
I saw them in...2006? Which didn't feel that long ago, but guess it was.
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Gavin Johnson 9 months ago
I’ve been on the planet just over 50 years, I’ve managed to avoid seeing them live for the whole time, this is something I aim to take all the way to my grave.
"Motivation is the drive state fueled by internal or external factors that compel us to take action," explained Dr. Wanic.
When we are internally driven to do something, meaning that a specific activity is so exciting and interesting, we don't need additional stimuli to perform it, it's called intrinsic motivation. It comes from our inner desire to accomplish a goal.
#7
TIL that to persuade his first wife to accept a divorce, Einstein promised her the entire financial reward from his Nobel Prize. Three years later, he won the prize and transferred all the money to her.
TheReader19 9 months ago
So he should, she contributed massively to his success, he was a highly intelligent man, a decent human being who guess lectured at segregated universities. But he was a terrible husband.
David 9 months ago
you are talking about a man the Princeton police once did a missing person search for because he went of a walk got lost in though and wandered miles away. He also had trouble reading people or understanding social cues. Today he would be diagnosed on the spectrum.
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PrettyJoyBird 9 months ago
Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was worth 121,572 Swedish kronor (SEK) at the time, which is roughly equivalent to $215,856.85 in today's money. (I cant figure out how to paste link references)
Zaach 9 months ago
His wife of the time was deeply involved in Einstein's research but has been ignored
Definitely a Human 8 months ago
Sad that he needed to pay her to leave rather than her just accept that he didn't want to be with her
#8
TIL that when Stalin was dying, his doctor was unavailable because he was being tortured by the secret police. Paralyzed and unable to speak, Stalin lay untreated for 12 h while his terrified subordinates debated calling a doctor, fearing he might recover and punish them for acting without orders.
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
In case you are wondering, that is Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the secret police at the time
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago (edited)
I have always found this event to have been... delightful!
Chewie Baron 9 months ago
If you can, watch the brilliant film ‘The Death Of Stalin’ directed by Armando Iannucci. It’s brilliantly written, as well as being hilarious.
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
Dilemmas of living in a dictatorship: "The dictator's dead!" "Who's going to tell him?"
Judes 9 months ago
It's Lavrentiy Beria a secret police chief, although I don't know if he's the one who did the torturing mentioned in the above story.
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Jrog 9 months ago
Stalin had a... complicated relationship with doctors. From his rise to power to his death, he had several doctors assassinated. Stalin withold medical care to Lenin on his death bed in order to seize power, and was fearful someone could do the same to him. In 1927 he met with Dr. Vladimir Bechterev, a famous neurologist. The good doctor came out of the meeting thinking Stalin was suffering from paranoia and delusions. His own assistant reported this to Stalin's men, and Bechterev was dead less than 48 hours after the meeting. In 1941 Stalin had dr. Dmitry Dmitriyevich Pletnyov, who was Lenin's doctor and a world leading cardiologist, assassinated by firing squad on made up charges for being the cause for Maxim Gorky's death. [continues]
Jrog 9 months ago
In 1951 he had Yakov Gilyarievich Etinger tortured and killed for "refusing to disclose" a non-existant plot of Jewish healthcare professionals. Many other doctors (Miron Semyonovich Vovsi, Mikhail Borisovich Kogan and his father Boris, along with 37 other high ranking healthcare officials) were arrested and either imprisoned or executed on fake charges. In 1952 he arrested Dr. Vladimir Vinogradov in connection to the fake plot, and had him repeatedly tortured until the following year, when Stalin died from consequences of a stroke.
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Deta Rossiter 9 months ago
if only people would learn from history, but then again, we all have learnt that history always repeats itself
#9
TIL that Abraham Lincoln once captivated reporters with a speech so riveting that the audience stopped taking notes and we have no record of what he said! It has since been known as "Lincoln's Lost Speech"
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
That , and , "I'll never forget this, so I don't have to write it down"
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Jen M 9 months ago
Like if it was recorded? There were no recording devices back then. The only possible record would be if someone took hand written notes. This fact states that the speech was so riveting, that everyone stopped writing to just listen to the importance of whatever amazing or revolutionary topic he was speaking about. Thats why no notes were kept, because none were taken. And no copies could be made, because no written record of his speech ever existed to begin with.
Load More Replies...We could also be encouraged to perform something by external factors, like having a reward (a sweet) after achieving something (reading a chapter of a book). This is called extrinsic motivation, which over time can turn into internal motivation, if used in moderation, of course.
Neither type of motivation is better than the other—they both play a crucial role in the learning process.
#10
TIL Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, was an elite runner who nearly qualified for the Olympic marathon with a time of 2 hours 46 minutes—averaging an impressive 6:20 per mile
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Soon to be returned to in the Trump/Republican/Christian/F*****t USA.
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TheReader19 9 months ago
Poor Alan's treatment at the hands of the authorities was appalling. The UK owes him an unrepayable debt for what he achieved during the war.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Unfortunately, after every war is safely over, the countries involved remember how the Pied Piper got paid off... "that was then, this is now" gets repeated again and again ...
Load More Replies... Nimitz 9 months ago (edited)
Lots of us gays got good at running. We had to as kids to survive the hetero kids in class that decided to be a*****e
fly on the wall 9 months ago
I am so sorry to hear that. I encouraged my son to take martial arts, but he had fantastic people skills and managed to get everyone to at least like him
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Robert Cosgrove 9 months ago
More than ostracised. He was chemically castrated as alternative to prison. This was done to a man who was a war hero.
Cydney Golden 8 months ago
Eventually unalived himself over the government t*****e for his homosexuality.
#11
TIL that "Disaster Girl" Zoe Roth, who was 4 in the meme photo, sold an NFT of the pic in 2021 for a little under a half million dollars. She used the $ to pay off student loans after earning a BA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Armac 9 months ago
I like that "Disaster Girl" has a BA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.
#12
TIL that the rapture, the evangelical belief that Christians will physically ascend to meet Jesus in the sky, is an idea that only dates to the 1830s.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago (edited)
The Thessalonians verse that is often cited for the rapture is more likely an historical allusion to a victorious, returning King. The people go out (are called up) to meet the King and they then return with the King not to some distant, other realm, but to their home city. The idea being that when Christ returns victorious, we welcome his return and then we, with him, come home to a fully redeemed earth. That's the whole idea of "on earth as it is in heaven."
Binky Melnik 8 months ago (edited)
I just watched a movie (“Heretic” with Hugh … cute guy from “Notting Hill”) and we were told that the whole Christ story was a retelling of other stories that were a thousand or more years old. Can you tell me whether that’s true or made up for the movie? If true, I’ll be terribly sad for all the believers. (Why can’t I cough up his last name? Argh.) ETA: it’s in a post below! High Grant! Yahoo!
Load More Replies... Nimitz 9 months ago (edited)
The insane selfishness of this belief is why so many bad things are happening. Having survived the indoctrination it's insane my family members still believe this. They actively hope the world gets worse and worse until a great cataclysm happens (world war III). Then Jesus will come back and usher all the true believers (evangelical Christians ONLY) directly to heaven, leaving behind a ruined earth beset by plagues, droughts, famine, war, and waves of tortured death. And then everyone left on earth will spend eternity in hell, being tortured for all time. I have heard my own family members talk about how they "Hope it happens soon!" Imagine being so selfish you hope for the lives of everyone else on the planet to be as horrible as possible, just so you can get a reward you were expecting to get anyway.
CatD 8 months ago
I remember seeing people being interviewed by reporters after one of Trump's 2016 rallys asking them why they would vote for him. One little old woman said she thought he was the antichrist and would bring on the end times if he was elected. She wanted that.🤦
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 9 months ago
All of the religious writing of every religion are made up by men. Many probably ate the wrong mushrooms.
Billo66 9 months ago
My mom assured me when I was young this would happen in our lifetime because they shoved armageddon down our throat too so I was terrified. Well Mom, your 80 and won't get out of bed and I'm 60 with Cancer and still terrified. What's up?
Billo66 9 months ago
I can confirm he answers prayer though. I have repeatedly been told no, so theres that.
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Sky Render 9 months ago
All surviving religious ideas have their roots in the disconcertingly recent past. There is no faith in any sort of widespread practice today that is more than 5,000 years old (most of them are less than 3,000 years old). Homo sapiens have been around for over 300,000 years. Every religion in existence today has been around for less than 2% of the time that humans have been a distinct species.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
True, Zoroastrianism has only been around since the Avestan period.
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Alan Jay Weiner 9 months ago
It's already happened. All the good Christians ascended. We're left with the rest.
Load More Replies... Jaya 9 months ago
So many things that people think have been around for many decades, are actually quite new. It's strange to see how heated the debates can get, about how something isn't allowed to change because it's "been like that forever" when it's actually only 1 or 2 decades old, or even just a couple of decades.
"Motivation is crucial for learning because it determines the level of engagement, persistence, and effort put into a task," explained Dr. Wanic.
"The more motivated, the more likely people are to continue to put in effort, even when they face challenges. It helps learners push through when energy wanes, stay consistent and practice regularly, and can even increase enjoyment of the learning process."
#13
TIL An estimated 750,000 chocolate sprinkle and butter sandwiches (Hagelslag) are eaten each day in the Netherlands
glowworm2 9 months ago
At first I thought those sprinkles in the photo were bugs and became very concerned.
LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
TIL such a sandwich existed. It's now been added to my knowledge of rainbow sprinkles on buttered bread. 👍
Samantha Smith 9 months ago
In Australia, buttered bread with rainbow sprinkles is known as ‘fairy bread’ and is an absolute staple at kids parties. I had it at my parties in the 80’s and still give it to my young kids today!
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Jaya 9 months ago
It's no different than just a piece of bread with chocolate spread or nutella. It's not healthy bread topping of course, but no different than eating a cookie. And if the number in the post is correct, it would mean each person eats 1 per 22 days.
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Otto Katz 9 months ago
I used to eat butter and peanutbutter sandwiches growing up. Very good.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 9 months ago
I'm eating one as I read this. Whole-grain bread though, because I'm, you know, healthy ...
Patricia Steward 9 months ago
I hope the Netherlands sprinkles have more flavor than the American ones.
Verena 9 months ago
It is chocolate on bread. Like nutella. The butter i necessary to stop them from falling off, and butter or margarine on bread is pretty much standard in Europe.
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#14
TIL that Dmitri Mendeleev, who is credited with creating the Periodic Table of Elements was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry 9 times but never won. His awarding was blocked each time by the 1903 winner, Svante Arrhenius, who held a grudge against Mendeleev for criticizing one of his papers.
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
It doesn't say much for the integrity of the Nobel Foundation at the time.
Vikingpanda 9 months ago
Mendeleev was a very interesting person worth reading up on. One of my favorite facts about him is that he was also a proponent of women's education and supported female students in his classes.
Robin Roper 9 months ago
Svante Arrhenius was the first scientist who connected increases in carbon in the atmosphere with increases in the surface temperature of Earth. He also served as Director of the Nobel Institute from 1905 until his death in 1927. That's why he was able to block Mendeleev nomination.
Chewie Baron 9 months ago
Mendeleev also came up with the periodic table so future students, scientists etc wouldn’t have to learn all the elements, yet what do you have to do in University if you’re a sciences student? Yes, that’s right! Learn the periodic table!
Caroline Nagel 9 months ago
I know who Mendeleev is, but I have no idea who SvanteArrhenius is.
Cuppa tea? 9 months ago
Mendeleev created the table, so people won't have to memorize the elements properties. Now we have to memorize the WHOLE TABLE.
#15
TIL that gorillas fart almost nonstop due to their fibrous diet
lisa_l_ross58 9 months ago
I am a whole foods vegan and fortunately do not have this problem. Maybe it depends on a person's gut microbiome
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That's probably how the sounds effects people got the sounds for the campfire scene in "Blazing Saddles"
However, our motivation can be fragile and susceptible to many factors that can hinder it. "There are many factors that can reduce motivation, including lack of perceived interest in the material, lack of confidence in one's ability to accomplish the task, and feeling time constraints," said Dr. Wanic.
#16
TIL Hans Zimmer had trouble timing the score for Jack Sparrow and Will Turner's fight in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl," until an assistant making coffee asked to be given a shot, and that's how Ramin Djawadi ("Game of Thrones," "Iron Man," "Pacific Rim") got his career.
David 9 months ago
the "assistant" was an intern, who has a music degree and the industry internships worked that you worked under someone for 2-3 years just observing and watching before you got a shot at creating your own. He was a intern, not an assistant, and did more than make coffee, this is demeaning to him
keyboardtek 9 months ago
All the big film composers do these days is come up with the basic themes. That all have a staff of composers and arrangers who flesh out the actual music. They do not usually receive any credit. One of my customers when I repaired synthesizers told me of his working for Hans Zimmer where he was responsible for creating the actual scores for the orchestra players.
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OneHappyPuppy 9 months ago
Ramin Djawadi did the intro of Prison break as well if I'm not mistaken? It was also good. I saw a meme about the intro of GoT and how good it was, Googled it and saw it was done by him. So naturally I listened to the intro and then subsequently watched the show. Except season 8 (and as I'm now aware that was an excellent choice)
cj be like 8 months ago (edited)
just started watching prison break a few weeks ago actually. no spoilers but does it get bad around then?
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TIL that all 7,000 corporate employees at Costco's headquarters are assigned cubicles. The CEO's cubicle is slightly larger than the others.
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
All cubicles have a window. It's just the view that varies.
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Alan Jay Weiner 9 months ago
I despise cubicles with a passion. I write software. When I'm "in the zone" I'm at peak performance. I'm juggling dozens of things in my head as I code away. One place I worked when a support call came in *all* the phones rang. One time I was cranking out code when a support call came in. All those thoughts just fell to the floor as my brain ground to a halt. I screamed a rather naughty word and walked out. Spent about an hour walking outside in the parking lot before I went back in. I want an office with a door I can close.
ShadySlytherin 8 months ago
Or just get some earplugs or headphones, like a normal human being? Adapt, bro
Load More Replies... Nimitz 9 months ago (edited)
As someone who has worked in cubicles and open offices, this is just another thing that makes Costco an amazing and considerate employer. Cubicles are amazing. Not being constantly distracted by movement and chatter around you, not having everyone think you're available to answer questions just because you're at your desk. Cubicles are amazing. Especially now that apps like Slack are common. If someone needs you, they can email you or ping you on Slack. Also, I NEVER got sick in cubicle offices. In open offices, I'm sick every other month. They also absorb a lot of sound so you can just quietly focus on your work. Cubicles are amazing!
nottheactualphoto 9 months ago
Cubicles don't block out the sound of my esteemed colleagues shouting at each other about football.
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TheReader19 9 months ago
I'm not sure how to feel about, coming from a culture that has open plan offices but not cubicles.
#18
TIL that in 1989, a man bought a painting for $4 at a flea market and discovered an original copy of the Declaration of Independence hidden behind it.
Minecraft_Chicken (He/Chicken) 9 months ago
Think how much faster the National Treasure movie would have been.
Marie Clear 9 months ago
After the document was signed with original signatures, 200 or so copies were made by John Dunlap on July 4, 1776, and they were called the Dunlap Broadsides. So Dunlap was the original printer of the declaration, and his copies were the ones officially distributed around the country. There have been many other copies made since then, obviously, but Dunlap made the original copies, aka the first copies. Also, FYI, that $4 flea market purchase was later sold for $7 million. Excuse me now, while I attend to my garage sale schedule.
Otto Katz 9 months ago
I tink this is what the orange monster has hanging now in the oval office. He does not have the original, like some people think. He has one of these.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 9 months ago
Oh, I saw a lot of those when I backpacked in Asia. All original copies of Adidos, Timbaland and Pooma. Much original, very quality, cheap price my friend.
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Svenne O'Lotta 9 months ago
Well no, it just means it's something of which duplicates exist.
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"Additionally, one's mindset has an important impact—if you view challenge as an important part of learning and growth, you will be more likely to be motivated and see pushing through as a valuable behavior in achieving your long-term goals," she noted. "If you view challenge as something that prevents you from getting what you want, then your motivation will be hindered."
#19
TIL that the children’s choir in “Another Brick in the Wall” was paid with a concert ticket, an album, and a single; their school received £1,000. Only 25 years later, after the copyright law changed and the choir members were tracked down, did they receive royalties.
Svenne O'Lotta 9 months ago
Maybe they did need that education so they could negotiate a better contract
LizzieBoredom 9 months ago (edited)
The singer, and composer on 'The Great Gig in the Sky' also had the sue for royalties, and a credit. Funnily enough, Pink Floyd gave royalties to Syd Barrett (original founder) until he died.
Definitely a Human 8 months ago
I don't understand how royalties work. Why should they still receive money for just performing a job once? Should the plumber who did all the work at a restaurant receive a percentage of all that restaurants profits? How is that any different?
Joots (shants/jorts) 8 months ago
I dont get it either, session musicians dont get royalties & more often then not they are much more talented than the band/artist.
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TIL UK teenager Olivia Farnsworth has a rare condition known as chromosome 6 deletion, which causes her to not feel hunger, pain, or a sense of danger. She is the only known person in the world who possesses all three of these symptoms together.
Joe Reaves 9 months ago
That must be terrifying for her parents, especially as she becomes a teenager and then a young adult. God knows most parents, especially of girls, feel enough concern when they head off to live on their own that someone might hurt them as it is. Imagine your child not feeling any sense of danger.
Neb 8 months ago (edited)
Actually, a bigger issue is when dealing with kid. If baby does not feel hunger? If toddler/kid does not feel the pain? Teen and adult can understand their condition and take care of themselves. There are some standard warnings, like not walk on the edge of rocks, or don't drink opened drink given by stranger. But baby not crying when sick or hungry; toddler falling down and getting injury, but not giving any reaction to parent is way worse.
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Lara Verne 9 months ago
I heard about people who don't feel pain - they're in constant danger. They get hurt or can have life-threatening condition and never notice it, because their bodies lack the way to warn them. Now this girl don't even feel fear or hunger.
Grm Moore 9 months ago
Olivia Farnsworth baffled doctors when she was hit by car and dragged down the street but walked away without shedding a tear. 'She's head-butted me, punched and kicked me and can have outbursts of swearing which can be embarrassing if we're out in public,' said Ms Trepak.
talliloo 9 months ago
my autistic child who is now 23 has sensory integration disorder (sid) which makes him not physically feel in a normal way. some light touches can be interpreted as being annoyingly painful whereas if he is seriously injured, he may not feel the pain. i.e., when he was 3 he fell back on his arm. noticed he was kind of favoring it so took him to e.r. dr decided that if he could take his arm out of the coat & sweater it was probably just sprained. took him home but something wasn't right. took him back & told dr i wasn't leaving until he was xrayed. film showed pretty bad break. dr was embarrassed & rightly so as he should have been xrayed the first time. if he has an accident he has learned to pay attention to what he is feeling. it's scary to be honest.
Julia Mckinney 9 months ago
My younger one has a similar issue. Not quite as strongly as your son but I still try to check on how she feels most days.
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 9 months ago
yeesh, i already know from experience that it's already pretty scary when you dont feel hunger, since you can get easily malnourished, but not feeling those three things must be terrifying
#21
TIL while voice actor Tara Strong was recording crying noises for her character Dill Pickles on Rugrats, the producers stopped her because her crying was so real that she made a woman in the studio lactate
CaliPanda 9 months ago
It’s not a “skill,” it’s a natural reaction. The sound of a baby crying stimulates the release of oxytocin in the brain, which helps to release breast milk.
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KnightOwl 9 months ago
I can do that too. When my sister's kids were babies I helped her a lot but she drives me crazy. Whenever she made me mad, I'd do my fake baby crying noise and the milk would pour (I also did this to help her at times when she was struggling to pump and her babies were asleep or at nursery etc.)
Cindy Brick 8 months ago
I remember being in a church service, just after having Daughter #2, and hearing a baby cry. Instant wet spots on my shirtfront. (Very embarrassing.)
After finding out what motivation is and what can interfere with it, we come to a point where we need to figure out how to find it in ourselves so we can start learning something new.
"Motivation to start learning starts with finding value in the outcome you seek to achieve. This will set the stage for viewing the learning tasks as important steps to gain abilities, skills, or new behaviors," said Dr. Wanic.
#22
TIL Isaac Newton was Master of the Mint in England for the last 30 years of his life. Although it was intended as an honorary title, he took it seriously—working to standardize coinage and crack down on counterfeits. He personally testified against some counterfeiters, leading to their hanging.
Yayheterogeneity 9 months ago
Sorry, non-native speaker here. What does "mavity" mean? Am I not getting some kind of joke?
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Jnausicaa 9 months ago
He also is credited by some with the invention of the cat door. And calculus.
CatD 8 months ago
Cat doors were around long before that. There's one in the 14th century Exeter cathedral.
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TIL IKEA’s founder, Ingvar Kamprad, had dyslexia, so he used Swedish names instead of numbers for products—making them easier to remember and now a signature part of the brand.
LinkTheHylian 9 months ago
"Doc, I have an obsession with buying IKEA furniture." "You have Stockholm Syndrome."
Panda Kicki 9 months ago
Well, Agunnaryd syndrom, Kamprad was never Stockholm based. The original IKEA has a cute museum on the history 😄
Load More Replies... Cj Churchall-McKenzie 8 months ago
or was it due to certain numbers being associated with the far right and ikea tries to hide the fact he is a n**i
#24
TIL that when Dan Shechtman discovered quasiperiodic crystals in 1982, he got mocked and shamed. Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling spoke of the discovery, saying "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." In 2011 Shechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery.
Jill Rhodry 9 months ago
Unfortunately Linus Pauling died in 1994 so Dan Shechtman was robbed of a really satisfying moment - yes, I'm that petty
Sally Moen 9 months ago
Now I gotta go look up quasicrystals They sound like something used in D&D games
Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
Except there’s lots of things science is sure about.
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"Building in small checkpoints and rewards along the way can keep you motivated, as you will have both short- and longer-term aims to help guide and sustain motivation," she advised. "This will also provide feedback on whether your methods are working and give you information about what you might want to change if you aren't seeing results with your current strategy."
#25
TIL Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–1944) believed she was a great opera singer despite being completely tone-deaf. She performed in extravagant costumes, including tinsel wings, and dismissed laughter as jealousy. Her famous quote: “People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.”
Pamina 9 months ago
There's a 2016 movie about her, with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, titled "Florence Foster Jenkins"
Jay Scales 9 months ago
I love that film - Simon Helberg is in it too as Cosmo Moon, her accompanist.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 9 months ago
She sounds like a kick. On a side note, I applaud each and every singer at karaoke, because hey they got up there in front of everybody and they tried. Even if they were awful, I applaud. Not everybody has the confidence to perform in front of others
Lara Verne 9 months ago
Nothing against madame Jenkins, but her singing reminds me of this guy: cacofonix-...6e27d4.jpg 
Willem Andries Oosterhof 9 months ago
Judge for yourself. Listen at your own risk.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcs9yJjVecs
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
There is nothing wrong with singing out loud even if you can't carry a tune in a bucket, but you should make sure that all the people within earshot won't mind your lack of talent. If you don't accept the criticism and boos
Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
I really relate to this lady. I can't carry a tune in a bucket but I do love to sing (although never in front of a crowd). One time in a bar a good song was playing and I was singing along fully believing that no one could hear me. My best friend turned to me and said "have you ever HEARD yourself sing"? When I quit laughing, I was quite insulted!
#26
TIL that ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' was nominated for 11 Oscars and won all of them, which makes it the largest sweep (winning awards in every nominated category) in Oscars history
Billo66 9 months ago
Every time I read "Today I Learned" I feel like I'm at the closing meeting at an inpatient rehab when everyone reads their journal lol
CaliPanda 9 months ago
Probably an unpopular opinion: “TIL” and “I was zero years old when I learned …” are useless and annoying. State your case, we don’t need to know that you didn’t know before.
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Sarah Suelzle 9 months ago
It’s not all battles! There are heart-wrenching and beautiful moments like: The peaceful simplicity of The Shire. Aragorn’s quiet strength in leadership and love story with Arwen. The bond between Frodo and Sam or Legolas and Gimli...I could go on for days! My point is some stories require patience, but the payoff is incredible. LOTR isn’t meant to be rushed—it’s meant to be experienced. Maybe give it another shot with an open mind. You might just see the magic in it.
Rich Black 8 months ago
And the Oscar for most orcs slaughtered in a cinematic battle goes to. .
Janice Sanz 8 months ago
I had no idea. The 2004 Academy Awards must have been seriously frustrating for other nominees.
Svenne O'Lotta 9 months ago
Yes, "all forms of culture are unnecessary garbage and functionally irrelevant to humanity as a whole" is definitely the thinking man's take. Well done on being so goshdarn smart, you absolute conehead
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TIL Vincent Van Gogh left art school shortly after an incident where he was assigned to draw the Venus de Milo and instead drew the nude torso of a peasant woman. When confronted by his teacher Van Gogh protested that a woman must have "hips, buttocks," and "a pelvis in which she can carry a baby."
Only Me 8 months ago
I don't think he's wrong here. Just his teacher, who couldn't look beyond the "square"
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#28
TIL Robert Kehoe discovered reports that the chemical benzidine caused bladder cancer. His client, DuPont, made benzidine. Instead of alerting the American public, Kehoe stuffed the report in a box. The moldy records were unearthed decades later when DuPont’s employees, stricken with cancer, sued.
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
This sort of thing is pretty much par for the course for any large corporation.
Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
And explains 'cancer clusters'. Our town back in the day dumped chemicals any and everywhere. Test wells all over the townships. When Chrysler took over, they had an entire landfill to cleanup and make less dangerous. People downslope from that area, toward the river, had to drink bottled water for a time, before they had new wells drilled on the company's dime.
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Tina Girard 9 months ago
And that, my dear friends, is why we have regulations. That, and Legal does not equal Ethical.
joseph legatt 9 months ago
In America today this is rapidly becoming "had" regulations.
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Chewie Baron 9 months ago
An ex boyfriend used to be a lawyer for DuPont. He got to live in Switzerland during his time with them.
Lowrider 56 9 months ago
I lived near a town that had a Dupont chemical plant in it. Sometimes while driving thru it the smell was horrible. There were a lot of homes nearby too!
#29
TIL in 1863, Union General Joseph Hooker significantly boosted troop morale. He issued soft bread 4 times a week, fresh onions or potatoes twice a week, and dried vegetables once a week. He also improved sanitation, requiring bedding to be aired and soldiers to bathe twice a week.
Spidercat 9 months ago
Protitutes should definitely air their bedding and bathe... probably more than twice a week.
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Jane Hower 8 months ago
And the 'girls of the night' we allowed to be in tents nearby. Hence the term "hooker', for those who didn't know.
Rich Black 8 months ago
No wonder so many people volunteered to join the union army Fesh onions twice a week!
#30
TIL Ludwig von Beethoven's associates used notebooks to hold conversations with the composer after he became functionally deaf, to the point where historians can roughly piece together whole conversations the composer had based on what was written.
WonderWoman 9 months ago
If they wrote down things in notebooks, why can historians only roughly piece together the conversation?
Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
Because they only wrote down what they were saying to Beethoven. He answered aloud.
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Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
It was nice of them to converse with him this way. Very th0oughtful friends.
#31
TIL that when the small town of Delton, Michigan received a foreign exchange student, the host family thought the Austrian boy had exaggerated his size. Bernhard Raimann a) was 6' 6" tall and b) wanted to play American football. He dominated local teams, got a college scholarship, and is in the NFL.
Heidrance 9 months ago
today i learned that apparently foreign exchange programs ask for your size...
Verena 9 months ago
The family might have gotten either a copy of the pasdport or a thorough description for picking him up at the airport.
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Bi.Felicia 9 months ago
Bernhard currently plays in the NFL for the Indianapolis Colts as an offensive tackle. Per his wiki page, the name of his highschool that he attended in Vienna, Austria is Ballsportgymnasium Wien. I find this lil tidbit interesting.
Verena 9 months ago (edited)
Ballsport = all sport involving a ball. Gymnasium is in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands one of the secondary schools after the elementary school and ends with a diploma that allows direct entry into any university. Schools that offer extra time and training for sports, music, art alongside high level tuition are pretty normal in Europe. The kids leave school with a diploma, allowing them more chances in life than only a sports career.
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#32
TIL: When someone important to you abruptly leaves you, your brain has a similar response to physical pain
talliloo 9 months ago
i can attest to the physical pain. on the last day i saw my now ex husband and the reality of never seeing him again hit me i literally felt like my heart was breaking. it wasn't beating rapidly but just this terrible ache and pain. the funny thing was that i needed to leave that toxic relationship, so it wasn't as if i was going to stay with him. i related this to my mom and that was when i first heard that heartache/heartbroken was an actual experience.
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Billo66 9 months ago
What is it called when you want them to abruptly leave but they just linger until you are forced to file divorce papers and a restraining order?
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
My (3rd?) cousin hung himself many years ago. His mom found him, had a heart attack, and died. :(
Gloria Golden 8 months ago
There was a guy I fell madly in love with. We dated for a year and then he dumped me. I never felt so much pain as I felt then. I didn't know how bad pain could be.
#33
TIL in 2022 a man won a free drink in an air-guitar competition while on a cruise, which is his last memory before waking up overboard in the Gulf of Mexico without the ship in sight. He treaded water for 18 hours & was stung by two swarms of jellyfish all over his legs & arms before being rescued.
PFD 9 months ago
He claimed to have had "a few drinks during the day" but to not have been drunk (sure). The summary above is misleading, making the time between the air guitar competition and falling off the boat seem much shorter that it likely was (hours). "He remembers telling his sister he was going to the toilet before he disappeared, but said he has no memory of falling off the boat."
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Stewie Lu 9 months ago
So my breaded shrimp should actually be "brod shrimp?"
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Bravia Kimyi 9 months ago (edited)
Mexico, and it always will and should be Mexico.
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TruthoftheHeart 9 months ago
I honestly question them allowing liquor on boats with the amount of drunk people that fall overboard each year
#34
TIL Prior to the Reagan era trickle down economics was called Horse and Sparrow Theory, as in feed the horse lots of oats and the sparrows get to pick it out of their poop.
David 9 months ago (edited)
Actually originally Trickle Down was what Keynes called his theory of Govt spending. Till today, no Free Market economist or Free Market text has ever referred to their theory as Trickle Down. And this claim it was called "horse and sparrow" was long debunked, as this claim was invented in 1995 using the writing of John Kenneth Galbraith, who used the term in his criticism of Free Market economics. it was invented by a critic, and he did so during the 1980s, the term did not exist before then. The term for it was originally called "Down Stream Tributary Theory (a term that was used as early as the 1930s by von Mises, to mean that by adding in more water to the stream, more will flow off in the side tributaries. The term came from irrigation
Robin Roper 9 months ago
Still, it's a model where a few eat well everyone else gets s#!?
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Troy Parr 9 months ago
Running your cursor over this image brings the description of President Regan as, "Man in a suit!"
CatD 8 months ago (edited)
Empty suit. He was wholly owned by the heritage foundation, just like Trump.
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David 9 months ago (edited)
it isnt true. This has been debunked. Progressive economist John Kenneth Galbraith first coined that term in the 1980s, it did not exist before then.
Load More Replies... Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
as elitist as Reagan was, he would be outraged at the current administration
#35
TIL in 2006 thieves in Buenos Aires tunneled underneath a bank & entered its vault. After a 7-hour standoff with 23 hostages, authorities entered to find $20m missing, a row of toy guns, & a note that said "In a neighborhood of rich people, without weapons or grudges, it's just money, not love."
st4x2gt974 9 months ago
There’s an excellent Duolingo podcast on this in case anyone wants to be thoroughly entertained while improving their Spanish.
Donna Peluda 9 months ago
They made a film about it Hey I’m watching El robo del siglo. Check it out now on Prime Video! https://app.primevideo.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.c508df24-a141-4eea-8888-a5c54d8797ae&ref_=atv_lp_share_mv&r=web
#36
TIL that Andrew Lloyd Webber so so 'emotionally damaged' after seeing the 2019 adaptation of his musical 'Cats', he bought himself a dog.
Nimitz 9 months ago
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the absolute worst. He was granted a peerage and ONLY ever shows up to vote when conservatives are going to lose a vote that would increase his taxes
Peter Bear 9 months ago
Which may make him a shite person, but he's still a hell of a musician and writer. Separate the work from the person.
Load More Replies... Gavin Johnson 9 months ago
He’s a terrible person, the film matched his vibe, it was dreadful.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
The stage version of "Cats" was enough for me. But to be fair, I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
LinkTheHylian 9 months ago
Don't insult dogs. It was the movie equivalent of human faeces.
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Analyn Lahr 9 months ago
They should not have made the characters look like the stage production. They should have just animated or CGI'ed singing, dancing cats that look like actual cats.
Robin Roper 9 months ago
The play is fun to watch once, the movie was dreadful to watch for 1 minute.
#37
TIL that an early Irish legal text allowed for a pregnant woman to steal limited amounts of food if she had a craving for it
Editor's note: However, her husband or family still had to pay for the food
Neopet22 8 months ago
A tab that shall be paid by her offspring of when they're of age
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
I wonder whether that is, isn't, technically theft. I think of it more as HP.
#38
TIL That many competitive Scrabble players quit playing competitively after hundreds of “offensive” words were banned, including racial slurs, sexuality and gender insults.
glowworm2 9 months ago
I mean, they are technically words regardless of what they actually mean. I once put down "D**K" while playing in school, insisting that it also alluded to a detective and I wasn't trying to be dirty (I was just desperate).
Auntriarch 9 months ago (edited)
And rude Scrabble is a thing, a word gets disallowed if it's not.
Load More Replies... Billo66 9 months ago
Years ago I was briefly detained, for things that aren't relative to this, and was playing scrabble with one of my "room mates" lol. The only thing I had was a racial slur and he knew it. I looked at the big N on the board, looked at my letters, looked at him. He just laughed and said go on and play it if thats what ya got I know you ain't mean it. :) i went out and won lol. Thanks Jay :)
Gavin Johnson 9 months ago
Can see both sides of this argument but I have to say I’m with the competitors, words are just a method of communicating meaning, all words have a place. Context matters, a Scrabble board has no context, it’s just a board.
PunchinelloTX 9 months ago
There are competitive Scrabblers? And a large number are bigots? That… that seems weird. I like that one of the words pictured above is groin. Let’s see if BP censors it in this comment.
PunchinelloTX 9 months ago
No GROIN is accepted! But c****h (c r o T c h) isn’t. This has been an experiment. For SCIENCE!.
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#39
TIL that in her 2019 testimony to stop paparazzi from endangering her children, Jennifer Garner described a “solid decade where there were five or six cars minimum, and easily up to 15 or 20 on the weekends, outside of my house at all times.”
Nils Skirnir 9 months ago
I think we have to blame the fans too. There would be no paparazzi if there were no moron fans to lap this crapola up
Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
I really think you have to be a low-life to even want to be a journalist. I have no respect for journalists at all.
#40
TIL that Ahn Jung-hwan, the South Korean footballer who scored the winning goal against Italy at the 2002 World Cup, was playing for an Italian team at the time and had his contract terminated by the teams owner, citing his goal as the reason.
Joe Reaves 9 months ago
I'd be so pissed if I was a fan. We own a player so good he can score against our national team while playing for a much lower ranked team - and you *fired* him?? He should have got a new, longer, higher paid contract for that goal not kicked out.
#41
TIL the last Blockbuster in Bend, OR is still open, makes 80% of it’s income from merchandise, and has to buy its movies from Walmart and Target because DVD vendors have minimum orders far too large for their store.
Sally Moen 9 months ago
It's pronounced Or-E-Gun not Or-E-gon. Prepare now before you go so you don't sound like a tourist
Jill Rhodry 9 months ago
Pretty sure the US is going to experience a downturn in tourism
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TIL that First Lady of the United States does not have to be the President’s wife and other women have held the title when the President was a widower or single. Most commonly a daughter, niece, or sister of the President.
David 9 months ago
The original purpose of the title was to signify that she was the hostess for White House events, as per the custom of the "lady of the house" in high society at the time. And like in High Society at the time if the Man was unmarried, widower or divorced, a female relative stepped in for that role.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Ther first non-spousal first lady was Dolly Madison, who served as widower Thomas Jefferson's first lady. She was the wife of Jefferson's Secretary of State, James Madison. She succeeded herself as first lady when her husband followed Jefferson as president.
Mel in Georgia 9 months ago
Love this pic of American First Ladies, representing almost 40 years of presidencies. Left to right are Nancy Reagan, Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Roslynn Carter, Betty Ford, and Barbara Bush. Missing is Pat Nixon, who died in 1993.
DowntownStevieB 9 months ago
It's also not an official job in the capitol. It's a formality merely.
#43
TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first civilian in the United States to purchase a Humvee military vehicle. He loved it so much that he pushed its manufacturer to develop a street-legal, civilian version, which was released in 1992 as the Hummer H1.
Magenta Blu 9 months ago
Compared to those horrible cyber trucks I find them really beautiful
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geezeronthehill 9 months ago
Hummers don't work on these mountain roads; they're wider than the traffic lanes.
Trophy Husband 9 months ago
The Simpsons character that satirized him drives the Canyonaro (a parody of the Hummer), and this fact makes that even funnier!
superfluous 9 months ago
He LIKED driving a Humvee?? I didn't - SLOW and NO suspension, so a very bumpy ride!
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
A great car for men who aren't well endowed and think a big car covers it up. It doesn't you dopes
Rich Black 8 months ago
Stallone will not be outdone. He has a Ford F650 pickup with 6 doors. The 650 is five levels above the F150
#44
TIL in 2008 a 20-year-old Belgium student died after reheating and eating leftover spaghetti that had been left out on the kitchen counter for five days. A bacteria called bacillus cereus was found to be the cause, which is an extreme type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome”.
PeepPeep the duck 9 months ago
I don’t know but the one thing I remember most from food studies, is the worst bacteria that will k**l you is not visible and has no smell.
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Sally Moen 9 months ago
That carbohydrate food like rice and pasta can easily transmit food poisoning unless kept out of the danger zone (over 40 degrees and under 150 degrees) is something I learned from my food handlers test. It's a good idea to cool down your leftovers in the fridge without a lid, then put a lid on/cover it after it is chilled.
Boredandsomea 9 months ago
speak common degrees please, don´t use the same measure as the orange twit.
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Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
It's known as "B cereus" (be serious!) in food hygiene circles, for a reason.
Sky Render 9 months ago
Bacillus cereus is actually an entire strain of food poisoning bacteria, responsible for around 2-5% of all food poisoning cases. Usually the concentration is only enough to give you severe gastrointestinal issues (vomiting, diarrhea, etc.). It's a bit unique in that, unlike most bacteria of its ilk, it can survive for a VERY long stretch at high temperatures; microwaving them won't do a thing as the food will never get hot enough to k**l them. You actually have to eat a proportionally large amount of it to be in danger of dying from it, that said. Five days of uncontrolled growth would definitely be enough!
Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
Ahhh, memories. Eating room temp pizza from the day before when I was in the service.
Rich Black 8 months ago
I'm sure he wasn't the first. For most of human history there was no refrigeration.
#45
TIL that Warren Buffett earned over 99% Of his net wealth after the age of 56.
Trophy Husband 9 months ago
If I had 1.5 billion, I'd give 99% of it away!
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Lyoness 9 months ago (edited)
Say what you will about the man but he's given over FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS to charity so far and plans to donate 99% of his fortune before he dies. That's pretty impressive. Edit for spelling.
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Joe Methuen 8 months ago
I think the first 1.5 billion is the most difficult to acquire. The next 150 billion should be much easier.
#46
TIL a finance worker was scammed for $25 Million through a Deepfake video conference. The worker thought he was on a call with multiple of his colleagues (who he recognised) and the company's CFO, but all of them were fake.
Trophy Husband 9 months ago
I know someone this happened to, but I'm goo6d case the transfer was blocked because the company required a second person to confirm and that person was with the real CFO when he called for permission.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
If he was a finance worker I doubt he had $25 million to be scammed out of, unless he had scammed it from other people.
Bi.Felicia 9 months ago
The $25 million did not come from the finance workers personal funds. He worked for a British multinational design and engineering company, Arup.
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TIL Henry, a Cardinal and Grand Inquisitor of the Catholic Church unexpectedly inherited the throne of Portugal when he was 65 years old. He petitioned the Pope to release him from his vows so he can marry and produce an heir, but his request was refused
Michael Largey 9 months ago (edited)
Of course it happened unexpectedly. Nobody expects the Portuguese I*********n.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
BP is censoring "i-n-q-u-i-s-i-t-i-o-n" ??? Nobody expected that, either.
Load More Replies... Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
There were more than enough priests, bishops, and cardinals having s*x one more wouldn't have made any difference
B Jones 9 months ago
The church didn't want him to marry so the church could inherit his wealth when he died not any legitimate child.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 8 months ago
Wasn't the grand inquisitor responsible for torturing jews, witches, and unbelievers? He'd have made a dandy kung!
#48
TIL William Shatner told Star Trek fans to "get a life". In a 1986 'Saturday Night Live' skit, the actor tells obsessed fanboys "it's just a TV show!" The SNL segment accurately portrayed Shatner's feelings about Trekkies, who had unrelentingly pestered him since the original 1960s 'Star Trek'.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 9 months ago
''Unrelentingly pestered'' him. Yeah, fans showing their love and the reason for his success. He's such a w a n k e r. And I say that as a die-hard Trekkie.
CP 9 months ago
Shatner doesn't owe his fans anything other than acting in a tv show. Anything he does extra is cool and all, but people shouldn't demand that. Those people are also free to not watch because an actor told them that they might be too obsessed.
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Michael Largey 9 months ago
One way for him to avoid the most persistent pesterers would have been not to have made all those paid appearances at Star Trek conventions.
Bartlet for world domination 9 months ago (edited)
I saw Rescue 911 years before I saw TOS (or even TNG). For years I wondered where they found such a dοuche.
Lyoness 9 months ago
Definitely not. Maybe if he'd been lucky enough to be part of Star Wars...
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Jumping Jellyfishes 9 months ago
"It's just a television show..." *The Thermians have entered the chat*
#49
TIL that Set, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, is depicted with the head of an animal that is consistently rendered but bears a resemblance to no known creature. The, "set animal," is also sometimes depicted sitting or standing in fully animal form.
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
He's always looked like an anteater to me. But I'm no Egyptian scholar.
Fred L. 9 months ago
A Serpent Guard, a Horus Guard and a Setesh Guard meet on a neutral planet ...
Xandra 9 months ago (edited)
LOL, first thing that came to my mind! (the Setesh guard's nose drips)
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#50
TIL in 1985 Michael Jackson bought the Lennon–McCartney song catalog for $47.5m then used it in many commercials which saddened McCartney. Jackson reportedly expressed exasperation at his attitude, stating "If he didn't want to invest $47.5m in his own songs, then he shouldn't come crying to me now"
DeShotz 9 months ago
For a little background, McCartney was the one who introduced Jackson to the idea that buying the publishing rights to music was a good investment. Jackson then turned around and outbid McCartney for the rights to his own music. So, yeah, it’s understandable that Paul was a little salty about the whole thing.
#51
TIL that the can-can was originally considered scandalous, and attempts were made to suppress it and arrest performers. The dance involves high kicks, and women’s underwear at the time had an open crotch.
LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
There's actually a fun movie about the subject, called (appropriately enough) "Can-Can" (1960), starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jordan. Obviously, because of when it was made, it's quite tame, especially compared to the original, scandalous dance, but it gives you an idea of the uproar it caused.
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
I've always known about the underwear. I thought 'that' was the scandalous bit. Obviously, there was a lot more on show.
#52
TIL In South Korea, a 16th-century letter written by a grieving pregnant widow to her late husband Yi Ŭngt'ae was found in his grave in 1998, resting on his chest.
#53
TIL in 2001 army major Charles Ingram cheated his way to £1,000,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire by having a fellow contestant cough every time he read the right answer. For one question the coughing came from Ingram's wife. All three were convicted of fraud.
TheReader19 9 months ago (edited)
The thing was the man was so openly stupid, it was obvious he was unable to win the show without some form of help
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago (edited)
There's also a theatrical play, with Rory Bremner playing Chris Tarrant. One gets a little gadget on which to vote whether or not he's guilty, and also play the part of the audience on the "ask the audience" lifeline. Mark Benton has most of the funny lines in it.
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TIL Gavrilo Princip, the student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, believed he wasn't responsible for World War I, stating that the war would have occurred regardless of the assassination and he "cannot feel himself responsible for the catastrophe."
#55
TIL triple murderer Melvin Chelcie Carr accidentally asphyxiated himself while gassing his three victims to death in 1977. His wife came home and found them all dead in the garage.
Jay Scales 9 months ago
I don't recommend looking him up unless you want to be further depressed. Horrible waste of space.
#56
TIL that the last person to be executed in the Tower of London was Josef Jakobs in 1941. He was a German spy who parachuted into England but was quickly captured. When arrested, he was found carrying £500, forged papers, and a German sausage.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago
He was in a real pickle. He was hoping they wouldn't ketchup with him. The Brits mustard up the strength to toast the buns of that sorry sauerKraut. That's enough. Have you ever sausage a list of puns?
Chewie Baron 9 months ago
There were some hilarious stories of German spies in Southern England during WWII. One particular story was about two spies in Kent, walking into a pub and asking for pints of cider at 10am!
Jill Rhodry 9 months ago
The last person executed in Australia in 1966 is thought to have been innocent
#57
TIL in 1702, a British admiral attempted to attack a French naval squadron, but some of his captains refused to help, leading to the French escaping. The French admiral later wrote to the British admiral recommending that he execute the cowardly captains. He took his advice, shooting two of them.
Fred L. 9 months ago
For the records, he did not just shoot any of them. 6 of his 7 Captains were to get a proper court martial - one died before his, two were suspended for a while, one was cashiered and two were sentenced to death and accordingly shot in 1703 after royal confirmation. Meanwhile Admiral Benbow himself, who had been gravely wounded, died before they did.
#58
TIL that Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name was Roosevelt. She was Teddy Roosevelt’s niece and FDR’s fifth cousin once removed.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 9 months ago
To be fair, fifth cousin once removed is basically a stranger, genetically speaking.
Bobby McKee 9 months ago
Brewster, Rooster, what does a rooster do, "Crows." Where do you go hunting in africa? "The veldt." There you go, Crows-veldt - Roosevelt."
#59
TIL Apple's first CEO, Michael Scott, once personally fired forty Apple employees, believing they were redundant. Later the same day, he gathered employees around a keg of beer and stated, "I'll fire people until it's fun again." Following this event, he was demoted to vice chairman.
PlumBacterium 9 months ago
asking honestly, was this an inspiration for a character's name in the office?
That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 9 months ago
Fun fact, there's also an Irish author named Michael Scott
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TIL that aside from telling Frodo "And you have my bow", Legolas never speaks directly to Frodo at all in the entire "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, including the extended editions.
Sky Render 9 months ago
Yep. Everyone talks a LOT in the books, and everyone who's part of the nine companions gets a chat with everyone else in the group at some point.
Load More Replies... Deta Rossiter 9 months ago
but how much time does Legolas and Frodo spend together actually, compared to the rest?
#61
TIL in 2012 a Navy SEAL accidentally shot himself in the head while trying to prove to his date that his gun wasn't loaded
keyboardtek 9 months ago
The first guitarist of Chicago, Terry Kath died from an unintentional self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. D***s and guns do not mix well.
Gavin Johnson 9 months ago
Best special armed forces in the world eh? Never point a loaded or unloaded firearm at anything you aren’t willing to destroy….
#62
TIL two men conned €55m from wealthy people by asking for aid posing as French minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in online meetings by wearing a silicone mask of Le Drian & sitting at a fake official desk. They only duped 3 of 150 targets, but one wired $47m, thinking it was ransom money for journalists
#63
TIL in 2015 an unemployed 30-year old Princeton grad k**led his rich father when his allowance was cut down from $1,000/week to $300. He received a 30 year prison sentence
#64
TIL In the original BBC version of The Office, Ricky Gervais's character David Brent frequently used the double-entendre punch line "as the actress said to the bishop". When the show was adapted for American audiences, the phrase was changed to Steve Carell's memorable "that's what she she said"
Allen Beloe 9 months ago
It's surprising how often it would be possible to use the phrase as a response in conversation
Ace 9 months ago
It' a fairly common expression in Britain, dating back to a lot earlier than The Office.
Chewie Baron 9 months ago
I also like the phrase “More tea vicar?!” to cover a double entendre!
Load More Replies... Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
It happens all the time at my work 😂 the other day I said “ok now we have to get it from the rear” meaning getting a film shot of the rear of the building. Instant “that’s what she said” from my coworkers 😅
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#65
TIL in 2015, Thomson Reuters experienced a "reply all" email storm when an employee located in the Philippines accidentally sent an email requesting his phone to be re-activated to over 33,000 coworkers. Seven hours later, the original email resulted in nearly 23 million emails.
Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
The CEO of Nestle' waters sent an "all" email looking for a remote control he misplaced at headquarters in Connecticut . It went world wide too. My favorite was the pic of a Chocolate Lab with a remote in it's mouth.
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
Had a receptionist send a request for someone to move a car in the car park, to the entire 11000 in the global company. Took about an hour for the replies to calm down.
Otto Katz 9 months ago
13 years ago, I was part of the Guinness World Record largest secret santa exchange, on Reddit. Because it was so large, Guinness sent out an email telling us our certificates were going to be delayed. Yep, they didn't bcc us, they cc'd us. In batches of 1070, so of course we replied. We all replied to Guinness, and each other. At first our email providers blocked us for lengths of time, for 'spamming', and some bounced back from people blocking us. But some got into the spirit of the thing. But 13 years later, we're still cc'ing each other from all around the world. Catching up with each other, laughing, posting pictures of our cats, kids, new houses, promotions we've gotten, vacations. It's been a blast.
Bi.Felicia 9 months ago
Did you end up getting your Guinness certificate and may I ask what your gift was?
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TIL Goalkeeper Tommaso Berni spend 6 years under contract to Inter Milan, reportedly earning around €200,000 a year. During those 6 years, he never made a single appearance for the club but managed to get a red card on two occasions, one for sarcastically applauding the referee and one for dissent
#67
TIL that in the past decade, some obese patients were sent to zoos for MRI and CT scans because standard hospital machines couldn't accommodate their weight. Zoos have larger scanners designed for big animals, making them a practical solution in these cases.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
With all the complaints about the high cost of food these days, I would have thought people in America would be eating less. No sign of that where I live. The obesity epidemic is still rampant.
Francesca Annoni 9 months ago (edited)
The problem is that in USA junk food is cheaper than healthy food, you can live of fast food and can't afford vegetables and fruit..where I live is cheaper to buy healty ingredients and prepare your (healthier) meals by yourself than eat at fast food and restaurant
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TIL that chess player and Twitch streamer Anna Cramling created her own opening, "The Cow", in 2023. In 2024 she for the first time played an opponent who used the opening. Cramling lost.
Sally Moen 9 months ago
Chess players must have incredible visual memories of plays and strategies
Kalikima 9 months ago
That's why I suck at chess! I have antaphantsia or however it's spelled, and can't visually see anything in my head, so I can't imagine moves in my head, so I just end up randomly moving pieces and hoping for the best.
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#69
TIL boxing legend Evander Holyfield lost almost every cent of the estimated $200m (AU$320m) he earned during his career through reckless spending, bad business deals & "even worse" financial advice. As of 2019, he earned up to $106K/month through personal appearances, but was still "basically broke"
Robin Roper 9 months ago
Many who earn their money though fame such as this are equipped to manage the money earned through their fame. Also quite a few also lose their money by hiring unqualified managers and financial managers.
General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” - George Best, football/soccer superstar.
Mel in Georgia 9 months ago
Lived in the county he later lived in and saw him around town a few times. Seemed nice. Check out his house there - no wonder he was broke! https://www.hgtv.com/design/home-tours/tour-evander-holyfields-former-mansion-pictures
#70
TIL in US, millions of people sell their blood plasma for income, and the "donation stations" have business model designed to make the "donors" come back as much as possible.
Ron Man 9 months ago
Yes, the more you donate the more $$ you get. The amount of $$ you get also depends on the quality of the plasma. Centers tell you to eat a full meal before coming in if you want the best quality. You sit there for 2 hours while blood is taken out, plasma removed and the blood put back in. You can do this twice a week. The plasma is sold for medical research.
Susan Robinson-Collins 9 months ago
Plasma is used by Hospitals and other medical facilities for patients.
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Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
I don't donate any more, too many questions. "Is that your blood, and why is it in a bucket?"
Cecilie Hammershøy 9 months ago
In Denmark you donate blood for free. Unfortunately I can't do it because of chronic illness
Deeelite 9 months ago
Donating blood is different than donating plasma. Plasma takes much longer hence why it's paid. Blood takes like 20 minutes hence it's free
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
It's not great money, but you end up burning 500+ calories each time.
Esmeralda Villalobos 9 months ago
As someone who has worked in plasma, it is used for many things. Have the rh problem? The medication for that is made from plasma. Many immunoglobulin treatments for bleeding disorders, smallpox, anthrax, etc are made this way. You're not selling plasma, you're donating it, but you're being compensated for the time and effort involved. Completely different from whole blood or red cell donation. Most plasma centers are located in the United States. Most have set donation amounts, with bonuses for frequency or other things. The only way to get plasma is from people as it can't be synthesized in a lab. Check out a donation center's website and you'll learn more.
Gingersnap In Iowa 9 months ago
When I was in college a lot of students did this and studied while they donated.
Deta Rossiter 9 months ago
and Oneg donors are usually stopped from doing this, as we are universal donors
#71
TIL that during SNL’s first season, it was just called “Saturday Night” because there was another show airing with the “Saturday Night Live” name. That’s why they say “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” at the beginning of every episode.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
No, it was a variety show hosted by Howard Cosell. Tom Snyder's late night show was called "Tomorrow".
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TIL the British pet massacre was a week-long event in 1939 in which an estimated 400,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England's pet population, were k**led so that food used for animals be reserved to prepare for World War II food shortages.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
It was essentially the result of a social panic - a need to be seen as doing something for the war effort. Experts knew that it was completely unnecessary, and even told people so, but people still did it. Multiple times. Completely pointless.
Vera Diblikova 9 months ago
Like buying a nonsensical amount of toilet paper in USA recently.
Load More Replies... Marie Clear 9 months ago
I still find it weird that the covid pandemic caused a critical toilet paper shortage over panic buying. Food, not so much of a problem (Mittens remained safe), but the news couldn't get enough of the toilet paper crisis.
Jen M 9 months ago
That's because of lockdown. Before covid, most people spent a large portion of their day at work. So when covid hit and everybody was home, they bought more toilet paper per house per person, in the toilet paper that had previously been made pre- covid, in bulk, by low quality toilet paper for corporations, wasn't purchased as much. So it's not that there was less toilet paper, just less of the kind you would buy for your house in smaller packages. In fact, if you and twenty neighbors wanted to go in on a pallet of single ply TP in packs of hundreds, that was available for purchase. Weird, huh. Once lockdown hit, TP manufacturers began to package more home purchase brands and eventually the "shortage" was resolved. But that process took, I year or 2 to resolve the supply chain issues.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 9 months ago
I understand the premise, but to have to k**l pets for this practicality is deeply disturbing.
Auntriarch 9 months ago
Cats and dogs were fed kitchen scraps in those days, which technically was food that humans could eat if necessary.
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TIL that there's a skydiving center in California where 28 people have died since 1985. It's still open.
Ron Man 9 months ago
A lot more people have died at Disneyland and other amusement parks in California and they're all still open too.
Jerzy Janeczko 9 months ago
One more in over 60 years. That skydiving place hasn't been there half that time. As of November 2023, there have been 29 reported deaths at Disneyland Resort in California, including both Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 9 months ago
You don't have to know what you're doing to skydive. But you do to skydive twice.
Load More Replies... Miriam Insidecor 9 months ago
Anyone that uses their services is stupid. Wasn't this also the place where the instructor wasn't qualified? And there have been numerous parachutes that have failed.
#74
TIL That we only know about MKUltra because 20,000 pages of records were filed incorrectly
Savannah Newman 9 months ago
It was a CIA operation where they used people at the margins of society, institutionalized people to test mind control methods on, using trauma, LSD and other d***s. The CIA has a nasty history.
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#75
TIL that the fbi has a database of photos of peoples faces that are involved in trafficking and constantly asking for public assistance to help ID
keyboardtek 9 months ago
TIL the FBI considers the top terrorist threat to our country and Democracy are white militia groups. I wonder if now they will also add Trump to that list of threats to democracy.
#76
TIL that Navy Bean Soup Has Been On The Menu of the Senate Dining Room Every Day Since 1903
#77
TIL Vin Diesel’s real name is Mark Sinclair
#78
TIL an artist displayed 10 goldfish in individual blenders in a Danish museum and allowed visitors to turn on the machines. Some did.
Marie Clear 9 months ago
Sounds like the Danish artist who recently planned to allow 3 piglets to starve to death. They were stolen and saved. Great basis for an art heist movie AND a prison sentence.
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Ron Man 9 months ago
So many of these are lacking specific details. They're basically, TIL someone made a pizza and won an award for it. Okay, thanks. Who? Where? What? Why?
Otto Katz 9 months ago
https://www.senate.gov/about/traditions-symbols/senate-bean-soup.htm
Load More Replies... Ron Man 9 months ago
So many of these are lacking specific details. They're basically, TIL someone made a pizza and won an award for it. Okay, thanks. Who? Where? What? Why?
Otto Katz 9 months ago
https://www.senate.gov/about/traditions-symbols/senate-bean-soup.htm
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