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agosto 31, 2019
TIL the original script of "Gone Girl" called for Ben Affleck's character to wear a Yankees cap in one scene. Affleck refused to do so even in character being a die hard Red Sox fan and this halted production for 4 days.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL in 2000, the Missouri chapter of the KKK won a court battle to allow them to participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program. The state legislature promptly renamed the stretch of I-55 they were assigned to clean as the “Rosa Parks Highway”
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that British comedian Tony Hawks became so frustrated with being mistaken for pro skateboarder Tony Hawk that he has published a book called "Tony Hawk's The A to Z of Skateboarding" that contains nothing about skateboarding.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL when 18-year-old Lady Gaga was studying at NYU, her classmates made a Facebook group called "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous" where they bullied her and called her an "attention-whore". She dropped out after a year to pursue her music career full time.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL the US two dollar bill is still being produced today. It's apparent rarity is in part due to the common misconception that it is no longer being produced, causing people to collect them, thus pulling them out of circulation.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that the last person who lived during the 1800s died in 2017 - There is no one left from that century.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL of Steven Phillips, a man who spent 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. When he was released in 2008, he received $6 million in compensation. Then, his ex-wife, who divorced him while he was in prison, sued to get part of the compensation. She did not receive a penny.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL A convicted killer had his death sentence thrown out when it couldn’t be proven that he had assaulted a girl he had murdered. Believing he was now immune, he sent a taunting letter to the prosecutor, admitting the assault. It was used to successfully re-convict him to death.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that Reagan attempted to consider Ketchup a vegetable to make up for budget cuts to school lunches
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that, upon being appointed King of Holland by Napoleon, Louis Bonaparte arrived in Holland and exclaimed to a crowd, “I am the Rabbit of Holland” (Iek ben Konijn van Olland). He meant to say ‘lek ben Koning’ (I am the King). But the Dutch loved him anyways, and remember him as “Louis the Good.”
agosto 31, 2019
TIL: after leaving for a trip and returning to find his pregnant wife had died and been burried, Samuel Morse spent the next 45 years of his life inventing the telegraph; trying to make sure no one felt the way he did that night.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL A radioactive energy drink called "Radithor" was sold in the US market for a decade in the 1920s. Radium 226 and 228 isotopes we’re used, and the expensive product claimed to cure impotence, among other ills. Some of the more prominent users had to be buried in lead coffins.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that the Greek word for “Carpenter” more accurately translates as “home builder” and since Judea built structures primarily out of stone, Jesus was probably a stone mason.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL There is a 1 in roughly 5.2 to the 61st power chance that if you were to slap a table, all of the molecules in your hand and the table would miss each other and your hand would go through it.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL:That Cleopatra, while born Egyptian, traced her origins to Greece, may have been more renowned for her intellect than her appearance. She spoke as many as a dozen languages, was well educated, and was later described as a ruler “who elevated the ranks of scholars and enjoyed their company.”
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that introversion and extroversion is a spectrum with "ambiversion" in the center. An ambivert is moderately comfortable with groups and social interaction, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that Cherophobia is fear of being happy. It is the belief that when one becomes happy,something bad will happen.
agosto 31, 2019
TIL that Ireland’s population still hasn’t recovered from the Great Famine. There are 3.6 million less people living there today than there were before the famine in 1841.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL When an image remained on an old computer screen for too long, the image got "burned" into the screen. To stop this from happening, developers created moving images that would "save" the screen from being burned when it was idle. This is where we get the term "screen saver" from.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL about Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927 on youtube, he was the most subscribed youtube account in 2006, in his channel he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the UK during WW2 and experiencing the British inter-war school system, he passed away in 2014 at 86 years old
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that Pittsburgh put up "Kindness Zone: BE NICE / ALL DAY EVERY DAY" street signs this year as part of a statewide campaign to honor Mr. Rogers
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that plebeians from the Roman Empire abandoned the city in a form of protest, known as Secessio plebis, leaving the streets completely empty and the wealthy unable to enforce their power.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that Keira Knightley had an acting agent by the age of 6, was in Star Wars at 13, Pirates of the Caribbean at 17, and was nominated for an Oscar for Pride and Prejudice at 20.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL 33% of millennials buy their first house to give their dog more space, compared to just 19% for a new baby.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL hurricane names are established years in advance, and 2019's list includes a Karen
agosto 30, 2019
TIL The Co-founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, bought a 28,100 acres of land in the U.S. for $23 million. His long term plan is to retire to the region. And his short term plan - to stop the logging operations and preserve the country.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that the most common street name in U.S. is Second. First is the third, Third is the second with Fifth being the sixth most common.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, established the idea of species becoming 'extinct' as a fact. Until the late 18th century, 'extinction' of species was unthinkable because god would not wipe out entire species he created for his divine plan.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that Donkeys can be used as guard animals to protect livestock and have even been known to kill coyotes.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL Chinese scientist who used a gene editing tool called CRISPR to make two twins immune to HIV is now missing
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that Boko Haram caused the disappearance of as many as 10,000 boys before he kidnapped the 300 girls that elicited global sympathy
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that Arizona ice tea has not changed it’s 99¢ retail price since 1992.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that 9 missing episodes of the 1960s Dr Who series were found in a TV station in Nigeria. They’d been left there in the 60s-70s for foreign syndication. It was the largest haul of classic Who episodes ever recovered in the last three decades.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL The largest octopus species in the world, the giant Pacific octopus, has three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL in the month after 13 Reasons why's release suicide rates increased 28.9% for 10-17 year olds.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL the highest-ranking Billboard 200 death metal album of all time is from the virtual band Dethklok from the show Metalocalpyse. Frontman and co-creator Brendan Small performs the vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboard, and bass in recordings; in the show he voices most of the main characters.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that in the Middle Ages, being lovesick was a considered real disease, caused by humoral imbalance, and treated by exposure to light, gardens, calm and rest, inhalations, and warm baths, as well as with a diet of lamb, lettuce, eggs, fish, and ripe fruit.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, conjoined twins at the head. The twins “share senses of touch and taste, and can even control one another’s limbs.” They can also hear each other’s thoughts without having to speak and see through one another’s eyes.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that Geoffrey de Charny, a French knight, veteran of the Hundred Years War, writer of Book of Chivalry, dedicated parts of his book to preventing psychological trauma from warfare, and cautioned his comrades that “when they would be secure from danger, they will be beset by great terrors”.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL 40% of all Vietnamese people have the last name Nguyen.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL that a local bully who constantly evaded the law despite his numerous horrible crimes was shot dead in front of 40+ townsfolk. They all protected the shooter & claimed they saw nothing. Even today, nobody has been charged with the crime.
agosto 30, 2019
TIL: Colin McGregor, the brother of Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor, is a pilot in the Royal Air Froce. His aviator nickname is Obi-Two
agosto 30, 2019
TIL the Latin choral part in the Mr. Bean theme song is "Ecce homo qui est faba", which translates to "Behold the man who is a bean"
agosto 30, 2019
TIL Japan didn't start eating salmon until it was introduced to them by Norway in the 1980's
agosto 30, 2019
TIL That Salvadore Dali was known to avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on the checks he wrote. His theory was the restaurant would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art
agosto 29, 2019
TIL that in the 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach performed an experiment in which three men with Messianic delusions lived together for two years. He wanted to study how they would reconcile their delusions with the existence of two others with the same irrational belief.
agosto 29, 2019
TIL that immediately after the end of slavery was declared in America, there was a surge in Wanted Ads placed in newspapers across the country. African-Americans used them to search for family members sold or escaped, sometimes decades earlier.
agosto 29, 2019
TIL Chess has been solved for all positions with 7 or fewer pieces (including kings) on the board. The database for these endgame positions is 17 terabytes.
agosto 29, 2019
TIL New York City has the highest concentration of nesting Peregrine falcons in the world. The birds can soar over the city by taking advantage of updrafts from skyscrapers. Pigeons are widely available for food, which also negates their need to migrate.
agosto 29, 2019
TIL that for years, scientists didn't know what caused mysterious cave networks in South America. In 2010, they learned that the caves were actually tunnels dug by ancient giant sloths.
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