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janeiro 31, 2020
TIL that ‘Womble’ the cat played both Mrs Norris in Harry Potter and Ser Pounce in Game of Thrones
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL in 1999, Maude Flanders was killed-off on The Simpsons because of a pay raise dispute with the voice actress, Maggie Roswell. She was flying back-and-forth from Denver to Los Angeles and wanted a raise to cover the costs. Fox offered her a $150 per episode raise, so she quit.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste, at 18 befriended a German prince, travelled to Europe, lived with royalty for 6 years, and learned 4 languages. He went back to the U.S. to be a frontiersman, became a gold miner, a hotel clerk, and also led a Mormon group.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL that a disgruntled postal worker got close enough to assassinate President-elect JFK using dynamite, but didn’t because children were around.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL this Sunday (02-02-2020) the date is written the same backward and forward — for everyone in the world — which hasn't happened in 900 years
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL that in ancient Athens, only the 300 wealthiest citizens had to pay tax; this was considered a high honour, and taxpayers competed to provide the greatest public good
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL: Attending Harvard is free if your household income is below 65K a year. Harvard’s financial aid programs pay 100 percent of tuition, fees, room, and board for students from families earning less than $65,000 a year.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL: Italy has an infamous "monster park" called the Gardens of Bomarzo filled with disturbing statues carved by a Renaissance-era mad genius.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL that "Zyzzyx Road," a 2006 thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl, was released in just one theater for a week. During its short run, a total of six people saw the film, which resulted in $30 in ticket sales, making it the lowest-grossing movie of all time.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL: Quarantine comes from the first known example of the isolation method. In the 14th (Plague!) century, Venice enforced a rule where ships had to anchor for 40 days before crew and passengers were allowed to come ashore. The waiting period was named "quarantino" derived from Italian for 40.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL in 2013, a 67-year-old Belgian woman was mislaid by her GPS and mistakenly drove 900 miles. Her actual destination was only 90 miles away. She was supposed to pick up a friend in Brussels, but instead drove all the way south to Zagreb, Croatia. It took her two days.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL For generations Doctors figured the appendix had no function. But recently it is determined it “acts as a good safe house for bacteria". Sometimes bacteria in the intestines die or are purged. The appendix’s job is to reboot the digestive system in that case.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL that after hearing on the radio of Germany's surrender on 9th May 1945,the citizens of the Soviet Union celebrated Victory Day by drinking ALL the vodka in the nation within the next 22 hours.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL with an estimated 8,000 nerve endings, the clitoris is the only human organ that exists solely for pleasure
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL that in 2012 an 11 year old boy accidentally flew to Rome alone without any money, passports, or boarding passes while running away from his mom in a mall. No one realized until the plane was already halfway to Italy.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL that there is a phenomenon that soldiers who returned from wars are more likely to father sons than girls leading to an effect that during war times more boys than girls are born. This is called the "Returning Soldier Effect" and the reason for that effect is still not 100% clear.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL during the early days of the Soviet space program, one of the "Orbital survivabilty volunteer" dogs, named "Bobik", ran away days before his first flight. His replacement was named ZIB, a Russian acronym for "Substitute for Missing Bobik". He survived.
janeiro 31, 2020
TIL a woman named Christina Santhouse had her brain's right hemisphere removed because it was ravaged by a disease called Rasmussen's syndrome. She went on lead a normal life and received a master's degree in speech language pathology.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL the # of diplomatic parking violations is strongly correlated with home country corruption. Diplomats from high-corruption countries accumulate significantly more unpaid parking violations than those from less corrupt countries.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Florida man Courtland Hunt modified a Glock 9mm to shoot underwater & used it to shoot invasive lionfish at point-blank range while scuba diving. Hunt said: "Who wouldn't want to go shoot their gun at fish underwater? Especially a species that detrimental to the environment."
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and gave them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription read, “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL There is a doomsday vault in a remote Norwegian archipelago guarded by polar bears and it's preserving more than 900,000 samples of seeds in the event of a global disaster
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL of Ayds, an appetite suppressant candy that enjoyed strong sales until the disease AIDS caused problems for the brand due to the phonetic similarity of names and the fact that the disease caused immense weight loss in patients.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL that back in 1797, a prussian scientist named Alexander von Humboldt experimented with electricity and shocked himself. With an anal probe. At least twice.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL that "Doctrine of Discovery", which holds that European Christian colonizers inherently held sovereignty to lands they "discovered" irrespective of those already there, is still to this day used by the U.S. Supreme Court to justify not returning lands, such as holy sites, to indigenous peoples.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL well-educated people who consume a lot of information tend to hold disproportionately extreme views because they’re really good at seeking out information that confirms their position (and ignoring information that might run counter).
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL about the Halifax Glove Guy, a man who has been prowling the streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for almost 30 years picking up and preying on young drunk men. Once in his car he convinces them to try on leather gloves, sometimes not letting them leave until they do. He is still active.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Legendary Guitarist Randy Rhoads died when his tour bus driver stole a plane and went joyriding with Rhoads on it. They buzzed the tour bus in hopes of waking up the band and clipped the wing of the plane and crashed. Sharon Osborne: "They were all in bits, it was just body parts everywhere"
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL that Anchorage, Alaska has 500 police officers - and there are only 800 police officers total in the other 661,000 square miles of Alaska
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL The disorder known as "Lazy eye" or "Amblyopia" can be improved by playing tetris. This is more efficent than an eye patch due to using your eyes in unison and using rapid eye movement to help check the pieces and where they should go.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL of Movile Cave in Romania that was separated from the outside world for 5.5 million years until 1986. It is home to 33 species found no where else on the planet.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Alan Turing developed the first computer program for playing chess in 1951. However, no computer was powerful enough to process it, so Turing tested it by doing the calculations himself and playing according to the results, taking several minutes per move.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Netherlands built a special bridge for squirrels so they could cross a busy motorway. The bridge costed £120,000.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Nepalese farmers create a honey called 'mad honey' which is produced by bees pollinating rhododendron plants. The honey is psychoactive and its effects can range from euphoria and lightheadedness to being similar to a full-blown acid trip.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 30 January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 30 unarmed civilians in an unarmed crowd during a protest march against internment, killing 13 and wounding 17, in full view of the public and the press.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL In 1980, jazz prodigy Pat Martino had to learn to play the guitar once again after an aneurysm caused him amnesia and he couldn't remember anything from his life until that point. He wouldn't even recognise his own image while looking at his old album covers.
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL Wuhan, China is bigger than London and New York
janeiro 30, 2020
TIL the oldest oil paintings are 7th-century images of Buddhas found in Afganistan.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL of Michael Carroll, a lottery winner who won £10M and blew it all on cocaine and hookers, and is back to working again.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL about a daily pill that reduces the risk of contracting HIV by 51% costs about 8 US dollars per month outside of the USA but costs 1700 US dollars per month within the United States.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL Suicide is unique to humans. Even though other animals are observed dying from self-destructive behavior, scientists don't think death was the purpose or objective of the behavior so it isn't considered suicide.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL nonviolent protests engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL the sport of lacrosse was originally a form of ceremonial combat played by Native American tribes with teams of 100-1,000 players, on a field several kilometers long, in games that lasted two to three days straight.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL that the reason as to why we view Neanderthals as primitive and hunched over, is because the first Neanderthal skeleton to be found showed signs of arthritis.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL that Groucho Marx attended a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar with Elton John, and when the lights went down at the start of the performance, Groucho yelled, "Does it have a happy ending?"
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL that even in the Middle Ages, scholars never believed the Earth to be flat. The notion that authorities believed firmly in a flat Earth is a modern falsehood to discredit religion in the face of science. Even most Christian scholars acknowledged that Earth was spherical.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL that the Guugu Yimithirr, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, don't use terms like "left" and "right". Instead they use the geographical directions "north, east, south and west". That means, that there can't be confusions about your left or my left, since the directions are absolute for everyone
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL the first person to register for the first comics con, held in New York in 1964, was George R.R. Martin.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL in 1990, the high school dropout rate in Sevierville, Dolly Parton’s hometown, was over 30%. In 1991, she launched The Buddy Program, offering 7th and 8th graders $500 if they graduated. The dropout rate for those classes dropped to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.
janeiro 29, 2020
TIL that in 1981, the protagonist of the TV show "The Greatest American Hero" had his name changed mid-season. It had been Ralph Hinkley, but for several months he went by Ralph Hanley with no explanation. This happened immediately after John Hinkley Jr. shot and nearly killed President Reagan.
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