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maio 31, 2020
TIL in 2006 Tucker Carlson (current host of FoxNew's most watched show "Tucker Carlson Tonight") co-hosted a popular CNN show called "Crossfire". Jon Stewart agreed to be a guest on the show, and spent 15 minutes verbally tearing them apart; it was so bad the show was cancelled shortly afterwards.
maio 31, 2020
TIL The Ancient Mongol Warriors were said to have worn silk vests, as an arrow hitting silk does not break the silk but ends up embedding the arrow in the flesh wrapped in silk, allowing the arrow to be removed by gently teasing the silk open.
maio 31, 2020
TIL that Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya had a sore wrist in the 2006 postseason from playing too much Guitar Hero. This was acknowledged in a credits message in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II: "No pitchers were harmed in the making of this game. Except for Joel Zumaya. He had it coming."
maio 31, 2020
TIL that when America fought for independence during the American Revolution, 40,000 British citizens fled to Canada to remain faithful to the crown.
maio 31, 2020
TIL of the 2016 case of State of Georgia vs Denver Fenton Allen where a routine pre-trial hearing turned into a wild and graphic shouting match between the Judge and the defendant. The creators of Rick and Morty animated the incident using the transcript verbatim.
maio 31, 2020
TIL that CNN pays airports to show news on their TVs. It's not normal CNN but a special version that excludes any stories about plane crashes.
maio 31, 2020
TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese was invented in New York and has never been produced in Philadelphia. It's name is was a 1880s marketing strategy because at the time Philadelphia was known for high quality dairy.
maio 31, 2020
TIL When Congress imposed a gag rule in 1836 to suppress debate about slavery, ex-President John Quincy Adams refused to comply, risking censure and spending the next eight years introducing thousands of antislavery petitions until the rule was repealed.
maio 31, 2020
TIL, That despite its popular use in scams and pop culture, Nigeria doesn't have a Monarchy and hasn't had one since 1963
maio 31, 2020
TIL that for 20 years, the nuclear launch code at silos across the US was 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 in order to ensure rapid response.
maio 31, 2020
TIL due to a unit conversion error (lbs instead of kg), Air Canada flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet, and glided all the way down on an abandoned airfield being used as racing circuit. Everyone survived and the plane was barely damaged it was flown out to be repaired.
maio 31, 2020
TIL : The highest STD rates in Florida are in The Villages, an area dedicated to seniors.
maio 31, 2020
TIL Sky Burials is a practice that leaves dead bodies out in the open to be eaten by vultures. It was a popular form of decomposing a human body in many cultures. It is still practiced in various main cultures and is not interfered by the law.
maio 31, 2020
TIL that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time slowed down production of The Powerpuff Girls because crew members played the game too much
maio 31, 2020
TIL that huskies need to train to be better distance runners. While the average pet husky can only run between 10 to 20 miles a day, a well-conditioned race husky can run for 11 hours straight making up to 125 miles. They can repeat this distance for up to 10 days in a row.
maio 31, 2020
TIL that before 1954, stop signs used to be yellow with black lettering. This was because there was no red dye that would not fade over time. However, by 1954, sign makers began using a fade-resistant porcelain enamel, and it was declared that stop signs would be red with white lettering.
maio 31, 2020
TIL Cecil Chubb was the last person to own Stonehenge. Stonehenge was put up for auction in 1915 and Chubb bought it on a whim. It is speculated he bought the stones as a present for his wife and she was less than pleased. Chubb donated Stonehenge to the nation in 1918 and was made a baronet.
maio 31, 2020
TIL Even though he received surgery to correct his nearsightedness, Horace Grant continued to wear his trademark goggles on the court during his NBA career after hearing from parents that he was a inspiration to children who wore glasses.
maio 31, 2020
TIL that the first crime in Antartica in almost 20 years occurred when a 54-year old engineer stabbed his co-worker over spoiling the endings of books he was reading.
maio 31, 2020
TIL In 1990, Muhammad Ali saved the lives of 15 U.S. hostages in Iraq by going there and negotiating with Saddam Hussein by himself, ignoring warnings from the government and his family.
maio 30, 2020
TIL George Washington ran a $17,253 tab before signing the Constitution. Attendees consumed 60 bottles of claret, 54 bottles of Madeira, 22 bottles of porter ale, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 jugs of beer, and 7 large bowls of punch. Only 55 people were at the party.
maio 30, 2020
TIL the phrase "another day, another dollar" comes from construction workers building the Panama Canal, who were paid a dollar a day
maio 30, 2020
TIL after WWII Rod Serling (Creator of The Twilight Zone) made money testing military parachutes. On one occasion, he made $1,000 testing a jet ejection seat that had killed the previous three testers
maio 30, 2020
TIL about Gareth Jones, the Welsh reporter who broke the Holodomor story - Russia's secret mass starvation of at least 3.5 million Ukrainians. He was murdered one day before his 30th birthday, most likely by the Soviet NKVD as retaliation for embarrassing the regime.
maio 30, 2020
TIL that in order to appease Persia for killing their ambassadors, Sparta sent two young noblemen volunteers, Bulis and Sperthias, to offer themselves to be executed in atonement. Xerxes sent the men back, saying that he would not sink to Sparta's level and did not consider Sparta's guilt loosened.
maio 30, 2020
TIL that Jack Nicholson's first job in Hollywood was an office worker for animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. They offered him an entry-level job as an animator, but he declined, citing his desire to become an actor.
maio 30, 2020
TIL that a Marine called customer service when his M107 .50 caliber sniper rifle failed during a gunfight with the Taliban. After several minutes the weapon was back in service.
maio 30, 2020
TIL Near the end of filming the movie Matilda, Mara Wilson's mother passed away from breast cancer. Director Danny DeVito was able to show a near final cut of the film to her so she could see her daughters performance. The movie is also dedicated to her memory.
maio 30, 2020
TIL of Guy Goma, who was accidentally interviewed live on BBC News as an expert while only there for an interview as an accountant
maio 30, 2020
TIL that thanks to his Internet popularity, the child from the "Success Kid" meme made enough money to fund his dad's kidney transplant.
maio 30, 2020
TIL the original Mr. Potato Head didn't come with a plastic body. The pieces were meant to be put into an actual potato.
maio 30, 2020
TIL a burglar stole a Super 8 camera & video tapes from a youth soccer coach; he then turned over the tapes & coach's address to police upon finding sex abuse of the boys from the man's soccer team on the tapes. Police found more child porn of his soccer players in the coach's home & arrested him.
maio 30, 2020
TIL a dad in Texas couldn’t find an amusement park that would accommodate his daughter with special needs so he sold his homebuilding business and built a completely accessible amusement park for kids with special needs called Morgan’s Wonderland.
maio 30, 2020
TIL almost every word Neil deGrasse Tyson says in COSMOS was written by Carl Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan
maio 30, 2020
TIL In 2012, a tourist in Iceland left her group to change her clothes. When she returned to the group, they did not recognise her. The group began searching for a missing person. She joined the search party for herself.
maio 30, 2020
TIL In 2005, US army soldier LaVena Johnson was found shot to death inside of a burning tent with a broken nose, black eyes, broken teeth and acid burns on her genitals. The military ruled her death a suicide.
maio 30, 2020
TIL A squirrel can survive a fall from practically any height because they reach terminal velocity at a very low elevation and their bodies act like little parachutes.
maio 30, 2020
TIL of Messiah A. Johnson, an innocent man, who was convicted of robbing a Ghent beauty salon in 1998 and sentenced to 132 years in prison. He was only freed after about 20 years into his sentence by the Innocence Project.
maio 30, 2020
TIL the inventor of the sewing machine had a dream where cannibals were going to cook him. In the dream their spears had holes at the tip that they raised up and down. This inspired him for the breakthrough of the machine, putting a hole at the tip instead of the base.
maio 30, 2020
TIL the birthing position used on movies and TV shows is the most painful type for pretty much all women. It is not typically recommended anywhere in the world.
maio 30, 2020
TIL the oldest known "Yo Mama" joke was found on a 3500 y.o. broken tablet in Iraq. And is missing the punchline.
maio 30, 2020
TIL for his PhD thesis, Ilya Bobvroskiy took a helicopter to a remote Russian bear infested ravine, rappelled down. Found fossils from the edicarian, & analysed cholesterol preserved in the ancient rocks. Science named his work amongst the top 10 breakthroughs of 2018.
maio 29, 2020
Today I learned that the German wives of 1,800 Jews marched into a German camp to peacefully demand the return of the husbands who were taken from them because of their marriages. The officers did not know how to react to the peaceful aspect of the protests. All the husbands were sent home.
maio 29, 2020
TIL 3 Canadian men working on a boat at Digby's waterfront freed a 15 ft minke whale tangled in a net which surrounded its mouth & embedded about an inch into its skin. The whale came to shore in waist-high water as if searching for help from humans; when free, the whale swam back to deeper waters.
maio 29, 2020
TIL about Harrison Okene, a man who survived in an air pocket in a shipwreck 100 feet below the surface for more than two days before getting rescued when divers went down to recover the bodies of the presumed dead crew.
maio 29, 2020
TIL Ol’ Dirty Bastard from Wu-Tang Clan rallied a group of people to lift a wrecked car off 4 year old girl and saved her life
maio 29, 2020
TIL in 2018 a 75-year-old British man pooped into a container for six to eight weeks, built a homemade pump, drove 200 miles to his former friend's house and used the pump to spray the poo all over the hallway and stairs through the mailbox.
maio 29, 2020
TIL that because the USA is unlikely to extend its copyright term again, Disney has been extensively using the "Steamboat Willie" Mickey Mouse in its marketing to keep the character indefinitely protected under trademark law instead
maio 29, 2020
TIL COINTELPRO was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting political organization. Black activists were "neutralized" by being assassinated, imprisoned, publicly humiliated or falsely charged with crimes
maio 29, 2020
TIL the Cookie Monster has a real name. It`s Sid.
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