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junho 30, 2020
TIL: Most wasabi served outside of Japan isn't real wasabi, but a mixture of horseradish, mustard and food colouring. Authentic wasabi is the most expensive crop in the world to grow and is immensely difficult to cultivate. Once grated, wasabi root loses its flavour within 15 minutes.
junho 30, 2020
TIL a rescue ship at the Titanic sinking pulled a dead infant from the sea who wasn’t able to be identified. The ship’s sailors paid for a graveside monument dedicated to The Unknown Child. In 2007, DNA testing showed the child to be from an English family of six, the Goodwins, who all drowned.
junho 30, 2020
TIL Mercury is thought to be the almost-exposed core of a planet that was 4.5x bigger before a collision with another proto-planet that blew away most of its crust and mantle
junho 30, 2020
TIL the CIA declassified a document where a subject found and gave the exact coordinates to underground USSR facility while Astral Projecting
junho 30, 2020
TIL not only is Kenan Thompson SNL's longest-tenured cast member, he is the 1st one born after the show premiered in 1975
junho 30, 2020
TIL: In 2000, Tim Miller founded Texas EquuSearch, a search-and-recovery non-profit which has assisted with hundreds of missing-persons cases and located more than 400 living people and 238 bodies. His own daughter was abducted & murdered in 1984.
junho 30, 2020
TIL that veggie straws are actually worse for you than most potato chips on the market.
junho 30, 2020
TIL Ethiopia sent troops to the Korean War as part of the UN Command. Known as the Kagnew Battalions, 3,158 men served, of which 121 were killed and 538 wounded. They were never defeated in battle and not a single soldier surrendered. They were also respected for never leaving their dead behind.
junho 30, 2020
TIL The first webcam was created so engineers could see whether a coffee pot had coffee in it and they wouldnt need to walk over
junho 30, 2020
TIL many doctors have stopped calling cancer treatment a "fight" or "battle". They argue these terms misrepresent how treatment works and if treatments fail, the patient is left with guilt and a false belief they didn't "fight" hard enough.
junho 30, 2020
TIL that in WWII there was a Nazi sailor who flushed his toilet incorrectly, causing his submarine to flood with seawater. The sub was forced to surface in view of the British who then attacked, resulting in the vessel's destruction, 4 Nazi deaths, and 46 Nazis captured
junho 30, 2020
TIL Gremlins were invented by the RAF as mythical creatures who break airplanes, as way to explain random mechanical failures in reports; an "investigation" was even conducted to make sure Gremlins didn't have nazi sympathies
junho 30, 2020
TIL that despite being one of the leading artists of the High Renaissance, only fifteen of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings have survived. The small number of surviving paintings is due in part to Leonardo's frequently disastrous experimentation with new techniques and his chronic procrastination.
junho 30, 2020
TIL that the reason one cannot drive straight from North America down to South America is one 100km stretch of extremely difficult, dangerous and environmentally sensitive terrain called the Darien Gap in Central America
junho 30, 2020
TIL The very FIRST grocery barcode-scanned item was a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum
junho 30, 2020
TIL Isaac Newton studied the occult and predicted the end of the world as we know it to happen around the year 2060. He believed humanity would then progress into an era of divinely inspired peace.
junho 30, 2020
TIL of Vinicunca or the Mountain of seven colours in Peru. It was discovered four years ago when the snow covering it melted, revealing the natural beauty of the rock beneath.
junho 30, 2020
TIL that one of the deadliest explosions in history occurred in Beijing in 1626. An unexplained explosion at a gunpowder factory obliterated 4 square kilometers of city and killed around 20,000 people. The blast itself was about as powerful as the nuclear explosion over Hiroshima.
junho 30, 2020
TIL about the hidden genocide in West Papua happening since 1969, where over 500,000 natives have been killed. The presence of large gold and copper mines drive Indonesian interests there, who do not allow the presence of international journalists in West Papua.
junho 30, 2020
TIL in the 1990s, a Russian mafia and Italian mafia organization participated in a literal money-laundering scheme, washing and bleaching the ink out of US$1 bills and reprinting them as $100s, for use in the post-Soviet bloc countries, where the bills might avoid detection as counterfeits.
junho 30, 2020
TIL There is a Mayan dollar scam in Mexico where vendors use made up dollars to trick tourists. For instance, a vendor offers a gemstone or carving for $3. You pass him a $10 bill, but he only returns $1 and claims it is 3 Mayan dollars which is equivalent to $9
junho 30, 2020
TIL that when filming Zulu (1964) in South Africa, when the authorities warned the British crew that interracial sex was punishable by whipping, the producer responded by asking "if he could have the lashes while doing it".
junho 30, 2020
TIL That for thousands of years the The Bajau people of Southeast Asia have engaged in breath-hold diving, causing them to evolve large spleens. The larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells has helped them to become some of the world’s best free divers.
junho 30, 2020
TIL in 1941 the President of Haiti declared war on Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Only Romania bothered to declare war on Haiti in return.
junho 29, 2020
TIL Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts. They discovered that this was because male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia.
junho 29, 2020
TIL the easily identifiable USPS mail trucks lack air conditioning, anti-lock brakes, and even airbags
junho 29, 2020
TIL when a 30-yr-old woman in Canada was shot in her left breast, her silicone breast implant deflected the bullet away from her vital organs; her injuries were only broken ribs and damaged implants. It's the first recorded incident of a breast implant deflecting a bullet.
junho 29, 2020
TIL of the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic of 1954. Nearly 3000 residents reported unexplained damage to their windshields, blaming everything from vandals to cosmic rays to sand fleas. However, it was actually just people noticing normal damage that had always been there, causing mass delusion
junho 29, 2020
TIL: The car JFK was assassinated in was cleaned and repurposed back into rotation and served as the presidential limo for Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter before being retired in 1977.
junho 29, 2020
TIL that the word "amethyst" means "not drunk" because of an Ancient Greek belief that drinking from an amethyst cup would prevent intoxication.
junho 29, 2020
TIL Ivy league schools all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century with major benefactors using their drug money to fund libraries, societies and even Princeton itself. Undergrads even began running opium dens from Boston to New York until a Harvard student OD'd in 1889.
junho 29, 2020
TIL Charles Bello bought 240 acres of redwoods for $45,000 in 1968 to protect them from logging and continues to live there today in a parabolic cabin powered by solar power
junho 29, 2020
TIL: Those with a criminal record have a hard time securing stable housing, even though access to it prevents more crime. When people with criminal records are given supportive housing, the use of state prisons and city jails drops by 74% and 40% respectively.
junho 29, 2020
TIL Llamas can be used as guards against coyote attacks on sheep herds. Studies have proven that just one guard llama is an effective protector and can even kill the attacking coyotes.
junho 29, 2020
TIL That “wild” horses are actually “feral” horses descended from domesticated horses and There Might Not Be Any “Wild” Horses Left on Earth
junho 29, 2020
TIL the US Department of Defense withdrew its financial and logistical support for the TV series The Lieutenant (1963–1964) after its creater Gene Roddenberry pressed ahead with a plot titled "To Set It Right" in which a white and a black man find a common cause in their roles as Marines
junho 29, 2020
TIL that as a child Jimi Hendrix carried an actual broom with him everywhere around school for over a year, as a pretend guitar. The school's social worker tried to get funding for a real guitar, insisting that leaving him without one might result in psychological damage.
junho 29, 2020
TIL that "fart" is one of the oldest words in the English language, and can be traced back to its Proto-Indo-European roots through its cognates in other European languages and Sanskrit
junho 29, 2020
TIL a disgruntled game dev student made a hilariously terrible animation of a dancing bear as a protest that he learned nothing from an animation class, by only utilizing techniques taught in the class. It became a meme after a friend uploaded it to youtube; he also got an A
junho 29, 2020
TIL Hard pretzels were invented in the late 1600s, when a snoozing apprentice in a Pennsylvania bakery accidentally overbaked his pretzels, creating crunchy, seemingly inedible, knots. His job was spared when the master baker, attempting admonishment, took an angry bite out of one--and loved it.
junho 29, 2020
TIL that For the first time, all 5,000 objects found inside king Tutankhamun’s tomb will be displayed together in the world’s largest archeological museum dedicated to a single civilisation: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt, in the next year (2021).
junho 29, 2020
TIL That movie ratings are decided by a board of up to 10 parents who are all anonymous and all live in Los Angeles.
junho 29, 2020
TIL, the skin of a Honey Badger is tough enough to resist several machete blows and is almost impervious to arrows and spears
junho 29, 2020
TIL that Christopher Columbus ordered locals to give him gold and those who didn't got their hands chopped off
junho 29, 2020
TIL in Japan, beer cans have braille text on them so blind people do not mistake them for soft drinks
junho 29, 2020
TIL Gustaw Herling wrote a book in 1951 entitled A World Apart about the two years he spent in the Soviet gulag, and that the book ends with letters from prominent Communists assuring westerners that these camps don't exist.
junho 28, 2020
TIL Before vegetation was removed from the Roman Colosseum in 1871, over 400 species of plants grew on the ruins, due in part to the seeds ingested by exotic animals killed in the games
junho 28, 2020
TIL Admiral Ackbar was voted by students to be the Ole Miss Rebel's mascot. Lucasfilm declined to allow the characters use for the role stating he would have trouble finding time to attend games as he was leading the Rebel Alliance Fleet.
junho 28, 2020
TIL that the South Korean government started massively subsidizing (1%+ of GDP) its entertainment industry in 1994 after realizing one Jurassic Park film made as much as the combined sales of 1.5 million Hyundai cars.
junho 28, 2020
TIL Mae Jemison was the first African American woman in space. She also was a doctor in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, started her own business, writes children’s books, has produced and directed modern dance plays, and was also in a few episodes of Star Trek.
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