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julho 31, 2020
TIL New Mexico license plates are the only ones with USA on them because Americans don’t know it’s part of their country
julho 31, 2020
TIL that women in Cuba have equal constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural and social fields, as well as in the family. Women hold 48.9% of the parliamentary seats in the Cuban National Assembly.
julho 31, 2020
TIL in her nearly 70 year reign, the Queen has visited 116 countries in the world, but Greece is not one of them, despite her husband been born there. The reason is believed to be that Philip hates his birth country, because of how they treated his family over the years
julho 31, 2020
TIL in terms of long distance running, there is no animal that can outrun a human
julho 31, 2020
TIL Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates who told him his ransom was 20 talents of silver, but Caesar said he was worth 50. While waiting, Caesar would sometimes threaten to have them crucified. They thought he was joking, but once freed, he raised a navy, captured them, and had them crucified.
julho 31, 2020
TIL About a paper which models the expected "time-to-failure" of potential conspiracies. E.g. if the moon landing was a hoax, the conspiracy would have had to involve 411k people, and thus the model posits that the conspiracy would have been exposed within about 4 years
julho 31, 2020
TIL the funk band Vulfpeck released a completely silent album on Spotify and asked their fans to play it on repeat while they slept. The album, called Sleepify, earned $20,000 in royalties before spotify caught on, allowing Vulfpeck to give their fans a free tour.
julho 31, 2020
TIL Robin Williams tested out his make-up on 'Mrs. Doubtfire' by walking into a San Francisco sex shop and trying to purchase a large dildo. He was recognized by the cashier. Williams later wrote, 'Did I make the purchase? No. Did I walk away with a really good story? Yes.'
julho 31, 2020
TIL: American companies were THE number one entities that helped Germany rearm them selves after WWI, illegally.
julho 31, 2020
TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory *might* have its origins in a 1952 Ray Bradbury short story. In it, a time-traveler travels back 66 million years where he accidentally crushes a butterfly, resulting in an altered timeline observed upon his return.
julho 31, 2020
TIL: In his college days, Steve Wozniak used a blue box (an illegal phone hacking device) to call the Vatican. He pretended to be Henry Kissinger and asked to speak with the Pope but was denied because the Pope was asleep.
julho 31, 2020
TIL an EPA employee was convicted of defrauding the agency of $800,000 for skipping work over the course of 11 years by pretending to be a CIA agent.
julho 31, 2020
TIL of the Chinese Poet, Li Bai. Considered the greatest poet in Chinese literature, a good chunk of his poems are dedicated to alcohol and drunkeness due to his rampant alcoholism. Legend has that he drowned after drunkenly trying to embrace the moon's reflection upon the river during a ferry-ride
julho 31, 2020
TIL: Viagra, when dissolved in water, can help plant stems stay erect and double their lifespan.
julho 31, 2020
TIL the Grasshopper Mouse survives on a meat-based diet and is not only immune to scorpion venom, but converts it into a pain killer. It is also known as the Werewolf Mouse because it howls to mark its territory.
julho 31, 2020
TIL in 2008, Five European divers got swept away by strong currents in Indonesia and survived 12 hours adrift at sea. They ended up stranded on Rinca Island and fended off a Komodo dragon. After spending 2 days on the island they were eventually rescued by a search boat.
julho 31, 2020
TIL Mathematician and computer scientist Grace Hopper identified the first computer bug in 1947. It was a moth stuck inside of a computer.
julho 31, 2020
TIL that the founder of Guinness World Records was assassinated by the IRA after offering £50,000 for information on several bombing suspects.
julho 31, 2020
TIL the first artifical sweetener Saccharin was discovered on accident when a chemist forgot to wash his hands after work and tasted something "unspeakably sweet" during supper. He dropped his dinner and went on to taste every beaker in his lab, which luckily for him contained nothing poisonous.
julho 31, 2020
TIL the oldest known written complaint is from ancient Babylon written c. 1750 BC. In it, a customer named Nanni complains to the merchant Ea-Nasir about the low quality of his copper as well as him being rude to Nanni's servent who had to pass through enemy territory only to be refused a refund.
julho 31, 2020
TIL Alan Rickman's signature sound was the result of a speech impediment when he could not move his lower jaw properly as a child.
julho 31, 2020
TIL Marie Antoinette built an entire fake village, complete with a working farm and fake villagers, in the backyard of Chateau de Versailles, so she could pretend to be a "peasant" whenever she felt like it.
julho 31, 2020
TIL that the only difference between a caribou and a reindeer is that caribou are wild and reindeer are domesticated.
julho 31, 2020
TIL That the Kauai' o'o's song was recorded before it went extinct in 1987. It captures the voice of the last known bird, a male, singing a duet and pausing for the female to respond. These birds mated for life.
julho 30, 2020
TIL three cows that were swept off an island in North Carolina during Hurricane Dorian were found alive on a different island. Cape Lookout National Seashore Park officials say they believe the three stranded cows swam up to five miles.
julho 30, 2020
TIL Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's father descended from Black Loyalists, who escaped to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War on the promise of British emancipation.
julho 30, 2020
TIL: Methuselah is the world’s oldest known living tree. Seeded in 2833 BC (4,851 years old). The tree is so well protected that its exact location is a closely guarded secret, known only to a select few.
julho 30, 2020
TIL a peregrine falcon was clocked at 242 mph in a dive. A trained falcon kept pace with a skydiver, and that was as fast as the skydiver could go.
julho 30, 2020
TIL Washington set the two-term President tradition. He declined a 3rd term because "The line between Parties” had become “so clearly drawn” that politicians “regard neither truth nor decency; attacking every character without respect to persons who happen to differ from themselves in Politics."
julho 30, 2020
TIL: 'Caillou' can be linked to causing young children to act out in temper tantrums due to the show rewarding the same behavior in Caillou
julho 30, 2020
TIL the cost of acquiring the rights to use The Beatles' music in "Yesterday" was around $10 million, nearly 40% of the movie's total cost.
julho 30, 2020
TIL that dogs, cats and other carnivores can actually taste the flavor of water. Unlike humans, these animals have taste receptors specifically for water (and meat too!)
julho 30, 2020
TIL that there was a Soviet spy in Congress from 1923 to 1945. Congressman Samuel Dickstein of New York was a paid agent of the NKVD, the precursor to the KGB. While in Congress, Dickstein helped to establish an "un-American activities" committee, which he used to attack suspected communists.
julho 30, 2020
TIL of Dan Price, CEO of a credit card processing company he started in his teens. He raised the minimum salary of all 120 staff to $70K/yr & cut his own salary from $1.1M to $100K. The value of payments his company processes has increased by $6.4B in the 5 yrs since he raised the staff salaries.
julho 30, 2020
TIL Thailand used to have a "Chicken Poop Prison." Prisoners were on the first floor, while the second floor was a massive chicken coop. The grated floor ensured that the prisoners were defecated on by the chickens above
julho 30, 2020
TIL about Walter Schramm and escheat. He bought AMZN stock in 90's and pledged not to look at his stock account for 20 years. After 20 years logged on and $100,000 worth of Amazon stock was gone. Taken by the state government as unclaimed property because his account was deemed inactive.
julho 30, 2020
TIL that beluga whales can mimic human speech, and have caused divers to inadvertently surface due to them mimicing commands to surface
julho 30, 2020
TIL “Military Grade” is just a marketing ploy. In the actual military, “military grade” means “meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least.”
julho 30, 2020
TIL Richard the Lionheart, King of England, barely spoke a lick of English and collectively only spent about 6 months in England.
julho 30, 2020
TIL a producer on Family Ties felt Michael J. Fox was too short for the role and tried to have him replaced saying “this isn’t the face you'll see on a lunch-box." Fox later gave him a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription "this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox.”
julho 30, 2020
TIL about Anna Coleman Ladd , a sculptor , who gave new faces to soldiers of WW1 , by making masks
julho 30, 2020
TIL Steve believed that his commitment to vegan diets meant his body was flushed of mucus and he was free from body odor, so he didn't need to wear deodorant or shower daily. His former coworkers quote that he was 'very, very wrong'
julho 30, 2020
TIL that in 2008, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, refused to give his assent to a euthanasia bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies. In response, the Chamber amended the constitution so that bills no longer require the Duke's assent, rendering the Duke symbolic.
julho 30, 2020
TIL Riding “shotgun” means sitting in the position of the guard of a stagecoach
julho 30, 2020
TIL George Washington thought one of the greatest threat and enemy to America would be political parties and would be the cause of weakening the American government.
julho 29, 2020
TIL, in order to popularize potatoes in France, a pharmacist by the name of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier acquired a large plot of land from the king and hired guards to watch over them with instructions to allow thieves to get away. The plan worked and the potatoes helped fight off famine.
julho 29, 2020
TIL that oil magnate J. Paul Getty, one of the richest humans in history, was so miserly that he laundered his own shirts by hand, reused envelopes and paper, made all the phones in his home coin-operated, and stood in line for hours for show tickets to save 50 cents
julho 29, 2020
TIL the neck rings don't really stretch the neck, they push the shoulders and clavicles down to create the illusion of a longer neck, and removing them incorrectly may cause death because the neck muscles weaken so much they can't support the head on their own.
julho 29, 2020
TIL Casa Bonita needs to monitor the airing of the South Park episode because it causes an influx of customers.
julho 29, 2020
TIL Michael Larson, a contestant on game show Press Your Luck, memorized the patterns of the Big Board and won $110k in cash and prizes. CBS initially refused to pay him because they suspected him of cheating but paid him anyway. He later lost half of all his money in a break-in and died broke.
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