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abril 30, 2021
TIL of Dennis Tito, the first space tourist. He paid $20 million in 2001 to spend 7 days, 22 hours, and 4 minutes in space.
abril 30, 2021
TIL that when the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire the some 200,000 bees that live in the roof were thought to be dead, but in fact they were still alive after the fire.
abril 30, 2021
TIL for 1 fight against each other in 2017, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was paid $280,000,000 and Conor McGregor was paid $130,000,000. The fight lasted for 28 minutes.
abril 30, 2021
TIL on Nov 22, 1963 while watching TV reports of JFK's death, Annie Shapiro had a stroke and slipped into a coma. 29 years later she awoke in bed as a 79 year old grandmother still married to her husband. Her first words upon sitting up were "Turn on the television. I want to watch I Love Lucy"
abril 30, 2021
TIL Vitali Kaloyev, a Russian Architect who lost his family when the airliner they were flying in collided mid air with a cargo plane. He stalked and later murdered an air traffic controller he blamed for the incident.
abril 30, 2021
TIL in the DVD menu of Borat there is also a language choice of Hebrew, but choosing this option results in a warning screen reading "You have been trapped, Jew!"
abril 30, 2021
TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is older than Windows and is the longest-running software product line for Microsoft.
abril 30, 2021
TIL that The Wolf of Wall Street, a film about financial fraud, was financed by a company accused of committing multiple crimes, including fraud.
abril 30, 2021
TIL of the "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary", a myth from the Middle Ages about a plant that sprouted sheep instead of fruit. For hundreds of years people would write about & even draw this wool-covered plant. We now know what it was: the cotton plant.
abril 30, 2021
TIL termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet's most efficient bioreactors
abril 30, 2021
TIL that 85-90% of cancers are due to people's environment and lifestyles
abril 30, 2021
TIL: The iconic photo of the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J day was actually a non-consensual kiss by a drunk sailor. The "nurse" was a dental assistant named Greta Friedman who later said "it wasn't my choice to be kissed. The guy just came over and kissed or grabbed."
abril 30, 2021
TIL that when trains were first introduced in the U.S, many people believed that, "women's bodies were not meant to go at 50 miles an hour" and that their "uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed"
abril 30, 2021
TIL about FBI agent Robert Hanssen. He was tasked to find a mole within the FBI after the FBI's moles in the KGB were caught. Robert Hanssen was the mole and had been working with the KGB since 1979.
abril 30, 2021
TIL of Mark Roberts, a man from England who has streaked at more than 565 international events. He has his own set of 'rules' for streaking: don't interrupt the play of a game, be prepared to spend an evening in jail, have a good lawyer on hand, and don't eat spicy food the night before a streak
abril 30, 2021
TIL of the $23 million dollar toilets designed by NASA for deep space missions. With odor control being a serious issue, NASA pays certified sniffers to smell the toilets after they've been used to evaluate odor-control measures. The lead engineer calls them the "unsung heroes of the space program".
abril 30, 2021
TIL: Some apartments in Hong Kong are so small they are called "coffin homes". They are so small that the UN called it an "insult to human dignity" with some being around 15 square feet".
abril 30, 2021
TIL When Ringo Starr temporarily left the Beatles in 1968 because he felt side-lined, his fellow Beatles sent him a telegram telling him that he was the best drummer in the world and that they loved him. He returned, and found his drumkit covered in flowers, spelling out "Welcome Back, Ringo.".
abril 30, 2021
TIL that the biggest amount of gold on earth is stored in its core and if extracted, it could cover the surface in a knee-high level.
abril 30, 2021
TIL Two guys honored their dead friend by using his ashes as fish bait and caught the worlds biggest Carp in his memory.
abril 30, 2021
TIL a woman in France accidentally received a phone bill of €11,721,000,000,000,000 (million billion euros)—nearly 6,000 times France's GDP. It took days of haggling until the phone company finally accepted that it was a mistake, and she owed just €117.21. They let it go.
abril 30, 2021
TIL about Australia's "Democracy Sausage" where some polling stations have a sausage wrapped in a slice of bread available on election day.
abril 30, 2021
TIL that the Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona was named by white settlers who assumed the Aztecs were responsible for all archeological sites but it turns out the monument has nothing to do with Montezuma or the Aztecs and yet no one bothered to rename it.
abril 30, 2021
TIL American country music is one of the most popular music genres in Nigeria
abril 29, 2021
TIL the average Philadelphian consumes twelve times as many pretzels as the national average
abril 29, 2021
TIL because of Calibri's status as the default font in MS Office, there has been many instances of forged documents being identified because this font was used. A Canadian business owner facing bankruptcy typed 2 trust documents dated before Calibri's release in 2007, exposing them as forged.
abril 29, 2021
TIL Mohammed Ali requested that his star on the Hollywood walk of fame be placed on a wall, instead of the ground. He didn't want people stepping on his name. He was the only celebrity with this privilege.
abril 29, 2021
TIL Although considered a contemporary classic, the original Back to the Future script was rejected more than 40 times, was going to be titled Space Man From Pluto, & had a refrigerator as the time machine, not the DeLorean.
abril 29, 2021
TIL Syphilis has had many names throughout history: In Germany, it was the "French Disease." In France, it was the "Italian Disease." In Holland, it was the "Spanish Disease." In Russia, it was the "Polish Disease." In Turkey, it was the "Christian Disease."
abril 29, 2021
TIL that Albert Einstein spent more time as a Swiss citizen (54 years) than as a German citizen (36 years). In third place comes his American citizenship (15 years).
abril 29, 2021
TIL all beaches in Hawaii, outside of military bases, are public. Landowners are even required to maintain public access paths to the beach in front of their property.
abril 29, 2021
TIL That Mike Row, the host of Dirty Jobs, was a former opera singer. This ended up landing him a job at QVC that he apparently got fired from 3 separate times.
abril 29, 2021
TIL that German virologist Christian Drosten discovered SARS-CoV in 2003 and developed a test for the virus. His research group also developed a test for MERS-CoV in 2012. He then went on to develop a test for SARS-CoV-2 and made it available worldwide on the internet in January 2020.
abril 29, 2021
TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe owned about one percent of all money in Denmark, had a fake nose made of gold after losing his own in a duel, and had a pet moose that attended parties in his place until one night when it got so drunk that it fell down a flight of stairs and broke its neck
abril 29, 2021
TIL by using a man in the middle, two brothers hacked the French optical telegraph system to gain advance information on the stock market. When they got caught two years later, they walked away as free men because in 1836 there were no laws against hacking
abril 29, 2021
TIL that Beethoven didn't know how to read a metronome and that's why his tempo indications are slower than what feels right (+-12bpm). After decades of theorising about it, turns out he was just writing down the number on the bottom of the metronome's upper weight, not the top.
abril 29, 2021
TIL that even though Edward Bannister won 1st prize for painting at the 1876 Philadelphia centennial international exhibition, after discovering Bannister's identity, the judge wanted to rescind his award because he was black. However this wasn't possible due to protests from the other competitors.
abril 29, 2021
TIL that all beaches in Mexico are property of the federal government. There are no privately owned beaches in the whole country, all of them are open to public use.
abril 29, 2021
TIL that the theory of gravitationally-assisted space travel - which enabled NASA’s Voyager and other missions to explore the solar system - was invented by a summer intern at JPL in 1961. He and his revolutionary idea were initially ignored, and he was not offered a job at JPL or NASA.
abril 29, 2021
TIL That one of the honey badgers defence is to go for the groin area. Basically ripping its preys testicles off until they bleed to death.
abril 29, 2021
TIL The Lord of the Rings films originally would have been released by Disney via Miramax but they chose not to fund it due to costs. They let New Line Cinema have it on the condition they pay $10M in "turnaround" costs. The LOTR trilogy will later on gross over $2.9B at the global box office.
abril 29, 2021
TIL that William Shatner played a prank on the set of the Twilight Zone while shooting the Nightmare at 20,000 Feet episode. Shatner staged a fake fight on the plane, and had a dummy fall off the wing to the concrete below. Richard Donner, the episode's director, thought Shatner had died.
abril 29, 2021
TIL: The pop song "Who Let the Dogs Out" by Baha Men (2000) was a feminist-themed protest against cat-calls.
abril 29, 2021
TIL that the left and right hemispheres of the brain must work together to understand puns; the left processes the linguistics, and the right analyses the punchline's double meaning
abril 29, 2021
TIL Michael Collins had spinal fusion surgery in 1968 and was removed from the crew of Apollo 8. It caused a rotation in astronaut assignments that landed him into a prime position on the historic Apollo 11 moon landing
abril 29, 2021
TIL Intimidator 305, a steel roller coaster located in Doswell, Virginia had to be reconsructed because riders reported symptoms of greying or blacking out immediately following the first drop due to overwhelming G-forces, a 300 ft (91m) drop with an 85 degree maximum descent angle.
abril 28, 2021
TIL that a club of multidisciplinary scientists formed a group called NecroSearch, who volunteer to assist law enforcement in the location of clandestine graves and recovery of evidence (aka cold-case bodies). Their team is comprised of botanists, meteorologists and other technical specialists.
abril 28, 2021
TIL that an acre was based on the amount of land a man could plow in a day.
abril 28, 2021
TIL that government agencies are training eagles to take down drones flying in restricted airspace and warfare situations
abril 28, 2021
TIL with every purchase of a bottle of Laphroaig whisky, you are entitled to a lifetime lease on a 1 square foot (0.09 square meters) plot of land on the Scottish island of Islay; it is a part of Laphroaig’s loyalty program “Friends of Laphroaig"
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