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setembro 30, 2021
TIL that there is a fake McDonald's restaurant in Los Angeles hiding in an office park used only for TV and commercial purposes
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that in China 209 BC two generals were going to be late which was punishable by death. They realized that the punish for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and created an uprising.
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that strippers can deduct boob jobs as a business expense
setembro 30, 2021
TIL humans have stripes on our bodies which are invisible to the naked eye, called Blaschko’s Lines
setembro 30, 2021
TIL in 1959 Cornell physicists had speculated that any extraterrestrial civilization attempting to communicate via radio signals might do so using a frequency of 1420 mHz which is naturally emitted by hydrogen. 18 years later that exact transmission was read in Ohio, nicknamed the "Wow! signal".
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that NFL QB Drew Bledsoe sheared a blood vessel from a hit. He most likely would have died but a team doctor caught it before he went home. The case is now taught to med students as a reason to not “jump to conclusions”. Bledsoe was replaced by a young QB named Tom Brady, his first game.
setembro 30, 2021
TIL about Garden Path Sentences, which are grammatically correct sentences that confuse the reader by making them parse the sentence incorrectly initially, causing confusion. Examples include "The old man the boat" and "The horse raced past the barn fell."
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that the Aztec god of war's symbol is the hummingbird, because hummingbirds are vicious little bastards
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that the FTC actually recommends against organizations using regular password changing policies as it only encourages users to use simple, easy to remember passwords that they then only alter in predictable ways.
setembro 30, 2021
TIL about Cambyses’s Army of 50,000 men who marched into the desert in 524 BC and were never seen again (until human remains were recently found).
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that the two least profitable movies of all time both take place on Mars. Mars Needs Moms, an animated Disney film, lost $143 million, and John Carter, a live action Disney film, lost nearly $127 million.
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that the Beatles’ final concert for a paying audience wasn't sold out, leaving over 15,000 unsold seats, largely because no one realized it would be their last concert appearance.
setembro 30, 2021
TIL Irish pubs all over the world have their interior designed, built, shipped and installed by specialized Irish companies. Bar owners can choose the style they want, and at least one company will even work with consultants on menu development.
setembro 30, 2021
TIL that people used to believe that mischievous sprits lived in the grains of wood, so while they were speaking about good fortune they would "knock on wood" to make noise so that the spirits couldn't hear what they were saying and cause their fortune to take a turn for the worse.
setembro 30, 2021
TIL despite being famous on TV for his quick temper and frequent swearing, a 2005 interview revealed that Gordon Ramsay retained 85% of his staff since 1993.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL - The Death Star has a trench because the model arrived as two hemispheres and lighting would have made hiding the equatorial "flaw" impossible
setembro 29, 2021
TIL British band Iron Maiden released 'Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter' on Christmas Eve 1990 in order to "scare the living daylights out of Cliff Richard", who was promoting 'Saviour's Day'. Despite being banned by the BBC and rarely being played live, it remains the band's only UK #1.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that while Einstein's theory of general relativity was complete by 1916 the theory was not seen as very applicable to physics. It took till the 1960s, nearly 50 years later, before the theory became central to modern physics.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that Yuri Gagarin, the first man to fly into outer space died 8 yrs later when a MiG-15 he was flying crashed near Moscow during a routine training flight. An official investigation concluded that Gagarin swerved to avoid a foreign object sending the plane into a tailspin that caused the crash.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that mangrove forests are beneficial to coast lines; they protect them from hurricanes, tropical storms, and other types of weather patterns typical to the Tropics/Equator.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that by 1919, during the First World War, hamburgers were renamed "Liberty Steaks" or "Liberty Sandwiches" as part of an effort to promote American patriotism and forced Americanization.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL In the '71 film, The Andromeda Strain, in order to film the sequence in which a monkey was 'killed', an airtight set was created into which carbon monoxide was pumped, forcing the monkey to suffocate. Then, a waiting veterinarian rushed on the set and treated it with oxygen.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL it only takes the average person 10-20 minutes to fall asleep
setembro 29, 2021
TIL Nokia 1100 phone, originally sold for under $100, reached the price of over $32,000 in 2009 as criminals discovered that it can receive SMS messages for another phone number, thus allowing to intercept sensitive information like one-time passwords for online banking
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that American woman have the biggest boobs in the world.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that the idea of minting a "trillion-dollar coin" as a last resort against U.S. debt default was first articulated in 2011 in blog comments. The commenter, a lawyer, was inspired by the practice of ordering coins to earn credit card rewards and then depositing them to pay off the purchase.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL an Ivorian man received a $60,000 villa in recognition of his punctuality and was "so unusually good at being punctual that his colleagues call him 'Mr White Man's Time'"
setembro 29, 2021
TIL a suicide bomber, known as Black Widow, planned to detonate in Moscow on New Year's Eve, using her phone as the trigger. When she received a spam message, the bomb detonated, killing only her.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL up to 78% of NFL players go bankrupt or fall into severe financial stress within just two years of retirement.
setembro 29, 2021
Today I learned about Jakob Fugger, a German merchant of quite modest upbringing who by the time of his death had acquired the equivalent of 2% of Europe's GDP. His wealth adjusted by inflation would be worth 400 billion USD today, ranking him alongside Rockefeller and Carnegie.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL about the Mysterious Havana Syndrome that has been affecting US diplomats and spies in other countries, experienced first in Havana, Cuba in 2016. later in China and currently being reported in Serbia. It is a mystery unlike others that has not been solved yet.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL the sex of alligator hatchlings is based purely on temperature while incubating. At 86F or lower, the babies will all be female; at 93F or higher, they will all be male. The mother can sense these changes in temperature and will alter the nest to maintain an optimum temperature.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL Americans Watched Over 57 Billion Minutes Of The Office In 2020
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that the Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum 'hoboed' as a young man. A 'hobo' will happily work, unlike a 'tramp' who will only work when forced to, and a 'bum' who will not work at all.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that in 1964, during the height of Beatlemania, the Beatles landed in Sydney and a woman ran across the airport tarmac and threw her intellectually disabled young child at Paul McCartney shouting, "Catch him, Paul!" McCartney caught him, gave her son back to her and she declared "He's better!"
setembro 29, 2021
TIL Same species trees in forest roots are connected to each other via a fungal network called a mycorrhizal network. Trees use these networks to communicate, share resources, help the sick trees etc. Fungal networks do all this work for trees in return for a share in food.
setembro 29, 2021
TIL that an annual supply of tap water for a person who drinks 8 glasses of water per day costs around $0.33 whereas the same quantity of bottled water costs over $200
setembro 29, 2021
TIL it wasn't illegal to buy or sell human organs until 1984 in the US.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL soft-shell crab is crab harvested after recently molting. I always assumed it was a different species of crab with a softer shell.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL the movie Big (1988) was co-written by Steven Spielberg’s sister, Anne Spielberg. It’s her only official credit for a major film and was Oscar-nominated for it.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL That it's a myth that the Great Wall of China can be seen by eye from space, and after China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, himself confirmed he couldn't see it, there were calls to revise school textbooks "to reflect what has been proven with science and confirmed by China's own astronaut."
setembro 28, 2021
TIL that the deadliest hurricane in Atlantic history was the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed roughly 22,000 people throughout the Caribbean. The storm’s winds were so intense they felled every tree on Barbados (debarking many of them) and carried ships' cannons aloft up to 100 ft (30 m).
setembro 28, 2021
TIL the life of a wild rabbit is nasty, brutish, and short. Due to predators, disease, and food shortages, they rarely live past 1-2 years. Well-cared-for pet rabbits live 8-12 years.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL that children at the Wittenroom blue asbestos mine used to play in play pits filled with asbestos. They have higher death rates, cancer and mesothelioma.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL in 1911, a House Member introduced a resolution to abolish the Senate because it "has become an obstructive and useless body, a menace to the liberties of the people, and an obstacle to social growth;" His proposal died silently in committee.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL the fez hat (made famous by the Ottoman Empire) didn't go out of style due to lack of interest. Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (1800s) made them a requirement as he wanted to replace turbans. The fez was considered more modern. It was later banned in 1925 by Kemal Atatürk to modernize the country.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL When Capcom suggested Jean-Claude Van Damme to play all-American character Guile in the Street Fighter movie, the director said "What about his accent?" Capcom responded "What accent?" unaware he had one as all his films were dubbed in Japanese
setembro 28, 2021
TIL Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India. It was deemed that he did not have the academic ability to get into Oxford nor could his parents afford it so he worked as an assisstant editor for a local newspaper in Lahore, India. Rudyard Kipling would later go on to write 'The Jungle Book'.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL that Nigeria has the second largest film industry in the world with Nollywood. Only Indian Bollywood is bigger, American Hollywood follows in third place.
setembro 28, 2021
TIL a British woman named Dorothy Eady hit her head as a kid in 1907, woke up and was convinced she was a reincarnated Egyptian priestess and somehow knew the location of objects in Egypt that had not been discovered yet; eventually moving to Egypt and studying as much as she could
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