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fevereiro 28, 2022
TIL that Making Predictions Impedes the Formation of Memories.Trying to predict what is going to happen next in any given moment impedes your brain’s ability to encode your current moment in memory.
fevereiro 28, 2022
TIL the US-Canada border is the longest international border in the world, and that Alaska's portion alone is about 38%.
fevereiro 28, 2022
TIL about the British Pet Massacre, in which 750,000 pets were killed in anticipation of food shortages in WWII.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL European colonization of the Americas killed 10% of the world population. This makes the “Great Dying” the largest human mortality event in proportion to the global population, putting it second in absolute terms only to World War II
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL in Ancient Egypt people with dwarfism were highly respected and held high social status due to Egyptians viewing such people as having celestial gifts. In fact, during the 1st Dynasty, dwarfs directly served and worked with the king and royal household and were buried in subsidiary tombs.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL that the Ark of the Covenant, if constructed as described in the Bible, would actually function as an electrical capacitor storing and discharging static electricity
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL that the Pledge of Allegiance was written in 2 hours as part of a magazine marketing campaign to sell American flags.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL there is a partially underwater prison near the capital of Estonia that is a popular diving spot. The lake under which it is submerged was the quarry where the prisoners worked when the prison was operational. When it was abandoned the groundwater submerged it.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL a grown cat can jump between 5-8 times it's height. That would be the equivalent of human ability to jump from the ground up to 3rd or 4th floor!
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL that in 1894 an elephant in malaysia charged into a moving train to defend its herd. the train derailed and 2 people were killed.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL that electricity flows around copper wires, not through them.
fevereiro 27, 2022
TIL of Strivers' Row, a district of Harlem, NYC, whose houses were built in the 1890s. The houses sat empty for more than 20 years because at first the owner would only sell to white people, but by the 1920s the area had become the leading district for upper-middle class black families.
fevereiro 26, 2022
TIL The Mummy (1999) helped Universal studios gross over one billion dollars in home video sales
fevereiro 26, 2022
TIL In 1971, the Finnish Broadcasting Company built a TV-mast in Espoo, which unintentionally transmitted Finnish shows to viewers in Soviet Estonia. Despite efforts to jam the signals by the Soviets, Finnish broadcasts drew larger audiences in northern Estonia than Soviet Central Television did.
fevereiro 26, 2022
TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich
fevereiro 26, 2022
TIL The Praetorian Guard assassinated thirteen Roman emperors. "An astonishing rate of murders for a unit whose sole purpose was the protection of the emperor."
fevereiro 26, 2022
TIL Narwhals add a layer to their tusks every year they are alive and, much like tree rings, they show the living conditions that the narwhal experiences during that year of their life
fevereiro 26, 2022
TIL there are currently 4 major wars (10,000 or more combat-related deaths in current or past year) and 19 wars (1,000–9,999 combat-related deaths in current or past year) taking place
fevereiro 25, 2022
TIL in 1955 jazz musician Wardell Gray - who played with Count Basie and Benny Goodman - was scheduled to play the opening night of the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Vegas, the first integrated hotel-casino in the city. Gray never played and his body was found in the desert, with his death still a mystery.
fevereiro 25, 2022
TIL MI6 believed Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce WMDs based on information provided by a false agent who based his reports using scenes from the movie The Rock
fevereiro 25, 2022
TIL Male honeybees,called drones, soul purpose is to mate with the queen bee, if they get the chance to mate they die right after. Despite not really doing anything else in the matriarchal hive they are vital for survival of the species.
fevereiro 25, 2022
TIL that the first million-selling record in the United States was "Wreck of the Old 97" recorded by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.
fevereiro 25, 2022
TIL that In World War II, British spies plotted to spike Hitler's food with oestrogen to make him less aggressive
fevereiro 25, 2022
TIL about the dispute over Jewish assets in dormant Swiss bank accounts in the 1990s turned into Switzerland’s biggest foreign policy crisis since the Second World War. On August 12, 1998, a billion-dollar settlement was reached.
fevereiro 24, 2022
TIL the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was banned from Poland because censors felt it was "pro-German". Ironically enough it was also banned in Nazi Germany for being "anti-German"
fevereiro 24, 2022
TIL of The Golden Spruce, a 300 year old, 170ft tall, Sitka spruce with a rare genetic mutation that gave its needles a golden color. It was a sacred symbol of the Haida people of British Columbia. It was cut down by Grant Hadwin, a forest engineer, as an act of protest of the logging industry.
fevereiro 24, 2022
TIL that the term "Third World" was originally used to refer to countries that were unaligned during the Cold War. It was only after the war that it became used to refer to a developing country because incidentally most of the Third World were developing countries.
fevereiro 24, 2022
TIL the rate of childhood obesity is highest in Greece, with 44% of boys being overweight. Italy, New Zealand, and Slovenia are next, with the US in 5th at 30%
fevereiro 24, 2022
TIL PFC Oscar P. Austin, A US Marine was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic action on February 23, 1969. While In Battle, He leaped onto an incoming grenade to shield a fellow marine, Afterwards, jumped in between an enemy soldier and a unconscious fellow marine and was mortally wounded.
fevereiro 24, 2022
TIL that unlike most animals, goats have excellent object permanence and are able to remember where objects are hidden without being able to see or smell them.
fevereiro 23, 2022
TIL that 25% of American cowboys were Black. I also learned that (its rumored) the term "Cowboy" originated from calling Black cow-hands, cow-boys as a derogatory term.
fevereiro 23, 2022
TIL that on the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbard, it is illegal to die or be born. With a population of over 2500, if anyone is close to death or birth they are sent to the mainland.
fevereiro 23, 2022
TIL that "Psycho," "Silence of the Lambs," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were all based on the same serial killer
fevereiro 23, 2022
TIL suede is made from the underside of animal skin. It is softer and more pliable than the outer skin layer, though not as durable. The name literally means "Sweden," where popular gloves were made.
fevereiro 23, 2022
TIL that when BET, Black Entertainment Television, aired the TV show The Wire, they edited out much of the second season, which focuses on mostly white dock workers
fevereiro 22, 2022
TIL that while Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time, the Navajo Nation, mostly within Arizona, does. But the Navajo Reservation surrounds the Hopi Reservation, which doesn't. And inside the Hopi Reservation, there's a Navajo enclave with 293 people, observing daylight savings time.
fevereiro 22, 2022
TIL a female reporter attempted to recreate the famous novel "Around The World In 80 Days". Not only did she complete it with eight days to spare, she made a detour to interview Jules Verne, the original author.
fevereiro 22, 2022
TIL that if you fell asleep during a Puritan church service you would be poked by a long wooden pole.
fevereiro 22, 2022
TIL: In 2020, Columbians shipped 130 grams of cocaine to Italy, inside individually hollowed out coffee beans. They were caught when a customs official noticed the "sender" shared the same name as a mafia boss in John Wick.
fevereiro 22, 2022
TIL As a presidential candidate, Nixon sabotaged then US President Johnson's peace talks with Vietnam by negotiating a "better deal" later should he become president.
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL Zebras have poor eyesight and ostriches have poor hearing, which led them to form a symbiotic relationship through communicating and warning each other of danger.
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL of The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902. The French wanted rats exterminated from the sewer system. They set a bounty for each dead rat tail. Thousands of tails were submitted per day but the rat problem only grew worse. They found the hunters were breeding, not hunting, rats for their tails.
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL "Monster Mash" re-entered the Hot 100 (at #37) for Halloween 2021. It had last charted in 1973.
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL the day before his Assassination, Julius Ceasar held a dinner party where he was asked what the best way to die would be. He responded that a sudden and unexpected death would be ideal. One of his assassins, Decimus, was sitting right across from him.
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL Hisako Koyama, a female Japanese astronomer who hand drew sunspots every day for more than 40 years. Her detailed sketches aid researchers in studying solar cycles and the sun's magnetic fields
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL After Losing the Civil War, the Vice-President of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens, was elected to the U.S. Senate, House, and was Governor of Georgia until 1883
fevereiro 21, 2022
TIL George Picquart, an anti-semitic French army officer, helped to convict fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, of treason. Subsequently promoted to lead the secret intelligence service, he then discovered and exposed the conspiracy that had framed Dreyfus, eventually toppling the government.
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