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julho 31, 2022
TIL The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997.
julho 31, 2022
TIL that the Yautja alien in Predator (1987) was originally played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, until he was fired due to the actor experiencing dehydration during production.
julho 31, 2022
TIL - According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement. By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress
julho 31, 2022
TIL No one born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
julho 31, 2022
TIL of Hannah Beswick; who was so afraid of being buried alive that she paid her physician to be kept above ground and be provisionally checked for signs of life after she died. She was finally buried 110 years after her death, being declared "irrevocably and unmistakably dead"
julho 31, 2022
TIL The Yupik people of Alaska and Siberia do not consider themselves Inuit and are ethnically different. They favor the term Yupik, Yupiit, or Eskimo. In Canada, Inuit is the preferred term, while in Greenland, they use Greenlanders or Kalaallit
julho 30, 2022
TIL that hummingbirds can fly backward because they can manipulate their feathers to change pitch, which affects whether they move up or down, and yaw, which affects whether they move right or left.
julho 30, 2022
TIL Unilever used to have a whaling fleet
julho 30, 2022
TIL that The Baltic Way or the Baltic Chain was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989 in which approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 690 kilometers (430 mi) across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
julho 30, 2022
TIL about the “Bionic Chef”, Eduardo Garcia, who was electrocuted by a 2,400V electrified baby black bear while alone in the Montana wilderness, costing him his hand due to the resulting burns and infection
julho 30, 2022
TIL Jimi Hendrix wrote his classic song "The Wind Cries Mary" following an argument with his girlfriend (whose middle name is Mary) after she cooked him lumpy mashed potatoes.
julho 30, 2022
TIL that the first asteroid ever discovered, Ceres, was "lost" by astronomers and found again due to the mathematical skill of a 24-year-old Carl Friedrich Gauss. Ceres, now considered a dwarf planet, was observed for only 41 days in 1801 before the sun's brightness made its position unobservable.
julho 29, 2022
TIL the word Dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word Thaler, meaning from the valley. Thaler is the shortened version of Joachimthalers, a mine town in the Czech Republic (formerly Bohemia) where silver coins were minted.
julho 29, 2022
TIL Salivating before vomiting is a way for your body to protect your teeth from the incoming stomach acid.
julho 29, 2022
TIL that in the 1970s and 1980s more than 4,600 hemophiliacs contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated blood-clotting products.
julho 29, 2022
TIL that male cats may hump other male cats as a sign of dominance, and hump other things when they're stressed.
julho 29, 2022
TIL in 2020 a bar-tailed godwit broke the "world record" for the longest flight by a bird, flying for 11 days straight from Alaska to New Zealand, a distance of over 12,000 km or 7,500 miles.
julho 29, 2022
TIL that the original Japanese name for the game Resident Evil was called Biohazard. Capcom thought the name Biohazard would be impossible to trademark in North America due to other games with the same name. Capcom held an internal company contest to find a new name, and Resident Evil was chosen.
julho 29, 2022
TIL Every single British tank has a built in boiling vessel so the crew can have cheeky mid-battle tea breaks
julho 28, 2022
TIL Iran is the only country where it’s legal to sell your organs, so demand always meets supply. A kidney is worth $231 USD and the government contributes part of the cost.
julho 28, 2022
TIL the National Weather Service’s definition of “normal” is the average from 1991-2020, despite the fact that each decade since the 1960s has been hotter than the last.
julho 28, 2022
TIL the BBC initially refused to publish Richard Dimbleby's eye witness account of Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they didn't believe it was as terrible as he described. It's estimated 70,000 people died at Belsen. The BBC only agreed to broadcast after Dimbleby threatened to resign.
julho 28, 2022
TIL that when Kentucky Fried Chicken moved its headquarters to Tennessee, Colonel Sanders said "This ain't no goddam Tennessee Fried Chicken, no matter what some slick, silk-suited son-of-a-bitch says". The company moved back to Kentucky.
julho 28, 2022
TIL in a cave near Nazareth, archeologists found a skeleton of a 13 year old boy with with deer horns that had been placed on his chest. The cave was dated to be around 92,000 years old.
julho 28, 2022
TIL About Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who attacked the US House of Representatives to protest the forced takeover of Puerto Rico, shooting Five US Congressmen
julho 28, 2022
TIL the infamous shock video "2 Girls 1 Cup" was originally sold as a DVD titled "Hungry B*tches". The "vomit" in the movie was just food the actors had chewed and spit-out without swallowing, and film's director has stated in court that the supposed excrement they consume was just ice cream.
julho 27, 2022
TIL: Players on losing teams in the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship take home a pouch dirt from the field, as a memento of their fleeting time on the hallowed grounds of Kōshien, the field the tournament has been played on since 1924.
julho 27, 2022
TIL: The brand Fruit Of the Loom is older than the light bulb, automobile and the telephone.
julho 27, 2022
TIL of the Pigmy Three-Toed Sloth on the Panama island of Escudo will only eat the leaves of Red Mangrove trees which contain a fungus with a chemical profile similar to Valium, leaving the sloths in what seems like a life-long high from their main diet
julho 27, 2022
TIL when a pilot ejects from their plane, the ejection seat manufacturer gives them a tie. The Ejection Tie Club is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat. There are over 6,000 members.
julho 27, 2022
TIL C. J. Lewis tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in 1981 and two years later he tried to escape from psych ward to kill Prince Charles
julho 27, 2022
TIL that when Woody Harrelson was nominated for an Oscar for portraying pornographer Larry Flynt in 'The People vs Larry Flynt,' he was dismayed to discover the actual Flynt wasn't invited to the awards show. Harrelson then brought Flynt as his plus one. Harrelson lost to Geoffrey Rush that year.
julho 27, 2022
TIL that Strom Thurmond only resigned from the US senate 6 months before his death at the age of 100
julho 27, 2022
TIL that, in 1996, workers at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station found and subsequently decontaminated four orphaned, mildly-radioactive kittens.
julho 27, 2022
TIL the University of Kansas (KU) allowed men and women to enroll equally since its founding in 1866, one of the first public education institutions in the US to do so
julho 26, 2022
TIL about "Bomb" a Canadian Sherman M4A2 tank that landed on Juno Beach on D Day and fought across Europe every day until the the words "Unload, clear guns, the war is over" came over the radio, indicating the end of the war. 4000km travelled, never missed a day of combat.
julho 26, 2022
TIL that all Fruit Loops all share the same fruit-blend flavor.
julho 26, 2022
TIL that in 1989, scientists at IBM succeeded in arranging 35 individual xenon atoms on a substrate of chilled crystal of nickel to spell out the initials "IBM". It was the first time atoms had been precisely positioned on a flat surface.
julho 26, 2022
TIL that the 'inner-voice' of most life-long & completely deaf people is seeing/feeling themselves acting out sign language
julho 26, 2022
TIL Lamborghini started out as Lamborghini Trattori, which designed, built and sold tractors
julho 26, 2022
TIL about Linda Buonanno, an IBS patient who was relieved of symptoms by knowingly taking a placebo pill
julho 25, 2022
TIL that after the Italian surrender during WWII, 90% of US captured Italian POWs joined what are known as Italian Service Units. While still technically prisoners, they donned the American Army uniform and assisted with Allied war efforts through streamline war manufacturing and logistical support.
julho 25, 2022
TIL that in 1972 school backpacks as known today were first used at the University of Washington. Existing backpacks for day hikers were modified by Jansport, at the time a Seattle-based company.
julho 25, 2022
TIL in 1977 Indian painter, PK Mahanandia, sold his belongings and cycled 4,000 miles from India to Sweden to visit his love, Charlotte von Schedvin because he couldn't afford a plane ticket. They got married in 1979
julho 25, 2022
TIL on 1978, in Pennsylvania, Robert McFall, suffering from terminal aplasitc anemia, sued first cousin David Shimp to force him to give him bone marrow but court ruled against him. He died of massive hemorrhage half a month after
julho 25, 2022
TIL that it was practically illegal to own gold in the US from 1933 to 1974. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to force all citizens to turn in almost all gold for about $20 per ounce, then declared the value of $20 in gold to be worth $35 in paper currency - creating a massive inflation.
julho 25, 2022
TIL a Brazilian priest strapped himself to 1000 balloons as a fundraising event for truckers. He set off into the sky and then disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. His body was recovered months later.
julho 25, 2022
TIL that red pandas were the original pandas and giant pandas were named pandas due to similar habits to the red pandas.
julho 24, 2022
TIL that the coldest temperature in the universe, as far as scientists can tell, occurred on Earth. In 2003, physicists at MIT reduced the temperature of a cloud of sodium molecules to 810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero.
julho 24, 2022
TIL: GPS satellites are far enough away from earth that time moves slower for them, so they are pre-corrected to compensate for relativity using Einstein's calculations.
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