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agosto 31, 2022
TIL A personal trainer died after mixing up and drinking his own energy drink made from caffeine powder. His drink had the caffeine level equivalent to 200 cups of coffee, leading to caffeine overdose
agosto 31, 2022
TIL that Robert Davi (Jake Fratelli from the Goonies) was a headliner in Vegas singing Sinatra classics and released his own album.
agosto 31, 2022
TIL that Francium is the second rarest naturally occurring element--as little as 20–30 g (1oz) exists at any given time throughout the Earth's crust.
agosto 31, 2022
TIL that "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin inserted subliminal images of a white-faced demon into his film, which were difficult to notice before the movie was released on home video. The face, onscreen for 1/8 of second in each appearance, represented a demon possessing the young girl.
agosto 31, 2022
TIL of Fidel Castro’s dairy cow, Ubre Blanca, who was specially bred to break the American record in milk production
agosto 31, 2022
TIL that dozens of indigenous women have gone missing in and around the Yakama Reservation in Yakima, Washington, USA. Some have been found dead, and most cases are unsolved.
agosto 31, 2022
TIL Chile has such a long coast, in part, because they won all of Bolivia's coast and some of Peru's coast in a late-1800s war. This is still a sensitive issue between Chile and Bolivia today.
agosto 31, 2022
TIL that when sperm whales started getting killed for lamp oil, they were able to develop and spread effective defence tactics across the ocean in just a few years
agosto 31, 2022
TIL The saying 'It's all Greek to me' has dozens of localised variations, including 'That's Chinese to me (Dutch)', 'To me this is Turkish (Venetian)', 'Am I speaking Persian? (Hindi)' and 'It's all Hebrew (Finnish).
agosto 31, 2022
TIL that a third type of twins exist: "Semi-identical" - When a single egg is fertilized by two sperm and then splits.
agosto 30, 2022
TIL 37% of the entire US government budget was pension payments to veterans of the Civil War by 1894.
agosto 30, 2022
TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named 'Village Idiot'
agosto 30, 2022
Til wolverine was created because Marvel's then editor in chief Roy Thomas wanted a Canadian hero to boost north-of-the-border sales
agosto 30, 2022
TIL that during deep sleep, the cerebro-spinal fluid found in the brain and spinal cord flows into the brain and helps carry away waste products, including amyloid proteins that are associated with Alzheimer's disease.
agosto 30, 2022
TIL about Ota Benga, an indigenous Mbuti who was featured at a 1904 human zoo (Louisiana Purchase Exposition). There he was kept, caged, with an orangutan as an attempt to ridicule Darwinism. He was given a bow and arrow so as to "enhance the primitive image".
agosto 30, 2022
TIL the French and Spanish have a 600yr old peace treaty requiring payment of 3 cows each year
agosto 29, 2022
TIL 17 yr old future President Herbert Hoover showed great talent on the math entrance exam for Stanford but he never finished high school. He received remedial tutoring in August before he was accepted into the tuition-free university, and he vowed to help other students get a Stanford education
agosto 29, 2022
TIL when Senator Dianne Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco in 1985, she publicly divulged forensic evidence detectives were using to catch Richard Ramirez, angering the detectives and allowing Ramirez to dispose of his incriminating sneakers
agosto 29, 2022
TIL Pakistan contains more glaciers - 7,253 than any other country on earth outside the polar regions.
agosto 29, 2022
TIL wild mammals account for only 4% of the total mammal biomass on Earth (humans account for 36% and domesticated livestock 60%)
agosto 29, 2022
TIL: The top 3 imported items by weight in the US are furniture, bananas and artwork
agosto 29, 2022
TIL wild mammals account for only 4% of the total mammal biomass on Earth (humans account for 36% and domesticated livestock 60%)
agosto 29, 2022
TIL about the Ice cream barge, a WWII ship entirely devoted to making ice cream
agosto 29, 2022
TIL a group of 22 people is responsible for all US military patch and insignia designs
agosto 28, 2022
TIL that between 2004 and 2017, the number of U.S. men who read for pleasure dropped by 40%, women by 29%.
agosto 28, 2022
TIL in 1972, diver Bret Gilliam survived a 325+ ft ascent, with an empty oxygen tank, after trying to save a colleague from attacking sharks.
agosto 28, 2022
TIL approximately 73% of the mass of the visible universe is in the form of hydrogen. Helium makes up about 25% of the mass, and everything else represents only 2%. Most of the atoms in our bodies and Earth are a part of this small portion of the matter of the universe
agosto 28, 2022
TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.
agosto 27, 2022
TIL that the roar from the MGM lion is actually that of a tiger
agosto 27, 2022
TIL of Martin Couney the creator of "Infantoriums", A 20th century sideshow where people would pay 5 cents to view premature babies housed in incubators. Despite the ethics at the time premature babies were neglected and 4/5 died in hospitals. Couney is credited with saving the lives of 6,500 babies
agosto 27, 2022
TIL People in Liverpool, England have reported a certain area as being a hot spot for 'time slips', accidental temporary trips forward or backward in time.
agosto 27, 2022
TIL that the US lost six nukes, and two of them are still buried in North & South Carolina.
agosto 27, 2022
TIL Botox may alleviate depression symptoms in some people. Researchers found that by paralyzing muscles in the face associated with negative emotions (called grief muscles) people's moods improved. They believe it interrupts a feedback loop where negative face expressions can impact your mood.
agosto 27, 2022
TIL about Project Possible, Nimsdai Purja climbed the 14 mountains that are above 8,000 meters in just Six months.They told Nims his project was simply impossible. So he called it Project Possible. While climbing Kanchenjunga he was partying the night before and was hungover during the climb.
agosto 27, 2022
TIL the oldest verified Austrian man so far is the accomplished mathematician Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002), who finished his thesis as a WWI's POW, fought in WWII at the age of 50, and wrote his last research paper at the age of 103
agosto 27, 2022
TIL about the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII. “In the first four months of 1942, German U-boats ravaged the shipping lanes off North Carolina, sinking almost 40 ships during that period. It is an often overlooked piece of American history.”
agosto 27, 2022
TIL eucalyptus trees can store gold in their leaves after transporting it all the way from their roots
agosto 26, 2022
TIL a single Egyptian diplomatic car has accumulated 1,983 unpaid New York City parking tickets, totaling $223,265. Diplomatic vehicles in total owe $15.7 million in parking fines.
agosto 26, 2022
TIL during a preview of the Sistine Chapel paintings, one of the Pope's men criticized all the "disgraceful" nudity. So Michaelangelo painted the critic's likeness into the Last Judgement, wearing nothing but a snake that's biting his dick.
agosto 26, 2022
TIL that in addition to using the stars, Micronesians navigated the Pacific by recognizing and interpreting different type of ocean swells, even using them to pinpoint the existence of islands hundreds of miles away. Marshallese islanders additionally made stick maps of these ocean swell patterns.
agosto 26, 2022
TIL more countries use the comma separator (17,6) than the point separator (17.6)
agosto 26, 2022
TIL that lipstick was first invented in ancient Sumerian and Indus Valley about 5,000 years ago. Later, people wore lipstick for different purposes. The ancient Egyptians wore lipstick to show social status rather than gender, while the Chinese protected their lips.
agosto 25, 2022
TIL Phryne of Greece was acquitted due to her beauty, after jurors admired her naked body
agosto 25, 2022
TIL Red Bull energy drink was originally invented by a duck farmer from Thailand as a hangover cure before being bought over by Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz who discovered it on a business trip in 1987.
agosto 25, 2022
TIL singer-songwriter Jewel had a relationship with actor Sean Penn. He sought her out with a phone call to her father's home in Alaska after watching her television debut on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 1995. Jewel's father assumed it was a prank call.
agosto 25, 2022
TIL: Until 2013, foreign chefs in Japan were legally barred from working in restaurants specializing in traditional Japanese food and could only serve foreign cuisine. Japan changed its regulations for foreign chefs after traditional Japanese cuisine won UNESCO designation.
agosto 25, 2022
TIL Production on ALF was tense. The set was elevated and full of trap doors constantly being reset. Due to technical issues the 30 minute show took 20 to 25 hours to shoot. One especially stressful day Max Wright attacked ALF and the two had to be separated.
agosto 25, 2022
TIL that in 1933, yo-yos were banned in Syria, because many locals superstitiously blamed the use of them for a severe drought.
agosto 25, 2022
TIL Ondine’s curse occurs when a part of your brain is injured causing you to lose the subconscious drive to breathe
agosto 25, 2022
TIL the "heart burial" coincided with the Crusades where, rather than sending a whole body back for burial, they just transported the deceased’s heart preserved in lead or ivory boxes, often with spices to keep it from smelling too much.
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