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setembro 30, 2022
TIL that there is NO waiting period for reporting a missing person. The waiting period is a myth that originated from shows and movies.
setembro 30, 2022
TIL the Nazis considered cats to be “Jews amongst the animals” because they were “antisocial” and forbade actual Jews from owning any pets to make it easier to deport them without leaving behind animals.
setembro 30, 2022
TIL that Bhutan held mock elections with 4 mock parties to prepare the country for a democratic transition. The two first-round winners chose high school students for candidates in the second round.
setembro 30, 2022
TIL any bullet fired into the air that's heavier than a .22LR - and even that if fired close to vertically - can be lethal on the way down.
setembro 30, 2022
TIL that during war, buildings of cultural significance like museums or churches can be protected by placing a blue shield symbol which is internationally recognised.
setembro 30, 2022
TIL The Xerox 914, the first commercially successful photocopier, came equipped with a 'scorch eliminator'. The scorch eliminator was actually just a fire extinguisher, which was required as the device commonly caught fire.
setembro 30, 2022
TIL The first plane crash caused by a crocodile killed 20 passengers and crew. It was caused by a crocodile smuggled on-board. The crocodile escaped and panicking passengers rushed the cockpit, unbalancing the plane.
setembro 30, 2022
TIL that the United States Air Force owns 4 Doomsday planes specifically designed for nuclear war, and one of them has a callsign named 'ORDER66'
setembro 29, 2022
TIL that the world's largest collection of flutes (yes, the musical instrument) is held by the US Library of Congress.
setembro 29, 2022
TIL: Fredric Baur (the food chemist that invented Pringles and with them, the Pringles can) wished to be buried in a Pringles can. His kids obliged and his grave has part of his ashes in a regular Pringles can and the rest in a regular urn.
setembro 29, 2022
TIL that Ireland is the only country in the world where you can be served fried chicken prepared with Colonel Sander's original KFC recipe
setembro 29, 2022
TIL that Mountain Dew is banned in the European Union and Japan because it contains bromine, the element found in brominated flame retardants
setembro 29, 2022
TIL The pistol shrimp creates a bubble louder than a gunshot and when it bursts, it generates heat four times hotter than lava.
setembro 29, 2022
TIL about Bactrian camels, a species native to the steppes of Central Asia. They can withstand temperatures ranging from -30 to +50 Celsius! Their habitat includes arid desert, stony plains, and sand dunes.
setembro 29, 2022
TIL that the Fleetwood Mac song "The Chain" is an assembly of unused material through tape splicing.
setembro 28, 2022
TIL when the automatic telephone exchange was invented in the 1890s, it was advertised as providing a "girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone" experience to contrast it with manual telephone exchanges operated by women
setembro 28, 2022
TIL Coolio once stage dived into his fans in England but they all moved when he jumped then proceeded to rob him of his jewelry and shoes.
setembro 28, 2022
TIL. The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa produced the loudest sound in recorded history. The eruption reached an estimated 310 dB, loud enough to be heard 3,000 miles away and so powerful that it ruptured the eardrums of sailors 40 miles away. Its wave travelled the globe 3.5 times over the next 5 days.
setembro 28, 2022
TIL: That the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had planned to carve out an artificial harbor in Northern Alaska using buried nuclear explosions. The plan (Project Chariot) had a lot of public support and would have been carried out if the Inupiat village of Point Hope hadn't strongly opposed it.
setembro 28, 2022
TIL in 550 AD the Byzantine Emperor dispatched two monks to smuggle silk worms out of China to bypass Persian control over the Silk Road. Hidden in the monks' walking sticks, the silk worms produced a Byzantine silk industry that fuelled the economy for the next 650 years.
setembro 28, 2022
TIL that 54% of American adults are considered to have inadequate literacy
setembro 28, 2022
TIL the United States has purchased thousands of weapons’ worth of uranium from decommissioned Soviet nuclear weapons. It is estimated that one in ten lightbulbs in the US are powered by nuclear fuel removed from weapons formerly pointed at the US and its allies.
setembro 27, 2022
TIL that scientists have discovered doing simple calf raises while sitting at your desk can raise your metabolism for hours.
setembro 27, 2022
TIL that Beethoven's prescribed tempo for his songs is so fast that it sounds bad, and researchers think it's because he was using his metronome wrong
setembro 27, 2022
TIL that 40% of amateur Japanese golfers carry hole-in-one insurance. In Japan, if you make a hole-in-one you are expected to throw a party in your honor, which can cost thousands of dollars.
setembro 27, 2022
TIL that according to US Middle East Specialist Edgar Wright, an unknown individual impersonated Harry Truman's voice on the telephone and swayed the President of Haiti into voting for a motion at the UN.
setembro 27, 2022
TIL that contrary to popular belief, shaking a champagne bottle does not increase it's pressure. The pressure actually drops a tiny bit
setembro 27, 2022
TIL that Jill Ellis is the only coach - women or men - to win the World Cup as a foreign coach. Every prior winning coach has had the same nationality as the winning country.
setembro 27, 2022
TIL that Steven Spielberg was rejected from USC's film school. He later became a trustee and large donor to the university.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL The Soup Nazi was first referenced in Sleepless in Seattle, 2 years before appearing on Seinfeld
setembro 26, 2022
TIL that cream of tartar is made from a crystalline byproduct of wine making.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL that Betty Lou Oliver, not only survived a B52 crashing into the Empire State Building with major burns and while being rescued survived a 75 Story Fall down the elevator shaft when the elevators cable snapped.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL of "Target Fixation": a phenomenon where an individual becomes so focused on an observed object (be it a target, or hazard to be avoided) that they inadvertently increase their risk of colliding with the object.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL that Dan Synder, owner of the Washington Commanders, illegally cleared old-growth national park forest from behind his home in 2004. The unobstructed view of the Potomac River is estimated to have raised the value of his own property $500,000 – $1,000,000. He was fined $1000.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL about the story of Phyllis (Alexander's wife) and Aristotle (Alexander's tutor). Phyllis allegedly seduced Aristotle, forced him to kneel on the ground and rode on him while whipping and verbally degrading him.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL that the Simpsons episodes "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" and "Burns, Baby Burns" were originally conceived as a single episode where Grampa and Mr. Burns are revealed to have fallen in love with the same woman while they were fighting in World War II, and the woman had a love child.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL. During the Cold War, Switzerland, Sweden, Ireland, Finland, and Austria were considered Third World Countries. The term 'Third World' was used during the Cold War to refer to countries that were neutral and did not align to either the Warsaw Pact or NATO.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL that in World War II, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japan actually captured and held a couple of the westernmost Aleutian Islands in Alaska for about a year. Retaking them was a battle with more than 1000 casualties on either side.
setembro 26, 2022
TIL researchers at John Hopkins thought they'd discovered a medical breakthrough when they found a special metabolite in the urine of schizophrenic patients that nobody else had. Eventually, someone realized that ward was simply being served a different brand of coffee.
setembro 25, 2022
TIL Casa Bonita's new owners, South Park Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, retained Casa Bonita’s entire staff during it's renovation, paying them instead to work for Denver-area nonprofits.
setembro 25, 2022
TIL that the first commercially successful video game - an Atari Pong cabinet at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale California in 1972 - got a complait for beeing "broken" when it was jammed out of order with quarters due to its unexpected popularity
setembro 25, 2022
TIL there is a very small (9-inch-tall) aluminum pyramid on the very top of the Washington Monument, because at the time it was completed, aluminum was considered more precious than gold or silver
setembro 25, 2022
TIL convicted NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere has had many girlfriends who died untimely and suspicious deaths. One girlfriend, who simply disappeared, was last seen alive at a NXIVM meeting.
setembro 25, 2022
TiL Guinness Book of Records was invented to settle bar arguments.
setembro 25, 2022
TIL David Lynch has given a weather report on his YouTube account almost every day since 05/11/2020
setembro 24, 2022
TIL: Prior to the D-Day landings, men were covertly sent ashore from submarines to collect samples of the sand to see whether it could support the weight of the tanks, trucks and other vehicles.
setembro 24, 2022
TIL about speed tape, a $700 tape used on aircraft to perform temporary or minor repairs on airplanes and although it’s often mistaken as duct tape, it’s adhesive is capable of sticking on a aircraft at high speed, hence its name.
setembro 24, 2022
TIL Madagascar had pygmy hippopotamuses that went extinct likely within the last thousand yeas. They may have survived as late as a 1976.
setembro 24, 2022
TIL burns have been reclassified to superficial, partial thickness, deep partial thickness, and full thickness.
setembro 24, 2022
TIL that the main riff from Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple is derived from Beethoven's 5th symphony.
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