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outubro 31, 2022
TIL that the man who invented pop-up ads , Ethan Zuckerman, has apologized to the world for creating one of the Internet's most hated forms of advertising.
outubro 31, 2022
TIL Ancient Greece wasn't full of pure white marble everything. The statues and ruins we see today were actually painted in all kinds of vivid colors that were just stripped bare back to their original white marble by time.
outubro 31, 2022
TIL that one of the most popular medieval legends about Saint Nicholas of Myra (the original basis for the legend of Santa Claus) involves him magically resurrecting three children who were murdered by an evil butcher and sold as cured meat.
outubro 31, 2022
TIL - Contrary of what everybody thinks, if you park your car at a dark spot at night, the chances of theft are smaller, because thieves don't like to use lights.
outubro 31, 2022
TIL California is home to the tallest living object in the world. It’s a redwood tree named Hyperion that is 379.7 feet high.
outubro 30, 2022
TIL that a guy deliberately infected himself with hookworms in an attempt to treat his allergies and asthma.
outubro 30, 2022
TIL, when Disneyland opened in 1955, the cost of admission was $1 (which is $11 adjusted for inflation in 2022)
outubro 30, 2022
TIL Peter Weller, who played RoboCop, went on to get his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and wrote his dissertation about Renaissance artist/philosopher Leon Battista Alberti
outubro 30, 2022
TIL when michael caine first saw heath ledger in full joker costume he forgot his lines
outubro 30, 2022
TIL dunce caps were originally a sign of high intelligence and wisdom. Philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus was a proponent of pointy hats as a way to funnel knowledge to the mind and his followers, called Dunsmen, wore them. By the 1500s the Dunsmen fell out of favor as “behind the times”.
outubro 30, 2022
TIL North Korea depends on human feces as fertilizer, they put annual mandatory quotas, and people often steal from each other to fill their feces quota
outubro 30, 2022
TIL, during the Cambodian genocide 1.5 - 2 million people were killed and the country's life expectancy dropped below 20.
outubro 30, 2022
TIL a Dutch pirate captured the Spanish treasure fleet sailing from the New World in 1628. The loss of silver alone was so great that the silver price spiked worldwide, and Spain was nearly bankrupted.
outubro 29, 2022
TIL This palliative care paper determined that a stream of air from a bedside fan relieves dying patients of dyspnoea (breathlessness/ shortness of breath) as equally as supplemental O2.
outubro 29, 2022
TIL it’s called “20,000 leagues under the sea” because they travel 20,000 leagues while under water, not because they go 20,000 leagues deep.
outubro 29, 2022
TIL While useful for those with dietary deficiencies, multivitamins offer no real benefit to the majority of the population. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found no clear evidence that consuming multivitamins "made them healthier in any way."
outubro 29, 2022
TIL We are currently amidst the longest gap between EF5 tornadoes in history
outubro 29, 2022
TIL Jewish persons could not hold public office in Maryland until 1826
outubro 29, 2022
TIL Joey Ramone was in remission from lymphoma, but his lifelong OCD led him to go back to his chiropractor to see if he closed the door right. He slipped on ice and broke his hip, forcing him out of chemo to recover, which ultimately lead to the lymphoma reemerging and ultimately killing him.
outubro 28, 2022
Today I learned that in the "Yankee Doodle" song, "macaroni" does not refer to pasta. It is an 18th-century description of men who dress effeminately.
outubro 28, 2022
TIL that getting a driver's license in Norway can cost around 30,000 NOK, or US$3,675
outubro 28, 2022
TIL that the actor that played Little Enos Burdette in the comedy movie "Smokey and the Bandit" is a song writer named Paul Williams that composed a number of hits in the 1970's. Namely: "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays" for the Carpenters.
outubro 28, 2022
TIL Of the Biloxi wade-ins where in 1959, 60, and 63 black people were repeatedly denied access to a public beach. In the 1960 protest several people were shot. It was not until 1967 when the beach was made open to all people.
outubro 28, 2022
TIL: A 2013 investigation in Europe uncovered that many frozen food items such as lasagna and bolognese pasta sauce contained up to 100% of horse meat instead of beef, an incident later known as the “Horse Meat Scandal”
outubro 28, 2022
TIL that the original version of ‘Oh My Darling Clementine’ written in 1884 had some seriously dark lyrics. The third to last verse reads, “In a churchyard near the canon where the myrtle doth entwine Grow the roses in their posies fertilized by Clementine.” Fourth to last is also quite dark.
outubro 27, 2022
TIL that “runners high” is caused by endocannabinoids and not endorphins like we’ve always been told.
outubro 27, 2022
TIL that Robin Williams' suicide is misunderstood by many, and that depression/alcoholism was not the cause.
outubro 27, 2022
TIL 250 miles north of San Francisco is California’s “Lost Coast”. There is almost 100 miles of mountainous, remote and nearly inaccessible coastline owned by the Federal Government.
outubro 26, 2022
TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived trapped in a storm cloud after ejecting for 40 minutes.
outubro 26, 2022
TIL that Spirit Halloween is owned by mall staple, Spencer's Gifts
outubro 26, 2022
TIL that the islands of Hawaii have no native mammals except for one species of bat
outubro 26, 2022
TIL Louis Armstrong loved food so much that he sometimes signed his letters "Soul Foodly Yours." and more often: "Red Beans & Ricely Yours,"
outubro 26, 2022
TIL The Ancient Romans had a goddess for fever whom they worshipped for protection against malaria
outubro 26, 2022
TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead.
outubro 26, 2022
TIL Tobacco smoke enemas were used in an attempt to resuscitate victims of near drowning.
outubro 26, 2022
TIL Mars, Inc refused to allow M&M's to be used in the film E.T.; believing that E.T. would frighten children. The Hershey Company, in turn, agreed to have their Reese’s Pieces candy featured. Reese’s Pieces experienced a 65% bump in sales after E.T’s release.
outubro 25, 2022
TIL the state of California has a higher GDP and HDI than the entirety of Africa
outubro 25, 2022
TIL The Nazi rewards program, "Strength Through Joy", gave workers a shot at prizes like theatre trips, picnics, and cheap travel! It began after Hitler abolished unions, upped the max workweek to 72 hours, and outlawed going on strike, wage bargaining, or leaving work without permission.
outubro 25, 2022
TIL traffic roundabouts, compared to intersections with stop signs or signals, have 37% fewer overall collisions, 75% fewer injury collisions, and 90% fewer fatal collisions
outubro 25, 2022
TIL in 2014 a drum of radioactive nuclear waste burst when workers used organic kitty litter to absorb the volatile chemicals. The cleanup cost was estimated to be $600mil+.
outubro 25, 2022
TIL When the printing press made its debut in Europe in the 15th century, thousands of old texts were 'recycled' for use as binding material for newer books. In 2015, researchers at Leiden University started using an x-ray technique to reveal these texts. Some are up to 1,300 years old.
outubro 25, 2022
TIL: the oldest mummies come from the Chinchorro culture in South America. They are over 7000 years old, i.e. 2000 older than ancient Egyptian mummies.
outubro 25, 2022
TIL tire manufacturers identify irregularities with dots of paint
outubro 25, 2022
TIL Amedeo Avogadro's contribution to chemistry, known as Avogadro's law, did not initially receive much attention when he published his paper in 1811. It was only a century later that his work was recognized, when the King of Italy attended a meeting commemorating the paper's 100th anniversary.
outubro 25, 2022
TIL the chemotherapy paclitaxel (Taxol) was first isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. In 1987, anti-cancer effects were seen, but harvesting bark killed the trees. Scientists then raced to (and succeeded) in synthesizing the drug. Approved in 1992, Taxol still treats many cancers today.
outubro 24, 2022
TIL the founders of Adidas had been members of the Nazi party
outubro 24, 2022
TIL 1950s/60s songwriter Doc Pomus had polio as a child, resulting in serious mobility issues. On his wedding day he was unable to dance with his new wife Willi Burke, a dancer. Watching her dance with the other male guests inspired him to write the song "Save the Last Dance For Me".
outubro 24, 2022
TIL there's a type of tick in the U.S. thats bite can make you permanently allergic to red meat (beef, pork) and milk
outubro 24, 2022
TIL Sylvester Graham was a 19th century antebellum American reformer who spoke out in favor of healthy living, including avoiding meats, alcohol, and too much sexual activity. He created a bland cracker, the Graham cracker, to stop the need for sexual intimacy
outubro 24, 2022
TIL 9/11 Stopped the Forrest Gump Sequel
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