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dezembro 31, 2022
TIL: In 2019, Konami added a new official rule to Yu Gi Oh tournaments, the Hygiene clause where you would be disqualified if you smell bad or wear dirty clothing as it produces an "unpleasant" playing environment. The response was generally positive.
dezembro 31, 2022
TIL, after U.S. President Garfield was shot, his doctors were so negligent and gave him such a bad infection that his assassin openly confessed at trial to the shooting, but argued that Garfield’s doctors had actually done the killing
dezembro 31, 2022
TIL When Ashlee Simpson got caught lip-syncing on SNL, she did an impromptu hoedown
dezembro 31, 2022
TIL the US Life Expectancy has been in continual decline after 2019
dezembro 31, 2022
TIL there is a Starbucks at the CIA known as "Stealthy Starbucks" that does not show up on GPS. Employees must go through extensive background checks and names cannot be written on cups, even aliases.
dezembro 31, 2022
TIL At the surrender of the Army of North Virginia General Lee wore a brand new officer uniform and carried a ceremonial sword. In contrast the victorious General Grant carried no sword and wore the uniform of a private with straps of a lieutenant-general.
dezembro 31, 2022
TIL about Don Arrigo Beccari, a WW2 Catholic Priest, who was responsible for smuggling 120 Jewish children to safety, despite intense Nazi surveillance. When the Nazis captured him and tortured him for months, he still kept quiet. He was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1964.
dezembro 31, 2022
TIL Johnson & Johnson lost thousands of lawsuits costing billions in damages over their talcum-based baby powder, and then created a subsidiary to dump on that liability onto before declaring the subsidiary went bankrupt, shielding them from the lawsuit claims
dezembro 30, 2022
TIL Although it is lauded as an excellent psychological tool by Government Agencies, Businesses, and even some schools, the Myers-Briggs Personality Test has been deemed useless by modern psychological experts.
dezembro 30, 2022
TIL John Steinbeck IV wrote an article in January 1968 about marijuana usage among the troops. This set off a media firestorm, & the Army began clamping down on marijuana usage, arresting ~1000 G.I.s a week for possession. Many G.I.s switched to heroin, which was odorless and thus harder to detect.
dezembro 30, 2022
TIL that according to the American Forest and Paper Association, pizza boxes ARE recyclable (study in comments)
dezembro 30, 2022
TIL any calculation requiring more than 10^120 bits can not be calculated as the universe has not existed long enough to provide time enough to resolve it, even assuming almost instantaneous information transmission
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL If Earth was 50% larger in diameter we would not be able to venture into space using rockets.
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL Ralph Nader spearheaded the automotive safety crusade with his 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed" which led to the creation of the Department of Transportation
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL the song 'Yankee Doodle' was used by British soldiers before the Revolutionary War to mock American soldiers, stereotyping them as rural simpletons who would think putting a feather in their caps would make them 'Macaroni' (i.e. cool), but was later used by Americans as an anthem of defiance.
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL Snow is an excellent insulator because it consists of about 90–95 percent trapped air (fresh). This is the reason why igloos are warmer inside than outside, and why some animals in colder regions build snow caves to spend the winter while hibernating.
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL Jacobo Pazzi was hanged next to a rotting corpse, then was buried, dug up and thrown in a ditch, then dragged through the streets, propped at the door of his palace with his head used as a doorknob, thrown in a river, fished out by children, hanged again, flogged and thrown back in the river
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL After Peter Zhu was declared brain dead at 21, his parents immediately asked permission to have his sperm extracted to ensure male offspring for the family. The Supreme Court agreed, even though bioethicists argued that the request was never even made by a spouse
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket)
dezembro 29, 2022
TIL that the bottom 50% of Americans have only grown their wealth by 65% in the past 30 years, whereas the 51st to 90th percentile grew by 137% and the top 10% grew by 240%.
dezembro 28, 2022
TIL Michael Jackson couldn’t write music or play instruments well. He would sing, harmonize and beatbox into a tap recorder for his band. "Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. He would actually sing the entire arrangement".
dezembro 28, 2022
TIL that King Tut's tomb was unusually small, likely due to his successor taking Tut's intended tomb for his own burial. King Tut's small tomb allowed it to be forgotten and spared from robberies, which led to him becoming famous in the modern era.
dezembro 28, 2022
TIL that on average women live five years longer than men, and that by age 85 around 67% of the population is female in the US.
dezembro 27, 2022
TIL a convicted felon can be elected president of the US. This means Mike Tyson is eligible to run for president.
dezembro 27, 2022
TIL Betty White was nominated in the 1st Emmy category for female performers in 1950, 1 of the first women to have full creative control of her own TV show, while she was still living at home with her parents, the1st woman to host her own talk show and 1st woman to win an Emmy for game show hosting
dezembro 27, 2022
TIL of Rita Crundwell, who embezzled $54 million as Comptroller of Dixon, IL (pop. 15,000). This was about 30% of the city's funding for 22 years. She served less than 9 years in prison and is now living on an 80-acre ranch that was likely bought with her ill-gotten gains.
dezembro 27, 2022
TIL that the Hope Diamond, was mailed to the Smithsonian in a $2.33 envelope, in normal first class US Mail without delivery confirmation.
dezembro 27, 2022
TIL the New Zealand Prime Minister, Rob Muldoon, once called a snap election while extremely drunk. His party lost 10 seats.
dezembro 27, 2022
TIL that in 1889, the Brazilian military, alongside slave-owning elites, organized a coup to overthrow emperor Pedro II for abolishing slavery. In response, a group of freed slaves organized themselves into a militia known as the Black Guard in order to guarantee the safety of the Imperial Family.
dezembro 27, 2022
TIL that 20-50% of all fatal hypothermia cases strip their clothes off before they finally freeze to death.
dezembro 26, 2022
TIL Cleopatra was born of incest. "More than a dozen of Cleopatra’s ancestors tied the knot with cousins or siblings, and it’s likely that her own parents were brother and sister. In keeping with this custom, Cleopatra eventually married both of her adolescent brothers.
dezembro 26, 2022
TIL that British troops developed a diss song against Nazi leaders during World War II titled "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball." It was quickly picked up and sang by Allied troops.
dezembro 26, 2022
TIL that the Bald Eagle population has recovered! They are now fairly common birds to be seen in residential areas
dezembro 26, 2022
TIL: That Iceland is the safest country in the world in case of a nuclear war, because it is isolated from the rest of the world, doesn't have a standing army to target and generates all of its electricity from geothermal sources.
dezembro 26, 2022
TIL Public nativity scenes are often the victim of baby Jesus theft. Some churches have had to chain their baby Jesus down to deter theft while others have added GPS tracking to their baby Jesus.
dezembro 26, 2022
TIL in 2022, the DEA seized more than 10,000 pounds of Fentanyl and more than 50 million Fentanyl pills. This was more than double the amount seized in 2021 and enough to kill every person in the United States.
dezembro 25, 2022
TIL On June 12, 1970,"Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis did something that, by all rights, should be completely impossible: He went and threw a no-hitter despite being high as a kite on lysergic acid diethylamide, otherwise known as acid."
dezembro 25, 2022
TIL that in 1931, a scientist tried to teach a baby chimpanzee human behavior by raising it alongside his human son. The chimpanzee never acquired language skills, and the experiment was called off when the human baby began imitating the chimpanzee's vocalizations.
dezembro 25, 2022
TIL in 1613, a Japanese daimyo sent an embassy to Rome, crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and visiting the Philippines, Mexico, and Spain along the way
dezembro 25, 2022
TIL Why Dog Paws Smell Like Fritos. Even the cleanest, healthiest pooch has trillions of bacteria and fungi living on their skin. That yeasty, corn chip smell is actually a normal byproduct of harmless bacteria, usually Proteus or Pseudomonas, both of which are naturally present in our environment.
dezembro 25, 2022
TIL In 1656 the City of London soldiers were ordered to patrol the streets and seize any food they discovered being prepared for Christmas celebrations. They saw Christmas as a wasteful festival that threatened Christian beliefs.
dezembro 25, 2022
TIL: It's possible for a woman to menstruate through their bellybutton (umbilical endometriosis)
dezembro 25, 2022
TIL while writing "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens was "taking night-time walks of 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 km) around London." to build out the story in his head.
dezembro 24, 2022
TIL the song "Buffalo Gals" sung by the future Mr. and Mrs. Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life" is about the prostitutes of Buffalo, New York.
dezembro 24, 2022
TIL that the voice of the grinch and narrator in the original how the grinch stole Christmas special was Boris Karloff, a horror actor best known for playing Frankenstein and the Mummy in the Universal monster movies.
dezembro 24, 2022
TIL about Emperor Norton, the United States' first and only emperor. A wealthy and respected San Francisco businessman who lost his fortune, he declared himself Emperor of the U.S. in 1859. SF residents largely enjoyed his presence, paying him "tax" to help with his rent and accepting his currency.
dezembro 24, 2022
TIL: Ken McElroy, known as "the town bully," was murdered in 1982 in front of 30-46 witnesses by at least two shooters. But nobody saw anything, and the murder remains unsolved. Fascinating story.
dezembro 24, 2022
TIL the name Pakistan is an acronym - Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.
dezembro 24, 2022
TIL 55 million years ago, the North Pole was a lot like Miami today. There were palm trees and alligators, and the temperature was around 74° F.
dezembro 24, 2022
TIL Ozzy Osbourne gave up taking acid during the recording of Black Sabbath's Volume 4. He said “I took 10 tabs of acid then went for a walk in a field. I ended up standing there talking to this horse for about an hour. In the end the horse turned round and told me to fuck off. That was it for me.”
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