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agosto 24, 2023
TIL That During Segregation, It Was Illegal In the State of Alabama For a Black Person And a White Person To Play Checkers Together.
agosto 24, 2023
TIL about 1 in 20 people sleep with their eyes open
agosto 24, 2023
TIL: That during 1830 - 1900, there was a fad for women who wanted to lose weight, the Tapeworm diet.
agosto 24, 2023
TIL in South Vietnam during the Buddhist crisis, a hugely oversized carp was found in a small pond. It was believed to be a reincarnation of one of Buddha's disciples, and the Catholic government ordered it mined and machine gunned, which it survived. This catapulted the fish's fame to new heights
agosto 24, 2023
TIL about Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician, and his groundbreaking creation of a vacuum. In 1643, he invented the barometer, an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure that led to his famous observation that, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air."
agosto 24, 2023
TIL the screech we all associate with bald eagles is dubbed from another bird. This is because the noises a bald eagle makes is pretty lame in comparison.
agosto 24, 2023
TIL the city of New Bern, North Carolina uses almost the same flag as the city of Bern, Switzerland, except that its bear does not have a red penis.
agosto 23, 2023
Today I learned Jimmy Carter has been in hospice for over 186 days.
agosto 23, 2023
TIL It was never 'Bruce' in ELO's 'Don't Bring Me Down' instead a made-up place-keeper word Groos
agosto 23, 2023
TIL that Mike Brown, the astronomer most responsible for demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet, titled his memoir "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming".
agosto 23, 2023
TIL That worldwide the daily consumption of Coca Cola is at 2.6 billion servings, or approximately 11000 soft drinks per second.
agosto 23, 2023
TIL in 2019, a former US spy killed a British teen by driving on the wrong side of the road in the UK. She was granted diplomatic immunity, fled the UK, and never returned. It took 3 years for her to be sentenced and she received no jail time.
agosto 23, 2023
TIL that if Bill Gates told a Microsoft employee "You’re full of shit. That’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard", that meant that the software mogul was amazed and impressed. "In the lore of Microsoft, if Bill says that to you, you’re made", an employee said.
agosto 23, 2023
TIL an Australian drugs-related jury trial costing over A$ 1 million with 105 witnesses was aborted when it was discovered that four or five of the twelve jurors had been playing Sudoku instead of listening to the evidence for most of the trial.
agosto 23, 2023
TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
agosto 22, 2023
TIL that Pan Am were booking flights to the moon, between 1969 & 1971, they processed around 93,000 reservation tickets for free. They stopped taking reservations because of the admit costs but maintained well into the 1980's that the tickets would be honoured, if and when flights were possible.
agosto 22, 2023
TIL the vocals for the Bonnie Raitt classic "I Can't Make You Love Me" were recorded in only one take. The song was so sad that when asked to record another take she responded "You know, this ain't going to happen."
agosto 22, 2023
TIL that the founders of Lululemon gave it its name because they thought it would sound Western to Japanese consumers, who have difficulty pronouncing the letter L. They thought it would be funny to watch Japanese people try to pronounce the name.
agosto 22, 2023
TIL Of the Curse of the Ninth, the superstition that a composer will die before finishing their tenth symphony. Beethoven and Schubert both died after their ninth symphonies. Gustav Mahler attempted to beat the curse with musical structural changes but he also died before finishing his tenth.
agosto 22, 2023
TIL rapper Mos Def began his career as an actor. Before the release of his critically acclaimed album 'Black On Both Sides' in 1998, he had already starred in multiple sitcoms, had a Visa commercial with Deion Sanders, and played a small role in the short film 'Ghosts' alongside Michael Jackson
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