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TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — nearly all historical famines, such as the Irish Potato Famine, are primarily man-made. (www.npr.org)
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TIL in 1993 a fan at a Chicago Bulls game won a shot to make a basket from half court for $1million and made it. The insurance company disqualified him because he played bball in college but the te... (www.espn.com)
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TIL one way schizophrenics identify hallucinations is to use their phone camera and check there. (youtu.be)
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TIL, rapper Otherwize defeated Eminem at the 97’ Rap Olympics, his prize was $500 & a Rolex watch. The watch was stolen the same night and he blew his winnings at a bar (eminem.news)
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TIL That Grace Hopper, one of the very first women to ever work on a computer, came-up with the idea of using regular, English words to program a computer, due to her post-WWII experience trying to... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about an Australian jellyfish that causes Irukandji syndrome: excruciating muscle cramps, severe pain in the back and kidneys, a burning sensation of the skin and face, headaches, nausea, restl... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Cuba’s biggest economic export is doctors, who they lease to foreign governments for $11 billion a year, with around 50,000 Cuban doctors serving 67 different countries at any one time (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Jacksonville, Florida is the largest city by area in the continental United States at 875 square miles and was named after General Andrew Jackson who never even visited Jacksonville ever (refactoid.com)
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TIL that James Cox didn't know the value of his second-hand watch until someone admired his 'Paul Newman' style watch. It 𝘸𝘢𝘴 Newman's actual watch and Cox sold it for $15.5m + premium (rubberb.com)
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TIL that less than two weeks after the French surrender in WWII, the British attacked a French naval base to prevent Germany from using the ships. Over 1,200 died and multiple ships were destroyed ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The iconic theme from The Legend of Zelda for the NES was arranged in one night because Nintendo composer Koji Kondo initially planned to use Ravel's Boléro as the title theme for The Legend of... (geekcentrals.com)
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TIL that Shampoo was first discovered in India (www.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that directors Wes Craven and Sam Raimi played a game of one-upmanship by depicting each other’s movies humorously in their own films. Beginning in The Evil Dead (1981), and continuing on throu... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that on Jupiter's moon Io, tidal effects from Jupiter cause the ground itself to move up and down by 300 feet. Typical tidal range on earth is 3 feet in the open ocean. (spaceplace.nasa.gov)
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TIL Canadian Physicians Can Now Prescribe Nature To Patients (www.npr.org)
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TIL potatoes yield 17.8 million calories per acre, so you could feed a family of four on less than 1/4 acre (www.waldeneffect.org)
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TIL “☪️OE✡️IS✝️” was designed by a Piotr Mlodozeniec for a contest held by an art museum in Jerusalem. The design gained popularity when Indians students trademarked it and sold it on shirts. Their... (www.vox.com)
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TIL Six years after surviving a shark attack and following repeated appeals to South Australian authorities, Chris Blowes finally won a special exemption that gave him the legal right to possession... (www.bbc.com)
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TIL that Venus flytraps can count the number of times an insect touches their trigger hairs, helping them optimize their response for energy conservation and effective digestion. (www.bbc.co.uk)
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TIL of the .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer, a rifle cartridge designed for its projectile to exceed 5000 feet per second. It is based on a .378 Weatherby cartrige necked down to .22 caliber. It neve... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson fight was supposed to have been held in Las Vegas. Nevada however refused to grant Tyson a licence, after he got involved in a brawl at the press conference. (wikipedia.org)
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TIL The actor who played Random Task in Austin Powers was sentenced to 7 years for torture (SA) and a further 27 years for murdering his cell mate whilst incarcerated (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about structural colouration. ‘Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Georgia Tann, the “creator” of adoption, started by stealing babies from the poor and selling them to prominent socialites making millions in the process. (historydaily.org)
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TIL about how scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared. (www.zmescience.com)
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