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TIL Silkie chickens, known for their lush plumage, also have black skin and bones.
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TIL 1963 Birmingham Campaign, was a meticulously engineered, mathematically modeled military-style operation, orchestrated by SCLC Executive Director Wyatt Tee Walker. It utilized spatial logic, p...
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TIL that Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn are not at all related
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TIL about the maniacal lighthouse keeper of Clipperton Island—the sole surviving man on the remote Pacific atoll after a bout of scurvy and a lack of supplies–who, between 1915 and 1917, terrorize...
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TIL an informal picnic in a London park has a formal definition and requires a Picnic Licence costing £250 for over 30 attendees
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TIL the first non–Native American settler in Manhattan may have been a free black man: Jan Rodrigues, a sailor marooned in 1613 by a Dutch vessel, who then married into an Indian tribe and became ...
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TIL that a 2015 meta-analysis of 70 studies (3.4M+ participants) found social isolation, loneliness, and living alone each raised mortality risk by 26–32%, even after controlling for depression, p...
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TIL about the NFS Overseas Contingent. During the Allied invasion of Normandy an unarmed unit of British firefighters were attached to the U.S 12th Army Corp tasked with preventing fires at ammo a...
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TIL that out of more than 900 prehistoric stone circles in Britain, Stonehenge is the only one built entirely from non-local rocks—with stones brought from 14 to over 465 miles away to symbolize a...
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TIL 77% of people preferred instant coffee over drip in a blind taste test
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TIL that the production, sale, and consumption of cannabis are illegal in the Netherlands. The Dutch government has in place a tolerance policy under which these prohibitions are generally not enf...
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TIL that when fire ant rafts float, they form dynamic, tentacle-like arms to probe their surroundings—which once allowed an entire lab colony in a water tank to reach the outer wall and escape ove...
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TIL that Otto von Habsburg, the pretender to the Austrian throne, offered to take over the Austrian government expressly to repel the Nazis This offer was declined and after Germany annexed Austri...
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Today I learned the first laptop computer was created in 1981, called the Osborne 1
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TIL that “Crank That” by Soulja Boy was made on a cracked demo copy of music production software FL Studio (then known as Fruity Loops), with the song being written and recorded in only about ten ...
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TIL the top five selling games on the PS2 are all from either the Grand Theft Auto or Grand Turismo franchises.
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TIL that China has a whole genre of tv and film based on the fictionalized experiences of concubines in the imperial harem. It’s known as gongdou ju or “palace intrigue dramas” in English.
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TIL that between 1924 and 1965, Grand Canyon National Park rangers killed more than 1,800 feral burros in an effort to protect the park’s landscape. Many of the burros were descendants of animals ...
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TIL the earliest film—now digitized for viewing online—footage of the New York City subway, was shot on opening day in 1904, and seven months later, another film captured the ride from 14th to 42n...
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TIL that famous quip "Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography" belongs to General Sir Charles Harington, who oversaw planting and detonation of eno...
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TIL the term "final girl" was coined by Carol J. Clover in her article Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film. Clover noted that a girl is usually left to confront the killer, following a v...
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TIL that bees get a positive charge from flying whilst flowers have negative charge from being grounded. This attracts pollen onto the bee but also turns the flowers briefly positive, meaning that...
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TIL Only one NFL player has died on the field: Chuck Hughes in 1971. The game continued with a silent crowd
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TIL. Plasticity enables the human brain to form new connections among the structures underlying vision, hearing, cognition, and language. Reading, in effect, was made possible by this brain’s abil...
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TIL that around 40% of cats lack the gene to get high from catnip
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