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TIL: Award wining American actor Glen Close voiced grandma (Mona) Simpson in episode 136. She reprised the roll for a total of 10 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson_(The_Simpsons)
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TIL on November 29th 2001, Mike Myers received the final letter George Harrison ever sent anybody. Being a fan of satire, George hand wrote the letter expressing his admiration for Mike’s Austin Powers movies. Mike received it on the set of Austin Powers 3 on the day George died.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/george-harrison-final-letter-mike-myers/
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The final letter George Harrison ever wrote was sent to ‘Austin Powers’ creator Mike Myers

Read it, here.
Lee Thomas (Far Out Magazine)
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TIL that Orangutans are the largest tree-dwelling animal on the planet. They are astonishingly intelligent, with high IQ and problem solving, and have been named the world’s most intelligent animal in a study that places them even above chimpanzees and dolphins.

https://earth.org/facts-about-orangutans/
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International Orangutan Day 2024: 11 Fun Facts Facts About Orangutans

International Orangutan Day falls on August 19. Here are some fascinating and a few heartbreaking facts about orangutans you might not know.
Olivia Lai (Earth.Org)
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TIL Humans emits a faint visible light that is 1000 times weaker than what the human eyes can detect | Science

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jul/17/human-bioluminescence
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gwh9n0/til_humans_emits_a_faint_visible_light_that_is/

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TIL that Charles Joseph Bonaparte, a descendant of the House of Bonaparte, served in President Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gwgtzv/til_that_charles_joseph_bonaparte_a_descendant_of/

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TIL that the ancient Greeks used butter as a medicine and thought only barbarians ate it. In the Middle Ages, it was sometimes used as lamp oil but was mainly eaten by peasants. It only became popular among the wealthy when the church allowed its consumption during Lent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gwfncm/til_that_the_ancient_greeks_used_butter_as_a/

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TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03)#Mediterranean_(1940%E2%80%931941)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gwez7g/til_the_longest_range_gunnery_hit_in_naval_combat/

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TIL: After the 2017 movie "It" there was a spike in coulrophiliacs, or people who are attracted to clowns, mainly among women. Vice interviewed Sugar Weasel, a clown escort who say women were typically clients. Props are a major part of the scene.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-the-kinky-brightly-colored-world-of-clown-fetishists/
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Inside the Kinky, Brightly Colored World of Clown Fetishists

After last year's creepy clown sightings, Pornhub searches for "clown porn" went up 213 percent—and women were apparently 33 percent more likely to search for it than men. So what's the attraction?
Natasha Wynarczyk (VICE)
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TIL that in the Falklands, an abandoned minefield has accidentally become a penguin sanctuary. The mines were set in the Falklands conflict and have remained there since, keeping humans away. The local Magellanic penguins are too small to set them off and have thrived in the area.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39821956
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The Falklands penguins that would not explode

The minefields laid in the Falkland Islands 35 years ago have been a blessing for penguins, which are not big enough to trigger explosions. But now the time has come for their home to be demined.
BBC News
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TIL that water can boil and freeze at the same time under the right conditions, known as the triple point, where all three phases—solid, liquid, and gas—coexist in perfect equilibrium at 0.01°C and 611.657 pascals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gwbyo0/til_that_water_can_boil_and_freeze_at_the_same/

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TIL A German pro basketball team was relegated to a lower division due to a necessary 17-minute Windows update

https://www.exoplatform.com/blog/5-of-the-biggest-information-technology-failures-and-scares/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gwbedt/til_a_german_pro_basketball_team_was_relegated_to/

5 of the Biggest Information Technology Failures and Scares | eXo Platform

Information Technology systems are not without flaws, often leading to costly and painful failures. Find out 5 of the biggest Information Technology failures.
Walid Hamrouni (eXo Platform)
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TIL a team of archeologists uncovered the largest manmade stone block ever discovered in Baalbek, Lebanon. The block, which was found in a limestone quarry measures 64 feet by 19.6 feet by 18 feet and weighs an estimated 1,650 tons. The block likely dates back at least 2,000 years, to around 27 BC.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/largest-manmade-block-ever-ca…
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TIL that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking once hosted a party but nobody showed up because he sent the invitations for the party only the day after, thus basically proving by experiment that time travel is not possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking%27s_time_traveller_party?wprov=sfla1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvy03n/til_that_astrophysicist_stephen_hawking_once/

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TIL the Forest Preserves of Cook County (est. 1914) holds more than 70,000 acres of land making it the oldest and largest preserve system of its kind in the United States.

https://fpdcc.com/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvxub0/til_the_forest_preserves_of_cook_county_est_1914/
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TIL about Patum Peperium, a Gentleman's Relish made and sold in Britain since 1828, which has a secret recipe, known to only one employee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Relish
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvwmer/til_about_patum_peperium_a_gentlemans_relish_made/

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TIL while on safari, Hemingway survived 2 plane crashes one day apart. The 2nd caught fire & he had to smash open the door with his head, causing extensive burns & skeletal injuries. He was presumed dead until he walked out of the jungle "in high spirits", carrying bananas and a bottle of gin.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hemingway-and-his-wife-survived-two-p…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvw98m/til_while_on_safari_hemingway_survived_2_plane/

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TIL that The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance before their mission, so they came up with a brilliant hack: they signed hundreds of autographs. These "insurance autographs" were given to their families, who could sell them if the mission ended in tragedy.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/30/160267398/what-the-apollo-astronauts-did-for-life-insurance
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What The Apollo Astronauts Did For Life Insurance

Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, he had to solve a more prosaic problem.
NPR
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TIL about the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, an urban myth from Mattoon Illinois, now thought to be a small 33-person mass hysteria

https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/blog/the-mad-gasser-of-mattoon/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvumr6/til_about_the_mad_gasser_of_mattoon_an_urban_myth/
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TIL that a small percentage (1-2%) of honeybees in a given colony will specialize as undertakers; they function to prevent disease by removing corpses from the hive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_immunity
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvs4na/til_that_a_small_percentage_12_of_honeybees_in_a/

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TIL the song “Whip It” by Devo, was released in 1980 as a single and not expected to be a hit, but due partly to the bold Mtv video where a man whips clothes off a woman, the song was assumed to be related to masturbation and sadomasochism, which helped it reach number 14 on the Billboard Top 100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_It_(Devo_song)
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TIL that one of the most celebrated Bugs Bunny cartoons was thought up when the head of the cartoon studio randomly and inexplicably told the animators that they were not to make any cartoons about bullfighting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Bugs
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TIL The United States does not have an official language

https://www.usa.gov/official-language-of-us
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Official language of the United States | USAGov

The U.S. does not have an official language, but some states designate English as their official language. More than 350 languages are spoken in the U.S.
www.usa.gov
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TIL that Silver Bells, White Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and other famous Christmas songs were written by Jewish songwriters

https://www.kveller.com/11-iconic-christmas-songs-that-were-written-by-jews/
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11 Iconic Christmas Songs That Were Written By Jews

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — you know, the one where we’re completely inundated by Christmas songs and carols at every turn? While some of us may cringe at just how dominant this Christian holiday seems to be each and every December — a…
Maddy Albert (Kveller)
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TIL an fMRI study mapping the female genitals onto the sensory portion of the brain found that nipple self-stimulation activates the genital sensory cortex, the same area as clitoral, vaginal, and cervical self-stimulation.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3186818/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvp270/til_an_fmri_study_mapping_the_female_genitals/

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TIL of "Umarell", an Italian term for old men who have nothing better than to stand around construction sites and giving unwanted, unsolicited "advice" to the workers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell
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TIL "flotsam" pertains to goods (i.e. shipping containers) that are floating on the surface of the water as the result of a wreck or accident. One who discovers flotsam is allowed to claim it unless someone else establishes their ownership of it. Even then, items may still be claimable by the finder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flotsam,_jetsam,_lagan_and_derelict
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TIL The guy who designed Big Ben in London went insane a few months after finishing the clock design and handing the design to the project boss who never credited him for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin#Illness_and_death
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvm8y3/til_the_guy_who_designed_big_ben_in_london_went/

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TIL there is a rare condition called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, where soft tissues in the body gradually turn into bone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvkcog/til_there_is_a_rare_condition_called/

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TIL about the Kahina. An Amazigh (Berber) queen who ruled an independent kingdom in what is today Algeria. Caught between the Umayyad and Byzantine Empires, she opted to fight instead and died in battle sometime around 703 AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahina
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TIL about that the Gorgone Macarea is a moth found in the Amazon jungle, whose whole diet consists of drinking the tears of sleeping birds

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-moth-gently-slurp-tears-slumbering-bird-180970430/
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Moths Love Sipping the Salty Tears of Sleeping Birds

A researcher in the Amazon happened up on the rare sight in the dead of night while looking for reptiles and amphibians
Jason Daley (Smithsonian Magazine)
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TIL a high-ranking dinosaur ant who challenges her queen but fails will be immobilized, publicly chastised for several days, join the working class and lose all hope of ever ruling or reproducing

https://www.science.org/content/article/no-sex-rebellious-ants
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TIL that to satisfy a record contract, goth rocker Andrew Eldritch recorded an album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSV_(band)
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TIL that Beethoven composed some of his greatest works, including his Ninth Symphony, while completely deaf. He relied on his understanding of musical theory, memory, and vibrations to create music.

https://www.mso.com.au/the-blog/2022-how-did-beethoven-write-one-of-his-greatest-compositions-while-deaf
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How did Beethoven write one of his greatest compositions while deaf?

Written in 1823 and first performed in 1824, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 is often referred to as the composer’s greatest work – but did you know that he was deaf when he wrote this famous piece? Born in Bonn, Germany in 1770, Beethoven was born into a…
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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TIL that there was such a thing as Greek Fire, an ancient incendiary weapon of mass destruction.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/greek-fire/
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Greek Fire - Warfare History Network

In 678 Islamic warriors attacked Constantinople, but they were unprepared for the Byzantine secret weapon: Greek Fire.
Warfare History Network
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TIL that research on the Harry Potter book series found that it helps reduce readers’ prejudice toward minority groups.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jasp.12279
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvguy9/til_that_research_on_the_harry_potter_book_series/
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TIL that the last words of Apache leader and prisoner of war Geronimo were: "I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvfnp3/til_that_the_last_words_of_apache_leader_and/

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