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TIL in 2005, a parrot, Willie, became a hero when he saved a toddler’s life in Colorado. When the toddler began to choke, Willie screamed “Mama, baby!” Alerting the babysitter to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre, saving the toddler's life

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna29858577
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Parrot gets award for warning about choking tot

A parrot whose cries of alarm alerted his owner when a little girl choked on her breakfast has been honored as a hero.
NBC Universal (NBC News)
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TIL that a group of Jews came to China around 10th century and lived in the heart area of China, Henan province where Yellow River flows and Chinese originated, till middle 19th century when finally broken by wars, all while maintaining their Jewish identity and traditions and even Hebrew language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1ybrp/til_that_a_group_of_jews_came_to_china_around/

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TIL of Rene Lima-Marin, a Colorado inmate who was mistakenly released in 2008, 90 years early from a 98-year sentence. After six years of rebuilding his life with a family and steady job, he was returned to prison in 2014, raising issues of fairness and rehabilitation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colo-inmate-rene-lima-marin-released-90-years-early-sent-back-to-prison-af…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1ybc4/til_of_rene_limamarin_a_colorado_inmate_who_was/

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TIL that in 1981, the magazine Locus butchered the title of Gene Wolfe's next novel "The Citadel of the Autarch" and announced that it would be titled "The Castle of the Otter". Wolfe found the mistake so funny he actually published a book titled "The Castle of the Otter" the following year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_the_Otter
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1xzol/til_that_in_1981_the_magazine_locus_butchered_the/

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TIL 10 Downing Street has an official mouser and keeps detailed records of each cat who has held the role since 1924.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1xj5i/til_10_downing_street_has_an_official_mouser_and/

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TIL Catherine O’Hara (Moira from Shitt’s Creek) has reversed internal organs, a condition known as situs inversus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_O%27Hara
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1wlzn/til_catherine_ohara_moira_from_shitts_creek_has/

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TIL China was unable to manufacture a ballpoint pen entirely by itself until 2017. The problem was the high-precision machinery & ultra-thin steel needed to make the tiny ball that dispenses the ink. Up until then, China's steel hadn't been good enough, but after 5 years of research they solved it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38566114
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Pen power: China closer to ballpoint success

China is close to producing a fully domestically-made ballpoint pen after a long struggle.
Simon Atkinson (BBC News)
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TIL that between 1841 and 1844, Mormon Prophet Joseph F. Smith married at least ten teenage girls into polygamous unions. Most of the “sealings” were without the consent of his first wife Emma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1voz0/til_that_between_1841_and_1844_mormon_prophet/

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TIL that even with the two massive hurricanes in the past few weeks, the damages in the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster were nearly double that of Helene and Milton damage estimates combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
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TIL That there is a Tofu Curtain dividing Western Massachusetts, and the city of Melbourne in Australia. Rural Hampshire County residents use the term to label Springfield as full of gentrifying leftist vegans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu_Curtain
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1vanv/til_that_there_is_a_tofu_curtain_dividing_western/

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Today I learned cows are 20 times deadlier than sharks

https://www.wildlifexteam.com/about/blog/cows-are-20x-deadlier-than-sharks.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1v9hz/today_i_learned_cows_are_20_times_deadlier_than/

Cows are 20x Deadlier Than Sharks : Wildlife X Team

Did you know that cows are actually much deadlier than sharks? In fact, every year 20x more people die from cows than do sharks in the United States! In today's post, we're going to share with you why cows are more deadly than sharks...
www.wildlifexteam.com
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TIL that with an IQ of over 200 Christopher Langan has been called one of the world’s smartest men. He worked as a bouncer for over 20 years, has completed no major academic pursuits, and believes 9/11 was a false flag meant to distract the public from his mathematical theory proving God’s existence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
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TIL: You CAN get pregnant twice. Superfetation is an extremely rare event that involves getting pregnant while you’re already pregnant.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24590-superfetation
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1t7tq/til_you_can_get_pregnant_twice_superfetation_is/

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TIL of Project Artichoke which was a mind control program from the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force and FBI. The goal was to determine if someone could involuntarily be made to perform an act of assassination. It also studied forced addiction to morphine, hypnosis, and amnesia.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Artichoke
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1srpa/til_of_project_artichoke_which_was_a_mind_control/
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TIL while laying underwater cable in the Chicago river a diver discovered a 40ft submarine. Inside he found the remains of a human and a dog. Their identity is still a mystery more than a century later.

https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-mysteries/mystery/what-was-the-sunken-vessel-at-the-bottom-of-the-chicago-river
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1rtq3/til_while_laying_underwater_cable_in_the_chicago/

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TIL there's a species of salamander called Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) and honestly? The name fits

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/hellbender
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Hellbender

Always free of charge, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo is one of Washington D.C.’s, and the Smithsonian’s, most popular tourist destinations, with more than 2 million visitors from all over the world each year.
Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
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TIL During a 6-mo period, 2,055 Brown Recluse spiders were collected in a 19th-century-built home in Lenexa, KS. Estimates show that at least 400 spiders were large enough to cause envenomation. A family of 4 had been living there since 1996 and had never been bit despite seeing them multiple times.

https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/39/6/948/862215?login=false
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TIL Narwals use their tusks to club and stun fish

https://youtu.be/OoTjLIN67Bw?si=ICTP8vyfC-BYiVMY
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- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
youtu.be
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TIL that "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna & Barbera was the first animated series to win an Emmy Award as an "Outstanding Achievement in the field of Children's Programming". It won the award in 1960.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Hound
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TIL David Carradine died from Auto Erotic Asphyxiation

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/story?id=7763422&page=1
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Police: Carradine's Death Likely Sex Accident

David Carradine, 72, star of Kung Fu, was found hanged, naked and dead in Bangkok hotel room.
RUSSELL GOLDMAN (ABC News)
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Today I learned Dana Carvey underwent heart bypass surgery for a blocked coronary artery, but the surgeon operated on the wrong artery. Eventually he won a lawsuit against the hospital and won 7.5 million dollars, all of which was donated to charity.

https://montanakids.com/cool_stories/famous_montanans/Carvey.htm
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1ofnm/today_i_learned_dana_carvey_underwent_heart/
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TIL a neutrino could pass through a lightyear of lead before it has a 50% chance of hitting a lead atom.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/ghost-particles-caught-streaming-from-dust-shrouded-black-hole/
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Ghost particles caught streaming from dust-shrouded black hole

The IceCube observatory in Antarctica has captured the best evidence yet that the galactic core of M77 is producing neutrinos.
Mark Zastrow (Astronomy magazine)
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TIL in 1909, while investigating rumors that a stone had fallen from the sky already covered in human writing, American explorer Frederick Burnham discovered an 8-foot long boulder featuring ancient inscriptions which remain untranslated.

https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=The_Esperanza_Stone
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1nlz0/til_in_1909_while_investigating_rumors_that_a/
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TIL that Jane Park, Britains younger ever lottery winner won the lottery so young that she said it ‘ruined her life’, became depressed and considered suing the lottery for allowing someone to win at such a young age after she was left isolated, alone and left to manage millions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b5stt
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BBC One - Teenage Millionaire: The Year I Won the Lottery

Following 17-year-old Jane Park over a year as she decides what to do with her winnings.
BBC
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TIL Xerxes, from 300, built two bridges made out of 300+ ships to help his armies cross between Abydos and Sestos in ancient Greece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes%27_pontoon_bridges
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TIL In 1797, Fath Ali Shah, the second Shah (king) of Qajar Iran, was given a complete set of the Encyclopædia Britannica's 3rd edition, which he read completely; after this feat, he extended his royal title to include "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Third_Edition#:~:text=In%201…
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TIL that sleeping five hours or less around the age of 50 has a 30% greater risk of multiple ailments than those who sleep seven hours.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63284305
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Five hours' sleep is tipping point for bad health

Getting less than this may increase the risk of a multitude of chronic conditions, say researchers.
By Michelle Roberts (BBC News)
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TIL that besides being an effective form of protection against the sun, melanin is also anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-microbial.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519301923318
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1m5w7/til_that_besides_being_an_effective_form_of/
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TIL 2024 is the year the US Dept of Health and Human Services banned hospitals from performing non-consensual breast, pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” by medical students and practitioners on patients under anesthesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic_examinations_under_anesthesia_by_medical_students_without_consent?repost
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1lq92/til_2024_is_the_year_the_us_dept_of_health_and/

medical education controversy

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
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TIL in 1909, Major Frederick Burnham discovered a meteorite which had impacted Mexico already covered in ancient human inscriptions. Though the symbols are assumed to be Mayan, the "Esperanza Stone" has never been translated.

https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=The_Esperanza_Stone
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TIL the first movie to feature a monster truck was the 1981 comedy "Take This Job and Shove It". The models are Bob Chandler's Bigfoot and Everett Jasmer's USA-1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_This_Job_and_Shove_It_(film)#Bigfoot
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1ksv1/til_the_first_movie_to_feature_a_monster_truck/

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TIL of Maurice Wilson who, against all odds, flew his own plane from England to India to be the first to summit Everest under the assumption that ‘prayer and fasting’ would give him the strength to reach the peak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilson
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1kix2/til_of_maurice_wilson_who_against_all_odds_flew/

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TIL that sugar isn’t directly bad for your teeth, but rather it creates the perfect environment for bacteria in your mouth to thrive, and they produce acid as a byproduct which IS bad for your teeth.

https://pasoroblesdental.com/blog/why-sugar-is-the-enemy-how-it-contributes-to-tooth-decay/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1kghy/til_that_sugar_isnt_directly_bad_for_your_teeth/

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TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5J-YZZ5Vw4
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1kct6/til_why_californians_especially_in_socal_refer_to/

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
www.youtube.com
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TIL about the Sparklemuffin Jumping Spider and other peacock jumping spiders from Australia! Peacock spider males dance for their lives, shaking their colorful behinds and arms, when courting a female. They also create vibrations, serenating their lady of choice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq-r20mlGes
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1ka5j/til_about_the_sparklemuffin_jumping_spider_and/

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
www.youtube.com
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TIL about Ectopia Cordis, a rare condition where a baby’s heart forms outside the chest. One notable case is Audrina Cardenas, born in 2012, who survived after surgery to place her heart back inside her body.

https://www.texaschildrens.org/content/wellness/baby-born-with-heart-outside-body-ectopia-cordis-makes-history
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1jf65/til_about_ectopia_cordis_a_rare_condition_where_a/

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TIL the "S" in "Harry S. Truman" wasn't an abbreviation. The dude's middle name was literally just the letter S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
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