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10 years agoAnalysis+1 1 0TIL Walt Disney bought his parents a house with a broken furnace which was poorly fixed by Studio repairmen, causing his mother to die of asphyxiation
Flora Call Disney (April 22, 1868 – December 6, 1938) was the mother of Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney.
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10 years agoAnalysis+2 2 0TIL the album Smash by The Offspring has sold over 11 million copies worldwide making it the best-selling independent label album of all time.
Smash is the third studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring. After touring in support of their previous album, Ignition (1992), The Offspring began recording Smash in October 1993 at Track Record in North Hollywood, California. Recording ...
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10 years ago
+2 2 0TIL Having bridesmaids weren't originally for moral support. They were "intended to confuse evil spirits or those who wished to harm the bride
Check out a few of our favorites—and never look at a wedding ceremony the same way again!
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10 years agoAnalysis+2 2 0TIL That there was a movie made in 2009 consisting only of paint drying, as a rebuttal to critics who mention that they "Would rather watch paint dry"
Directed by Tom Steeber. With Tom Steeber. A novelty video. The most boring movie ever made. Ninety minutes of watching paint dry.
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10 years agoAnalysis+2 2 0TIL that over 1,000,000 Euros are thrown into the Trevi fountain every year. The money is used to subsidize a supermarket for the needy.
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide,[1] it is ...
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10 years agoAnalysis+1 1 0TIL Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union was dissolved. He went up a Soviet citizen and returned a Russian citizen.
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Крикалёв, also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov; born August 27, 1958) is a Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer. As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran of six space fl ...
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10 years ago
+2 2 0TIL that if a child loses their fingertip it may sometimes grow back (nail, bone and all), though without a fingerprint.
Since the 1970s, doctors around the world have reported cases in which young kids regrow fingertips if an accident leaves some of the fingernail. Now scientists have figured out how this lizard-like regeneration happens in mice and suspect the same m ...
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10 years ago
0 1 1TIL Yak Shaving is the term for getting sidetracked by multiple other tasks before being able to complete what you originally started out to do
I've used the term Yak Shaving for years. You're probably shaving yaks at work all the time and don't realize it. The ...
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10 years agoAnalysis+1 1 0TIL Michael Keaton refused $15,000,000 to play Batman Forever because Tim Burton was dropped as its director.
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known by his stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer, director and comedian. He is currently a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.[1]
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10 years ago
+1 1 0TIL a Utah man ate at Benihana 579 times in one year to win a contest. His reward was $1,000 and a trip to any Benihana
... and he was rewarded for it.
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10 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL Alpaca's are almost always sold in pairs, because they can get sick and die because of loneliness
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10 years ago
+2 2 0TIL that a 31-year-old Man was Banned from the Internet After Sending Naked Men to Neighbor’s House through a Craigslist ad
The men on Craiglist who couldn't control their selves after seeing the picture of the women, showed up at her house
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10 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL in 1999, New Mexico state passed a bill in the senate requiring all psychiatrists testifying in court to wear a 'wizards hat'
When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant’s competency hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightni ...
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10 years ago
+1 1 0TIL The British Army considered (and attempted) training seagulls to poo on enemy periscopes before realizing that seagulls don't fly that far out
QI : Quite Interesting
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10 years ago
+3 4 1TIL the Last words of the inventor of Air Conditioner on his death bed were "It'll be a Cold Day in Hell!"
#Illustration of Willis Haviland #Carrier. He was an Am…
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10 years ago
+2 2 0TIL that there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called "Da Jesus Book"
A review of Da Jesus Book, the Hawaiian Pidgin New Testament, from Wycliffe Bible Translators
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10 years agoUnspecified+1 2 1TIL: A Newly discovered frog (Jan. 2015 publication date) gives birth to live tadpoles. It is the only known frog that gives birth to live tadpoles.
While most frogs lay eggs to reproduce, some species have weird variations on the model -- and for the first time, scientists have found a frog that gives birth to live, wriggling tadpoles.
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10 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL that the President of Ecuador offered to let the U.S. keep an airbase in his country, but only if Ecuador could have a base in Miami.
Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.Correa has
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10 years agoUnspecified+7 7 0TIL Rich neighbors refused to let George Lucas build a studio, so he’s building affordable housing instead. "We’ve got enough millionaires here."
The 224-unit housing would go where he wanted to expand his studio, but stopped, citing neighbors' opposition.
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10 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL a man saved President Ford from assassination then had his life ruined as the media outed him as gay
Oliver Wellington "Billy" Sipple (November 20, 1941 – February 2, 1989) was a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran widely known for saving the life of US President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt by Sara Jane Moore in San ...