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TIL that Sweden is actually increasing forest biomass despite being the second largest exporter of paper in the world because they plant 3 trees for each 1 they cut down.2
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TIL the secular holiday Festivus was not invented for Seinfeld. It was created in the mid sixties by author Daniel O'Keefe as a way of rejecting the commercialism of Christmas with his family. His son later was a writer for Seinfeld and introduced his family's tradition.1
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TIL that Will Ferrell was at home watching a documentary on one of the first women to anchor news telecasts when her former coworker appeared on screen. He reminisced: ‘You have to remember, back then I was a real male chauvinist pig. I was not nice to her.’ This was the inspiration for Anchorman.0
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TIL After Michael Jackson's hair caught fire in 1984 he founded a burn center. “I wanted to do something because I was so moved by the other burn patients I met...” He suffered painful burns, but hospital staff remember him spending much of his time visiting and comforting other patients.0
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DW backed out of the garage and hit my truck in the driveway!0
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Jimb376mfp wrote: »DW backed out of the garage and hit my truck in the driveway!
Does DW stand for Damn Wife?0 -
TIL when Mr Rogers heard his limo driver was going to be waiting outside while Rogers was in a meeting, he asked the driver to come in. On the way back they passed the driver's home and Rogers asked if they could stop and meet his family. Rogers kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.2
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Caporegiem wrote: »Jimb376mfp wrote: »DW backed out of the garage and hit my truck in the driveway!
Does DW stand for Darn Wife?
Don't know, here's what I looked up:
DW is the name of the little sister of Arthur on the non-hit cartoon TV series "Arthur."
Stands for Dora Winefred.0 -
GenuineSalami wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »Jimb376mfp wrote: »DW backed out of the garage and hit my truck in the driveway!
Does DW stand for Darn Wife?
Don't know, here's what I looked up:
DW is the name of the little sister of Arthur on the non-hit cartoon TV series "Arthur."
Stands for Dora Winefred.
I'd like to mildly disagree that you called it a non-hit cartoon
yup yup, that was a big one when I was little.
Also, possibly dear wife? Most kid/family discussion boards do dear daughter (DD) dear son (DS)0 -
TIL that in Victorian London, mail was delivered to homes 12 times a day. "Return of post" was a commonly used phrase for requesting an immediate response to be mailed at the next scheduled delivery. It was quite common for people to complain if a letter didn't arrive within a few hours.1
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TIL that the tragedy of the Library of Alexandria burning down and "setting knowledge back centuries" is a myth. In reality, the Library slowly declined over many years and by its end, most major cities had similar libraries with many of the same works.0
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TIL about an orangutan named Ken who escaped from his enclosure at the San Diego Zoo multiple times in the 80's. His apparent goals were visiting other animals, throwing rocks at a despised orangutan rival and taking photos with tourists.2
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TIL Mindscape, The Game Dev company that developed Lego Island, fired their Dev team the day before release, so that they wouldn't have to pay them bonuses.0
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TIL that Freddie Mercury approved the Wayne's World Bohemian Rhapsody scene just before his death.3
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TIL Penny Marshall was the first female Director to have a film gross over $100 million at the US box office with “Big” starring Tom Hanks.3
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TIL Dr. Seuss drew anti-Japanese cartoons during WWII. When he met the survivors of Hiroshima, he realized "A person is a person no matter how small". He later created Horton Hears a Who! as an apology, dedicating it to a Japanese friend.3
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TIL that cigarette filters change color not because they are trapping part of the cigarette smoke, but because they are designed to change color to lead consumers to think that they are trapping part of the smoke.1
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It’s useless.1
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TIL that James Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, gave the Peter Pan copyright to Great Ormond Street Hospital, the leading children's hospital in London, which helped support the institution's work for 70 years after his passing.1
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TIL George Orwell named the torture chamber Room 101 in his novel 1984 after a conference room at the BBC headquarters where he had to sit through numerous tedious meetings.2
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TIL in 1913, a bank was shipped in 50 pound increments through the USPS mail system to save money. 40 tons of bricks ended up being shipped and the USPS released a statement saying “it is not the intent of the United States Postal Service that buildings be shipped through the mail."5
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TIL that most pencils are yellow because in the 1880's one manufacturer chose that color to indicate they were luxury pencils.1
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I learned that *kitten* can be two-legged animals as well0
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Espresso is not pronounced “EX-presso”.0
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There was a secret society founded by Roman Catholics in Bavaria in 1740 called the Order of the Pug. New members had to wear dog collars and scratch at the door to be let it.2
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TIL that the scientific name for the Plains Bison is literally "Bison Bison Bison".1
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Bar stands for "Beer" and "Alcohol" "Room"
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TIL that printer companies implement programmed obsolescence by embedding chips into ink cartridges that force them to stop printing after a set expiration date, even if there is ink remaining.0
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