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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that a "moment" is a medieval unit of time equivalent to about 90 seconds today.
  • glgcam5150
    glgcam5150 Posts: 3,728 Member
    TDIL

    https://youtu.be/sig4hAqtpLg
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that on Halloween 1999, a Scooby Doo parody of The Blair Witch Project was aired on Cartoon Network, and was never aired again due to children becoming frightened.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    TIL Ulysses S. Grant was a Never Nude - refusing to let even his wife see him naked
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Richard Norris Williams survived Titanic sinking, but spent too much time in freezing water and rescue doctor recommended amputation of both his legs. He refused and proceeded to win his first tennis tournament a few months later and became Wimbledon doubles champion in 1920.
  • glgcam5150
    glgcam5150 Posts: 3,728 Member
    edited October 2018
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    Bird actor retiring after nearly 50 years

    Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who has portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street" since the program's 1969 premiere, announced that he is stepping down from the roles.Source: HLN
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL of Chindogu, the Japanese art of creating ingenious but useless solutions to everyday problems, such as a baby onesie that doubles for a floor mop.
  • glgcam5150
    glgcam5150 Posts: 3,728 Member
    Rare Discovery Indeed


    https://youtu.be/VtziMzq-nnk
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL: Some farmers in Bangladesh have switched to raising ducks instead of chickens, because during catastrophic floods, ducks float.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Americans use the term "downtown" to describe a city's "city center" regardless its geographic location because the term was inherited from New York — where businesses occupied the bottom of Manhattan island.
  • servant2you
    servant2you Posts: 30 Member
    I saw a sign at a adult store that was hiring which read “ all positions available.”
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that in 2006, Gnarls Barkley removed their hit single 'Crazy' from music stores after it remained at the top of the British charts for 9 weeks, so people would "remember the song fondly and not get sick of it".
  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
    TIL that I suck at Trivia Crack!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that Nov. 2, 2000 was the last time all living humans were on earth at the same time. Ever since the ISS have been occupied continuously.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that the Python programming language wasn't named after the snake. It was named after Monty Python, because the creator was reading Monty Python scripts when he implemented the language.

  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that in 1838 Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book about a 4 man ship crew that ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker. In 1884 a 4 man ship crew ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    TIL Wearing socks during sex can increase your chances of orgasm by 30 percent, according to a University of Groningen study.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Tori Amos, at age 2, could reproduce pieces of music on piano she had only heard once. At 3 years old, she was composing her own songs on piano. She has described seeing music as structures of light since early childhood, an experience consistent with chromesthesia.
  • bigbandjohn
    bigbandjohn Posts: 769 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that Smarties in the USA aren't the same as in the UK.

    Heh... I'm bringing US smarties to my friends in the UK... Mess with them. ;-)

  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    lstrat115 wrote: »
    Zoology is pronounced Zo-ology NOT Zoo-ology

    Not zoo-logily?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL about asteroid J002E3, which was discovered 16 years ago orbiting the earth. It turned out to be the 3rd stage of Apollo 12, which had come back to earth orbit after going around the sun for over 30 years.
  • myawsomeboys
    myawsomeboys Posts: 54 Member
    Nothing yet I’m still getting up! 💤 just bored
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  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
    TIL that if your neighbor was TP'ed on Halloween do not light the TP on fire to get rid of it apparently it lights the trees on fire also!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci designed a robot.
  • R3d_butt3rfly
    R3d_butt3rfly Posts: 1,127 Member
    I learned 16 Candles was rated PG because PG 13 didn't exist at the time it was released.

    My 9 yr old was like "Mom... she's naked and this movie is rated PG" :D
  • emmaMaureen19
    emmaMaureen19 Posts: 63 Member
    That Rosie6dafjnktc2c8.png
    from Mamma Mia is also Robs mom on Harry Potter...
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Robert Millikan disliked Einstein's results about light consisting of particles (photons) and carefully designed experiments to disprove them, but ended up confirming the particle nature of light, and earned a Nobel Prize for that.

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