TIL After living in London for 14 years, Cillian Murphy moved back to his native Ireland in order to prevent his children from having posh English accents (www.yahoo.com)
The ‘Peaky Blinders’ star wanted his children to share their parents’ accents.
TIL that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old and still perfectly edible. (beemission.com)
Where was the world’s oldest honey found? We thought it would be fun to look at the three oldest known honey finds in the world as of September 2019. Just think, these honeys can still be eaten today because antimicrobial honey never goes bad. The world’s oldest known references to collecting honey are from the 8,000 y
TIL many US companies in the late 1800s-1938 would pay their employees in company scrip, a currency issued by the employer and can only be used in company owned stores where they upcharged exorbita... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that 80% of Australian homes are colder than is recommended by the WHO safety standards for indoor air temperature. (www.theguardian.com)
Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds
TIL Disney refused to let a father use a Spiderman headstone for his 4 year old son’s funeral. (www.bbc.com)
Disney is asked to show some compassion over the use of Spider-Man’s image on a child’s grave.
TIL Someone made a 10 hour long movie that's just paint drying to protest censorship by the British Board of Film Classification. The film was rated suitable for all ages. (m.imdb.com)
Edit: Note: it says Not Rated, that’s for the US. The UK rating is U.
TIL Ludwig van Beethoven didn't get along with his brother Johann and was heavily opposed to his marriage to a housekeeper. After the purchase of an estate, Johann signed a letter to Ludwig "From y... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that according to an FBI report, Elvis Presley believed the Beatles had led young people astray “by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music” (www.theguardian.com)
TIL Prince was a huge Bangles fan. He wrote then gave them their breakout hit, "Manic Monday". (www.npr.org)
TIL Alaska P. Davidson was the first female special agent hired by the Bureau of Investigation. Davidson was hired by director William J. Burns in 1922 but was forced to resign by Director J. Edgar... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The human cryopreservation project faces skepticism from medical and legal authorities
TIL the notion that lactic acid is the reason we experience muscle soreness after a workout has been debunked in the 1980s. Research suggests the soreness is a result of a cascade of physiological ... (www.pfizer.com)
TIL There's a town in Spain that has an annual tomato fight; last year 130 tonnes of tomatoes were thrown by attendees (www.reuters.com)
TIL you can edit your post title on lemmy unlike reddit
TIL King Louis XI plotted to kill a court astrologer who correctly predicted a death in his court fearing he'd done it himself. Before giving his guards the signal he asked if he knew when he'd die... (www.heritage-history.com)
TIL During the shooting event of the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber drank 10 glasses of beer and a bottle of cognac, stepped onto the shooting platform, shot all his bullets... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL olive oil is safe at high heat (www.youtube.com)
Sources used in the YouTube video (pasted from description):...
TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen (explorethearchive.com)
In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.
TIL Shirley Temple hated the mocktail of lemon-lime soda/ginger ale and grenadine named after her, declaring it "too sweet". In 1988, she won a lawsuit to stop a bottled version from using her name. (www.wikipedia.org)
TIL 50-80% of the population has herpes (www.hopkinsmedicine.org)
TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The c... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the first modern, non-Indigenous legal precedent explicitly considering a canoe a "vessel" didn't happen in Canada until 2018. (admiraltylaw.com)
Also, I mentally read the defence’s argument about “muscular power” in the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer!
TIL: Tommy Thompson was an American treasure hunter who successfully found millions of dollars worth of gold coins from the SS Central America. However, he went on the run due to refusing to pay of... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps. (www.cnn.com)
Used soap from Hilton Hotels is getting a second life.
TIL about vitrification of nuclear waste, wherein nuclear waste is melted down and combined with molten glass. The mixture is cooled in stainless steel canisters where it becomes a solid and can be... (www.hanfordvitplant.com)
What is vitrification? Vitrification is accomplished by mixing waste from underground tanks with glass-forming materials in high-temperature melters.