TIL Gargoyles are named that because of the water they gargle out of their mouths. (www.merriam-webster.com)
Proper use of the term gargoyle being the statues that drain water from buildings....
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TIL About How 11 Lines of Code Supported Web Development and the Code Was Deleted It Broke the Internet (getpocket.com)
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TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Banksy snuck "cave art" into the British Museum as a hoax in 2005 and then they put it on display for real in 2018. (www.bbc.com)
Peckham Rock, essentially a lump of concrete showing a supposed prehistoric figure pushing a shopping trolley, was smuggled into the venue in 2005. It stayed for three days before staff realised it didn’t belong there....
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TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Cass Elliot died in Harry Nilsson's apartment, and four years later Keith Moon died in the same room (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of people including her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs before the North Tower collapsed on 9/11. (wikiless.tiekoetter.com)
She only stopped to give kisses to a woman who was having a panic attack.
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TIL that the top soccer league in Spain is officially known as "LaLiga EA Sports" (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL; in the US state of Georgia Immigrants are ok, as long as they can be exploited by business owners. (www.theatlantic.com)
Georgia prevents immigrants, causing millions of dollars of crops to rot. changes course to allow immigrants. still against immigration somehow.
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TIL that Die Hard received mixed reviews upon release. Critics didn't like Bruce Willis' performance, action and violence (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Keiko, the orca from Free Willy, is buried in a grave in Norway (www.atlasobscura.com)
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TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)
During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...
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TIL the CIA trains its spies not to slouch and lean, as that's an American tell (www.cpr.org)
TIL about "America Against America," a fascinating book on US culture and institutions by a Chinese investigator looking in from the outside in 1988. (www.astralcodexten.com)
The reason for such a statute to coordinate dogs and cats is also because of the different interests that exist. Americans, some love dogs and cats to death, and some hate them to death. So, in order to reconcile the two, there must be regulations. I witnessed a family whose dog ran onto a neighbor's lawn to play, and the owner...
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Stirling Cooper - Sexual Dominance (Complete)
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TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about Muppet, Vulcan and Chicken Claws - different ways to hold chopsticks (marcosticks.org)
Direct Links:...
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TIL the middle finger was used offensively from 423 BC (www.dictionary.com)
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TIL that Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, died of Tuberculosis three years and ten months after the assassination. (en.wikipedia.org)
Princip was nineteen years old at the time and too young to be executed, as he was twenty-seven days shy of the twenty-year minimum age limit required by Habsburg law.[43] On Thursday 28 October 1914 the court found Princip guilty of murder and high treason, he received the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison...
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TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off (animals.howstuffworks.com)
A healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear’s liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000. Signs of toxicity generally occur when approximately 25,000 to 33,000 IU...
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TIL: There is a breed of goat that is half black and half white -- The Valais Blackneck goat (en.wikipedia.org)
(Full disclosure, I learned this yesterday.)...
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til Don Pardo worked as announcer on SNL until his death, age 96! (en.wikipedia.org)
Dominick George "Don" Pardo Jr. (February 22, 1918 – August 18, 2014) was an American radio and television announcer whose career spanned more than seven decades. A member of the Television Hall of Fame, Pardo was noted for his 70-year tenure with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as...
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TIL depression peaks at ages 20-24 in the US. (ourworldindata.org)
Different countries have different distributions, click “change”. Canada, Australia, New Zealand have similar to the US. France, Germany, UK peak 40-44.